. >> back now with sebastian junger, author of "the perfect storm."1 storm killed 13 people, cost more than $200 million in damage. looks like sandy will far eclipse that, i would imagine. it seems to me, i'm looking at the way they prepared for this. obviously when you have seen problems before with katrina and irene and so on, you look to see how individual governors and states and indeed, the federal level, have coped with this. from what you're seeing, what you're hearing and picking up, are you impressed with the preparation? are you concerned still? >> i mean, this is the first disaster i've gone through in new york city and i mean, just as a resident of the city, it seems pretty well run. i think there's always going to be things that happen and you just can't keep the ocean out of your city if the ocean's determined to get in. >> i think mayor bloomberg has been spot-on, actually. he's done a series of press conferences. he seems to be completely on top of the brief. he's prepared everybody. there's always going to be, i can't believe this, st

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when you think about what's happening in the subways and so many question marks on that front, sebastian junger. one of the things here, flooding obviously is a big part of the problem, and it could be the biggest part of the problem. but when you look at the damage that is going to be inflicted by sandy, a lot of it will come in the form of wind damage. there could be records set in terms of the damage from the wind. >> hey, erin, as sandy's winds have spread over hundreds and hundreds of miles, so, too, the estimate of how much damage will be caused by them has gone straight up. well over $7 billion right now from wind alone. how is that possible? we sliced open another hurricane here, created layers out of it. look at the bottom down there. those red sections, that's where the wind is the most intense. as you move up in the storm, they start dissipating a little bit. but all of the tallest buildings on the east coast are all right down there in the red zone. and in many ways the buildings themselves will make the wind damage worse. let me show you how. if you had air flow going over an empty