confined, port-au-prince, outlining areas, new orleans, there. here you have a country the size of florida really, for example, affected by the floods. the second thing was it was ongoing. as logistically challenging as it was because of the scope, the floodwater kept going, going from the southwest down the inges river, and that river keeps ykeep s overflowing. it was more problematic south. logistically to help people, the situation kept on changing constantly. it s true in some parts of the country floodwaters are starting to recede, but not as much in other parts of the country. the arabian sea has high tides as a result, the water can t outflow and it continues to flood that entire area. and watching the people who were literally picking up what s
his influence on the outlining areas, almost like it is here, on basic needs the afghan people have, is almost zero. they don t care if it s karzai or somebody else. we have to get the regular afghan people to believe in our mission over there, to trust us, work with us. i don t think they really care who their president is to a certain extent. they want to be invested in that. but karzai is not going to help get trash picked up or make sure your home is not broken into. i think this nation made a terrible mistake on relying on nation building as a principal tool in achieving international security interests. what the bush administration did initially was great. we gave air logistical support to the anti-taliban forces after we were attacked in 9/11. after they achieved victory, instead of using our leverage to say you need to reach out to the anti-taliban pashtun element in the country, we pushed them
insecuring the vehicle, disabling incendiary device, a pone tshl shall bomb. officers moving crowds of people and people who just want to see what is going on. this is evacuations of buildings as well as commercial retail establishments in that area looking to do business on a busy saturday night. you then have the potential on the secondary device or incident about who to happen. we have to as a law enforcement agency be concern wchld have you to put out alarms in new york city, first to be on the lookout for anything suspicious. my vehicles sending anyone who left the vehicle recently. anything in that area would be more of a phone shall target than in outlining areas. you can t overlook those outlining areas as well. so there is this happening
so we should just know that local time in chile, it was 3:30 in the morning. it did happen in the middle of the night. it took a while for us to see these pictures coming in, not just from the capital of santiago but from the outlying areas. we re seeing the damage and hearing reports of serious and extensive damage. that s how it s being described. buildings down. but there s not really a description at this point of scale. you know, in haiti we heard at one point, you know, 50% of buildings in this area are collapsed. we re not getting any kind of a scope at this point from santiago where the pictures and reporter are coming from. and from the outlining areas that could be more heavily damaged. we just don t know about those places at this point yet. but there does seem to be a good flow of information coming out of chile, especially on the internet which has become the case after disasters like this. and television pictures showing us buildings damaged in parts,