hole or maybe someone super charged the roof and put too much weight on it a a confluence of different issues may have contributed to this ultimate collapse. thank you very much, mr. battista. i want to go back to the news conference. the governor is speaking. as the fire chief said it is a very difficult scene and they are leaving no stone unturned and they will continue to do that, but it s been a very, very difficult time, and i think the grief has been in some respects unique just given the scale of the tragedy, but man, i was inspired just talking with him, and you could tell what he s been able to do, what his kids have been able to do, a very successful family and they all trace back to that matriarch and god bless her and god bless that family. mayor burkett mentioned there was debris falling from the building this morning and was
lawsuit and it is his feeling and his belief that this was preventable. all these reports that we re hearing about what these building inspectors saw and what the email back and forth with the condo association they re suing the condo association, and i asked isn t it early for that? why now? because they want to get to the truth and they want evidence preserved and they are convinced that there s liability to be found here that this is not just an accident that there s responsibility, accountability and he said justice that he s trying to fight for for these residents. andrea? and i also wanted to bring back greg battista because we got an excerpt from the board of directors to the residents of the south tower unit from just a few months ago and it says in part, the concrete damage i need to see this again. sorry. the concrete damage observed
non-consequential. they re cracks that are superficial and at least they called me and got peace of mind. so going back to what you asked i would have no problem living in a building where you have professionals being called upon to perform their duties and inspect these buildings and if something s wrong you call it out and expect that those in charge, in this case, people on the board, would react accordingly and perform those proper repairs. thanks for all of your expertise. i really appreciate it and thank for being with us today. greg battista. thank you. coming up, unlikely allies? house speaker nancy pelosi ask any republicans to be on the select committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol? on the road again. president biden in wisconsin to help seal the deal. you re watching andrea mitchell reports. we ll be right back. this is msnbc. a
see this kind of this kind of damage. mr. battista, would that kind of damage contribute to the erosion of the concrete, the splitting of the concrete and could it affect the rebar and the structural integrity of the building? let me go back to the basics here so the viewers can understand. the concrete in a building is basically comprised of two main things. it s basically the concrete itself which is what you see from the outside and it s also comprised of steel that is inside and we call those rebar, pieces of steel, basically and that together forms the actual composition of what we see in these buildings and as you can see in the wreckage, you can see the pieces of steel sticking out. what happens is that when you have seaside, coastal structures these chlorides in the air they get they seep into the concrete and concrete is inherently porous. if you take a microscope and go