well, you know, after 9/11, one of the things that congress did was tell the states that wanted grant money, you had to show us how you were going to use it for terrorism. the consequence of that, suddenly the states started ignoring floods tornados hurricanes and everything else and tried to put grants in terms of terrorism. now if fema makes the states start asking for money based on how they re responding to climate change i ve got news for the feds. i think the climate does change. i doubt whether man has much impact on that. we re watching tornados today. we ve always had tornados. we ve always had hurricanes and we re always going to. this just puts an additional burden on the state to somehow now start rewording things just to appease the federal bureaucrats. i think that s making a de facto climate change policy that congress hasn t adopted x the states haven t adopted, but this
texarkana, little rock. this area of moderate risk, possibilities of tornados today, affects 9.5 million people are at risk of seeing dangerous weather today. yesterday, in 1999, it was a series of tornados. this was one huge tornado. yeah, the one that went through moore in 99 was a single tornado. this one was very similar to that but a little wider. that s why it actually affected so much larger of an . the outbreak in the southeast in 2011 that killed over 300 people, that was like dozens and dozens of twisters. bill, thank you very much. you ve been up all night doing weather reports for us. there s iconic images of these trains and i want to show you what seems to be one of them. both of the new york tabloid newspapers have this image and that is near what was plaza towers elementary school. it s one of the sites of the worst damage of the storm. at least seven children reportedly killed there. by some estimates that number
we have had report of tornados, tornado warnings are posted and with the land falling tropical system, tornados are not out of the question. so tropical storm debby, the latest coming out at 5:00. national hurricane center did make a few tweaks. with its intensity and path, which is quite interesting. it is a broad circulation. as you heard don said everyone from the florida to the texas coast needs to be mindful of this. also, it s moving very slowly. what does that mean? it won t be a quick hitter. 10 to 15 inches of soaking, flooding rain will be a part of this picture, also, we ve seen western florida get dumped on with rain. also, southwestern florida with tornados today. the problem is, the future is to uncertain with this because the track is so uncertain. this is what we call our spaghetti model. there are a loft computer models out there and each has its own con vekture of where the track of debby will go. now more of a consensus moving that way, but national hurrica