once they release the scene, the miami-dade police department will then conduct that investigation as to what is the causes. right now we re focused on the search and rescue. when that moment comes, that dire moment comes where they transition command then we will be in charge of the investigation. that s why we are here. we are holding the traffic scenes right now, providing support. we have all our assets here. once that transition comes, we ll be part of that investigation. our homicide detectives will be doing a death investigation with other partners and it s very similar to the fiu bridge tragedy. so it will be a structural issue there will be other things once they stop the search and rescue component. there will probably be federal resources involved in the investigation as well. this is probably for fire rescue. if you don t mind for people watching so we can get clear, the 102 people who have been accounted for at this time, not necessarily from the coll
and another stain on rudy giuliani s legacy. the former-mayor, turned trump lawyer, has his new york law license suspended for pushing election lies. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. all right. you are looking at live pictures coming in from surf side, florida, right now. awful situation that has unfolded. our correspondent, randi kaye, is son thon the scene for us. randi, local officials just a few moments audio, they gave us an update on the condo collapse. what is the latest? update our viewers. some good news and some bad news, wolf. they are telling us now, that 102 people have been accounted for. which is very good news for some families. but they are still saying 99 people remain unaccounted for. so those families, certainly, on edge at this hour. but i should emphasize this is, still, a very active search-and-rescue operation. they are searching
Swalwell and Adam Schiff. It was extremely broad, nothing to do with the intelligence hearts in are at least being reported on. It just shows what a broad Fishing Expedition it was and so many norms were broken in connection with this. Reporter sources tell cnn the effort began in February 2018 when Attorney General Jeff Sessions ran the department. The subpoenas were related to leaks of Classified Information regarding contacts between russians and trump associates. More than 100 accounts were affected casting a wide net that even swept up at least one minor. That included a Gag Order that was renewed three times before expiring last year and it wasnt until may that apple notified customers that their records will been seized, and in a private Conference Call Today sources tell cnn that committee democrats were animated about getting to the bottom of who was behind this effort and are now asking apple to provide them with more details about whether additional members were targeted. A
Jessica schneider. Were learning more and more right now about former Attorney General Barrs Role in the trump Administrations Targeting of democratic lawmakers. Reporter we are. My colleagues are hearing from people familiar with Barrs Role in these investigations and theyre stressing that this probe targeting democratic lawmakers, it was more than a year old when barr became Attorney General. They say that barr came in urging prosecutors to complete investigations quickly, but that barr does not recall the specifics of this probe involving democrats Adam Schiff and eric swalwell. Tonight, though, lawmakers want answers directly from barr as several investigations are being launched. Tonight, democrats are demanding former attorneys general Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr testify under oath after revelations of secret subpoenas served on apple to obtain meta data. The justice Departments Inspector general issuing its own review of records of two of former President Trumps most outspoken a
attempting a coup noting that ultimately no action was taken by the doj. so president trump assembled a bunch of people in his office and they discussed what they ought to do. reporter: there is still more to find out. the committee is waiting for records from the national a archives which could shed more light on the pressure from the white house and democrats say jeffrey clark has not yet agreed to an interview. this has been a massive attack on the integrity of the voting system in the greatest democracy on earth. reporter: new documents reveal rudy guiliani and other trump allies testified under oath they did little to verify these false election fraud claims before blasting them out to the public. in a sworn deposition, guiliani acknowledged he did not have all the facts before falsely accusing a dominion voting systems executive of changing votes for joe biden. defending it this way, saying we didn t pronounce him guilty. we laid out the facts we had. all of thi