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Your life to build which is your home. >> yeah. and where does the money come from? because many of the people are paying their homeowners association fees, but then when you talk about the price tag of construction, you know, repair work, its in the hundreds of thousands or maybe even millions. so where does that kind of resourcing come from? >> yeah. we are talking about millions. not hundreds of thousands. these are old buildings. these are large buildings. some of the buildings have reserves...

Hour and tragic condo collapse in surfside, florida, prompted inspections of other high rise condos in the area. >> the people who live there were given two hours to evacuate. rosa flores has more. >> reporter: the city of miami beach asking all of the residents to evacuate. officials say the building is structurally and electrically not safe. this building was built in 1972. it has more than 150 units. according to the city, this building had not filed its 40 year recertification. after what ha...

I started to become very angry and very just very jittery. i think its starting to take a toll on me. im very tired. i dont sleep very well at night. the more i hear about the structural problems and the comments from the engineers, i think i become angry every day. >> how could you not be? im angry on your behalf. all of us who didnt even live there knowing for how long some of these problems were flagged. were you aware that there were significant problems with your building when you were livi...

News, which have been submitted to investigators say the building inspector informed residents a month later after reviewing the engineering report, it appears the building is in very good shape. he could not be reached for comment but told the miami herald he didnt remember getting the report. one county official says laws will change because of this collapse. why do you say that? >> reporter:. >> because they will. what took place here will put my colleagues and i in a position to do whatever ...

Not alarming. concerning, but not alarming. >> you say condo boards are the ones responsible. i want to understand what requirements are. back in 2018 an engineering report revealed major structural damage. is a report like that an fyi, a report card, or are there actionable consequences. after the report, nothing happened. >> the 40 year recertification is something thats been in place in miami-dade county for several years. it is sort of a report card given by a structural engineer that the co...

My own condo is experiencing a 40-year recertification currently. and if i showed some people pictures of what i see, they may fear as well too. but ive reassured my wife that this is common. i think what happened at those towers is unfortunate, but the experts will tell. but it was an anomaly, i believe. >> we know it was an anomaly because its the only time its ever happened. but youre making good points about perspective. heres the good news. i guarantee you buildings are going to get inspect...

Building to make sure they comply with the 40-year recertification and put out a letter thats going out right now as we speak with no tolerance, no extensions. we just need to enforce the laws that exist as strictly as possible and see what we can do with the county moving forward. >> im worried about a lot of the buildings because theyre similar, the same ground. i dont know what is going on underneath the ground along the atlantic coast and im sure you are as well. >> theres definitely concern...

Of those towers. >> reporter: but while engineers continue to speculate from afar, but reality the answer likes, like the victims, trapped under rubble. an alarming 2018 inspection report warned of abundant cracking in concrete columns and several instances of deteriorating rebar, especially on the condos pool deck and in the parking structure garage underneath the building. according to the report, failed waterproofing was causing major structural damage to the concrete structural slabs below t...

South florida, is my building next, is my building -- is there any reason to believe that weve had this one off -- weve never had a collapse of buildings -- that this is proof a cascade could happen, that there are a lot of buildings in bad of shape of worse? >> no, i would reassure people living on the coast in high-rise building that this, in my opinion, was an ano, mmaly, something that may have occurred with successive events occurring that was uncommon. in my opinion, there was catastrophic...

Process is voluntary in the sense that you have to go through the process with your condo associations and all of the engineers and folks. but at the end of the day, if the engineers have to say it is a safe building in the recertification. if they dont, then the inspectors will not allow you to occupy it. so there is a sort of a relationship between the condo association and private engineers, and of course the local city which has to do the inspections and make sure that the recertification pr...