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To go. there are new building codes coming up where people can put safe buildings, safe rooms in their house basically surrounded by kevlar. thats what a sandwich shop or whatever it was -- >> you were talking about that. you see the booth and seats that remain there, and we saw video, too. it looked like people were leaning over. perhaps they were praying. perhaps theyre looking for anything that might have survived this. >> natural guard is doing the search and rescue. national guard knows the...

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>> areas that may receive the most damage, you would expect those fire department buildings may not be operational. >> reporter: the scientists suggest we test early warning systems which were working in japan and may have made a difference. theyre pushing for more aggressive building codes and new rules to reinforce more of our oldest buildings. >> if you look at haiti, chile, christchurch and now japan, i think it would be the question, why arent we looking at this hazard and why arent we gett...

Rent space on trumps estate in bedford, new york. at the time trump said he didnt even know he was renting the land to gadhafi. well, within days the town issued a stop work order on the tent being built on the property saying it violated building codes. then local officials spoke out against the trump deal the deal that trumps organization finally asked gadhafi to leave. thats the story reported by abc news and the journal news of westchester but trump stands by his own tough guy retelling. >> ...

Rent space on trumps estate in bedford, new york. at the time trump said he didnt even know he was renting the land to gadhafi. well, within days the town issued a stop work order on the tent being built on the property saying it violated building codes. then local officials spoke out against the trump deal the deal that trumps organization finally asked gadhafi to leave. thats the story reported by abc news and the journal news of westchester but trump stands by his own tough guy retelling. >> ...

Westernized medical system there. its a good system. unlike what we saw in haiti where the medical system was not comparable. but that must still be stretched as well when youre looking at whats going on. >> you know, it is, michael. but ill tell you one thing. were here in tokyo and you can see all the buildings behind us that are standing. and thats one glimpse of just how good a system it is here. big earthquake. these buildings are among the best-designed in the world for withstanding an ear...

Sanjay gupta, m.d. is coming up. hello. im sanjay gupta. were now in tokyo and i can tell you over the last several hours were still feeling aftershocks here. there was a bic earthquake. people know about this. one of the largest ever reported in history. magnitude 9.0. remarkably there wasnt as much damage to the buildings from that earthquake as you might expect. the building codes here in japan are of a very high standard. as a result you can see many of the buildings in the capital city st...

Earthquakes to improve their building codes. we know a lot of places in this country, particularly the central u.s. and other areas, we have a lot of construction, older construction that, does not meet or mitigated against the seismic risk. so we would expect to see a greaterer percentage of structul failures outside of the areas that mitigate against the seismic risk. >> what are we talking about? >> well, places like the central u.s. and places you may not think about such as fault lines that...

I would dread this kind of event happening here and i think wed see far different outcomes for a variety of structural reason thats really plague our preparedness efforts. >> craig fugate, let me bring you back in there. where would you say america is most vulnerable to something like this happening? where are the weaker areas in terms of fault lines? people tell me about the san andreas fault line being a potential next target for this kind of earthquake. do you know? do you have any way of pre...

Tell me about the san andreas fault line being a potential next target for this kind of earthquake. do you know? do you have any way of predicting where the most likely places are that would suffer this kind of thing? >> sure. we do great mapping of where the seismic risk is. i think in california theyve done a lot since their past earthquakes to improve their building codes. we know in a lot of places in this country, particularly the central u.s. and other areas, we have a lot of older constru...