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There's nothing you can do during a hurricane. >> it's such a remarkable instinct, but in 110 mile an hour winds or 100 mile an hour winds with a storm surge, with power out, with trees down, one human can't do anything for their property. >> right. your property is your property. and if it's gone, it's gone, but you and your family are not going to be able to withstand that and probably won't survive. so the best bet is to get out. in fact, if kerry's still there, one thing i'm curious about and having covered these hurricanes, what's your plan for you and your crew during all this? >> report...

What fema is doing right now, and they started this yesterday. over at fort bragg, at simmons army airfield, they began bringing in supplies. there were upwards of 200 semis there right now. more are arriving. they are prepositioning supplies. they recognize that after this storm there's going to be people who want to come back to see what happened to their property, but they're not going to be able to get the water, the ice, the food, or mres, meals ready to eat that the military gives out. fema today made it clear that the solution will not lie specifically with fema to handle the aftermath ...

Up, and we will be using school buses to get people to shelters if needed. we have already evacuated our local humane society. we are in the process of evacuating our homeless to a safe shelter for them. we do have means to get people where they need to be, and for that reason, we just ask those who really do have somewhere that they can go to safely to do that so that we can use our shelters for the people that do not have the means to do so. >> cannot underscore that enough. thank you, mayor. myrtle beach mayor brenda bethune. we'll be keeping a close eye on myrtle beach and all those areas ...

New orleans is on the weak side of the storm. they didn't get a lot of rain from this system, didn't get a lot of strong winds. right now winds are at 24 miles per hour. new orleans area south to louisiana coast is doing just fine. there is some high water from the mississippi river where it comes out here north wards up in eastern louisiana, some of that water piling up on the back side of the storm. notice we're only at 37 wind gusts in mobile. there's that gust in biloxi. this is the highest we've seen now, 56. once you start getting above 50, that's when you can start some tree limbs comin...

This is not nearly as strong of a storm as katrina where the speak surge was 28 feet. but it is high enough to be a risk to life for anyone out at the coast. >> ed rappaport at noaa, thank you. we're also talking politics this hour, the president trying to revive health care talks, this time with democrats.