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About the report, about whether it was bad or wasn't bad. who knew this building? a structural engineer who worked on the building is going to join us. we first brought him in on night one. now we know more. there are more documents out. there are more different pieces of context. a bit of a paper trail. things for him to build off of. what does he think it's starting to shape up as? what does he need to know? next. with skyrizi, 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months, after just 2 doses. skyrizi may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. before...

There was another factor. the army corps of engineer did a beach reconstruction on our plan and they hauled in thousands of pounds of sand. hundreds of trucks. usually this is done by barge because of the weight of the sand. they did it by truck. did the weight of all the trucks coming in day after day after day, did that contribute? i'm saying there is not going to be one person to say, oh, gosh. >> understood. but, look, you've put a lot of stuff together. and as you said, you're new to town. >> i'm not new to town. >> two years. >> i'm new to the role of commissioner. >> i get it. let's say...

Have to tell the municipality. if you see something that is that much of a concern and the board doesn't seem to get it, it has to be reported and i can't believe that's not the requirement now. >> i've done it before, chris. i've been in situations where i deemed that the damage -- again, it goes back to what the florida rules say, that it's the engineer that is empowered by law to be able to say these things. but in certain cases, i've seen damages that are so extensive that i have had to call the building department and tell them, look, you guys need to do something about this in very stron...

This is dangerous and he calls their attention to it, they don't need to get into alarmist language. at least, i don't do that. i've seen many concrete damages where i do use that same language. but if it comes to the point where it is life-threatening, that's up to the engineer's judgment to use that strong language. either way, if the engineer said that these -- this is a dangerous situation, they should have taken him at his word. to me that's it. i've been in many situations where i use that language and the boards for whatever reason, they want to kick the can down the road, we can't affo...

What does that mean? in the time between the 2018 report and that letter, the cost ballooned nearly 70%. why? well, the letter blames rising construction costs. the costs for all sectors of construction in the area only rose about 12.9%. that's a lot, to go to 12% or 13%, but why did the problems get that much more expensive in three years? let's try to get some perspective on that. and how do we understand the language in these reports? someone who writes them, someone who studies them, someone who does the investigating. a structural engineer familiar with the building that fell, greg batist...