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. >> we've been able to use this cool new tool that allows us to track photos and tweets by longitude and latitude. what we're looking at here is kind of tweets from up and down the east coast. we're going to take a look at photos taken during sandy in three different locations. >> plus great photos starting in our area. this one from washington, d.c. >> yep. this is the washington, d.c. area, as you can see. we're going to take a look at a photo that was taken right over by truckston circle. >> take a look at that. you can see the sidewalk of it. remember, ground is really wet, so be careful around those trees. >> for sure. next we're going to go up to atlantic city, which obviously as we moved up the coast, the photos were getting more intense. and take a look at all this wood up on the beach. >> we've been showing pictures of the famous boardwalk in atlantic city. you can see all the woodpilings from there. of course, you go up to new york city, and that's where we get all the flooding and all of that worse. >> these next two photos were from lower manhattan. take a look at that. t

. ♪ >> primer paso: cerrar los tubos de plÁstico y los codos con la longitud adecuada. preparando para comenzar a fijar tres abrazaderas en cada lado bastan. cristina sigue en la delantera, simon tiene que darse prisa. el quinto, y Último paso según las instrucciones, doblar la lona sobre el esqueleto. ♪ pero antes de que comience la tarea de la envoltura los dos reciben un consejo del experto. >> yo personalmente me subirÍa a una barra transversal ya que no tiene lugar, no tiene que sujetar nada, sino distribuir los resiÓn hacia abajo, a dos les sobre un tube, deberÍan colocarlo de la manera para poder sentarse encima. >> a los dos les queda todavÍa 30 minutos para que se cumplan las tres horas, cristina tiene que ahorrar en cinta adhesiva, simÓn por el contrario le queda bastante mÁs, una gran ventaja. >> todavÍa nos quedan cinco minutos. >> lo armÉ. todo. >> ¿tÚ me dices que tu bote es apto para navegar? >> sÍ, armado, si va a flotar no lo sÉ. >> dÉjame felicitarte y te tu bote Ía que coloque en posiciÓn de inicio. >> cristina tambiÉn ha terminado. >> tiene un proble

it gives you longitude and latitude but altitude as well. >> if you lost your phone, you would have whereo track it. and we could follow it. >> next to the camera was a little hd camera that's used for sky diving stunts and motor sports and things like that. the whole craft with the camera and tracking system is within the four-pound limit for faa regulations. >> august 11th, 2010, newburgh, new york. after eight months of prep work, launch day finally arrives. >> when we were assembling the balloon, the two kids, max and his best friend miles were just so excited. >> we bought like some lollipops so me and miles were really hyped up. >> the kids gave this great countdown. >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero, blast off! >> we cut off the balloon. >> it started rocking wildly like crazy. it was going about 25 feet a second, which is pretty fast. after about two minutes, it disappeared into the clouds. >> they track the craft's coordinates. but that's no guarantee they'll be able to retrieve it. >> the batteries in the phone could freeze. it could just not giv

despite all of the bluff, all the hardship, there are in the 19 months determined to top latitude and longitude the regime in order for them to be free tells me that syria is on the right side of history. >> when i hold up signs and they say [inaudible] we will remain here. it mains [inaudible] syria is for syrians. it does not belong to the ss assad family. it i would like to express my thanks to everybody for taking the time. i would remind everybody it is a living document. i think we're accepting feedback. if people could review, give us constructive feedback. actionable feedback so we can continue to look at the document, we are also on twitter so if you are twitter users please follow us tda syria. look out for the hashtag. >> thank you. it this debate is going to continue among the audience and the people inside syria. we are planning to have -- online forum to start the debate among syrian people to keep getting the feedback we have facebook, we is already engage in the debate. [inaudible] we have people working for us. it's working inside the country to make sure that the -- [inaudible

and until the storm goes by us and gets past us on our longitude, then the winds will come back aroundat will be an offshore component of the wind. but that's not going to happen until sometime tomorrow. so in the meantime, the tide right now is trying to go out. it's not having much luck because the wind is blowing in from the northeast at 30 to 35 miles an hour. we're getting some gusts 45 miles an hour. but the worst of the storm is a long way away. we're still more than 40 # 0 miles away. when it comes in, as it gets closer, we'll have gusts as high as hurricane force. once those winds kick up over 60, you'll see the power outages ramping up exponentially. again, the high tide tonight, 8:00 to 8:30 up and down the shore. and that could be coincidental with the landfall, plus we have the full moon, the astronomical effect. and if you have an eight-foot surge, on top of that you have the waves. we've got eight to ten, maybe 12-footers out here. so you get the sense of how bad the water's going to be. and just the pure power of those waves. it only takes, what, about a foot of water t

. >> it has half of the world's longitude, but it's flat, it's indefensible, its rivers run north and south rather than east and west so they don't unite the country and it has less people than bangladesh. 141 million people bangladesh has more people commesso vladimir putin's cynical neo imperialism are the wages of the could be the geographical and security and that is how we should understand it not as a mad man or a totalitarian but as a very traditional russian autocrat. >> one of the interesting pictures of this book is your discussion of the fall of the berlin wall and if i read you right to say that it made us too optimistic. our system of democracy and free markets would have a transforming power. talk about that and take that story through the 1980's and 90's. >> the berlin wall and eliminated constraints. we thought because we could get the red army out of eastern europe it suddenly would have transformed it affect in the middle east and sub-saharan africa of the world would be open for democracy. a democracy would come in all of those places but it would be bloody. in the

we have four speakers for our panel, the panel which has been spite latitude and longitude policy makings. iraq and syria. our boarder is going to be slightly different from how it is in the book. we are going to be starting with mona yacoubian. moving to judith yaphe, abdullah alshammari and david lesch at the end. to introduce them very quickly, again, not to take time for this to cut straight to this, but mona yacoubian comes to us as chief senior advicer in the middle east and project director pathways to progress for the simpson center. formally special adviser senior program on the middle east substitute of peace and north africa analyst department of state. judith yaphe is distinguished research fellow for the middle east institute for national strategic study. former senior analyst in the office of near eastern and south asian and directer of intelligence at the cia. abdullah alshammari is an adviser to the saudi arabia ministry of culture and information. fresh from -- and david lesch is professor of middle east history, trinity university author of the fall of the house of assad