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Recent recertifications or pending recertification and so far, really, we ve only found four balconies that needed to be shut down. nobody had to be evacuated. but north miami beach, one of the cities, did their own audit and determined that a building did need to be evacuated as a result of the findings, so i m hoping other cities will do the same, and of course we re all looking together at what can we do to strengthen these codes in future so that we get earlier notice of any potentially hazardous conditions and take all the necessary steps to protect everybody. all right, mayor danielle levine cava, thank you so much for being with us. thank you. so, the storm system that floridians are watching, taupe elsa, has already killed three people in the caribbean. let s get the latest on its track from cnn meteorologist tom sater. which way is it heading? the 2:00 p.m. advisory did give a landfall on the southern coast of cuba. about an hour ago, the sustained ....
Building. so in your view, all of these structures, right, would have regular inspections or reevaluations. but are we now seeing the consequence of perhaps inspections, reevaluations not happening frequently enough, or is it that there are not imposed restrictions on how quickly you have to address problems once they are cited by way of inspections and recertifications? all the the comments you just stated are being right now, from what i m seeing with the government officials, the inspectors, the building inspectors that i m with, they re focusing all those energies in the same fashion. because right now, we have to do all of that. we are stepping back, and we re looking and assessing each and every building. we to ashave assess each and evy building because it s a large quantity of structures we live in. hotels, apartments, condominiums. some of them have been ....
Year number 3, it s going to magnify. it s not a straight line, it goes up geometrically. i m not at all surprised. even with inflation and the cost of construction going up, it s no surprise to me. two issues. one, knowing what you know about this building, what s your reckoning about why the repairs weren t done when they were supposed to be? what was your experience working with them? this building is sort of an anomaly. i m used to doing 40-year recertifications when the building department asks for it, which in this case would have been the year 2021. these people had the foresight, for whatever reason, maybe they already saw the damages, that they chose to do it three years before ahead of time. so when they saw the damages, they should have, you know, immediately jumped on it and done something about it. but it s very complex, all the different pieces that go into play as far as banks and assessments and the people ....
Year number 3, it s going to magnify. it s not a straight line, it goes up geometrically. i m not at all surprised. even with inflation and the cost of construction going up, it s no surprise to me. two issues. one, knowing what you know about this building, what s your reckoning about why the repairs weren t done when they were supposed to be? what was your experience working with them? this building is sort of an anomaly. i m used to doing 40-year recertifications when the building department asks for it, which in this case would have been the year 2021. these people had the foresight, for whatever reason, maybe they already saw the damages, that they chose to do it three years before ahead of time. so when they saw the damages, they should have, you know, immediately jumped on it and done something about it. but it s very complex, all the ....
Into the garage and debris into the garage and there were complaints of structural damage and the letter three months ago the damage in the garage got worse. do you believe there was criminal negligence here? this is obviously a tragedy beyond tragedy and there seems to have been signs of concern. we re obviously going to be part of the investigation, the county is going to be doing everything in our power to make sure that we learn from this and we do all everything we can with the county, properties and we ll be looking, as well, as to what the county can do across cities because cities are responsible for their own building inspections and recertifications. ....