. >> josmar: this is rockaway park further down you call it far rockaway there's also rockaway beach.ar: there's a lot of different parts to it. >> anthony: josmar trujillo, a writer and local activist. >> anthony: you from queens originally? >> josmar: i was raised in the city but i lived in queens for most of my adult life now. >> anthony: and rockaway now? >> josmar: no i so i left here a little, about a year after hurricane sandy, 'cause the way sandy hit and the way that it kind of you know shook people out of where. you didn't want to put your family through that again, the risk of that. >> anthony: how bad did it get hit out here? >> josmar: this was like something out of a movie. >> anthony: hurricane sandy pounded the east coast in 2012 and many communities suffered, but the rockaways were hit with a particular ferocity. >> anthony: how was the response? >> josmar: you know, the response from everyday people was good, like one of the best things about what happened right afterwards was the way a lot of people came together who lived here, but also how a lot of people kind of

, i remember reporting in the aftermath of sandy here in the metro area in new jersey and in the rockaway for a year afterwards people's lives were spun around like tops and not really recovered after that. >> correct. >> it sounds like you're saying we don't have the resilience in place to deal with that as we think what's going to happen to these folks in rather poor area of the state of florida getting pounded by michael. >> if you map the had impoverished area that coast and look at the storm trajectory -- by the way, 60 square mile superfund site right in harm's way. an old air force base. totally contaminated. there's like 19 hospital and 100 something nursing homes. we have really big problems, none of those things are as resilient as we would like them to be. we'll have a really big problem trying to recover that community and a lot of loss of life. >> thank you so much for being here. >> it's been eight day since jamal khashoggi walked into a saudi arabian consulate in turkey han he has not been seen his. tonight we have breaking news on his disappearance next. >>> breaking news