police that several people are dead as a result of this collapse. but it is not even clear they ve reached everybody just yet. nbc s mia rodriguez is live in miami. mia, what do you know about this? reporter: ali, we just go to the scene. you could see right behind me, this is the bridge collapse right here. right over there you could see it sort of bent down on to southwest eighth street. right now we are standing in the city of sweet water. this construction site is an area that they are building student housing. that was the impetuous for building this particular bridge in order to get students from this side of southwest eighth street to the main campus which is on the other side. this is a huge university. more than 50,000 students, it is a public university here in miami. joining me right now is jose mejia living here in the city of sweetwater which is where we are standing. you were out here having lunch and i ll remove this so you could hear. what did you hear and what did