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>> reporter: good evening martha. the county has nine casinos all are shutdown. those riverfront casinos aren't damaged, they are located over the water, based on barges which rise and lower with the water level. the hotels attached to the casino are on land with the exception of one hotel which suffered minor water damage to the first floor. the other hotels are all on higher ground and not damaged by the water. these casino resources are surrounded by flood waters. so customers can't get out to them. other than personnel such as security and building engineers, no one is inside these casinos...

End, the mississippi delta, saying now the worst is yet to come for them and jonathan serrie is live in tunica, mississippi. how is the local economy taking this hit, it has to be a huge shot in the arm. >> reporter: it is, bill, the area is dependent on revenue from casinos and you can see behind me, they are surrounded by water and escaped any major damage because by law they have to be over water and they float them on barges and they rise and fall with floodwaters but because they are surrounded by water are cut off from customers and other than a skeleton crew of security and building eng...

>> reporter: good evening martha. the county has nine casinos all are shutdown. those riverfront casinos aren't damaged, they are located over the water, based on barges which rise and lower with the water level. the hotels attached to the casino are on land with the exception of one hotel which suffered minor water damage to the first floor. the other hotels are all on higher ground and not damaged by the water. these casino resources are surrounded by flood waters. so customers can't get out to them. other than personnel such as security and building engineers, no one is inside these casinos...

Casinos here in tunica county. as you see this one is just surrounded by water. because the casinos have to be over water they build them on barges that helped out in the flood because the casinos simply rise with the floodwaters. so, very minor if any structural damage to the casinos. but because they're cut off from the rest of the community they can't get customers out there. so other than skeleton crews of security, and building engineers and repair crews who have been traveling back and forth by airboat, the 13,000 some employees maids, waitresses, waiters and other customer service folks...

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, he said he didn't remember receiving an e-mail of that 2018 report. then it came out that he had act...