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Hopefully diminish over time. we need to make our cities and -- more flood proof, we need to make rural areas that are warned the best they can. help people be as flood aw wares they can. and basically make people more weather savvy. we made progress a lot of areas, you know. flooding used to take hundreds of lives in one fell swoop. doesn't tend to happen so much in the u.s. it's been a while since we've had this many people sadly die in a flash flood. >> you know, you wrote in your article that the flooding is a painful blow to the regional arts of kentucky. tell us about what you mean. >> t...

Nowhere with us. i was just contribute into the conversation. i was looking at this, though. this looks interesting. this is a deep—freeze facility considered to be the most bio diverse place in the world. it is dubbed the noah's ark for plants. it has 2.4 billion seeds, right? from nearly 40,000 plant species, from nearly every country on earth, and it is bombproof, radiation proof, flood proof, and it is in west sussex. and it is basically the well�*s insurance policy against, like, extinction of these plants. it is the millennium seed bank, described by sir david attenborough is perhaps...

Along. so how are those homes going to be rebuilt? are they going to be rebuilt in place, or in a way that makes them more flood proof? >> well, and that was one of the problems after katrina. you had areas that were built on wetlands, and there's always sort of -- people go out and look at wetlands, there's an ignorance. they say it's not wet. why are you calling it wetlands? it's part of an environmental system. i know it because i grew up in florida. when the water rises from the creeks and rivers and from the bayous and the oceans, it is the wetlands that are naturally there to absorb the ...

Adhere to these higher -- these stricter standards that are more flood proof. so we're socializing the costs of having lousy building or at least poorly planned building in order to basically subsidize these private donors. >> on the other end it's the public pushrse. new data shows that 2016 was a milestone year for u.s. households. median income rose to just over $59,000 a year. that means half made more than that, half made less than that. that's the highest number since 1999 adjusted for inflation. now, at the same time, the poverty rate fell slightly to 12.7% of the population. that's a...