Its a really, really tragic situation so well hope for the best in terms of additional recovery but were bracing for some bad news just given the destruction were seeing. But i do think the Quick Response was very important and i do think it saved lives. I want to thank the folks for their bravery in doing that. Harris local affiliates are reporting 51 people are unaccounted for. Fox news is working to independently confirm that. Steve harrigan is near that building gathering information and well have a live report from him coming up. I want to move to this. Vice president Kamala Harris finally caving to pressure agreeing to visit the border tomorrow as the crisis there is raging. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. She waited 93 days after President Biden put her in charge. Harris back in march laughed off a reporters question on whether she planned to visit the border. An interesting journey with her. Earlier this month she was giggling when asked about it and at one point dismissed a border visit as a grand gesture. Peter doocy pressed the white house on the sudden Change Of Heart now. Why is the Vice President visiting the border this week when earlier this month she dismissed a trip like that . In an interview with nbc that she would be open to going to the border if it was an appropriate time. She because talking about she hasnt been to the border. She hasnt been to europe either. Does she think those two things are the same . Again, she also said in the same interview that she would be open to going to the border at an appropriate time. Republicans are demanding to know what took so long and whether the Vice President s decision was driven by former President Trumps upcoming border visit. I dont know why they chose el paso. Not the epicenter of the crisis. Weve been sounding the alarm on the crisis at the border saying the Vice President needs to see this crisis at the border. Instead she chose to visit bakeries and yarn shops instead. She needs to see this crisis firsthand. Suddenly President Trump is going to the border they realize oh crap, we have to do something. Harris Texas Governor is here to react. White house officials are hoping that this trip will put the whole Vice President harris has not been to the border yet. They hope they put that narrative to bed with her visit tomorrow. She will head to the border with Homeland Security secretary mayorkas. 90 plus days since she was tapped to look at the immigration crisis. It is where she is specifically going that has many republicans blowing the whistle. She is going to the el paso sector in el paso. The city is hundreds of miles away from mcallen where texas Officials Say theyre seeing most of the illegal crossings. You cant be on the ground for two hours. You have to put some effort into this and the reality is el paso sector is very different than Rio Grande Valley or del rio or the big bend sector, laredo sector. They are all different. In order to understand this crisis you have to understand that all parts of the border are different. The white house is defending the decision to send the Vice President to el paso instead of mcallen. No question a border sound seeing its fair share of immigration problems. Former President Trump will go with Governor Greg Abbott to the border next week. We didnt want to have anyone visit at a time where it would be disruptive to efforts and progress being made on the ground but they made that assessment and she had said a few weeks ago she would be appear open to going to the border at the appropriate time. She traveled to guatemala and mexico hoping to stop people from flooding into the United States. This visit comes as the chief or customs at Border Protection heard it was time to leave. He was told either resign, retire or relocate. Deputy chief ortiz will take over the position as soon as possible. It is also of note President Biden has not yet made a a visit to the border since taking office in january. Harris. Harris thank you very much. David. Weve seen months of chaos at the border including Young Children being abandoned. But Vice President harris was busy doing plenty of other things in the past three months getting to the root causes. She went to guatemala and mexico but our reporters actually spent more time seeing firsthand what was driving people here than she did. She hosted Texas Democrats at the white house promoting the covid19 vaccine in multiple cities. Important obviously but she has been given seven jobs by the president that we know of and we are waiting for her to multitask it all. She threw a fancy dinner for women of the senate a lot. But not the border. Dan patrick republican Lieutenant Governor of texas joining me now. Thank you for being in focus today. My first question for you is when she hits el paso, who will be there from the Governors Office and any contingents that you might be sending . Well, im sure there will be local representatives who will want to be there. Primarily probably democrats that the white house invietd. Were focused on the entire border in texas. Well be meeting with President Trump, the governor, myself and others in mcallen next week where that town and del rio are where the action is, not el paso. To put this in perspective for your viewers who live anywhere but texas, this would be when she goes to el paso, the distance from el paso to del rio, the hot spot now, is the distance from boston to washington, d. C. The distance from el paso to mcallen would be the distance from about boston to charlotte. So imagine you had a problem break out in washington, d. C. And she wanted to get to the hot spot and landed in boston. She wouldnt be in the right spot or in charlotte. She is going to the wrong area. First of all we have issues in el paso as well. Dont misunderstand me but a totally different situation. If you go down to del rio and mcallen you can throw a Softball Underhanded across the river at some points like in roma, texas and you can see people coming. In el paso its built up higher. You look down on mexico. It is a wall, it is the river is different. She is going where she is not going to be seeing active crossings. I dont think they want them crossing behind her in a camera shot. By the way when President Trump goes to mcallen next week. Here is my guest. The Border Patrol will have open arms for him and welcome him with cheers. I dont think she wanted to go down to mcallen. I dont think they would give her the same welcome. The comparison would be different. Harris are you looking at any possibility that this will be seen politically if you dont go there while she is there after all the criticism from republicans . Is it a missed opportunity to say facetoface what took you so long . Well, harris, this is the way it works. I was very close to President Trump when he was in office. His campaign in 16 and 20. When he came to texas the white house invites you. The Lieutenant Governor and governor we dont throw ourselves into the motorcade. If Kamala Harris wants to send me an invitation to ask me to go to el paso i will meet her on the tarmac. I dont know about the governor. We were always contacted by the president. We road in the limo or s. U. V. Briefed him the entire time and briefed him afterwards. We havent heard from this white house. We havent in our office. Im one of the leaders with the governor on our new building the border wall with Texas Dollars since they arent doing it. You might think she would warnlt to talk to us. Harris you are getting help from other states as well. Ron desantis is florida. The call was put out youll need some people on the ground to back up Border Patrol and Law Enforcement. A new fox poll finds 41 approve of joe bidens Job Performance on immigration. Already the white house is taking criticism for as you pointed out, where the Vice President is not going actually to where you can visibly see the root causes unfolding in front of you and other parts of the border. Real quickly what the white house is doing in already a Defense Mechanism in place because they have to. They have to. If you checked with the large latino population that lives along the valley. 90 plus the Approval Numbers for biden would be much lower. President trump flipped seven counties in the Rio Grande Valley in 2020. So the people on the border are disgusted. Democrats, republicans, independents. We elected the first republican mayor in mcallen since 1972. People are frustrated what the democrats are doing on the border. We normally apprehend about 435,000 people a year. From san diego to brownsville. Were about 1200 miles and 1900 miles of the border. We are already projecting 2 million apprehended this year. Remember, for every one we catch another two or three get through that we dont catch. Thats two to three million, maybe more crossing the border just the first year under biden harris. It is an invasion. People dont like that word. Some people dont like it but its true. Thats what is happening. Texas and america is being invaded. What do you do with a 15yearold from guatemala who cant speak english and three grade levels behind . You cant put them in a school. What is their future here . They join a criminal gang or work for slave wages the rest of their left and send money to the cartel. They have created a new slavery class. Working in canteen as Massage Parl Lors and low wages sending a third of their paychecks. They are enslaving a brandnew population in america today. On the american side it is crime, criminals, drugs, fentanyl that kills people. Overcrowding our schools and hospitals. It is a disaster for all concerned. We put America First and texas first and why well build the wall ourselves. Harris Lieutenant Governor dan patrick. The way that you put that and those words for some you say it will be offensive, maybe you are trying to move the ball. Well see if ka rm hair and democrats can do that. It would be helpful to go to places like arizona along the board and other parts of texas, too. To see really whats unfolding. Thank you for being in focus today. Thank you. If she is going to do it do it right. Dont laugh it off. It is a serious situation and people are dying. If the white house is watching. Im sure they watch you every day. They can find my number. Harris you bet. Thank you. We want to take you to South Florida now where there is a tragedy unfolding. Weve been covering it on fox news all morning. The building, this huge building gone. Its gone. Harris right now rescue operations continue as the fatal collapse of the beach front condo leaves a community in shock and grief. A Fox News Live Coverage Continuation ahead. Also President Biden finally addressing the massive surge in crime across america, but republican lawmakers are accusing him of letting criminals and the Defund Police crowd off the hook. Joe biden today is kowtowing to the most radical people in this country on Border Security and crime. Take cash out of your home. The Newday 100 Va Loan lets you borrow up to 100 percent of your homes value. With todays rates near alltime lows and home values at record highs, you can take out 50,000 or more and lower your payments by 600 a month. The Newday 100 Va Loan. Only from newday usa. Paul loves food. But his diabetes made food a mystery. Everything felt like a no. but then paul went from no to know. With freestyle libre 14 day, now he knows how food affects his glucose. 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Those numbers continuing to change and well cover it as that happens. The Search And Rescue far from over. Some 35 people already have been rescued. Local reports say 51 people are unaccounted for and were working to confirm that. Look at the cars, look at that. So many car alarms going off as they were listening for breaths or calls for help it was hard to hear overnight. They had Listening Devices and dogs. They are listening for calls for help and the car alarms are blaring. The mayor of surfside said this earlier, watch. This is beyond crazy. This doesnt happen in first world countries. Buildings just dont fall down like this. This is inexplicable. We dont have answers now but well find out what happened. Harris Steve Harrigan is live for us near that building in surfside and quickly i was reading about a child that they were able to rescue overnight. They are still looking for that childs parents. Reports from local affiliates there. Thats right. Keep in mind these numbers will continue to change perhaps dramatically over the next few days. We look at a three Story High Pile of rubble. This building had more than 100 units and 55 of them are destroyed pan caked down as a major section of the Building Collapsed. Theyre stressing this is still a Search And Rescue operation. One of the techniques being used in addition to sniffer dogs are also tunnels. Theyre tunneling in to parts of that debris. As far as the numbers go they will continue to change. First responders were on the scene almost immediately not just from surfside but miamidade and all over florida and civilians pitching in to do what they could including a man who helped rescue a 10yearold boy from the rubble. It was extremely quiet and i could hear somebody yelling. I could hear and tell it was a young boy and so he was just screaming and saying can you see me . He was sticking his arm out of the rubble and so thats how we saw him. We saw his fingers wiggling. So we i let him know we were here. He was screaming dont leave me, dont leave me. Still not clear how many people are unaccounted for. Some reports in the local media are saying as many as 50 people. Some without homes have been moved by the red cross to hotels. A mystery is the cause. You heard the mayor saying he was perplexed how this could happen. Some residents point to the fact that roof repair was going on or a Major Construction of a building next door which caused cracks. Still major questions yet to be answered. Harris we cant point to anything yet until they can rescue everybody and reach everybody in the rubble hopefully still alive and the investigation. Quickly it seems to have a situation where the weather is abating and we pray for that because youve got drywall and other things that can continue to collapse in that building if it soaks. It could affect the structure of that building and a risk First Responders took. They were all over the building trying to save who they could despite the risk of collapse. Harris bottom of the screen. The Family Reunification Hotline is there. 3051641819. As youve been reporting all morning with those 51 people that we know of that theyve confirmed local reports were still working on it, they need to know whether or not those people were in the building. Theyre counting on people to call the number to say my loved once is with me or to fill in gaps of information. Thank you for the update. President biden as we emerge from this pandemic the summer spike could be more pronounced. Things we know work that reduce violent crime. Background checks for purchasing a firearm are important. Ban on Assault Weapons and high capacity magazines. No one needs to have a weapon that can fire over 30, 40, 50, up to 100 rounds. Unless you think the deer wear kevlar vests or something. Harris President Biden calling for more gun control as he acknowledged finally the huge explosion in crime across the country. The president blaming it on summer and the pandemic. But not on the actual criminals themselves. He failed to mention that in many places where crime is highest, calls to defund the police are loudest. This created this crisis of defunding the police, allowing criminals to go free and be on the streets and now they are pretending theyll solve the problem by using the crisis that created to push for more gun control. Joe biden said well use money from a relief fund, federal money to basically bail out democratic mayors and City Councils that have defunded the police in order to rehire police that they have defunded. Harris portland, oregon alone murders are up by more than 500 while other blue cities that have reduced their Police Budgets are also seeing double digit spikes in crime. James freeman is Assistant Editor for the Wall Street Journal editorial page and a fox news contributor. Fantastic reporting on this and writing about this. Your top line thoughts. Thanks. I think your clip from the president at the top summarized why that speech yesterday and also the remarks from Attorney General garland were so disappointing essentially trying to blame this on covid. Talk about the pretend it is a seasonable issue of summer and then the gun control issue. To say to the people in high crime areas were going to discourage and prevent the police from protecting you and now Going Forward we are going to emphasize gun control to make sure that you cant protect yourselves. It just no wonder people want to flee areas like chicago where the violence has just gotten to this intolerable level. I think so many disappointing things in the biden remarks. He talked about Community Violence interrupters. Well, this is i guess sort of community organizer, what the Community Violence interrupters that americans need right now are more cops on the streets. You heard Attorney General garland saying we dont want to focus merely on arrests and convictions but thats what we need right now. To keep people safe we need cops who are allowed to do their jobs and allowed to arrest and let prosecutors prosecute. Harris i want to get to this and get your reaction immediately. Senator marco rubio is warning the actions being taken against police by politicians are creating a crisis all its own in recruitment. I know a number of Law Enforcement officers seeking to get on the retirement pathway. They have the opportunity to retire in florida many are retiring at a certain age and getting out. Harris this is really going to be hard. If we are going to try to put money back into the system as reports have come try to rehire the people who have been laid off it may be hard to do that. I dont know that the trust is there to go forward among these police officers. I talk to many of them on this hour every day. You are so right. It is not just funding. Obviously there are cities like baltimore, like minneapolis, like oakland, like new york who realize already that it was a terrible mistake to go start defunding. They have now tried to restore some of that funding but it is not just the money. The New York Times recognizes how cops have been discouraged and worse, have been targeted. Things thrown at them and spit on and obviously presented by so many reckless, irresponsible politicians as if cops are the worst people in our society. Yes, when they do wrong they should be prosecuted like everybody else. But they are often the best people in society and we need them to maintain public safety. So i think that is one of the things that i think was really discouraging in those biden remarks yesterday. He is still talking about and garland as well that police need to do a much better in their Community Relationships and that can always be improved. When you look at polls of people in cities, they want police protection. Harris absolutely. All right. Biden said theyll continue to fund but they want to do other things with the cash as well. Well move to this. Once considered a Conspiracy Theory the Wuhan Laboratory leak theory is gaining steam among americans. Lets get this up. A fox news poll shows 60 now believe covid19 escaped from that wuhan lab up from 31 a few months ago. We also have seen more criticism of dr. Anthony fauci for publicly down playing the theory earlier in the pandemic. James. Yeah, he deserves a lot of criticism and worse. This is why i dont know why he is still being presented as the voice of science, the authority on this issue. I believe the first lady is going to appear with dr. Fauci at an event in florida today. I dont know why. But you have this pattern. The polling makes perfect sense when you see all of the recent disclosures. We learned obviously that dr. Fauci got a warning in February Of 2020 that this virus looks like it could have been engineered in a lab. Had disturbing parts to it. Harris a year and a half ago. That was a year and a half ago. When you look at the emails that have come out that he was exchanging with someone in china who is his counterpart, i suppose you would say, a scientist and analyst and expert, thanking dr. Fauci for down playing this theory. There are so many questions that have to be asked. I dont know if you can answers those questions and lead as a Top Epidemiologist at the same time with credibility. Well see what happens. James freeman. Thank you. Fox news alert. Just moments ago House Speaker nancy pelosi she does intend to launch a select committee to investigate the january 6 capitol riot. Senate republicans in may blocked the creation of an independent commission to look into events of that day. Some of them said any investigation should also look into violence during the summers riots of 2020 and involvement of antifa and blm, the organization. Well keep you up to date as this makes news. The New York Post is asking what the heck was going on during President Bidens speech yesterday . Saying the president appeared to be confused and out of it. She wants to speak thats going on. She should be heard. She just doesnt want to deal with it anymore. She feels like a slave and she doesnt have human rights. Harris a lot of reaction to what Britney Spears is talking about. Her own story about the conservatorship with her father and what she has been through. Britney spears fans staoepg up in their support after that Shocking Court testimony alleging abusive treatment by her dad. Pleading with the judge to end her 13 year conservatorship. 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She said she has been forced into involuntary medical evaluations and rehab forced to take medication against her will and forced to stay on Birth Control so she wouldnt have any more children and forced to work for huge sums of money having only access to a fraction of what she is earning. I want to bring in tyrus. You also have rather unique experience in this lane because you have witnessed some of this among some of the stars that youve worked with in the celebrity arena. Personally for me its a family issue and i hate the spotlight that goes on in situations like this. When i hear celebrities and millionaires and multimillionaires talk about how hard their life is. Her history has been up and down. There have been moments where her sanity has been questioned but at the end of the day she is an entertainer, a great entertainer and although her father did help her bounce back i think at one point her funds were down to 2. 5 million and he raised it and up to her net worth is 60 million. Harris he made her work. She is back and those type of things. Unfortunately its probably a money situation but if she is competent enough to work and not be a danger to herself and others i dont understand why she cant have her money. We have superstars all the time that squander aware their fortunes. Its the nature of the beast. To mef there is a point in a settlement situation. Im sure dear old dad wants his cut and you hate to see that. Look at the horrible things weve seen from late great actors like gary coleman whose fortunes were squandered by Family Members and things like that. Im in favor of her getting her life back to make her own choices. I think thats fair. Harris i have to tell you as a mom i cant imagine, you know, what she is claiming happened being forced to be put in a position to use a certain type of Birth Control so she couldnt get pregnant. Maybe that comes down to money too. You dont split the pie so many ways as granddad. If there are receipts for that happening and if there is any proof of that it is bigger than he loses in this case. That is unbelievable. Thats abuse. As a father. But we hear the Horror Stories of parents of teens and britney has been a star her entire life. Im sure it has been horrible for her. Harris lets get to this. New york post editorial is asking will no one mention how confused and out of it joe biden was yesterday . They wrote this. If you werent confused, you were horrified. Biden was obviously tired speaking in a barely monotone. That following the president s speech yesterday on rampant crime and gun violence across america. Here is a sliver of what he said. President biden the blood of patriots, you know, and all the stuff about how we are going to have to move against the government. Well, the tree of liberty is not the blood of patriots. What happened is there if you want you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need f15s and some nuclear weapons. Harris what in the actual barn door was that . Well, the horse is out of the bottle, i think. Here is my take on this. Number one, i think we got very used to when we had president barack obama and we had President Trump, two guys who were eloquent speakers and they spoke from the hip and they were very strong on their convictions. I think when President Biden is allowed to speak what he is passionate about and what he feels strongly about, we see his good speeches. Harris wait a minute. How could he not be passionate about this . Because he is a moderate and im telling you i keep telling you because its not with all due respect it is not the moderate way. He is being the civil war is starting between progressives and mott ras. Progressive agenda was simple. Open borders, get rid of the filibuster and do all our stuff and it is not happening and now again he is being pushed on gun control and this is not what his history of voting has been. This is this is that Progressive Agenda being shoved on him. We cant fall for this. We cant get in this debate whether he is competent or not. He won the election. We need to stay on whats going on. The dinner bell has been rung for criminals in this country, bad humans x by politicians and progressive movement. We cant be worried about if he is competent. People are getting murdered in the street and horrible things are happening because of the Progressive Agenda and whats going on. I dont know how we fix it. If my son or daughter said i would like to be a policeman i wouldnt let them. I would say join the army. Our policemen are being treated like vietnam vets coming home in the 70s. Its horrible. Harris 19 of Law Enforcement across the country was former military servicemen and women. We want the recruitment to stay at the level that can protect us. So some of those very people when they come out of the military still have a heart to protect americans and they join those forces. I didnt hear biden say anything about that through all the confusion and you are right through all the confusion that people may focus on today the words that would have mattered about what is being said about cops and rhetoric and bringing some balance to the conversation. I didnt hear any of that. Or even hear approach to it. Ill bring you back. Thank you. Thank you. Harris fox news alert. Were expecting an update at 12 30 p. M. Eastern from officials on that horrific Condo Collapse in surfside, florida near miami beach. Crews have rescued 35 people. One person has died, two people hospitalized. Were told to expect that those numbers could change in large amounts. Well see what happens and cover the news as it happens. For now fox news has confirmed that 51 people are unaccounted for. Governor ron desantis announcing he will attend the News Conference at 12 30 p. M. Eastern. Well bring it to you live here on fox when it happens. A Massachusetts University is taking woke to a whole new level. They are canceling a list of words they deem oppressive. The words are going to surprise you. Plus this. Why would anyone risk his or her life for a country that is systemically racist, one that brutalizes minorities . Those are some of the questions he should probably think about before he touts the value of teaching far left marxist, racist ideology to our troops. Sounding off last night after general mark milley defended the teaching of Critical Race Theory in the military. Defense Secretary Austin says the military is not embracing the theory. Are they teaching it or not . Those stories next. 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I do think its important, actually, for those of us in uniform to be open minded and be widely read. Ive read karl marx and lenin. It dont make me a communist. What is wrong with understanding, having some situational understanding about the country for which were here to defend . I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military our general officers and commissioned and noncommissioned officers of being woke or Something Else because we study some theories that are out there. Harris you saw representative matt gaetz shaking his head while mark milley was going off on critics with ad come pains teaching Critical Race Theory at west point. Theyve been critical of the military and the curriculum. Lloyd austin denied that crt was part of the militarys culture. We do not teach Critical Race Theory. We dont embrace Critical Race Theory. I think its a spurious conversation. And so we are focused on Extremist Behaviors and not ideology, not peoples thoughts, not peoples political orientation. Harris spurious, right . You did see the head of the joint chiefs and the secretary of defense are not on the same page whether or not Critical Race Theory is being taught to the military. Leslie, ill start with you. This is an issue beyond Washington People have criticized its just politicians going back and forth. No, actually its being talked about in schools, with parents and school boards. It is becoming a big issue. Does the military need to address whats happening there . Well, not only do i think they do. I that i we whether were democrats or republicans need to stop politicizing the military and stop attacking them. We have the greatest military on earth and i loved when milley said there. I have to agree with him 100 . When i was a kid there was a fight over Teaching Darwinism and teachers were saying why cant we teach them both and fear we would not want to believe in god and not want to bebelieve in education. Knowledge is power and it makes people more knowledgeable and powerful. Why wouldnt we want our nation to be more powerful . If educating us makes us woke wake us up we can do better. The reason were hearing so much about it. Not because the media is covering it. Its a Strong Political point for republicans versus democrats in the upcoming election. Well hear more and more about that in the next year plus before the midterms. Harris leslie, it is an interesting example you gave comparing it to when you were in school and darwinism and teach science and other things. This is something democrats have said. I interviewed some of them saying it isnt really happening. Secretary austin is one of them. Which is it . You say teach both. Which is it and what is it . I dont know what the military is or isnt doing. Harris i have to get to let me get a word in. Critical race theory is not on the curriculum. So ill say this and as an example of being woke im excited to be on the screen with two birthing people. Not women. Bill maher said something very interesting. When they hear him being a rational person on the left. Wow. He said one of the big problems with wokeness what you say doesnt have to make sense or jive with the facts or even be challenged lest the challenge be conflated with racism. This is what we are now. If youre not woke or doing what the left is telling you to do you are considered a racist. It is problematic. I appreciate what the defense secretary said they arent embracing Critical Race Theory or teaching it. Honestly speaking, you dont need to teach it. You teach american history. If you want to know about institutional racism look at the Democratic Party policy of jim crow. Policies that left has pushed. Thats what you should learn about. When it comes to the military, we should not be having our military Men And Women In Uniform Thinking that one of them are lesser than the other because of the color of their skin or because of their gender. We should be saying hey, lets focus on what the enemy is doing, learn about what the enemy tactics are and lets fight. When the enemy sees us they dont see us as black or men and women or white men and women. They see something they are looking to kill. Thats what they see. With that being the case we should be focus on those tactics and making sure our military is ready for the battle. Harris leslie, last words. I agree with some of what you said but i dont feel that you can agree with it all. I dont think im demonized by Critical Race Theory. History hasnt been taught accurately and perhaps we need to have refresher, if you will, on our nations history. Harris thats not what crt is when i was a kid we thought white people and Native Americans had a kumbaya moment. Harris come on, we have to go. Thank you both for watching the faulkner focus. Outnumbered after the break. Harris and we start with Breaking News this hour as we await a News Conference from Florida Governor ron desantis on the deadly Building Collapse in South Florida. After that terrifying incident, this is a dramatic moment, that Condominium Collapse with people inside, it happened in surfside right near miami. There are confirmed reports, one person is dead and at least two hospitalized and fears many more are trapped beneath