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Saudis, what's the message there? i'll ask michael ohanran coming up. stay with us. [ upbeat music ]

Michael? >> hi, shepard. i start with the 9/11 attacks. it helps put this in perspective. that was not a did deliberate act of the saudi government but they had tolerated a form of preaching that led to the kind of extremism that we think resulted in nearly 3,000 american deaths. we spent several years re-assessing the u.s./saudi relationship, investigating what they could have done differently to try to discourage that. we ultimately did most of our business as usual with them. we put a lot of pressure on them in some ways but we did not ultimately change the basic bargain, which is american ...

There are only so many police officers. there is a curfew in effect. they can't be everywhere all night long all the time. multiple people have told me that looting has definitely been a problem every single night here in panama city. >> shephard: phil keatinging on scene for us. thanks very much. the president with a new theory on what happened to the missing "washington post" contributor in turkey. today, he said, maybe rogue killers murdered him. turkish officials said they have evidence it was a gruesome, inside job, that someone hacked him to death with the saudi government's order. we'll...

Cleaned up their houses. pretty much every house in every neighborhood in the city of panama beach has or panama city, rather, has debris. so then the weekend happened and now monday is the first day. all of these disaster relief guys are coming in with their huge 18-wheelers from as far away as phoenix and ohio. they are coming in, helping out. that has brought for a town of 36,000 people maybe four times the number of vehicles on the road. so all day long, us-98 has looked like this, an absolute crawl east and west. there has been sirens going on every five minutes. the work is getting under...

Out water bottles. >> you get them ready. i'll be there. >> shephard: sort of a meet and greet going on there. that is lynn haven, north of panama city. phil keatinging is panama city, itself. hey, phil. >> reporter: hi, shep. we are at one of many businesses along u.s. 98. you see scenes like this all the time. this is a storefront. they now have the 98 east and west sign in their front office