new, lose the associate head of civil engineering at purdue university and joins us live from west lafayette, in indiana. i am good to have you with us. so look, i mean, some of the videos we've seen quite extraordinary, seemingly modern apartment buildings in turkey, just collapsing into their foundations. how does that happen so easily? i mean, it's clear that many of these buildings just weren't strong enough in the 1st place . oh, well, 1st of all of the ground motions, we have seen aria and the upper end of the spectrum we have seen before. so these are this of their strong shaping and multiple earthquakes as far as they are, the buildings go. yes. some of this, all the buildings particularly they are concerning their collapses based on what we see that the type of collapse on this needs to be verified in the field. but we think that there are certain that the drift levels, the distortion levels are excessive, but some of failure most of these so called pancake failure modes indicate that there might be some detailing issue. they may be some great or structured items. yeah, we, we under

as it turns out, vinyl chloride trains go through where i'm from, west lafayette, indiana. these trains go through many places across the country. and officials likely haven't planned for this type of cascading disaster where a disaster come pounds on a disaster. this was a pretty significant event, but officials are learning from this now. >> in terms of water testing, how would you go about determining that, for instance, water is safe enough for people to use? >> well, after all the disasters i've been to, you need to understand what exactly you're looking for. so you don't just run what's called on voc test or svoc test. there's hundreds of thousands of different compounds, and if you're not looking for the one you need to look for, it doesn't matter if you're sampling. that's what we're here to do is start screening the water and other samples for what chemicals they should be looking for, to kind of gut check the response. >> now, it's really quite scary for the people in the affected area. what is your advice to them? what can they do to keep their families safe? >>

go to zachary, west lafayette, indiana on the 30 to 60 line. go ahead. caller: good morning.hank you for c-span. what is important to think about is david graber's quote. the hidden truth of the world is that we can imagine it differently. there is a competency test and term limits every election cycle. it is very simple to remove people from office. if people actually get involved in the political process. i think too many people are focusing on the individuals that are elected, as if that is the problem, and not the political parties themselves. at least the major ones. in terms of, are they competent and have they been in there too long? is that how some of the corruption stays in all of the political systems, whether you are looking at the local level, the city, the county, the state, or the national level? whether it is congress or other elected officials. especially the president as well. i think that is a strong signal everyone needs to focus on a bit marcus he is in a fragile state. more involvement, whether you are young or old, involvement is good in a democracy. mo

west virginia. his his men going to be routed kershaw is georgians, mississippi and south they're all old corps under james longstreet you've seen their at gettysburg in july the second you know when they're under lafayette mcgraw's these are these are good boys kershaw is solid and are going to sweep thorburn back through they're going to hit the end of it. they're going to hit a gap there and they're going to drive them back towards. the valley turnpike guard, meanwhile, evans and ramshaw going to go forward and they are going to hit hayes and kitty nugget, who's as jay howard, who didn't want to be there. he rode to his father and said, i don't want to be here. he commands a provisional division and they're made of members of the eighth corps, which is part of the baltimore. what to be now army west virginia but elements stragglers of that six corps 19th corps they put them together and they had 6000 men and they arrived a few days earlier. so they're stuck in this ridge. you know, you go there, you can see it clearly. you take the old u.s. 11, you can see it clearly. it's there anyway. they're hit and they're routed. and so it becomes a factor of the confederacy are driving them all towards meadowbro