Around 150 people are still unaccounted for, four days after the collapse of a 12 Storey Apartment Block in florida. Officials have now put the Death Toll from the disaster at nine, after four more bodies were found in the ruins. The building is in the town Of Surfside just north of Miami And Right on the seafront. Rescuers have been searching the rubble of the 55 apartments, using Dog Teams and Sonar Equipment in the hope of finding survivors. Will grant reports from miami. These things arent supposed to happen in america. The infrastructure of the richest country in The World, in one of its richest cities, is meant to be solid and reliable. But when the 12 storeys of champlain towers collapsed, almost 160 residents disappeared beneath the rubble in seconds. Only a handful have been found. As of today, one victim passed away in the hospital, and weve recovered eight more victims on site, so i am confirming today that the Death Toll is at nine. Theirfamilies can now only pray for a mir
Time while we did a forensic deep dive into the guts of the building to determine if it was in fact structurally sound or not, and we are moving in that direction, tomorrow i expect to be able to start moving people out that wish to be moved out. right, well obviously there is a very long way to go with every aspect of this, we wish you well stop very much indeed for your time. in bangladesh people are scrambling to leave the capital dhaka to head to rural areas before the start of a strict nationwide lockdown. police have described some of the crowds of migrant workers trying to get out as unmanageable . there s a danger that the exodus will worsen the country s surge of delta variant coronavirus cases, which the government has described as dangerous and alarming . the bbc s elettra neysmith reports. this is what happens when the authorities announce the toughest of
Expertise, we design buildings not to collapse suddenly like this. the general idea is firstly we designed buildings. even if they were to collapse, the idea is they would do that gracefully with enough warning which obviously was not the case here. in terms of the building, we need to look at the drawing, the design, construction and inspection phase, the potential degradation overtime as well as the status of the building. i had a chance to look at some of the structural drawings of the building. from the second floor up building. from the second floor up is made of so called flat plate which is practically in this case eight inch or 20 centimetres thick concrete slab thatis centimetres thick concrete slab that is supported by columns. given the sudden nature of
The effort here, co ordinating with the state in the federal government, we have had calls from president biden s office, both of our us senators, and the article said it outlined the article said it outlined the length of time people have survived in earthquake situations under rubble and it was 17 days. given that and given your excellent reporting, we are very hopeful that we are going to be experiencing lots of miracles. going to be experiencing lots of miracles. well, that would be excellent. of miracles. well, that would be excellent. i of miracles. well, that would be excellent. i understand i of miracles. well, that would i be excellent. i understand that this apartment block has a sister building, an equivalent building. what on earth do you do with residents in that other building, because given the conditions of this one and the report that we have heard about from two or three years ago outlining the structural weaknesses of this particular building, they presumably hav
Out for the collapse. i started to get calls telling me that people were concerned because they were living in an identical building and i had to go out for myself and check the building and in fact it is the identical building and i head the building official give me the building official give me the information, it was built around the same time by the same contract, seemingly with the same plans and presumably with the same materials, and given that and given the fact that the sister building had just fallen down without notice, without warning, people were justifiably upset, and asked me if i thought the building was safe and the answer was i couldn t told them it was safe. so what we have done is i ve reached out to florida senator rick scott and our county mia and expressed my concern about what to do we decided that it was best to give residents the option to relocate for a short period of