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About the 2018 report detailing some structural integrity issues with the champlain towers south. did you know about that report? and do you have concerns about what was contained in it? >> actually, i did not know about the report. i've been here about eight months. i'm learning a lot of things just like everybody else. what is contained information is from a conversation with a condo association and our former building official. what we do know is we're gathering the information, putting it on the website, getting it up there. our public records are getting out there and we're looking intern...

Seeing the people who used to walk up and down the beach. it makes your heart break. at the same time it makes you feel good that those are the people that you help them see another day. >> the official death toll stands at ten. 151 missing. back to you. >> john: thank you. i have been going through that engineering report on this building and one of the things they point to is there was a failure with waterproofing on the concrete slab. the waterproofing caused major structural damage to the concrete slab below these areas. failure to replace the waterproofing in the future will cause the con...

Read, what are your initial thoughts on what could have happened here? what could have caused this building to collapse seemingly out of the blue? >> certainly\. thank you for having me on. i want to start by saying that as we've heard, this is really a human story right now. and that comes first. but it quickly does become an engineering story. happy to share some of my thoughts. you know, as we've been talking about a little bit, the engineering report called out some issues with the pool deck. concrete does crack over time. that's not unexpected, but whenever it does crack, it allows moistu...

But all i know is debating the engineering report right now is not going to save lives as much as me putting 100% of my energy and effort to support these men and women. it will be a great tragedy if they find this could have all been avoided and those families, what they're experiencing right now is so raw. it's not supposed to go through life feeling these types of pain. >> i get your focus very much on the present. but there is a present for the people in buildings nearby. what are you doing to reassure the people who live, again, you know, condo buildings for hundreds of miles around the f...

Effort? >> they're continuing to do the rescue effort, recovery is not part of their dialogue. it's not part of their mission. and, you know, yesterday i spent about an hour just studying, watching them work and there's pockets and as they, what they'll do is bore holes from holes they'll put cameras and bring dogs, if the dogs find something that makes sense, then it comes to dig out a bigger hole and put the dog in and then the dog's reaction triggers where they go next. >> let me ask you one thing that we learned over the last day there was this 2018 engineering report. and the people in th...