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Regulations. but with rising water levels affecting large parts of the country in inland rivers to coastal areas, it is not insensitive to ask how to better build structures that can withstand floods. so for fact sake, don't some regulations actually help? >> president trump has been quick to put u.s. regulations in the crosshairs. within days of taking office, he ordered federal agencies to kill two regulations for every new one they propose. and then he ordered agencies to evaluate and reform regulations already on their books. in august, just weeks before hurricanes harvey and irma hit, he ...

73 here on the overseas highway. look at how calm the atlantic is today. if only it stayed ta way all the time, eh? but the cost of living in paradise is the destruction of storms like irma as we work our way south as traffic sort of trickles ohm now. this used to be a very popular restaurant called mr. lobster. it's gone. it's been completely wiped away. not so much by wind and there is ooh sign of wind damage on the roofs here but by the storm surge as that 10-15-foot wave came and took that restaurant, a lot of it made of big shipping containers and floated across the antigua harbor and cra...

It's here in this particular neighborhood, this is what one community, one small community is seeing. you're looking at a motor boat. the water is 150 yards away. and as you look further in, what is left there, that used to be somebody's home. you can see it's just a shell of one. and that's a road. we don't know where it came from. residents trying to figure out what to do next. waiting throughout the night, the line of cars stretching and growing as dawn breaks. >> i want to go home. i want to see my home. i want to see that we have a home. >> heidi and allen, out of their key largo house si...

Same islands that irma hit. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar joining us live. what is the first concern for you? >> in the short term it's maria that just newly named yesterday. jose is the one that we are going to be watching but most likely at this point, it looks like not a huge threat for the u.s. that is bit of good news. we take a look at the current statistics with jose. 80 miles per hour so it's still a category one hurricane. it's made that shift off to the north. by doing so, it's a little bit further east than maybe perhaps originally anticipated. so that means with the exception ...