A contractor posted a video arguing it showed structural problems inside the Hard Rock Hotel construction site two days before its deadly collapse.
Author: Andrew J. Yawn, Lafayette Daily Advertiser
Engineer weighs in on Hard Rock Hotel collapse: ‘Logically, it doesn’t make sense’
Structural engineer Walter Zehner worked on the project before it became a planned Hard Rock Hotel. A look at what he thinks could have happened:
Hard Rock hotel construction collapse in New Orleans: At least 1 dead, several missing
The construction of a Hard Rock hotel on Canal Street collapsed Saturday morning in New Orleans. You can watch the harrowing moments here.
Tropical Storm Barry brings familiar question to sinking Louisiana island: Stay or go?
Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana, was once a 22,000-acre saltwater oasis. But because of erosion and rising sea levels, it has shrunk to 300 acres.