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System does relatively work. the idea we could have a mass transit system in an urban environment that is safe is a bad way to think about it. you want to make it safer. one way to make it safer is go do means that's harming people. guns and other weapons but guns and then you go to the response capability. after something bad happens, i'm not excusing it but we can measure success in the fact that there was a quick response. no one died. both luck and planning benefitted new york yesterday. i know i sound sort of hardened and realistic but i do think it's important we realize the benefit we'r...

Analyst homeland security j. let's start where they left off. how many times have we talked about hardening soft targets. these attacks that happen on trains. they have happened in schools with armed guards. they have happened in stores with guards. they happen at public events with lots of police. is it realistic to put officers in these places and would it stop some of these attacks? >> no. i think we have to be really honest about the risk calculation that we're making in the society. i'm not saying it's wrong. you live -- the two of doyou li in new york to have the mobility, the transit sy...

There's no consequences for deciding to have the most aggressive public health policy. i think what you're seeing now in a number of countries is a recognition that they're making a risk calculation, and because getting covid does not necessarily mean death any more. which was a lot worse in 2020. so you're making those tradeoffs. so call it risk minimumization, and the tradeoff in schools or closing scoots are too great at this stage. we need to treat schools and education like critical infrastructure. you don't turn off the water or electricity, and you don't close down the schools as a firs...

A risk calculation, and because getting covid does not necessarily mean death any more. it was a lot worse in 2020, so you're making those tradeoffs. just trying to minimize the risks, and the tradeoff in closing schools are too great. we need to treat schools and education like critical infrastructure. you don't turn off the water or electricity. you do not close down the school as a first measure. maybe as a last measure if things are bad at that school. but the sweeping school district closures are not necessary. >> and a good way to put it that schools are critical infrastructure. before i...

An attempt to cut off ukraine's supply of weapons from the west. this sprawling training facility, used for nato military drills, dangerously close to the polish border. >> we will defend every inch of nato territory. >> reporter: 20 miles away, air raid sirens the morning after shattering the city's sense of safety. lviv has been the destination, the relative safe destination for people fleeing violence in the east after the last couple of days for refugees, for residents, for anyone in this city, the risk calculation of staying is starting to change. >> i feel that something new is in the ai...