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As we watch the reporting out of this, what a testament to the engineering and change in building code california in the last 20 years, we have a report of a single fatality or at least i have heard, single serious injury. >> we are proud of what we have done in california. first responders are well-trained, building codes but it was a big earthquake. i had relatives in los angeles. >> before we get to politics, in san francisco, los angeles, along the san andreas, where people take additional p...

-- do on climate if you got in there? >> we would have a whole suite of policies. >> name one. >> 100% clean fuel, clean grid, big investment in energy efficiency, requirements for better building codes, and large research and development. we spent more money developing one kind of jeep years ago than our entire clean energy investment strategy. now, below that, there is 24 different streejz and were doing them in our state as we speak. >> do you accept roe v. wade as settled law? thats it. leav...

There? >> we would have a whole suite of policies. >> name one. >> 100% clean fuel, clean grid, big investment in energy efficiency, requirements for better building codes, and large research and development. we spent more money developing one kind of jeep years ago than our entire clean energy investment strategy. now below that, there is 24 different strategy, and were doing them in our state as we speak. >> do you accept roe v. wade as settled law? thats it. leave it the way it is? >> absolut...

Really ready, in your opinion? is. >> i think so. im very pleased with how californians have responded. there are 40 million here. going back through 1973, 1991, 1994. each of those, the following year, we have laws passed and changes in the building codes to not face the same mistakes. when you look at the damage from these major earthquakes and compare those to other countries when the same size of earthquake happens and they are talking about thousands of people are dead and we have a few peo...

Anything else. hurricanes, you get a forecast hurricanes are coming. earthquakes, not so much. theres some technology out there thatll give you sometimes 10 seconds. japan has great technology to give you time to take cover. but here in the states thats somewhere in between. you all of a sudden feel the ground moving underneath you or if youre a building like we are and youre elevated you start feeling the building sway. theres a lot of concern in california in particular about building codes. t...

Come falling off which is why building codes have changed over the years. there could be according to the seismologists there are after shocks people are experiencing. and frankly, its scary for people to go through this. you have no control over this. i do want to mention one more thing. i know i need to hurry, but there is something called a shake alert and i had downloaded it as soon as i found about it. the mayor here came up with an idea everyone should have an app and if theres a way to al...

Clean grid a clean fuel standard i hope will pass tonight. new building codes for net zero buildings. so were going to move the needle. the other thing we have to do is we veto get rid of the filibuster. that will stop us in our tracks. its an vestige of an antebellum era. an antiquated thing that will stop us from saving the planet. so that needs go and im challenging the other people aspiring to this office that they will agree to get rid of the filibuster. this is necessary to defeat this bea...

Biggest users of electric cars. i just got the -- cut the ribbon on the largest solar farm. were doing a lot. >> but this is the whole problem. ive been hearing doing a lot for a long time. they got to go down. youre governor off a state thats a pretty progressive state, although you had a republican legislature. what do you say to someone who says you had a chance in your state. how are you going to do it with a republican senate or in the more difficult to manage federal government? >> first o...

When you are looking at the plan itself, you cant understand anything in it. it would lead to millions of people being underemployed or unemployed, maybe they come on code, who knows. it would lead to unconstitutional state violations because state and local governments are in charge of building codes. my question to her would be, has she read the constitution? knows about the tenth amendment? >> tucker: i think it is a fundamental misunderstanding, you heard her say what matters is she is a rea...

Presidential candidates that have agreed with her plan. when you are looking the plan itself, you cant understand anything in it. it would lead to millions of people being underemployed or unemployed, maybe they come on code, who knows. it would lead to unconstitutional state violations because state and local governments are in charge of building codes. my question to her would be, how she read the constitution? knows about the tenth amendment? >> tucker: i think it is a fundamental misundersta...