heading for biloxi, mississippi, it wouldn't get the same attention.re's a kind of journalistic narsissim that new york based journalists are guilty of, if it happens to us, it's more important to you. >> bill: there's something you're missing here, though. why it got hyped up, i think there's a little something to the new york thing but i don't think that was the overwhelming national perspective. hurricane katrina changed everything. ever since that storm hit now, every storm is hysterical. and plus it's the end of august. there's nothing else going on so the media latched on to this coverage. they drove it and drove it and drove it. was it a bad thing? i didn't think so. i got tired of it. i watched the little league world series, bernie, nobody broke into my house forcing me to watch hurricane irene coverage. so there you go. >> well, i think we're both right because i think the new york thing was a factor and i think you agree with that to some extent but you're right. in the post katrina age, nobody -- nobody's taking any chances anymore. that's

. >> and that was nbc's peter alexander reporting out of biloxi, mississippi. as we continue to cover hurricane irene please send us pictures, but be safe about it. you can also tweet it us, stay with us, we'll be right back. >>> we're looking at live pictures of atlantic beach, north carolina income. that's where we've been talking to kerry sanders. he's taking shelter right now because the wind and the rain is really starting to strengthen. you can tell by the pictures the waves are kind of crashing in. so as soon as it's safe, we will be checking back with kerry sanders, but again live shot out of atlantic beach, north carolina, 80,000 people without power right now in north carolina. as you can expect hurricane irene is dominating the national headlines. here is how some of the major newspapers are covering it. the i don't page of "the boston globe", looming large, new england braces for the storm's impact. kwchlt the st. petersburg times" says 65 million on alert as it traces irene's predicted path. coast off limits that's according to "the cincinnati inqu

she's in biloxi, mississippi. all right. be heading your way right into the storm. give me an idea how long before you are where you want to be over that hurricane. >> we will be taking off a little over an hour from now and with flight time, it will take us a couple of hours to get there. within the next three or four hours we'll be in the storm, replacing another flight that was in the storm. so at this point we have flights pretty much guying around the clock into and out of the storm to finally get the data of what's going on. >> what kind of data are you looking for? >> it depends on the storm a little bit. all of our data goes from the plane to the hurricane center to help with the forecast. we know where the center of the storm is, so one of the primary purposes of my flight today is going to be flying that wind field on the side of the storm that is still over water on the eastern side of it because this storm has had an incredibly large wind field. so even though it blossomed in intensity, you have to look at how bi

for where we are now let me go it's a park very close to the center of moscow and then come here biloxi come with families in come in with friends you can come here with your grandmothers your. grandfathers and you can just play in the grass and in the water you can play games a great part of. the beach stephanie in the water relaxing and just being chilled out. from the busy busy last of the day right in front of us here we've got you know. the russians love their meet someone that you know people have. i never tried to make it but my friends make all the time we've been on the countryside and we've been here before and sort of a new boat and we've made sure we just stay on the side. on the side of the beach on the grass with the. keys and we can read it on the straight perfect day. for me on the first. to. see what other areas of interest. nature i want to get closer to it by the pool known as the bottomless lake it stretches from more than one thousand two hundred meters. along its path through feeding boxes and small wooden houses enclosures for harrods cranes and. interesting facts

where we are now let me go it's a park very close to the center of moscow and you can come here biloxi come with families in common with friends you can come here with your grandmothers your. grandfathers and you can just play in the grass and in the water games straight what is your favorite part of celebrity bore. the beach stephanie on the water relapsing and just being chilled out from the big easy last on the day our friends of us here we've got you know. the russians love their meat and want you know familiarity that people have with. the russians. and they cut their traditional i've never tried to make it with my friends may called it on we've been on the countryside and we've been here before and sort of knew about it and we made sure we just stay on the side of the on the side of the beach on the grass with a little. homemade buggies and we can we eat it and it's great perfect a perfect way to feed yourself or me on the coast sounds good to. me. so what are the areas of interest instead. although. i want to get closer to it by the pun known as the bottomless lake it stretches

biloxi, mississippi. gina, a republican and there. caller: good morning barre as you are, i live in the gulf coast area, between new orleans and biloxi. yes, the government should help people initially, basic food and water. but if you only knew the fraud that went on in new orleans with the money that was given to people, it was unconscionable. people need to be responsible for themselves, they need to have insurance. it is like any other government handout. there are always people trying to rip off taxpayers. it is very sad to see what went on. thank you. host: thanks for your call. libertarian response to the eric cantor story we showed you at says thatt, which is a relief should be offset by cuts in the federal budget -- indianapolis, bryan, democrat of their. -- bryan, a democrat there. caller: everyone voted for smaller government. now they are getting it and these cuts are being made. there is an issue where -- what they voted for. basically, all i wanted to say is be careful what you are voting for, follow the issues and know

look as the one place as being the landfall, hurricane andrew into the miami area orca trina into biloxioast and hitting a lot of places with a lot of population. that alone makes this storm stand out from many others unless we start going back in history. but the coastline population has never been like it is today. megyn: when it hits whether it's the outer banks of north carolina where we are seeing winds picking up, you can see in the video before you or up the coastline, new jersey, and so on, what will people experience and for how long? >> we are keeping our fingers crossed. you may have noticed the national hurricane forecasters are not forecasting this to be a major hurricane. they are calling it to stay steady and start to decrease slowly. once these storms start to move north they tends to shift. a lot of times their strongest winds are to the east. that would be good news if that did happen for the coast. but we can't predict that so we need people to evacuates. that's why we are going to keep flying and feeding that information to the hurricane center so they know who they n

nbc's peter alexander is in biloxi, mississippi., you got and up and close look at hurricane irene. >> yeah, chris, we did. we were on board one of these hurricane hunter flights for 11 hours. arriving back just after sunset late yesterday. another flight went out. it's just come back with new readings, as well. what they are, as you can behind me is roughly a sophisticated weather laboratory in the sky. they're helping produce forecasts that are now more precise than ever. this is an inside look at the ferocious storm tens of millions of americans now fear. irene, a massive hurricane, churning its way up the east coast. >> should be pretty close. >> reporter: at 10,000 feet, the veteran crew of the u.s. air force reserves 53rd weather reconnaissance squad rant is heading right into the eye of the storm. >> it looks like it's going to be pretty close to abico island. >> reporter: the flight plan, fly through the eye wall four times. >> are we there yet? >> reporter: their mission, to collect data for the computer models that predict

ask the folks in florida or gulf port or biloxi with the people outside san diego where the fire wiped out their homes. ask the people at ground zero. i don't want you all to become a citgo like me and think about it all of time but my challenge to you is this. think about the risk wherever you live or wherever you work and how prepared are you to deal with that risk? in washington the first thought is the biggest risk is terrorism. how many of you were here on 9/11? i wasn't. i heard stories about people trying to get from this area just to get across the bridges. people trying to get -- taking ten hours to get from this general area. it didn't have to be 9/11. it could be a dirty bomb. he takes out a substation -- if it happens to be just the right substation like we had in 2003 or 2004, it was a squirrel or something. took it out. that is all it has to be. everybody thinks that fema which runs no planes. restraints or automobiles will be there. there are three hundred million people in this country and there's a finite number of firefighters and team members and a finite number of m

biloxi, mobile and miami were also former operations.under our scope of authority within unified command at homa. grand isle, lafite and ven is in. you notice the grand isle and lafite were both in the same parish, jefferson parish. it is across the 40 miles from the bay to one location to the other. rather than have a forward command 40 piles away from the action was the we chose to put two forward commands within the parish. beside that parish president was a little more vocal than some so. the oil pollution act has been mentioned. we had a conference call a week ago to coordinate this. some of my slides will be redundant that my other presenters have put forward. oil pollution act of 1990 you may result is the direct result of exxon valdez. navigable waters ways are coast guard is the authority. also responsible party in the state. kind of upside down what we typically have under disaster management. typically the locals, then region, then your state and then your federal partners. this is what it looked like at houma at the unified c

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biloxi, mississippi. gina, a republican and there. caller: good morning barre as you are, i live in the gulf coast area, between new orleans and biloxi. yes, the government should help people initially, basic food and water. but if you only knew the fraud that went on in new orleans with the money that was given to people, it was unconscionable. people need to be responsible for themselves, they need to have insurance. it is like any other government handout. there are always people trying to rip off taxpayers. it is very sad to see what went on. thank you. host: thanks for your call. libertarian response to the eric cantor story we showed you at says thatt, which is a relief should be offset by cuts in the federal budget -- indianapolis, bryan, democrat of their. -- bryan, a democrat there. caller: everyone voted for smaller government. now they are getting it and these cuts are being made. there is an issue where -- what they voted for. basically, all i wanted to say is be careful what you are voting for, follow the issues and know

. >> tom, i remember covering hurricane katrina in biloxi, mississippi and seeing those casinos. barges that were flooded after that storm. are you concerned about what the storm surge, if there is a storm surge, that is serious there and what that might do to the cas o casinos and hotels that are vital to your economy? >> we believe we have the hotels protected. we planned them accoccordinglac. they are faced back off the beach and boardwalk and off the bay area, too. we are confident they will remain okay. they are built to our specifications. they are built to heavy duty specifications. we are confident they will hold down any damage. >> tom, it sounds like your city is not betting against irene. tom foley on the phone with us from atlantic city, new jersey. best of luck. >> thank you, jim. i appreciate it. >>> residents are the jersey shore are bracing for an direct hit from hurricane irene. we will talk with more folks there in that area about preparations for this monster storm. we are keeping an eye up and down the east coast as irene makes its approach toward landfall. st

remember in katrina, it raised the tidal surge in biloxi up to 30 feet, and inside of new orleans, upo tidal surge will be the big threat. >> and general, what about in a city like manhattan and new york city? this is a place that relies certainly on public transportation, you have the subways, you have the bus systems. what happens there in a case like this? is there anything they can do to prepare? >> well, let me just tell you this model that we've talked about the hurricane conference and other locations. if we were to get a katrina-type surge in new york city, the first story of wall street will be covered in water. >> wow. that's quite an image that you painted there. general, appreciate your expertise and your advice as always. i'm sure lots of our viewers were taking notes there. thank you. >>> libya's hope for political stability could hinge on the economic stability. what's the key to making that happen? we'll find out next. me your own. i find empty hotel rooms and help people save - >> - up to 60% off. i am familiar. your name? > naomi pryce. >> what other "negotiating" sk

host: an e-mail from biloxi, mississippi. guest: well, unfortunately the writer is incorrect.t is certainly the case that could train at caused the largest deficit in the history of the national flood insurance program. but by no means was the only deficit myriad hurricane ike caused enormous flood damages in 2008. and the year is not over, we have all enormous losses from a rain -- irene, and we have at it flooding along the mississippi and other rivers. wait until the accrual of those particular events. it will wind up in the red for the third times in six years. that is half the time. if a property casualty private insurer were to do that, it would be seized by regulators. that simply cannot happen. i will take issue with the caller that the program does not need to operate at a profit. if it does not need to operate or even break even, i guess it is ok to run at the deficit. if we extrapolate that to everything else, then the government will operate at a large deficit. when it comes to providing this type of benefit to the public -- remember, one of the reasons why this pr

host: an e-mail from biloxi, mississippi. guest: well, unfortunately the writer is incorrect.t is certainly the case that could train at caused the largest deficit in the history of the national flood insurance program. but by no means was the only deficit myriad hurricane ike caused enormous flood damages in 2008. and the year is not over, we have all enormous losses from a rain -- irene, and we have at it flooding along the mississippi and other rivers. wait until the accrual of those particular events. it will wind up in the red for the third times in six years. that is half the time. if a property casualty private insurer were to do that, it would be seized by regulators. that simply cannot happen. i will take issue with the caller that the program does not need to operate at a profit. if it does not need to operate or even break even, i guess it is ok to run at the deficit. if we extrapolate that to everything else, then the government will operate at a large deficit. when it comes to providing this type of benefit to the public -- remember, one of the reasons why this pr