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Development in the surfside condo collapse, 22 are dead and 126 are still missing. as the state prepares for hurricane elsa to make landfall next week, a possible huge disruption to these search efforts. demands for answers are growing. this morning, one of the residents who survived the collapse, has now filed a lawsuit against the property, the second lawsuit made public since the collapse. he's claiming the condo association knew the building was deteriorating. joining me right now is the attorney representing that resident, robert mickey. thank you for being here. >> my pleasure. >> your c...

Frustration or disputes over the repairs that needed to happen and the assessments, very expensive seesments that were going on, all the condominium owners. what do you make of that? >> the homeowners association generally are made up of individuals who not necessarily have knowledge of engineering or construction. it leads to frustration or politics, if you will, within the current homeowners association as to where the money should be spent and how it should be spent on the repairs, the maintenance, the waterproofing of these building s. this is something that i believe is a new day that we'...

The idea of the people who had their finger in this, you got to help us understand what that means as i appoint of clarification. we had a forensic exappropert w looks at collapses, as a man who knows the area and suggested, without proof of this particular building, and that matter, that sometimes boards in this area would pick people because of their rates and not their expertise, and that that's something that has to be looked at with who does the inspections and who oversees that. does that resonate with you? >> you know, it does, but not in this case, because this guy's report was bad. th...

This is dangerous and he calls their attention to it, they don't need to get into alarmist language. at least, i don't do that. i've seen many concrete damages where i do use that same language. but if it comes to the point where it is life-threatening, that's up to the engineer's judgment to use that strong language. either way, if the engineer said that these -- this is a dangerous situation, they should have taken him at his word. to me that's it. i've been in many situations where i use that language and the boards for whatever reason, they want to kick the can down the road, we can't affo...

Showed spalling in the concrete, cracks in the concrete, water on the ground there. you know about the 2018 report that was done by the engineer. does any of that raise red flags for you? >> [ audio difficulty ]. you know, while some of those things -- i've seen things like that in lots of buildings. the bottom line is you have this particular building, and a lot of buildings, you have the building tower and then the first floor and the basement stick out further than the tower in the plan, and that's where you have planters and driveways and stuff like that. so you have waterproofing on those...