jury. neil: would have should have could have. and howard schaffer on these events. what do you think? this is a terrible tragedy. annapolis is a tight knit, safe city. this shows what the new normal is becoming. i m been in that capital office a number of times. it s an open building, open door to a reception desk. anybody could walk in. what we re going to have to do is going to have to look at potential targets unfortunately like the media and going to have to harden these targets. neil: that s what they were recommending yesterday night, the sense of urgency and caution, beefing up protection around a lot of news operations. there you find out that some are well-battened down and others are not. there s a new way of looking at
no one has seen what you ve seen and no one has traveled the sight schts you ve traveled the last five or six days. so i want to ask what you ve seen and experienced out there that s caused you special concern. well, the thing that really causes me the biggest concern is i don t think anybody has realized the extent of this storm surge. if you stop and think about it, my home down, naples, 15 feet above ground level, i mean, how do you survive that? i mean, and you know, last i don t know if you remember this story last year, but this lady just south of here, i think there was about six foot of storm surge, and she stayed, of course, because of her pets, which you can imagine you want to. and it got to three feet, and she realized, i mean, it was an older house. she probably had seven foot ceilings and she realized she was not going to survive. she was so lucky because she got outed of her house and she walked out and there was a high water vehicle and it was the last vehicle lea
i wanted to make sure my house was battened down. i knew i could get to a potentially safe place. there were so many on the road and gas was out everywhere. atms were out of money. i was worried about being on the road throughout florida while everybody else was. maybe it will hit key west, maybe it won t. for a couple of days i thought my parents would get it worse. now it is too late. we are doing the best we can. what precautions are you taking? our landlord boarded up the first floor of the house. it s the only hill on the island. new towns out of key west.
in the country. this actually logs 1,578 takeoffs, averages one private plane or aircraft down the runway every 55 seconds. first is atlanta, second chicago o hare and this the sixth busiest airport in the world. enormous operation for security to make sure it is all battened down. jim, atf one happening. you ve got so many law enforcement officials. obviously lapd would be the primary. you ve got fbi, tsa, homeland, everybody would be involved at this point. bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. exactly. everybody is involved. law enforcement is a team effort here. los angeles airport police, lapd, you re going to also have the joint terrorism task force. that basically is made up of agencies you ve described.
can and we will hope for the best as mom likes to say. we will be covering this very, very closely. as we always do at cnn. in fact, jim acosta takes over our coverage right now in the cnn newsroom. jim, take it away. thanks, guys, very much. good morning, everybody. it is almost here. hurricane irene is curving closer and closer to tens of millions of people. waves and wind already kicking up and the first rains will soak the southeast today. this is a big storm. hundreds of miles across and even from space, it is a monster. an astronaut on the international space station called the view terrifying. we have crews deployed up and down the east coast. reynolds wolf is in kill dils hill, north carolina and john zarrella is north of there. then candy crowley in long island and mary snow and jacqui jeras. reynolds, they are bracing for a direct hit, aren t they? they certainly are. one of the most troubling things about this err area is the how it s susceptible to the