ongoing search and rescue at the condominium collapse is gearing towards the west and might go easy on miami but we have cruise and will keep you updated on the situation as well. will: let s head over to ashley strohm i ll with additional headlines. were gonna start with us overnight rescue crews resume looking for victims after the rest of the condo tower is demolished demolition crews imploding the tower in a matter of seconds they fear elsa will bring down as crews searched for 121 people still unaccounted for the company behind the keystone xl pipeline is seeking $15 billion in damages from the biden administration energy announcing a hopes to get compensation for lost suffered as a u.s. government breach of
good day from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. here s what is happening at 2:00 p.m. eastern, 11 a.m. pick. demolition crews have taken over in surfside florida. the part of the being that s still standing would be demolished in the next 24 hours. officials say certainly before tropical storm elsa makes land fall over florida. this morning, the crews were about 80% complete with their preparation to bring the building down. as you know, the fact that the building is being transplanted to be demolished as stopped the work, which is critical. we need to get back to work as soon as possible. we need to get this building taken down. and we need to move forward with the rescue of all these people still left in the rubble. as for the numbers, they
with the founder of structural engineering partnership. david, we ll start with you. your teams have retreated for this demolition. what are you hearing about the time line of when this can go down? and i m sure your rescue teams understand why this is happening, but are they discouraged at all that they re unable to keep going right now? i wouldn t categorize it as discouraged. they understand the importance of the demolition and the time line that it s going to take to accomplish that. they stand poised, ready to engage. as you heard in the press conference, as soon as the building comes down, teams will be able to move right in and resume their search and rescue efforts. we are maintaining a presence on the site of what we consider rapid intervention teams in the event anything happens with the building while these demolition crews are doing their job. okay. joel, from an engineering point
tiger shark while scuba diving. the shark grabbing hold of her legs. her dive instructor attacked, too, while trying to fight off the shark. the instructor survived. president trump shrinking two national monuments in utah. signing proclamations to dramatically scale back bears ears by more than 80%, and the grand staircase escalante by nearly half. the president claiming he s, quote, reversing federal overreach. the sites spanning several million acres that contain large amounts of oil, gas and coal. native american and environmental groups are now protesting those moves. and it took two stakes, the pontiac silverdome standing strong after demolition crews tried to bring it down yesterday. the contractor blaming a wiring issue. so, they tried again today. the explosions going off as planned and eventually reduced to a cloud of dust and debris in just seconds. didn t want to give up. when we come back on a monday night, the battle of the christmas lights in neighborhoods across t
and that s when i realized i was probably not in a good spot. that something is a powerline. luckily for marshall, it s a dead wire. and you could hear the impact of the tower finally hitting the ground, and i turned around and looked over my shoulder and you could just see dust billowing up. fortunately for everyone involved, there are no injuries. it s a miracle that nobody was hurt. those power lines were flying through the air. if people hadn t moved, they easily could have been injured. when marshall reviews his video for the first time, he s stunned. i m looking at the video, i said my god, i said, i had no idea i was that close. so what went wrong with the demolition? why did the tower fall in the wrong direction? samantha starts making calls. the demolition crews at the scene declined to talk with us. later that evening, i was able to get the company on the phone and what they believe happened is that there was an undetected crack in the tower, and they be