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Tsunami warnings canceled after 45 minutes. some waves reached 7 feet on the northern coast where the president was assessing damage. she quickly moved inland because of the possible tsunami. >> we all want to not have any more aftershocks and evacuations. but if necessary, people need to be repaired. >> reporter: 40,000 remain without power. 6 people died. northridge was 6.7, and this is bigger than that. bill: i know you are on high alert in california. experts have been worried for a long tim...

>> every think there are too many rules. >> oh, yeah, i think that all the time. but we dont invent the building codes, were merely the enforcer. >> how is any human supposed to understand that or follow that? >> i dont have the answer. they -- i dont have that answer. if you look behind me, we have 24 statute backs. im a lawyer. im supposed to know all the statutes. builders obviously cant possibly know all this, but they are taught how to look this stuff up. >> why dont you just do what they a...

>> every think there are too many rules. >> oh, yeah, i think that all the time. but we dont invent the building codes, were merely the enforcer. >> how is any human supposed to understand that or follow that? >> i dont have the answer. they -- i dont have that answer. if you look behind me, we have 24 statute backs. im a lawyer. im supposed to know all the statutes. builders obviously cant possibly know all this, but they are taught how to look this stuff up. >> why dont you just do what they a...

Unacceptable. >> do you ever think there are too many rules? >> yes. i think that all the time. we dont invent the building codes, were the enforcers. >> how is any normal human supposed to understand it and follow it? >> i dont have that answer. they -- i dont have that answer. if you look behind me, we have 24 statute books. im a lawyer, im supposed to know all the statutes. builders cant possibly know all this but they are taught how to look this stuff up. >> why dont you just do what they as...

>> every think there are too many rules. >> oh, yeah, i think that all the time. but we dont invent the building codes, were merely the enforcer. >> how is any human supposed to understand that or follow that? >> i dont have the answer. they -- i dont have that answer. if you look behind me, we have 24 statute backs. im a lawyer. im supposed to know all the statutes. builders obviously cant possibly know all this, but they are taught how to look this stuff up. >> why dont you just do what they a...

For future storms, droughts, wildfires. that means were going to have to go round congress and were going to have new rules, new regulations. were going to spend a lot more money especially on infrastructure, and were going to set up a committee, a task force largely made up of democrats from the states and the mayors of big cities, and were going to say -- there you go. that is who were going to have running this climate change task force, largely democrats. theyre going to say we need to do th...

And insurance rates t would be called the wild land urban interface hazard scale which does not translate into a good acronym. city planners would use the designations to toughen building codes. for example, they might require larger buffer zones between a home and a forest. researchers are analyzing building materials, grass, trees, shrubs, topography and weather patterns and focusing distance embers travel in high winds. more than hatch of homes destroyed in wildfires are ignited by embers whi...

Kenyan authorities as among the dead terrorists on the scene. since fleeing england she is accused of training female suicide bombers for al-shabaab in somalia and more critically being a fund-raiser for the organization. jenna: catherine, thank you. >> reporter: youre welcome. jon: we do not have to tell you it has been an extremely active wildfire season southwest. it has cost hundred of millions of dollars in damage. a new proposal that could impact everything from building codes to insurance...

Hoping to use the data to update building codes. cell phone records. some worry the government is spying on them. now plans for local agencies to keep an eye on you as well. were going to explain this right after the break. we hope you stay with us. when we made our commitment to the gulf, bp had two big goals: help the gulf recover and learn from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i can tell you - safety is at the heart of everything we do. weve added cutting-edge te...

These laws completely bypass the complex constitutional questions and the supreme court has grappled with in its roe decision, a bit of policymaking magic, completely undermining preefsey rights without engaging the courts privacy rights at all. laws that in practice would ban abortion after 20 weeks are dressed up to mask claims of fetal pain, laws passed under guys of standardized building codes to make abortion facilities safer. texass version of the law, commonly known under the fitting acro...