Condominium seven miles from a condo in surfside. Families are searching for shelter this morning. Incredible video you have to see. An eye of fire. How a fire erupted in the middle of the ocean in the gulf of mexico. It is saturday, july 3rd. Happy Holiday Weekend to you. Boris, welcome back. Its good to see you back in d. C. Your stomping grounds. Good morning, christi. Great to see you as always. Happy Independence Day eve. This is one of my favorite days of the year getting ready for grilling and good times. Absolutely. Yeah. A lot of americans are doing the same. Theyre actually on the move and not just by Pandemic Era standards when it comes to recordsetting travel. Experts predict the amount of people traveling by air or by highway for the Fourth Of July is going to Rifle Independence Day weekends precovid. There are some airlines struggling with all of the demand. Southwest, for example, are offering their Flight Attendance double pay to pick up extra trips. The ceo of united a
Florida, where officials are racing against a tropical storm. Their goal this hour, to demolish the still standing portion of that condo that collapsed more than a week ago before tropical Storm Elsa makes landfall. We made the decision to pursue the demolition for the building. Im supportive of it. I think its the right thing to do. At the end of the day that building is too unsafe to let people go back in. I know theres a lot of people who were able to get out fortunately who have things there. Were very sensitive to that. But i dont think theres any way you can let somebody go up in that building given the shape that its in now. Our mission is to expedite it as soon as possible. Kevin guthrie reports to me that once everything is ready to go that it can be brought down within 36 hours. And so it will entail minimal Work Stoppage from the Search And Rescue. Today we learned the number of confirmed deaths has gone up by two to 24. But Search And Rescue teams are not giving up hope, as
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 i95. 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 Ninehour Standoff that led to police having to block off both sides of i95, 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. Dont apply to them. They may be part of what is a morris sovereignty movement. Police in Massachusetts Say thats 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 did end peacefully. No
Here in atlanta. Im kim brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom. This is cnn Breaking News. We begin with Breaking News right now from japan where authorities say at least 20 people are unaccounted for after a mudslide swept into the city of Atami Southwest of tokyo. Lets bring in Celina Wang live from tokyo. Celina, whats the latest . Reporter kim, exactly. Weve learned that at least 20 people are missing as a Mudslide Hit this morning at 10 30 according to nhk. Search and rescue is underway and the prefectural government has asked for addition 23458 support. No deaths have been reported yet. They have been searching for hours. And the video there, kim, is absolutely devastating. You can see the mudslide engulfing homes. Infrastructure, debris knocking down everything in its path. The residents there are shocked. They are concerned. Atami city is 67 Miles Southwest of tokyo. The area that was hit by the mudslide includes hot springs, Shopping Streets and residential homes. As of 2 p. M. Local
We want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and Around The World. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were standing by for a News Conference on the search for 128 people still missing in the collapse of that surfside, florida, condo tower. Cnns Brian Todd is joining us. He has the very latest developments. More victims have been recovered, and now there is potential for a hurricane to actually hit the area. Reporter right when you thought it couldnt get any worse, wolf, Take A Look behind me. These Rescue Workers have been working feverishly all day. I count at least 30 of them on that pile right now. Theyre just really toiling away down there. As concerns grow over the stability of the existing structure right here, also we are getting new Information Tonight about what the people who ran this building knew about its structural problems a while ago. Tonight, new information showing the champlain towers south Condo Board knew of severe concrete deterioration mont