the coast. there are hurricane zones where people won t be able to rebuild. the mecong delta in vietnam, people are looefeaving there. it s been a fertile environment forever. it s no longer fertile because of salt water that s coming in. you see evidence of this examine examples of it more and more, but when you go further and further into the interior, then what you re dealing with are record temperatures, temperatures that get into the 120 and above degrees fahrenheit in some places. so the amount of space, it seems, that we ll be able to occupy on this planet in the decades to come is getting smaller and smaller and smaller. that s absolutely right. and we re using more of that space now for agriculture, for other human purposes, so literally the amount of land available to us is shrinking at a time when our global population is shrinking. it s at about 7.5 billion people, likely to hit 9 billion later this century. we re talking about less food, less water and less space for a
fema director michael brown. what is remarkable about what this guy did is he did it, 50% more in construction costs. might seem like a lot it is a lot but it is a lot cheaper than a destroyed home. he is my new hero. he should personify what every american citizen should think about about how they do their construction, how they do their business, not just in hurricane zones but tornadoes, blizzards, whatever it is. the problem is in the united states, we focus so much on response. response is exciting, we get to save lives and protect property. first responders come in and everybody loves that. what is not very sexy is mitigation. how do we do the kinds of things he has done so you don t have the downtime, the lost resources, the rebuilding. think about investor owned utilities.
hurricane katrina. private boat owners who go into the hurricane zones they rescue pets. they rescue people. they rescue property. they already do a great job in florence alone they rescued 150 people. if you want to do anything and help them out, you can go to louisianacn.com. they will bring you food, they ll bring your water. everything like that. doing great work. saturday night, at a clock, watters world will be live. in the path of the storm, they will be reporting to me what s going on in the world of diamond and silk as florence hits along with some other things too. glad you were able to keep it all relevant. i have a small, lady, maggie is trying to face the storm had on. this is how strong it is.
we look at it, this device here is really quite quite elaborate. it will allow me to be on temperatures i can measure the relative humidity. the heat index stress the dew point. we ll be able to look at the barometric pressure which will drop as the storm comes in. we ll get a whole bunch of real-time data as this is going on. it s not uncommon especially for some people who live in hurricane zones and for many years have had to deal with these, to keep track of that sort of data. so we ll be able to provide it real time as it s happening when florence begins to really show her ugly face here. craig. hey, kerry, you know, you covered a lot of these things. perhaps more hurricanes than just about any correspondent at nbc news. how effective in your estimation is the government and public response at this point compared to past storms that you ve covered? i m impressed. i want you to think it was
you responded immediately, sir, and you did so. i have been on the phone every day since the disaster. the response is there. do we need to do a lot more? of course we do. you know, mika, you look at that, and you see that behind it all, donald trump is still a bully. he s still a thug. crosses his arms, and staring at him like this. puts a man in the position where he has to say that. let me say again, as somebody that has served in hurricane zones. when the president of the united states comes in, you do what it takes to make that president, where are whether you re in your party or not happy, because you re neighbors, your friends, your constituents depend on support from the federal government, especially in this case, to come through with aid and support. so the president put the governor in an untenable