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Short answer, yes, it is legal to live off the grid in Michigan, but the long answer includes some stipulations to follow.

Short answer, yes, it is legal to live off the grid in Michigan, but the long answer includes some stipulations to follow.

Short answer, yes, it is legal to live off the grid in Michigan, but the long answer includes some stipulations to follow.

Architect and professor Aleksandra Jaeschke will visit Cornell to speak on her exploration of greenhouse design following her winning the Wheelwright Prize in 2019.

Whether the building had a real impact here? >> yeah, so the type of construction that they used in turkey, in fact, throughout much of the world uses reinforced concrete frames with end fill masonry, basically concrete blocks, bricks and stones forming the walls between the beams and columns that make up the frame. that type of structure is very susceptible to pancake type collapses. it is not a common form of construction in the united states. in fact, it is prohibited by our building codes in...

City governments in los angeles, san francisco, seattle, salt lake and other cities that have a significant earthquake risk in the united states are very rigorous in their enforcement of the building codes and we dont see officials lifting building code requirements for the sake of economic prosperity in the united states. so were very fortunate about that. >> and i do lastly just sort of want to ask you about your thoughts when you look at this. i mean, just tearing these buildings down, i mean...

Very different places, different building codes. how do you compare? >> theres a lot of similarities, anderson. i will tell you, one of the big differences is the climate. its below freezing right now. in haiti, it was january, it was quite warm at that point in haiti. it was much more densely populated. here it is more spread out, the quake zone. the same sorts of problems with building codes, that pancaking of the building you saw. that is reflective of buildings that have not been built to th...

>> reporter: theres a lot of similarities. ill tell you, one of the big differences is just the climate. it is below freezing right now. you remember in haiti it was january, it was quite warm at that point in haiti. it was much more densely populated over here. it is more spread out, the quake zone but the same sorts of problems with building codes, pancaking of the building you saw. that is -- its reflective of think buildings that havent been built to the code of withstanding earthquakes and ...

Happens is if someone has in this case an arm thats sort of pinned, the muscle in the part of the arm that is pinned can actually start to release these toxins. theyre sort of contained because the arm is pinned but the problem is as soon as you take, you know, as soon as you release the arm all those toxins can now get into the bloodstream and cause problems with other organs including the kidney. in haiti you may remember, anderson, sometimes they would find somebody who was still alive but be...

President erdogan is now under fire after supporting the push to forgive construction violations in the past, long before this earthquake. james longman from turkey tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the astonishing rescue in turkey. two brothers trapped for nearly 200 hours. 17-year-old muhammad and later, his older brother baki. and tonight, with turkish officials issuing more than 130 arrest warrants for contractors and developers accused of shoddy construction, president erdogan under fire, crit...