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Edwardsville, at least six killed in an amazon distribution center, and a sign of how unusual a december outbreak of tornadoes, is the illinois governor announced he will look into strengthening building codes. mola lenghi is in edwardsville. good evening. >> reporter: good evening,more. one person, an employee, remains injured. as crews clear debris, the governor of illinois told me state and legal officials have start investigating whether this facility was structurally sound before the tornad...

Inside, all the employees inside, could remain safe. and that included using bullhorns to make sure those employees can head to whats described as a shelter in place location in the interior of the building. but those amazon executives also making it clear that was not meant to serve as a storm shelter. this building, because of flooding concerns, does not have a basement. and technically its not required to according to building codes. thats what we heard from state officials. perhaps this is c...

And construct. but what do you do about tornados like this with the kind of energy and power that tornados come with and the fact that we cant track them all that well, we dont know theyre there until theyre there. what do you do to build resilience for tornado? >> we have to look at building codes. we have to look at -- after the huge tornado that hit in oklahoma, looking at schools, building emergency shelters inside schools, making sure that there are rooms where people can try and get to. yo...

Imagine you're driving across the I-430 bridge from Little Rock to North Little Rock around twilight. You glance westward to admire the view of Pinnacle Mountain and absently wonder why there's so little traffic on the usually busy stretch of highway. Moments later, you find out why.

Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos state governor, has suspended Gbolahan Oki, the general manager of the Lagos State Building Control Agency

Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos state governor, has suspended Gbolahan Oki, the general manager of the Lagos State Building Control Agency

Over the past couple decades, building codes have responded to disasters, rather than averting them. Resilience is now an essential design element needed to withstand our changing...

Pennsylvania’s state Senate is advancing legislation that would bar municipalities in the nation’s No. 2 natural gas state from adopting building codes that...

Algorithms, it could be youtube or tiktok. now imagine your stadium without building codes. they would not be safe. would the stairs fall down or everything collapse? we need the same kind of response where we can have a regulatory body. kind of like the one that provides us building codes or fda, sort of bring regulations in place to protect people and giving people the base level of safety which they are not getting today. >> we cant afford bolands. we see this every time security industry com...

The word platform. you are building the stadiums and just like any of that, you dont control the games and concerts but you are providing the venue for it and you have people there and you have rules about who can come and where they can sit and what allows them to stay and when they have to leave. this should be no different. what could be done to make social media better for us? >> well, chris, you got it right. we see this not just with facebook but every platform that gives you recommendatio...