Where do we start here?
First look it appears someone cut the building in half with a huge cake knife. Very strange only a perfect half the building went down.
The "experts" are crawling out from the rocks talking about a 2018 report. Here's my problems with this: It lists repairs needed that weren't done correctly and also points to the salt air and water weakening the structure. This is not a tool shed in a backyard....if repairs are not completed for a building inspection or performed incorrectly, it would have been shut down and condemned until then by various agencies.
Also the fact they repeat and repeat on the news of it's an OLDER building. We have miles upon miles of concrete bridges that run thru our open oceans here. Also we have 100 plus year old structures across the world that do not just fall down.
As to the experts on tv speculating-I do not feel any credible engineer, architect, etc working for a company would dare go on tv and speculate one word on such a historic event BEFORE an investigation came out.
Now to the recue team i see on tv for very short clips...I see about 15 guys with home depot buckets picking up handfuls of debris and tossing them around, picking things up and putting them back down for no reason and basically acting busy for a short camera clip. 4 days later I see ONE large piece moved by a crane that has been on site since day 1. They have a very short window for rescuing survivors and they look like they are at a picnic site.
Speaking of cranes...they would absolutely never set up anywhere near a questionable foundation.