appreciate it. here is the first question it s a tough one. you are now the 14th person in. yep. a lot of people running. 14 is a really lucky number. not 13 that s a good point. right. this is the biggest job in the world. why do you want to be president? because i believe our country needs to have strong decisive leadership. that we have to set the tone inside our country and around the world. i believe i have the skills the abilities and the desire to make it happen. you are known you just completed a town hall that went on way past its deadline. you re known for lively town halls. let me quote you. get the hell off the beach. you re an idiot. here s a question, i m serious about. if elected president, do you remain the same person? i am the same person. i ve always been and i won t change. you know as we all grow and get older, there are little changes
why it would make it harder for the economy. it s harder for people to understand the economic argument that you would then lose jobs because people would then get their hours cut. republicans would have to be very clear in defending their positions. speaking of republicans, jeff, the field is set to grow by one today, chris christie launching his bid this morning. he s using the hashtag telling it like it is. how does he come back from bridgegate? he is number 14 the 14 republicans already in the race where he becomes the 14th person. he s trying to tell it like it is but it s not like it used to be for chris christie. he is really suffering from things happening at home. the economic record and the fiscal record in his home state is not very strong at all.
rand random? at random. do you think you were one of the first person? i was the 3rd or 4th person to get hit. to know that so far every parent could be blessed to know their child is still here. to me that is a god send. it really is. when my daughter called me at work freaking out and told me my son was on the list of victims i dropped. i don t think any parent in the world would every want to go through that kind of agony. for all of the students in the hospital, and parents in the hospital, i send my sympathy and i understand your pain. and mom, do you have anything to say? i have hugged her. kissed her. i have told her thank you.
the hour. you are watching cnn. i m brooke baldwin. it s been 24 hours for grief and joy. firefighters working through the night pulling the bodies of six people from the rubble. but they also rescued one person, a 61-year-old woman who had been trapped for more than 12 hours. she is the 14th person to make it out alive. at this hour crews continue to search for survivors. as they work, there are new details today on what happened right before the collapse. a wall in the building set for demolition fell into this adjacent salvation army thrift store there on the corner which had customers inside. city officials today said demolition crews are not scrutinized like other trades. well, what are those requirements? does somebody have to demonstrate proficiency at demolition? yes, in terms of electrical contractor and plumbing contractor but not specifically to demolition, no.
rescue scene according to the philadelphia fire commissioner lloyd ayers and the mayor of philadelphia, michael nutter, both of whom gave a news conference and just wrapped moments ago. want to play a little sound for you and an update. apparently what we have is we re in a transitional period. we have actually rescued, removed 14 people from the site. we have 13 of those persons that have been transferred to hospitals. the 14th person we don t have a comment right now. the other thing is we re transitioning our members to get fresh personnel and staffing here, to continue to dig. we have two dogs that have come out to work the pile, to locate others so we can know exactly where we can dig. we re preparing for 12 to 24-hour operation and we will be on the pile again, removing a