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Lowest story. You are standing there and someone knocks your knees out and you fall down. Thats what can happen to soft story buildings. I think a lot of us dont pay enough attention to the nonstructural damage. Here we are in this room, nonstructural damage can be to the sealing, so heres a story. In the 1989 earthquake, thats the day the Marriott Hotel opened. It has that little bar at the top. Up at the top of building, it swayed back and forth and the ceiling planes shaved off a sprinkler an...

Individual lot . One is these lines are very clearly defined as boundaries. They dont actually mean, this is the exact edge. You could be on one side or the other. Its not okay here and not okay 10 feet away. But, on the other hand, we have taken this map, which was published by the state and digitized it so if any portion lies within these zones. If you tell me your address, i can tell you whether you lie it in. Theres a book. 5586205 and the clerk or me will take the book and look it up and sa...

Situation in egypt. What role, if any, should america apply . America play . Yourus a tweet or post comments. You can email us. Inside usa today here is what the white house spokesman had to say yesterday about the situation in egypt. Many of the papers noting this morning that the spokesman was very careful not to use the word coup. Take a look. But they began by saying that the United States remains deeply concerned by the violence across egypt and the dangerous level of political polarization...

Them. Basically, if your building was built before early 70s. Its likely to have some earthquake resistance and resilience of the cost of construction. It wasnt specifically designed to with with stand and earthquake. Most of the sun stream homes. These are track homes, mostly built to speck homes. Built the way they always built. They have a degree of earthquake resistance. They have a tendency to pound together and the buildings in the middle survive because the earthquake isnt long enough. Th...

Host commissioner rosenworcel, welcome to the communicators. If you would, start by talking about some of the issues that you fore be see the fcc dealing with this coming fall. Guest okay. Well, first of all, thank you for having me here on this show, and thank you also to cspan for the great Public Service work that you do and have done for decades. Issues before the fcc, we have a lot of them. Issues are diverse because in many ways the fcc oversees the digital economy, the information economy...

Humanity, why could we not bring the evidence to the court and find out who is responsible . To court and allow the world to participate in a trial, so to speak. You could have evidence presented, both sides could give their side and then a judgment could be made that would keep the u. S. Out of it, keep the u. S. Out of taking the lead. It would certainly give the president an opportunity to duck out of this red line. Do you think syria would be able to participate in that . Caller i think for ...

Are available fors eerie gun for syria. When we examine new figures on what it means to be a household in the u. S. Tomorrow morning at 7 a. M. Eastern. Next, a for him on this. The book war from earlier this week. They will talk about potential u. S. Strikes and opposition. Minute. 90 ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. My name is frederic hof and on behalf of fred kemp, the president of the Atlantic Council and michelle done, the director of the center for the middle east, i would like to we...

Sometimes difficult to have allies in the sense of planning . They are extremely difficult sometimes. Going back to world war ii, the only thing worse than fighting a war with allies is fighting one without one. It has been sobering to see how few of our allies are stepping forward to help the United States think through what is next. The british have opted out of striking. But president obama is taking the same approach that theyve it cameron did, and he is going to his legislature, going to th...

I can understand how aggressive theyve gotten in certain areas. The trip to moscow worries me because there are serious things happening in that relationship that would not have happened were it not for the absolute collapse of faith in the United States, and while there may be good things that can come out of it for the saudis to be off on their own, a lot of bad things can come out of that as well potentially. But that is the kind of uncertainty that we are dealing with in the system that i th...

And now david has been murdered in the most callous and brutal way imaginable by an organization which is the embodiment of evil. We will hunt down those responsible and bring them to justice no matter how long it takes. More tough talk, but does haines death move the needle politically and is the uk ready to step up now that theyve lost one of their own . Joining me now, Cnn Senior International correspondent ar wa damon in london for us, Foreign Editor for the daily beast Christopher Dickey jo...