layla is on outfront tonight. reporter: crews are now able to go into areas they could not yesterday because that building was demolished. the death toll stands at 28. 26 of those individuals have been identified. they have had to stop the search effort twice because of lightning. that said, the mayor insists and we ve seen it here, the search is still very much active. tonight the control demolition of the rest of the champlain towers south sunday has opened the way for search and rescue teams to broaden their efforts and continue their work safely. the search and rescue team has pbeen able to search all
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four-store one collapsed on the corner. they ve been pulling four people out, we understand, that have been sent to the hospital. no word on their conditions yet. more first responders have been coming to the scene through the rubble right there. our affiliate saying 8 to 10 people have been pulled out from the rubble, but they don t know how many people may have been in the apartment complex at the time that it just collapsed. again, a control demolition going on in a parking garage next door. our affiliate had a chopper in the air. this is what they saw. reporter: they saw the smoke go up in the air, and then they rushed off the roof they were on, down and jumped into the basement of the salvation army building action where people were trapped. they had they helpedรง get abou 12 people out of the building from that trapped rubble. so now we have heard from the mayor the fact that firefighters, first responders working as fast as they k they re pulling bricks, debris, looking for
remaining structure right now. right now they were hoping to have the building come down before this storm might come through this area around late monday. so that is the hope. but there is no specific exact time that they are going to have this demolition happen according to the miami-dade county mayor. the good news is she said there will not need to be any vaccination situations in the immediate area, though she will announce a perimeter around the area where this demolition will happen. here is the mayor talking about this. we will begin the search and rescue once again on any sections of the pile that are safe to access as soon as we are cleared. the decision to move forward with the rapid control demolition has impacts on the nist investigation, which i heard about, the federal team. they are mobilizing with great haste to capture all possible information prior to this