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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. >> we're certainly going to rebuild and we're going to come back stronger than ever. >> so whether it's 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 rosenstein defending the special counsel's indictment of 12 russians for election meddling. rosenstein pus...
Confirm as dead. that's extremely unfortunate. 32 years ago, exactly the same date, an earthquake that hit mexico city killed thousands of people. major buildings collapsed. right now we're talking about 50 sites. this is still a very dramatic tragedy and all of mexico is putting effort into the rescue operations. but it's 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 clearly changed, and also the culture on how to react immediately to an earthquake. people in mex...
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 city, it was 32 miles deep and the damage will be felt over a wide area. for some context, today's q...
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. there's some 20 million people that live in the greater mexico city area that contributes 15% to the country's 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. it's important to know that mexico city was build on a dry lake bed. the earthquake waves tend t...