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I will tell you that the last report i received is that the appropriate steps were being taken into a position they were ready to with stand wind and flooding. we have to wait it out and see what kind of damage is on the other side. the hope is they will be able to repair them and be back in business. while a large proportion is effected it might not cause a long-term disruption. >> how quickly are you prepared to move into texas? >> in our state and local planning and emergency community as a whole we had a federal response plan that failed. we updated that after 1992. we had a 9/11 event tha...

To water and mold. most homes are built on a concrete slab. and most go up to 90 mile-an-hour wind, not 200. >> we do not build to with stand wind the same way we do along the coast. >> reporter: a reinforced box, almost like a bank vault, but built to fema tornado standard cost 8 will to $10,000 each. oklahoma has a lottery to decide who get state help to pay for them. last year 500 homeowners were chosen out of 16,000 applicants. separately the city of moore was applying for $2 million in federal aid to help build safe rooms in 800 homes. but the city complained the program was delayed becau...

>> and did you see other pieces of debris fall? how big were they? was there damage? >> i saw one, a metal piece, and it fell in the middle of the road and there is a traffic light right under it so people were at the red light and did not know if they should move. >>shepard: thank you. this is one of the things which they have great concern because the winds will get stronger in new york city before they get weaker the we believe the level of wind we have now is the lowest level of wind we will have for at least the next 16 hours. there are big construction cranes on the lower end of manhatta...

It does come here. a lot of residents boarding up their windows but not all of them. here is one resident who says she is not leaving because it's more trouble than it is worth. she secured her house with a special type of window. a lot of the windows are not boarded up because they are high impact glass windows. they with stand wind up to 150 miles per hour. >> voluntary evacuations began at pensacola beach. they are in a local state of emergency. back to you guys. nicole collins live in florida. that threat from isaac denying events from the national convention. we ha doug luzader has ...

standing could be under water, covered in floodwater. here's what hurricane irene looked like when it hit the bahamas. new yorkers now of course are used to seeing this on tv. not up close but they might see it here and soon. here is the view as irene began moving up the eastern seaboard. as it did emergency plans started to kick in. airlines began cancelling flights. hospitals moving patients and here in new york mayor mike bloomberg be issued the first evacuation orders in city history for low-lying areas including the area, including the one we're standing in tonight. a hurricane ...