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how law enforcement is doing when it comes to bringing those involved to justice. first, search and rescue efforts expanded significantly in surfside, florida on monday after officials knocked down the rest of the partially collapsed condo. we re able to report that the search and rescue team has been able to search all sections of the grid on the collapse following the building demolition. now that the entire area is safe to search. and so the teams have now removed over 4.8 million pounds of concrete from the pile. four more bodies were discovered, raising the number of those killed officially to 28. 117 people remain unaccounted for. nearly two weeks after half of the champlain towers south condo collapsed in the middle of the night. search efforts were hampered throughout the day as thunderstorms and strong winds hit the area thanks to tropical storm elsa as it approached as it continued to approach the state. joining us now from surfside, correspondent vaug ....
happening in the early morning hours. these are the new pictures coming in at this hour. we have a team of reporters and analysting following the latest for you right now and all eyes are on sarasota, florida where former president donald trump is set to speak for the first time since his business was targeted with indictments. that rally set for tonight and back in new york pressure is growing against the trump organization s long time chief financial officer allen weisselberg to testify against his boss. that s where we find msnbc reporter adam reese. former trump campaign adviser sam newberg has weighed in on this. he was ensnared in a criminal probe in the past. what s he saying? he s saying about 10% chance, lindsay, that weisselberg will flip, a very small chance and that s why all eyes are on the trump organization on the 26th floor here at trump tower. will weisselberg show up for work on tuesday morning, and will he stay loyal to his boss mr. trump or will ....
following all of this for us. it seemed like a pretty dicey situation for a little bit. what is the latest? reporter: a scary, terrifying situation unfolded. around 1:30 a.m. police found two weeks on the breakdown lane on i-95. people in one vehicle were refueling the other vehicle. police saw a lot of guns and asked for licenses and identification. people did not want to do it. some ran off and some stayed where they were setting off this nine-hour standoff that led to police having to block off both sides of i-95, tell residents in some of those nearby homes to stay in their homes as they waited for this. we are learning a little more about what the motivation was. some of the folks in that group mentioned that the laws of the u.s. don t apply to them. they may be part of what is a morris sovereignty movement. police in massachusetts say that s not true. you have to abide by the laws as they are. they were worried about how this might go down but in the ending it d ....
surfside, florida which is bracing for the first hurricane of the season set to make landfall in the next couple of days in florida. later today, about 225 miles northwest of surfside, the former president is set to deliver remarks at a rally in sarasota, at the sarasota fairgrounds. wfla even reports that people have been camping out since yesterday in anticipation of seeing their dear donald, either that or the free fireworks show that follows. this after the president traveled to texas for a propaganda stunt which turned into a typical grand-standing trump tirade about anything and everything. he does have something new to rail against tonight, charges filed against the trump organization and its long-time cfo allen weisselberg on tax related crimes to which the company and weisselberg have pled not guilty. how this may be just a bit of the story we could see right now and how it could hit the former president where it hurts the most in a bit. accompanying the form ....
it is great to be with you. i m geoff bennett, and we are following multiple breaking stories as we come on the air. at any moment pentagon officials are to speak after we woke up to a surprise, all of the u.s. troops have left bagram, the last active military base to be used in afghanistan, and few hundred troops in kabul, and we will bring you the headlines of the pentagon briefing as we get them. meantime, incredible heartache of the scene where i was standing 24 hours ago. overnight, the officials say that searchers in surfside, florida, made a heart wrenching discovery. last night we did discover two additional victims. tragically, one of the victims was the 7-year-old daughter of a city of miami firefighter. and it goes without saying that every night since this last wednesday has been immensely difficult for everybody, and in particular the families that have been impacted, but last night was uniquely different, it was truly different and more difficult for o ....