their mom is still in there. i know that that s obvious to people, but it s just very hard to process right now. this is real. this is happening, and people haven t seen something like this here for sometime. we are getting a better sense of exactly what the what happened to the building and what it looks like, right? we are. michael was able to obtain photos from the fire marshal that i think gives us a better idea because they re close-up photos. we have them so we can show them to our viewers. and, sanjay, if you just look at these photos, you re able to see how, when officials describe this pancake collapse, you ll see the layers, almost like layers in a cake. you see the concrete floors. you see the balconies. you see patio furniture. and then the mangled wires and also the dangling concrete.
how are you going about collecting information, kevin? are you getting information from officials? it s really not and i don t mean or think it s their fault. it s an evolving scene as you can see behind us. today we were a little shocked of the amount of fires that are breaking out in the debris and the smoke and the water. that s not a good sign. so, but we re dealing day by day. we re now finding more and more people and i hope and pray she s found soon and everything is good. but it s not a promising sight if you ve been here. i m sorry. and i don t, i don t mean to talk about this in clinical terms by any means. it s very hard to reconcile what we re seeing behind here with all that we re hearing. michael, tell me about your mom. my mom is the greatest person in the world. she would call us almost every day just to check in on us.
so that s when i called all the kids. i got into my car and i drove to the san francisco airport and flew to atlanta. met michael, who came from north carolina. we met and we were here yesterday afternoon and we went right to the community center to meet everybody. i think about what has happened here, and part of me sort of wonders were there any signs? this is a building that you lived in. i mean, we live in buildings in this country, you just don t expect something like this. this is a fairly modern building. it s only 40 years old. if you look at some of the buildings around us, the one next door is actually brand-new. but the one next to it is probably 50 or 60 years old. and it appears to be fine. but this past weekend there was some water in the garage, and it was coming up. whether that was the real sign that there was something wrong, i don t know.
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. dr. sanjay gupta in surf side, florida, about a block away from the heartbreaking building collapse. 30 hours now roughly since the building collapsed and desperate search and rescue missions are underway. there is going to be a news conference from officials here shortly. we ll take you to that. some grim news recently that four people have now been confirmed to have died. this is the work that is ongoing. i m joined now by the spiegels. kevin, michael, josh. thank you for joining me. i know this is a tough day and i m going to explain why. you live in that building. yes. for five years with your wife judy. yes. you were out of town but your wife was still in the building. correct. i m so sorry.
there s always hope. you know, i ve been in florida, in haiti, collapse in barbados and other collapses that we ve been at, and there s always that hope and that s why we re here. we fight 24/7, we don t stop. you know, when it gets to that point that it s just incompatible with hope, we ll reach that point. but right now there is always hope and that s what we re here to do, we re here to rescue as many people as we still can. it is hard to reconcile some of the images that we re seeing. the work that is going on there with what we just heard from the spiegels. i mean, you don t think of sights like that and think of people who are still trapped, people who still need to be rescued, but that is what is happening. rosa, it s so tough. i mean, i think sometimes we think about these things from a macro level, and then you hear from the spiegels, kevin and josh and michael, his wife,