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So, mexico beach was scraped off the map, okay? just like someone took a shovel to the sidewalk. fort myers beach is very similar. just much bigger. but the devastation is still just incredible. the structures that were built with a new building codes, they survived, okay? the structures that were built, say, from 65 to 85, those were obliterated. if you were made out of wood, you are gone. you are just left with pilings. so, what you will see happen, just like what's happened in mexico beach right now, is the construction code will be increased. and it will just be, you will have to be with t...

Maybe they don't have family. maybe they want to do a hotel room. visit florida has partnered with expedia to launch an emergency page. anyone used who has to evacuat can use this page. go to expedia.com/florida, expedia.com/florida. we have probably more than 2.5 million people right now that are under some form of an evacuation order. we understand there's going to be a need to use everything at our disposal, not just shelter, not just friends and family, but also available hotel rooms. know you're evacuation zone. you'll hear another announcement in a minute from sarasota. floridadisaster.o...

After nearly a week without clean water, there is good news emerging in the jackson water crisis. city officials say that most of the area should now have water pressure. they say the troubled water plant made significant gains from friday night into saturday, but they say ongoing repairs could still cause the pressure to fluctuate, especially in a few remaining portions of south jackson. residents are still lining up at water distribution sites like this one, which will remain open. across the country, and around the world, climate change is causing more severe weather events. >> yeah, and ...

>> reporter: fast flowing, fast rising flash floods, a common seen this summer with 1,000 year rain events striking in multiple states. cnn collected data from local and federal flood agencies and found significant portions of communities that saw floods of biblical proportions this summer were outside of what fema considers high risk flood zones. >> people should not rely on fema flood maps in this age of climate change because the flood maps only look backwards. they look at historical flooding. >> reporter: property owners, local and state governments use fema maps to determine risk and mak...

The residential and commercial project would go in near Saddle Creek Road and Pacific Street