Of sense for the country, our economy and the future. We have not heard from mitch mcconnell. Thank you so much. Thank you. This is cnn Breaking News. Top of the hour. Im victor blackwell. Thanks for staying with me. We begin with the lifeanddeath race right now in South Florida, the search for survivors more than 13 hours after a Building Collapsed and killed one, injured at least ten. Moments ago the Fire Marshall told cnn rescuers are hearing some voices there in the rubble. Surveillance video captured the moment. This is 1 30 a. M. , surfside, florida, 55 units of a condo pancaked. Floridas governor toured the Disaster Site a short time ago. We thank the fire and rescue for what they did to be able to put themselves on the line to help other folks. Theyre still hard at work. We still have hope to be able to identify additional survivors. County commissioners told cnn that 51 people are unaccounted for. She says its possible they could be on vacation or simply away from their home.
only by the barest margin and only by winning the votes in the 11th hour of the most extreme members of his party. one promise he made while campaigning to be speaker according to cnn s the new york times is to make thousands of hours of security footage from the january 6th attack public. today here is how house speaker mccarthy justified his decision to release the video. because i think sunshine matters. i don t care what side of the issue you re on, that s why i think putting it out all to the american public, you can see the truth. so what could be wrong with that? well, for starter, he is not actually doing what he said. he is not putting it all out to the american people. he is giving it to fox host tucker carlson, the one who spent months downplaying the significance of the day and hosting people peddling conspiracy theories about the day, lies about the election. when asked about that today, the speaker suggested the objections were just sour grapes. did you
aaron burnett out front starts now. now a race against time to find survivors in an earthquake that s killed more than 3800 people as they definitely search for survivors. the death toll is rising, and we are have a live report in just a minute. plus, desantis versus disney. why the florida governor cannot quit fighting the most magical place on earth. a place so magical that he reportedly got married there. and putin s ex-wife living a life of total luxury, now sanctioned by many countries, including the united states. we re going talk to a reporter who literally went knocking on her mansion door. what she found, what they said, and she s got the pictures to prove it. let s go outfront. and good evening. welcome to all to a special edition of outfront tonight. i m erin burnett. we re going get to all of these stories and much more. i want to begin, though, the devastation and desperation unfolding right now as we are all watching this. 4300 people now confirmed d
top of the hour. i m allison. i m victor. more than 1 million puerto ricans are without power. the water washed away this bridge as it made landfall. fiona is a tropical storm and battering the island with heavy winds and catastrophic flash floods. hundreds of fema workers are on the ground. the president is assuring puerto rico we stand with you and will get through this together. cnn s laila santiago is live in san juan where the rising water is the major concern. laila, what are you seeing? reporter: in san juan in the northwestern part of the island it is different than what they seeing on the interior and eastern part of the island. so i know victor showed that video of the bridge washed away. i talked to a young man there last night when it happened and said he was looking outside the window and happened within a matter of minutes. this morning i got into salina on the southeastern part of the island and there is a lot of concern and frustration among the people i
school libraries and reading lists in more districts and states, according to a new report. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start with our national lead. hurricane fiona wreaking havoc on several caribbean islands. the storm made landfall as a category 1, but expected to become a major hurricane after it hit puerto rico on sunday, knocking out the entire power grid there. puerto rico, still recoverining from hurricane maria in 2017, is suffering catastrophic flooding. you can see this bridge, which was rebuilt after hurricane maria, being swept away by the rushing waters. another river, rising to 29 feet, surpassing the record set in 2017. we re going to start our coverage with laila santiago, in part rico, where most communities are still struggling without power. reporter: almost the entire island of puerto rico remains in the dark after hurricane fiona slam into the southwestern coast of the island sunday afternoon. pounding rainfall causing catastrophic mud