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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto 20240604 13:00:00

Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto 20240604 13:05:00

Temporarily, but it can always give way a little bit underneath their feet. understood. as you know, there s a look at a number of buildings now in the miami area. you already have two that have been closed. tell us about that process. it s early in the investigation of this collapse, so there are many questions. there are ideas as to what brought it down, but no final answer. how urgent is it in your view to be looking at other buildings in the area right now? well, i personally have been asked to look at three other buildings in surfside, four other billuildings, and i ve do that. i m not looking at anything down in miami or other than in surfside, the town. it all is a function of the level of problem that you see, you know, the issue is that a structural engineer who has some experience in designing and building buildings needs to go into the various buildings as an example in the four three or

Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto 20240604 14:00:00

Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto 20240604 13:43:00

Inform what we do as well. one of the saddest elements of this, right, is that there were warnings about this building, questions about maintenance, issues with the concrete deterioration. there were debates even in the condo association et cetera. do you believe that there needs to be a reassessment as to who exactly, whether it s the government or the condo board and when says you ve got to do this, right? you can t just, you know, wait or punt. is there a fundamental fix that has to be made here so, you know, you re not allowed to kind of push these things down the line? i think you put your finger on it in the sense that we re seeing that this really has, i think, illuminated the process where sometimes condo boards can sort of have differing opinions and new leadership comes in and of course the costs of assessments is something that s unexpected. we ve got to really look at that. government cannot allow, i believe, a dangerous situation or a deadly situation to exist. we just

Transcripts for MSNBC MSNBC Reports 20240604 16:01:00

I am kasie hunt. you re watching msnbc. tropical storm elsa, the first named hurricane of the 2021 atlantic season is churning near cuba. a tropical storm warning is in effect for parts of the florida keys and parts of the gulf coast, and partly because of concerns over elsa. officials went ahead last night with the controlled demolition of the remaining portion of the champlain towers south condo building in surfside, florida. the structure unstable and a potential danger to work crews before the demolition. after the tower came down, search and rescue operations are now back under way. moments ago we learned from the mayor that the death toll from the condo collapse rose to 27 after three people were found dead in the rubble. there are still 118 people unaccounted for. miami-dade county vice chairman oliver gilbert spoke moments ago. we re going to work, we re going to pray and we re going to get through this together. and that s what we re doing.