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Transcripts for CNN Erin Burnett OutFront 20240604 23:33:00

Company s report was a wakeup call for the condo board, spurring the assessment residents were give in april of this year totalling $15 million. my mom would be yelling at the top of her lungs to make sure that anybody that was responsible for this is held accountable. reporter: a spokesperson for the champlain tower south condo association did not provide comment about the budget report. but attorney peter sax specializes in condo law in florida. buildings need to be maintained on a regular basis. they need to be checked, fixed, and brought up to standard that s best done over the course of time in a planned out manner, with funds on hand. so amazing, leila, from your report when he says 5, 10 years ago, things could have been done that would have prevented this horrific event. i know you re learning new details about how the condo association, when they realized ....

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom Live 20240604 08:09:00

Engineers caution that that answer could yet be months away. drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. one resident who survived the collapse is filing a lawsuit against the champlain tower south condo association. steve rosenthal alleges the disaster could have been prevented if management had not neglected necessary repairs to the building. he managed to escape thanks to fire and rescue crews that arrived on scene. he spoke with cnn earlier about what was going through his mind when he learned the tower had collapsed. i thought it was an earthquake so i m looking to see what damage there was across the street or were there fires in the city or something. and i saw there was no damage to the tennis court, to the house and other buildings and i m going, this is probably because of the roof. we were doing some they were doing roofing work. that is all that came to mind. and then someone in another balcony said no, the building ....

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reporter: but while engineers ten to speculate from afar, in reality the answer lies like the vehicle tells trapped under rubble. the 40-year-old structure was due for massive repairs. an alarming 2018 inspection report warned of abundant cracking and several instances of deteriorating rebar especially on the pool deck and parking structure garage under the building. according to the report, failed waterproofing was causing major structural damage to the concrete structural slabs below the pool deck and entrance drive. as dire as it may sound, several engineers cnn spoke with say that the 2018 report did not foresee a catastrophic collapse and minutes from the condo association board meeting the following month shows that town official told residents that it appears that the building is in very good shape. champlain tower south was in the process of recertification, a miami-dade county government ....

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Structural slab up under the pool that he is looking at. so he is thinking of telling his boss we ll have to remove pipes and other things, this job will be more complicated even if we re just coming in here to do a koz me cosmetic repair. so that is what was going through his mind two days before the collapse. and cnn has independently reached out about the report and a spokesperson for the champlain tower south condo association declined to comment. in an op-ed, the miami herald newspaper was critical of the construction standards at the time the condo was built. they wrote when we look at the images of the destruction in surfside, we d be fools not to wonder whether slipshod construction and look the other way enforcement of that era played a part. residents of condos across ....

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