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Deployed 30,000 soldiers to the border because iraq troops abandoned their post and withdrew. but iraq is denying the border guards quit thir their post. this comes as rebles from syria are joining the group and we will take look at isis with a guest who said he is concerned they are a threat to the u.s. homeland. hurricane arthur is expected to become hurricane level two later in the day. it is set on parts of north carolina and forced evaluations are going on on the outer banks where arthur is churning up waves. it comes as a major blow ahead of the holiday weekend. jonathan is live on the...

Part of that is because our building standards aren't as strict here but also because jop put in a billion dollar early warning system in this case actually sent out alert to millions of people across the japan before the earth started shaking. some people only got a few seconds. some people got more time. this early system detects p-waves or primary waves of earthquake. it sends out warning by way of internet sirens, broadcasting, even text messages. u.s. seismologists have been working to copy japan's system. last week's quake was the first major test of the system and sign tests here say it...

Prevent any additional breaking or anything like that going on. and bullet trains are literally stopped in their tracks. where they are. whether out in the open country or maybe even a tunnel. they will stop those bullet trains, because they think that will be a safer situation if that thing kept on going. how does it work? basically there's millions and thousands of little sensors all over the place in japan. and they're also on ocean floor and they detect any kind of movement in the earth's crust. now when an earthquake occurs, there are two different types of waves, p waves and s waves. the...

Warning. there is always the ability to have some short-term warning, because there are p waves and s waves. so, the primary waves would go out from the earthquake at a faster speed. in fact, they travel about twice as fast as the s waves, which create the great damage. and therefore, if you are at a distance away from where the epicenter of the earthquake is, you will get several seconds to maybe up to a minute warning because the p waves will be ahead of the s waves by that amount of time. in fact, some of the shinkansen trains, the bullet trains, are equipped with instrumentation that will ...

Now, you can say that if you were standing in the middle of a farm field in an 8.8 earthquake, you would be alive right now. earthquakes don't kill people, technically. buildings kill people. things that we put on this earth kill people because they fall down on to people. so if you're out there all by yourself and you can get to a safe area, even after these aftershocks where you're not in the way of a bidding or any glass falling out of a building, you are in a safe position. it's the problem where this -- what time this happened. it was right in the middle when everybody was inside some typ...