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And bad for our future. it's happening. we see it every day. it's not just this report. you have the ipc report and you had another one in the interim yesterday that came out that just reaffirms that this is true and it's happening faster than we thought it was going to. we need to prepare. we are not going to stop it. it's a natural phenomenon, but we as human beings are impacting it so we need to slow it down to the extent we can and prepare for more wildfires and more mudslides and nor'easters. they cost us a lot and is a national security issue around the world that. affects us as well. >>...

The nor'easters, brian, and with tropical systems, over time some of that sand will come back and the natural replenishment will kick in. but again, they pumped a lot of sand, lot of money spent every year by the corps up and down the beaches to keep them nice and wide. sometimes it all goes for naught especially when you have a system like this not moving, slowing down, battering the beaches. the waves running 15, 20, 25 footers and that's on top of the surge. what we call the wave run up. it just eats away at the beaches. that's going to be part of the story, along with the inland flood thre...

Priority for us. >> so there's, of course, no shortage of really frightening ways that officials are describing this storm. meaning, catastrophic, disaster at the doorstep, life-threatening. fema describing it as a mike tyson punch or the storm of a lifetime. and here's the governor of north carolina, what he told me last night. >> north carolina, we're used to storms, nor'easters, we've had hurricanes before. but this is historic. this storm is big, and it's vicious. we're telling the people of north carolina, do not try to ride out a monster. >> and yet you are riding out the monster, mayor....

Steve: they don't know where it's going to go. people tried to ride the storm outer and get caught. thought we were going to get a little bit. next thing you know it's a category 3 and category 4. here's the thing when you get in trouble and he was talking about how the shelters are not ready for the really strong storm and this is a really strong storm. when you get in big trouble you call the police to come help you, right? they are not going to come help you because a lot of places once it's above tropical storm force winds they can't go out over the bridges because they would be putting th...

Chief, his fema official, top official on in a little while. what do you need from the federal government right now? >> i talked to the president. he promised to help. he said that the federal government would be there for north carolina. and we are certainly going to depend on that. i also talked to the fema administrator, brock long. we're pretty much in constant contact with him and other fema officials who are embedded with us in north carolina. i visited fort bragg yesterday which is one of the fema staging areas. we had trucks of equipment and supplies. we're going to rely on the federal...