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Forceful on making recommendations on what needs -- when people need to repair their buildings. we're constantly making these recomm recommendations that we're telling building owners what they do. now we need to tell them more forcefully when they need to do it. >> to that point shall there's a 2018 engineering report that details the issues in the building, particularly underneath underground there. there was a condo association meeting where a town official told them, npr says, your building is okay. there's no reason to be alarmed. do you think that was fair, base odd n what they had seen?...

Is forensic expert, reggie ferrer. right now, there's more than 150 people unaccounted for in the search for the may amy condo collapse as far as the survivors. we were talking moments ago. i don't think people realize -- you see it and you know it's bad. when you said there's 13 floors worth of concrete and materials that has to be more or less dug out, that's a lot for these rescue crews to get to and that could take a very long time. >> yeah. good morning, and it's a pleasure to be here with you this morning and it's a sad situation here in south florida where the building collapsed. but ye...

He saw the cracks underground near the pool area there. he saw them. he noted them and he did not necessarily think they were cause for immediate alarm. he also looked that the 2018 engineering report that went into much greater detail about that. and he said, you know, that, they put in more comprehensive view the problems facing the building and the people in the building saw that and knew that they had some work to do to bring it up to code and to make it safe but there was nothing even in that 2018 report that indicated it had to be done at that second or that they were imminent risk of th...

156 people still unaccounted for. their families desperate for word. the tragedy touching so many. the makeshift memorial with photos of some of the missing growing near the site of the building collapse. and tonight the troubling revelations from an engineering report from 2018, finding major structural damage to the concrete below the pool deck as well as cracked columns in the parking garage. abc's victor oquendo leads us off in surfside, florida. >> reporter: tonight, the death toll rising in the devastating condo collapses in surfside, florida. moments ago, officials with that grim announ...

This for 100 hours or more. but as the hours crawl by, the chance of finding more survivors obviously continues to drop. that's what the family members are hoping will not happen. they are hoping for some kind of miracle. young people, old people, all of them were caught up in this horrific building collapse. only now are we learning of an engineering report back in 2018 that suggested there were cracks in the concrete of this building and perhaps problems with some of the structural steel that needed to be remediated. the building's board of directors apparently authorized that remediation to...