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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...

streets but then tasted freedom. you'll experience all of that in the hour ahead from cnn international who were there when it happened right from the start. january, 2011, the first rumblings of an uprising in cai cairo. crowds begin to gather in the city central square. a revolution has begun. >> egypt's dictator for 30 years, and the growing crowd of protesters want him out. but mubar digs in and the once peaceful protest turned violent. >> this is an unmistakable show of military force. fighter jets flying low over cairo's square, liberation square, which has been a symbol of def...

>> yes. and the distance off shore. the chilean earthquake was somewhat out to sea. a very, very large area involved. 300 miles long, probably 100 miles across. and, as a result of the very large heaving motion the frequency very different from haiti. the very low frequency shaking resulted in damage hundreds of miles away in santiago. but it is quite a remarkable fact that 500 times more energy has resulted in a death toll that is under four figures. and the population exposed to the shaking is probably twice as much as of that in haiti. >> that becomes an engineering story, doesn't it? this ...