florida, and it could be the most expensive natural disaster unlike anything that anyone alive today has ever experienced. top of the hour. hello, everybody. i m cade ballian in for pamela brown and you re live in the cnn newsroom. tonight growing concerns and calls for more answers over what the fbi recovered during their search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago resort. people want a congressional briefing and damage assessment now after the justice department remained eleven sets of classified documents including materials marked with one of the highest levels of classification. some of those document were marked top secret, sensitive compartmented information and that s among the heist designation in terms of the extremely grave damage to national security that could be done if it were to be disclosed so the fact that they are in an unsecure place, guarded with nothing more than a padlock or whatever security that they had in the hotel is deeply alarmin
mega flood may soon be added to the state s list of threats. they say it could be the most expensive natural disaster in history if it occurs. meteorologist tom saider is in the cnn weather center to help explain what this is really all about. tom, what has scientists so worried? well, when i break this down this, report for you, kate and everyone listening, you ll get a better understanding. it used to be you talk about california and the big one. it s an earthquake and now the big one is a mega flood. let s begin with what the scientists are looking at and a number of them, of course, contributing to the report. since the 1850s the temperature has been rising across the entire planet. we have broken thousands of high temperature records across all of the northern hemisphere. look, the last search years have been the hottest seven we re ever had on this planet. they are breaking records in the southern hemisphere, too. on average the earth has warmed 1.2 degrees celsius since the pr
surge i urgency. right now in the immediate crisis. no small irony the u.n. global climate change report comes out talking about these conditions, how 100 year storms are every year storms. we re dealing with this. tom, pick up on sam s point and one of the things we re watching. on my screen what we re watching in different areas, we see obviously what is the hurricane threat in this area. but tropical storm which everybody always mitigates its intensity, it s not that bad. it s horrible, especially in the areas that are already saturated. what is the additional risk there, tom? in 2003 hurricane isabel moved into the outer banks and went into the washington, d.c. area. it wasn t that strong a storm but it dropped over 10,000 trees. this is pine country, heavy, tall trees, weak shallow root systems. they go down very easily across the entire southeast. so tropical storm force winds easily in this area. we lost the storm. even though it lost its center, you have to take the circula
that the what they re worried about we see some. sam, tom, thank you for helping us understand what is happening and what is yet to come. so, here s what we know. michael came fast and furious leaving little time for those in its path to seek safer ground. that s just the reality. that creates so much pressure on the first responders and on local leaders. how did they meet an unanticipated need? tonight we have florida s senior senator bill nelson with us next. he ll bring us up to date. rect m you always get the lowest price on our rooms, guaranteed? let s say it in a really low voice. carl? lowest price, guaranteed. just stick with badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com so why not bundle them with esurance and save up to 10%? which you can spend on things you really want to buy, like. well, i don t know what you d wanna buy because i m just a guy on your tv. esurance. it s surprisingly painless.
i m hearing from my fema guys that are down on the ground, he this say, we keep seeing people in places. that the what they re worried about we see some. that means there are more there. sam, tom, thank you for helping us understand what is happening and what is yet to come. so, here s what we know. michael came fast and furious leaving little time for those in its path to seek safer ground. that s just the reality. that creates so much pressure on the first responders and on local leaders. how did they meet an unanticipated need? tonight we have florida s senior senator bill nelson with us next. he ll bring us up to date. chloe. she s so cute. the most loved iphone meets the most loved in wireless. right now, save $300 on iphone xs at t-mobile. rewards me basically aeverywhere.om