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Precipitate the collapse. what you want to do is try to find the trigger. >> if you can hear me, allyn, youve obviously seen the pictures in the "miami herald" from a pool contractor that showed cracks in the concrete, water on the ground there. you know about the 2018 report that was done by the engineer. does any of that raise red flags for you? >> you know, while some of those things -- ive seen things like that in lots of buildings. the bottom line is you have this particular building, and a...

Things like a bomb explosion -- [ awed audio difficulty ] things like that, a trigger kind of event. foundations moving around more than a certain amount. all those things are trigger events. sometimes buildings talk to you if you can listen to them, so what happens is its possible that slabs in the building were deflecting for long periods of time. that means spinning downward and nobody knew anything about it or didnt understand it. all those things can eventually lead to a problem. there are ...

Happened. we would have had a worse constitutional crisis than we did. >> thats actually the perfect word to describe it. hooey. okay. so, listen, i want to turn to the breaking news. i want to get right to the latest on that condo collapse and "the miami heralds" reporting on what a contractor says he saw in the pool-equipment room a day and a half before that collapse. so joining me now is miami herald reporter, erin. i really appreciate it. this is really important stuff we are talking about ...

Report that some people are making it out to be, but certainly from 2018 to now conditions could have occurred that exasperated to put it in dire straits. >> thats the thing. in 2018, it was bad, they said it needed repairs, and the idea that it got worse from 2018 to 2021, thats three years that things get that much worse and that warning went out in april. other reporting indicates a lot of water. we have the miami herald report where they spoke to a pool contractor who looked underground, saw...

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Mi "miami herald", matthew, and she was showing me pictures taken 36 hours before the collapse by a pool contractor. you see standing water all over the parking garage. he told the"the herald" it was standing water. he said at 1:30 of the morning of the collapse she said the building was shaking and said there was a sink hole where the pool used to be. that call was at 1:30 a.m. the line went dead. we dont know what happened to her yet. when you hear this as a structural engineer, do you think t...

Earlier there were damage of the pool taken by the pool contractor. according to that paper, he said this was standing water all over the parking garage, and severely corroded rebar under the pool. thats his report and we have not confirmed it. bottom line, an attorney for the champlain towers said there could be several factors, construction, drilling, sub surface problems. how do we get to the bottom of this. i am very curious about what the intense conversations might be among those of you wh...

Were talking about because you spoke to a pool contractor that took those photos in the garage area 36 hours before that building collapsed. tell us what you are learning and what these photos show exactly. >> sure. thank you so much for having me. we spoke to a contractor who was working for a company that was bidding to renovate the s champlain tower south pool as for the of the 40-year recertification process and on tuesday, two days before the collapse, he did a walk through of the property....

Surfside, florida just before it chanced las ed collapsed last week. a pool contractor talking about the nightmare he fund tound thi basements building. >> i walked through the pool area, didnt notice anything particularly alarming. he was being escorted by a building employee who then walked him downstairs to the garage below and that is where he told us that he saw tdeep standing water that he found concerning. and then he was led to the south side under the pool area, still in the garage, too...

>> darrells secretary told police that everyone left the construction site early on the day of the murder because of the severe rainstorm. she said darrell stayed behind to meet with a contractor named curtis pope. >> curtis pope was a pool contractor. darrell was basically mentoring curtis into the construction business. and he stayed approximately 20, 25 minutes. he left darrell. darrell said he was going to wait out the rain and let the traffic die down before he headed home. >> darrells wife...