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Forensic engineers caution that answer could yet be months away. drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. >> drew, thank you so much for that. urgent work is now happening at other buildings in florida to make sure they are not at risk of collapsing. cnn's brian todd had a chance to look at the new inspections under way. >> reporter: municipalities on the florida coast are scrambling tonight to make sure the kind of collapse that happened in surfside doesn't happen to them. cnn got exclusive access to the reinspection and repairs going on at the winston towers complex in sunny isles beach. we saw worried r...

This letter indicates that. >> thank you so much for being with us this morning and helping us understand what we're now seeing revealed this morning. the surfside disaster is raising concerns about the safety of high-rise buildings up and down the coast here. cnn has an exclusive report about what's being done just a few miles from here. here's brian todd. >> municipalities on the florida coast are scrambling to make sure the kind of collapse that happened in surfside doesn't happen to them. cnn got exclusive access to the reinspection and repairs going on at the winston towers complex in sun...

Deck. the pool water drained for this repair. there are columns and concrete floors cracking, rusted rebar, and cables that support the concrete. inspector robert kondi looks at a support column that needs repair. when you look at this now, given what happened at champlain, how big of a concern is this? >> a big concern. >> why? >> it could fail, and people could die. >> reporter: these inspectors emphasize this is normal wear and tear for buildings like this, and it doesn't mean the building is in imminent danger of collapse, still, the work will have to be done to prevent a repeat of the sur...

Region are very, very worried this morning about all of this, trying to prevent this kind of calamity from happening to them. we got an exclusive "inside look" at what condominium complex in sunny isles beach florida is going through as they scramble to repair some of the damage in their complex which is about the same age as the champlain tower south. take a look at what we saw. municipalities on the florida coast are scrambling tonight to make sure the calamity that happened in surfside doesn't happen to them. cnn got exclusive access to the inspection going on at the winston towers comple...

Similar to the champlain towers complex. >> similar design. >> reporter: the pool water drained for this repair. there are columns and concrete floors cracking. rusted rebar and cables that support the concrete. inspector robert condi looks at a support column that needs repair. when you look at this now, given what happened at champlain, how big a concern is this. >> a big concern. >> why? >> because it could fail, and people could die. >> reporter: these inspectors emphasize this is normal wear and tear for buildings like this, and it doesn't mean the building is in imminent danger of collap...