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July 2, 2021 - Jim Fetzer
16:06
IDF Heads To Miami
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So I have a few more pieces of information on the condominium collapse in Miami, and I felt like it was just too important to leave out.
So we'll get to that in a second.
I don't have a lot of commentary for this video.
One thing I do want to add, though, some of these 9-11 tie-ins, and to me it is intentional, are they are they screwing with us?
Because some of this is ridiculous.
I'll get to it in a second.
But here is Wait, what?
The IDF is now on scene?
Why?
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The United States and many communities around the world still reeling from a tragic condominium
collapse in Miami, Florida last week.
And as search and rescue efforts continuing now into day four, Israel is sending an elite
team of specialists to go and help out.
Wait, what?
The IDF is now on scene?
Why?
Why do we need the IDF there?
I have one of these unspeakable people in my comment section claiming that they're all
They're just so stupid.
So why?
Why do we need them there?
Anyway, let's go back and let's listen to what this guy has to say.
Israel sending an elite team of specialists to go and help out, especially as some 20 Israelis are believed to be among the missing.
A 10-person team, including Home Front Command reservists and representatives from the Foreign Ministry, heading off to Florida late Saturday night.
This following the collapse of a 12-story condominium in Surfside near Miami early Thursday morning, so far killing five and leaving at least 150 unaccounted for.
The Israeli engineering and rescue specialists on mission then to assist in life-saving efforts by, quote, mapping the challenges at the site of the destruction, assisting the Jewish community, and supporting the local rescue forces, end quote.
Especially as some two dozen Israelis and supposedly many other members of the American Jewish community are believed to be among the missing.
Then other victims reportedly also including individuals from Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Venezuela.
In any case, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett saying that he spoke with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to convey Israel's deepest condolences and to offer any support possible.
And Governor DeSantis responding to Israeli media saying, As good as our guys are, I've learned that anytime there's Israeli ingenuity that can be put into something, you'd be a fool not to take it.
I get a lot of flack for going after conservatives, but here's the reason why.
You have DeSantis, a hero of conservatives, going over to Israel to sign a bill that would take First Amendment rights away from Floridians.
Now here he is telling us that we need the same people who were arrested en masse, like 60 of them on 9-1-1, we need them over here to tell us why this building fell down.
Tonight, Florida now has some sharper teeth to address anti-Semitism in public schools.
Governor Ron DeSantis signing the anti-Semitism bill earlier today in Israel and Jerusalem.
While some applaud the move, our state capitol reporter Forrest Saunders tonight found out that some have their reservations.
Governor DeSantis is known to travel for his bill signings, but this one didn't happen at the capitol or even in the state of Florida.
It was more than 6,000 miles away during his trade mission trip to Israel.
Another coincidence with Governor DeSantis was this bill signing in the same Florida town as the collapse, Surfside, Florida, two weeks ago.
That's where the governor announced two new bills aimed at the Jewish community.
CBS 4's Peter Dench is live in Surfside with those details.
South Florida. That's where the governor announced two new bills aimed at the
Jewish community. CBS 4's Peter Dench is live in Surfside with those details.
Peter. Desperate search for survivors is intensifying after a high-rise condo
building collapsed in South Florida last week.
Rescue crews from around the world are now digging through the rubble in Surfside that is just north of Miami Beach.
Four more bodies were recovered yesterday, bringing the death toll to nine.
More than 150 people are still missing.
As we learn more about those lost, we are also learning more about what may have caused this tragedy.
David Begnaud has the latest.
Right now you've got teams from Israel and Mexico working with the team from the Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue.
And like I said yesterday, it's becoming abundantly clear that these people want you to know that they are involved with the condo collapse in every possible way.
We have been told repeatedly rescuers are moving fast but carefully.
One wrong move could mean another disaster.
We need to be sure that the pile does not fall on them, that it does not fall on any possible survivors.
What they've done is dig a trench beneath the rubble.
So far, it's 125 feet long and 40 feet deep.
There's an Israeli search and rescue team hoping to rescue people here just like they did after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Well, I can think of another disaster they were involved with.
It was even a building collapse.
Heck, it was a 13-story building collapse.
What a coincidence!
Do you remember this just a month ago?
Amid the back-and-forth exchange of heavy fire between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza, an airstrike by the Israeli military has collapsed a high-rise residential building in Gaza City.
Following the latest violence, Hamas warned it will retaliate.
Kim Hyo-sun has our top story.
As violence escalates between Israel and Palestine, Israeli forces on Tuesday night demolished a 13-story residential building in Gaza in an airstrike.
Late into the night, Gazans reported their homes shaking and the sky lighting up with near-constant Israeli strikes.
They also explained there was warning an hour before the strike.
It's not clear whether it was enough time for people to evacuate.
While it's not clear why the Israeli military targeted that specific building,
they said it housed the offices of top Hamas officials.
Well, I don't know about you, but that makes me feel so much better about the IDF being here on
our soil to help. So anyway, let's move on from them and let's talk about the litigation aspect
of this condo collapse.
Peace.
Some of this damage is minor.
Most of the concrete deterioration needs to be repaired in a timely manner.
Absolutely.
Why wasn't it?
Timely can't possibly mean more than two and a half years later.
That is attorney Brad Sohn who is representing at least a dozen victims and was the first to file a lawsuit the day of the collapse.
The association knew or should have known.
So a guy named Brad Son, a lawyer, is defending 12 of the victims, and he sued the very first day of the collapse.
Here's what I found.
Yes, it is a surname of the Unspeakables.
And just in case you weren't sure, this gentleman passed away a few years ago, but I want to read some of his credentials.
He was a member of the Jewish Community Center, the Zionist Organization of America.
I better not say that word again, but the Unspeakable Federation, B'nai B'rith, Anti-Defamation League, the World Unspeakable Congress.
So yeah anyway let's go back and see what this ambulance chaser is talking about.
That is attorney Brad Sohn who is representing at least a dozen victims and was the first to file a lawsuit the day of the collapse.
The association knew or should have known that there were structural integrity problems.
It should have been addressed at the time that they There was an engineer who we spoke with who took a look at the report who said nothing warned of imminent catastrophe in that report.
And an attorney for the Homeowners Association said the same thing.
There was nothing we read in there that told us, you know, look, you need to get on repairs right away or this building is going to collapse.
So the bottom line is most experts seem to be in agreement that there's not one single factor that led to the collapse.
There's probably multiple factors.
That led to this building falling down in the middle of the night while people were sleeping.
Wow that was really dramatic.
It's almost like the media is trying to set the narrative for this litigation.
And then of course we're going to move into the 9-11 tie-ins.
So check all this out in this very next segment.
All right, David, thank you.
We are going to dig into that.
Joining me now is Glenn Corbett.
He is an associate professor of fire science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
He is also a former member of the Federal Advisory Committee of the National Construction Safety Team.
Thank you so much for joining us this morning.
A federal probe into the cause of the collapse is being conducted by a team of scientists and engineers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Tell me about this team.
How was the team created and what exactly will investigators be looking for?
Thank you, Annemarie, for having me on.
It's hard to believe, actually, 20 years ago that if a building collapsed in the United States, we did not have the ability to do a full scale investigation like we do for every plane crash in America.
So back then, right after 9-11, several family members, most notably Sally Reginhardt, who lost her probationary firefighter's son that day, gathered together to create an organization called Skyscraper Safety, the Skyscraper Safety Campaign, which led to a push for a federal inquiry and actually led to the law
that created the National Construction Safety Team, the group that is now
down there in Florida to do the work.
So it's really a legacy of 9-11 that, something that came out of 9-11 that's going to benefit
the family members down in Florida. That's really good to hear. Oh perfect.
Yeah, that's really good to hear.
9-11 is going to benefit more unspeakables.
But anyway, let's get back into this segment.
Once the rescue and recovery efforts have been completed.
You've heard experts say that the building pancaked, that the floors pancaked on top of each other.
What is it about how the building fell that makes it more difficult for rescuers to search for survivors?
Boy, they just can't stop with these 9-11 references.
So, when she says experts are claiming that this building pancaked, of course she's talking about this expert.
Let's turn now to Matisse Levy in Burlington, Vermont.
He's a world-renowned structural engineer, and he's also the author of Why Buildings Fall Down, How Structures Fail.
Matisse, welcome.
Great to have you with us.
So, when you watched the video of this building in Surfside as it collapsed, and you compare it with other disasters you've examined, what stands out to you?
Well, the first thing is I was working on the World Trade Center collapse, and the method or the mode of collapse for this building was very similar.
It just pancaked down once it started failing.
But there was a trigger involved in the World Trade Center collapse, which was obviously the plane flying into the building and causing fires and causing the columns inside the building to soften up and not be able to carry the load.
I think a similar kind of phenomenon took place here, whereas one or more of the columns at the base of the building that had been seriously corroded, damaged, suddenly failed.
And so, as we just heard, Wow, that was an even uncomfortable pause by the reporter.
I guess I'm less speechless too.
I'm mainly speechless because I'm censored so I can't say anything.
I would love to talk about this.
Someone brought up the flashes as far as this condo collapse.
I can't talk about any of this.
This Matisse-Levy, this expert, unspeakable expert, trying to say that this is similar.
The whole pancaking thing from 20 years ago, that was debun... Again, I'm just gonna silence myself.
This whole thing is ridiculous.
This, if you want my theory, this is just one big, typical, unspeakable litigation.
Situation.
That's what it is.
They're bringing it out from every angle.
They've got the IDF in to, quote, secure the site.
It's all under wraps.
So anyway, we'll close it with this.
Here's one other 9-11 tie.
Please go give Miss Maskless a sub.
She found this info and it's terrific.
So this is going to be shared from a video that she had just posted a few days ago.
Anguish and pain is rippling throughout this Florida community.
My grandmother is the most loving person that I know.
92 years old, going on 62.
That's how Mike Noriega describes his fiercely independent grandmother, Hilda.
After hearing the news, he and his father, a local police chief, rushed to the scene.
When I saw it with my own eyes, I just dropped to my knees.
Among the debris, there was this.
My father stepped on something.
Which was this.
And that's my grandmother's name, Hilda.
When my father opened this up, it was a birthday card that she had just received from a group of friends about two weeks prior.
One of the major developments that occurred overnight is that officials found a passport belonging to one of the terrorists.
That was apparently found a couple of blocks away because when one of the planes, or the first plane, slammed into the tower, you could see it on the video in fact, Eric, are you going to, do you think there's going to be new emphasis on picking up that loose paperwork that's flying around that area now?
Do you think they might even expand the safety and investigation zone because that valuable information was found two blocks away?
We had a lot of papers and debris all over this place.
I mean, from checks and bank statements and memos and, you know, personal items around here.
But in terms of the actual evidence from the planes, that went south as the planes hit that way.
They've known about it for a couple of days.
Eric, Sean, thank you very much.
Even though the passport just showed up.
Yeah.
Didn't know what else we could find and we eventually found these two.
The one that blew me away the most is that is my grandmother.
That's my grandfather right there.
And that's my father.
Mike said finding that picture of Miss Hilda brought him and his family an overwhelming sense of peace.
On Saturday, New York officials revealed at a news conference here in the city that a hijacker's passport was
found blocks from the World Trade Center crash site.
If you can believe that.
We're on the scene of that building collapse near Miami.
We know at least one person is dead, and it is feared the death toll will dramatically increase as dozens of people remain unaccounted for.
Just into our newsroom, this security camera video.
Now, remember, this is from an adjacent condominium.
Stunning.
It captured the moment of the collapse, a 12-story complex simply turning to rubble.
It almost looks as if it was an intended implosion.
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