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Survey. not only looking at potential damage from this building collapse but also looking at the structures themselves. were buildings built during this era, if they used common construction techniques and are they also at risk. >> jonathan serrie, thank you, a person that youre getting familiar seeing, hes updated us on all of these developments the last 36 hours now, the miami-dade county chairman. thanks for taking the time. im wondering if you cup date us any. uno the unaccounted for individ...

Contracts for the wall. to make their case this week, fisher is using private donations to build a small section of the wall in new mexico to show supposedly superior construction techniques. >> we will prove it in a half mile stretch. >> reporter: the president goating involved in who gets what contracts yet again flies in the face of the presidents campaign promise that he would drain the swamp. the white house is justifying this saying its about speed and cost, telling "the washington post" t...

Union. fisher and his wife had donated more than $10,000 to kramers senate campaign. in an interview with the post, kramer says that trump always brings them up, noting that hes talked to the president twice about fisher including yesterday. the army corps of engineers has passed over fishers bid for one part of the wall because it didnt meet the operational requirements, an army official told the "post" but they are in the mix for other parts of the $5 billion in contracts for the wall. to make...

Cramer. >> reporter: north dakota senator took fisher to this years state of the union. fisher and his wife had donated more than $10,000 to cramers senate campaign. in an interview with the post, cramer said that trump always brings him up, noting that hes talked to the president twice about fisher, including yesterday. the army corps of engineers has passed over fishers bid for one part of the wall, because it didnt meet the operational requirements, an army official told "the post." but they ...

Question in an investigation as to what may have went wrong? >> the first question would be to look at what went on in the construction. was the bridge properly shored and braced as they put it into place and as they released the crane? that would be the first thing to look at in terms of the construction. you also have to go back and look at thestein and the intermediate steps and stresses in the bridge during the e erecti erection. >> i imagine there are checks and balances along the way in ma...

The thing is these buildings have been built very fast and using construction techniques that allow them to go up fast and there was the use of specific cladding that is highly combustible. its a combustible thermoplastic core sandwiched between two sheets of aluminum. this is highly combustible and i think we see an example there and we saw two previous examples in dubai when the torch tower burned down and earlier the time wheel tower, one of the towers that used the same cladding. >> maurice,...

Hoping that they you know there are blessings because the obstacles are abundant? >> well exactly. and what youre going to see, first of all, the construction techniques in a country like this are not very good fred. you know youre talking about ten huts and bricks that are just laid without any kind of reinforcement to them. youve seen photos where all of the walls are tumbling down ceilings crashing down trapping people underneath. one of the things we found -- and ill agree the key issue is t...

>> reince priebus, plaintiff in the case that brought the case before the supreme court. thanks for joining us. appreciate it. and the president of chile has declared that the area rocked by this mornings 8.2 magnitude earthquake is a disaster zone. at least six people are dead. thousands are displaced. damage was somewhat mitigated by new construction techniques used there after the major earthquake in 2010. as nbc meteorologist bill karins explained, the big concern right now is the aftersho...

Certainly, even complying with current legislation, transcanada cant be bothered to complete the information requests in accordance with the law either. >> well, keystone one had 14 leaks in its first year. is it percentage-wise, can we expect leaks on the keystone xl? >> some construction techniques used on the original keystone pipeline, femsa had issued caution not to use the techniques. the solution was actually invented at nova gas trunk lines and regardless of the fact that we invented the...

Construction techniques, new safety regimes, new electronic systems, we have a whole different ball game out there for nuclear in the future. >> let me ask you this to stay on nuclear. ive been a fan. id buy into what youre saying with more hesitancy than a month ago. we have nuclear plants in the nation that are 20, 30 years old. youre saying we decommission those and build in their place new nukes youre talking about? >> every one reaches its 30 year end of permit except for the plants that ha...