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Some of the back roads through these hilly, rural tennessee communities here, but this site is evidence alone of just how strong the currents were here yesterday. there are now 43 individuals whose names are just released in the last hour by officials. those officials asking the public to help in identifying where those individuals are, where their whereabouts may be, but for others their businesses you heard from the gentleman david at the beginning of the piece. i met him just 100 yards down t...

Its the number of fossils that were finding, but its also the diversity. its really unprecedented in geological sites of this age across the world. usually, on an excavation, you may get a handful of finds, but here it is different. scientists think there are tens of thousands of fossils lying in the mud. this place must have been teeming with life 167 million years ago. this area was once covered by a shallow tropical sea. living there were animals like starfish, sea urchins, brittle stars and ...

Its really unprecedented in geological sites of this age across the world. usually on an excavation, you might get a handful of finds but here, its different. scientists think there are tens of thousands of fossils lying in the mud. this place must have been teeming with life 167 million years ago. this area was once covered by a shallow tropical sea. living there were animals like starfish, sea urchins, brittle stars and sea cucumbers. the site was discovered by local fossil hobbyists, nav and ...

Extraordinary. the location is being kept secret. we extraordinary. the location is being kept secret.— extraordinary. the location is being kept secret. we have got another really _ being kept secret. we have got another really nice, _ another really nice, exceptional specimen here. this is a brittle star, likely to be a new species. the quality of preservation, it is the number of fossils we are finding but also the diversity. it is really unprecedented and geological sites of this age acros...

Usually on an excavation you might get a handful of finds. but here is different. scientists think there are tens of thousands of fossils lying in the mud. this place must been teeming with life 167 million years ago. this area was once covered by a shallow tropical sea. living there were animals like starfish, sea urchins, brittle stars and sea cucumbers. heavy old piece, isnt it? the site was discovered by local fossil hobbyists nerve and sally. a slab of life. but at first the quarry didnt lo...

Cnns randi kaye with the latest on the recovery effort and the investigation into what might have triggered this catastrophe. >> reporter: major progress in the recovery mission at the debris pile of champlain tower south. and it continues around the clock. >> the pile that, originally, was approximately four or five stories is, now, almost at ground level. >> reporter: at least 13 million pounds of concrete and debris, now, removed. and the mission remains the same. return loved ones to their f...

Stories is now almost at ground level. >> reporter: at least 13 million pounds of concrete and debris now removed. and the mission remained the same, returned loved ones to families. meanwhile a new effort is underway at the sister tower a few blocks away. a detailed inspection of champlain tower north, to make sure it wont suffer the same fate. cnn got a close-up look at the process as inspection teams went underground, using x-raies and testing concrete for salt residue. >> we also did a scan ...

Times" published that accentuate an issue potentially with rebar. you know the issue. give me the lay explanation of what im looking at. >> what youre looking at there is the slab that failed or fell off that potentially was supporting that column. again, i want to caution against speculation or assigning design flaws or construction flaws. its way too early to determine that. but i believe in the report it also recommended to have support piles added to those columns. again, if that engineer fe...

Allen, there are stories that the original building did not contain the right number of reinforcing bars. >> we found that by looking at the drawings, reading them, all the ones that the building department has, and then looking at certain elements in the debris pile and as they were removed from the debris pile, and we knew that -- im making this up, essentially -- 16 bars in a 25-foot area. but not where the columns are, in the slab, not a vertical thing. and we look at it and there were

Columns are, ultimately, the -- the elements that support a building. certainly, a failure in the waterproofing could cause damage of the slabs, which do support beams and columns. so if -- if that, in fact, was the case, then -- then it would be an area of concern. and certainly, it should have been addressed, in my opinion, back in 2018. certainly, the 2020 report, it had three years of -- of even the engineer said that if this is not taken care of, this is going to get worse, exponentially. >...