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Firestorms and trees being down. i talked to the fire chief of new london. by and large they dodged a bullet in flooding and that kind of damage. downed trees came down on top of this house on montawk avenue here in new london. the tree came crashing down on this older house. i just talked to the homeowner nate hall who was home when it happened. saw the tree there, and assessed some of the damage. he saw some of the power lines down around his house. still not quite a safe situation here, even ...

Thats the latest toll were killed by a 7.2-magnitude quake that hit the nation on saturday morning. but there is fear, of course, that that number could rise much, much higher, possibly into the thousands. according to the u.s. geological survey, it struck about 125 kilometers west of the capital port-au-prince. the caribbean nation is, still, recovering from the devastating earthquake, back in 2010 that killed hundreds of thousands of people. now, the deadly earthquake is, yet, another burden f...

State of crisis. its president was assassinated just over a month ago, and its still recovering from the devastating earthquake, back in 2010, that killed hundreds of thousands of people. cnns michael holmes reports. >> reporter: a powerful earthquake rocked haiti. some of the video circulating on social media showing just how devastating it was. this man saying he was lucky to be in a building that didnt collapse. but with streets filled with dust and rubble scattered on the ground, others were...

There was an extension, which i think is reasonable. again, the reality here is that this didnt collapse, the government didnt collapse. the security forces didnt collapse in a wholesale fashion just in these last days. it has been a steady erosion of capacity, both political capacity from kabul and military capacity. i would just note its important what one of your previous presenters mentioned. that is that most of the cities of afghanistan did not fall by force of arms. they fell by political...

Water in that area. >> you know, i read the report. and the water is very, very concerning. and in the report, there is actually a sentence that states that, maybe, this event is actually in other locations in the building. so for example, if the waterproofing has failed where the pool deck is. has the waterproofing, also, failed where the roof is? what happens then is the connections, over time, fail. and this event did not happen, in the past-24 hours or the past-24 months. it -- it took time ...

Is going on right behind this building we are seeing right here. the mayor pointed out yes it is a search-and-rescue operation but it is also an evidence-gathering operation right now. they are trying to piece it together so they can analyze, forensically, whats happening. one of the things some engineers who have looked at the collapse, video of the collapse, and also looked at different pictures like the ones today. told "the new york times" and "the miami herald," theyre of the mind that this...

But those are all things we are day accustomed to seeing. >> any cause for alarm in what you saw? >> what i saw? no. >> the lack of alarm is now sending chills through residents in other aging buildings along this beach and beyond. inspections underway. voluntary evacuations for the champlain towers sister building. and a rush to find the answer to why this building just fell? forensic engineers caution, that answer could, yet, be months away. >> and drew griffin joins us now. drew, the town of ...

Our job exists. >> reporter: causing alarm in what you saw? >> what i saw, no. >> reporter: lack of alarm sending chills through residents in other aging buildings belong this beach and beyond. inspections under way. a rush to find answers to why this building just fell. forensic engineers caution that answer to yet be months away. andrew griffin joins us now. drew, the town of surfside hired a structural engineer to study this collapse. whats he saying tonight. >> make alan killshimer calling i...

Evaluates damage to residential and commercial buildings. and architect kobi karp, whose firm specializes in rez sidenti developments and is based in miami. asher, we just saw photos taken 36 hours before this collapse. what did you see? >> we saw spalling, again, which is well documented. we saw significant spalling in some what looked like a beam below what i understand is the south end of the pool structure below that. and we saw evidence of spalling in other photographs in that inspection re...