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Flatbush collapse report examines excavation and foundation risks

CBS New York's noon coverage reports eight dead and nineteen injured, with neighbors describing construction vibrations before the collapse.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 190,464 views a day, 58 times a normal first day on this channel (3,269).

Flatbush, Brooklyn building collapse - noon update | Team coverage

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0:07Jessica Moore reports eight confirmed deaths and nineteen injuries in the Flatbush collapse.
0:54Search crews use dogs, drones and excavation machinery to work through the rubble.
2:37Buildings Commissioner Ahmed Tigani confirms excavation work was permitted at the adjacent site.
5:44Tim McNicholas examines earlier stop-work orders and violations involving demolition and protective sheds.
7:00Anil Agrawal explains how excavation can cause foundation settlement and destabilize older masonry buildings.

A woman searching hospitals for two missing cousins brings the uncertainty facing families into CBS New York's coverage of the Flatbush building collapse. At the scene, crews search the rubble with dogs, drones and excavation machinery.

The station's noon update combines those accounts with a question that reaches beyond the rescue operation: how can digging beside an older building affect its foundations?

Anil Agrawal, a civil engineering professor at The City College of New York, explains how excavation can cause the ground supporting a foundation to settle, destabilizing older masonry buildings. His explanation describes a structural risk, not an established cause of this collapse.

Reporter Elijah Westbrook hears from neighbor Novella Spence, who describes waking to vibration and noise from nearby construction. Buildings Commissioner Ahmed Tigani confirms that excavation work was taking place at the adjacent site. Investigative reporter Tim McNicholas also examines earlier stop-work orders and violations involving demolition and protective sheds.

The noon broadcast drew more than 120,000 views within eleven hours, far beyond the station's usual first-day audience for regular videos. A separate report by Allen Devlin, showing firefighters rescuing a pregnant woman from the rubble during a live broadcast, also drew unusually heavy viewing.

The noon update captures the search while it was still underway. In a subsequent report published Friday, CBS New York says the search for victims ended Thursday.

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