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Surfside Condo Collapse: New Video Proves Garage Column Fell - YouTube
Channel: jeffostroff
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in this video continuing our
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investigation into the champlain tower
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south condo collapse in surfside miami
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we have our own exclusive video that we
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shot across the street in the daytime
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and we are going to duplicate that now
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famous
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tourist video that showed the champlain
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tower south condominium collapse
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five minutes after they shot this video
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so we're going to examine it and put to
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rest all of the debates that have arisen
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out of this
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as to which column fell first or didn't
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fall first or whether there was rubble
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in the garage or what but we are going
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to analyze this today with our own
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recreation and come to a conclusive
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answer
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so by now everybody has probably seen
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this world famous
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tourist video shot five minutes before
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the condo collapsed
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and everybody has tried to make
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screenshots of course of the
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now famous video and then a friend of
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our channel kenneth lyons he actually
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made this photoshop enhanced version of
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it here and from there many of us have
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tried to analyze to see what was going
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on
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and here you can see on this circle part
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of the image is where we noticed hey it
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looks like there's a column missing and
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then we try to determine which column it
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was that is missing and that's why this
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video has become probably the single
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most valuable piece of intel in this
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entire investigation okay so in case you
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haven't seen that now famous tourist
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video let me show you it's a seven
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second clip basically
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and it's showing the
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the view five minutes before the
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collapse and there's the broken
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sprinkler line and it's gushing water
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down
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okay so i finally couldn't take it
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anymore folks i drove over there myself
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i wanted to get my own video that i was
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in 100 control of instead of people
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conjecturing over something shot at
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night where you can't make out what's
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what so i drove over to the north towers
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this is the champlain towers north and
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they are both very similar so a lot of
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people think that it's the carbon copy
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but it really isn't this was built a
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couple of years later you can see this
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is the
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champlain tower south the one that
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collapsed the sister building to it as
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we call it is this one right here
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champlain towers north almost the same
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but the problem is as you you can see
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here the lot of land that the
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champlain tower south sits on is bigger
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and you have much more land right here
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in front of the building so there's more
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spaces for the parking garage so we have
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a bigger parking garage here and also
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the champlain tower south here has 12
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units per floor whereas the champlain
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towers north here only has 10 units per
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floor you can see if you look at the
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building see how this has a short stub
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but come down here and this has like an
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extra section here that's because
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there's two extra units per floor so
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they're not quite exactly the same but
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most of the garage especially in this
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section has the same floor plan we can
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safely use the floor plan and the
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pictures and everything from the north
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tower here looking down the ramp we know
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that when we look in here we're supposed
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to see one column two column
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three columns
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and four columns nobody can deny that so
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i tried to duplicate the same view here
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that the tourists got when they were
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shooting from across the street okay so
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here we are standing across the street
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just like the tourist was
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and we're going to shoot down into the
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garage
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and zoom all the way down in there
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okay she was probably more or less right
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here
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because you can shoot down the ramp
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there
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and as you shoot down the ramp
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you can see the column there at the
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bottom
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oh and here comes a car out now
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so there's your perfect view looking
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deep down in there
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now look real closely you can see all
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the way to the back
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you can see that back wall and you can
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see all the bicycles lined up in front
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of it
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of your columns now i don't even know if
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the parking spaces
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are enumerated the same
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there goes that gate
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back down
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looking at my garage map that i've been
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building up over the last few months the
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point of view is from way up here up top
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and we're looking down
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this way at an angle so we can see
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here's the first column there's one
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here's the second column two
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here's the third column three
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now here's where the problem starts and
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so what you see is a bunch of rubble
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piled up in the middle of the driveway
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it's not on the ramp everybody thinks
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it's on the ramp it's not you actually
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can't see the ramp because this is the
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top of it where it meets the street and
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it slopes down as you can see here um
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about 60 feet that's about how long the
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ramp is so you really don't see the ramp
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but what you can see is the floor beyond
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the ramp here so as everybody analyzes
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we're looking at this adhering it to the
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floor plan thinking wait a minute i'm
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supposed to see four columns i see one
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here i see two here i see a third one
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here behind the pipe that's shooting out
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the water but there's supposed to be a
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fourth one here where is it and remember
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they're going to get squeezed together
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so they look like they're right next to
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each other i've got a lot of experience
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in photography when i was a 10 year old
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kid in boston i used to go into the
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newspaper with my dad and my grandfather
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every saturday and i'd work in the
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darkroom and then i eventually got my
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own dark room i used to develop my own
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pictures in my basement in my house in
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boston and so i've done a lot of study
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with photography and lenses and nikons
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and telephoto lenses i've done a lot of
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shooting at sports events and this is a
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phenomenon that happens here that's
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called lens compression and so what
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happens is when you zoom in with a
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telephoto lens you're getting everything
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that's in the distance gets flattened so
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that's called lens compression you can
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see there's a 20 foot distance between
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right here which is the column for space
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number 14 and then this is the column
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for space number 27 and on different
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screen grabs depending on you you'll be
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able to actually see the 27 right on
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there but there should be another one
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right over here because these should be
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20 feet apart if you're going down the
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line see if you go back and i'm going to
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show this to you upside down if you come
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back and look each one of these columns
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is approximately 20 feet apart so if
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you're looking at an angle here these
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four columns are going to look like
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they're side by side going left to right
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and so here's the first one the second
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one should be 20 feet away there should
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be another one about 20 feet away
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similarly spaced in between and then
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this last one another 20 feet away so in
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in other words we should be looking 60
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feet down the ramp to this column and
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then 20 feet 20 feet 20 feet and let me
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just point out something to you this
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column right here is the the
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southernmost border of the building so
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everything up to this point is inside
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the footprint of the building once you
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get beyond this to where the rubble pile
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is you're now outside and beyond the
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southern end of the building even though
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you really can't tell everything looks
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like it's all flattened together so
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inside this circle we think we're
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missing a column well let's go take a
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look at that what i did here was i took
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this screenshot from the tourist video
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and identified where all four of the
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columns are supposed to go and i label
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them here's your first one like we
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mentioned the space 14 m8 the space
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number 27 m10 and then this next one
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here would be the dividing line between
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space 27 and 28 so i've always called
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this one
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27-28 and it's column m11.1 and then the
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last one here would be for space number
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28 so m13.1 so now how do we know that
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i'm accurate how do we know these are in
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the correct place well because i know
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where three of them are but the third
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one is the one that i claim is missing
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okay so what i do here now is i have
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this video overlay from the screenshot
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of my video that i shot on the third now
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watch this
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as it morphs in you see that all four of
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these columns line up right so that's
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how we know
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we're supposed to have that third column
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right there so here see look there's 20
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feet 40 feet 60 feet there is no other
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column that's straight down this line
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because you have a space over here which
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is 40 and actually
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on the north garage
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that space matches what we have if you
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look remember we're looking down the
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garage here and we look all the way down
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the line and we see
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that one here that says 40 right here
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which is just to the right of all of
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these columns so
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at least that part of the garage they
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kept the numbering system the same so
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coming back to the overlay you can see i
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can keep going back and forth between
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the two
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so i know i'm correct you see i have
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proven it a lot of people have been
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saying oh there's no there's no column
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there shouldn't be one but look at the
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spacing between them and yeah it is
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you should definitely see it and the
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further away you get away from the front
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try to pay attention to where my cursor
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is the further away you get from the
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front the closer the spacing will be
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between
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these columns because of the lens
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compression from going telephoto mode
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now watch this see
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okay so we've already confirmed for us
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now
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that
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this guy is missing
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m11.1 why are we spending so much time
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on this to to prove that this column is
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missing this video
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was shot five minutes before the whole
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building collapsed this was shot at 1 18
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a.m
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and the building came down around 1 22
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a.m
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missing as a very valuable piece of
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intelligence because it helps us
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engineers kind of zoom in on what could
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have caused this column to go down
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so if i come back and look
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at a screenshot from fiorello's garage
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walkthrough that she shot a year ago see
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this is what we're looking at we're
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looking down the ramp and there's that
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first column 14. this is the column for
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space 27 and so this shows remember like
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i said every column in here is 20 feet
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apart throughout this garage and then
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here's the beam that connects
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m
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10
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here or m 9.1 as some people call it but
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this is the one that connects 27 to 27
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28 over here
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and and this everything is starting to
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align with what we're saying because
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this is the area that had the most
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damage on the ceiling i think and and
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you can see paint peeling because it's
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moist you can see the beam here isn't
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doing so hot the paint can't stick to it
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and we even showed in one of our other
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screenshots that this beam is bowing
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at the bottom let me stop this right
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here
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this is column
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m13.1 which is also known as we call it
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28 because it's for space 28 right here
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and that's the column for space 29 and
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then here is our m11.1 which we call
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27-28 let me show you where all of these
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are here
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i think you'll find this easier
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okay so here's an overhead
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shot that i took from one of the nist
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drone videos remember the terrace was
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over here viewing looking down this way
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so again here's that same thing m8 which
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is column 14. this right here is m 9.1
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or we call it m10 this is
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space 27 is right here
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and then space 28 is right here and the
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column that missing column is right here
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now they're digging through just the
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last couple of feet of rubble here but
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if you notice if you look around the
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entire site
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every one of these columns pretty much
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stood their ground the rebar is coming
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fairly straight up with no problem but
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there's nothing left of this guy right
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here why is that i mean we're down on
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the floor right now we're they're just
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about down on the floor and i don't know
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if these are part of it or if they're
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just leftovers but you know everything
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lines up here that this guy is missing
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so this is a screenshot from my video
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when i went down to the site last week
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and shot directly into
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the current status of the site here's
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that space number 14 column at the
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bottom of the ramp so the ramp is coming
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down
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sort of this way there's that side and
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then here's the other side of the ramp
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right
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so 14 is here
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and the space 27 column is over here now
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you can see it much sharper from my
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video that i mean look at me just came
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right out of the ground there's no
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damage down there it didn't get sheared
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off and then here's another view where i
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zoom out a little bit and here's that
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same column 14
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column 27.
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here you can see now that the site's
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been cleared
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what's left there's like just a couple
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of pieces maybe i'm not even sure if
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it's one or two
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of rebar that look like it's just
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severely damaged and it it didn't look
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like there was even enough for them to
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cut it off at the measured painted four
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foot level or so like they did with all
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of these others see so that's why
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everything keeps suspiciously pointing
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back to this one and here's another
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great example so you might recall seeing
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this if you saw my video from about two
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weeks ago where i
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took the nist
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drone video that they gave us on august
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25th and i did my now famous overlay on
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top of it with the all of the parking
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spaces and the border of the building
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and everything
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showing you ground zero and so here's
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that space 14 at the bottom of the ramp
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27
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m 11.1 that's missing and then 28 should
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have been here i believe they cut a lot
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of these other ones but anyway
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it shows where the actual
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rubble pile was so a lot of people on
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the video think that the rubble pile is
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on the ramp it's not the ramp ended back
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over here so what you're looking at is
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20 feet
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likely about 40 feet away from the ramp
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that's what that lens compression does
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see it changes everything for you
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but so this is where i showed where
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ground zero was that's why i put this
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thumbnail of the tourist video here to
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show you what we were looking at you see
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so everything we see here is beyond
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this column and this column represents
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the southernmost border of the building
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and so everything beyond it is where the
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rubble pile is
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okay so looking back at our screen here
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we can go back and forth and back and
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forth
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and make all the columns
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what happened to the column now some
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people have looked at this image and
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said no that's the column there
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and i'm looking at it no that that's not
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the column because i can see black right
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in the middle of it all the way through
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it and then this right here is either
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a planter or an air conditioner or
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something everyone looks at this
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photograph a different way some people
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look at this thing here and they think
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it's a washing machine but based on the
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distance of how far it is a washing
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machine would not be that huge that's
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what people keep forgetting is is how
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far away this really is
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okay and a washing machine would not be
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that big
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so what is this thing
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i think
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it's possible that this is
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the beam
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that went from the column here 2728
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over to 27.
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or as we look back here in the video
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it's this beam over here and let's take
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a little bit closer walk over there i
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want to see if we get a better shot
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right there
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see this is the beam that i think it is
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and you've seen me mention this in early
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july on my other video i talked about
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this beam and i mentioned doesn't it
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look suspicious how the bottom of this
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thing is bowed
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as if it's in tension right now so that
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i thought was strange now it could have
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been just the way they formed it when
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they you know made all the plywood forms
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and
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poured the concrete and it's not lens
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distortion because in any lens folks
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you're not going to have distortion in
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the middle of the picture and besides
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you can see items above it that are
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straight lines see
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so there's no distortion in this area so
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something is really weird
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this is what's suspicious this is our
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11.1 missing column right here
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okay
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he's the one that's missing right now
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he's the one that i think was the first
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one to go right here i think this is the
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one that started it all
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and this is the one that's right
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directly beneath that planter and i've
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showed you this many times in the past
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if you look at my videos from july
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you can see i showed you that and i also
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showed you how it's possible that they
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drove heavy equipment on the deck when
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they were planting the palm trees and
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that may have added stress
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up here because that's right in this
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area right up in here
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but you can notice how there's a lot of
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things going on here they have that
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shield over here because they had a lot
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of leaks
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so there's the view looking back up the
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ramp you see
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it's a 60 foot long ramp there
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and in case you're entertaining the idea
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that somebody came flying through here
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at 40 miles an hour or more you can't
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because you got to negotiate through
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this tight little fitting here and the
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signs everywhere telling you to be
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careful and you really have to go slow
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to get down because when i come back to
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it you can see right here here's where
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they put all of that corrugated plastic
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and this is in the space between this
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column and our m 11.1 column right here
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we kind of showed you all this back in
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or early june and the other thing is
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look how this is bubbling that's i think
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got water in it right there that paint
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so we just simply don't know and then
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remember i pointed this out on our video
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in july folks the one thing that i
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really didn't like here
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about this beam is it's set up in a
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shearing fashion instead of the beam
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being on top of the load where i think
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it should be
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here's that giant h beam that we've been
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talking about you see this right here
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this h beam right here
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notice how it's on top of
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all of its columns you see that and in
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fact all the other beams in this garage
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which i've mentioned before were on top
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of their columns and so coming back here
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and looking here's that that h beam
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right here see so fiorello was standing
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like right here shooting this way at the
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h beam where i just pointed to you where
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it was sitting on top of its
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respective columns but the beam that
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went between these two
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was bowed on the bottom seemed to be
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pretty damp because it had a lot of
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paint peeling on it and it was set up in
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a shearing fashion not
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poured over the top of these two
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okay now here is a a pretty good aerial
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shot that we got off of a briefing map
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so here's that look down the garage ramp
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down the ramp here to the end and there
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i indicated 14
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27 that second column was the
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southernmost border of the property and
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there's our column m11 so if it's
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connected remember there's beams all
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over the place if this one somehow
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fell down
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what's going to hold up the other end of
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this beam that was there and it's in a
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shearing fashion anyway so it's likely
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going to tear it down with it and then
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probably this column first to go and
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maybe this this one second so this is
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where the front of the building here
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started to just
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collapse down but this shows a great
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overhead view of exactly
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how these are all related and this right
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here is that column 40 that we saw in
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the background off to the right
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remember on that frame and we could see
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that 40 on on there that's 40 here
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so do you agree with our assessment of
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which column fell first let us know down
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in the comments what your particular
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theory is on what caused this condo to
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collapse and we'll put a link down in
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the video description below to all of
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our other previous videos on this
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series and make sure you subscribe to
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this channel because you don't want to
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miss out on any more of these great
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