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Construction site early on the day of the murder because of the severe rainstorm. she said darrell stayed behind to meet with a contractor named curtis pope. >> curtis pope was a pool contractor. darrell was basically mentoring curtis into the construction business. he stayed approximately 20, 25 minutes. he left darrell, darrell said he was going to wait out the rain, and let the traffic die down before he headed home. >> darrell's wife told police, curtis pope could not be the killer. >> curtis pope had done some repair work on our pool. i said, please don't spend your time looking at curtis...

>> reporter: all this, as troubling new reports emerge. "the miami herald" publishing photos from a pool contractor, showing exposed rebar in the crumbling concrete at the champlain towers south, just 36 hours before the catastrophic chance. that contractor telling the paper he was struck by the lack of maintenance in the lower level. and abc news confirming a letter was sent to residents in april, warning that the damage had gotten significantly worse, that "concrete deterioration is accelerating" and "would begin to multiply exponentially," after a 2018 engineering report revealed the need f...

Thank you so much for being with us. i want to start, i know you looked at the 2018 report, but since you reviewed that we have seen the pictures in the miami herald of a pool contractor who went under the building, saw many of the things described in the report but maybe even a little bit worse. what do you make of those photos? >> i did not see the photos that were shared in the miami herald, i wouldn't be able to tell you much about them. but the comments in that report, and i see a lot of people commenting, a major structural damage in the report. we have to be cautious with statements lik...

Florida. cnn has also learned that residents were facing steep repair costs. $15 million worth following a tw 2018 report which warned how leaking water was leading to deteriorating concrete. and just two days before the collapse, a pool contractor spotted what appears to be serious signs of damage in the garage sharing these photos with the miami herald. and joining me now is sarah bl bl blaskey, tell me what the contractor told you, what was there? >> the contractor said aboveground everything looked okay, but once you went to the basement, he started noticing things that didn't look right t...

Worse since a 2018 inspection. and a pool contractor taking photos just two days earlier. what he says he found before the collapse. growing concerns about the covid delta variant. health officials in los angeles county strongly urging everyone to wear masks at all public indoor places, whether vaccinated or not. nearly 100 covid cases linked to a summer camp in illinois. a hospital in texas tracking the delta variant, reporting more cases involving children under 12. violent crime surging across the u.s. homicides up nearly 20% over last year. the oakland police chief warning violence in ...