By Rob Kuznia, Scott Glover, Curt Devine and Casey Tolan, CNN
Sara Nir was up late, checking her email when she heard knocking sounds that went from a soft tapping to hard pounding to a frightful crash overhead as if a wall had collapsed in the unit above her ground-floor condo.
Raysa Rodriguez was sleeping in her room on the ninth floor when she awoke disoriented. The building was swaying “like a sheet of paper.” She ran into the hallway to find that it had been impaled from floor to ceiling by a concrete pillar; the doors of the elevators were shorn off, exposing the shafts.
Tragedy beyond tragedy : Over a week after Surfside condo collapse, questions remain unanswered
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HURRICANE COULD COMPLICATE SURFSIDE SEARCH (9:30pmET)
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Softening Housing Growth Allows a Surprise Slide in May US Construction Spending
Investments in housing construction did not grow enough to continue overcoming the months-long decline in nonresidential spending, but promising hints of softening lumber prices and infrastructure funding offer short- and long-term hope
July 1, 2021
data: US Department of Commerce; graph: ForConstructionPros.com
Slowing spending on single-family residential construction allowed a surprise slip in total May U.S. construction spending. Groups of economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal and Reuters ahead of the Department of Commerce’s Thursday release of construction spending data had forecast 0.4% to 0.5% gains in the value of construction put in place for the month, but the seasonally adjusted annual rate for total construction slid 0.3% instead.
Code enforcement complaint filed over rusted rebar on Protogroup North Tower site
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