who has the power to either alter, change, end this practice, or do something different? first of all, the president can do that. the president s so good at doing certain things and shifting the blame over. i mean, we don t need to fact check him. i think we know that he does that more frequently than anybody i ve ever seen. so he can make that shift is it you re view that he s using this as potentially leverage in what s to come of any immigration bill? any efforts of getting the wall built that he wants? he focuses on a 14th century solution called the wall. and i i wish he would understand that there are ways that we can secure a country a lot better than using that 14th century solution called the wall. he is so caught up, so obsessed with this wall that he just won t go beyond that. so he just puts the blame on the democrats because we re not agreeing on that wall. we want to see strong border
issuing a nondenial confirmation of what on its surface appears to be a lebanese military operation to capture one of the wives of al bagdadi. he is the leader of isis. historically, he is one of the more secretive figures in the terrorist network known as isis. so who exactly this woman is is still up for debate. some people have suggested it s possibly an ex-wife. he is known to have a number of women in his life, including some in his inner circle. he s the recognized leader of isil and command and control of the organization which stems from leadership, makes him valid in our minds from a targeting perspective. i just won t go beyond that. i m not going to talk about a lebanese military operation. reporter: and that was admiral kirby at the pentagon tap dancing this a little bit around these questions.
they re used to earthquakes, just not ones like this. this is a big one. thanks a lot, jacqui jeras. we ll check back you throughout the evening. let s go ralitsa vassileva at the chile desk. you can get a handle over all that is being said from the president of the country on down. fred, we re still waiting to hear from the president of the country michelle bachelet but we just heard from the president-elect of the country. the country is in a transition. in two weeks it will have a new president. we re hearing from both of them. the president-elect is in the city of concepcion, the second largest city in the country, the closest main city to the epicenter and we heard from the president-elect right there in that city, talking about the damage to bridges, talking about a collapsed 15-story building. he s very angry about that, says that if building code was not followed for that building, that those who built it will be prosecuted to the full letter of the law. this is a country w
ground, but then they came at last minute and told several of the managers of the hilton waikaloa and myself and another reporter that we had to evacuate as well. they moved us to higher ground. i m sitting in a evacuation center with nearly a thousand people. and i can tell you here there are a lot of anxious people, folks who left all their belongings back at the hotel, people who were here with weepy children, who are taking naps on the ground, and who are watching the coverage of this thing. and one of the things that we re expecting right now within the next half hour, fredricka, is the hawaii county civil defense. and hopefully they ll be able to, you know, announce an all clear. of course it is too premature to speculate on that now. but that s what officials were telling us, they were hoping for that so that people could return. nobody wants to return more than some of the folks who have been
magnitude for earthquakes. so this is crazy strong. in fact, coming up, when i see you again, fredricka, i ll show you a comparison between this earthquake and haiti and why we have had less damage with this one. a lot of that has to do with the building codes. and the population. and the population, exactly. this happened three miles offshore in an unpopulated area. santiago is way up here compared to where the big quake was. and so all of those things made this a little lesser than it could have been. granted, you know, still very tragic and we ll continue to see these aftershocks. there have been dozens of them, over 30, possibly as many as 50 now. i got to count them up. there have been that many. that s incredible. but you expect to see hundreds of these aftershocks easily after a big quake like this would occur. and not are they going to just last for hours, but they re probably going to be lasting for days, for weeks, months, possibly well over a year. poor people are