i will share that hotline number with you. it is 1-877-823-6826. if you call that number report, we will get teams on that situation. i just want to ask for your patience, and you appreciate the community, the public assisting us in this response. natural resources for california is our top priority. and we will keep an eye on this disaster throughout the afternoon and evening. officials in california giving an assessment on the oil leak. officials are trying to get an assessment as to just how bad the situation is out there. we will keep on top of that and bring you the latest as it comes in. we want to turn to the debate over masks and schools. . my child was suffering after wearing his mask for so long. what kind of issues has he had? he had acne from not letting his skin breathe.
exactly. it s distasteful. you have you are the leader. you have a team of people who are around just to make sure you don t have lint on your jacket and they can t help you not check your watch when dead bodies are rolling off an airplane? i don t want to exacerbate the pain and rage felt by gold star families. they should be given a lot of grace right now and we shouldn t take their words and use it to attack politicians. i m not tiptoe but be respectful but as someone who has had to go to a lot of funerals at arlington, someone texting with a gold star daughter five minutes before this hit i have my own rage at this. i am upset and i think he should be better than that. better than that in a lot of ways. harris: we ll put up at my request, team, the hotline number for military veterans. military leaders in ohio have sent a message to veterans, joey. it is something that we talk
get them s back home. they are not stopping. they are still trying to serve. and fourthly, the biden administration has let them down. they have watched the country that they had to fight in and the people that they fought alongside be left in chaos. my plea to you at this today is check with the veterans you know to make sure they are doing okay. talk to them. the concern that they are feeling and the uptick that we are seeing in the calls to the hotlines for those veterans and what they are feeling has increased tremendously. make sure that you check on them. and if you are a veteran, a service member who served in afghanistan that you are feeling this could reach out to this current crisis hotline, which is available. i want to give you that hotline number right now. it is a confidential called. it is 182-73-8255.
i ll ask my team if that hotline number is still there. daily people are calling that and what they hope for is if you knew somebody in the building and you know that you haven t matched what you are being told by authorities with your loved one who is missing, give them a call so they can either add or subtract from this list. if you know that person wasn t in the building and is safe and sound, please call and if you need more answers about where that person might be and there is a possibility that they were in this building, please call. so that s part of the reason why you will see that number, the 151, go up and down. today it has gone up and so has the number of dead. i m going to ask my team to ready that hotline, reunification hotline we had in the first couple of days of this. i know from talking with authorities myself, including the mayor of surfside, charles burkett, that that number is still in play in all of this as they try to piece together
rescue. [speaking spanish] dana: all right. now we have just heard from the police officer. we have a little more information here. 1:30 a.m. is when the reports come in of a collapsed building. a 12-story building. 136 units in the building. this looks like he says approximately 55 apartment units affected. bill: ominous clouds behind. storm is moving in. we were told the weather forecast will turn bleak in a moment. it might bring a quick end to this press conference that seems to me it s taking place right on the beach. if you are looking for a pretty place to live in america, surfside, florida is a really good find. dana: the other thing that we don t know is how many people were actually in the building at the time. it s a condo building so you might have had full-time residents that lived their year round but they don t have a clear information on that. if people are looking to reconnect with family members, they have provided a hotline number that they have asked people to