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Impossible before we realize the situation you are in, alicia. >> you jesse kirsch talked a bit about evacuations, he talked about the shelters being at capacity. i do wonder, when you are speaking with officials there in the run up to today, their sense of how prepared orlando was as a city fall of the hurricane affects. >> so we sought to weave things today from local officials here. and i can just tell you from what we saw at the shelters, that there was one that seemed to be pretty busy. another one that had intermittent attendance, if you will. so i think that is something we often see, i...

Of the other. two things can happen at the same time. that is what is going on. with natural weather playing out in the change that mr.. and that changes the envelope, in -- as a whole are evolving. when storm could've occurred 50 or hundred years ago with -- when it looked at all the storms and aggregate them in the study them, you see trends pop out. and there are real trends and in effect actual storm. it's never just one of the other. it's weather playing out in a changing climate. >> bob henson, thank you so much for joining us. ali velshi thank you for all of your reporting today. >> com...

Intensity in these storms over the past couple of years. and really, when you are talking 14 to 15 foot tidal surges, there is no way to wait that out or to see it through. you can only get out of the way of that water. >> you can only get out of the way. that was the mayor of tampa earlier today. tunis in the, nbc news correspondent alison barber, who's been in tampa all day. alison, hurricane, winds, wind gusts, so powerful it pushed water into the gulf of mexico, effectively draining massive amounts of water from the bay. how are things now in tampa? >> it was amazing to see some of those i...

Americans live in a county that has some coastline. so as a population, we like to live along the coast, we like to live in places -- frankly, here in florida, it's beautiful. that's why we picked this as a place to live. but we build in places that are naturally vulnerable to storms like this. and so like he said, this really only so much we can do to kind of plan our way out of this. why there are things that we can do to make our community safer. and i think that just understanding what the vulnerabilities are, understanding where we have events like this, we are going to see the most catas...

Part. and as erwin was just telling you, the fact of the climate change, -- and we are more prone to flooding makes waterborne threats more dangerous than windward threats when it comes to hurricanes. we don't grow up thinking hurricanes are big wind storms, but -- more damage and deaths occur because of big water. so i think this was a puzzling went to a lot of people and depending on where you were in the state where you were, this is going to be worse from water perspective and worse from a wind perspective. it may not be the same for everybody except for on fort myers and lee county florid...