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Want to bring in our hurricane expert, ryan turchalet. the pressure is dropping, wind speeds are picking upment when you look at radar, the eye is perfect and closed. this is exactly what you do not want to see if you are in the path of a hurricane, right? >> that's correct. we have a circular eye. overnight the eyewall has clause closed off. we have a fall eyewall for recon reports and satellite imagery. every indication is that this is going to continue to intensify for the next six hours up to landfall. >> with florence that devastated the carolinas, it was about the slow-moving pace and th...

The fact that several high structures are still standing in japan's largest earthquake on record is a testament to how well those buildings were designed. japan has become a world leader in engineering and retrofitting buildings. it kept the death toll from rising even higher. i'm joined now by mark in seattle who is a structure engineer and has visited haiti. i know you permanently performed some post earthquake investigations, you've written recon reports about haiti, also chile last year. how important is a structural integrity of a nation's buildings in terms of minimizing casualties? >> g...