forensic engineers caution that answer could yet be months away. drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. drew, thank you so much for that. urgent work is now happening at other buildings in florida to make sure they are not at risk of collapsing. cnn s brian todd had a chance to look at the new inspections under way. reporter: municipalities on the florida coast are scrambling tonight to make sure the kind of collapse that happened in surfside doesn t happen to them. cnn got exclusive access to the reinspection and repairs going on at the winston towers complex in sunny isles beach. we saw worried residents complaining about the red tape. we didn t get marching orders. reporter: there are seven buildings in this complex, each either the same age or older than the condo that collapsed in surfside, each more than 20 stories tall with at least 250 units in every building. inspectors show us the damage inside the parking garage right under the pool deck, a layout
cnn s brian todd has more. municipalities on florida coast are scrambling to make sure the kind of collapse that happened in surfside, doesn t happen to them. cnn got exclusive access to the reinspection and repairs going on at the winston towers complex in sunny isles beach. we saw worried residents complain about the red tape. we didn t get much for 40 years. there are seven buildings in this complex. each other the same age or older han the condo that collapsed in surfside. each more than 20 stories tall with at least 250 units in every building. inspectors show us the damage inside of the parking garage right under the pool deck. a layout similar to the champlain towers complex. similar design. reporter: the pool water drained for this repair. there are columns and concrete floors cracking. rusted rebar and cables that support the concrete. ins inspector looking at what needs
this letter indicates that. thank you so much for being with us this morning and helping us understand what we re now seeing revealed this morning. the surfside disaster is raising concerns about the safety of high-rise buildings up and down the coast here. cnn has an exclusive report about what s being done just a few miles from here. here s brian todd. municipalities on the florida coast are scrambling to make sure the kind of collapse that happened in surfside doesn t happen to them. cnn got exclusive access to the reinspection and repairs going on at the winston towers complex in sunny isles beach, a few miles north of surfside. we saw worried residents complaining about the tape. we didn t get marching orders. reporter: there are seven buildings in this complex, each either the same age or older than the condo that collapsed in surfside, 20 osstories tall wit 250 units in each building. inspectors show the damage in the parking garage on the pool
back into these buildings, many of them the same age as the champlain towers south building, many in the same condition, and reinspect, look at every crack, every piece of exposed rebar, reinspect all of that, get those repairs done. we were in sunny isles beach, florida, yesterday at the winston towers complex. we got access to the garage down there. it is this was a process that began before the collapse. in the meantime, there is this rush to go back to these buil buildings, re-audit them. the mayor of miami dade did talk about one building where they already had to shut down part. here is the mayor. we re taking swift action to immediately identify and address any outstanding issues with the
region are very, very worried this morning about all of this, trying to prevent this kind of calamity from happening to them. we got an exclusive inside look at what condominium complex in sunny isles beach florida is going through as they scramble to repair some of the damage in their complex which is about the same age as the champlain tower south. take a look at what we saw. municipalities on the florida coast are scrambling tonight to make sure the calamity that happened in surfside doesn t happen to them. cnn got exclusive access to the inspection going on at the winston towers complex in sunny isles near surfside. we saw residents worrying about red tape. there are seven buildings in the complex the same age or older than the building that collapsed in surfside. each building 20 stories tall with 250 units in the building. they showed us damage ebbinsidee