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To be in adaptation mode. we can't be building flood plains. people need to think seriously about where to build future homes and how to fire proof them, hurricane proof them and all of these things that we can expect to get worse with the environmental conditions we have now. >> yeah. >> well, sarah gibbons, eddie bautista, thank you so much for spending a few minutes with you as we're now feeling the impacts of climate change. new york governor kathy hochul said the future we spoke about in dire terms that. future is now. it's happening. we are losing life. we're losing property. we cannot c...

They're going to go outside and get into big suv and drive to a burger joint later. not only does this cost is everything, they are telling us to change our entire lifestyle as well. >> no, we can have our burgers, are medium rare burgers in a hurricane proof home with solar panels upstairs on the roof and enjoy fox news all day. we can have it all. if we feel the burn. >> charles: are you concerned he seems to have stalled and that these kind of messages -- we had jay inslee drop out of the race. this was his main topic. maybe it's not resonating. real quick. >> no, no, he didn't have enough ...

Talking to the owners, they went about 25 feet down with reinforced concrete in the stilts. those are the houses remaining, hurricane-proof. anything else was built in the '70s. when that storm surge came in combined with the wind, the houses picked up right off the foundation. you can see the roofs. that's where the houses are, several blocks away. how is this community doing? that's tough. this is a community that was entirely wiped out. we are talking about areas that are reestablishing power. bay county is less than 50% back up to power. nearby gulf county is 90% still without power. even ...

Have to become more hurricane proof, we have to build smarter, we have to think about where we're building. so i think fugate is right about that. and if in fact climate change does intensify these storms, which is what the scientific community believes, the risks are only going to increase, and top of that, we have the sea level which is rising due to climate change. that means more coastal inundation when the storms come ashore. the storm is getting stronger, the sea level is rising, the fact that we have more people in harm's way for all of these reasons we definitely need to be thinking ab...

Heed that advice, those of us that choose to stay in the path of a hurricane, i think we all have to say we're on our own here. not expecting any first responders to come see us. if we get injured that's on us. that is on all of the people that have made the choice to stay. you know, panama city beach now getting a fairly significant piece of the storm. of course, the center of circulation still nowhere near us. panama city beach has these large structures that are theoretically hurricane proof, at least hurricane resistant. we'll see, i think, today in a way that they have not been tested bef...