construction standards. so this is what we re really concerned about. you know i had an awful night last night in a strong hotel and still had my balcony door blown in and winds gusting through. i spend the night under the bathroom sink. but all that i could think about during that time of the people who might literally be clinging to a coconut tree for dear life trying to hold on in horrific winds. alice, talk about what the next few days will bring. what will it be like for crews to get out there and start assessing the damage and trying to get back to some sense of normalcy. reporter: yeah. so at this stage, the national disaster management office has only confirmed six people dead. this is central really. even to get to the outskirts difficult. i went to the town to but had to walk. you coop even travel you couldn t even travel 50 meters in a vehicle without being stopped by trees blocking the
surge troops, we ll start pulling troops out in a year, and you go ahead and put in a part of afghanistan we re leaving, there is evidently cutting edge stadium seat not guilty this area, a secure perimeter, and it will never have a person in it. just because we re insecure about the taliban coming back, we re going to end up blowing it up before we leave. do you know what we could do with $34 million in the military? steve: absolutely. and so that s the juxtaposition. we re spending all this money on a building over in afghanistan that we knew three years ago we would never use, but we ve built anyway. and now we re going to have to probably demolish or turn it over to the afghanysys who would have no way to sustain it. there was a two star general who said what the hell were they thinking? there was never any justification to build something this fancy. that s the building right there. it was built to u.s. construction standards. it could be the best constructed building in the cou
cat 3, cat 4? no. it s a wooden pier. and as i ve stated, it s faced many storms over the last 50 years, and i m sure the owners will rebuild to major construction standards. but there s very little construction that can withstand a category 3 storm here along this coast. well, david, as you said, a lot of work to be done tomorrow when you guys get first light there in north carolina. but david, we appreciate you joining us tonight. i know it s late at night. hopefully you re going to be able to get some sleep with so much work to do tomorrow in atlantic beach, north carolina. sir, thanks so much. thank you. i want to show everybody this interesting phenomenon not just related to irene but to all hurricanes. nbc meteorologist jeff ranieri back with us to explain how a storm like this, the higher the altitude the stronger the winds. and this is going to be important for people to pay attention to, especially here in new york city. people like me that live on the 25th floor of a
you can. what floor are you on in the building where you are right now? okay, i m on a low floor, so the way should be quite low. i m in what s considered a small apartment building. there s about there s four stories to it. i am on the first floor, so actually the second story, the first floor above the ground. and so the sway would have been a lot more three stories higher. it s because it s a smaller building and it was built in the 80s, it sort of squats it was built to very high construction standards. you don t rent an apartment in tokyo without knowing about the construction standards. that might, you know, everyone is cost conscious, so you might just kind of rent something that still might be a little bit iffy and just hope that the worst doesn t strike. that s common, all right. but a lot of people also would want something that is better built, just in case a tragedy, you know, just in case there s a major earthquake. we ve spoken with experts, kenneth, and ther
you can. what floor are you on in that building where you are right now? okay. i m on a low floor so the sway should be quite low. what is considered a small apartment building, there is about there s four stories to it. i am on the first floor so actually the second story. the first floor above the ground. and so the sway would have been a lot more three stories higher. because it is a smaller building, built in the 80s, it sort of squauts. it was built to very high construction standards. you don t rent an apartment in tokyo without knowing about the construction standards. that might, you know, everyone is cost conscious so you might just kind of rent something that still might be a little iffy and just hope the worst doesn t strike. that s common. right? but a lot of people would want something better built just in case the tragedy, just in case there is a major earthquake we ve spoken with experts, kenneth. there have been dozens of these aftershocks since the magnitude