Anyone in america, who lives in a Highrise Building or plans to vacation in one this summer. The mayor of surfside, today, promised that Search Andrescu efforts will grow in size and intensity. They are facing increasing odds, at this hour. Lightning being just the latest issue, with officials telling cnn, tonight, that rescuers are standing on a giant piece of metal. Three of the victims including the latest, has not been named. This is what we know about the eight other victims. Antonio and Gladys Lozano. A couple who were about to celebrate their 59th anniversary. We are going to have more on their remarkable story, in a moment. And hear from their Son And Grandson, later in the broadcast. Also, 46yearold Anna Ortiz and her son louie, a 26yearold with muscular dystrophy. His aunt said he only had movement in the use of one hand but he used that hand to draw and to paint. Also, 80yearold leon and his 74yearold wife, christina elvira. And Theres Manuel Lafont who shared a passion for
Their sons lived in a complex in another tower with a view of his parents apartment. he talked with 360 s randi kaye and what he shares is just incredible. here is her report. reporter: antonio and gladys lozano lived at the slam plain towers in surfside, florida. their son, sergio, had dinner with them at their condo just hours before the building collapsed. after dinner, i had i work early in the mornings. and hugged my mom good night. kissed my dad. that was it. never imagining that would be the last time you saw them? no. no. sergio returned to his condo in champlain east. the same complex but two blocks away. only to be awakened, around 1:30 in the morning, by a terrible noise. i thought it was a tornado outside my apartment. i opened the door. i told my wife, oh, my god.
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But those are all things we are day accustomed to seeing. any cause for alarm in what you saw? what i saw? no. the lack of alarm is now sending chills through residents in other aging buildings along this beach and beyond. inspections underway. voluntary evacuations for the champlain towers sister building. and a rush to find the answer to why this building just fell? forensic engineers caution, that answer could, yet, be months away. and drew griffin joins us now. drew, the town of surfside has hired a structural engineer to study this collapse. you know, what is he saying tonight? he calls this a huge puzzle that he and his firm need to figure out. he s, already, begun. he is visiting the site looking at plans. collecting all the information he can about what happened. and then, he puts this through this meticulous computer-assisted process of elimination, john. ruling in and ruling out, various possibilities and combinations of possibilities
Tonight, as crews search the rubble of a condo collapse here in surfside, florida, there is urgent work being done at other buildings in florida to make sure it doesn t happen again. cnn s brian todd joins us with that. brian, you were in sunny isle up the street from here. you were going on some of these initial inspections. what were they looking for? they were looking for cracks in the foundation, compromises in the rebar. any crumbling. significant damage. they were finding a lot of it at this complex, the winston towers. it s a complex of seven buildings, many of them with a similar layout to the champlain south complex where the pool is on the side of the building, the garage is underneath the pool.