invite me in to see what is going on. the president of the board here, and i want to show you the devastation so far in the lobby of just this building alone. let s take a look up at this water level. i m 5 10 , okay? look at that water level. look at how up, craig, the water got in this building. this is the lobby of the building. show the elevator here. it opens into this lobby area and all of this furniture that is destroyed and let s swing around here. i want to bring you into the garage here. this, the entire ceiling, craig, i don t want to get too close, but the entire ceiling of this entire garage area completely collapsing underneath the weight and the pressure of this water. this thing, the water was all of the way up to the ceiling of this garage area. luckily a lot of folks already moved their cars to higher ground, but take a swing around
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garage area, and that is important because several engineers have told cnn that according to what they have seen on the video of the collapse, it appears that the failures began in the structure s foundation. so getting into that garage could be very insightful for the investigation that is trying to answer what went wrong here. now, regarding the teams, we know that they have sent home virginia task force 1, so that is 80 people no longer assisting here on that debris pile. we have seen heavy machinery still at work pulling out cars and towing them away, so we know the work continues. and officials are promising that the work will continue here until every single victim is brought home to their loved ones. they are being very strategic and methodical and targeted in how they search even at times collecting personal belongings. when they found a business card in the debris that listed
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