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Going up. were seeing more disasters. were seeing more expensive tornadoes because of building in areas that formerly were rural. what should we be doing differently with our disaster relief? >> we should be spending more money when we dont have a disaster to try to mitigate and to move people out of harms way and to encourage that. we should reorientate our disaster warning systems that incentivize states to have relief funds. the more you have in building codes and more you have in things that...

The case. >> no basements or anything like that. in the west where i grew up, after the earthquakes, we had to have foundations twice as wide as twice as deep, plywood instead of half an inch, an inch deep. its about regulations. >> will people start mandating these. but its a lot more expensive. >> they did mandate stuff in florida for hurricanes. they made it mandatory for the building codes. could they include that into the building codes in the midwest? you are talking thousands of dollars a...

Matters. >> kate snow is with us. not all americans understand the culture of living her and i have a fair amount of e-mails and people saying what were these kids doing at school? are pa. >> i thought that. its like a snow day. they would cancel school if they saw a tornado. every day in may, there is potential for a tornado. they said we would have no school in may if we canceled every threat of severe weather. they have the drills they do and send out a note to parents and the kids know what ...

The more you have in building codes and more you have in things that will help you out and also help the taxpayers out that were not bearing as much of the burden. those type of changes would actually have a really big impact and would make those disaster relief dollars go farther. >> steve ellis of taxpayers for common sense and congressman hakeem jeffries, thank you very much. really appreciate it. >> thank you. a final note with some more breaking news from moore, oklahoma, tonight. nbc new...

Is this something that a tornado can do at an ef-5 rate? >> yes. almost no buildings can survive an ef-5 tornado. they wipe buildings clean off their foundations. now, we are talking about moore, oklahoma. this may be one of the best-prepared cities in the united states, oklahoma city metro is one of the best prepared in terms of the communications and construction. because as a result of the 1999 they had a large number of casualties. four years later it was similar but had relatively few casua...

>> reporter: it looks like nothing has happened here for some families. i think you can hear the sound on and off. that is the sound of a jackhammer. people are trying to bring their lives back together. so many are struggling to make that happen. we talked to folks who have come to look at their property. one man says he hasnt been on the second floor of his home in six months. he cant get up there because the stairs are gone. the storm ripped through his home knocking out everything on the fir...

All the time. we were down by the mosque yesterday. theres human remains. theres a thousand families that have never had a burial at all. and we reached out to mayor bloomberg. they will help find the remains. theyve had flooding down there. they dont use any common sense. people told us the equality was find. nothing was held accountable. these tr the problems that we have. the no fly list. people are flying wherever they want to go. building codes are on less frin gent clothes. we were told do...

In recent weeks, weave reported on states that have adopted some of the strictest abortion laws in the country. alabama, arkansas, kansas, north dakota. today virginia joined the list. this morning. the state board of health voted to approve new regulations that would require abortion clinics to comply with hospital-style building codes. this would require costly construction for many clinics. the elective, actually the executive director of planned parenthood in virginia said, these are "onerou...

It wasnt built by architect, home depot, it was built with the materials at hand which is now the problem. county officials say that the compound violates building codes, safety regulations and ordered him to shut it down. >> this is supposed to be the land of the free, the government is supposed to help people protect their individual liberties and freedoms, thats not whats happening here, so, im thinking, my gosh, this is the country that i pledge of allegiance to every day? >> so critics wond...

Mechanism. and as in mississippi, absent intervention from the courts, the state of north dakota will likely shut down its only abortion providing clinic if this law takes its course. that mississippi-style trap law has already passed the north dakota senate. it is seen as likely to pass the north dakota house and to be signed into law by north dakotas republican governor. and that is not the end of the movement to regulate abortion clinics out of existence in america. this week a new trap law m...