since this happened exactly about a week ago now. as it stands, we have workers going in 12-hour shifts on that pile of rubble digging deeper inside searching for any signs of live. at the same time, we have miami-dade police now calling upon the public to hand over any piece of video they may have taken during this collapse as they try to essentially get any angle, any moment that could lend them to learning more approximate what led this to tumble to the ground a week ago. we have new video that came in overnight that has been verified that was posted to tiktok exactly eight minutes before that tower fell which seems to show water spilling into the parking garage of champagne towers south. it is unknown if this was contributing to the cause of the collapse, but this could be the last real time that anyone saw that tower standing. the woman who took it was staying in an nearby hotel.
leopold. when you see these images, the water spilling into the highway, the only artery in and out, what s your concern? unfortunately we ve seen it many times before. the concern, which we have no control over, is that the whole road way doesn t get flooded. it looks like it may and probably will. we ve been through it before. that s why a mandatory evacuation order was issued on thursday. did people heed the evacuation warnings. people have a tendency to want to come back right away. they do. therefore, sometimes they don t leave. i think those that wanted to leave left and those that wanted to stay have stayed at this point. as you can see, if anyone wanted to get out, they would still have an opportunity to do so hopefully before nightfall. how will this make recovery efforts challenging for you guys? it will make it a little more challenging than normal. unlike in the past, the levee won t be able to used during the dewatering process because of the abnormally high rive
they say thankfully the river has started to go down which is a sigh of relief for everyone here. what s concerning is the water spilling onto the highway and everyone hoping and praying, as you just heard from the state representative, that it doesn t cut off these communities. that is going to complicate relief efforts and people wanting to get back to their homes. mariana, we ll be talking to you over the next couple hours. for now let s go over to nbc meteorologist michelle grossman tracking barry for us as well. there s been a change since the last time we spoke two hours ago. we have a new advisory. what s been the change in the last couple hours? the change is a decrease in speed a bit. looking at 65-mile-per-hour winds. again, winds haven t been the biggest issue. that s a lot of wind. we could still see power outages and trees down, roads being ripped up. forward speed of 7 miles per hour. still moving very slowly. went from five to six to seven
category 1 hurricane wouldn t make landfall and now downgraded to tropical storm, but the wind not a concern but the flooding. this is why those flood protection systems are being put to the ultimate test and so far the army corps of engineers says everything seems to be holding, no doubt, mad rush to get overtopping situations prepared because if that happens continuously for a long period of time, we understand that that compromises the structural integrity of the levy and then there s a concern of a breach, so any water spilling over it is eroding, so the rush is onto get those patched up and to get them fixed, very fluid situation, arthel, and eric as the systems
we ll get you back on. let s go now to another breaking story, the after math of the 7.1 magnitude earthquake which struck right here in southern california. it s the most powerful in 20 yea years. we re giving you a look at scope of where the tremors were facility, from sacramento in the north to san diego in the south, even all the way to las vegas, heading to the east, more people are sharing videos now of the harrowing seconds when the earth shook. take a look at the light fixtures swinging violently. look at that. swimming pools shaken to the point of water spilling out. you can about imagine how that would spook the pets, right, as well as kids. it was a pretty scary time for those in that area, in curran county where it was epicentered. they are counting their blessings, no reported fatalities so far. relatively speaking, minor damage to mobile homes and roadways. we do feel like there is