Making it that much harder for rescue crews. Officials say four people are dead, 159 others are still missing after part of Champlain Towers south crumbled in the Early Morning hours on thursday. A newlyreleased inspectors report warned structural damage to the building in 2018. Steve harrigan is life in surfside, florida, with the latest. Steve. Reporter jon, day three, no rescues since thursday. The key numbers remain the same, 159 people still missing, four people confirmed dead. Officials continue to insist this is a still a searchandrescue operation. Here is the mayor of miamidade. We continue to have hope. Were continuing to search. Were looking for people alive in the rubble. That is our priority and our teams have not stopped. Reporter officials released a troubling engineering report from three years ago citing major structural damage in the building that collapsed. That there were cracks around the parking area and around the pool deck as well. The mayor has ordered an audit
Governor brown everybody ready . Good afternoon. Im here to give another update and egons fire situation, im joined on the phone by the forestry, rtment of ire chief degrass, oregons fire state fire marshal. Of emergency anagement director andrew fell ps and Environmental Public Health section manager. Im joined in person by chris struckler, director of the Oregon Department of transportation. I just want to start by saying storm teams tell me a event coming in today will bring moisture. Both along the coast and along both the west and east slopes of cascades. This is a good sign. With are always challenges a storm like this, such as winds and lightning strikes. Firefighting teams tell me that we are very grateful for the rain. My teams also tell me that were making significant progress on fires ing some of these and fire chief doug grass will peak more to that in just a moment. Since my last briefing, ive seen up and close what these done to our communities, to our land, to our oregon
Its still sort of finding its way in terms of what exactly comes under its umbrella of securing the homeland. Part of what has been just a tidal wave of big consequential news this week its been an incredible news week was the emerge of a high level whistleblower from the department of Homeland Security. The man who served as the head much intelligence and analysis for that department. He says this week in an official whistleblower complaint that among other things, the Trump Administration ordered what is effectively a standdown order for the federal government to not respond, not alert anyone, not react to another serious foreign attack on our country. Brian murphy says in his whistleblower complaint that he was told to not release intelligence reports from the department of Homeland Security to state and local officials, even to other federal Law Enforcement agencies, about the russian government attacking the 2020 election to try to mess with the election and influence its outcome.
Government agency. The department of homeland security. Nearly two decades later, it feels a little weird and awkward that there is something in the u. S. Government called homeland. That agency is gigantic. It is sprawling and it has a massive budget and in terms of what it does . Still a little nebulous and still finding its way in terms of what comes under their umbrella of securing the homeland. Part of what has been a title way of a big consequential news this week. The emergence of a highlevelled whistleblower. The man served as the head of intelligence and analysis for that department. He says this week in an official whistleblowers complaint among other things. The Trump Administration ordered what is a stand down order for the federal government to not response and not alert anyone and not react to another serious foreign attack on our country. Brian murphy says hin his whistleblowers complaint he was told not to release the report to state and local officials about the russia
Transmission rates among younger children. And welcome to a very busy monday. Its meet the press daily. Im Steve Kornacki in for chuck todd. And in just a few moments, joe biden is set to deliver remarks in delaware. He will address those wildfires that are raging out west. Hes expected to speak critically of the president s handling of that crises and of other climate emergencies. And were going to bring you those remarks when they begin. And then, shortly after biden speaks, the president is set to land in sacramento. This is video just in of his departure on air force one from nevada. The white house says he will be meeting with local and emergency officials in sacramento for a briefing on the wildfires. And weve just learned that the states governor, gavin newsom, will be a part of that briefing. Now, these wildfires, of course, have ravaged communities up and down the west coast, while blanketing huge chunks of the country in a smoky haze. You can see it on satellite images stretc