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central asia, a nearby countries including turkey and even to the your opinion joins now live by alex griffin. who is the executive director of the democratic security institute . that's the think tank focused on democracy and security in your asia, and he joins me now live from hastings in the u. k. alex, how significant is the built in rhode initiative in terms of building china is influenced in central asia and what are the ramifications for russia? well, i mean, obviously trying there is increasing its lives in central asia. the belly button to ship is long being a key element of that in the region, and it's not just didn't take it started across the entire safe sex relation. i mean, the new type projects and visitors basically finding ways for chinese goods to make their way to you up to the west. other countries, some of these routes by cost rusher and ends and central asia is basically the only game in town. if he wants to buy his bypass the, well, i'm in the southern route and rush driven know try to certain risk. so it is incredibly important for the chinese 2222 increases influence

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griffin. this system caused quite a bit of damage and some injuries, but tell us where it was. >> reporter: absolutely, alexea. when you say rare, these -- this type of storm system you rarely see in california, and it just really sent shock waves. we've got some video showing just that tornado touching down. it was captured on ring camera and some drivers that were driving through the area, this caught them off guard. you can see branches come pummelling their vehicles. the storm was so powerful, it actually picked up vehicles, flipped them on their side including cal fire battalion chief's vehicle was overturned. there's a big hole in his windshield. looks like he had to kick his way out of that vehicle to safety. a lot of people took cover in nearby shopping areas. it came in quickly and the national weather service confirming it was an ef-1 tornado. the vice mayor there talking about just the chaos that ensued. listen to what he had to say. >> so we had power poles that were down. power was out in the area. we had multiple vehicles that were turned, both in both parking lots, both at safe way and target