because i am in fact one of those commuters and i myself am attempting to figure out how i will get to the station tomorrow so i can come down to d.c. for session. this is going to be a major issue, not just for those of us who happen to live in philadelphia but really from new york city, only about 70 miles to the north all the way south to washington, d.c./baltimore area. the initials projections are that it will take months to rebuild. what i have urged the white house and transportation secretary to do is to immediately release the $100 million that they can do as early as tomorrow. we need to expedite the reconstruction of i-95. we know we have to fully replace the northbound lanes. we may possibly have to replace the southbound lanes pending the full analysis of structure engineers. even with that $100 million
repair work beginning just four days before the wall came crashing down and engineers warned parts could crumble. the work was intended to rectify a separation between the facade and the interior wall. photos taking may 25 by city inspectors show crumbled bricks in the space between. the section of the wall being repaired ultimately was the section that fell. three people who lived there remain missing. joining us now, a structural building engineer. welcome to the program. i have to start with this. how is it possible engineer could warn parts were crumble but people were still allowed to live there? it comes down to the laws in place. building departments, depending on your jurisdiction, have a lot of say or don t have a lot of say into how they are going to manage these things because you are always going to have structure engineers that can say, look, there is a problem here and it s up to the building department and the authority having jurisdiction to say,
41 people now confirmed dead from hurricane irene. this hour vermont is still trying to pull people out of the rushing rivers. i ll speak with several people still trapped there. including a groom got married saturday, hoping to leave on his honeymoon in 48 hours. we ll get a live update pr him. also from fema and the governor of vermont. stay tuned for that. in addition to the wildfires, there s talk about a formation off the coast of the yucatan peninsula. chad myers, who is racing back out here. chad myers, as we re looking at this formation, do we need to be worried? we don t need to be worried at this point in time. although, this may be the nicest tropical storm, i hope, that we ever see ever. you consider what we just showed you, all the pictures in oklahoma, that s really, other than the fire, that s what all of texas looks like. completely tinder ground. if we can get a 40 miles per hour storm over the gulf of mexico and run into louisiana and texas and spread ra
capsule being prepped to bring alex vega to the surface. when they re ready and he enters the capsule, it will be another 11 to 15 minutes until we see him get to the top. you can imagine what s going through his mind, too. and it s interesting that his father had a premonition about a problem here. we ran into the same sentiment in the upper big branch disaster in west virginia earlier this year where some of the miners told family members i don t think things are quite right with that mine. i am a little worried about it. they are trying to find the cause of the collapse of this one as well. some of the structure engineers and experts believe it may have been seismic activity that caused it to happen. obviously that s going to be the subject of major investigation right now the focus is bringing all of these 33 men plus the rescuers out alive. we re going to take a quick break. when we come back, dr. george bonanno joining us on the physical and psychological issues the miners wi