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Afterwards. because now you have a concrete wall that's very heavy and very dangerous if it would collapse. all the wood beams inside of it, the cross-wood beams supporting it are all gone. so with all the water and all the loss of that structure that's holding things together, they're tied together with rafters going across, or as that collapses, you only have the steel that's left. so there's nothing, nothing on the sides supporting that concrete wall, and you mentioned rebar. i don't know how much rebar is in the cinder blocks, but there's no real -- there's nothing for that wall to lean in...

Running out of ballast is the end of the ride in terms of his ability to control his altitude. each time it made things a little better just learning from the previous flight. >> i started using a pilot's parachute, which is nice and comfortable. we had more balloons, more ballast, we got more security and safety. better communication between the ground crew. >> july 5, 2008. kent couch attempts to fly from bend, oregon, to boise, idaho, and break his record of 193 miles traveled in a cluster balloon. >> on launch day, we had to be up at 3:30 in the morning. >> it's usually about 50 to 70 volu...

Pops a couple balloons to come back down. running out of ballast is the end of the ride in terms of his ability to control his altitude. each time it made things a little better just learning from the previous flight. >> i started using a pilot's parachute, which is nice and comfortable. we had more balloons, more ballast, we got more security and safety. better communication between the ground crew. >> july 5, 2008. kent couch attempts to fly from bend, oregon, to boise, idaho, and break his record of 193 miles traveled in a cluster balloon. >> on launch day, we had to be up at 3:30 in the mo...

Ability to control his altitude. each time it made things a little better just learning from previous flights. >> i started using a pilot's parachute, which is nice and comfortable. we had more balloons, more ballast, we got more security and safety. better communication between the ground crew. >> july 5, 2008. kent couch attempts to fly from bend, oregon, to boise, idaho, and break his record of 193 miles traveled in a cluster balloon. >> on launch day, we had to be up at 3:30 in the morning. >> it's usually about 50 to 70 volunteers that make this thing work. we'd normally have four or six ...

Couldn't they have just done that from the start? >> well, the answer is i.t. procurement is a disaster in the federal government. these guys came in, they were sort of authorized by the white house to come at the last minute. they found engineers working for the contractors who wanted to make this thing work, who were willing to do what it needed to be done, but they were working at contracting firms that didn't want to take any responsibility for the job they had before them. one of the engineers that steve brill talked to said he still doesn't know. this is a guy who came in, helped fix the...