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person whose name ends in romp. have a great weekend, my friend. and thank you for joining us at home. the department of justice says tonight, this evening, filed a brief arguing that it cannot wait until december to look at all 11,000 documents it seized from donald trump. the department is arguing the delay is impeding its central investigation, and we are gonna get to that story shortly. we begin tonight with the destructive fury of hurricane ian. the storm made its second landfall in the united states a little after 2:00 this afternoon, near georgetown, south carolina, arriving i...

that they are arguing it cannot wait until september, to wait until all documents to some donald trump the department is arguing the delay is impeding its central investigation, and we are gonna get to that story shortly. we begin tonight with the destructive fury of hurricane ian. the storm made its second landfall in the united states a little after 2:00 this afternoon, near georgetown, south carolina, arriving is a category one storm with maximum sustained winds of 85 miles per hour. those winds and churning ocean waves were strong enough to destroy at least for fishing piers off ...

75. but i get concerned, is there going to be a power outage at some point. how long could our power grids hold up when this seems to be and i hate to use cliches, the new normal. these are not new waves, the heat is here to stay. >> yeah, absolutely. that is what we've been experiencing as well as summer long record-breaking temperatures and the heat wave that is it the whole summer in some places. so i think it is important that we consider how we plan to design cities with heat in mind and if you medicare how we have fema floodplain maps and new developments to go through approval processes...

Program. even in areas designated by fema as in the floodplains, less than half of the homes had flood insurance. when the floods from rain and storm surge went well past fema's projected floodplains to areas where less than 10% of homes are insured for floods. those fema floodplain projections are supposed to warn people if they're in an area that has a 1% chance of flooding every year. they call them the 100 year flood zones. for every hundred years you should expect one flood. and florida governor ron desantis pointed out yesterday, the storm hit an area that would be more like a 500 year f...

Storm surge went well past fema 's projected floodplains to areas where less than 10% of homes are insured for floods. those fema floodplain projections are supposed to warn people if they're in an area that has a 1% chance of flooding every year. they call the 100 year flood zones. for every hundred years you should expect one flood. and florida governor ron desantis pointed out yesterday, the storm hit an area that would be more like a 500 year flood zone. and that is the issue. these 100 year storms, these 500 year storms, they're starting to happen all the time. the national oceanic and at...