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It is a familiar site in hurricane season. people filling up sandbags, boarding up houses and bracing for the worst mother nature has to offer but now researchers are introducing a new kind of home they say is hurricane proof. douglas kennedy has more. >> we were standing out here. >> reporter: three years ago, john was in the house on staten island and superstorm sandy blew through it with gusts up to 100 miles per hour. >> but it wasn't the wind that wrecked your home. >> no. the wind did not wreck our home. what it was was the surge of water that came into this area. >> reporter: sandy, in ...

It is a familiar site in hurricane season. people filling up sandbags, boarding up houses and bracing for the worst mother nature has to offer but now researchers are introducing a new kind of home they say is hurricane proof. douglas kennedy has more. >> we were standing out here. >> reporter: three years ago, john was in the house on staten island and superstorm sandy blew through it with gusts up to 100 miles per hour. >> but it wasn't the wind that wrecked your home. >> no. the wind did not wreck our home. what it was was the surge of water that came into this area. >> reporter: sandy, in ...

People's tax money. and then the 10s if not hundreds of thousands of volunteer whose came down to give us a day a week a month a year of their lives to help other people rebuild. so some bad memories. some phenomenally good memories. >> you listed a list of the various responses that came to you from the national guard from military. but i'm curious to also get your thoughts on what are some of the lessons that have been learned from katrina as it relates to mississippi? is it mississippi rebuilding smarter this time around? >> oh absolutely. the bay st. louis bridge the buloxi bridge. under p...

Amenities and for as little as 200 grand. buyer beware, an island is not always an oasis of lethargy. you've got to have a helicopter or boat just to get there. >> it runs 360 degrees -- >> reporter: and bob warns potential buyers, hurricanes are potential threats. >> there's only one occupational hazard here. we like to drink beer down here. >> reporter: now, from the mainland, the island is quite visible, it's only about a quarter of a mile, and the depth of the water down here in the keys around 4-6 feet, so you could tentatively walk across. this being the first day of hurricane season, ye...

The technology that's being used is not just a simple bar coding. you're actually inputting more information into your ticket. and so i would suggest to you that the gate agents aren't actually a significant level of our security. that the tsa checkpoint, unaccompanied minors are still not going to be board or exit a plane without the handoff and none of that is going to change and if you can introduce productivity, i don't think we should scare the american traveler with the idea that people are getting into the ramp side of the airport, going into the restaurant and taking the utensils and t...