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Related to all of these goings on. >> i told brian, i said, this is the lord's doing. i am going to trinity church. he said, look, i'm coming with you. and together, we grabbed each others' hand and we just started to run. surprising enough, not even one piece of confetti or broken glass touched us. the next thing i know, we bumped into a priest. >> that's where stanley broke down and he looked at me and he said this, man saved my life. and i said, to stanley and maybe you saved my life, too. he said, you know, i think that tower could go down. i said, there is no way. i said, that's steel. th...

Related to all of these goings on. >> i told brian, i said, this is the lord's doing. i am going to trinity church. he said, look, i'm coming with you. and together, we grabbed each others' hand and we just started to run. surprising enough, not even one piece of confetti or broken glass touched us. the next thing i know, we bumped into a priest. >> that's where stanley broke down and he looked at me and he said this, man saved my life. and i said, to stanley and maybe you saved my life, too. he said, you know, i think that tower could go down. i said, there is no way. i said, that's steel. th...

Is the lord's doing. i said i'm going to trinity church. he said look, i'm coming with you. and together we grab each other's hand and we started to run. surprising enough. not even one piece of confetti or broken glass touched us. and the next thing i know we bumped into a priest. >> that's where stanley broke down and he looked at me and he said this man saved my life. and i said to stanley, i think maybe you saved my life, too. he said, you know, i think that tower could go down. and i said there is no way. i said that's steel. that's a steel structure. i didn't finish the sentence -- >> we...

>> a pancake effect. almost symmetrical in vertical causing the structure to come straight down instead of collapsing sideways or in any other trajectory meaning whatever caused it, which is unknown at this point, would have caused this structure to have a clean veticcal collapse of those towers. >> reporter: while engineers continue to speculate from afar in reality, the answer lies like the victims trapped under rubble. the 40-year-old structure was due for massive repairs. an alarming 2018 structure report warned of cracking columns in several instances of deteriorating rebar especially on ...

Effort and that these families should keep hope. >> search and rescue. thank you very much, boris, i appreciate that. engineers are trying to figure out exactly what caused the surfside condo to collapse. it may take months to get the answer. but evidence of structural damage already piling up. here is cnn's drew griffin. >> reporter: as new evidence emerges of past inspections, cracks, and potential danger, this short surveillance camera video itself remains the best clue so far as to how and why the champlain tower south fell in what a forensic engineer calls a clean collapse. >> there was...