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That could potentially push the oil over the boom. as we pan over here looking through the bridge you can see pilings, the cranes are pushing them into the bottom of perdito pass. we have video we shot to give you a closer look at the construction site. what they plan to do with the pilings that they are putting into the pass is using them to suspend a strong steel pipe, 32 inches in diameter and filling that pipe with foam so that it floats in the water, the pilings holding it in place and then...

Little, too late? jonathan serrie is live on orange beach, alabama. what do you the idea? do you like it? >> reporter: good morning, bill, behind me, is a $4.5 million project, look at the construction there, on the other side of the bridge, they are driving pilings, concrete pilings into the bottom of perdido pass, the inlet im standing on now and theyll eventually suspend a 32 inch diameter pipe all the way across perdido path and will be filled with foam so it floats and will be suspended fro...

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...

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Here to understand what could happen if this storm surge does roll in here as is expected. this is a 17 foot high piling. this floating dock that im on is right about at the average high tide mark. i can tell that because of the water line thats just below the dock where it is now. im told when hurricane hazel showed up here, the water, it rose just about to the top of this 17 foot piling. when hurricane fran came here, if you look at the dock to my left, those pilings older, wooden, those are j...

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