structural engineer and world renown expert sent in to go make sure that that tower was safe and that the other, the east tour that was 13 years younger was safe. so they are going to do a more detailed inspection. but they did walk around and say there is no visible evidence of any major structural concern. brian: some neighboring buildings worried about the same thing. my building looks like that building. i wonder if that s the case. about 400 buildings massively examined right now until we find out exactly what happened. they do feel this thing fell from the bottom up. things went wrong on the bottom causing the top to fall. senator rick scott is going to expand on that at 6:40. he has spent about 8 years in crisis management which is a governor position there. so many natural disasters, now senator from florida. he certainly has the experience. meanwhile, let s talk about the pandemic. good news is we feel in our country it s in the rear view mirror. 60 to 70% of the country has b
here down at fiu. so he was world renown. he himself went in to the building with our building officials, they called me i guess it was late yesterday, the day before, and said that they didn t see anything that jumped out at them at that point that was terrible. now, that s not a clean bill of health by any means and they recommended that we do a thorough forensics investigation from top to bottom, that will happen this week. meantime, for those that are fearful of living in that building and i count myself in there, i wouldn t want to spend the night there, we made arrangements to be relocated to a hotel. we ll cover the expense of that. hopefully we can get the inspection done in two or three weeks and get them back in their
it s passed to the families as soon as we get that information. right now this is the hard part, this is the part where we have a lot of hope, praying a lot. our guys as was said earlier, these are the very best in the world. we re blessed because they happen to be part of our community. so this is not fast work, this is very slow work. you have to listen. you have to work to try to get through. we re going from both directions from the top down and the bottom up. this is something that we never thought we would see. unfortunately here we are. this is the same team that goes around the world, world renown for the work that they do. earthquakes and volcanos, all kinds of disasters. we re blessed to have them here with us. neil: commissioner, we heard reports of sound coming from the
we re focused on rescuing people. we have engineers that are world renown in this type of situation we have federal, state, our county people. we have local municipalities. all of these people are working together to determine what actually took place. because till then, we don t want to rush and said and do this especially when we re trying to rescue people. but at the same time, a lot of people are saying, wait a minute. what about my building? is this going to happen two buildings down or four buildings down? whatever. all parts of florida and everywhere you go.
we re down to 6,500. i can say nobody has ever used that term since i ve been at hud. but i know what they are from having grown up in detroit. there were a lot of neil: you think she was trying to trap you? i m not sure what she was trying to do. if she wanted an answer in terms of why the rates are somewhat higher for fha properties than they are with the gses, that s because they take on higher risk customers. neil: so, you know, when you took on this job, there was a sentiment obviously your a world renown surgeon. people don t know your past. impeccable credentials. you ve separated conjoined twins, put you in the history books. when your basic intelligence is being questioned at some level,