and also, you know, our goal in this effort is really to put resources in to the rescue effort, and that s the most important thing that we conveyed to him. josh, i know you re a trauma surgeon. we ve had a chance to get to know each other a little bit in the past few days. i just spoke to the mayor of miami-dade, and she said the search and rescue operation has started up again after being halted for so much of today, halted overnight and almost all of today. what kind of hope does that give you? there is always hope. i mean, with trauma, we talk about the golden hour and all these things. and right now it s already past a week, which is in some ways disheartening, but we re not giving up hope. when we heard this morning that the building shifted and they
and it was the same time where things did slow down with the operation, so we were able to talk to him about really putting more federal resources into this rescue effort. josh? yeah. i think that president biden really spent a lot of time with all of the families. and it also gave us an opportunity to talk to some of the other families as well. i think we also need to thank dearly senator marco rubio, governor desantis and debbie wasserman schultz as well. they have been fighting extremely, extremely hard for us and for the rest of the families, and they were there as well and giving everyone a lot of support and since i think they have put in an extreme, extreme amount of effort as well as all of the first responders on the ground.
body of my son or daughter, my husband, my cousin, my mom and dad? how can i have closure without being able to bury them? if i don t get the body, what do i do? jill and i wanted them to know that we re with them and the country is with them. our message today is that we re here for you as one nation, as one nation. joining us now, kevin and josh spegle. they met with the president earlier today. kevin, what did it mean to you to hear that message from the president of the united states? wolf, thank you so much for having josh and myself on. it meant a lot. it really did, to have jill and president biden meet with us, sit down, talk to us, and he was actually really sincere.
were not able to work all day long, we were very, very concerned. and now that we re hearing that they re able to restart again is very helpful. but there is some going to be something that needs to happen to the existing standing building. whether that s to take it down and kind of push it into the street where there is empty space and away from the pile because what we do not want to happen is for it to collapse on to the pile and then we just restart from scratch. that would be the worst. all right, josh and kevin. our hearts go out to you. we re praying and hoping for the best. thank you once again for joining us on this important day. the president of the united states and the first lady here. coming up, we re minutes away from a news conference here in surf side.