Tonight 99 souls are listed as unaccounted for officially. Theres been one fatality. Crews have been on the scene for almost 24 hours now using extrication tools, their hands, search dogs, microphones. Earlier today a boy who was trapped in the debris was pulled out alive. For the very latest, were joined tonight by telephone by charles briquette, the mayor of surfside, florida. Joining us by telephone, because the weather has turned so suddenly severe, we cant get a tv signal out of there, which also means think of the underground rescue effort and how that will be slowed down and hampered by rainfall. Mr. Mayor, ive been watching you on television all day. I think were pretty close to the same age. When i woke up this morning, saw the pictures in your town, i thought of the Marine Barracks bombing. I thought of oklahoma city. And then ive seen your comment all day long. Buildings dont fall down like this in america. Obviously theres that investigation, but update us tonight on the se
Crews have been on the scene for almost 24 hours now using extra caution tools, their hands, search dogs, microphones. Earlier today, a boy who was trapped in the debris was pulled out alive. For the very latest we are joined tonight by telephone by Charles Berke yet, the mayor of surfside, florida. Hes joining us by telephone because the weather has turned so severe we can get a tv signal out of there. Which means, think of the underground rescue effort, it will be slow down and hampered by rainfall. Mister mayor, ive been watching you on television all day, i think we are pretty close to the same age. When i woke up this morning, saw the pictures in your town, i thought of the Marine Barracks bombing them. I thought of oklahoma city, and then i seen your comment all day long, buildings dont fall down like this in america. Obviously, there is that investigation. But update us tonight on the search for living souls. Youre right about the rain, its heartbreaking now that it is slowing u
a russian soldier is sentenced to life in prison in the first war crimes trial of this now three-month long invasion. the soldier admitted to killing one man but ukrainian president zelenskyy says as many as 100 ukrainians are now dying each day near the frontlines. we re tracking developments there, but first, let s go to japan where president biden is on the second leg of his trip to asia, and will ripley is in tokyo for us. will, the president wanted to send a strong message to china on this trip. but today a bit of a mixed message. yeah. and it certainly is a mixed message when it comes to the white house staffers but not a mixed message from president biden because as you mentioned, this is at least the third time he s publicly stated the united states would come to taiwan s defense militarily if thigh china were to attack. for more than 40 years the united states has had a policy of strategic ambiguity, leaving it an open question whether the u.s. would get involved m
A roundup of the days events. Reporter he was a background political operative on the trump campaign, literally right there behind the candidate at the Republican National convention. But today, rick gates took the stand in a virginia federal courthouse playing the role of special counsel Robert Muellers star witness. Coming facetoface with his former business partner, paul manafort, gates testified that they committed crimes together, including not reporting more than a dozen offshore accounts. The prosecutor asking, were you involved in any criminal activity with mr. Manafort . Yes, gates answered. Did you commit any crimes with mr. Manafort . Yes, gates answered again. The two men spent years working sidebyside. In february, gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy and lying to federal authorities. But today, as a flipped witness cooperating with the special counsel, gates told the court he lied because manafort told him to. And he also admitted he embezzled several hundred thousand dolla
voter turnout suppresses voter suppression is like saying more people getting in the wait means there s no longer sharks. that s not true. we know voter suppression is alive in georgia and we re going to continue to fight back. reporter: they are looking toward the general election. abrams telling me she s glad kemp said such and she is looking to unify all of georgia. okay. eva, stand by. a windy atlanta right now. let me break in. harry, for those who are watching this from afar who aren t there in georgia, i want you to see a clip of the messaging that voters in georgia are seeing right now. here s a pro-purdue ad voiced by former president trump that s been running in georgia. sorry about that. but i just stole your tv signal. why? to make a point. every fraudulent 2020 vote stole something from someone just like you. they stole your voice.