Tonight 99 souls are listed as unaccounted for officially. Theres been one fatality. Crews have been on the scene for almost 24 hours now using extrication tools, their hands, search dogs, microphones. Earlier today a boy who was trapped in the debris was pulled out alive. For the very latest, were joined tonight by telephone by charles briquette, the mayor of surfside, florida. Joining us by telephone, because the weather has turned so suddenly severe, we cant get a tv signal out of there, which also means think of the underground rescue effort and how that will be slowed down and hampered by rainfall. Mr. Mayor, ive been watching you on television all day. I think were pretty close to the same age. When i woke up this morning, saw the pictures in your town, i thought of the Marine Barracks bombing. I thought of oklahoma city. And then ive seen your comment all day long. Buildings dont fall down like this in america. Obviously theres that investigation, but update us tonight on the se
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of nikki haley. haley s biggest rival, former president trump, wasn t on the ballot. this contest doesn t really count because the delegates will be awarded based on caucus results. that contest will not be held until thursday. haley won t be on the ballot then, but gop frontrunner trump is. if he wins, he stands to collect up to 26 delegates. nevada gop rules prevented candidates from participating in both contests, but eligible voters can vote in both. nikki haley s campaign isn t happy about the situation, saying that s why they didn t devote resources is in the silver state. but we have not spent a dime nor an ounce of energy on nevada. we made the decision early on that we were not going to pay $55,000 to a trump entity that, you know, two participated in a process that was rigged for trump. not unexpectedly, president biden won the democratic. he was on the ballot along with marianne williamson. and then none of these candidates option. the south carolina primary is
99 counties, despite visiting only 15 of them. florida governor ron desantis came in a distant second, receiving 21% of support in the hawkeye state. 30 points behind trump and just 2 points ahead of former south carolina governor nikki haley. this year s republican caucuses had the lowest turnout since the year 2000, drawing around 108,000 voters. that s about 14% of the state s registered republicans. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 16th. how did the results reflect compared to the polls? i think there was a big winner, and i think there was a big loser. the big winner, of course, donald trump. he got over 50% of the vote. the big loser, of course, the republican party, who is strapped with a republican loser, a seven-time loser. the problem for republicans is they started in iowa. this is just a perennial problem for the gop. it really, willie, is a problem that the democrats fixed, but you go back and look. who won in 2008? mike huckabee.
shook customers and investors alike. the question was, and really still is, would it also threaten the broader market and the banking system? so far the answer appears to be no. markets largely held steady closing the day mixed though shares in regional banks similar to the ones that failed did take a beating. joining us shortly former treasury secretary lawrence summers who accurately predicted the inflation to walk us through what he thinks of the federal response so far including this promise from the president. every american should feel confident their deposits will be there if and when they need them. in addition we have cnn s christine romans and phil mattingly on this tonight. we begin with christine. so is the threat of contagion in the financial markets, does that seem to have passed? these two banks in particular, they put a big ring around these banks and stopped the fire here and made essentially the depositors whole. these are people who would have to go a