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Responsible for this. because my mom and my grandmother are now gone forever. ainsley: the two of them would come over to his house on saturday and pick up his son. you see his son there in the picture with his grandmother and great-grandmother this saturday ran into dads room daddy, when are they coming? he said i dont have the heart to tell him yet. steve: we heard him recounting things and talking a little bit about the pool deck. i have got a feeling we are going to hear about this pool deck...

Joining me now is forest landing. he deals with collapsed buildings and major disasters including earthquakes. thanks so much for being here with us. youve seen the details in the 2018 report about the structural problems and the repairs needed. youve looked at the pictures of the building before the collapse. so lets set aside hindsight here. should the alarm bells have rung much more urgently? >> i think so. i mean, its been several years since that report came out and reading through the repo...

Structural slab up under the pool that he is looking at. so he is thinking of telling his boss well have to remove pipes and other things, this job will be more complicated even if were just coming in here to do a koz me cosmetic repair. so that is what was going through his mind two days before the collapse. >> and cnn has independently reached out about the report and a spokesperson for the champlain tower south condo association declined to comment. in an op-ed, "the miami herald" newspaper...

And hundreds of cases of lab leaks occur here in the u.s. every year, and over in china, even more so, and as you heard dr. gottlieb say, the lab in wuhan has had problems with maintaining its biosafety, and there have been six cases of the first sars that have leaked out of labs. four of them occurred in beijing, china, so if you have to wonder right off the bat about leaks from the slab for sure. we have been talking about it for a long time, but then how did it actually happen? leaking out of...

Pool area, in the garage. and some major structural damage, especially when youre talking about the waterproofing. one of the main issues was that the waterproofing was beyond its u useful life. and i want to read you this report. its going to give you an idea of what were talking about here. quote, the waterproofing below the deck, entrance drive, as well as all of the waterproofing is beyond its useful life and therefore must be completely removed and replaced. the failed waterproofing is caus...

Its been several years since that report came out, and reading through the report, there was evidence of the concrete spalling, cracking and corrosion on the rebars and whats really concerning is it was happening in the basement, the basement covers the whole block, so it extends beyond the footprint of the building. so above the basement is exterior, the outside and the report said there was no slope to the slab so it was ponding water. so the water would stay on there until it evaporated, and ...

Hopeful citing cases where people have survived under rubble for up to 17 days. this morning a massive deployment of search and rescue members in florida is mobilized. >> they had fires probably caused by the gasoline from the cars that were parked underneath in that parking structure. so they had fire. they had smoke. they had the constant threat of the rest of the parts of the complex are not very stable and so they have that constant threat. they have the threat of, you know, moving something...

Have been absolutely silent, but now with this cease-fire, the streets are filled. in fact, they are snarled with traffic. gazans returning to their homes, picking through the rubble. this woman saying, what does this truce mean? we are back to our homes. we dont have a place to sit. we dont have water. we dont have electricity. today we found muhammad hadidi who lost almost everything at a funeral tent. last weekend, as rescuers crawled over the debris, muhammad wailed in anguish. his wife and ...

Comment. james kcohen says the report di not include key details about the foundation and didnt indicate any immediate danger. >> there is nothing i saw that would suggest people needed to vacate the building. the inspection did not include the foundations, which would be covered by a slab. it may have been prudent to open up the slab to see how things were doing below where one could s see. >> erin, a quick note on the $15 million worth of repairs, that was approved by the condo association a c...

To be making this up essentially 16 bars in about a 10 foot area, but 25% of those were supposed to be not only where the columns are, that is in the slab now, not a vertical thing. and we look at it and there were only one or two barsu couldnt there, it doesnt mean the right number of bars were there, but they might not have been arranged the way the drawings ask for. that is not unusual to expect and that does not necessarily mean that it had anything to do with this terrible situation. u.s....