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good morning. buenos dias and welcome to cnn this morning, saturday, january 14th. im boris sanchez or as amara called me earlier, sorbi. >> i think i said sorez. close enough. >> i like that better. sounds like a dinosaur. >> a mixture of sorry and boris. are you my boris saurus, sound like a dinosaur. welcome, everyone. thanks for being with us. appreciate your starting your morning with us. >> great to be with you as always. we begin in the southeastern united states where recovery ...

buenos dias. good morning. saturday, january 14th. welcome to your weekend. im boris sanchez. >> good morning. im amara walker. you are in the "cnn newsroom." and we begin this morning out west where more than 25 million people across much of californias coastline are under flood watches this weekend. >> only two to four inches of rain are expected today. keep in mind, recent storms which have already killed at least 19 people have left the ground extremely satch-related catch rated, m...

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Of the house. randall mcleod called this home. they were trapped under all of this debris for three hours until first responders could get to them. but you have to hear how he describes what happened as the tornado was touching down. listen. >> we heard the storm coming. i had a cousin, he got my mother into the hallway and i was going to the front door to see exactly which way it was coming from. i opened the front door and the porch disappeared and the trees started falling. tried to make to t...

Between usual collapse and final stage of collapse. and one other factor is that usually collapse like this are due to several factors, issues and failures that are in play and that make it more complex, and finally what we need to look at is variety of scenarios that could follow the garage failure. having said that lets see what we know about this building. the building is made up of reinforced concrete. concrete is strong compression so they use reinforcing bars or rebars to take the tension....

April 23, 2021 Above: The University of Wisconsin School of Business Grainger Hall stairwell enclosure is designed with clear, fire-resistive butt-glazed walls using ASTM E-119/UL 263-rated Safti First SuperLite II-XLM with GPX Architectural Series perimeter wall framing. Photo by Safti First.  Glass has long been used by architects to add vision, transparency and a feeling of openness to an otherwise enclosed space. While the introduction of fire-rated glass took it one step further by addi...

A fire warden the hot water was let into the basin through this lions head. the smoke from the fires directed through the under floor system into the house to warm the rooms. when i was bound behind me you see bath sandals which still look modern today and flip flops exactly ancient flip flops on any idea why people had to wear them with the hygiene maybe good gas but the floor was just too hot for the fires werent all that far away or so hot people found it necessary to protect their feet so th...