State and local partners, as well as throughout the state and elsewhere and in addition, were grateful for the support that we have imbedded from our israeli and mexican teams that have joined our operation. We have a full set of social Services Available to the families. At the hotel, where most of them are staying, and so they are operating in shifts. Theyre available around the clock with grief counseling, rabbis, other religious leaders all onsite to assist our families during this difficult, difficult process. Many groups have volunteered, as well, to help and were coordinating their services. Chief among them, Jewish Community services, which also operates the 211 help line here. Licensed clinicians and they specialize in trauma and grief counselling. Also, our Community Action and Human Services agencies and juvenile services department, those are county departments with our own licensed psychologists and social workers on the scene assisting. Florida blue has also offered to assist and weve set up a grief hotline. That number is 8338481762. Again, 8338481762. Among many, many others who are stepping up and helping us. I just wanted to stay how very, very moved i am and all of us are at the incredible outpouring of support that we have received right here in surfside. From all across the globe. In the midst of this incredible frajdy. We know people are feeling this, theyre feeling connected to us, we feel your support, we feel your love and compassion. This has truly shown us how interconnected we are as a w world, as a global community. So, on behalf of Miamidade County, i just want to say thank you, thank you so much, to the entire world for stepping up and holding us in the palm of your hands. Thank you so very much. For your love and for your prayers. And financially. We have received incredible support. There are multiple sites now available and over 750,000 has been received through just one of the funds, suppo supportsurfsupport supportsurfside. Org. God bless our families and our First Responders. Your labors have been just monumental and we know you do it with passion and commitment and you live to find people alive in the rubble. All right, were going to go back to this News Conference as the mayor goes back to english. I anticipate others will be speaking, as well, and there will be questions, certainly, from reporters. Well see how that unfolds. You know, pamela, we did get some news just now, that they did find another body in the rubble. They also, she says, they found some Human Remains. They are asking for dna samples, so, in other words, to be able to do rapid dna testing, but the numbers as a result have changed. Five now five confirmed deaths, up from four, 156 unaccounted for still, thats down from 159. 130 people have been accounted for. So, the numbers are changing, but this is very, very slowly this situation, pamela, its unfolding very slowly. Right. And she did talk about some of the progress made with putting out the fire there that was slowing some of the efforts on the ground, but wolf, as ive watched this and listened to her, i just think about all of those Family Members who are hanging on every word, hoping that there will be good news, that their loved one will be found. And, you know, these Search And Rescue team members, these First Responders, they are incredible to go in there, into the danger zone, essentially, of this collapsed building and tirelessly work to fire an anything, find the remains of bodies and body parts, as she said, and hopefully find more survivors. Ive been out with Search And Rescue members before, when i was in haiti years ago after the earthquake there and i can tell you, being with them firsthand, they are so committed and they never give up hope. I mean, i was there with them seven days, seven, eight days after the initial earthquake and they still put every ounce of energy into finding survivors and i have in doubt, wolf, as it remains a Search And Rescue mission, that nthey will contine to do that. But man, it is just so devastating and just thinking about those Family Members who are wondering, is my loved one still in there and alive and suffering . Or is my loved one, you know, dead from this Building Collapse . Its just an impossible situation, wolf. It certainly is, and its so wrenching, so heartbreaking, to think about those loved ones who have gathered here and are trying to get some information about their moms and dads, their brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, grandparents, this building, as you know, pamela, was d it was a very diverse building. A lot of people were inside, even though its supposedly the offseason here in the miami area. There were a lot of people inside. When you hear that number, 156 people still unaccounted for. They know names of people that were living there and they have not contacted anyone and you wonder, what has happened to these 156 people . And its totally understand blg understandable that their Family Members and their loved ones are getting increasingly frustrated and angry. They want results. We did hear the mayor tell me just a little while ago, he would be open if Family Members want, pamela, to allow them to go towards the rubble and see it for themselves. Hold that thought for a moment, though, pamela, because the News Conference is resuming. Our extraordinary gratitude for the men and women who are here working from all across the state, frankly, all across the world, to try to help these victims both in here in the rescue phase and all of the associated needs that come with it. This is a highly complex disaster. Im here to speak briefly about the federal response to it, which i think has been substantial, which we are grateful to the white house and all federal officials. This building had a substantial number of foreign nationals or families of foreign nationals and my office in conjunction with other congressional offices has been responsible in helping obtain visas very quickly for a lot of people who need to travel here. My understanding is that most of them are either here now or are en route. I want to thank the State Department, theyve been phenomenal and all of our consulates around the world and embassies in expediting these visas to travel here for these families. The State Department is onsite, they have personnel onsite which will help further expedite this, should initial relatives need to come here. Also, of course, fema is here. Unlike other disaster situations, in this situation, all victims that have been impacted by this are going to be registered through the Family Center thats located here. They will then be traveled towards fema to determine eligibility and what services they are eligible for from the federal government. In addition, additional federal resources may be made available as requested by the county, whether its the Army Corps Of Engineers or other elements of the department of defense. And i also want to thank the Corporate Community that has stood up. I know for example that uber has been transporting many of these families as they arrive from overseas free of cost and we thank them for that. A number of hotels have Pprovidd Housing Accommodations for them. And i want to thank people all across the world, as the mayor mentioned and others have mentioned, we have offers of support and help, concrete help from countries throughout latin america, israel as well and we are grateful for those officers. Those offers are Towforwarded T The Local Authorities who will make the determinations. We are grateful to the whole country and to this community that has responded the way it has and continues to respond and we continue to hold hope, we pray for gods grace, we pray for miracles and we pray for gods peace and strength on the family and those who have been impacted by this. [ speaking spanish ] well continue to monitor this i think we just lost wolf there on the ground in surfside. Theyre listening to florida senator marco rubio speaking at this Press Conference there in surfside, florida. We did find out some new information, that another body was uncovered, as well as body parts. Three bodies uncovered in total, 130 people accounted for, 156 unaccounted. And wolf, you know, he talked about they are just all of these Family Members, of course, who are just hanging on, hoping and hoping that their Family Member survived this Building Collapse and that the Search And Rescue team will come upon them and hope is such an important theme here. As you have been speaking to people on the ground, some of those First Responders or people who have been in that situation, they do remind our viewers, remind all of us that there have been situations like in haiti where a little boy was found eight days after a Building Collapse. So, while there is hope, it also is a very tough reality, as we are at day three now and theres still so many people unaccounted for, wolf. You know, and whats also significant, pamela, you know, you and i cover politics hold on a moment. I think the mayor of surfside is now speaking at this News Conference. I received personal calls from the white house, i received a call from the speaker of the house nancy pelosi, i received support from our two u. S. Senators, rick scott and marco rubio. Ive received support from Debbie Wasserman schultz and all the representatives. Governor desantis has been here over and over again. Our county mayor, daniela cava y, has been great. The issue is, weve been fighting the elements, weve been fighting the fire, but we have one objective. And its to bring those people out of the rubble safely and return them to their families and thats all were going to do today, thats all were going to do tomorrow and thats all were going to do the next day and the next day until its done. So, our objective here is to bring these people out of that rubble and to support the families, thats all there is to it, its not complicated. And the work goes on, thank you. Thank you, mayor. Now miamidade fire chief allen kaminsky. Good evening. We continue with our aggressive Search And Rescue strategy. Were able to contain the fire, minimize the smoke earlier this morning, around 10 30, 11 00. And weve continued the Search And Rescue efforts. Currently, were searching the entire debris field. We separated into multiple sections and were actively, with our five task force that we rotate through, we actively are applying our Search And Rescue techniques. Were still aggressively using all of our tools that we have in regards to the sonar. Weve done several sweeps, again, with the debris field, with our k9, as well as using any type of Video Equipment that we have, as were establishing these search techniques. Well continue going through this, you know, as hard as we can, im very proud of our task force members, very proud of miamidade fire rescue and all of our activities that weve done and were going to continue searching and hopefully with a positive outcome. Thank you, chief. And now erika benitez, miamidade fire rescue en s span yol. You know, its interesting, were going to get back to the News Conference in a moment, were getting new information. Its interesting, pamela, that what this has done, i was saying, weve covered politics for awhile, what this has done is brought together so many elements, because theres enormous cooperation now coming from the federal government, from the biden administration, coming from the State Department and senator marco rubio was underscoring that the governor was underscoring that they are grateful to everything thats going on and youre not hearing the anger and the partisanship, youre seeing the country at least in this area, pamela, getting together, working together, because this is such a horrible, horrible situation that has unfolded and Everyone Wants to do whatever they possibly can to help. Right, theyve all put their politics aside so they are all focusing on this and as you heard the mayor say, look, this isnt a resource problem. This is a luck problem. We have the resources, because they have been pouring in from all over the place, politics just doesnt matter here and youre right, wolf, that its something that we havent seen for awhile. Republicans, democrats, no matter their political background, coming together, focusing on this situation and, you know, speaking of resources, wolf, i was interviewing okay, were going to go back to the Press Conference now. Lets listen in. When we come across Human Remains, thats photograph, collected on the scene and directly transported to the medical Examiners Office for processing. [ speaking spanish ] and wolf well probably be going back soon. Pamela, you were making a point, go ahead. Right, i was talking to the florida Senator Nelson and he, the former florida senator, i should say, who is now the new nasa administrator, he said he knew two people in that building, one wasnt in her apartment when the Building Collapsed, another was in her apartment and is unaccounted for at this point, but he talked about the technology that nasa has given to the First Responders on the ground that actually allows them to hear heartbeats of any survivors that are there and, you know, sonar, theyre using every bit of resources they have, wolf, to find any survivors that could be in that rubble right now and it is just an incredible effort all around. And its raining now again, which further, further complicates this Search And Rescue operation. There have been fires there, but the rain certainly does complicate this situation. Were going to get back to the News Conference momentarily, but David Paulson is, i think joining us right now, is that right . Not yet. Were going to get to the former fema director, were going to get back to him shortly, but if you look at these pictures, pamela, you see whats going on, it is so, so devastating to think about all that rubble, all that rubble that is there and god only knows whats underneath all that rubble. Theyre working as best as they can. Ryan young is with us, as well. Ryan, youve been covering this actually, brian todd is joining us right now. Brian, youre down here, as well. And i know youve been doing a lot of reporting. Whats the latest youre hearing . Right, wolf, i think its significant what the fire chief just said, they contained that fire inside the complex. That fire was a huge problem earlier today and yesterday. The mayor of miamidade said it was really dangerous for the rescuers. They had to bring heavy equipment in to dig a drench to try to isolate that fire. It was clearly causing a lot of changer to the First Responders, to the rescuers as they were tunneling in and trying to find people. The fact they have contained that fire, i think, is significant now. It could give them just a lot more leeway and a big break in trying to find people inside that rubble, wolf. That fire was a Huge Development over the past Severn Hour Sever to hear the fire chief say theyve contained that, thats significant. Its also significant that the mayor called for that adjoining complex, the champlain towers north, to be evacuated. Its unclear if anyones going to give the go ahead to actually do that. You dont know how many people live in that building. There are about 130 units inside each of these buildings. And to get all those people out, thats a pretty significant undertaking, especially now when youve got the rescue crews, you know, tunneling in and trying to dig for survivors, wolf, so, those two Developments Haven be significant in the last several hours, especially the containment of that fire. That might give the First Responders, you know, a big break that theyll need. Yeah, thats a good point, brian. Stand by. David paulson is joining us right now, the former fema director. And former fire chief here in Miamidade County in florida. You know, its interesting, david, that we heard the mayor of Miamidade County say they did find another body, so, the confirmed death toll now is up to five. 156 people are still unaccounted for. And 130 are accounted for. Theyve also found some Human Remains. It seems to be so, so slow, whats going on, but i want your thoughts. Well, of course its slow. Because they are under the assumption that people are still alive, so, they have to go slow so they dont cause damage that would Injury Somebody or perhaps ki