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Well see you next week. weve been following a developing story out of russia today where a plane carrying the president of poland along with dozens of members of that countrys government crashed. everybody on board died. a lot of questions about the weather conditions at the time as well as the performance and age of of the aircraft. well talk to an aviation expert straight ahead about it. plus this -- >> the black thing right here is a base isolator. its not attached to the ground. its like...

But it will absorb the motion from the ground, let the ground move and not transfer all that motion from the ground to the building. >> reporter: it is the only structure in memphis built to such a high spes fiske. about 150 to 200 earthquakes happen along the new madrid fault zone each year, the same risk for a major quake as what you would see in california. the one big difference is the very ground i stand upon here in memphis among the mighty mississippi river, it is made up of sediments abo...

Pieces of cargo through its world headquarters here each day. >> our brand was built on rely ability. we do everything in our power to anticipate these sorts of things. we understand those risks and work very hard to develop these contingencies so that our customers dont see this. >> reporter: in the event of a quake here, fedex could be up and running within a day says an executive. another company built headquarters to withstand a huge quake. >> it will absorb the motion from the ground, let t...

This woman and her children just left kharkiv. since the first day of this war, the 24th of february, they have been hiding in the basement of a school. it was shelled by russian forces. "everything was very scary." "we even felt the ground move." "thank god the walls remained intact in the basement yesterday was sashas 11th birthday. he spent it on a train fleeing his home. "i received some candy, i really like them, because i could get nothing more than that now.! "i will get my present one da...

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