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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. it's 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, this sandwich that you're talking about that has plastic in the middle and aluminum, a metal on th...

Hoping that they you know there are blessings because the obstacles are abundant? >> well exactly. and what you're going to see, first of all, the construction techniques in a country like this are not very good fred. you know you're talking about ten huts and bricks that are just laid without any kind of reinforcement to them. you've seen photos where all of the walls are tumbling down ceilings crashing down trapping people underneath. one of the things we found -- and i'll agree the key issue is to step back because this is probably going to take much longer than we anticipate. when we did 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 morning's 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 aftershocks for such a major quake. >> we only get about one earthquake a year on this planet in this categ...

Certainly, even complying with current legislation, transcanada can't 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 technology and methodology, we went ahead and used what they didn't advise us to do. so it's only ...

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. i've been a fan. i'd buy into what you're saying with more hesitancy than a month ago. we have nuclear plants in the nation that are 20, 30 years old. you're saying we decommission those and build in their place new nukes you're talking about? >> every one reaches its 30 year end of permit except for the plants that had a 20-year extension. i'm suggesting, get rid of all of them, let's replace them and the effic...