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The pacific ocean here in malibu. looming over us are the santa monica mountains. you can just see the burn right across them. what has happened is that the fire has stripped all the vegetation, all of the trees, all the brush. when that happens, the soil and all the rocks, etc, essentially lose their anchor. so the fear is if the rains come down, as forecast in the middle of this week just before thanksgiving, then that could generate mud slides. we saw it last year after the awful fires in santa barbara followed by rain and deadly mud slides. that's the great fear. malibu is trying to put it...

Buildings, power lines and that's the real risk here, andrew gym up, the mayor, he's up against it here this hurricane is colliding with his own political ambitions. he's running for the governor of the state as the mayor of tallahassee. he's trying to do better than what happened last i'm in i time, two years ago under hurricane hermine, when he said 90% of the electrical grid was impacted by trees falling and the hurricane. the hurricane will be two-to-three times more powerful than hearn hermine. so he will try to really get those rescue workers and those power workers, those municipal work...

Family in puerto rico and they are still living in the dark, still washing clothes by hand, still eating canned goods because they don't have power to keep the food refrej rated. they don't have a generator either, that was a family that also has a 1 month old baby. so the daily struggle for them is very real and hasn't changed much in the last few months. so again, six months later, i don't want to take away from all the credit of all these power workers. many still on the island. although they are starting to leave. a lot has been done when it comes to power, but for the people in the interi...

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>> she has no idea when she will get power back. i ask her if she thinks it will be soon. without power cheryl and her children lost more than the lights. >> without power they don't have water. >> the mayor said the problem is constant bureaucratic delays. for a month they had power workers here, but not enough materials to actually carry out the work. the mayor calls this a start. he said they need more generators and cables. the u.s. army core of engineers admits a shortage of supplies stemming from other disasters is part of the reason it took so lock to get power back to the people. >> sh...