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Chapter in that, steve. there's apparently another solar company in the news today? is. >> reporter: right. yes, this is the house committee on energy and commerce pushing ahead with their probe of abound solar, a company based in colorado. it's another company that went out of business after getting a large loan guarantee from the department of energy. the committee wants to foe what doe knew about problems with the solar panel maker. in a letter to energy secretary stephen chu, committee chairman fred upton says, quote: just months before doe closed abound's $400 million loan guarantee, abou...

Blase, but to complicate this, this is a national special security event, so the lead agency in charge behind the scenes is the united states secret service. so you put them in charge of doing the overall planning, but then with the hurricane coming, obviously fema will become the lead in doing the coordination with state and local officials, but i would say that all the models i've seen of this thing, it could be a category 1, which means 80 mile-an-hour winds, a lot of rain, maybe a little bit of storm surge, but the engineering reports on the convention center, all of those look good. this ...

To the bottom of it. >> reporter: records show a surfside building official had reviewed the 2018 report detailing major structural damage yet told residents it appears the building is in very good shape. the records made public show no sense of urgency to launch repairs as the homeowners' association took three years to review inspections, hire engineers, and begin assessments to start work. an attorney for the condo board cautions patience. >> there is other buildings out there with engineering reports as they near their 40-year certification that reveal more drastic spalling and pitting, de...

We structural engineers will figure out what happened and we'll get to the bottom of it. >> reporter: records show a surfside building official had reviewed the 2018 report detailing major structural damage. yet, told residents that it appears the building is in very good shape. the records made public show no sense of urgency to launch repairs as the homeowners association took three years to review inspections, hire engineers, and begin assessments to start work. an attorney for the condo board cautions patience. >> there is other buildings out there with engineering reports as they near the...