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Robertson's career with DLI spans more than 30 years in several roles, including as deputy commissioner of Apprenticeship, Construction Codes and Licensing, Labor Standards, Occupational Safety and Health, and Workers' Compensation ...

Visitors were attending a party. >> it was crazy. we saw the tornado jump down and it hit and it looked like it bounced over four and hit five, six, seven. >> were certainly going to rebuild and were going to come back stronger than ever. >> so whether its construction codes, experience in tornado alley or simple preparation the miracle, no fatalities from these devastating tornadoes. >> jon: those things were huge. william la jeunesse, thank you. >> sandra: deputy attorney general rod rosenstei...

Confirm as dead. thats extremely unfortunate. 32 years ago, exactly the same date, an earthquake that hit mexico city killed thousands of people. major buildings collapsed. right now were talking about 50 sites. this is still a very dramatic tragedy and all of mexico is putting effort into the rescue operations. but its clearly that particularly modern buildings, the tallest buildings that you see around mexico city held up very well. so the engineering codes, the construction codes, codes have ...

Of buildings. the construction codes have become stricter but in the poorer areas, there are hundreds of thousands of structures that have not been retrofitted or in force. mexico city was born on a dry lake bed. waves tend to echo and multiply the damage. dry lake beds are prone to liquefaction which means the ground turns to water. in the outlying areas where millions of poor people live, there many buildings that are not reinforced. even though the epicenter of this lake west south of mexico ...

Stuck inside. roads are cracked and towers of churches have fallen. one bridge that we know have has also collapsed. the stock market has been suspended for the day. theres some 20 million people that live in the greater mexico city area that contributes 15% to the countrys gdp. the whole horror of the irony, 32 years ago on this day, an 8.2 quake killed over 5,000 people, left tens of thousands of buildings stagged. took the city a decade to rebuild. the construction codes have improved greatly...

This, or at least very much aware of it. >> i think so, anderson. weve been preparing for about five or six days now. literally putting in portable generators, portable pumps, sandbags to all of our residents. locking down construction projects so there is no debris flying around. weve been communicating so aggressively with our entire residents and visitors so that they hear our message, what to do, what not to do and hopefully evacuate. >> so for you is it storm surge? >> i think its a combina...

Once stood. >> reporter: ten years later, those slabs are all over the place, driveways that connected to homes now lead into the woods. police operate out of a temporary shoulder and once where shops and restaurants were along entire drags are empty. >> none of the people have come back. >> reporter: chuck pruett is one of the folks who has come back. the storm scattered his home over a quarter mile area. >> the debris pile was probably about 4 feet. it was just huge. >> reporter: but while he ...

Once stood. >> reporter: ten years later, those slabs are all over the place, driveways that connected to homes now lead into the woods. police operate out of a temporary shoulder and once where shops and restaurants were along entire drags are empty. >> none of the people have come back. >> reporter: chuck pruett is one of the folks who has come back. the storm scattered his home over a quarter mile area. >> the debris pile was probably about 4 feet. it was just huge. >> reporter: but while he ...

About 40 feet. it was just huge. >> reporter: but while he had the ability to rebuild, he says a lot of his neighbors couldnt do the same after insurance costs spiked and stricter construction codes made it too expensive or impractical for some. >> you had to be hopeful, you know. its just taking a lot longer. its really disappoint be. a lot of ways i understand, you know, money situation with a lot of people. thats basically what it is. >> reporter: and yet back in bay st. louis, the recovery i...

To, but can they handle anymore shocks? >> apparently they can. and today you will notice it was a magnitude 7.1 i think is the latest number. >> right. >> people go back through the records and mathematically figure about how much energy there was or precisely how much energy there was. apparently, there were hardly any tsunamis, hardly any waves created by this, and the reason would be nominally that the shifting plates are going sideways rather than up and down. well, the one three weeks ago ...