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>> and im tired of them at telling us what to do and how to live and how to do business and how to can a product and i ask them permission for everything i do in life. you want to control everything then you come out here and run the damn thing. >> what does the government do that has him frustrate. >> this is just part of the regulations we have to deal with right here. they are just going on and on and keep growing. >> government regulations stapped him from canning and selling his crops. >> w...

To the 1920s,ç the 50s. weve never seen death tolls like this. we thought we were getting than this with the forecasting, the tornado sirens all the alerts. this year is a wakeup call for everyone. >> terms of the survivablity of these storms, you look at joplin, missouri, the death toll stands at 123. its so striking that the buildings destroyed were businesses, schools, banks, well built buildings that just had no hope of standing up against a storm of this strength. is it even possible to b...

They had a major earthquake, hit a plant not far from the one now in crisis and as a result in the radioactive spills. but they have very strict building codes and their requirements more severe than the ones in the united states or even in europe. but then, still not designed to withstand this kind of quake an 8.9 magnitude quake, which is what hit yesterday, is a very large quake. and then, thats what knocked out the electricity in the first place. then it was followed by a tsunami, which knoc...

Theres probably been some broken glass. in general, the japanese building codes are extremely stringent. and well adhered to. so -- and even look at the pictures that youve got of the tsunami devastation. this has to be very close to where the earthquake was. and many of the builds look perfectly fine. theyre just swamped. so -- >> the buildings look fine. its too early to tell. the buildings, youre right, they do look fine. it doesnt look like there were many collapses. but just before you star...

Tsunami struck. were going to be checking in with all of our correspondent, not only anna koren, but anderson cooper is standing by, gary tuckman, brian todd. i want to go to our own dr. sgaupta, our own medical correspondent because hes been checking in with people at the evacuation centers. so many people now are homeless pause of whats going on. >> a lot of people have been told to tee vac ate about the concerns of radiation and add on top of that so many peoples being destroyed because of th...

With the nuclear reactor. you cannot get near that site at this point. >>alisyn: you mention the search-and-rescue has been hampered because the roads are shut town and the rails, et cetera, are shut down and in tokyo, they were spared the massive devastation we are seeing on the screen of the coastal areas and we know the buildings and no one has continue a better job than japan. >> the building codes are second to none. the fact you have the 7th largest, recorded in modern history and at a gas...

Nirata yamamoto. we saw the horror in haiti. the horror came about because of the building codes. there were no building codes and structures essentially fell down. japan have been building for edge quakes like this for years. thats why when people wake up this morning and perhaps the number of dead and injured will rise exponentially but it will be nothing like haiti, because they prepare for this whenever they build a building. >> exactly right. haiti is in one end zone, if you will of earth...

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