china on twitter this morning. china responds. welcome to early start. i m alison kosik. it is 30 minutes past the hour. new information on the deadly blaze in oakland, california. the warehouse fire killed 33 people there to attend a dance party. criminal investigators are on the scene looking for signs of arson or criminal negligence. at least eight victims have now been identified. officials say they expect the death toll to rise. cnn s stephanie elam has the latest from oakland. reporter: officials saying it is too early to determine the cause of fire. they have said they have gone through the building and broken it up to quads. they found victims in all four quads of the building. no one place the victims were found. they are saying some of the people that lost their lives
investigation of the blaze of the converted weaarehouse that killed at least 33 people. criminal investigators are on the scene looking for arson or criminal negligence. at least eight victims have been identified. officials expect the death toll to rise. cnn s stephanie elam has the latest from oakland. reporter: officials here saying it is too early to determine the cause of the fire. what they have said is they have gone through the building and broken it up into quads. they found victims in all four quads of the building. no one place the victims were found. some of the people that lost their lives were juveniles. 17-year-olds. early adults in their 20s. they are also in touch with embassies for people who were from other countries that also lost their lives in the fire. at this point, they have reached out to some of the families, but still working to identify some
families believe they were at this event or friend believe they were at this event and they have not been accounted for? from the very beginning they started building a list. that was one of the first things done when this fire broke out. the list at the beginning of 25. there was 25 unaccounted for. they didn t know whether those people were missing, if they had self-checked themselves into the hospital or they were in the warehouse. since they ve been talking to families, doing the hard work of finding who is missing, who is unaccounted for and they ve continued to build that list. so you re right. based on what they have, they know there are more people likely in that building. now the work stoppage, they have to fact that they need the workers safe. they even canvassed areas and found cars that hadn t been moved and ran the license plates to see if those people might
incredible position to fill. it is his right to make statements. right to express his opinion. did a fake news story trigger a real-life confrontation? this is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. welcome to new day. it is 6:00 in the east. right now, 33 people have lost their lives. dozens are still missing in that massive warehouse party fire in oakland, california. we have to expect this high number to increase. only 30% of the massive building has been searched. criminal investigators are searching the scene for the cause of the fire and family and friends of those missing are enduring an agonizing wait. this is the deadliest building fire in more than a decaddecade. we have stephanie elam with more at the scene. how is it going there? reporter: it is painstakingly slow powork, alisyn.
afterwards, brady told reporters this, i have been fortunate to be on a lot of great teams. congratulations to him. the death toll rising in oakland. 33 people killed in the warehouse fire. investigations are now under way, including a criminal probe. donald trump on another twitter tirade. this time he is targeting china. details ahead on early start.