maritime laws even though it was on the water; correct? exactly. it should come under florida statutes and floating homes around the country come under state jurisdiction and not federal jurisdiction. brian: how many hours did you put in in stating your case and fighting for your case? over the last six years, probably 4,000 or 5,000 hours. brian: six lawyers, four law students on this. while you were fighting this, they wreck your house? after i lost at the district court level, the judge ordered my home sold at a u.s. marshal auction. the city of rivera beach outbid destroyed my home at taxpayers expense. brian: while you re paying property taxes? correct. houseboats are vessels and don t pay property taxes. brian: why was it so important for you? someone wrecks your home but you know the type of financial investment and
him minutes ago. okay. we re going to stand by for that. and chad myers, tell me where the storm is now. ashleigh and jeff were on the same road. they were on the same road together? going different directions. ashleigh is going toward st. louis, jeff is to the west driving toward the tornado. they crossed each other, obviously didn t see each other because it s raining so hard. but they went the opposite direction. jeff is following that storm it did some damage near bird s eye, it had to, indiana. but there is an even larger tornado that i m very worried about it. it s to the northwest of louisville by maybe 30 miles but it is on the ground doing damage. new peak in indiana is in the way of this tornado. if you know anybody in that area, they just need to take cover. and these now are so big that you don t have to wait. if you see a dark cloud literally, you know a storm is coming your way, don t wait for the weather service to put out a warning. just take your torn
destroyed, and officials say the financial toll will jump well above $10 million. the sudden surge of water also struck the other end of the state. south of san diego. the worst damage happened early yesterday when a second tsunami moved through mission bay. of course, the dock was crushed, and the 100,000 pound barge broke free. heading back out to the coast to santa cruz, the waves caused up to 20 boats to sink. governor jerry brown issued an emergency declaration and dozens of houseboats were damaged, and many lived in full-time around the year. among the incredible pictures we are seeing at the moment, the tsunami hit the coast of japan. is there potential for more large scale quakes in the immediate future? we ll show you some remarkable before and after aerial pictures of several japanese towns and the difference is stunning. keep it here on msnbc sunday. announcer: wherever the game takes you, transitions is your best playing partner. transitions lenses adapt to changing light
40-mile-an-hour winds, and we look to down the canal, and another fisherman across the street we looked, and it too houseboats were floating towards our boat, and we had to run out there in the storm and tie them up. tucker: i have heard other news anchors espresso scorned it towards people like you, and i just want to tell you that i think it was brave and american, and good for you. how are people behaving down there? people who stayed. i mean, we are just helping each other, i mean honestly, that is how we are how facebook leiva started was people saw what was going on. you know, we are all just pitching in and helping everyone. there are a couple of stores that have opened that always open right after the storm. one is a pizza parlor, and we went there and got pizza today. it is bad, but you know, we all stick together. that is what we do down here. tucker: how bad is it? you have been there your whole life.
from the mainland, people who come across the bridge into key largo and head south, our emergency personnel, you can see this on the ocean side of the key is, on the bayside come on the west side, you will find more tree damage and signs down, awnings ripped down, more wind damage. no water damage on that side. you don t see the destruction like you do on the side, we are only talking about a half of a mild difference sometimes, you can tell that this place here at one point had six or seven houseboats, and you can only make out basically one and a half. there is one smaller one to the left here, basically they folded in half in some cases, here s what we know tonight, the monroe county sheriff s department out and about, they did a survey of most of the roads in the area, we know that the ambulance service is still down here, the hospitals, or the whole hospital i should say is not open yet, the roads are not open, that is the main problem. they still have to clear the