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Me. yeah, looks good, huh? all right, man. see if it works, here we go. >> whoo! yes, sir, god, i was praying for this for days and days. >> reporter: what was it like waiting? >> oh, man, just knots in your stomach, borderline throwing up thinking everything you own is going to sink, you know. just nervous. >> reporter: you look back here and this is your home? >> yep, that be it. it was pretty bad. we had four-foot seas plowing into here with a five-foot surge at least here. i had the scuba diving tanks on the kitchen table. swam to the boat trailer. you couldn't stand up. you had to swim. i...

Already just sitting there. we've used this number a lot about 2 2/3, 3 times stronger than katrina. here's how the numbers stack up. super typhoon haiyan, estimated wind gusts of 235, that would put -- if you had up with square foot of plywood, that it's 140 pounds per square foot. that's how much wind pressure is putting on that one square foot of building. now, the building's obviously bigger than one square foot. down to 120, that's only 36 pounds per square foot. it's exponential. you multiply the wind velocity by itself. you square it. that's why this exponential speed from 120 to 140 is...

Wind tunnel with me when i first started. >> how do you explain the incredibleness of this? is it the fabric? >> it's wind release vents that allow the wind to pass through the umbrella so you don't get wet. what flips the umbrella is wind pressure. because of our elastic shock cords, no two masses can occupy the same space. the wind comes through releasing the pressure, yet it blocks in so you can't get wet because no two masses occupy the same space. >> i want to test my umbrella out. >> before you do, put this on. safety first. >> these gust umbrellas are number one on the p.g.a. tour? >> w...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com an historic and stunning showdown is under way right now between the obama administration and federal judges. a three-member appeals panel all republican appointees has taken issue with the president's jawboning of the u.s. supreme court over the health care reform law. now an unusual demand from those judges is putting a lot of heat from the justice department in washington. brian todd is following this battle for us. brian, what's going on? >> reporter: one seasoned court analyst says federal judges almost never do this kind of thing. whether...

170 miles an hour, that issen side that funnel. so anything in there is just destroyed. what can withstand 170 miles an hour wind pressure? >> i would say the inside room which would -- might be a closet of a well-built brick home may still be there after that happened. so that's why we say you must be inside your home in the small room, away from windows. that's the only part of the structure that might still be there. we have reports -- it's kind of a strange word, but we have reports of buildings being literally scraped from their foundation. the buildings are not there any longer. we don't...