shortage of a different kind. the historic hurricane system dealt a blow to her florida beaches which are suffering from a lack of sand. we have the story. miami is out of sand! which is news to this canadian kid classically digging to china and all of the tourists that come here specifically for the sun, the surf and i like the sand. this and. the sand, the beach. they bring about $70 billion a year to the economy. but trademark beaches regularly get swallowed up by hurricanes and erosion. the coastal communities spend $100 million every year for beach nourishment. usually, it is judged offshore and pumped up to the beach. after decades of that, miami-dade and broward counties have now depleted the offshore supply. south florida leaders now want the option of barging in sand from the bahamas.
the historic hurricane system dealt a blow to her florida beaches which are suffering from a lack of sand. we have the story. miami is out of sand! which is news to this canadian kid classically digging to china and all of the tourists that come here specifically for the sun, the surf and i like the sand. this and. the sand, the beach. they bring about $70 billion a year to the economy. but trademark beaches regularly get swallowed up by hurricanes and erosion. the coastal communities spend $100 million every year for beach nourishment. usually, it is judged offshore and pumped up to the beach. after decades of that, miami-dade and broward counties have now depleted the offshore supply. south florida leaders now want the option of barging in sand from the bahamas. something currently prohibited
and on up toward you guys. abby: thank you so much, rick. it has been quite the hurricane system. still a month to go and we been tracking this all season long. rick, what are you seeing? we had four hurricanes make landfall this year. i don t know that we ve ever had four. harvey and irma, because of puerto rico as well. three major hurricanes and now this fourth hurricane making the ball in mississippi. this is to be had the last big storm of katrina which was the monster storm, 30-foot storm surge and wiped away most of the coastline and that has been rebuilt stronger and can handle a category one hurricane coming on shore as it did last night. a lot of rain to be had from this well inland from the storm and that s will see over the
hurricane. i want you to seat projected path. this is from the national hurricane center s latest 5:00 a.m. update. two concerns anticipated. bumping the winds up to 85 sustained but i also want to you notice the cone of uncertainty that we talk about, oh, so much, that actually has that path, potentially, impacting the southeastern new england coastline. again, we re talking about long island and into the cape cod region. there are a lot of variables at play when we talk about hurricane. let s get right to it. here s the latest satellite imagery. you can see a little shear starting to impact the hurricane system. that is preventing any major intensification at this moment in time. there s still some variable spread between the models that we look at. here s the global model that take landfall into came cod. but the european model takes it offshore where they start to converge is the important question. water temperatures over the next 24 hours, warm enough to favor
trees wrapped in aluminum roofs, homes just rubble. but i suppose what struck me the most is when you get on the ground and you talk to the people, you feel the desperation. i mean, people who are used to storms like this, used to hurricanes will tell you they have never seen or felt anything like this. one man describing it like a lion roaring. another man evacuated tells me that he now is reminded that nature truly has the power here. all day long, we saw ferries going back and forth between barbuda and where we are right now trying to get the last few people out of there. and these are people who understand now the rath of the hurricane system and, you know, they have very little left, bringing just a few bags on these ferries, on these helicopters trying to get out in time before hurricane jose hits