DAVENPORT, Iowa – In the 10 minutes before a Davenport apartment building collapsed, a support brace for portions of the brick façade was bending under pressure and the brick crumbling around it, CNN reported. Surveillance video from nearby roof captured he imminent collapse, then went blank when power was lost from the crash itself. The video shows this sequence:
> 2:42 minutes seconds before the collapse: A large chunk of brick façade falls from underneath a second-floor window.
> 0:55. A lower portion of the wall near the ground crumbles.
> 0:44. A small section of brick façade falls near another second-floor window.
> 0:10. A small cloud of dust from another façade falls near the window.
> 0:25. A support brace that had been bending slowly bends at a much faster rate.
> 015. Puffs of dust emerge along the wall as additional small sections facade fall. Other support braces,
> 0:01. Temporary wooden struts, all angled against the lower outside wall, bend further.
> 0:00. The surveillance camera goes blank as the building collapses and power goes off.