Making it that much harder for rescue crews. Officials say four people are dead, 159 others are still missing after part of Champlain Towers south crumbled in the Early Morning hours on thursday. A newlyreleased inspectors report warned structural damage to the building in 2018. Steve harrigan is life in surfside, florida, with the latest. Steve. Reporter jon, day three, no rescues since thursday. The key numbers remain the same, 159 people still missing, four people confirmed dead. Officials continue to insist this is a still a searchandrescue operation. Here is the mayor of miamidade. We continue to have hope. Were continuing to search. Were looking for people alive in the rubble. That is our priority and our teams have not stopped. Reporter officials released a troubling engineering report from three years ago citing major structural damage in the building that collapsed. That there were cracks around the parking area and around the pool deck as well. The mayor has ordered an audit
Man who spent almost half his life with the fire department. Oakland firefighters saluting one of their own wednesday may. To sean lafons flag draped casket left senate medical center. Dozens of Police Motorcycles and fire engines hopping escort his body. The procession passing city hall and several fire stations, ending in a chapel of the chimes, funeral home and oakland am aware an American Flag was hoisted by trucks. Laughing, just 42 years old. They died as if it was cardiac arrest. I was hopeful in getting the news five hours later that he passed away when the cardiologist came back to speak to the family and myself, it was pretty knee buckling. We are struggling, coping, grieving. Reporter intern fire chief Melinda Drayton new sean lafons entire 20 year career with oakland fire. He turned to me early in his career when he made the decision to promote. Reporter a decision made out of love and passion for the fire service and oakland. Last year he was promoted to interim assistant
I will take it from here. We look at the roadways. Its a quiet commute. If you are getting out early are you in luck. We have a lit of a hiccup. Just some slight crowding into the pass. Overall things are moving for the mast part seamlessly onto the dublin interchange. Taking a look at the other super commuters route. Thats the drive out of gilroy to morgan hill. We are be clocking in nice speeds. If you are going north into san jose toward the peninsula things quiet. Only 36 minutes for the travel time to go from there to sfo. Highway 4 checking in problem free and the east shore freeway see nothing delays or brake lights. Im getting reports of debris westbound 80 at carlson. The United States has reached another grim milestone. More than 2,000 deaths report from coronavirus on tuesday. According to data from johns hopkins. There have been 20 other days with more than 2,000 deaths were recorded. The last time we saw a toll this high was back in may. In california the state reported mo
Thats due to more restrictive measures being instituted in california and other states to help stem the growing tide of covid19 cases. Today, the cdc announced its recommending against travel for the holiday. Ktvu southbound reporter jesse gary picks it up from there. Reporter with a week before thanksgiving, air travel is light at Oakland International and other bay area airports. We just wanted to break it up, so that we werent traveling with a bunch of other people. A little bit easier the week before. Reporter this as officials at Mineta San Jose International airport say travel during the 11 day thanksgiving holiday period is scheduled to be 1 5th less than it was the year before. This is the simply the fastest increase california has seen since the beginning of this pandemic. Reporter newsom says 94 of the states population is now in the purple tier, including six bay area counties. As a result, Officials Say people should forego gatherings with families and friendes this year. J
Busy today in Santa Clara County, especially at the fairgrounds. They had 2500 testing slots today which were all taken. And that is where we find da lin at the fairgrounds in san jose right now. Reporter all is quiet now because they close down 3 00 but ill tell you, earlier, a lot of folks, as you mentioned, coming home from their thanksgiving trip, also some essential workers as well as folks who are saying they have symptoms and want to get tested. 18 testing booth at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds. Each one with the short line of cars. Some cars contain families of up to five people. All getting tested at the same time. That is a lot of people. The line has gone so fast. Some just came back from a trip and somewhere required by work. If we are positive for covid 19 we are not allowed to work. Health Officials Say Santa Clara County has no single day covid cases in the bay area and they are seen troubling trends. We are definitely seeing our people with symptoms or have a house