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Response to this storm, the emergency management community, is taking all actions to local officials, to state officials to get people out of harm's way. but it's a very dangerous storm both from a wind perspective and from a water perspective. >> going to be with us throughout the two hours here, stand by. i want to bring in ted deutsche of florida. his district includes parts of southeast florida that could be hit hard by hurricane irma. congressman, thanks for joining us. how should people in your district and we're talking about what boca raton and other areas just north of ft. lauderdale,...

Board, it would be a rough ride going through this region as the ferry would certainly be rocked pretty significantly. and you look at the temperatures. they would be the last thing you'd want to do when it's about 41 degrees fahrenheit or 3 or 4 celsius, to be outside on the deck in this weather with gusty winds, massive swells. the pattern remains the same. this is a wind perspective across the region. puts it roughly around 20 miles per hour. gusty at this moment. take you through monday afternoon, dies off a little bit. wind speeds come down to maybe 15 miles per hour. and then tuesday, pi...

This is orange beach, we're just off to the east of gulf shores. and high tide's a few hours away but the water is way past where it should be at high tide. this is a nice, long beach. we're losing beach to the erosion from the water. also the wind has blown a lot of sand and you can see all the seaweed now. buildings here are fine, power on. let me show the radar, it's a slow-moving isaac. still an 80-mile-an-hour hurricane. now that the center has made a second landfall and the entire center is over land, although it's kind of marshy down there, slowly will wind down in the wind perspective,...

So, we're going to start with talking about where we are now, and i wanted to start with you, danielle. so, before we get started on the solutions, can we outline the challenge here? the international governmental panel on climate change has said that in order to avoid the worst ravages of the heating associated with climate change, we need renewable resources like solar and wind to provide 85% of global electricity by 2050. but where are we now, and what's the scale of the challenge that faces us? so, danielle, tell me a bit about how close we are to that 85% target? well, the good news is th...