# Professor Nicholas Economides is interviewed about the economic impact of Hurricane Florence

1 Faculty News September 17, 2018 ![CGTN logo ](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/cgtn192x144.jpg?itok=ZR020S7w)>

Excerpt from [CGTN](https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=Jemr9UosPvs&feature=youtu.be) -- (:34) "It's the beginning of estimating the damage, this storm has a tendency to linger for a long time and drop a lot of rainfall so there will be, I'm afraid, a multiple of the estimate of damage that we have right now."

[Watch the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=Jemr9UosPvs&feature=youtu.be)