the email coming to light revealing the concern that a member of the condo association raised in 2019. >>> plus, as the dangerous round the clock search goes on, we hear from one member of a family who fears they lost five loved ones. and another family who received 15 phone calls from their grandparents' landline phone after the caps. we're live in surfside, florida. >>> also, the u.s. military launching air strikes in the middle east, targeting militants backed by iran. what the pentagon is now saying. >>> feeling the heat like never before. 112 degrees in portland, oregon. it's so hot a street car cable melted. the once in a millennium heat. what's on top today. >>> we take you on the first cruise to set sail from the u.s. since the pandemic. what's different. >>> a yaba daba doo and the legal fight over this house with flintstone character statues in the yard. >>> the new sighting some are calling the hand of god. >>> good morning, everyone. we begin with new details about the condo building that collapsed in south florida and the history of complaints about safety. >> nine people

does the condo association, brad, do you believe, does the condo association bear ultimate responsibility for this disaster? who else would be accountable here? >> well, we certainly need to continue asking those questions. it's increasingly alarming things i'm hearing about the engineering firm and a number of other entities as well. we certainly feel very comfortable with what we alleged in the complaint regarding the association when we filed it, but again, i anticipate things like this tend to be multi fak to r tore, probably there are multiple culpable parties, and every one of those parties will have to be brought in to scratch the surface at righting the wrongs for all these families. >> thank you very much for joining us. brad sohn. we'll stay in close touch. >>> once again, awaiting what could be a significant news conference from top officials in surfside, florida, getting ready to provide new information. we have live coverage this hour, that's coming up. >>> we're getting audio from first responders as they arrive at the scene. we're going to hear their stunned reaction. lots

mike: what should condo associations across the country be doing in the aftermath of this collapse. >inium associations need to have a reserve study they should hire an engineer and take a look at elements every couple of years based on that they have long-term repairs and they will give them when repair should take place in the estimated cost so they can plan through this that should happen and keep up reserves to make sure that happens and this is a cautionary tale that rather than wait, don't be cheap do something sooner rather than later, another thing that you will see coming out of this is emergency plans a lot of associations out there may not have an emergency plan and i think this is a cautionary if you have a natural disaster with anything like that the you should be prepared to have a plan in place to deal with that and as best as i can tell given the circumstances the condo association is doing a good job dealing with this. mike: the first priority to see if there is innocent life that can be saved and recovering those who have lost their lives but once that get work out a

the letter now revealed from the con condo association weeks earlier and the images 36 hours before the building came down. >>> plus, the vigil on the beach overnight and the heroic workers combing through the rubble. one worker falling 25 feet. we're live in surfside. >>> the extreme heat. 67 million americans on alert. people in the northwest scrambling to book hotel rooms just for the air-conditioning. temperatures in some areas 50 degrees above average. what's ahead today. >>> growing concern about the delta variant of the coronavirus why one big city is issuing new guidance on masks. >>> gas stations running out of gas? what's behind the problem just as the july 4th travel rush begins. >>> plus, britney spears' sister now breaking her silence. >>> from the 70-year-old finally getting her turn at bat for the yankees to the jean shorts fashion trend this summer story about two nude sunbathers who lost their way, all the stories trending for your tuesday morning. >>> good tuesday morning, everyone. we begin with several developments from south florida. as victims' families learn tore

and the condo association says it cannot comment on pending litigation. meanwhile, prosecutors say they plan to ask a grand jury to investigate the collapse. andrew. >> all right, faith, thank you. >>> the sister building of the collapsed condo tower looks very different. champlain towers north was completed in 1982, it was built by the same company using same materials but has not suffered flooding or cracked walls. like the tower that collapsed. the condo association says maintenance, restoring concrete and the balconies. >> any time that we saw anything that would be alarming to us, we took care of it. the other thing is, when the buildings were built, both of them only had one sump pump, and we on our own decided to add two. >> residents of another nearby sister building have also been told they're safe by federal building experts. >>> now the other big story this morning, the extreme heat, which kills more people than any other kind of extreme weather, and that's proving true in the pacific northwest from the farms to the big cities. meanwhile, the no

the resident did settle with the condo association. that condo is gone. it is gone. today it was destroyed in the collapse. thankfully, the resident was not home at that time. so danella, your client among the very, very lucky. tell me, though, because this is all looking as if there was -- there were problems, they were serious problems. they became excruciatingly serious problems causing a near doubling in the amount of money they were going to asses people for. all this happening in the past few years. so your client's story becomes very crucial in this timeline. what damage did your client see in the unit? >> well, erin, thank you for having me first and foremost, i want to thank al the first responders, everybody that has been helping out here at the site. i was here with my wife yesterday volunteering so i want to thank all the volunteers, as well as my heart and prayers go out to the families of those affected. my -- in that case, my client's unit was getting water instrintrusion from the exterior walls. her unit sat at the east side of the building facing the

cnn reached out to the condo association for comment and that condo association said they will not commention. here you see additional photo and videos regarding leaking of water into the parking lot around august of 2018 when resident ras arasa rodriguez di shoot this video and reported problems to the building management. >> so, so, disturbing three years ago and i don't know what, if anything, was done to fix the structural damage that we're learning about every single day we're learning more and more very disturbing information. brian todd, thank you very much. chief, you see that three years ago there were these scenes of significant potential structural problems and i don't know what they did, if anything. >> yeah, i think that's one of the questions that folks will have and one of the questions that will have to be answered to see the negligence involved. is it simple civil negligence, if any, criminal negligence, if any. when you have this many people mist ev missing and dead, they need to answer those questions. >> all right. hold on one second. i want to get reaction from consult

comes to cases where damages identified like this one, how much of a responsibility does say the condo association, have to not only notify those residents, but also to pursue repairs in the interest of safety. while the h away, the homeowners association has their duty here. they've got the duty to maintain the structure of the building, the duty to be aware problems with the building and then the ultimate duty to fix those problems. so what i think happened here is the h away pushed off all of these issues for as long as they can. and that's because miami requires that all buildings that are 40 years or older, go over what we call inspection process or re certification process. so this building was right on the edge of that 40 year mark in 2018 when they got that notice of the structural damage. so i think what we're going to see is that the h away was given this $9000000.00 tab of bills for repairs and said, hey, let's just push it off until we absolutely have to until like, 2021 mark. when we hit that 40 year requirement to do the re certification, so as more and more information comes out as

and perhaps from the condo association to local governments. this is what one state senator had to say. >> it's all of our faults if we've been neglecting proper inspections, as far as building codes and recertification process doesn't include subsurface and all that. it's all of our faults from the city all the way up. >> reporter: so a lot of eyes, kendis and lindsey, on this report. they're looking for clues. it's extensive. i did a lot of reading. it's perhaps suggestive, but, again, important to note that that report from 2018, which may have been a warning, certainly did not say if these repairs were not made, a building would collapse. guys? >> certainly that report was pretty startling you read late into the night, kerry. i know you're just getting to the scene this morning. it's only 6:00 a.m. what do we know about the efforts? is the latest still these 159 people unaccounted for? >> yes. 159 people still unaccounted for. four dead. they have identified now the first of the dead as stacy weng. she was the mother of that young boy who w

the engineering firm said it had been retained this month by the condo association for the building'sassive repair project. the company says roof repairs were taking place at the time of the collapse, but concrete restoration had not yet started. prieto who no longer works for the town of surfside has not yet responded to cnn's request for comment. >> they knew in 2018 that there was a massive threat to the building, that there was damage and yet nothing was done. did they make the decision to do nothing? did the town make the decision to do nothing? someone knew, yet nothing was done. >> reporter: and, jake, we learned just a short time ago that condo owners in the building had actually approved $15 million worth of assessments for repairs on the tower back in april. payments for those repairs were actually set to start on july 1st, exactly one week after the building came crashing down. jake? >> boris sanchez in surfside, florida, thank you so much. dozens of family members are still waiting for any news, good or bad, about their loved ones. many are holding out hope and praying for

independently reached out about the report and a spokesperson for the champlain tower south condo association declined to comment. >>> in an op-ed, "the miami herald" newspaper was critical of the construction standards at the time the condo was built. they wrote when we look at the images of the destruction in surfside, we'd be fools not to wonder whether slipshod construction and look the other way enforcement of that era played a part. residents of condos across florida and beyond are watching developments here with anxiety about their own safety, ramifications of what happened in surfside likely are to be enormous. and drew griffin has more now on the investigation. >> reporter: as new evidence emerges of past inspections, cracks and potential danger, this short surveillance video remains the best clue so far as to how and why it fell in what forensic engineer calls a clean collapse. >> there was a pancake effect, so it was almost symmetric and vertical. and what that causes is the structure to come straight down instead of collapsing sideways or collapsing in any other trajectory, which

mea colleagues did a report yesterday, that it took the condo association at the champlain tower south plan for this. so they had this information, this report from the engineer, and it took another 18 months for the association to make a decision. it's worth noting that some residents had already filed a law, so there were a lot of questions remaining. there were also e-mails released that indicated the estimated cost was going to be expensive, upwards of $9 million. i can't say for certain in the context of buildings like this, this is kind of an upper middle-class community, the average price is maybe half a million. is $ million expensive? we know the association had taken out a line of credit to pursue these repairs. the roof was being repaired when this collapse happened. in addition to this report, there are a lot of other factors they are looking into whether that could have been a contributing factor. >> tell me more about the residents that filed lawsuits against the association. do you know when it happened and why? >> unfortunately i have not been following it closely. i do

the attorney for the condo association says any rush to judgment on what might've caused the collapse is unfair and premature. >> there was no warning that the building was subject to a threat to collapse. there has to be an engineering explanation that goes beyond what we ordinarily see in terms of wear and tear on a building. and we need those answers. >> here's what we know about this 12-story high-rise. it was built in 1981 and contained more than 130 residences. it has no unsafe structures, no work without permits or expired permits. the attorney for the condo association says champlain towers had just finished a 40-year certification inspection and was making fixes on the roof and also about to perform steel and concrete repairs. the catastrophic collapse surprising even seasoned engineers. >> a complete failure like this is extremely rare. there have been a few in the decades that i have been in practice. >> glenn bell says engineers will try to deduce the costs. >> the way that the pieces are broken can tell a lot to the trained eye about how the failure initiated where it mig

the wall street journal report written by the condo association president just two months ago explains the need for millions of dollars in repairs. the report warns the damage to the basement garage had gotten significantly worse since the 2018 inspection. the miami herald published photos saying the building shows cracks in the concrete, exposed rebar, and a wet floor in the pool equipment room. at least one resident is suing the condo association for negligence. >>> two members of the oakland fire department fema urban search and rescue task force are in surfside. they were asked to respond. >> we support those members in need, because we know that we have that need in oakland, both 89 and 91. the earthquake and the oakland hills fire. it is nice to be able to support other agencies, because we know they have supported us in our time of need. >> more than 80 rescuers are working at the site right now. >>> something has to be done about the violence in oakland. everyone agrees on that. there is a divide over what the solution looks like. with murders double what they were last year, a

as recently as april 2021, a letter written to residents by the president of the condo board associationairs climbing to $15 million. in the two and a half years since the building was first examined by engineer in it, she warned the original scope of work in the 2018 report has expanded the concrete deterioration is accelerating the roof situation got much worse, so extensive-roof repairs had to be incorporated the initial 2018 review put the estimated cost at around $9 million and noted evidence of major-structural damage to the concrete slab below the pool deck pictures captured what he called abundant cracking in column, beams, and walls and also, warned that failure to replace waterproofing would cause the deterioration to expand, sexponentially. he wrote, most of the concrete deterioration needs to be repaired in a timely fashion but a month later, minutes from a 2018 board meeting, in which ross prieto, then-building official for the town of surfside, states that he reviewed the engineer's report and told board members it appears the building is in very good shape but according to

so there is a sort of a relationship between the condo association and private engineers, and of coursedo the inspections and make sure that the recertification process, the punch list as they call it, is done. so i'm certain that our community and i mean our community and the city and also the county will be looking at to see whether there are sufficient bells and whistles in this process to make sure that we don't have this. of course, we don't really know yet the cause. but obviously everybody is anxious to figure it out for obvious reasons. >> and it is early. but we don't know. it is early, we have some evidence and some clues but it will be sometime before we know for certain. i do want to ask you this because it is part of the coastline, beaten by very powerful storms over the course of several years. you've got rising sea levels which speaks to the rising water table in there as well. and you also have some older buildings, right? from your vantage point, at there point, are you concerned that there is any broader problem that the community has to assess and deal with? >> well,

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-- they're suing the condo association, and i asked isn't it early for that? why now? because they want to get to the truth and they want evidence preserved and they are convinced that there's liability to be found here that this is not just an accident that there's responsibility, accountability and he said justice that he's trying to fight for for these residents. andrea? >> and i also wanted to bring back greg battista because we got an excerpt from the board of directors to the residents of the south tower unit from just a few months ago and it says in part, the concrete damage -- i need to see this again. sorry. the concrete damage observed would begin to multiply exponentially over the years and the observable damage such as in the garage has gotten significantly worse since the initial inspection. according to this excerpt, we heard this from robert lisman, a resident of the east tower. we can play that now. >> condo associations have incredible amount of power and they don't just choose the color of carpets or the gym equipment. they have -- their deci

cnn has not -- has independently reached out about the report and a spokesperson for condo association with one other reporters who broke the story. sarah, tell us about what this pool contractor was stunned by seeing on the site here. what exactly did he tell you? >> the way the contractor described the situation is when he first entered the building, it looked fine. the pool area looked fine. the lobby looked fine and he walked into the basement and saw a bunch of standing water. this is the basement garage under the pool deck. a punbunch of standing water an entered the pool equipment room where he saw cracks in the concrete. rebar, concrete and thought, wow. why haven't they maintained this building better. he took a picture of that concrete to send to his boss because he was there to do a little bit of cosmetic stuff to the pool. he thought, wow, this is going to be a bigger job. took a picture, sent it to his boss and that's the picture one of them that you're seeing here that published a couple of hours ago. >> it's really such a graphic and devastating picture, sarah. the issue

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just nine days before the collapse the condo association's engineer contacted five general contractorsn the recertification required for florida buildings 40 years old. >> now that the building has collapsed, we're going to need an engineer to try to dig into this. >> reporter: some say asking the question why will come after the agony of what few want to say out loud. >> hopeful about survivors? i'm not hopeful. >> reporter: this just released engineering report talks about failures in the concrete that allows water and salt water from the atlantic ocean to migrate into where the rebar is, that steel rebar, of course, is what holds the structure together. it's important to underscore that no one is saying that this is the reason the building collapsed. still a significant report to review now. peter, hallie? >> kerry sanders with the very latest from surfside. kerry, thank you very much. >>> we are now entering the third full day of rescue crews working around the clock, truly nonstop, to comb through the debris looking for any possible survivors. there is a separate search happening

. >> the town commissioner of surfside, florida says the condo association didn't do enough to alert residents about the problems with their building. that comes as we are hearing audio from emergency dispatchers on the neaight of the collapse. boris sanchez reports. >> we still have people standing upstairs that need to be evacuated. >> reporter: as families brace for news, new details about structural decay. in a letter first obtained by erin burnett out front, condo board president saying that the building needed $15 million in repairs telling residents in april that the concrete deterioration is accelerating, the roof situation got worse, so extensive roof repairs had to be incorporated adding that the observable damage such as in the garage is worse than the initial inspection. and that initial inspection, a 2018 survey completed by a consulting company outlining major structural damage including significant corrosion and cracking beneath the pool and entrance drive, and these photosed taken below the pool deck two days before collapse showing damaged concrete and standing water

here, the condo association has an enormous amount of power. >> sure. >> how so?ecisions about the color of the carpet or, you know, what gym equipment we choose. their decisions have life and death consequences. and some of their decisions have led to the collapse of the south tower. >> how so? >> they knew in 2018 that there was as massive threat to the building, that there was damage and yet nothing was done. did they make the decision to do nothing? someone knew, yet nothing was done. >> one of the issues is, and without assigning blame here, but just so people understand, is when there is this damage to the building that does need to be repaired, who pays? >> the owners pay. >> that would mean $100,000 or so for every tenant in the building. >> we did it. we had a special assessment. we financed it. we paid for it. we did a balcony renovation project. we fixed all the rebar, concrete. we did everything that the south tower didn't do. if we were able to do it, they should be able to do it. >> how much did it cost you, if i can ask? >> the assessment was in the

as you know, after that there was this condo association board meeting during which the surfside building manager said something to the effect it was captured in the meetings. it appears the building was in very good shape. i know it's probably too early to point fingers but who do you think should have acted on this? who is responsible when a building starts deteriorating for making sure that ka acataste doesn't happen? >> it's up to the engineering to determine the extent of deterioration. more recommends the entrance that are showing distress. it is difficult at times working in the association of this. it's a big price tag for them. it tends to move slower. i do appreciate this inspection program. doing further probes. >> stephanie, jared, thank you very much for your expertise. >> thank you. >>> we'll continue to follow the breaking news from florida throughout the hour. president biden took his infrastructure pitch to wisconsin today. progressive democrats, like our next guest were listening very closely. we'll speak to congresswoman about the path forward, next. this may look like

. >> reporter: an attorney for the condo residence association says over the past several months, the undergone what he called thorough engineering inspections in preparation for the 40-year certification. >> nothing appeared either to the engineers or to any of the residents that would suggest anything like this was imminent, nothing. >> reporter: experts say it make take several months before we know the real causes and as for the possibility of one smoking gun. >> usually, a collapse like this doesn't happen just because of one factor. usually several factors are combined and like a perfect storm. >> we've just learned a class-action lawsuit has been filed against the condo association accusing the group of failures to secure the lives. that suit seeking in excess of $5 million in damages. sites a statement from the condo association's attorney ken neth director said repair needs were identified but not completed. in response to the suit he doesn't know and engineers don't know with certainty what caused the building to come down so quote, how is it that this lawyer knows with cert

a lawyer of the condo association confirmed to cbs news a month later at a condo board meeting, theyd it appears the building is in very good shape. >> once we understand, i'm guaranteeing legislation will be taking place so this will never happen again. >> reporter: heavy machinery has been brought in to help lift some of the large pieces of rubble. they will be hauled to a warehouse for forensic evaluation. jericka? >> duncan: man p manuel bojorquez, thank you. the department of defense announced earlier this evening president biden ordered airstrikes along the iraq-syria border. the president did not respond to questions about the strikes when returning to the white house this evening. the pentagon said that the action was defensive, and targeted locations used to operate drones against american facilities and personnel in iraq. >>> lawmakers from both parties in wa washington are expressing excrement cism over a tenuous infrastructure agreement. >> reporter: the phrase infrastructure week has become a bit of a punch line in washington because it is so often talked about and so ra

wall street journal report written by the condo association president two months ago explains the needfor millions of dollars in repairs. the report warns that damage to the building's basement garage had quote, gotten significantly worse since a 2018 inspection. and the miami herald published photo saying the building shows quote, cracks in the can crete, exposed rebar and wet floor in the pool equipment room. at least one resident is suing for negligence. >>> new at 6:00, residents after condo tower built by the same company that built the one that collapsed in florida are staying put. the building is just a block away. it was built with the same materials. they even have the same name. some residents of champlain towers north have left but most have stayed. residents are confident the 40- year-old building is better maintained. they claim it does not have the same cracking issues as the south towers. >>> two members of the oakland fire department's fema are in surfside this morning. they were asked to respond as part of a specialized incident support team. >> we support those member

residents that the building appeared to be in very good shape, according to the minutes from the condo association meeting. we have reporters covering all angles ellison barber and valeri castro >> reporter: shep, the investigation into how exactly this happened will be long and methodical right now a team from the national institute of standards and technology is on their way here, and they will begin that process. these are experts who investigated things like the aftermath of 9/11 and tornado in joplin, missouri they will carefully identify and preserve any materials that may show what happened pictures from the report captured what described abun da dants cracking and failure to replace waterp waterproofing would cause problems a structural engineer said given the building stood for some 40 years, it's likely decay rather than design led to the collapse. >> if it's a design issue, usually that condition or the issue will surface within two years, five years after the original construction. doesn't mean it can't extend later, but it would lend or suggest that it's not really a design issue at t

and he only has the clothes on his back and he is also one of the first to sue the condo associationorter rudabeh shahbazi has his remarkable story. >> the loudest thunderclap i ever heard in my life. i'm a 100. >> i'm to 100. this is what steve rosenthal saw when he tried to escape his condo in the middle of the night overnight. the hallway she was going on can things just happen. just actually in the face. he heard his neighbor screaming for help as he waited for an hour to be rescued from his 7th floor balcony. the bruises on his arms. tell the story firefighters carrying him down in a cherry picker. yeah. you have certain events that happen in your life. >> you're a 9.11, you remember that forever. this is something our image uses a mini 9.11 miami style. the champlain tower was his home for 2 decades. and when it came crumbling down, so did everything he owned everything. i got nothing. his next door. neighbor's confirmed dead and 150 of his friends and neighbors missing sizes is. >> it's going to hard to find some people alive right now it would truly, truly be america. i think

then it came out that he had actually met with the condo association, and according to the minutes, had reviewed the report in 2018, and said something along the lines of you have nothing to worry about here, everything's okay. it's unclear why he said that. we don't have answers yet. but we're hoping to get more soon. >> everything that you were told by the contractor, you then put that to building engineers, what did they say was the most concerning thing? >> they said that the water was indicative of something coming down and that could potentially weaken those slabs under the part of the building that collapsed but something that was also interesting is even that beam on the south side of the building that we see photographed, that damage potentially could have contributed by itself. the building is asymmetrical so anytime anything fails, it can cause the building to twist. if that beam failed, it would have put increased pressure on other columns and slabs in the building, and if they were deteriorated that could have contributed to a collapse. >> that's interesting because people

i believe an attorney for the condo association was on with erin burnett. saying that, in preparation for that 40-year update, they had had an engineer or multiple people looking at the building. coming up with a list of things that needed but they didn't have any indication, at this stage, that any of those things may have related to this. but obviously, you said the focus is, really, on the recovery efforts right now. what have you been told about -- about -- >> family members. >> -- yeah. what have you been told? we just talked to -- to the chief there. what's the plan for the coming hours? >> so, over this period of time, you know, they've just shifted the crew here. the -- the -- that the search and rescue is continuing. i have been working since i got on the ground, and before i left washington this morning. to -- with the white house and with our state-emergency management officials here to make sure that all the requests that are made by miami-dade county and surfside are -- are able to be granted. and, you know, the white house has confirmed that w

we've, also, addressed, with the -- the -- the condo associations of the other-two buildings that wereeveloped by the same builder that did the champlain south to see if they wanted to be evacuated and relocated to other locations while we looked at the building. and make sure that it's structurally sound. the good thing is that there's only 14 families in there, at the moment, in one of these buildings. most of the apartments are, like, snowbirds. so, we are waiting to see what these families want to do. whether they want to be evacuated, or not. and in terms of the rest of the buildings in town, we definitely will be requiring a geo technical inspection and to make sure that things like this never happen, again. >> commissioner velasquez, thank you so much. again, i know you -- it's been a long day. it's been a long -- long, you know, couple of hours, couple of days for you. we appreciate you joining us much thanks so much. best of luck to you. >> thank you. you are welcome. thank you, bye-bye. >> 150 people still unaccounted for in surfside, florida, including judy spiegel. her daug

i think the irony here is that they submitted this -- the condo association sent this to the city of surfside, and the building -- the person who was heading building and permitting said to them, according to meeting minutes, that the building was fine. and then three years later when they're coming up to this 40-year assessment, all of a sudden this has exploded to $16 million worth of work. and this was a communication that the condo association was having with its owners two months ago. >> they saw it getting worse over the last three years, which is interesting. and you bring up the money, and i think this is worth addressing here. this was a lot of money that people in this condo building were going to have to pay, and the assessment, one can understand, maybe the reluctance to dive in unless they were told so clearly that this is critical. you have to do this now. >> so, i have been interviewing families over the course of the last week, and what they tell me about their missing loved ones, a lot of them, is that their missing loved ones had a lot of questions of how these fund

the attorney for the condo association says this is not indicative of a structural problem and that the complex under went the 40-year certification with improvements ongoing. >> there's nothing in the inspection or in the report that would have led anyone to believe that the building was in such imminent danger. >> reporter: engineers say it's almost impossible that the rest of the building could remain standing but even if it was found to be structurally sound the emotional and traumatic impact o the community is a whole other matter lester >> thank you. >>> let's turn now t the case that forced a racial reckoning in america former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison today for the murder of george floyd. gabe gutierrez is there and has late details. >> reporter: outside the courthouse they anxiously crowded around a loudspeaker >> the court commits you to the custody of the commissioner of corrections for a period of 270 months >> reporter: as the judge sentenced former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin to 22 1/2 years in prison for the

. >> i believe an attorney for the condo association was on with erin burnett saying in preparation for that 40-year update, they had had an engineer or multiple people looking at the building, coming up with a list of things they needed but didn't have any indication at this stage that. >> no, sir, things may have related to this, but obviously, as you said, the focus is really on the recovery efforts right now. what have you been told about -- >> right, and family zblebz what have you been told? we talked to the chief there. what's the plan for the coming hours? >> so over this period of time, they just shifted the crew here, the search and rescue is continuing. i've been working since i got on the ground and before i left washington this morning with the white house and with our state emergency management officials here to make sure that all the requests that are made by miami-dade county and surfside are able to be granted. the white house has confirmed that whatever is asked for is going to be granted in terms of the longer-term housing assistance, debris removal, the expenses that

so it gives you a sense what have we're hearing from some of the residents they sensed their condo association aware the building was not in great shape and add to that exclusive reporting from the "miami herald" and exclusive photographs they obtained that show extensive standing water and corrosion just two days before the building came down, nbc news has not spoken to the contractor who took these photos but this has been a large part of the conversation here in surfside in the last couple of hours and adding to the frustration and pain as people learn more about what happened that night. take a listen to audio we've obtained of first responders from that night of the collapse. >> 76, i see many people on the balconies, there's -- the building is gone. there are no elevators. it almost resembles the trade center. some people are evacuating. say they sound like they heard a bomb. >> reporter: what you've heard right there matches the testimony we're hearing from survivors, some of whom filed lawsuits, class action lawsuits that target the same condo association and other entities they believ

a lawyer for the condo association confirmed to cbs news a month later at a condo board meeting, a cityuilding official told residents it appears the building is in very good shape. >> once we understand, i am guaranteeing you legislation will be taking place so this will never happen again. >> reporter: having machinery has also been brought in to help lift some of those large pieces of rubble. they will be hauled to a warehouse for forensic evaluation. jericka? >> manuel bojorquez in surfside, florida. thank you. >>> lawmakers from both parties in washington are expressing skepticism over a tenuous infrastructure agreement, wondering if it will even make it to the president's desk. christina ruffini joins us from the white house with what has been an interesting week. >> reporter: yeah, good evening, jericka. the phrase infrastructure week has become a bit of a punch line in washington because it's so often talked about and so rarely gets done. now after finally paving the way towards a bipartisan deal, it appears that pavement is starting to crack. >> the president is going to honor

so let's bring in an attorney for the condo association. what do they know?ar inspection, recertification, what were the issues, what were the concerns, what does the attorney make of the speculation and the questions that were out there. there was a lawsuit filed yesterday. we'll ask the questions and get the answers, next. new budweiser summer patriotic cans are here to give you a red, white, and bud upgrade. collect all three limited-edition designs. new budweiser summer patriotic cans. in-stores now. when heartburn takes you by surprise. fight back fast, with new tums naturals. summer patriotic cans. free from artificial flavors and dyes. is your family ready for an emergency? you can prepare by mapping out two ways to escape your home, creating a supply kit, and including your whole family in practice drills. for help creating an emergency plan, visit safetyactioncenter.pge.com a little preparation will make you and your family safer in an emergency. a week's worth of food and water, radio, flashlight, batteries and first aid kit are a good start to lear

that the building appeared to be in very good shape that's according to the minutes from the condo association meeting. we have reporters covering all angles nbc's allison barber on the anguish of the families who are waiting for any word of their loved ones first to cnbc's valerie castro with the investigation valerie. >> reporter: shep, the investigation into how exactly this happened will be long and methodical right now a team from the national institute of standards and technology is op their way here, and they will begin that process. these are the experts who investigated things like the aftermath of 9/11 and the tornado in joplin, missouri. they will carefully identify and preserve any materials that could explain what happened. many issues were raised back in 2018 when the building was assessed by an engineer. pictures from that report captured what was described as abundant cracking in the columns, beams and walls the report also warned that failure to replace waterproofing below the pool deck would cause the extent of the concrete deterioration to expand exponentially. this all woul

each condo association is responsible for their own structural engineering as far as code and as far bring things to our attention, private property is one thing. around here, we are low lying. anytime it rains, and this time of year, over the summer, rains every day in florida potentially, with high tide and things close to sea level, these basements typically get some water, water runoff from the streets goes in basements. the water in and of itself is not alarming. concerning, but not alarming. >> you say condo boards are the ones responsible. i want to understand what requirements are. back in 2018 an engineering report revealed major structural damage. is a report like that an fyi, a report card, or are there actionable consequences. after the report, nothing happened. >> the 40 year recertification is something that's been in place in miami-dade county for several years. it is sort of a report card given by a structural engineer that the condo association hires and once that's done, they come to the town, start applying for permits to get work done under instruction and leaders

some of them are launching lawsuits against this condo association, seeking to hold them accountablethey may or may not have known. this accountability piece is now the focus for many people and they're asking why did this happen and who can we hold responsible. jeff. >> allison, let's talk more about the families. what are you hearing from them? to antonia's point, they are certainly trying to hold out hope, but the trauma is just agonizing. >> reporter: it's a lot of emotions and it's hard for a lot of people to put into words exactly what they're going through. it's hard to imagine what these families are going through because very few people have ever experienced anything like this. 151 people are still unaccounted for. 151 people still missing. among them are nicole and luis. they were just married in january of this year. they were going to have a bigger wedding, a bigger celebration soon, but obviously now this has happened delaying all of that. nicole's brother martin told us that their story was really just beginning and now their hole family are praying for a miracle. luis

resting on a concrete slab containing quote major structural damage, engineers reportedly told the condo association repair work for the entire building would cost more than $9 million. the associated press as the work had yet to be done, officials say, determining a cost for the collapse could take months. i hope that investigations go forward un's somebody's held responsible for this because. my mom and my grandmother are now gone forever because this, surfside mayor says an engineering team will conduct a thorough safety review of the condo sister building on tuesday, and surfside, florida mall, the rivera ktvu fox two news. help from the bay area is now headed to florida. we've learned the oakland fire department will be deploying two of its members to support fema. those two members are part of the oakland fire departments, urban search and rescue task force, and they will be departing for florida today. today's state lawmakers are voting on governor newsom's new state budget plan after reaching a landmark agreement. education is a major focus point. the budget would add funding for a year of s

raises a lot of questions. >> but even though miami officials, as you said, are now urging condo associations with buildings more than 40 years old and higher than six stories to do inspections in the next 40 days, urging isn't requiring. and they can't require it, at this point, given the regulations, they can't require these buildings to do anything. and if the residents don't want to put out the money, we're going to stay in this compromised situation. >> well, it's interesting, because the 40-year inspection process is actually something that was put in place in the '70s and actually makes miami-dade and broward county to the north has something similar, one of the stricter processes in the country in this regard. and so, like you said, i think this is likely to lead to a broad re-examination of the requirements and how often inspectors are required to take a look at these buildings. and even if you look at the 40-year process itself, experts have told us it's largely a visual process, you know, unless there is a decision made by the engineers and the board to dig deeper, they're not nece

. >>> a lawyer for the towers south condo association confirmed to cbs news that a surfside building official told residents it appears the building is in very good shape at a november 2018 board meeting a month after the engineering firm documented the damage that needed repair. >>> back to the bay area. new video shows a wild scene in san jose. this is what it looked like after a car smashed through the front of a door. happened earlier this morning near santana row. authorities are trying to figure out what caused the crash but they say the dui is not suspected. >>> and still ahead here on kpix 5, a homeowner comes face- to-face with a bear. terrifying attack in south lake tahoe. >>> plus, they're watching you. new tool in one bay area city that's making it a lot easier for people to it's time e for sleep p numbes lowest p prices of t the season the e sleep numbmber 360 smama. it's t the most cocomfortabl, bobody-sensingng, automatitically-respspondin, energy-buiuilding, duallyly-adjustablble, dad-d-powering,, wellllness-booststing, foot-warmiming, temperaturure-balancining, recov

the attorney for the condo association says champlain towers had just finished a 40-year certification inspection and was making fixes on the roof and about to perform steel and concrete repairs. the collapse surprising even seasoned engineers. >> a complete pancaking type failure like this is extremely rare. there have been a few in the decades that i have been in practice. >> reporter: glenn bell says engineers will try and deduce a cause. >> the way it's piled up, the way the pieces are broken can tell you a lot to the trained eye about how the failure may have initiated, where it initiated and how it progressed. >> reporter: and we also found out that in 2015 an owner at this building filed a lawsuit back in 2015 claiming that management failed to properly maintain an outside wall, but an attorney for the condo association tells us all buildings have leaks. that is not indicative of a structural issue. >> that work continues, sam. thank you. we're going to bring you the latest on search efforts in the next half hour. >>> btt right now, we want to turn to minneapolis where in a few

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