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>> i think he might take it as a personal loss if he has dista e distance. john kelly has been through a lot. one question i have is how long is he going to want to remain in the job. >> and there's always the challenge to borrow senator blunt's language as he described another leader, there is someone who spoiled and reckless that he has to manage. i don't know how long this is going to last. >> the people who may be happiest about john kelly? lawmakers on capitol hill. >> all of it gets tested in the month of september. you guys were great. appreciate it. >> thanks, chuck. >> good stuff. tha...

hurricane irene is driving to the coast today with 110-mile-an-hour winds. the storm will go on a climb up the east coast impacting, perhaps, one-fifth of the nation's population. north carolina's outer banks will feel irene's winds by nightfall. the full fury will bear down by saturday evening. >> the window for preparation is quickly closing. if you are in the projected path of the storm, please listen to your state or local officials. please listen to emergency radio or television. if you are told to evacuate, please do so. >> irene could make a direct hit on new york city. alread...

People were, knew where to look. these are debris fields that have been carried great dista e distance, miles even by the water and then as the water left, been deposited there so even if you know where people live in a town, that's not where you're going to find their bodies if they've perished. their bodies may be miles away underneath, you know, 15 feet of debris. so what search and rescue teams are finding is that in a lot of these areas it is extraordinarily slow going. they don't have in many cases real heavy earth-moving equipment, debris-moving equipment. they're probably not enough ca...

>> if you hear richter scale, they don't know what they're talking about. yes don't use that word anymore. >> this is moment magnitude and it is a function of the fault plain area that rupp churs and the length of the rupture. the surface -- the surface rupture, the surface length along the trench and then the area of the downgoing slab that ruptures. >> let me draw this in three dimension. we're going to take this and draw it up pretending we're going up toward peru. this continues to go. this fault lasts a long dista e distance. it goes all of the way -- up into central america. >> that's ri...