Are following Breaking News from south florida. It is devastating really. Its deadly. Theres been a highrise building that has collapsed in the city of surf side. This is just north of miami beach for context there. And what youre looking at here are live aerial pictures from the scene. You see that Swimming Pool on the left . This part of the building that has fallen down stretched all the way alongside that Swimming Pool. So were talking about a very large chunk of this building that fell down overnight. There is a huge pile of debris, 12 stories in this apartment building. Balconies that had been sawed in half, and were told that at least one person has died. About 100 units in this building, think of it, 39 years old. The collapse happened before 2 00 a. M. New video shows rescue crews pulling a young boy from the rubble. More than 80 Emergency Teams are on the groundworking to find survivors. We have some sort of before and after video. This is what the building looked like before
Horrific thing that ive seen in my life. The wheel thing came down. It looks like a bomb went off but were sure a bomb didnt go off. A brief moment of hope that youre looking at from earlier this morning before the sun came up, that is rescuers pulling a young boy from the rubble alive. Hes one of two people that Authorities Say they have been able to rescue from the debris so far. Take a look at this. This is what the highrise ocean front looked like before the collapse this morning and here it is after the collapse in the aftermath, what is left of the building. Our Layla Santiago is on the scene in surfside, florida, with the latest. So youve been there since right after this happened. What are people telling you . Reporter we learned new numbers. We learned that 35 people were rescued. Two were pulled from the rubble. But when i asked the key question of how many are still missing, officials couldnt give me that answer. They are asking families and friends who have not been able to
Legal basis for directing National Security agencies to take such an extreme action. As we reported on this broadcast yesterday the New York Times lays out the multipronged effort by trump and his allies to get just one federal agency to bite and join the crusade to overturn the result by seizing machines. Trump reportedly tried to get doj to seize the machines and then rejected by ag bill barr so then a plan for the Defense Department to do it. Only to get pushback from white House Counsel and Lo And Behold his own lawyer Rudy Giuliani. So then giuliani was asked if he could look into whether dhs could seize the machines. Giuliani said, sure. He tried but then he too was rebuffed by secretary Ken Cuccinelli and now another attempt by trump to get an official to agree to the plan. The New York Times Reporting This, quote, Cuccinelli Who told giuliani that the Homeland Security department didnt have the authority to impound the machines later encountered trump at a meeting on a differen
Underway. And new details from the pentagon on the isisk bombing at the Kabul Airport that killed 13 american soldiers and at least 170 afghan civilians in august. Arthel Alexandria Hoff is at the white house, Christina Coleman is in los angeles on the olympic outcry, but first, Lucas Tomlinson live in the ukrainian capital of kiev. Lucas. Reporter Russian Forces have fully assembled all their personnel to launch a full scale invasion if russian President Putin gives the order. This as Secretary Of State tony blinken hosts his polish counterpart as nearly 2,000 paratroopers arrived in poland. [inaudible conversations] but if it does not, we are fully prepared for the alternative. Reporter keep in mind when Russian Forces invaded georgia in 2008, they used half the number of troops they now have massed this evening. These forces are much more modern and capable. Jennifer griffin reports 70 of russias forces are now in place to launch that invasion, likely to cost thousands of casualties
Be imminent. And braeeaking now. Fda advisers will meet in two weeks to consider a request just submitted by pfizer seeking authorization for its Covid Vaccine for children under age 5. Ill ask the u. S. Surgeon general if this is a final, critical step for getting the country back to normal. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with the january 6th investigation. The Focus Sharpening On Former President Trumps attempt to pressure his Vice President to interfere in the 2020 president ial election. Heres cnns congressional correspondent, ryan nobles. Tonight, the january 6th select committee honing in on the inner circle of former Vice President mike pence. Any comment. A key witness in their investigation spotted meeting with the committee today. Greg jacob, a former chief counsel who advised pence to resist a Pressure Campaign from former President Trump and his al allies. In an oped he wr