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Think the whole community, the whole state is doing it, especially in south florida. other parts of the state don't even have 40-year recertifications. we did that a lot of that after hurricane andrew, which i recall very well, increased our building code, we were much more exacting in the requirements. the question is, are we making sure the requirements are in fact enacted, do we need new requirements? i think all that is going to happen, but we're not going to just sort of rush into something. we want to do it in an informed thoughtful way. >> right. before i let you go, i want to ask but t...

Construction architecture. it's their disciplines that are going to determine what needs to happen with buildings. i know as we look at what happened to this site, i'm personally allowing the engineers and the experts to explain to me exactly how this happened, and what if anything we need to do to remediate it and make sure it never happens again. listen, it's worth noting that while people are talking about the 40-year recertification process, this disaster of this type has never happened before. so it might not be the process. it might be something that's unique to this site and something t...

Signs? what were the causes? what could have been avoided? there's so much to this investigation. not only engineering, construction, leadership. we have so many things to learn from this. and, of course, in miami-dade county i initiated already a very clear review of all buildings and recertification process. obviously when we're talking about people's lives nothing can be spared. our building department, the county not the city's is very, very thorough and we'll continue our efforts. >> biden is coming to visit tomorrow. do you have any sense of what he'll see here or who he'll be meeting wi...

Obvious reasons. >> and it is early. but we don't know. it is early, we have some evidence and some clues but it will be sometime before we know for certain. i do want to ask you this because it is part of the coastline, beaten by very powerful storms over the course of several years. you've got rising sea levels which speaks to the rising water table in there as well. and you also have some older buildings, right? from your vantage point, at there point, are you concerned that there is any broader problem that the community has to assess and deal with? >> well, listen, until i have evidence t...

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...