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New Zealand Quake Survivors Share Their Stories 10 Years On
Ten years after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, killed 185 people and devastated the city, some of those profoundly affected are sharing their journeys.
Ten years after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, killed 185 people and devastated the city, some of those profoundly affected are sharing their journeys. One woman channeled her anger to ensure buildings are safer, and others have found peace after heartbreaking losses.
Ann Brower was the sole survivor from a bus crushed under a building facade. After recovering from her injuries, she successfully fought for changes to building regulations. Brower was taking a bus from the seaside suburb of Sumner into the central city when the earthquake struck.
officials, they describe them in unimpeachable. they re apolitical. so i think they re really eager to have the american people see that these nonpartisan figures tell them what had happened behind closed doors. the president certainly thinks that these are going to be political hearings and here s what he had to say about these open hearings. well they shouldn t be having public hearings. this is a hoax. this is just like the russian witch hunt. this is just a continuation. now jonathan, isn t this a break from republican allies who spent weeks complaining about the lack of transparency. that s a sharp catch there. the president and his allies said for weeks that the biggest problem was that these hearings were going on behind closed doors. they ve said that the democrats were trying to railroad the administration and the public by doing everything in private and now the president is complaining that it s being done in public.
going forward this century about where he sought the times, where the country needs to go in terms of the times we live, more than he was even given an agenda from his second administration. i think he was dealing more from a transformational presidency than he was saying here s a list of what i want to do in the next four years. was i over-playing the president s words? well, not at all. i mean, we anticipate he had almost a paragraph about climate change. nobody knows exactly what to do about it. but he wanted to address that problem. and about 30, 40 years from now, people will go back and say the president had the courage to put it in there. he has to start being an educator. that s just one of a number of things he did very well in that speech. now jonathan, bill o reiley,