PREPARED TO HANDLE THIS AND WE WILL STAY CLOSE TO YOU AS THIS
GOES ON.
GOES ON. MAYOR HENRY OF DAYTONA BEACH,
FLORIDA.
FLORIDA. AS HURRICANE DORIAN MOVES EVER
SO SLOWLY AWAY FROM THE BAHAMAS,
WE WANT TO AGAIN SHOW YOU THAT
SIDE BY SIDE OR TOP TO BOTTOM
PHOTO WE SHOWED YOU EARLIER
TODAY.
TODAY. ON THE TOP IS SATELLITE IMAGERY
OF WHAT BAHAMAS, THE GRAND
BAHAMA ISLAND LOOKED LIKE BEFORE
THE HURRICANE.
THE HURRICANE. I WANT TO POINT YOU TO THIS.
THAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT.
AIRPORT. MORGAN CHESKY TOLD US IT IS
UNDER WATER RIGHT NOW.
LET ME SHOW YOU THIS BOTTOM
PICTURE NOW.
PICTURE NOW. HE WASN’T KIDDING WHEN HE SAID
UNDER WATER.
UNDER WATER. GRAND BAHAMA ISLAND IS SO UNDER
WATER THAT IN FACT WE’VE HAD TO
OUTLINE IN YELLOW ALL OF THOSE
THINGS THAT USED TO BE LAND IN
GRAND BAHAMA ISLAND THAT IS NOW
WATER.
WATER. SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THE ISLAND
IS NOW -- IT LOOKS LIKE LESS
THAN HALF OF THE TERRITORY OF
WHAT WAS GRAND BAHAMA ISLAND IS
NOW ACTUALLY ABOVE WATER.
THAT’S HOW DANGEROUS THIS IS.
DORIAN PLANTED ITSELF AS YOU
KNOW ON TOP OF THESE ISLANDS AND
THIS GIVES YOU SOME IMPRESSION
OF THE MASSIVE POWER OF THESE
STORMS.
STORMS. THEY ARE REMAKING COAST LINES AS
THEY ROLL THROUGH AND AS RESCUE
AND RECOVERY CREWS WORK TO REACH
THESE ISLANDS, STEPHANIE SPOKE
WITH ONE MAN IN FREEPORT THIS
MORNING WHO SPOKE TO ME
YESTERDAY ABOUT WHAT HE IS
EXPERIENCING.
EXPERIENCING. >> THIS IS COMPLETELY
UNPRECEDENTED, COMPLETELY
UNPRECEDENTED, COMPLETELY UNNATURAL.
UNNATURAL. I DON’T KNOW HORSEPOWER TOW TO D
THIS OTHER THAN IN THE MIDDLE OF
A CLIMATE EMERGENCY.
NOTHING LIKE THIS HAS EVER BEEN
SEEN BEFORE.
SEEN BEFORE. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN
THROUGH CAT 5s, CAT 4s, CAT 3s
AND NO ONE REALLY HAS NO
EXPLANATION OR WAY OF GROUNDING
THIS EXPERIENCE COMPARED TO
ANYTHING THEY’VE GONE TLAUHROUGH
BEFORE.
BEFORE. >> SOME SORT OF CLIMATE
EMERGENCY.
EMERGENCY. JOINING US NOW IS FOUNDER OF OUR
DAILY PLANET AND FORMER DEPUTY
ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE NATIONAL
OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC
ADMINISTRATION WHICH IS WHERE WE
GET THIS INFORMATION.
IF ANYBODY KNOWS ABOUT THIS
STUFF HE WAS TALKING ABOUT, THIS
CLIMATE EMERGENCY, YOUR
ORGANIZATION DID.
ORGANIZATION DID. THE GOVERNMENT DOES.
THE MILITARY IN THE UNITED
STATES DOES.
STATES DOES. THERE IS SOMETHING TO WHAT THESE
PEOPLE ARE SAYING THAT THE
INTENSITY AND FREQUENCY OF THE
HIGH INTENSITY STORMS HAS
CHANGED.
CHANGED. >> IT HAS, ALI.
THANKS FOR HAVING ME ON, ALI AND
STEPHANIE.
STEPHANIE. IT IS DEFINITELY A BIG CHANGE
FROM THE TIME EVEN WHEN I WAS
ADMINISTRATOR.
ADMINISTRATOR. AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE
NUMBERS, THEY JUST DON’T LIE.
THE LAST THREE YEARS HAVE SEEN
FIVE CATEGORY 5 HURRICANES AND
13 SINCE THE YEAR 2000 WHICH IS
MORE THAN ONE-THIRD OF WHAT
WE’VE SEEN IN ALL OF KEEPING THE
RECORDS ON THESE STORMS.
>> SO PEOPLE WHO WOULD LIKE TO
SAY THAT’S NOT CORRECT OFTEN
POINT OUT THE FACT THAT THERE
ARE LOTS OF HURRICANES.
THERE ALWAYS WERE LOTS OF
HURRICANES.
HURRICANES. PEOPLE WHO STUDY CLIMATE AS YOU
DO UNDERSTAND THAT WE’RE NOT
SAYING THAT CLIMATE CHANGE OR
THE WARMING OF THE OCEANS HAS
CREATED MORE HURRICANES.
IT’S THE INTENSITY.
>> EXACTLY.
>> EXACTLY. IT IS NOT THAT ANY ONE STORM IS
CAUSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE.
IT’S THAT THEY’RE MADE MUCH
WORSE BY CLIMATE CHANGE.
WE’VE WRITTEN ABOUT THIS
REPEATEDLY AT "OUR DAILY PLANET"
AS STUDY AFTER STUDY HAS SHOWN
THE STORMS ARE GETTING WORSE AND
THE REASONS ARE BECAUSE OF THE
INCREASED WIND SPEEDS, BECAUSE
OF THE HIGHER STORM SURGE, AND
THE INCREASED RAINFALL.
WHEN I THINK ABOUT HOW THIS
STORM IS BEHAVING, IT REMINDS ME
A LOT OF HURRICANE HARVEY THAT
SAT OVER HOUSTON FOR DAYS AND
DAYS.
DAYS. AND AS A RESULT, 30,000 PEOPLE
WERE HOMELESS, MADE HOMELESS BY
THAT STORM.
THAT STORM. AND YOU’VE TALKED ABOUT IT
ALREADY ON YOUR SHOW.
THE DEVASTATION, THE DESTRUCTION
IS DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACTING
FRONT LINE COMMUNITIES AND THE
PEOPLE WHO CAN LEAST WITH STAND
THIS KIND OF DISRUPTION IN THEIR
LIFE.
LIFE. >> LET’S TALK ABOUT THOSE FRONT
LINE COMMUNITIES.
LINE COMMUNITIES. WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THE
DANGERS?
DANGERS? PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ANDREW
YANG SAYS, WELL, TIME TO JUST
PACK UP AND MOVE TO HIGHER
GROUND.
GROUND. THAT IS EASIER SAID THAN DONE.
>> MUCH EASIER SAID THAN DONE.
WE NEED TO KNOW WHERE THE
PROBLEM SITES ARE.
WHERE ARE THE SOFT SPOTS?
WHERE DO WE HAVE CRITICAL
INFRASTRUCTURE?
INFRASTRUCTURE? WHERE DO WE HAVE BRIDGES AND
ROADS THAT ARE IMPORTANT FOR OUR
EVACUATION PURPOSES?
EVACUATION PURPOSES? WHERE DO WE HAVE TRAILER PARKS?
IN HURRICANE ANDREW WAY BACK IN
THE ’90s THAT WAS ONE OF THE
MOST DEVASTATING PLACES WHERE
PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES WAS IN
THOSE TRAILER PARKS.
SO WE NEED TO KNOW WHERE THOSE
SOFT SPOTS ARE AND WE NEED TO
FIGURE OUT HOW TO MOVE THOSE
PEOPLE.
PEOPLE. IN SOME CASES, IT’S EVEN THE
OPPOSITE.
OPPOSITE. IN MIAMI, NEIGHBORHOODS ARE
BEING OVERTAKEN BY WEALTHIER
PEOPLE, LOWER INCOME
NEIGHBORHOODS, WHO ARE MOVING TO
HIGHER GROUND AND MOVING THOSE