Tonight 99 souls are listed as unaccounted for officially. Theres been one fatality. Crews have been on the scene for almost 24 hours now using extrication tools, their hands, search dogs, microphones. Earlier today a boy who was trapped in the debris was pulled out alive. For the very latest, were joined tonight by telephone by charles briquette, the mayor of surfside, florida. Joining us by telephone, because the weather has turned so suddenly severe, we cant get a tv signal out of there, which also means think of the underground rescue effort and how that will be slowed down and hampered by rainfall. Mr. Mayor, ive been watching you on television all day. I think were pretty close to the same age. When i woke up this morning, saw the pictures in your town, i thought of the Marine Barracks bombing. I thought of oklahoma city. And then ive seen your comment all day long. Buildings dont fall down like this in america. Obviously theres that investigation, but update us tonight on the se
Of sense for the country, our economy and the future. We have not heard from mitch mcconnell. Thank you so much. Thank you. This is cnn Breaking News. Top of the hour. Im victor blackwell. Thanks for staying with me. We begin with the lifeanddeath race right now in South Florida, the search for survivors more than 13 hours after a Building Collapsed and killed one, injured at least ten. Moments ago the Fire Marshall told cnn rescuers are hearing some voices there in the rubble. Surveillance video captured the moment. This is 1 30 a. M. , surfside, florida, 55 units of a condo pancaked. Floridas governor toured the Disaster Site a short time ago. We thank the fire and rescue for what they did to be able to put themselves on the line to help other folks. Theyre still hard at work. We still have hope to be able to identify additional survivors. County commissioners told cnn that 51 people are unaccounted for. She says its possible they could be on vacation or simply away from their home.
Once they release the scene, the Miamidade Police department will then conduct that investigation as to what is the causes. Right now were focused on the Search And Rescue. When that moment comes, that dire moment comes where they transition command then we will be in charge of the investigation. Thats why we are here. We are holding the Traffic Scenes right now, providing support. We have all our assets here. Once that transition comes, well be part of that investigation. Our Homicide Detectives will be doing a Death Investigation with other partners and its very similar to the fiu bridge tragedy. So it will be a structural issue there will be other things once they stop the Search And Rescue component. There will probably be federal resources involved in the investigation as well. This is probably for fire rescue. If you dont mind for people watching so we can get clear, the 102 people who have been accounted for at this time, not necessarily from the collapse, just rather the struct
Once they release the scene, the Miamidade Police department will then conduct that investigation as to what is the causes. Right now were focused on the Search And Rescue. When that moment comes, that dire moment comes where they transition command then we will be in charge of the investigation. Thats why we are here. We are holding the Traffic Scenes right now, providing support. We have all our assets here. Once that transition comes, well be part of that investigation. Our Homicide Detectives will be doing a Death Investigation with other partners and its very similar to the fiu bridge tragedy. So it will be a structural issue there will be other things once they stop the Search And Rescue component. There will probably be federal resources involved in the investigation as well. This is probably for fire rescue. If you dont mind for people watching so we can get clear, the 102 people who have been accounted for at this time, not necessarily from the collapse, just rather the struct
Once they release the scene, the Miamidade Police department will then conduct that investigation as to what is the causes. Right now were focused on the Search And Rescue. When that moment comes, that dire moment comes where they transition command then we will be in charge of the investigation. Thats why we are here. We are holding the Traffic Scenes right now, providing support. We have all our assets here. Once that transition comes, well be part of that investigation. Our Homicide Detectives will be doing a Death Investigation with other partners and its very similar to the fiu bridge tragedy. So it will be a structural issue there will be other things once they stop the Search And Rescue component. There will probably be federal resources involved in the investigation as well. This is probably for fire rescue. If you dont mind for people watching so we can get clear, the 102 people who have been accounted for at this time, not necessarily from the collapse, just rather the struct