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About that, but if somebody says the building might fall down, i think i care about that more than the fees. these pictures of the underground garage near the pool, the report of this guy seeing water, we haven't seen that seconded by anybody. but the types of spalling or cracks that you've seen, does any of this really raise your eyebrows, or is this what we're used to seeing and it just continues to be a mystery until you can get deeper down below the wreckage? >> in my opinion, the engineer who performed the 2018 investigation, he did a very good job in expressing that the building was in p...

Certification that reveal more drastic spalling and pitting, delapidation, rebar corrosion. we need to figure out what were all the factors that went into making this building fall, and we need to figure out exactly what happened. there's time to do that. right now, my board, we've been focusing -- the board of directors is focusing -- we still have an active rescue mission going on. the board hasn't lost hope that some of these people might be found. we have lots of years to dig into what happened and we're going to. the board is already in the process of hiring an engineer to also try to fig...

Different spot. but there is one sentence in this article which makes you wonder. the question is was that more widespread across that whole level? if it had been, how much of a concern would that be to you? >> yeah. well, again, it was. we saw evidence of spalling throughout the parking garage. again, it's well documented that, at this point, we recognize there was spalling. to the extent that we saw below the south end of that pool structure. maybe, not to that extent. but again, we did see evidence of that in that 2018 report. as kobi said, this is something that occurs over many, many year...

Draining of water, so water was ponding. it would have to evaporate into the air. let me go ahead and read you a portion of this report, because it really is going to give you an idea of what we're talking about here. the waterproofing below the pool deck and entrance drive as well as all of the planter waterproofing is beyond its useful life and therefore must all be completely removed and replaced. the failed waterproofing is causing major structural damage to the concrete structural slab below these areas and here's the key. failure to replace the waterproofing in the near future will cause...

Problem at the sister building, because it's the same design, same developer, and all the fingerprints are there. a third building, which is also called champlaign and i understand that one was built sometime later. it has a different design, and -- but we'll be looking at that too. >> let's bring in tom foreman. what have you learned? >> well, everyone's focused right now on this 2018 report about this building, which looked at things like major structural damage and abundant cracking and spalling in humid, salty environments this often can happen to concrete in particular. some people call i...