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Take cover behind a concrete structure, if possible. while flight time is 14 minutes, it can take more than 30 seconds for the blast wave to actually hit. after impact. after the blast, shower well, using plenty of soap and shampoo. we are not making light of this threat, nor is anyone on guam, far from it. in fact, we are joined by two guests to talk about it. democratic congressman ted lou of california is with us tonight, important in taiwan, he went to stanford and georgetown and hes a colon...

>> i want to show you what the people of guam woke up to this morning, and remember, 168,000 residents of guam. u.s. citizens all. theyre living under the threat of north korean missiles arriving off their shores in some sort of show of force. this is their local paper, the guam pacific daily news. they ran an article today. its listed on tear website tonight, an article called "missile threat tips." just some solid how-to advice for civil defense in the event of a missile launch. here are the g...

For the blast wave to hit. the remember the south korean threat is to drop a bomb about 25 miles off the coast of guam. they are not suggesting they are hitting guam. this is a bit of a change from the governor for the last couple of days has been saying nothing to see here, go about your business which you and i both mentioned on the show felt strange given they were threaten the by north korea. >> the associated press reports the trump administration has been quietly engaged in back channel di...

Bleeding. that needs to be fixed. they start to focus on other areas. people think a gun shot wound to the hip no big deal. there is a lot of anatomy that can be injured and needs to be operated on. >> one of the things you said earlier today struck me that you said its not just the areas that the bullet passes through or the bullet hits. that bullet sends out essentially shock waves, and that can cause severe damage. >> this is a really important point. the bullet is traveling at such a high ve...

They start to focus on other areas. people think a gun shot wound to the hip no big deal. there is a lot of anatomy that can be injured and needs to be operated on. >> one of the things you said earlier today struck me that you said its not just the areas that the bullet passes through or the bullet hits. that can cause severe damage. >> this is a really important point. the bullet is traveling at such a high velocity. even before the bullet hits the skin, even before the actual physical contact...

That goes out? i know in ieds, the shrapnel causes a lot of pain, but its the shock wave of the force that can liquefy, pulpify organs. >> yeah, its tough to think about, but simply from a rifle energy, simple math, its the speed of the bullet that makes all the different, even more so than the size of the bullet. its the velocity. and the velocity of a bullet moving that fast can cause a blast wave that start to cause tissue energy even before the bullet gets there. and it can also cause this b...

Shrapnel may have been used in this bomb which would mean nails. what types of injuries do we usually see from situations like this? >> you know, don, we used to say these were the types of injuries youd only see on battlefields but i think over the last few years now, that has changed. these are becoming civilian injuries that civilian hospitals have become too familiar with treating. what typically happens, you know, is that you have sort of three waves, if you will, don, of injury. a primary ...

In other words, blocks without a ticket where you would not be able to gain access in this area? and then this person could have obtained a ticket, so then that is not even 100% a measure of keeping terrorists out. is there anything that could have been done to prevent this, you believe? >> you would like to think you can prevent everything that is going to maybe be planned or executed and in a free society, you cannot do that. however, that being said, we were actually fortunate in two ways. th...

In a remote, mountainous area of eastern afghanistan that borders pakistan. kourtney was live with us yesterday when the news of this came out. good to see you again. this bomb has been in the u.s. arsenal for decades. why use it now? >> well, as you mentioned, it has been in the arsenal for decades, but what was the target that made the military pull it out now? well, general nicholson, the commander there, talked about that this morning and mentioned it was a large isis complex with an intrica...

Fighters killed in this strike came from the afghans. the u.s. military is not confirming that. theyre still saying they know there was a large contingent of isis fighters hit, but they dont have any specificity on numbers. the bomb itself was a 21,000 pound gbu-43. yesterday when we first heard about this, everyone was asking this question, why did they need to use such an enormous bomb? the answer is the target itself. it was a complex, an isis complex with a relatively extensive tunnel system...