Suburban miami community. A wing of the 12 stories peach front building collapsed early this morning. Search and rescue personnel are combing through the rubble being, searching for sur advisors. So far one person is confirmed dead. Correspondent Steve Harrigan has the latest tonight from surfside, hello, steve. Steve mike, officials here insist that this is still a Search And Rescue operation. They say under ground they are hearing a banging. They are not sure its human but they expect to continue the search all night long. Surveillance video shows the collapse of parts of a Condominium Tower at 1 30 a. M. Thursday while most residents were asleep. The most basic questions how many are dead, what caused the collapse, remain unanswered. This is beyond crazy, you know, this doesnt happen in first world countries. Billings just dont fall down like this. So this is inexplicable. We just dont have any answers right now but we will get them. We will find out what happened. Out of 136 units,
Suburban miami community. A wing of the 12 stories peach front building collapsed early this morning. Search and rescue personnel are combing through the rubble being, searching for sur advisors. So far one person is confirmed dead. Correspondent Steve Harrigan has the latest tonight from surfside, hello, steve. Steve mike, officials here insist that this is still a Search And Rescue operation. They say under ground they are hearing a banging. They are not sure its human but they expect to continue the search all night long. Surveillance video shows the collapse of parts of a Condominium Tower at 1 30 a. M. Thursday while most residents were asleep. The most basic questions how many are dead, what caused the collapse, remain unanswered. This is beyond crazy, you know, this doesnt happen in first world countries. Billings just dont fall down like this. So this is inexplicable. We just dont have any answers right now but we will get them. We will find out what happened. Out of 136 units,
how this ends up as a message to xi. shannon: we are not isolated, we are all interconnected with those disputes. these power grabs and the world watching. you are going to walk us through some maps and interesting stuff that will help us understand this better in just a minute to. by the way, president biden is deploying 7,000 additional u.s. troops into europe in support of nato. correspondent rich edson shows us what s happening at pentagon tonight. senior u.s. defense officials says the operation by russia, has every intention of capitated and the elected ukrainian government and to try to install a pro-russian one there. despite that and the risk to him and his family, the elected president, the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy said in a video tonight, a short video promising he and his family are staying in ukraine. him he says a new iron curtain is falling in europe, that is a nod to winston churchill s 1946 speech warning of soviet
western powers unite against russia with more on how the u.s. and european union are coming together. we are joined by correspondent rich edson. this weekend the united states and european union announced more than $800 million in additional security assistance to ukraine. this is on top of a massive sanctions package, one that has targeted russian banks and oligarchs. senior administration officials say american sanctions have targeted russian s ten largest banks accounting for 80% of the financial sector. the u.s. and europe are excluding some russian banks by cutting them off from the financial messaging service known as swift. the moscow stock exchange delayed its opening to 3:00 p.m. local. russia central bank more than doubled its target interest rate to more than 20%. designed to halt inflation as the value dropped 30%.
things. rich edson at the pentagon, thank you very much. we will be back with more live reports on the ground and special coverage of the russia ukraine conflict, next.