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Responders. >> reporter: and they could face more challenges ahead. >> this area could see tropical storm force winds. >> reporter: meanwhile the very similar high-rise on the next block is getting further inspection. >> our building initial in conjunction with our efforts are now getting ready to x-ray columns and do a deep dive, a forensic study, into the structure. >> reporter: planning now underway for demolition of the remnants of the collapsed tower, although it could take weeks. >> that b...

>> reporter: but while engineers ten to speculate from afar, in reality the answer lies like the vehicle tells trapped under rubble. the 40-year-old structure was due for massive repairs. an alarming 2018 inspection report warned of abundant cracking and several instances of deteriorating rebar especially on the pool deck and parking structure garage under the building. according to the report, failed waterproofing was causing major structural damage to the concrete structural slabs below the po...

>> first thing i do every morning is i talk to the guys doing the work. we got -- weve got at least 240 men and women on the pile right now, hand picking that stuff out. we have got cranes, we have gigantic cranes lifting off huge slabs. the governor has provided infrastructure, the senators have worked to do -- we dont have, we dont have a resource problem, we have a luck problem. we have to get lucky and start finding people and pulling them out. >> you still have hope. >> i absolutely have ho...

Night, 12 confirmed dead and 149 149men, women, and children stil unaccounted. brand-new video of todays herculean effort released late this afternoon by the miami-dade county fire and rescue. there is some heavy equipment being used for the enormous slabs of fallen concrete, while others use their hands. more than 3 million pounds of concrete and steel has been removed from the partially collapsed condo tower since last thursday. these are some of the best pictures we have seen so far of their ...

Indicative of something coming down and that could potentially weaken those slabs under the part of the building that collapsed but something that was also interesting is even that beam on the south side of the building that we see photographed, that damage potentially could have contributed by itself. the building is asymmetrical so anytime anything fails, it can cause the building to twist. if that beam failed, it would have put increased pressure on other columns and slabs in the building, an...

Survivors but also to eliminate the danger of that building to the rescuers. we got a good view of that building yesterday from a perch kind of at an elevated position just next to it. you can see just huge slabs of concrete hanging from that building. a large concrete callolumn hang from from that building. the rescue teams told us some of the slabs have moved several inches. they had sensors go off that indicated cracking going on. when that happens, they have people working all around this ru...

What we do here is we do a pilot hole. we go into the ground and get a geo technical engineer to drill and core drill and see whats going on with this structure? do we need to do any kind of reinforcing or add additional pilings or do pressure grout to stabilize this building so we dont have the kind of catastrophe that happened? and three years in this weather is unacceptable. >> there are a lot of building like this one, including a sister tower building almost next door that a lot of folks ar...

E-mail in the condo association saying that things had gotten substantially worse by april of this year. that raises a lot of questions about whether the structural slabs or columns, the area that appears to have collapsed first, according to experts whether or not that was as bad as what we saw in the photos. >> kwwhat have you heard from local officials or people connected to the building. >> the person who comes up the most is the former building official for surfside, florida, and at first, ...

>> there was a pancake effect. it was almost symmetric and vertical and what that causes is the structure to come straight down, instead of collapsing sideways or collapsing in any, other trajectory. which would mean that, whatever caused it, which is unknown, at this point, would have caused the structure to have a clean-vertical collapse of those towers. >> reporter: but while engineers continue to speculate from afar, in reality, the answer lies, like the victims, trapped under rubble. the 40...

Requirement from the government to do something different. they didnt do enough. what should this building have done? >> i think that this event, it is a unique event of a building rather youthful. the building was built in 1981. it was designed in that same period. i was in high school at that period of time. i think this is an opportunity for us now more than ever before to do these reports and check all our existing building products. we have the technology today to look behind the walls, to ...