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Alexander malofeev, says, "i know the way my country, russia, functions. when pressed against the wall, the russians only cluster more tightly around the leadership." some people have tendency to think, some people do not. people who do not think, they need somebody to think for them. obviously, its going to be people in power. so, but people who think, they can easily see if something is going wrong. they may be mistaken for a while, but they will never be mistaken for long. i know you dont lik...

Funding to start taking care of immediate needs. thats all taking place, but theres another group that is looking at the infrastructure, something that nobody has talked about yet, but its got to be -- we had to work backwards. -- you have to start taking steps to look at all the critical infrastructure and other activities that you need to have to this community can start giving back to very basic functions, while you are still trying to find out how bad it is. if you wait too late, we would no...

You want to respect the dead, so you try to retrieve bodies. its a morbid and hard time, but it will end soon and then there will be full force recovery efforts which are sort of going on right now simultaneously. the most important thing is theyve got to get electricity and basic essential functions moving again. thats your infrastructure. boris was telling us that he got moved from some place because it looks like theyre either trying to save something from falling or build something. youve go...

Russian withdrawal had been relatively orderly. it had in fact occurred about two days ago, so sometime during friday. the russians got up, got on their armored vehicles and left. the suggestion had been some of the outcry on social media by russian social media users linked to the military may in fact, have been designed to create a smoke screen that there was chaos and panic. but there is one extraordinary thing about that timing, that if they did indeed leave on friday, then just as vladamir ...

Recovery framework that locals and states and the federal government use, theres going to be six priorities. it begins, of course, with infrastructure. you got to get water moving, electricity moving. it then turns to economic issues related to businesses, health and social services, housing, community development and cultural resources. all of those combined will be worked in different ways. but the priority right now is to get the infrastructure, what we call essential functions moving again. ...

You know, the sheltering era, short-term sheltering for these families. a lot of it is supported by public funds, disaster relief funds, to move them to transitional or long-term housing depending on how much needs to be fixed. and then youre going to have the longer-term question, this is why it takes so long, which is some of these communities may not be survivable or livable again. so there are conversations about whats called mandatory retreat, you lose the disaster relief funds to move peop...

So how do state and federal officials even begin to help people understand what rebuilding is going to look like, whats it going to take? >> there is a process. were still in the response stage. people are still being discovered and rescued, and of course the fatality rate will get higher as we know. were in a 72-hour period where search and rescue is continuing and then you begin to fit it to recovery and thats a traumatic moment for communities because people that are lost are unlikely to be f...

Know, for rebuilding, to help people. >> right. >> what is going to be i guess the next stage in the most immediate after someone has helped you or you alone have pushed all of the degree, you know, out to the street. then what? >> right. its such a great question. its falling under the national recovery framework, not to get too technical about it. what were going to have is both public and private resources being delivered to communities that need it. now, this is a big area. there will be com...

Chris fox: welcome to top of the bots. were putting four robot vacuum cleaners like this through their paces on our assault course to see who cleans up. lets have a look at the contestants. we have the eufy robovac x8 hybrid, the miele scout rx3, the irobot roomba j7, and the proscenic m8 pro. well be testing them against a hand—held unit — the dyson vis detect absolute. can the bots beat it? there are many different features built into each of these vacuums that can be used to tailor your c...

For that, after katrina, and the gulf coast, they largely fix or wind damage, where they could. heres the question. to the extent that water is a problem, and increasingly a more serious problem, what is the correlation between that and the fact that we have rising water levels in the first place so that in places like miami you see water coming through the drain sometimes in good weather -- in places like charleston floods with very little rain -- what is the correlation when it comes to climat...