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Confident that turn will occur. and you mentioned the wind speed. that will likely pick up once it turns to the north, which is good news. we want this storm to exit as soon as possible. the bad news is, it's so large. even if it does move faster, it will still potentially bring a lot of flooding. >> does bigger mean slower or faster? as it picks up speed, it's picking up speed because it's warmer watter? >> if anything, the warmer water will keep it at a cat 5. but you mentioned that speed. all of that is the dynamics of what is steering the storm. if there's nothing steering the storm, it wi...

But this is a catastrophic storm. and so, you know, we will have to be prepared and make sure that people are out of harm's way, not just the storm itself but the secondary effects. >> how elastic is the workforce at fema? we just had harvey. now we have another major, major hurricane coming through, irma. is there enough elasticity in the workforce? enough folks that can be called up to help? >> there are. i know there are over a thousand fema personnel that are focused on the preparation and response efforts for irma. but also staff get pulled in from other parts of the federal government. s...

That's where we're seeing the 160-mile-per-hour winds right now. >> no matter where you go, it's not going to be good. it's slowed down to 12 miles per hour? >> yes. which isn't surprising. when you see the eye interacting with the northern portion of cuba, it slowed down. but that turn is coming. and it will turn to the north. >> the reason i asked that, is when we were talking about harvey, which was really slow, the pace of walking, that is what hurt the state of texas and louisiana so much. and in this case, you don't see that happening, even though it's slowing? >> right. it's a very diff...

At least what is the preparation that the epa needs to go through? there was some criticism with harvey, that the epa was not on site at these super fund sites as harvey was moving through. >> i can't speak to epa's preparations. i vnl wohaven't worked there. >> as a spokesperson for fema, you pool all of these resources together and i imagine you had some touch points. >> yeah, that's right. across the federal government, i think what is happeni ining wit the government right now, they will be sharing the information that they have coming from the national hurricane center, and the national w...

Sahara, and the normal route has been through the western atlantic and into the caribbean and sometimes, as we've seen unfortunately, into the gulf of mexico. that's sort of the natural flow of the atmosphere. but as the earth is warming up, because of human effects on the climate, we're getting more and more energy put into these storms. and so a storm that would have been smaller is now bigger than it would have otherwise been. >> reflect on that if you can, peter. you are saying that climate is affecting the strength of these. we now have two surpearltives, harvey, slow moving. we're lookin...