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And it has nothing to do with resources and having the political will and being humane enough and solving the problem. look at the tweet itself. hes talking about building structures and walls. having border agents on the wall. this plays very well politically, but from any other point of view, it is a shame. what country is this any way? >> well it is -- >> go ahead. >> on the point of whether this plays well politically, i think you are right when you talk about the base. weve had interviews w...

32 years ago they had a massive 8.0 that killed nearly 10,000 people and so it was just cruel coincidence that they got another major rattler on that date. >> youre talking about earthquake response and how they were preparing for this because this was on the anniversary of the 1985 quake. building structures, building codes, i know mexico is build on an ancient link bed, theres a lot of sand that can lick qui fi and the building codes there changed dramatically after that. they had to be fortif...

To be made as rebuilding goes on? what could have helped in this situation? >> honestly, were dealing with hurricanes that are stronger than weve ever, ever experienced. we were preparing for a category 5 hurricane. so no, we now have to look at our building structures, and that building to withstand potential category 6 and 7, of course, because of the strength of them. so this is what we have to deal with. >> michael, just one more thing. i was going to ask you, you know, the people how dire i...

Brock long, fema administrator, thank you. >> lets go back to our friend and colleague, kerry sanders in port lavaca, texas, a coastal town under a hurricane and storm surge warning. gary, ive got to be honest, im still reeling from the last conversation. there you are with rvs parked behind you and you said there are people in the rvs who made the decision to hunker down and hang tight. a storm thats expected to possibly knock down entire building structures. how are these rvs going to stick ar...

>> so its that $680 million every ten years. >> no. >> thats a one-year cost. >> so $680 million over ten years. as opposed to -- >> or to angle tax breaks for oil and gas are $3 billion to $4 billion a year. david brooks, that bastion of liberal thought, he says this is rude to say. he writes, "this is rude to say, but heres what this is about. e-mail yonz of parents dont have the means or the skill or in some cases the interest in building their childrens future. early childhood education is a...

should remind our viewers, there was another man who actually confessed to this crime and was found in civil court to be responsible. there was a $2 million fine, which he never paid, but nonetheless, it makes this case very complicated. i talked about that physical evidence. theres a big problem if there is no body. if it is true that etan patzs body was thrown in the trash, one person said this renders the haystack too big and the needle probably no good, theyll probably never find t...

Whether or not barack obama gets four more years. >> there is no question. the game now becomes on the republican side romneys game. he doesnt have to worry about santorum or gingrich or anybody else. he gets to take control of the republican national committee. he grins to start building structures in the states. the con strengs becomes his convention. he wants to run on and his people running it. my sense he will have the message we can do it, we can turn this thing back around and get going. ...

Went down as well. >> fema says after their survey there are about 8,000 units that have been damaged or destroyed, however, they counted an eight-unit apartment building as eight, and i would look at it as one, and using my informal calculation, we think we have 6,000 or so separate building structures and that kind of thing. business wise, early on we felt like based on the number of business licenses the city issued, about 700 or 750 have been damaged, so 25% of the businesses in town were da...