That at the county level. And we will be working with our municipalities to do the same. Heres new reporting from npr moments ago that a Surfside Official said the building was safe. The report says, quote, minutes of a November 2018 meeting show a Surfside Town Inspector met with residents of the building and assured them the building was, quote n very good shape. And then, just in the last hour i spoke with rachel speigle, whose mom remains unaccounted for. Heres what she told me. Obviously, i am disappointed that there were red flags that were made and brought to light and there there wasnt action that was taken. Yes, they said that there were issues, but no one said that it was unsafe to live there. Well, the Death Toll is now at nine. 156 people remain unaccounted for. Lets go to Nbcs Antonia Hilton joining me from surfside. You are getting word that families may soon be headed to the collapsed site . Thats right alex. We are hearing that families have asked officials for an oppor
We are back now with more breaking news on the champlain south tower collapse in surfside florida. officials are making arrangements to right now bring families of those who lived in the tower to the pile for reflection and prayer. the mood there remains some better as more remains are being uncovered. while $1 million in private donations are being collected to help residents of the nearby worth the tower. it was decided we would not evacuate the building but give residents a choice and alternative because of their justified fears of living at least for right now in a building that they don t understand or don t know is safe or not. frankly, i think we all understand that. i think given what happened and giving this building just fell down out of nowhere, which was
Purpose. that purpose is very important. it may have been to undergo and recommend repairs, say, over the course of several years, just to extend the service life, and you know, normal maintenance that would be expected of concrete buildings this type and this vintage. you know, reading the report itself and looking at the photos and the descriptions, i don t know that there is really a lot of a sense of urgency or a sense of imminent risk of collapse that was communicated here. that s not what i read into it. but i would have expected communication to happen, right, between the person who engaged the engineer for the report and the engineer making the recommendations. there needed to have been context. we don t know how those communications were delivered or what communications took place. let me ask you broadly, when a report is issued and it suggests, the near future, something needs to be tended to. if you were issuing that report, when you would say near future
Collapse of the building. we should note that this woman who told her husband this is among the people who are still unaccounted for. she had a fourth floor apartment in the part of the building that was last to collapse. and it does appear that their accounts coincide with what experts are starting to agree is the most likely way that this collapse happened. experts are starting to foal like, from the evidence that s available from this report, this inspection of where there may have been damage, that the pool deck may have had structural problems and fall sfwooen the parking garage [ no audio ] and after that, that final section fell under its own weight. so that s our understanding now. but nobody is certain. this could change with new evidence. absolutely. and yet again, these are unconfirmed reports. but have you been able to source this particular one?
For a reason. and they say that residents of other high-rises in miami beach like those behind me here do not need to worry, that these are incredibly rare events and they are investigating sfaz they can. yeah. and here is something from your report. it was extraordinary. and it said that appearing to reinforce the expert s theory, the one that you were citing relative to the pool deck perhaps being the site of concern it was remarkable, you wrote the story of a resident who called her husband moments before the collapse to tell him she could see a crater in the pool area from her fourth floor balcony. have you learned anything more on that? so my understanding is that there are two unconfirmed eyewitness accounts including that woman who both described something similar, a crater in the pool deck prior to the