Reporter two days before the accident, a concerned worker filmed an upper floor of the 18story hotel under construction. He points to a series of red flags like this floortoceiling temporary beam supporting concrete slabs. In spanish he says they couldnt remove this one because its too bent. It has too much pressure. This is serious. This was a cascading set of failures. Reporter Civil Engineer Norma Jean Mattei watched the video. It makes me wonder why. Was the brace ged . Was the concrete placed not of adequate strength . Was the concrete just not Strong Enough . Reporter Governor John Bel Edwards said the possible of Tropical Storm winds moving in tomorrow is posing a danger for the two damaged cranes still standing. We are working as hard as we can on a timeline that will allow for those crane towers to actually be taken down safely. Reporter omar villafranca, cbs news, new orleans. To chicago now where teachers in the nations Third Largest School District walked off the job today.
Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters its good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Were going to begin with a violent shootout in mexico after the brief capture of one of the sons of drug kingpin Joaquin El Chapo guzman. [ gunfire ] the violence broke out last night in the city of cullian, northwest of mexico city. Police captured video of lopez inside a home. He is wanted in the u. S. On Drug Trafficking charges. Mexico. S allegedly among the es authories y deca under intense fire from heavily armed gunmen surrounding the house. Police decided to release him to protect lives. Earlier this year, you may recall lopezs father, Joaquin El Chapo guzman, was found guilty of Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering charges. He was sentenced to life in prison. Back at home now, there was an explosive admission by a Top White House official in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Yesterday acting chief of ratio military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigati
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Push to the northeast at 45 Miles Per Hour. This is tracking very quickly and as it does, it has a major impact on the commute. Some areas its moving towards wood shop town and sprangsville town. And we are looking for heavy rain and could have rainfalling at 4 inches per hour. Pull over if you are driving. And the potential for vivid lightning and strong downpours and strong gusty winds and a low potential of hail and tornadoes. The reason why we have heat indexes in the triple digits, feels like 105 in philadelphia, that adds to the strength of the storms. Behind a cold front later tonight there is some relief but not all that major, ill talk more about that coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Well take minor. Yes. Cecily todays heat has officials taking extra safety precautions, chopper 6 hd spotted an ambulance and fire officials outside of a high rise building in voorhees, the building reportedly lost power at 8 00 a. M. And is in the dark at this hour. At the soft pretzel
270 people. So youre urban compared to us. Okay. Let me just go right to the witnesses. Lori dishman had a very, very bad experience on a Royal Caribbean cruise in 2006. Shes also an International Cruise Victims Association board member, which means she wants to follow through on that. Ill read each of the four and then call on one by one. Phil gers extent, a lawyer who represented a 15yearold minor, 15yearold minor who was raped on a cruise ship is also on that same board and chairman also chairman of the National Center for the victims of crime. Im grateful that hes here. Amanda butter letter who i just met outside whose mother suffered a medical emergency on a carnival kus in 2013 and likely passed away likely as a result of a lack of medical care and kim ware who was a passenger on the triumph which caught fire and was stranded for four days. Now, those are easy things for me to say but they are very hard to have gone through and even talk about it. Lets get at it. Im going to call