On florida. Search and rescue operations will resume when the site is deemed safe. Officials are hoping that the demolition will open a new portion of the site to search teams. No one has been found alive since immediately after the collapse. 24 confirmed deaths with 121 people still unaccounted for. Natasha chen joins us from surfside, florida. Nat natasha . Reporter that space between these buildings there where you see that blue gray sky is where the building used to be. It is no longer there this morning. That demolition happened at 10 30 Last Night. Residents in the vicinity were asked to stay indoors, to keep windows and doors closed, to keep that Dust Cloud and debris outside of their homes. As you mentioned, this is expected to help Search And Rescue teams actually access about a third of the pile they couldnt get to before because it was too close to the structurally unstable remaining building. But as we know, sometimes demolitions can be spectacles, shows. Representative Deb
again for more information the complete details and descriptions are on our website right now, abc15.com. that free mobile app and the latest updates on the search as they come in. i ll pass them on. her purse was left behind. a weather alert in the valley as we track rain through the phoenix metro. we have strong storms. east valley still bell getting rain and storms. we re under alo until 6:00 for the entire east valley and southeast valley as the rain adding up into in spots leading to localized flooding possible ponding water. keep that in mind as you re heading out the door. you may want to give yourself extra time. aesz es especial sli if you commute along the 202. pockets of heavier rain in the darker rain as the showers don t track east impacting spots around hikingly road and of heavy rain moving towards the loop 101. and indian bend moving northeast. rain chances continue through the morning commute and we have a chance for storms this afternooning. rail i ll
sure to follow us on twitter as well. oakland couple believed to be missing in peru has been found safe near the border of ecuador. garrett and his girlfriend are through south america. laura anthony is in concord. the state department will not confirm it, we know both that the couple is safe. if the plan holds, the families should hear from loved ones by telephone tomorrow morning despite that news, she s posted a sign for reporters that reads, quote, until we have proof of life we cannot celebrate these rumors and sightings. proof of life is my son s voice on the phone a picture of him holding the missing poster. calls to family members started to come in at 2:00 this afternoon that the couple was safe and on a boat in a a reliefedcyv after not hearing 1>÷ been posting regularly on facebook. they had not posted or contacted families for a full month. jamies sisters under west sacramento. i m excited coming from them that is awesome. that is awesome. but i still want to
these workers could attach themselves to. they re going to reportedly cut out a pane of dallas on the 69th floor. this is a piece of second scaffolding. this is closer to the top of that building. some 2,000 feet up into the air. the nation s tallest building that just opened about a week or two ago with the new tenants coming in. this is a new piece of scaffolding now. we re not sure whether or not this scaffolding is somehow going to try and be lowered down to the 69th floor to try to rescue these people who are currently trapped on the other piece of scaffolding that is completely askew at this time hanging on literally for dear life. we re want sure if this is a rescue effort on the top part of the scaffolding here or if that s simply just part of the window washing exercise that was going on earlier before the mishap happened down on the 69th floor. once again, now, this is a picture on the right side of your screen from inside the building. this is being tweeted out rig
Only seen Nikki Haley for the first time tonight. And some of them told me that they were going to go caucus for tomorrow. Well have to watch and see. Kylie atwood, thank you. And Jessica Dean tracking the desantis campaign, where he just wrapped up his final event of the day. Jessica, what are we hearing from governor desantis, especially given the Des Moines register poll numbers, which is within the margin of error, but it has him in third place heading into tomorrow . Kaitlan, everyone in his orbit will say they dont think thats indicative of what is going to happen tomorrow. The candidate, ron desantis, has been saying such public a z well. And theres a reason. They believe that the Ground Game and the organization that they have here i was told by never back down, the Super Pac thats aligned with him, they told me over 9,000 doors knocked in the state of iowa. They have a lot of Touch Points in 99 counties. They believe that is going to help them tomorrow, that they