Fort Myers Beach LPA to discuss future flood regulations
The Fort Myers Beach Planning Agency will be discussing a list of what they're looking to examine further.
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The Fort Myers Beach Planning Agency will be discussing a list of what they're looking to examine further.
Entire communities living in such low flood plains? they said well, you know, maybe they shouldn't have built there. is that one of the issues we face now? >> it is a huge issue. a number of groups, pugh being one of them, that are working on changing, making flood regulations, making standard building codes a thing. and it p it is an issue. there are -- there's a need to enforce building codes. there's a need to make our building codes stronger. and people are continuing to work on that. >> when you look at this storm, if you were in the region right now, if you were working with fema, what w...
Jowvment knob was injured throughout the whole thing, the hijackers, the helicopter, the two inmates all back in prison tonight, shep. >> shepard: helicopter escapes pretty rare. there was nun it -- one in particular that lot of people might remember. >> 1971, a new york businessman he got plucked out of a mexican prison. left the prison, left the country and then wrote a book about it. there have been dozens ever since. one guy in france escaped from a helicopter three separate times. the third time was the charm because he is still on the lamb. in greece a man escaped by helicopter twice. wa...
Be based on information as we find them. >> and there's still a question of what habit to daca recipients in the military. still no decision. can you explain why there's a delay in explaining to these folks what will happen and when they can expect an answer? >> i can tell you the president put it back on congress. asked for his priorities to met and their solution. in the inner window, i'm mott sure what the answer is on the military part of daca. i'll get back to you on that. >> given the flooding in texas and what may happen with irma, there's reports that you're reconsidering the flood -- ...
Back up the flood regulations given that we're going to be facing a lot of the issues. >>. >> i will answer to the spirit of it. it is about smart or not smart. the answer here is that we should not use federal money to rebuild in ways that don't anticipate future flood risk. we need to build back stronger and longer. what happened in the president's infrastructure and executive order was the decision of a obama era order that had a broad scope. at the time we rescinded it, in the hope of infrastructure in this country, the president certainly did as well. what you have to do is replace the th...