we had robert hazelton and rafael zabelli. >> hi. i'm robert hazelton. i'm president of the herrick corporation, and we fabricated the girders. thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak today. i don't have a lot of comments related to the report. [please stand by] are not shown in the design drawings. they were added later on, on approval and subsequent r.f.i. and the peer review, when looking at the design drawings, they would haven't seen the access holes that we're looking at right now. thank you for letting me speak. >> hello, i'm rafael sabelli with walter p. moore. thank you for hearing my comments. i'd like to speak to two things. first of all, i'd like to clarify the scope of what was presented today and then suggest some questions for you to ask the peer review panel and other experts. first of all, the presentation today spoke about a root cause assessment. really it was the first step of a root cause assessment. this was just proximate cause, the mechanism of how the crack formed and propulgated. the root cause assessment has to include

. >> reporter: robert hazelton, president of the company that fabricated the beams, admits the cuts hisd a role in what happened. >> i think that it's ultimately going to be considered a contributing factor. i think that's going to be a focus. i think there's a lot of things on this job that we will look at. but that one in particular is unique. and because it's unique, it's going to draw focus. >> reporter: a fix is in the works to bolt the additional steel to the top and bottom of the girders to reinforce them. how long that will take and how much it will cost is yet to be determined, meaning the terminal could remain closed for months. jaxon van derbeken, nbc bay area news. >> family members of a murdered california entrepreneur are speaking out for the very first time with nbc's keith morrison. >> reporter: chris, with his free-spirited creativity, was the yin to ed's number-crunching yang. they worked a profitable corner of the advertising game. they made and placed ads for debt consolidation. that sort of thing. but meanwhile, there was this surf. the ocean. always calling. even w