were finally able to free the last of the occupied cars out of 8 total, crushed under the still under construction pedestrian bridge on saturday. at the time of the collapse, there were several workers on the bridge, tightening cables. engineer with the bridge design firm told the state two days before that in a voice mail that cracks had been discovered in the concrete. i was calling to share with you some information about the fiu pedestrian bridge and cracking that s been observed on the north end of the span. the pylon end of that span we moved this weekend. um, so, we ve taken a look at it and obviously some repairs or whatever will have to be done. but, from a safety perspective, we don t see that there is any issue there. that engineer from the fig bridge design firm which designed this bridge. the voice mail, however, was not listened to until friday the day after the collapse.
a department of transportation official. here s that voice mail. calling to share with you some information about the fiu pedestrian bridge and some cracking that s been observed on the north end of the stand, pylon end of that span we moved this weekend. so we ve taken a look at it, and obviously some repairs or whatever will have to be done, but from a safety perspective, we don t see that there s any issue there. so a lot of discussion about the crack in the bridge, which seems to have been known to just about everybody, but the ntsb at this point is saying it is still too early to blame the collapse on that crack, julie. julie: how long, steve, before they know who is responsible? the ntsb says it is going to take at least one week to wrap up its investigation on site, and further investigation is going to continue on. you can hear those heavy jackhammers behind me. this is a slow process for a couple of reasons. first, there s 2 million pounds of concrete that came down all
it s hard to get all the daily that s why i love fiber choice. it has the fiber found in many fruits and vegetables, all in a tasty chewable tablet. fiber choice: the smart choice. this morning we learned the lead engineer on a florida bridge project tried to tell state officials about cracks. he left the message on a d.o.t. landline and here s the problem, no one heard that until after the bridge collapse. still, federal investigators warn it is too early to draw any conclusions about what caused the structure to crumble. kayley has the latest. we re learning an engineer for the company that designed the pedestrian bridge that collapsed at florida
interviewer ask all kind of questions and shakes her head and says i can t talk about it. the allegations that they re going to make, a violation of this, i think they re going to get them in even deeper. very, very skilled at trying to launder this information into public view in an attempt to embarrass the president. that s his point all along. i didn t get to the point where she was physically threatened by somebody since the president took office, if she goes public with this. and we re going to have to talk about that in a little bit. we ve run out of time. i m sorry, thank you. the big story, former fbi deputy director mccabe fired just days before his retirement and receiving the pension. next, how much will that cost mccabe and will this help the president? also, a missed call and now new questions. an engineer left a voicemail about this bridge in florida that collapsed. talked about cracks, but no one
international university was aware at least two days before that collapse of cracks in the newly installed portion of the bridge. the florida department of transportation releasing a voicemail that that engineer left on one of their employee s landlines on tuesday. that s two days before the collapse but that voicemail not heard until today. the state employee had been out of the office in the meantime. listen to what the engineer detailed. hey, tom, tom. i was calling to share with you some information about the fiu pedestrian bridge and some cracking that has been observed on the north end of the span. pylon end of that span we moved this weekend. so, we ve taken a look at it and, obviously, some repairs or whatever will have to be done. but from a safety perspective, we don t see there is any issue there. we re not concerned from that perspective, but the cracking is not good and something is going to have to be, you know, done to