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Care of this time around? >> sure. very important. the state is taking action. they as the regulating body of these assisted living facilities and nursing homes enacted new rules inquiring the use of backup generators to avoid the loss of power in the first place but on top of that cities across florida and of course my city and our county have enacted a special safety protocol to make sure our fire rescue divisions are visiting these als and nursing homes in advance of a storm and have a schedule to visit with them after the storm to make sure that, a, they have power and if they don't, they'...

Chief, thank you very much for joining us. what's the greatest risk to life when this hurricane hits? >> wolf, thank you. the first thing everybody speaks about is the wind and the wind fields are potentially damaging. this is true. and could cause some serious injury potentially. but really what we found in all of the storms that we've responded to through our federal task force is that water is the greatest hazard that we see. that could be water due to storm surge. it could be water due to rain. but it could also be impacted by what we're experiencing now in miami which is a ting tide which...

The world, they're at a much lower rate and it makes us harder to compete. it makes it much harder to compete. with that being said, we're doing better than everybody else. but the fed is hurting me. the fed is making it very, very hard to compete. but we're so far ahead of everyone. since my 2 1/2 years, you look at it. you go back to election day and go the day after, so you take november 9th and you look, we're up over 50%. that's pretty much amazing. you look at our jobs. our jobs numbers are fantastic. probably 3.6%. african-american, hispanic american, asians, we're talking about the his...

Disaster since hurricane andrew back in 1992. both nationally and internationally. and the equipment combined with the level of training and expertise of all of these responders give the community a significant capability and also gives us a tie in to both the state and the federal network, so here in south florida we are very fortunate that we do have that capability readily available and easily deployable. >> all right. chief, thank you so much for joining us. good luck to you. good luck to everybody down in miami. as i like to say throughout the state, this is a serious, serious potential d...

Luck in determining what happened. a lot of people were surprised to hear the president of the united states wishing best luck to iran in that particular case. all right. a lot we need to discuss. we're following all the breaking news. we'll take a quick break. much more right after this. (gas) (singsong) budget meeting! sweet. if you compare last quarter to this quarter... various: mmm. it's no wonder everything seems a little better with the creamy taste of philly, made with fresh milk and real cream.