Block away. Residents are being told to evacuate out of an abundance of caution. Officials say theres still hope of finding survivor, but Cnns Wolf Blitzer can tell us on the ground in surfside. Wolf, its getting more desperate by the hour. And this big revelation today, which is not going to come as any comfort to anybody on the ground there that an engineer warned three years ago that there were major structural issues with the building. Wolf, that is devastating news. Reporter its devastating, and its so heartbreaking to so many of the families, loved ones who are gathered, waiting, hoping, and praying right now. Experts say it may take months to get to the bottom of what happened here in surfside, florida. Back in 2018, managers were urged to make repairs and we understand that work was set to begin soon. Were going to have much more on that coming up in a few moments. But lets begin with the latebreaking developments on the rescue efforts. Fires and rain are making this very diffi
let s hope we can improve. tonight. all right. but first, we ar are now on nighthouse three of the battle for the house speaker and we begin tonight with some good news. i can confirn m major negociate vote been going on all day behind the scenes while these votes were taking place todayhe with kevin mccarthy and many of the republican holdouts. thi and i can report that at this hour, a documented being put together that will go a long way to settling differences. 28 will it get kevin to two hundred and eighteen? we won twe won know until probay sometime tomorrow, maybe monday. if anything, it would justle ofo probably be a couple of votes short, but certainly progress. itht a is realt th tonight at ts hour, no doubt the american people are being patient, butop that patience is wearingle thin the vote totals remain as of now unchanged. three straightotals re days. we have two hundred republicans supporting mccarthy 20 supportin g somebody else. and the past twenty four hours,
the police. yes, that s important. parental rightyes, big tech and big government censorship, seection integrity, protections for the first and second amendments and a lot more to mor that document. he signed hi, s name to it. tha thisre is an agenda that republicans support. it includes key investigations, oversights a firm stance against all of biden s reckless policies and by the way,discus he s agreed to every investigation we have discussed up to datese-to-date. now, kevin mccarthy does becomee speaker and he fails to liver p to the promises just one person can initiate his removal. and the agenda seems to be pretty much in cement and itfirs is the america first agenda.t keep now, keep in mind, these aren n the only promises mccarthy made to republican lawmakers. take a look at this. l take ahe led the conference to t substantive reforms that will make our majority more effective. let me list some of them. andrew clydes proposalto to restore public access to th capital law and
we need to talk about who he is. he is the guy like you said that thought january 6th was a tour, voted against the congressional medal of honor. they aappealing to the base instingss of the american voter. and i guess, you nailed the most u plausible truth, but i think what we have to sort of complete the other half of the thought, kevin mccarthy permits this, they re not a body without a leader, so he turns other authority to the andrew clydes of the world. and why but was was a staff member and the great frustration that i have is that this is not
Block away. Residents are being told to evacuate out of an abundance of caution. Officials say theres still hope of finding survivor, but Cnns Wolf Blitzer can tell us on the ground in surfside. Wolf, its getting more desperate by the hour. And this big revelation today, which is not going to come as any comfort to anybody on the ground there that an engineer warned three years ago that there were major structural issues with the building. Wolf, that is devastating news. Reporter its devastating, and its so heartbreaking to so many of the families, loved ones who are gathered, waiting, hoping, and praying right now. Experts say it may take months to get to the bottom of what happened here in surfside, florida. Back in 2018, managers were urged to make repairs and we understand that work was set to begin soon. Were going to have much more on that coming up in a few moments. But lets begin with the latebreaking developments on the rescue efforts. Fires and rain are making this very diffi