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And again, i really do believe it comes down to historically they never thought about the storm surge and they've just thought about wind events. and wind events are things that -- if you're in a home especially that's been rebuilt, built in the last 20 years, you're probably going to be fine. it's the water that's going to kill you. i talked to the hurricane center about this all the time about how we can come up with something that people focus more on the water side of this because that's what's killing floridians now. some of it's the wind. if you're an old home or a trailer park or manufa...

Will bring people into the shelters and into the communities that haven't been as significantly impacted as it's safe to do so. >> i don't need to tell you this, we are seeing not just in hawaii but across the country and really around the world, disaster after disaster, after billion dollar disaster that is tied to climate change. how has that changed the equation for you and what the organization needs to do? >> yeah, you're right, chris, look at just this event alone, you know, driven by winds from a hurricane that was several thousand miles offshore. this is an example of how all of these ...

>> double-edged sword. we really need the rainfall. really do. the mississippi river, barges can't get through without being half empty. we'll take the rain, but even last night reports of damage across parts of oklahoma and texas as the squall line moved through. this weather brought to you by safelight. your vehicle glass and re recalibration experts. the yellow zone across the southeast. huntsville and birmingham, alabama. new. storms firing along the squall line and by later today look at the colors you see here. it's the warmest part of the day. it's when the weather will be the strongest...

So i think for some people, the worst is yet to come. but i think in totality, yeah, we have seen the greatest damage we were going to see. a category four storm, 155 miles an hour, almost a category five. and some of these hurricanes are wind events and some of them water events and some are really both. if you are in fort myers or those areas, this was a big wind hurricane. if you are here in naples where we had record setting flooding and storm surge, we see more of a flooding event, a storm surge, a water event, then it was a wind event. but to your point about 2 million people being out o...

Ice, pulling some of those power lines, wind events in certain areas across the state. the power grid does appear to be holding this time. >> we remember when it went down last year, enormous consequences. rosa flores, thank you so much. up next, the georgia prosecutor investigating former president trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election there says she has now become the target of frequent racial slurs. plus, coming up, my conversation with new york city mayor eric adams. hear his take aways after meeting with president biden and how he plans to combat rising crime. also ahead, fa...