of the philippines of a category 4 storm, with ferocious winds. with the circulation here, the quadrant will be seen to the nor north. we re focusing on the area that will be most impacted. 250-mile-per-hour winds. that happens in the next 12 hours. we don t have to wait long. they have battening down the hatches across the island. guys? glad you re keeping an eye on that, ivan. this next story is about a homeless man in france. a man using social media to show the daily struggles of living on the streets of paris. and his followers are paying attention. he is calling out french authorities for their treatment of the homeless. melissa bell reports. reporter: he s a homeless man who has become a twitter
indestructible. [ gunshot ] the weather channel put one safe room to the test by blasting it with a jet engine. these rooms are engineered for 250-mile-per-hour winds. every cell of the concrete block is reinforced with rebar, and that rebar goes from a separate footer system all the way up the walls, across the top of the ceiling, and then back down, and it s all tied together. if the whole house collapsed around it, the trusses fell in, the walls fell in, it is an entity unto itself with a separate footer system, a separate ceiling. and stronger materials can make a huge difference. think a cinder-block house is secure enough? the insurance institute for business and home safety test structures made both with common materials and stronger, reinforced materials. they actually build houses in a facility in the carolinas, and they wind-test them, and
indestructible. [ gunshot ] the weather channel put one safe room to the test by blasting it with a jet engine. these rooms are engineered for 250-mile-per-hour winds. every cell of the concrete block is reinforced with rebar, and that rebar goes from a separate footer system all the way up the walls, across the top of the ceiling, and then back down, and it s all tied together. if the whole house collapsed around it, the trusses fell in, the walls fell in, it is an entity unto itself with a separate footer system, a separate ceiling. and stronger materials can make a huge difference. think a cinder-block house is secure enough? the insurance institute for business and home safety test structures made both with common materials and stronger, reinforced materials. they actually build houses in a facility in the carolinas, and they wind-test them, and
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these tests? the fema guidelines require wind pressures for the storm come from a 250-mile-per-hour ground speed tornado and that s speed on the ground and that the typical debris generated by that storm would be a wooden 2x4 that s 15 pounds and propelled at 100 miles an hour. so you recreate those conditions in a lab using these commercially available buildings. do you feel like people who are marketing these obviously this is a public safety issue, also a business. when you are finding people marketing these, are their products good products when people market these things as safe, are you generally finding that they re right? well, anything that s come through our laboratory we list those companies on our website