More than 60 hours since the collapse took place. Rescue teams are battling fires which greatly complicated the effort to find survivors. We are facing incredible difficulties with the fire. The fire has been going on for awhile. It is a very deep fire. It is extremely difficult to locate the source of the fire. There are new concerns about the condos sister building, nearly identical building located a block away from the collapse. Officials are saying that building should be evacuated until a structural investigation can be done. Has the same name, same developer, probably had the same materials. Probably had the same plans. And people are asking me is the building safe. I cant tell them it is safe. I cant tell them that. One of the Big Questions thats outstanding is how this could happen. Were getting details today about exactly what may have been happening in the pool deck of the building. Structural field survey was done in 2018 and warned of cracking in certain columns. An engine
There was also a lot of news, as there has been all week. Theres more today. Lets get started this friday, august 18. This breaking overnight, Hurricane Hillary Intensifying in the pacific. It is now a major category 4 hurricane thats expected to bring flooding and rain to california and the southwest over the weekend. More Breaking News, mauis Emergency Management administrator quit abruptly a day after he defended not sounding the islands sirens as Deadly Wildfires tore through la hadhaina citing health reasons. And also this just in, femas Disaster Fund is slipping into the red and Hurricane Season hasnt even peaked yet. Now pressure is on for congress to pass a spending bill. Former President Trump wants to push back the trial date in the federal election subversion case by a lot. The Special Counsel wants january, months from now. Trumps team wants april of 2026, about three years from now. And federal prosecutors are recommending the toughest january 6 sentence yet for two leader
being old. do that on television, ok? i said to see you do it on television. i don t want to dislike you. i can t help it. sandra: begin with the media writing off ron desantis s bid for the governor even before he joins the primary field. i m sandra smith in new york. a lot of puns off the top alert there, but we do have a hot show coming up. john: yes, no question about that. all right. let s get cooking here. john roberts in washington. this is america reports. after months of speculation, and several visits to early primary states, ron desantis will make it official not with the usual campaign kick-off rally but in a live audio only interview with the ceo of twitter, elon musk. sandra: we are just hours away from that. marc thiessen standing by whether desantis s entry will shake up the race and peter doocy with the naacp growing war with desantis. how will desantis s rollout play out tonight? what are we and anticipating? from hot and humid miami, a bit of a
area has been searched. more than 40 cadaver dogs are on the scene searching for human remains in the scorched rooms. our randi kaye has been digging in on all of this. here is her reporting. so many of us residents felt we had absolutely no warning. reporter: hawaii has one of the largest public safety outdoor siren warning systems in the world, sirens that were silent as wildfires raged. the question is, why? first, it was this it would not have saved those people. do you regret not sounding the sirens? i do not. the sirens, as i mentioned earlier, is used primarily for tsunamis. reporter: that s what the head of the emergency management agency said before resigning a day later. even before that press conference ended, his reason had changed. this time suggesting the sirens weren t used because people wouldn t have been able to hear the warning. it s an outdoor siren, so a
guys. let s go to south korea now. there is a major rescue operation happening after flash flooding trapped more than a dozen cars and a city bus in a tunnel on saturday. more than 400 workers and divers are on the scene searching for survivors. so far they have pulled seven bodies from vehicles trapped in the flooded underpass and today crews are hoping to drain the water out of the trouble. mark stewart joins us now. more than 400 workers, it sounds like a pretty big operation. how s it going? what s the latest here? reporter: look, this is a very tough operation. we are now into hour 13 of this rescue effort. these crews are facing a lot of obstacles. first of all, they are dealing with the torrential rains. they have been dealing with mud. and then they have had to come up with a way to try and drain the water from the tunnel. as you can see from these pictures, this is a pretty