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>> right now there are thousands of people still out of their homes, one year after the storm hit. >> did you think when all this happened, that a year later you'd be in this condition? >> never. we honestly figured maybe six months and we'd have a home. >> mortgage defaults are up over the past year in the sandy-hit areas. 75% of new jersey residents affected by the storm say people like them have been largely forgotten in recovery efforts. for many people in new jersey, sandy was the worst thing that ever happened to them. >> chris christie, it could be the best. >> you see, a mission is dif...

Necessary post-sandy, everyone sees how vulnerable the city is. that kind of drama i think is motivating. the issue about emission standards and whether you're going to have a carbon tax of 4 cents or 6 cents a gallon i think is less so. >> sometimes it does feel like it is a blue state conversation. i mean we had -- obviously big disasters transversed the red state/blue state divide. whether or not people want to believe that climate change is the cause of it, everyone knows that natural disasters happen, that they're horrific and you would think people would take the next step and say that w...

Piece of legislation is hanging on by a thread? that is next. and what robin kelly says about the politics of post-sandy hook america? that is coming up.

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>> it will generate up to 1,700 watts of pure energy into the controller system. it will take that and put it into a high energy lithium battery. >> that's a publicity clip from the department of defense about the dream products they've been deploying. >> yeah. i talked to some marines about this. not one mentioned greenhouse gases. every one of them loves these things because it's just purely a utility for them. it's purely an advantage for them. the connection i was going to make is they're working in austere conditions in the front lines in afghanistan. if we're right about climate change, ...