A very good morning to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. It is thursday, june 24th, and we are beginning with some Breaking News here. There is a massive Search And Rescue operation under way right now in south florida, after a highrise building partially collapsed in the city of surfside, this is near miami beach. Emergency crews are shifting through huge piles of rubble. Er following reports people may still be trapped in the debris. The collapse happened about 2 00 a. M. You would think people would be inside sleeping. Dozens of rescue units from the miamidade area are now on the scene. Leila santia we do is live on the scene. What is going on there . Reporter this is an upscale Beach Community north of miami beach with a mixture of old and New Buildings just to give you an idea of the area but i want to show you behind me, you can actually see in the neighboring buildings that rescue crews are on balconies, we see flash lights so we think theyre inside as
the biggest nuclear power plant. a pair of u.s. senators who landed, what they re telling our team in ukraine about the surprise visit. we have all of that coming up. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to start with nbc news justice reporter ryan riley and former prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst carole lamm. ryan, i want to come to you with some of the questions hanging over this filing, some of the key questions our team has identified. is it going to convince a judge not to appoint a special master which is what the department of justice wants. will the filing give us new clues about the investigation itself, things we did not know more broadly? will the doj challenge the judge s jurisdiction here, the one who said, she said this weekend, judge cannon, she was inclined to go ahead and appoint the special master which raised eyebrows in the legal world. to you on this. the investigation itself we could see bread crumbs. the justice department has chosen to spea
the oval office. but history may not be our best guy. i d here of course, the politics now are far more vitriolic and rough and tumble, but president biden has been practicing at camp david, the presidential retreat outside washington engine for this very reason, there s no american politician alive who is debated as often he knows well that first term presidential curse. that s why even tonight, he s still practicing with his aides jeff zeleny. thanks. the news continues right here on cnn and outfront next to a special edition lie from cnn s debate headquarters in atlanta, breaking news tonight on biden strategy, a technique that insider for say a said biden s favorability, quote, off the charts. this as questions swirl over whether trump will announce his bp as early as tomorrow. has a real-time demonstrate patient of what will happen when one candidate tries to interrupt the other. the question everyone has that and everything else you need to know about the debate rules
Everybody thinks we need to learn the lessons from the Grenfell Tower fire. And responsibility for drawing up the right lessons rests primarily on the shoulders of one man sir Martin Moore Bick, a 70 year old former commercial lawyer and appeal courtjudge. He went to the site of the fire today and met residents, which sounds fine. But and its a big one he then downplayed expectations of what his inquiry might cover and how quickly it could report. Now, im well aware that the residents and the local people want a much broader investigation and i can fully understand why they would want that. Whether my inquiry is the right way in which to achieve that im more doubtful, and ill give that some thought and in due course make a recommendation, but there may be other ways in which that desire for an investigation can be satisfied otherwise than through the work im going to do. Well, after the inadequacy of the early response to the fire, and the problems in the child abuse inquiry, it is goi