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Precipitate the collapse. what you want to do is try to find the trigger. >> if you can hear me, allyn, you've obviously seen the pictures in the "miami herald" from a pool contractor that showed cracks in the concrete, water on the ground there. you know about the 2018 report that was done by the engineer. does any of that raise red flags for you? >> you know, while some of those things -- i've seen things like that in lots of buildings. the bottom line is you have this particular building, and a lot of buildings, you have the building tower and then the first floor and the basement stick out...

Things like a bomb explosion -- [ awed audio difficulty ] things like that, a trigger kind of event. foundations moving around more than a certain amount. all those things are trigger events. sometimes buildings talk to you if you can listen to them, so what happens is it's possible that slabs in the building were deflecting for long periods of time. that means spinning downward and nobody knew anything about it or didn't understand it. all those things can eventually lead to a problem. there are other issues that participated in the collapse. what you want to do is try to find the trigger. >>...

Happened. we would have had a worse constitutional crisis than we did. >> that's actually the perfect word to describe it. hooey. okay. so, listen, i want to turn to the breaking news. i want to get right to the latest on that condo collapse and "the miami herald's" reporting on what a contractor says he saw in the pool-equipment room a day and a half before that collapse. so joining me now is miami herald reporter, erin. i really appreciate it. this is really important stuff we are talking about because you spoke to a pool contractor who took those photos in the garage area just 36 hours befo...

Report that some people are making it out to be, but certainly from 2018 to now conditions could have occurred that exasperated to put it in dire straits. >> that's the thing. in 2018, it was bad, they said it needed repairs, and the idea that it got worse from 2018 to 2021, that's three years that things get that much worse and that warning went out in april. other reporting indicates a lot of water. we have the miami herald report where they spoke to a pool contractor who looked underground, saw a lot of standing water. "the washington post" reports it has talked to people in the building, a...

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