urgency, then that should have been made clear and action would have been taken as needed. given this new information, do you believe these cracks in the concrete are the ultimate driver behind the collapse? or do you need to look at other factors as well? yeah, there s a need to look at a lot of other factors. what i would expect, in a collapse like this, there is typically a trigger of some sort. either that trigger is some kind of an overload, whether it s an earthquake, hurricane, landslide. but there may be other triggers like deterioration of strength. if there is excessive corrosion and that concrete has become very weakened, a combination of an unexpected extreme load with, say, weakened concrete from corrosion and deterioration, those two things together could have led to this kind of collapse. but i suspect there would be multiple potential causes to be evaluated and considered. hearing the details in this 2018 report that s just been released now, troy, how
who are here getting ready to potentially, god willing, save lives? we have a very robust team, everybody is here, and they deal with it in their own way. we have each other to support, we re kind of a big family here. one of the things, you know, we have the search and rescue dogs. as crazy as it may sound, sometimes just seeing a dog for two or three minutes kind of helps you emotionally. and we don t think about it, it s our job, we keep doing it, and when it s over, then we reflect upon it. everyone i think deals with it in their own different way. but we deal with it. have you ever seen anything like this before here in the united states of america? no, other than obviously 9/11, which at that time i was in toronto. obviously i saw it on tv. i ve never seen anything like this in person. i ve been deployed to hurricanes such as hurricane michael in the panhandle. but it s completely different from what we re seeing here. a building all of a sudden goes down like this with a
why it wasn t answered or what surrounded it being commissioned in the first place. but i will say that report did identify evidence of corrosion, deterioration. by itself, the conclusions didn t kind of scream out danger or imminent collapse. it did indicate repairs should have been made. a lot of those repairs, the patching of spalled concrete, it will prevent further chlorides getting into the steel and kind of accelerating the corrosion that needs to be arrested. whose responsibility, troy, would it have been to address it? clearly these are serious issues. i imagine that the building owners would have commissioned the evaluation and, you know, reading the details of the report, i would expect them to reach out to the engineers who produced the report, talk about what the implications are, and how urgent those repairs would have been. if they were cosmetic or could have been done over the long term, you know, that would have been communicated. but if there was a sense of
our next total eclipse won t happen until 2090. but today s event has delighted many around the world with a display of a true celestial wonder. rebecca morelle, bbc news. louise lear has the weather. hello there. it s a little bit of a messy weather picture to paint at the moment. certainly, we ve had more cloud around today than recent days and as you can see by this weather watcher picture sent in from cumbria. the best of the sunshine through eastern england, still some fair weather cloud here, this is where we are likely to see the best of the warmth as well. looking at the satellite picture along with the radar, there are some rain, light and patching into the northwest of scotland is. you can see the cloud thinning and breaking in places, but that said, quite market along the west coasts and the cloud, mist and mark they can offer a spot of drizzle across the four south west. the far south west. that s how we are likely to keep
live from millinocket, maine. thanks so much for joining us, senator. you said this week that you cannot overstate how concerned you are with the cyberattacks. you co-chair the cyberspace commission and sit on the u.s. intelligence committee. what are you most concerned about, and has the u.s. responded offensively through retaliatory cyberattacks? well, you ve asked two or three questions there. i ll take the last one first. there has been some responses. both from nsa and from the biden administration in terms of things like sanctions. so there have been responses, but i think we need to step that up. one of the problems is over the past 15 or 20 years as we ve had these series of cyberattacks from north korea, russia, china, we really haven t responded. we ve been a cheap date, and you can t defend yourself simply by bobbing, weaving and patching. the adversary has to understand there will be a cost for attacking the united states or our critical infrastructure, and thus far they