major structural damage. i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. that was the warning three years ago by an engineer brought in to analyze the florida complex where 159 people are still unaccounted for. cnn has learned that the structural field service report from 2018 points out evidence of flooding, cracking, and corrosion. this report didn't give any indication that the building would collapse and an attorney for the champlain towers condo association told cnn they weren't privy to any information that would have foreshadowed thursday's disaster. but here's what part of the report by frank moore bito

revealed as outlined by "the new york times." at the ground level of the complex, vehicles can drive in next to a pool deck where residents would lounge in the sun. the report's author said in 2018 said that the waterproofing below the pool deck and entrance drive was failing, quote, causing major structural damage to the concrete structural slab below these areas. the report added that, quote, failure to replace the waterproofing in the near future will cause the extent of the concrete deterioration to spandex know nen shlly. the problem, he said, that the waterproofing was laid flat, not sloped in a way that would allow water to run off, an issue he called a major error in the original design. the replacement would be extremely expensive, he warned, and cause a major disturbance to the residents. right now, search and rescue efforts continue as at least four people are dead, dozens are believed to be buried under the rubble. let's get the very latest from cnn reporter rosa flores, who is at the scene, just north of

miami beach. rosa, what's going right now? >> well, michael, search crews are actively going through the rubble. they're going both underneath, which involves a shoring of that building, to make it safe for those firefighters to find signs of life and follow those signs of life. they're using equipment like sonar, dogs, and also cameras that they can wiggle through cameras in holes that they find, to try to find voids, spaces where people might be waiting to be rescued. we're also learning that they're going through the rubble and delayering. it's a process that called delayering and it involves peeling portions of that concrete to try to find individuals there alive. there have been so many complications, michael, out here in the field, for these individuals risking their lives to try to find others. there's been a fire that is so deep in this structure that fire officials say they can't get to

it. they don't even know what's smoldering. they don't even know the dangers that they're being exposed to, to some extent. of course, they've got equipment, monitors that they can identify some of the fuels and chemicals, but they don't know what's smoldering. they can't get to it because it's so deep. all they're doing is adding water, which adds another complication, because it adds weight to the structure. there's been a lot of rain and heavy winds, because if you look at this partially collapsed structure, you can see, there's still dangling concrete and people's belongings dangling from some of these floors. michael, it's been a very complicated search. it has been methodical and it has not stopped as men and women, brave men and women here on the ground try to save lives. michael? >> rosa, i just shared the information of this engineer's warning three years ago, drawing attention to the pool deck, and the parking garage below. and i'm wondering how these new

we've revelations might impact the search that you've just described. it seems to me that this would be important information to those rescue workers. >> you know, and that is the question that i'm hoping to ask here shortly. we're expecting to have a briefing soon, but that's exactly what i would thinking about. because some of the images, some of the video that has been released by first responders involves video of them searching in that parking garage. so when you read in this report that there is major structural damage, that portions of the slab had deterioration, there's portions of that report that say that it included instances of exposed and deteriorating rebar. michael, when you read the description of this and it shows that some of the actual slab was not slanted, that some of the water was ponding and would have to wait for evaporation, for

that water to run off, it really raises major questions. and it really -- and i'm curious how this complicates the search for them, because those are the exact same areas where some of these firefighter have said. and i'm wondering if now the revelation of this report will -- it definitely complicates the situation, but i'm wondering how this will impact -- have they made decisions since the revelation of this report that will change how they're approaching this search and rescue. i don't know. but i'm hoping to ask. michael? >> rosa, thank. we look forward and hope you get the opportunity to pose that. and of course, we're going to carry it live. thank you for that report. so one of the biggest questions that remains is how on earth did this happen? as i mentioned at the outset, an engineer's warning from 2018 has just come to light where he voiced concern over issues of major structural damage to the

concrete slab below the pool deck, and abundant cracking and crumbling of the column beams and walls of the parking garage under the 13-story building. i'm joined thousnow by an internationally recognized engineer. his designs include the georgia dome in atlanta, the javits center, and others. he's the co-author of "why buildings fall down: how structures fail." mr. levy, please react to this new information that's come to light, that there was an engineer's warning through years a ago. >> the first thing that strikes me is the time delay. that's a long time to react to something like this. the second thing is, you have to understand that the pool area is outside. it's not under the building. but the slab is continuous under

the building. if there's leakage that took place, and it's very likely it did take place, and structuring damage to the building itself, that could have been the proximate cause of the collapse. >> is it compatible, this new information, does it make sense to someone with your experience and trained eye that this might be an explanation for what we're all seeing in that film footage? >> when i look at the film footage, the fist thing that struck me is that the center portion is first. and the center portion is closest to pool area. i would guess that it's where the initial collapse occurred.

>> i also raised with rosa flores, our reporter on the scene, concern over how this might impact the rescue that's still underway, because you would think that this could point to an area of vulnerability for those folks who are on the first line and still hopingly searching for folks who might be alive. >> i don't think it affects the search and rescue as much as it affects the portion of the building that's still standing. i would be very concerned about that section. >> mr. levy, "the times" is also reporting today that nearly identity companion property, champlain towers north, was built the same year, a few hundred yards up the beach and apparently relying on some of the same specs. that's all i know about that

subject, but if that's true, it would seem that that might be an area for concern. >> of course. that building needs to have very clear that it would cause that particular building to collapse. one of the problems, that what is most likely happening, and it's all speculation, but what is most likely happening is you get these steel reinforcing in the concrete, begins to rust and that pops out the concrete and that eventually causes a fai failure. >> there was a report from a researcher at florida university. it came to light in a report he had published and found there was con sis tense in it.

in some locations, they detected subsistence is of a 12-story high continue minh yum building. you know the report to which i'm referring. can you help me explain to to the audience and speak to whatever significance it might hold? >> i'm somewhat familiar to that. the fact is that area of miami has been settling for quite a long time and, if i look at the number, it looks like it could have been more than a couple of inches over that period of time. especially in the 40 years since the building has been built. >> so in that scenario, it would seem it's more attributable, potentially, to the soil. the composition of the soil, this having been apparently built on wetlands. now we're learning new information. are they at odds or may it be a combination of these factors

that caused this catastrophic outcome? >> the foundation of the building, i'm not quite clear about the foundation, but i have a feeling that the foundation includes piles, piling of some sort. which means that when the piling was driven down to the stable layer, because the only stable layer you have below the building are sand and eventually a rock-like material. but all of that can be affected by water intrusion or salt-like intrusion. >> matthys lev y, sum up. what are you taking away from the information that is known at this time? >> why the delay between the time that the report was issued and the start of repair work. >> we appreciate your expertise. thank you so much for being

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unemployment benefits. factor in states who still offer their own enhanced benefits and people could be making up to $618 a week just to stay at home. those federal benefits will expire in september and 26 states have ended or planned end to them early. president biden has pushed for people to get back to work, if they can, but had this piece of advice this week for businesses struggling to hire. >> pay them more. this is an employee's bargaining chip now. what's happening? they're going to have to compete and start paying hard-working people a decent wage. >> on the other hand, you have businesses that recognize they can't succeed without happy employees, but are struggling to make the numbers work and the schedules stacked. we'd be here all day if i showed you every single story out there showing what companies are doing to sweeten the employment pot.

but here are a few examples. woodman's market, a supermarket chain with 18 stores in wisconsin and illinois told cnn they needed to hire 600 more workers to relieve their current employees and they're offering up to $1,500 hiring bonuses. a jersey mike's shop that's opening in california offered new hires for assistant manager bonuses of up to $10,000. lane's chicken fingers, a fast food chain restaurant with eight locations in texas recently boosted salaries to $50,000 a year plus bonuses to keep and attract workers and some of those workers are in their late teens and early 20s. and my next guest is the chairman and ceo of aaron's, a company that's been manufacturing outdoor power equipment like lawn mowers and snowblowers and power tools since 1933 and a business that's been in the family for five generations. well, they hired 412 employees and if those hires stayed on for 90 days, they would be eligible

for a $2,000 bonus. 38% that were hired and eligible for the bonus didn't make it long enough to receive it. so will this reckoning reshape the workforce and/or are hirings going to keep collecting dust? joining me now is dan aarons, the ceo and chair of aaron's company. dan, thank you so much for being here. what kind of jobs were you hiring for? >> well, we're hiring for all kinds of jobs, michael. assembly workers, welders, laser operators, press break operators, press operators, machinists. i mean, every position we have in our manufacturing plant is available. >> i mean, i guess what i'm wondering is, are they particularly dirty jobs, onerous jobs? >> no. i mean, we -- we're a very clean manufacturing plant. it's actually a very engaged workforce. we have a very safe environment in our workforce.

we're assemblie ing lawn mowersd snowblowers, we're laser cutting the steel and most of this would put in a tremendous amount of automation. we've put in ergonomic controls, made the work safer, we've made the work easier over the last five and ten years. so i would not consider it -- no, not a dirty job. good manufacturing jobs. >> so the president's response, you heard him whisper, just pay more. is it that simple? >> well, we have. and, you know, i look around at my peers that are in business and they have, as well. you know, in our case, today, our wages are up on second shift 48%. on our first shift of plant operations, they're up 38%. so we have raised those wages. and i wouldn't say that we came off of a very low base. we're always at the 90th to 100 president percentile around the market that we draw from for labor. so we have been pushing -- and what i would respond is saying,

we're actually competing with the government for work. i mean, as you laid out in your introduction, we're competing for that same job, and at wages that are something north of $17 an hour to stay home, with benefits, with housing help, with all kinds of support. the safety net is quite high. it's pretty easy to settle on to that safety net. >> so to what do you attribute this situation? obviously, it's not just your company. you heard the examples and the business pages are replete with others, every single day. >> right. i wish i could put my finger on one thing. i would say there are multiple factors, including the fact that demographics are changing in the united states, right? and so that's something that we're all going to deal with, not just now coming out of a pandemic, but we'll deal with this for another decade.

because we just aren't going to have the workforce that we had. but we've done a tremendous number of things to make our community better, to invest in the community, with day care services, to make all kinds of -- take all kinds of excuses away for not being able to come to work. and the thing that throws me is that we're recruiting people, but we're not able to retain people. and i would say one of the contributing factors, one of the causes, is that it's really easy to back off until the $300 or other supplemental benefits are not available. and we have to put, you know, we have to put us back to work until those things go away, i think this is going to be a challenge in the short-term. >> and final question, had you ever seen something like this in your hiring practices. this kind of a problem or obstacle before the pandemic? >> no. i mean, so we're dealing with a better than 50% turnover rate. and in one department, over 100%

turnover rate. and then we look at -- we self-examine the work and say, has something changed? is it different? is the work harder? and our answer is, not really. we actually think it's cleaner, safer, and easier. but something has changed in the dynamics where people won't even stay for a $2,000 signing bonus to collect that. so we're changing some of the things like enhancing attendance bonuses, paid routinely, weekly instead of waiting for 90 days for a bonus. but, no, in my 35-plus years, i have never seen anything like this. and typically, our turnover is around 20%. so we're dealing with 50, and in one case, 100% turnover. >> yeah, something has changed. dan ariens, thank you so much. appreciate you being here. let's see what you're saying. the pandemic definitely changed people regarding jobs.

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the justice department has georgia on its mind. it's suing the state over new election laws to limit voting access in the wake of former president donald trump's defeat. georgia governor brian kemp has maintained this law isn't partisan and is accusing the biden administration of, quote, weaponizing the u.s. department of justice to carry out their far-left agenda that undermines election integrity and empowers federal government overreach in our democracy. the doj lawsuit claims the georgia law violates section 2 of the voting rights act and it lands on georgia's doorstep, just days after senate republicans shot down the democrats' voting and election bill during a key test vote.

the federal attempt to curb some republican-led state voting laws remains on life support. here now to discuss is cnn's senior political analyst ron brownstein, the center editor at the atlantic. his most recent addresses the effort to revive the voting rights bill. it's entitled manchin and sinema, now the face the weight of history. i think i screwed that up. ron, you previously opined that there was no prospect of a federal response to a state voting restriction. is that still your opinion? >> no, unless the democrats agree to change the filibuster. the paradox -- the fundamental paradox in this debate is that in state after state, republicans are pushing through these changes, these restrictive changes in voting laws on a party line basis. most recently in arizona this

week. virtually every republican, muscling them through over unified opposition of the democrats. despite that, the position they are taking is that in effect senate republicans have a veto on whether washington responds to this partisan offensive in the states. what they are saying is that washington should not act unless ten senate republicans agree to do so. and thoo position is obviously internally incoherent when you look at what's happening in the states. now, where they are is that after this vote, this week, where 50% join in the filibuster to prevent the debate from beginning, democrats want to go back to the drawing board and relatively quickly sketch out a new slimmed down voting rights bill, based on the principles that joe manchin put out, which came fut toward the democratic position that many expected. they want to unify all the

democrats behind this bill and turn to manchin and sinema and say, look, you say there's bipartisanship. go find us ten republicans votes for this bill based on your principles and if you cannot, we need to get in a room and see if there's any way to reform or restrict the filibuster. >> it makes total sense the way you explained and it wrote it in the atlantic. i've said some similar things on radio. in other words, let's let manchin run with the ball for a wall, and if he gets a bloody knows in the process, he'll be hard-pressed to defending attempts. it explains why stacey abrams signed on to the idea of requiring a voter ci.d. true? >> true. absolutely. look, there's going to be a lot of debate about those provisions in the bill if and when the

rubber hits the road. but democrats are willing to showman chin and sinema that they will go ahead with concessions that are clearly designed to be attractive to republicans and test the proposition that manchin and sinema have offered that there will be republicans willing to do this. what they are basically saying is that the only way the federal government should act is if republicans in the senate agree to constrain what republicans in the states are doing. and that's obviously very much of a long shot and either naive or disingenuous. but i think democrats believe they have to go through this process and ultimately face that test, that gut check moment. are they willing to move forward on their own, or let this guy that allow these restrictions, which do add up to the most cumulus assault on voting rights, are they going throw them to go forward on a party line basis in red state after state?

>> so you've inspired my survey question today. what i was really asking is, will this strategy be successful, if no republicans in the end come onboard, will you see either man cchin or sinema vote to end the filibuster? what's your answer? >> i think nobody knows. i've talked to others -- and you know, i think they don't know. there is a certain amount of optimism that as the evidence accumulates, that republicans are unwilling to deal on this issue, that they might at least consider carving out what the journalist john altar has called the democracy reception for -- from the filibuster, you know, there have been exceptions from the filibuster on a lot of different issues. and one thing worth noting, the thing they care the most about at the federal level, they can already do. cutting taxes to reconciliation and support ing supreme court justices after harry reid did it

for the lower courts. so they are already operating on a majortarian basis on the things they care most about and the capacity is whether manchin and sinema will allow democrats to do so on these issues. it is worth note ing that the 1h amendment, the 15th amendment. all of the other reconstruction attempts to ensure civil rights after the civil war passed on a purely party line business. not a single democrat in congress voted for any of them. and the lincoln eras did not say that they were the allies of the former confederacy deserved a veto on whether the federal government took action to try to ensure a national floor of civil and voting rights. >> all right. well, you punted on the question. everyone else has to weigh in one way or the other. but thank you nonetheless, ron. >> thanks, michael.

i don't think i know the answer. >> checking in on your tweets and facebook comments from the world of twitter, what do we have? "michael, you are assuming that biden administration and dem party actually want to end the filibuster. it's clear that several senate dems didn't actually want the s1 voting bill. manchin was cover for them." interesting point, mike daily. i have said previously that if joe manchin didn't exist, in some circumstances, joe biden would want to invent him. because i think that manchin provides great cover for biden, who is not as prolgive, president biden, as some of torre influences in his party and he gets to lie off on, you know, manchin and sinema, i would like to give it to you aoc, but i've got manchin and sinema to deal with. it suits his interests very well, i think. reminder, go to the website, smerconish.com. now you've had the briefing, now you can vote on the survey question. now you get where i'm really going. if no republicans will support the senate democratic voting rights bill, what about manchin

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this week, pop star brooerz br brittney spears broke her publi science about the long-running conservato conservatorship. spears now 39 calling the situation abusive. she said she's been forced to take debilitating medication and forced to stay on birth control and not been informed she could seek an end to the arrangement. it has been in place since 2008 after the singer was hospitalized for a voluntary psychiatric evaluation amid

concerns about her mental health and substance abuse. a judge initially gave brittany's father, james spears, conservatorship over her person and finances. the judge also deemed spears incapable of hiring her own council and appointed the lawyer samuel d. ingham iii like those of mogul sumner redstone and casey kasem. according to reporting in "the new york times," in 2019, the last time in which full accounting was available, mr. ingham made about $373,000 for his work with miss spears, bringing his total since 2008 to $3 million. spears treatment has sparked a fan campaign to end the conservatorship known as free brittney. what are prospects? joining me now is sarah wechbts at the firm of fox roths child. how often and in what typical circumstances do you see a person her age who is ugt to

conservatorship? >> not often at all. it's such an unusual circumstance that all of us alarmed and the things she said in court make us more concerned about whether the system really served her and the lawyer has been acting in her best interests. >> she said she didn't realize that she could contest this arrangement, which tells me that either she forgot or somebody is not doing their duty in advising her as her lawyer. >> right. it's always hard to say behind closed doors, but the allegations she made in court about not knowing she can move forward are really concerning. we have rules and if she wasn't informed, then he really wasn't doing his job pursuant to the codes of conduct in california. >> okay. something else that puzzles me, but this is not my area of the law. why wasn't this a hearing where

she was seeking to end that arrangement? in other words, it seems more like it was a status call. >> it's an interesting thing that they denied file a petition. if he had any idea what she was going to say, clearly with the cases he's been involved in in the past, he would understand that they weren't there on a hearing to remove the conservatorship altogether. so, i think she either decided to say this in court without sharing the information about what she really was going to tell the judge or they hadn't had enough meetings to talk about what they were really there for and what needed to be filed in advance. and he certainly didn't give the 15-day notification to the other side that they would have had to in this case. >> what next? i mean, it seems to me that one possibility, i don't know how likely, is that her desire to end this arrangement would go uncontested. what do you see? >> i think that's a possibility. i think if the conservators know

that based on the facts and evidence that's going to be brought forward it would be terminated, it would be in everybody's best interests to say, now is the time to end this. i think there's a lot of issues of potential conflicts of interest with the money people have been arrange on both sides, and i don't know whether it's going to be uncontested, but to spend the millions of dollars it would probably take to go through a contested petition to terminate this is probably not in her best interests, unless there's a lot that we don't know. >> surely you have asked yourself, as an experienced attorney in this area, what would it take to justify this type of arrangement? have you come up with anything? >> that's so hard to speculate on. i think that we really need to see more about the evidence. what she said in court was so alarming that there better be really good facts on the other side or there's a lot of people that have not been doing things in her best interests and you

know, that may come back to not be a very comfortable situation for them to deal with in the future. >> the subject of an evaluation, is it a necessity that there be an evaluation before a court could say, we're going to end the conservatorship in this case? >> i think in this case, there will be. i think the judge will feel that they need to do their due diligence to make sure that the conservators had good reason to have this in place for so long. i think it would be so likely that the judge would just based on her testimony alone, without a serious investigation into it, determine if she really is ready for this. the last thing the court wants is her to spiral the minute she gets out of this and then the court feel the responsibility that they didn't actually do their job. >> one of the most alarming things that i've read about this case was in "the new york times" and it suggested that there was a hearing in 2014 where it came to light that britney spears believed that her ability to marry had been limited by the court and that it hadn't and

that a judge said, maybe we shouldn't tell her so. do you know what i'm making reference to? >> i do. i did read those documents. and again, very alarming, because the lawyer that works with her has a duty to inform her about what her rights are. and he sat, at least from the court records that we read, he sat in that meeting. he understood that maybe she didn't understand what her rights were, and there's the conflict there in your ethical obligations to a client, even when representing someone with diminished capacity, you need to have those conversations with them. you can't just decide that it's really not in their best interests to know their rights. >> very sad, all around. sarah wentz, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >> checking in on your tweets and facebook comments, what do we have from the world of twitter. where are the mental health professionals who agree to this physical autonomy conservatorship. we on the outside are not seeing the whole picture and therefore can only assume.

dawn, a great point. you're right, we're playing with half a deck, if even that of information. i think that's very, very important, which is why i asked sarah a moment ago. i'm sure you've wondered, you know, what could justify these limitations? you come up with anything? it seems like she couldn't. and i can't either. but there's more that we don't know. still to come, more of your best and worst tweets and facebook comments. and we'll give you the final result of the survey question at smerconish.com. ron brownstein inspired it with his great piece in the atlantic. if no republicans support the senate democratic voting rights bill, will either manchin or sinema vote to end the filibuster? go vote! welcome to allstate. ♪ ♪ you already pay for car insurance, why not take your home along for the ride?

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