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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 ...

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...

Search and rescue teams during that time have been using dogs, theyve been using drones, sonars and infrared scanners, and theyve yet to find any sign of life since the first survivors were pulled from the wreckage in the hours immediately after the collapse. now, we are told by the authorities that it remains very much a search and rescue operation and it will continue to be that indefinitely, but while there is still hope that there could be people alive in there, it will be a painstakingly sl...

We do to our body. we have the technology and the ability to check whats behind the concrete, behind the wall. what is the condition of where the vertical sheer walls or columns meet the horizontal slabs. we have that ability to do on a daily basis and im sure that the inspectors, who are very well and strong and conservative in this community with the building officials, i believe they are gathering together right now as they did after hurricane andrew in 1992, to basically overhaul the system ...

Rescued. so they have to go slow, deliberate. theres 250 people working on it right now. you cant have any more than that. they have heavy equipment trying to slowly move the extra heavy pieces of equipment, of concrete and steel. theyre doing everything they possibly can as methodically and as professionally as possible. >> lets talk about everything theyre doing and perhaps you can add to what youre saying because we have seen these huge cranes lifting giant slabs off of the rubble pile. dogs ...

Situation that that person is in, waiting to be rescued. so they have to go slow, deliberate. theres 250 people working on it right now. you cant have any more than that. they have heavy equipment, trying to slowly move the extra heavy pieces of equipment, of concrete and steel. theyre doing everything they possibly can, as methodically and as professionally as possible. >> lets talk about everything theyre doing, and perhaps you can add to what youre saying, because weve seen these huge cranes ...

A 12—storey building that has now been reduced to a 30 foot pile of rubble. they have brought in heavy equipment but they are using that carefully, surgically removing huge slabs of concrete and painstakingly going through the rubble. they cannot disturb anything in case there are still people alive inside heard the are hu-el and you heard they are hugely helpful, when the mayor of surfside, the small town where this happened, was spoken to earlier, he was asked if he was hopeful there would b...

Standard report that we do for the buildings here. this is a very unique situation. and this building is relatively young. it was built in the 80s. so whats interesting here is that i was 18 years old. i was in high school, when this building was being designed and built. what we have here is we have an opportunity to really take these reports in to the next level. we have the technology. we can do infrared. we can do all kinds of sonar testing behind the concrete. and see what the real, true co...

>> well, when you look at it, its called a pancake collapse because it looks exactly like that. it looks like a stack of pancakes and the void spaces are so small, that theyre an extreme challenge to get into. and to determine if people have the opportunity to survive. so, when you look at the volume of material, it takes a long time to penetrate that volume of material. and what were doing is we are, essentially, cutting slabs. lifting them out. penetrating. searching. cutting another slab. lif...

Concerned are you about the stability of the sister tower right nearby, built almost exactly at the same time by the same construction company? and a lot of authorities are now recommending that building should be completely evacuated out of an abundance of caution. >> im sorry, can you repeat that? >> how concerned are you about the sister tower that was built right around the same time, by the same builders, and the recommendation now by some authorities that out of an abundance of caution, th...