So this coming april, next april marks the 100 Year Anniversary of the San Francisco earthquake, which was an event that until up to fairly recently, was arguably the worst Natural Disaster in American History. However, what is often overlooked by those unfamiliar with the history of the 1906 earthquake is that the quake itself, measuring somewhere around 8, i believe on the Richter Scale, actually played a lesser role than some may think in the ensuing catastrophe. As dennis will surely explain, fire was the culprit of much of the devastation that came afterwards. And in the wake of recent events, it seems particularly timely to look to the 1906 quake for lessons in dealing with those catastrophes. And their aftermath, particularly the social and psychological consequences. So just to tell you a bit about dennis before we start, he is a former new york city firefighter. Now one of the leading historians on the subject of firefighting, and hes also the editor of fire house magazine. In
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Terminal for the Southern Pacific Railroad in the late 1800s and still has a lot of pride in being a rail depot and the railroad history. If you go to the website for the visitor center, as you are poking around on their website, you will note that the cursor turned into a locomotive engine as you are scrolling around the site, you no longer have a little arrow. Its a little train. Its so cool. If you go in person to the visitors center, you can operate a model train around 96 feet of track. A lovely looking little place. Population around 5,000 people. The owner of the Arizona Diamondbacks Baseball Team wants to build a new Housing Development in benson, arizona. That would be 28,000 homes. Think about that. 5,000 people there now, but they want to put 28,000 houses into that town. Plus golf courses. Plural. Multiple golf courses plus the 28,000 houses. And although benson, arizona, is in a lovely corner of the state of arizona, its not the most lush place on earth. You think about wh
Criminal conspiracy that helped get him elected. Ill do anything to protect mr. Trump. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Weve all seen the tape, right . Weve all listened to the chance chants, and we all know what this is. Omar has a history of launching vicious, sent semitic screeds. Send her back, send her back, send her back send her back. The darkest, ugliest impulses that a Political Movement can cultivate on full unapologetic display. Thats what donald trump has been cultivating all along. Whether the Republican Party likes it or not stands for now. Most of us across the ideological spectrum, feel viscerally a kind of moral revulsion when we hear and see an angry mob braying send her back about a fellow american. But the reaction from republicans today was basically a forgone conclusion. We knew at the very best it would be tepid. At the worst, well isnt it racist, though, to say send her back . No, i dont think its racist to say. Was it racist
Security measures. I was called unpatriotic, unamerican and essentially treasonous. And the growing firestorm over the trump adviser trying to fast track Nuclear Technology to saudi arabia. What im going to do is something different. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The president of the United States is in day four of another racist meltdown. He is Binge Watching trump tv, and its making him feel really racist and he is expressing that, and he cant or wont stop the feedback loop that were all now trapped in. Meanwhile, there are all these official trump defenders on trump running around to vouch for the chess master at work. And then today the president looked into the camera and threw a wrench into that argument. Whats the political strategy here . It seems to be causing the attacks seems to be causing a lot of division. Are you talking with respect to Elijah Cummings . Im talking about your attack against Elijah Cummings. There is no strategy.