show @thelead. you can listen to the lead once you get your podcasts, all two hours, just sitting there like a delicious tray of sushi. our coverage continues now with mr. alex marquardt who is in for wolf blitzer in a place i like to call the situation room. i ll see you tomorrow. happening now, a desperate search and rescue mission. thousands of feet below the surface of the atlantic ocean. submersible operated by a company running expeditions to the wreck of the titanic is now missing. we have up-to-the-minute details on the mission to find the sub and the five people on board. also this hour, the high-stakes meeting of the super power secretary of state antony blinken says the u.s. and china have made progress towards getting relations back on track, but there still is a ways to go. we ll have a report from beijing. and more than 50 million people across the southeast face the threat of severe weather including tornados this holiday weekend. we ll have the latest
show @thelead. you can listen to the lead once you get your podcasts, all two hours, just sitting there like a delicious tray of sushi. our coverage continues now with mr. alex marquardt who is in for wolf blitzer in a place i like to call the situation room. i ll see you tomorrow. happening now, a desperate search and rescue mission. thousands of feet below the surface of the atlantic ocean. submersible operated by a company running expeditions to the wreck of the titanic is now missing. we have up-to-the-minute details on the mission to find the sub and the five people on board. also this hour, the high-stakes meeting of the super power secretary of state antony blinken says the u.s. and china have made progress towards getting relations back on track, but there still is a ways to go. we ll have a report from beijing. and more than 50 million people across the southeast face the threat of severe weather including tornados this holiday weekend. we ll have the latest forecast.
welcome back. i m wolf blitzer in surfside, florida. we re live here at site of the deadly condo building collapse. rescuers are now on day six of their desperate, desperate search and rescue mission. we re learning that there were, there were several warning signs before this tragedy. cnn has now obtained a letter from the president of the condo board written back in april just a couple of months or so ago that one, the building s condition had deteriorated significantly in the three years since the engineer s report highlighted major structural damage. there are now growing concerns about the conditions of other old buildings here in south florida. the city of miami beach by the way is sending structural engineers to inspect over 500 buildings that are undergoing the 40-year recertification process.
the writing seminar faculty at princeton and a professional dance teacher and a small business owner join me in studio and tell me what they re facing. it s good to have you here. i appreciate your time and also your willingness to share your story. josh, what is the situation right now in what you face for henry s possible deportation? henry faces a deportation hearing may 6th so a little over a week from now. the reason he s being deported, he s from venezuela, we re a same-sex couple. we got married last year and yet the federal government does not recognize our marriage. in the immigration context the federal government comes into my home and rips my husband away from me. henry, for you, when you came here in 2002 from vens ezuela a you came on a visitor s visa, did you think then that you wanted to stay, that you wanted to become a green carded citizen here in the u.s. and what steps did you take at that point to do it on your own?
rest of our lives and i can t believe this is happening, that my husband is being deporpted when napolitano, when this administration could step in and stop it immediately. i was a harvard undergrad when marriages started in massachusetts, so it s something that i ve grown up expecting, marry whom you love and then have them stay here with you in this country. we wish you the best of luck. you do provide hope for other couples out there and a lot of kids who will see your story and know they will have future for a bright life for themselves. thank you very much. we re going to have much more on the deadly storms and devastating cleanup that s happening in alabama. that and a whole lot more right here on msnbc.