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and now that we have more people har's w, obviouy when a srm doestrike, e csequenceare evemore dire. >> there is a ton of coastline in america. we have something like 94,000 miles of coastline, 60,000 miles of coastal roads. half of america lives within a coastal watershed county, very close to the coast. so, we are a cotal cntry, iyou will what climate change is gonna do, the most important impact to coastal areas is gonna come through sea level rise. and that means that coastal flooding gets worse, coastal erosion gets woe, we'reonna see astal ars inundad. d in fa, the imrtant thing is, th is not mething out the fure. it's alrey happeni now. viinia bea, miami, new orleans, they're already dealing with those types of impact. one trilln dollar worth of structures and property sitting right at the shoreline. so flooding will get more extensive, it will happen more frequely, and at sort tng is wh puts miions of americans at risk every year. >> by 2045, we could see as little as 5 inches of extra sea level rise or 11 inches of extra sea level rise. now, to put that in concrete terms, le