The evidence from the collapsed Surfside condo is growing by the day, but the investigation could take years
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Allyn Kilsheimer, Surfside city's hired investigator, has been collecting evidence about the fallen condo and its design and maintenance in search of clues that could identify who, if anyone, should be held accountable for its collapse.
"Here, to here, to here, to here," he told the workers, tracing a square along a support structure built out of the building's facade to indicate where he wanted radar testing done that would show the arrangement of the steel reinforcement beneath the surface. The gruff 80-year-old, a structural engineer and veteran of forensic investigations at catastrophes like the Pentagon post-9/11 and the collapse of a pedestrian bridge at Miami's Florida International University in 2018, was hired by the town of Surfside, Florida, one day after a condominium collapse last month that's left 79 people confirmed dead and 61 still unaccounted for.Elected officials, Jewish advocacy groups and civil rights leaders are vowing to “push back” against the message of a White nationalist group that staged a march last week near downtown Columbus, Ohio, calling the demonstration an act of hate unwelcome in their community – and the United States more broadly.
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