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About the 2018 report detailing some structural integrity issues with the champlain towers south. did you know about that report? and do you have concerns about what was contained in it? >> actually, i did not know about the report. ive been here about eight months. im learning a lot of things just like everybody else. what is contained information is from a conversation with a condo association and our former building official. what we do know is were gathering the information, putting it on th...

Seeing the people who used to walk up and down the beach. it makes your heart break. at the same time it makes you feel good that those are the people that you help them see another day. >> the official death toll stands at ten. 151 missing. back to you. >> john: thank you. i have been going through that engineering report on this building and one of the things they point to is there was a failure with waterproofing on the concrete slab. the waterproofing caused major structural damage to the co...

Read, what are your initial thoughts on what could have happened here? what could have caused this building to collapse seemingly out of the blue? >> certainly\. thank you for having me on. i want to start by saying that as weve heard, this is really a human story right now. and that comes first. but it quickly does become an engineering story. happy to share some of my thoughts. you know, as weve been talking about a little bit, the engineering report called out some issues with the pool deck. ...

But all i know is debating the engineering report right now is not going to save lives as much as me putting 100% of my energy and effort to support these men and women. it will be a great tragedy if they find this could have all been avoided and those families, what theyre experiencing right now is so raw. its not supposed to go through life feeling these types of pain. >> i get your focus very much on the present. but there is a present for the people in buildings nearby. what are you doing to...

Effort? >> theyre continuing to do the rescue effort, recovery is not part of their dialogue. its not part of their mission. and, you know, yesterday i spent about an hour just studying, watching them work and theres pockets and as they, what theyll do is bore holes from holes theyll put cameras and bring dogs, if the dogs find something that makes sense, then it comes to dig out a bigger hole and put the dog in and then the dogs reaction triggers where they go next. >> let me ask you one thing ...

Forceful on making recommendations on what needs -- when people need to repair their buildings. were constantly making these recomm recommendations that were telling building owners what they do. now we need to tell them more forcefully when they need to do it. >> to that point shall theres a 2018 engineering report that details the issues in the building, particularly underneath underground there. there was a condo association meeting where a town official told them, npr says, your building is ...

Is forensic expert, reggie ferrer. right now, theres more than 150 people unaccounted for in the search for the may amy condo collapse as far as the survivors. we were talking moments ago. i dont think people realize -- you see it and you know its bad. when you said theres 13 floors worth of concrete and materials that has to be more or less dug out, thats a lot for these rescue crews to get to and that could take a very long time. >> yeah. good morning, and its a pleasure to be here with you th...

He saw the cracks underground near the pool area there. he saw them. he noted them and he did not necessarily think they were cause for immediate alarm. he also looked that the 2018 engineering report that went into much greater detail about that. and he said, you know, that, they put in more comprehensive view the problems facing the building and the people in the building saw that and knew that they had some work to do to bring it up to code and to make it safe but there was nothing even in th...

156 people still unaccounted for. their families desperate for word. the tragedy touching so many. the makeshift memorial with photos of some of the missing growing near the site of the building collapse. and tonight the troubling revelations from an engineering report from 2018, finding major structural damage to the concrete below the pool deck as well as cracked columns in the parking garage. abcs victor oquendo leads us off in surfside, florida. >> reporter: tonight, the death toll rising in...

This for 100 hours or more. but as the hours crawl by, the chance of finding more survivors obviously continues to drop. thats what the family members are hoping will not happen. they are hoping for some kind of miracle. young people, old people, all of them were caught up in this horrific building collapse. only now are we learning of an engineering report back in 2018 that suggested there were cracks in the concrete of this building and perhaps problems with some of the structural steel that n...