Right now. Youre watching Fox Friends first on this monday morning, im ashley he strohmier, in for todd piro. Jillian im jillian mele. The u. S. Carries out Air Strikes. Ashley Lauren Blanchard joins us live from washington with the latest this morning. Reporter good morning. The Air Strikes carried out in the middle of the night at three locations near the border of syria and iraq. The u. S. Targeting iran backed militia. Were told these were operational and Weapons Storage facilities that engaged in Uav Attacks against u. S. Assets in iraq. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby called the strikes necessary and appropriately limited in scope. Quote, the united states took necessary appropriate and deliberate action designed to limit the risk of escalation but also send a clear and unambiguous deterrent message. President biden did not comment on the strikes, as he and the First Lady returned to the White House Last Night after a weekend at camp david. This is the second time in his pres
Effort and everybody has the same goal. Thats to pull people out of there. He also added that the intensity and numbers will will continue to increase. Thirdly, i want to make everybody aware there has been discussion about why this happened, and that is as the mayor said and the governor said, thats an issue for another day, because right now we have two issues. Number one is to pull our family and friends out of the rubble and unite them. Number two to support the families. To The End, to The End of what with respect to the information, we directed our staff to go ahead and scan every shred of Documentation Surfside has which includes going to our Archive Storage sites. We have boxes and were sending the boxes to a printing standing company. The documents will be available for your review. I know youve seen some documents already. I havent had a chance to watch the news because were sort offed in midst of this disaster. I dont know that anybody else has a chance to watch the news eit
Trump organization. The former president was back in front of his fans this weekend, doubling down on his election claims. The Big Lie is what took place on and then morning of November 3rd and november 4th, november 5th. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] sadly, the Death Toll this morning stands at as we stretch into the fourth day. [inaudible] top priority continues to be Search And Rescue. And saving any lives that we can. Today, our Search And Rescue teams found another body. In the rubble. And as well, our search has revealed some human remains. And with the discovery of that other body and some human remains, they say that the Death Toll now stands at five. 156 people now considered missing. Here at the family reunification center, the families who are desperate for any sort of news, continue to wait as this slow and the thought of search continues to go on. About seven blocks from here at the site of the collapse. We know that these families are being briefed at least twice a
rubble. ten people are hurt. my son, that s the hardest part. he keeps asking me when is she coming home, he saw the footage this morning. pj rodriguez s mother and grandmother were in the tower that collapsed. unfortunately, it happened to other families, too. they were visiting from columbia. this couple whose daughter said they lived in the building for seven years. the front page of this morning s miami herald says it all, tragedy in surfside. this drawing surveillance video captures the moment of the collapse. it had 136 units, 55 in the northeast corridor that completely collapsed. i want to go to kerry sanders. you have been there the last 25 hours. what s the latest on the rescue effort, what s the last day been like? reporter: the rescue effort, stephanie, continues. we know as you stated, they have been tunneling from underneath. it is going to shift from an underneath effort as well as from the top. they brought in large cranes overnight, taking up a
really just want to see our mom again. it is heartbreaking. it is agonizing. we are live on the ground there. we re also live with the other big headline today, in a few hours the sentencing of derek chauvin for the murder of vladimir putin. george floyd. what we know about the judge, where he might land and what one viewer is telling nbc news with the attorney for the floyd family live on the show in a couple of minutes. good morning, i m hallie jackson in washington on this busy friday, along with our nbc news team in surfside, florida. kerry, we heard from officials not too long ago this morning and i was struck by the notes of optimism they were hitting, that they still have hope even with some of these frankly pretty grim numbers that we re getting, a jump in the number of people unaccounted for, up to 159. it is a get punch. reporter: it is a gut punch. the confirmation of four people who died inside the rubble and the rescue teams on this have been working round th