provide protection against coastal storms and that we can begin working on right now. reconnecting with water being in harmony with the environment and adapting these terms describe a new concept that of resilience and their consume support this movement believe that new york cannot totally protect itself from floods therefore its best option is to accept its fate prepare to bounce back reinvent itself and live with a threat. to our vision for resilience is that our neighborhoods our economy our essential public services are ready to stand on emerge stronger from both the impacts of climate change and other twenty first century threats and that s really it s the linkage of those two things it s the reduced impacts and it s the quicker recovery times that really accomplish what we mean by resiliency here in new york city. urban resilience is the ability of
like you were saying and like you heard ryan talking about, those bands of winds coming through, starting to really see that. i went out earlier today to take a walk along the river walk in tampa, down the hillsborough river, out towards the hillsborough bay into tampa bay. as you re walking down there, it was amazing to see that sort of draw of the water being pulled away and out because of the hurricane. so, because of that, there was a lot lot of marshy, swampy part no one has ever seen before. it s been over 90 years since a hurricane hit here in tampa. a lot of people were going out to look at that. i did check in with the police department. they said they didn t have any issues with that. they didn t have to do any arrests since the curfew has been enacted since 6:00 p.m. eastern. that s going to be as long as the storm is raging here in tampa. obviously, we vaebt even gotten the brunt here. i also checked in with the county. they say they have 28,000 people
of people with water in their homes along the st. john s river. the radar is not that impressive. maybe an isolated tornado in parts of south carolina. the story is about all the water being pushed onshore from savannah to jacksonville. the storm surge hasn t stopped. the helicopter shots from the keys, there s still surge in the keys of 2 to 3 feet. that s how large a circulation of wind field irma has. huge storm, indeed. we ll be learning in the hours and days to come exactly what the extent of the devastation is. bill karins, thank you. thank you for everything over the course of a very long probably week that we ve been covering this storm. angel marquez is a jacksonville resident who chose to ride out the storm in spite of what we ve been telling you, the sheriff said get out. he s on the phone with me now. angel, you ve, i m sure, heard they say if you re in evacuation zone a or b, you should have left. are you there? where are you exactly? well, i m i live on the
it is the storm surgeriesing. the winds, of course, are going to be excessive, they re going to cause damage, the tornadoes are are going to cause a high risk especially across the east coast, but it s the storm surge. it s that water level rise. i ve seen a lot of reports on twitter because the winds have been pushing the water out, right? and people are saying, oh, my gosh, the water has been pushed out of the bay, the problem is the water is going to come back with a venn since, and some people say it s vengeance, and some people say it s almost like a slow-moving tsunami with all of the water being pushed back into the bay from these counterclockwise winds. shepard: it has been quite a thing to watch. janice dean in the weather center, this is not over. if you re in the fort myers, lee county area or north of there, lehighing acres, there s more coming. fox 13 in tampa will tell you the storm is still headed in that direction. they ve got live pictures and a live shot up from fox
they have been flooded. right. nighttime is coming. we know that the civilian rescuers who have been op rating, there have been so many of them, it s been one of the most heartening parts of this story. but it s been recommended to them not to be on the water after night fall. what is going to happen overnight? the rain is still falling. you still have people trapped in their homes. what is going to happen to them? we re going to continue to operate the rescue missions as need be, but we are asking people, please, if you believe that the water is too high in your home, if you believe that you need shelter, it s not safe, you believe it s something that you need to escape from, to go ahead and do that now when it s still daylight out. we do not want to have people venturing out in the dark on their own. that is the last thing we want to have happen. i was with the houston fire department today. we were passing by roadways, scouting safer paths and even in doing so saw manholes tha