. >>> we want to turn to the chairman of the miami-dade county board of commissioners, josÉ pepe diaz thank you so much for being here. let me start with where michelle grossman left off, which is this very difficult decision about demolishing this structure. we know this hurricane is bearing down. and there was no telling how fast the winds would need to be to cause incredible damage and potentially risk lives of first responders. what went into this decision to go about it this way? >> the mayor took everything into account, and the most important thing is that if we did not do anything, we would have to depend on those winds. and we did not know what could actually happen once these storms come out of cuba, even though we believe the meteorologists and what they're doing and how they stated the storm could be, and the models where they are, we still had to make sure this building came down exactly the way it did. and thank god that's the way it happened. and due to that, all we had was basically dust that went on the site that is part of the rescue area. and that's what was very im