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Businesses, their homes as we're traveling into this section right along the coastline. we saw those shutters already closed so evacuation orders are in effect tomorrow. there's no school today or tomorrow in this county. they definitely want people out of here and into a safer place. >> it's pretty amazing, that woman's been waiting for six hours to get ten sandbags to protect her home, and that line is so very long, i can only imagine what it's like to try get gasoline where you are. >> reporter: absolutely. you know, we just got into this area so we weren't able to see many of the gas -- if...

Equipment, personnel and plans in place that's still a high volume. we're working as quickly as possible to address triage and address each one of those calls to make sure we're keeping everybody in houston as safe as possible. we need the people of houston to help us out. we need them if they're no need for them to be out on the roads to shelter in place. we need them if they are seeing water issues that are not life threatening not to call 911 so we can keep that line open for emergencies that need immediate attention. it's really all about just making sure they're doing the best they can to...

On the phone with one of the candidates and actually had former governor o'malley and met with him. i think what we really need to do is get the ideas where there can be action and most importantly, to see who they're going to pull into their cabinet, because you need brains. you need people who really have the experience and know what they're doing and know how to interface and so much of this in the economy. we have water issues here. certainly in south carolina, they have water issues. so what's going to be planned for the public dollar? what are we going to do about taxes? i mean, there ar...

>> maybe when we come back we will do that. taking the salt out seems like an up hill battle. do you think we are going to see that at a larger scale, too? >> absolutely. it's a little cheaper right now. >> cheaper? >> yes. >> that's very interesting. jay, great pleasure to have you here. i follow you closely on water issues. >> thanks so much. >> we are live at the griffith observatory in los angeles. up next, i'll ask the director of the observetive about the news of outer space. the first up close pictures of pluto.

Within a decade, 1.8 billion people will be living with absolute water scarcity. desalination is not a silver bullet to deal with water issues, but there is all this saltwater around us. in samuel taylor colridge's poem, "the rhyme of the ancient mariner," there's a famous line spoken by the mariner as his ship is stuck at sea, "water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink." not a problem anymore if we can do desalination right. the correct answer to the "gps" challenge question is d. according to the state of the world's mothers report, the most recent data says washington, d.c., had the ...