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Expertise. let's talk about this letter from april talking about the concrete deterioration accelerating, damage to the garage getting significantly worse in the to18 report which described major structural damage. when you look at all of this in totality is there anything that stands out to you? >> number one, thank you very much for having me here tonight. there is something that is quite interesting. and even though i was not involved in the design of this building and i was not involved in any of the construction, this building is rather young. and when you look at the report what stands o...

>> look, this building is not old. this building is young. i was in high school when this building was being built. what's interesting here is when we -- when we design buildings, we design everything slope to drains so the water runs up. especially, here. where the water has salt in it. has salinity. we try to get the water away, and drained away from the structure. from the steel. as fast as possible. but like the engineer said, if this really was a waterproofing issue. where the water, continuously, was able to percolate into the concrete and into the steel. then, it's like a cancer. it gro...

>> look, this building is not old. this building is young. i was in high school when this building was being built. what's interesting here is when we design buildings we design everything slope to drains. so the water runs out. especially here. the aware has salt in it, salinity. we try to get the water away and drained away from the structure, from the steel as fast as possible. but like the engineer said. if this really was a waterproofing issue where the water continuously was able to percolate into the concrete and into the steel, then it's like a cancer. it grows and keeps on growing and...