It is friday june 2, 05, youre watching fox and friends first. Jillian President Biden approved floridas Emergency Declaration. Lets go live to the scene in surfside. What is the latest . Reporter you get a sense of what is going on behind me, they are springwater to keep the dust down, we are seeing heavy machinery moving in as they tried to remove the rubble. The search goes on for life underneath that rubble. At least 40 Urban Search And Rescue workers were under the underground parking lot, they heard some sounds, some banking, not clear if it came from humans or not but officials including the governor say this is very much a Search And Rescue operation. First order was the Search And Rescue, save lives and also caring for displaced folks. The first thing is why did this happen . They dont have the answers right now but i think they will in relatively short order. Reporter as many as 99 people remain unaccounted for after this disaster. A lot of Family Members in agony trying to f
It is friday june 2, 05, youre watching fox and friends first. Jillian President Biden approved floridas Emergency Declaration. Lets go live to the scene in surfside. What is the latest . Reporter you get a sense of what is going on behind me, they are springwater to keep the dust down, we are seeing heavy machinery moving in as they tried to remove the rubble. The search goes on for life underneath that rubble. At least 40 Urban Search And Rescue workers were under the underground parking lot, they heard some sounds, some banking, not clear if it came from humans or not but officials including the governor say this is very much a Search And Rescue operation. First order was the Search And Rescue, save lives and also caring for displaced folks. The first thing is why did this happen . They dont have the answers right now but i think they will in relatively short order. Reporter as many as 99 people remain unaccounted for after this disaster. A lot of Family Members in agony trying to f
Horrific thing that ive seen in my life. The wheel thing came down. It looks like a bomb went off but were sure a bomb didnt go off. A brief moment of hope that youre looking at from earlier this morning before the sun came up, that is rescuers pulling a young boy from the rubble alive. Hes one of two people that Authorities Say they have been able to rescue from the debris so far. Take a look at this. This is what the highrise ocean front looked like before the collapse this morning and here it is after the collapse in the aftermath, what is left of the building. Our Layla Santiago is on the scene in surfside, florida, with the latest. So youve been there since right after this happened. What are people telling you . Reporter we learned new numbers. We learned that 35 people were rescued. Two were pulled from the rubble. But when i asked the key question of how many are still missing, officials couldnt give me that answer. They are asking families and friends who have not been able to
Anything but it is terrifying. Lets play it. You see first one section of the Building Collapsed and then seconds later another section of the building just collapsed and then the smoke rising from the rubble right after that. One eyewitness describing the scene as horrific. And you understand why they say that after you see that Surveillance Video. At least one person has died. More than 50 people are unaccounted for right now. Dozens of fire trucks and crews have been on the scene since early this morning. Fire and rescue confirm that two people have been pulled from the rubble alive. We have video of what appears to be one of them. A young boy being pulled out very early this morning. Now cnns Layla Santiago is live in surfside, florida. What is the latest there . Reporter that number that just came in, the 51 people who have been reported to the Hotline Set Up by the county for Family Members and loved ones to say, hey, we havent been able to reach someone that may have been in tha
No word how many could be trapped and what caused the collapse. Here is what the mayor said a short time ago. They were doing roof work on the building at the time. Certainly that doesnt seem like it would be the issue that would have caused it. Some of the residents at the Community Center have complained to me the new building that went up to the south used to shake the building when they were putting the pilings in. We need to look hard at what happened there and find out because buildings just dont fall down like this. We had the dogs out there probably a few hours ago over the collapsed area and were just not getting any hits which is really heartbreaking. Bill its a sound bite that captures the moment for what were trying to understand really beneath the rubble. Dana one thing we do know the building was going under a renovation of some sorts. That might have perhaps contributed to this terrible situation. Bill the authorities have been we see the sirens all night long. At the mo