Cnns liveSpecial Coverage of the tragedy near miami continues, this hour. Im pamela brown in washington. And im wolf blitzer here, in surfside, florida. Scene of the stunning collapse that turned this 12story condo into a smoking pile of rubble, in a matter of only seconds. Within the past hour, the Miamidade County mayor, Daniella Levine cava gave an update on the victims of this tragedy. Listen to this. Our teams have been working, around the clock, as always, to search for survivors. They have not stopped. And today, our searchandrescue teams found another body in the rubble. And, as well, our search has revealed some human remains. The process of identifying these victims is very difficult. We are going to be relying on dna testing, and that is why weve, already, been gathering dna samples from the Family Members. So, they have all participated, and provided dna to assist us in the identification. This allows us to do rapiddna test testing, onsite, for bodies that we find. And, you
Cnns liveSpecial Coverage of the tragedy near miami continues, this hour. Im pamela brown in washington. And im wolf blitzer here, in surfside, florida. Scene of the stunning collapse that turned this 12story condo into a smoking pile of rubble, in a matter of only seconds. Within the past hour, the Miamidade County mayor, Daniella Levine cava gave an update on the victims of this tragedy. Listen to this. Our teams have been working, around the clock, as always, to search for survivors. They have not stopped. And today, our searchandrescue teams found another body in the rubble. And, as well, our search has revealed some human remains. The process of identifying these victims is very difficult. We are going to be relying on dna testing, and that is why weve, already, been gathering dna samples from the Family Members. So, they have all participated, and provided dna to assist us in the identification. This allows us to do rapiddna test testing, onsite, for bodies that we find. And, you
Attempting to figure out, to explain, how this might have happened. In the meantime, Family Members are holding onto hope, and they are desperately waiting for answers. My nephew was here with a wife and three four children. Im just asking god. My mom is an absolutely amazing person. Shes a fighter, and she fights for every single one of us. And we wont stop, until we wont stop fighting, until we find her. I want to get, now, to sanjay and cnn correspondent, rosa flores also there at the scene of the building collapse. Rosa and sanjay, this is you know, this is heartbreaking to hear from these families. And there are, still, so many questions about what happened here. No doubt, brianna. And rosas been here since yesterday morning. It is tough, i just have to say, listening to those Family Members. I cant even imagine if your if you dont know, at this point. And that is the case for 99 people, theyre still unaccounted for. I i wonder, do we have any more insight, as to what, exactly, ha
The sun is rising there, now, over a desperate searchandrescue operation. We are going to go back to sanjay here, in just a moment. Crews have been working through the night. They are trying to locate survivors of this devastatingBuilding Collapse. 99 people are, still, unaccounted for this morning. We know that at least one person is dead. I think we actually got an update from the mayor that that four people may have passed away. And were expecting to get a moreformal update, from officials here, shortly. There is video from inside of a Parking Garage where rescuers have been focusing their search. It is delicate. This is dangerous work. They have Structural Engineers who are right beside them during this. You can see why. Also, this Surveillance Video shows the moment the Building Collapsed. Just horrifying. This morning, we are going to talk to a number of experts who are trying to figure out how it could have happened. Meanwhile, Family Members are holding out hope. Waiting for an
The sun is rising there, now, over a desperate searchandrescue operation. We are going to go back to sanjay here, in just a moment. Crews have been working through the night. They are trying to locate survivors of this devastatingBuilding Collapse. 99 people are, still, unaccounted for this morning. We know that at least one person is dead. I think we actually got an update from the mayor that that four people may have passed away. And were expecting to get a moreformal update, from officials here, shortly. There is video from inside of a Parking Garage where rescuers have been focusing their search. It is delicate. This is dangerous work. They have Structural Engineers who are right beside them during this. You can see why. Also, this Surveillance Video shows the moment the Building Collapsed. Just horrifying. This morning, we are going to talk to a number of experts who are trying to figure out how it could have happened. Meanwhile, Family Members are holding out hope. Waiting for an