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north of us. and we were blessed. minimal damage. mainly the financial impact. but word is getting out there. everybody s finding out. key west is here! come on down and have fun with us. happy new year to you, pirate wench. happy better, healthier 2018. yeah, when it comes to how bad it could be, ana, when you think about what s happening in puerto rico tonight, even object gulf coast, places like rockport, tourist towns there where most of their attractions were wiped out, it could be so much worse. it s nice to aptly say good-bye to a 2017 with a lovely sunset and a lot of joy. happy new year to you. happy new year to you. bill, i have to say, i know you covered katrina and i recall the spirit and the people there. certainly seems like you re finding much of that same spirit there in key west. reporter: right. yeah, very similar cultures. people who are drawn down here to this town, at the end of the road, are a special breed of
going over to syria being trained and coming back. but now they are part of the other countries that are victims of an attack like this. the what does it tell you? it s also personally, i lived in spain and spent a lot of time in tarragona and barcelona. the these are beautiful tourist towns that don t normally see this kind of activity. what you see on the ground shah they are increasingly cornered. increasingly returning to car bombs, vehicle-borne ieds, there is a sense they re being backed into a corner so the inspiration and ideology becomes more important. let taes take that idea. fight the man. also have to fight the ideology. that leads us to how the president responded when he said study what general per shing
fryer. i think he s back with us again. joe, can you hear me? i can hear you, kate. i was just going to ask about the scene on the ground there. for people who haven t been to that part of mexico, are we talking about a very developed area, very rural? are the buildings built to withstand hurricane force winds? so what you re looking at when you look at the large swath of where this hurricane could hit, a lot of it is going to be undeveloped area, not much going on. really a lot of the attention is being focused on the tourist towns, puerto vallarta being one, manzanillo being another one. so those are the things people are keeping an eye on at this point. a lot of the space in between, not very well populated. as for the buildings, it s a mix of buildings, and what you see and what will be prepared for a hurricane, and what won t be. this will be unprecedented at
fall this weekend officials are concerned about more flooding from rain-swollen rivers from the eastern part of the state. reporter: we are in new york city which is one of the nation s top tourist towns. visitors are short change themselves if they don t hit the hudson river and head north. reporter: you will find it 50 miles north of new york city and 250 years back in the history of this nation. reporter: george washington found this to be what he called the key to the continent and thought if he could control west point and the hudson river again the largest navy and largest army in the world, we could cure the united states. it was an tight-year war in the revolution.