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Amount of money, one of the busiest ports in the world and they have put all these brand new cranes to take that cargo off. they laid a majority of those cranes down. they had time to take those cranes and put them down. but, apparently it takes longer to take those construction cranes down around the buildings. so, they haven't taken those down. but they put them on free swing, which means they've pinned -- got those things up, but the crane that loads the -- takes up the. >> containers. >> right the containers of the the building materials and moves them around, they dropped that and it's in...

Can see it. these lights have been going on and off and we're talking about projectiles, anderson and there are so many things that have turned into projectiles and large palm fronts that weigh 20 pounds or more. there was a modern art sculpture that weighs hundreds of pounds and it was weighed down by sandbags and that thing flew about 40 yards. we can tell you that residents here have been worried about the cranes. i can see them in the faded distance behind me. the construction crane, i know we've been talking about that for days and you had the incident in miami where two construction cran...

We're not quite sure what happened here. the but you can see clearly a crane has collapsed. again, the hope would be there's no construction there now. it would most certainly be closed an everything around it should be gone. so we're hoping this is a crane that has fallen and no fallen a there at all. sam champion, this is something you and i talked about awhile ago. there's a lot of construction. tell me again what preparations are that go into dealing with cranes. >> reporter: ali, these construction cranes, i have seen them fail in storms before, seen them crumple, so the structure itself ...

Smaller things that are flying around the area. as you know, they can be very dangerous projectiles if you're outside. >> for sure. >> luckily we have not seen a whole lot of people outside. high rises, we see people walking their dog and going back in. another major concern for people in this area, we have more than two dozen very large construction cranes right now in the air, which we can show you right now, each one of these construction cranes because there is a lot of construction, a lot of building in miami, weigh at least 30 tons and right now they're just swaying around in the wind li...

Places in the large building, you're right, absolutely. arthel: so do you have any sort of concerns playing in your mind right now? a lot of people are going to be looking at this once the storm is over and once the recovery efforts start? going to be lots of questions regarding this, and i'm not blaming you, sir, you're here answering my questions, but you know, lots of questions will be asked. >> they'll be, you're right. and sometimes rightly so. in this case, do we need to go back and relook at what the standards are for these construction cranes? that's a very likely possibility. we have ...