The attention of the state, of the country, and in some respects the world and rightfully so. This is a team mission. One of the most important in the state s history. Trace: our detectives have been working around the clock to reach every single person who we have been told may be missing. We re exhausting every avenue. It is a very dangerous situation. It is an extraordinary lifesaving emergency effort unlike anything we ve ever seen in the state of florida. This will go on until we pull everybody out of there. Our number one effort. Dana: charles watson is live in surfside with the latest. Good morning. There is still a lot of questions in terms of what caused the partial building collapse. There are competing theories as the focus remains on the building s pool and parking garage below. An engineer speaking to the washington post says there is a possibility the pool collapsed first bringing the huge section of the tower down with it. Scientists and engineers from the national insti
Good morning, and welcome to way too early, the show that typically portland, oregon reported a higher temperature than dallas or los angeles have ever recorded. Wow. I m kasie hunt on this wednesday, june 30th. We ll start with the news. We re now entering day seven since a portion of a 12story beachfront condo building came down crashing in the middle of the night. 12 people are confirmed have died and 50 agencies and nonpersonnel working at the site including teams from mexico and israel. No one has been pulled from the rubble since thursday morning, hours after the collapse. Despite it all, no one is giving up hope. One woman in bangladesh was pulled out of the rubble crying after 17 days. So, you know, we re not losing hope. We re not slowing down. We re not giving up. We re going to pull everybody out of that rubble. And we re hoping and praying for some miracles. These are the times that are the most difficult, you know. But we re here to do a job. We re here with a passion. Thi
alive. families like the spiegels. one second to the next second a dramatic change in life. she was the glue that kept our family together. we are hopeful that today will be the day they find our mom. she s just the most amazing person in the world, and we would do anything to have her back. the death toll from the building collapse up to four this morning. officials caution it may go much, much higher. the big focus right now, signs of life. but a sad truth this morning from the scene with every hour the rubble grows more quiet. we haven t really heard anything in a while now. but that s not to say that there s still not people trapped that are alive for different reasons, you know, they might be obviously as time is running out, they might be getting a little more sick or ill. not as focussed as they were before, but like i said, we re going to keep searching. nick valencia is there on the scene of the tragedy. there s so much heart break right now, but also
chemical in every unit. you know, dozens of units involved. cars, of course, power lines. fuel lines. water informal everything that is feeding one another in a cycle of incendiary incidents. you re seeing a fire that popped out of a low floor. it starts to burn in color. that means that s the fire actively eating through what the fuel is. eventually it starts to turn more white which is proof the suppression efforts are gaining ground. that is of the utmost importance. why? because fire will kill who is still inside and alive, and it can hurt and kill the people who are trying to get in to do search and rescue. they have to deal with it. in fact, they had a hose on this building all night long. trying to deal with fire. one of the reasons that you see all the water in the basement earlier today. now, work in the basement has been slowed, and they re trying to approach through different avenues of opportunity to get penetration into this building. why? because the water is ri