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residents received a letter in april, two months ago, sharing alarming details about the decay of the building s structure. the letter seeking to explain a $15 million special assessment to condo owners warned, quote, listen to this, the concrete deterioration is accelerating and that the roof situation got much worse. eric demora lived in that building and he only survived because his girlfriend convinced him to stay at her place the night the building came down. he said he got that letter, wishes it came sooner. you look at the building, and you look at the north tower, they need money to fix a lot of things, there was leaks in the garage, there was cracked on the balconies. so, yes, we need the money to fix it. but unfortunately it was too late. too late, he said. those warnings only amplify this tragedy, 11 people are now confirmed dead. 150 people remain missing this morning and even as the days go on, loved ones, some of them are not giving up hope. that inclu ....
florida. cnn has also learned that residents were facing steep repair costs. $15 million worth following a tw 2018 report which warned how leaking water was leading to deteriorating concrete. and just two days before the collapse, a pool contractor spotted what appears to be serious signs of damage in the garage sharing these photos with the miami herald. and joining me now is sarah bl bl blaskey, tell me what the contractor told you, what was there? the contractor said aboveground everything looked okay, but once you went to the basement, he started noticing things that didn t look right to him. the first thing he noticed was standing water, a lot of it in the garage area, right under that patio deck that we have heard called into question by 2018 report, and as he went into the pool equipment room on the south side of the building, he saw serious corrosion of rebar that had been exposed from cracked concrete in the beams underneath the pool, and all of that is signs ....
landmark national investments, investments that only the government has the capacity to make. only the government working together could make. today happens to mark coincidental, but today is the 60th anniversary of one of those significant investments that changed the nation. 65 years ago today president dwight eisenhower signed a bill that created the interstate highway system, 65 years ago today. that was the last infrastructure investment of the size and scope of the agreement i m about to talk about today. it is time for us to write a new chapter in that story. after months of careful negotiation, of listening, compromising together in a good faith moving together with ups and downs and some blips, a bipartisan group of senators got together and they ve forged an agreement to move forward on the key priorities of my american jobs plan. one of them is sitting in front of me. as a result, this is a generational investment, a generational investment to modernize our ....
they will. and new this morning, the wall street journal says the condo board president sent a letter to residents back in april warning their building was in desperate need of repairs, saying $50 million was needed to fix structural problems. saying the concrete damage would multiple ply exponentially over the coming years and observable damage like in the garage had gotten significantly worse over the years. let s get the latest from morgan chesky, and martin desolo, miami herald reporter that s not just a member of this community but of course covering this story. morgan, we are hearing more signs that there were structural issues leading up to the collapse and all sorts of warnings. what are you learning? reporter: stephanie, in fact, just finished talking with a resident that would have been at home during the night of the collapse, but chose to watch a soccer game at a friend s house. i said did you see signs there were issues. they said for months now he ....
nick, we ll go back to the briefing. some of the speakers delving into spanish because of the community. we ll go in. when you hear the mayor, number one, stressing the search and rescue operation continues. number two, saying she has her full team looking throughout the county trying to make sure this does not happen somewhere else. reporter: we re seeing reactive measures here in miami and sayre sayre sew a. there s an order to find a third party to investigate buildings and share the results with the city of miami within 45 days. there is anger here among the families that have come to grips with knowing they know in their heart they say whether they get official word from the local emergency response teams that their loved ones have bperished. they feel there needs to be accountability. the condos, what they re expected to disclose to residents. and this news now that we re hearing of an april 9th letter sent to residents by the condo president saying there is mil ....