works in progress on the bridge in these always lead to traffic jams on the beach because i've passed milosevic almost every day and so i'm afraid that there were a lot of a lot of cars up on the bridge so you know the area very well you say you go there you walk past a bridge regularly tell us about what. actually underneath the bridge of the least the part of the bridge that collapsed and how many cars might be might be crossing that bridge at it and any given time of day. there are a lot of. things. because. it is very long but fortunately. the bridge collapsed. so that the place of the collapse had not so many buildings. just. not a lot of things in the area of the glass ok frank i want to thank you very much for talking with us today and i can tell you're still very shaken by what you've witnessed thank you so much frank you're there talking to us live from genoa. well we can also now cross over to philip whelan he's a freelance journalist with the guardian newspaper and he's covering a story right now still from rome philip how are tele emergency services dealing with the situation in gen

money you can just look at you know a couple decades ago you had a dictator like let's say slobodan milosevic all his money was in cyprus he was basically draining money out of his country and says out of serbia and down to cyprus and you have these people doing this all the time so this is really nothing new but when it comes to these companies what's interesting here is that a lot of companies are complaining about it and the ones that are complaining about it are not necessarily american companies it's european companies that feel that these this type of tax these tax measures might affect them negatively i mean they've already talked about how taxing that they have been treated fairly by the u.s. so this is just another step here and and this is of all a part of a bigger plan if you look at it really i mean we remember just last year that was signed into law one point five trillion over ten years and this was a part of the tax reform so that part was reduction in taxes at home so of corporate taxes dropping from thirty five percent to twenty one percent so again another mechanism to make

much, not only their homes but their schools where their kids attended schools like alo elementary in milosevic -- in victoria which i visited with principal hurly. in the wake of this devastation they were wondering what was being done to recover and rebuild. the short answer is a lot. first came the initial response. unlike noah, we didn't have an ark but we had 104 boats courtesy of the u.s. coast guard which rescued more than 11,000 people. fema, the federal emergency management agency, had prepositioned supplies before the storm and worked to coordinate temporary housing after it the hit, led by an administrator brock long, fema did a good job. meanwhile the environmental protection agency worked to restore drinking water. the department of energy worked to restore power. the small business administration approved disaster loans. the national flood insurance program expedited claims. gradually ports reopened, schools and roads started to as well. and governor abbott immediately formed a commission to rebuild texas and wisely appointed a great texan, john sharp, to chair. following the emer

familiar are remember what most of which was bombed by made of -- most of which was bombed to write -- milosevic was bombed by nato. he was toppled two years later. everybody looked at him and said, you are weak and ineffective committee were corrupt -- ineffective, you are corrupt. we have nothing because of this bombing. the 12 points are like the nato bombing of syria. >> even a regime change in baghdad, they go to the negotiation table and take that seriously. it is not that if they think that u.s. is in favor of the regime change. they are not going to sit and negotiate. even in baghdad, the regime change they sit down and negotiate. i guess we are beyond that, in a sense that people are saying that even if the regime accepts as well points, keeping the repression in iran is not acceptable to them. >> i think we are beyond -- i think we are beyond, let's do some reform here, some moderation there, some change in foreign policy here and call that iran policy. that is a nonpolicy. and then they are talking about regime change but they really want to have regime change? i don't see that. it do

i got to go face to face with slobodan milosevic as a female who would not take any of his crap. and i was pregnant and you know, this was his worst nightmare. where has the world gone wrong? but at the end we are moving into sarajevo. and i was meeting with the president at the time. and all these people were standing outside applauding us and, you know, send peacekeepers. they wanted the u.s. to come in and help and the situation. so, as we were walking in, there was a woman who grabbed my hand and she said, please, please do what you need to do. we can't continue like this. and you need to help us. america needs to help us. and i said that's what we are here for. we are going to take as many facts as we can and bring it back. and she grabbed my hand, touched my belly and said, i just lost my only son. you're going to be a mama. you have to help me. and, so you know, i got some criticism for going. as somebody who was about to have a baby. but relative to the conversations that we were having, i think it increased my perspective for what needed to be done. >> sorry about that.