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The where abouts of two people still unknown. kayly in miami near the bridge where it collapsed. kayly, some people knew there were potential problems with this new bridge >> reporter: that's right. the lead engineering knew at least two days before the bridge collapsed there was a problem. on tuesday he made a phone call to the floor department of transportation employee to tell him about a crack that they had detected in the portion. listen to excerpt from the voice mail left on a land line and what he detailed. >> calling to share with you some information about the fau pedestrian bridge an...

Someone knew that pedestrian bridge in miami had a potential problem and did not think it was dangerous are. someone who designed the bridge called the department of florida transportation tuesday saying that the new bridge had cracks in it. he left a voice mail that nobody apparently heard until after this bridge collapsed. here's part of the voice mail. >> i was calling to share with you some information about the fiu pedestrian bridge and some crack i cracking observed on the north end of the span, the pylon end of the span that we moved this weekend. so, we have taken a look at it, and obv...

That the lead engineer in the bridge's design firm left a voice mail for them on tuesday with this warning -- >> i was calling to share with you some information about the fiu pedestrian bridge and some cracking that has been observed on the north end of the span, the pylon end of that span we moved this weekend. so we've taken a look at it and obviously some repairs or whatever will have to be done. but from a safety perspective, we don't see that there is any issue there. >> the bridge which was still under construction fell two days later, killing at least six people. officials say they did...

Vehicle, more information of course is gathered about what remains are inside. the priority here has been for the last day or so more to respectfully remove the remains in the vehicles crushed beneath that bridge. we do expect to learn more in the coming hours from officials on the scene here. but these new pictures we are getting of those two flattened vehicles come in addition to new information we're learning about concerns that the bridge's lead engineer had in the days before the collapse. just two days before the bridge collapsed, the engineer called an employee at the florida department...

For the company that designed the bridge at florida international university was aware, at least two days before that collapse of cracks in the newly installed portion of the bridge. the florida department of transportation releasing a voice mail that that engineer left on one of their employee's lan lines on tuesday, two days before the collapse, but that voice mail not heard until today. the state employee had been out of the office. listen to what the engineer details. >> hey, tom, this is the bridge engineer. i was calling to share with you some information about the fau pedestrian bridge ...