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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 structure in its entirety, people who were evacuated from the building. And regarding the Search Efforts under the rubble, can you speak to whether anyone has been located in that weve heard reports of people hearing sounds trying to locate individuals. Can you speak to what you may have found at this point . So to echo the mayors numbers, so in combination to our numbers this morning, so we have 35 victims that were pulled from the structure by fire rescue. This is an additional two victims that were pulled from the rubble. Now, we have now a total of 11 patients that were treated. Of those 11, now were up to four patients that have been transported. Now, we have been getting what we call, again, sonar, sound devices, that were getting from inside the rubble in various areas. And again, it is a very slow and methodical process because every time we start breaching parts of the structure, we do get debris that falls on us. In regards to the structural engineer, we do have Structural Engineers embedded with miamidade fire rescue to prevent the building from collapsing on our firefighters as we continue with the Search And Rescue phase. Again, since 1 48 a. M. , miamidade fire rescue has not stopped. Again, the optics may seem that theres nothing going on on top but all operations, i cannot emphasize enough, all operations are occurring underneath the rubble. They are occurring underneath the Parking Garage where we have teams of firefighters constantly as they continue making cuts, breaches and placing sonar devices, search cams to locate victims. As we make one hole, we access a floor, we continue to the various areas. But to answer the question, we did receive sounds. Not necessarily people talking, but sounds. What sounds like People Banging not people but sounds of a possibility of a banging. Short of that, we havent heard any voices coming from the pile. To clarify, there was a report around 4 15 or so saying that two people had been pulled some number had been pulled from the wreckage this afternoon. That was an incorrect report . Thats correct. The only numbers that we have for patients that were removed from the actual structure or rubble is the 35 and 2, so a total of 37 have been pulled from the structure itself. Is there any is there any concern associated with the stability of the building itself . Situations of this nature where theres an emergency, theres been a catastrophic occurrence with a structure, theres always going to be a concern. But again, we do have Structural Engineers that are embed wed miamidade firefighters. They assess the structure every hour. In addition to every hour, they conduct the assessments every time theres a weather shift. What we do is we just make sure that, again, we place seismic devices on the building to determine that any Stress Cracks enlarge. From there we also make sure that we dont have any shifting of the floors. Every time we make a breach underneath the ground, we do have some debris that rains down on the firefighters. Again, what we encountered was some shifting of the debris and eventually we did have a small fire which was extinguished within 20 minutes. Weve heard some conflicting reports on whether or not all of the units are Still Standing have been cleared. Can you confirm that . Yes, maam. Prior to 6 00 a. M. , every structure every Apartment Unit thats Still Standing was cleared by miamidade firefighters. They were placed with markings and a primary clear was given. Again, were referencing the actual building thats Still Standing with the apartments that were still intact. Im curious, for the families that are waiting for news, how do you give them hope but not false hope . We understand what theyre going through. You know, every firefighter is carrying that burden on their shoulders. Theyre trying to understand these individuals. As they continue with making these breaches, making these tunnels, were trying to locate these victims. But again, every possible resource, not just Miamidade County but the municipalities around us, local, state and federal, are being expanded to assess what this situation is there any indication the beach was sinking . Theres an fsu researcher that says the building was sinking. I have no information on that. Do you have an update on fatalities . Ill defer that to miamidade pd. As of right now, unfortunately, we have one fatality. Thats what we account for right now. One. Man or woman . Unknown. I dont have that information. How many unaccounted for . Its 99 unactedcounted for rt now. [ Inaudible Question ] if you had to take an educated guess right now, how many First Responders [ inaudible ] fire chief, miamidade fire rescue. Right now we have several teams, so estimate of our florida task force, we have up to 40 members that are conducting the Search And Rescue. As the chief mentioned in the parking area as well as we have multiple units on scene. So at one point we had over 100 firefighters and we still currently have 60 plus that are actively working and we rotate through the scene. As of now we had no injuries of any firefighters, any personnel. How many rescue dogs . We currently have four that weve been rotating through. Thank you, folks. The leaders have got to get back to work. All right. Thats a lot to think about, especially the 99 people still missing. Lets bring in the Lieutenant Governor of the state of florida, jeanette nunez, to discuss this tragedy. Lieutenant governor, thanks so much for joining us. We heard at least 35 people were pulled from the building, nearly 100 99 to be specific remain unaccounted for. Are those the latest numbers you have as well . Yes, jake. Thanks for the opportunity to know on your show. It really is tragic. I was on the scene earlier today. What you see there, the rubble and the pictures and the tv doesnt do it justice. It is absolutely devastating. We know that at least 99 are unaccounted for. I can tell you we spent some time in the family reunification center. There are a lot of desperate Family Members that want information on their loved ones. I know our teams are working around the clock doing their very best. Its a tragic circumstance all around. At this point the building collapsed about 15 hours ago. At what point does this change from a Search And Rescue mission to rescuing any survivors to search and recovery . Sure. Well, we are certainly still in Search And Rescue mode. I think you heard them explain what the process is and how theyll continue to do that to see if they can decipher any noise. That we know will remain for a few days. I dont know at what point specifically they will switch from Search And Rescue to recovery, but our hope is that theyll be able to work expeditiously and hopefully be able to find some survivors. President biden said earlier today that he is ready to send federal aid as soon as the governor declares a state of emergency. The mayor of miamidade said that she has presented that to Governor Desantis, its on his desk. Is he going to sign that . Sure. Its my understanding mayor cava just sent that up to the governor his review. I know he is reviewing it as we speak. We know that right now there has been no unmet need from the county to the state. We are on site. Our division of Emergency Management is there. Were going to continue to assess. But im certain that well continue to provide whatever assistance the county needs. Certainly this has been very tragic, as i mentioned earlier. We want to continue to provide assistance. All needs from the county have been met from the state. The county is absolutely doing a great job and i want to thank all of our First Responders, our heroes that are out there really working around the clock. So well continue to look at that and im sure well have answers shortly. So you dont know if hes going to sign it yet . He might not because he might think there isnt a need for it . I havent talked to him, jake. Im sure that hell look at it, review it and do whats in the best interests of those individuals. President biden has said that he has not spoken to Governor Desantis directly. I assume that Governor Desantis is busy helping with this. Is he planning on calling the president back or not back, i could say. Is he planning on calling the president . Yeah, i dont know that the president has called him. I dont believe that has happened. I have not talked to the governor as to whether hes going to be in contact with the president. We have been in contact with the mayor. The governor was on site as well offering his support. They had a good conversation, so were going to continue to assist in the best way possible. Oh, yeah, please keep in touch with us and let us know if theres anything that you need from the federal government. One Final Question for you, Lieutenant Governor nunez. Do you anticipate that the rescue teams will be working throughout the night, going until they cant go anymore . They have multiple teams so im sure theyll be shifting them in and out. I have no doubt theyll work around the clock, through the night and into probably the weekend. As we know its going to be a long haul for them so certainly we hope to be able to pray for them as well because its going to be a real difficult circumstance for them. As you know, this isnt the first time this has happened in the United States in 2019. There was that horrible Hard Rock Hotel collapse in new orleans. That was during building construction. In 2013 there was that awful incident at 22nd and Market Street where a building that was being demolished fell on top of a thrift store, a Salvation Army thrift store. That we have any idea what happened here . No. I know that engineers are on site as they mentioned in the press conference. They are going to evaluate and see what the root cause was of the collapse. Certainly there will be plenty of time for investigations. To your point this is not the first time Something Like this has happened but we want to understand as quickly as possible so if theres needs for mitigation beyond this one building, certainly we want to address that as quickly as possible to ensure the safety of all floridians. Lieutenant governor, thank you. Police keep in touch and let us know if theres anything you need us to do on our end in the news media. Thank you so much, jake. 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So yes, theres a lot in here for roads and bridges and whatnot but theres also a lot of money for broadband, waterways, coastal lines. Those are hinges that are also important in this. Its about 312 for transportation, about 65 billion for broadband and of course as they both noted, they did not get all that they wanted, but everyone they believe got something in this package. Manu, getting this through the senate and the house is not going to be easy necessarily. There are some Progressive Democrats unhappy with the size of the bill. They say its too small, too much has been taken out of it. President biden admitted this afternoon that his party is divided. In addition, of course, a lot of conservative republicans are concerned this is too big. So how lets just stick with the democrats for now because we have limited time. How can democrats bridge the gap to get democratic support . Well, the Democratic Leaders know that thats going to be an issue, which is why nancy pelosi made it clear today that she will not move on this bipartisan deal in the house until the Senate Approves a bill that could be just approved by democratic support through whats called the budget reconciliation process. She says that the senate has to approve that democratonly bill first before she will agree for the house to move the bipartisan deal. So essentially that is an effort to tell folks on the left who are not happy that their priorities did not get included in this more narrow proposal that it could get into the separate package and tell those liberals that vote for this bipartisan deal because eventually this party line approach will become law. But the trick here will be co