the color of white, however, you can see how large that is, that s over 100 miles per hour. now, i don t want to scare anybody, but i think it s good to know, if you decide to hang out in a high-rise, the winds increase the higher you go off the ground. the forecast right now in miami is about 145-mile-per-hour winds. if you live in a high-rise around the 30th story, those winds increase by 20%. because it s not dealing with the friction of the earth. so that 145 is 174. if you live a little bit higher, let s say toward the penthouse, that wind becomes 189. many are saying, in miami, we don t have 90 or 100 stories, but you do have 70s, up to around the low 80s. you get the idea. i covered a typhoon three weeks ago in hong kong and these high-rise buildings lost hundreds and hundreds of window panes. erin, this is something we really have to watch because the
numbers. ben, one of the things that folks in chicago and at the white house say is look, there is action. they got transportation money here that they think will affect 2.8 million jobs. does that cut any ice? i think where there has been some federal spending, obama has tried to say he would like a lot more stimulus spending. they have introduced legislation that will go nowhere for the last six months to a year, kind of calling for some form of new federal spending. i think that message, people don t really like that message of the government should spent more money which is really the core of the democratic policy, what they have done, what they would like to do. people want a government that gives them things but doesn t cost anything and there s sort of a tension. i want to pick up on something michael said in terms of what congress is doing. congress is jumping out of the 30th story and they just want to dare each other to see who is going to have the rope once we get to