Structure Failure News Today

Watching closely beyond impeachment, obviously happening and central louisiana. we have been talking about the tornadoes. now hearing that there is one dead in central louisiana, this coming in from vernon parish. chief, deputy calvin turner who i mentioned a moment ago, i believe we have him on the phone. calvin turner, are you there? >> yes. >> ed: please tell us what is happening on the ground and about the one death that just came in. >> we have had a tornado touched down in the southeastern...

That ride right there. its called the fireball ride. it broke apart, sending people flying so how does this ride pass safety checks? our next guest says he has had to shut down these same type of rides twice before. joining us now is amusement ride inspector and safety consultant walt reese. what happened here? >> its hard for me to say based on the limited information that i have been able to see so far. its really limited in scope to either fasteners failing or welds failing or maybe some sort...

Usually buildings failures are a combination of, you know, a number of different characteristics that, unfortunately, dont meet the structure requirements. that could be the materials. it could be the connection. it could be underdesigned members. it could be an overload that it was not intentionally designed for. it could be foundation or soil failure. so its likely a combination of these things but we dont know yet. we cant just look at the damage and make conclusions yet. >> and that was civi...

Would result in an impact to the ocean in which the main body of the debris should be reasonably intact that a condensed area. however, if the plane encountered severe baseball or softball sized hail which is known to occur in these extreme weather conditions then the glide path would have been a bit longer and the debris field spread out much farther. if there was a loss of control due to severe disturbturbulence, we would have a completely different scenario. the aircraft could have become inv...