""If the roof comes off, I think they are in big trouble. The whole structure will be compromised and
the rest of the interior will likely sustain catastrophic damage.""
"I rather doubt it. It doesn't look like the roof is in any way structurally supporting the rest of the building."
Per discussion and technical data in earlier thread, roof and walls are integral to each other.
Still, it important to note that roof panels are not the same as roof trusses/supports, which do not appear to have been affected yet.
Hurricanes take roofs frequently, and while people get wet, they can and have survived.
I watched the roof collapse of Miller Stadium . . . . So much steel tends to go . . .down.
Like I posted elsewhere...
I'd be more worried about catastrophic structural roof failure... if small pieces get blown off here and there... that's rain and wind insize... if the whole thing structurally fails...... You wind up with large debris reigning down on the interior.... and with all those people in there.. the death toll would be massive.
Additionally, there is a difference between the roof membrane and the roof structure. The leaking results from some problem with the membrane. It is either partially gone or a seam has been opened. I would guess that a seam has opened at the perimeter and the wind drives the water inside.