Coming up, im going to ask the White House Press secretary whether beyond the announcement they actually have the votes in the senate, not to mention the house. Tragedy in florida. The search right now after a deadly Building Collapse there. A boy one of two people pulled from the rubble alive. One confirmed dead so far. 99 more floridians unaccounted for. Plus, a Big Development on a lifeordeath story that weve been covering for weeks, months, years even on the lead. The white house announcing that afghan translators who helped u. S. Troops will be saved, but how many . Of the 9,000 who have completed the paperwork, how many are we talking about . Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with Breaking News on our politics lead. President biden making the official announcement this afternoon, there is a bipartisan deal on infrastructure. We had a really good meeting. In answer to your direct question, we have a deal. None of us got all that we wanted. I clearly didnt get all that
Coming up, im going to ask the White House Press secretary whether beyond the announcement they actually have the votes in the senate, not to mention the house. Tragedy in florida. The search right now after a deadly Building Collapse there. A boy one of two people pulled from the rubble alive. One confirmed dead so far. 99 more floridians unaccounted for. Plus, a Big Development on a lifeordeath story that weve been covering for weeks, months, years even on the lead. The white house announcing that afghan translators who helped u. S. Troops will be saved, but how many . Of the 9,000 who have completed the paperwork, how many are we talking about . Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with Breaking News on our politics lead. President biden making the official announcement this afternoon, there is a bipartisan deal on infrastructure. We had a really good meeting. In answer to your direct question, we have a deal. None of us got all that we wanted. I clearly didnt get all that
We have news now that 99 individuals are still Unaccounted For. There could be more because of the complexity of this condo and apartments because so many were short term rentals. Were not even sure about who was there and whether they are still there or elsewhere or never got there. Welcome, everybody. Im neil cavuto. This is your world trying to got to the bottom of a freakish disaster that now has dozens waiting to hear about loved ones that they cannot reach. About a half an hour, an update from local authorities. Now to Steve Harrigan on what hes hearing in surfside florida. Steve . A lot of anxious people around trying to find out news of their loved ones. The number of people that are missing, Unaccounted For has risen throughout the day, about 99 right now. The number could go higher. Were looking at basically three stories high of concrete rubble. More than 50 Apartment Units destroyed. Theres stories of people saying i opened my door and my neighbors apartment was gone. Peopl
full investigation on whether or not the building was structurally sound. martha: so are they given other places to live or stay for a while? you know, supportsurfside.org has over $1,250,000 that s been donated so far. more is coming in. somebody said it s up to $2 million right now. we have the funding to take care of our residents now, which i am very grateful for. so fema is doing a lot. they re carrying a lot of the weight here. if that building had been declared uninhabitable, they would have paid for the relocation costs. the indications are just circumstantial right now. what we did know, we sent our building official in there with an expert, an expert that did the pentagon after it was hit by the airplanes and the bridge
process of healing as a community. so important. what words would you offer to folks watching at home, maybe encouragement for them to help if they could? well, there s a great organization that was started here by the miami sports teams, miami heat, the miami marlins, it s the support surfside foundation and that s supportsurfside.org. if you go there, you can make donations and those donations go directly not families impacted and obviously it s going to be a lot of families impacted so the more help we can get, the better. reporter: absolutely. leo soto, we freesht you talking to us and setting up that memorial that allows people a place to vent and reflect on the devastation that we re all experiencing. thank you so much. it s the least i could do. reporter: of course. stay with cnn. just ahead, we re going to take you into a meeting between officials and families where emotions boiled over. and of course, for more information on how you can help the victims of the surfsi