"What better place to begin my reign of Communist terror and oppression than a memorial to that decadent and imperialist American, Melville Dewey, hated originator of the Dewey Decimal System!!"
A reporter on the ground there actually started talking about all this stuff live on air and his connection was mysteriously disconnected before he could finish. Stay classy, CNN.
So, I don't know about anything else in this clip, but most states don't have a statewide fire code and that's not a big deal. Municipalities individually adopt parts of the main international standards like the NFPA with their own modifications. Maddow implies that fire codes are illegal in Texas. I don't know what she's taking about, there most certainly are due codes in Texas. You can look them up in about 2 seconds.