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Rescue teams, brave men and women, under the rubble. >> so that fire is creating heavy smoke conditions, of course complicating the search for survivors. no more rescues overnight. four have tied, 11 injured, 159 remain unaccounted for. new questions today after the town of surfside released documents relating to the building, that show that in 2018 inspectors observed concrete cracking in beams and walls. and now officials are turning their attention to a nearby building. >> that building is th...

Building down the street, built by the same builders, around exactly the same time -- >> potentially with the same material. potentially with the same plans. >> right. >> which is the exact issue that i raised the other day. when i came home and i had a call from residents who lived there saying they were afraid and they explained to me it was the same building, that triggered my intention to call senator scott and mayor cava and ask them what they thought about my idea to deal with the people i...

Great companies here in florida, lennar homes and their ceo stewart miller. theyre doing $1 million for the relief efforts. and we have people from all across the country that are donating money to be able to help for both, we have the one at and then you also have the one here for the surfside relief fund. both of those are great. were going to be supporting both of them with some of our stuff and i would urge people to help out with that. we are working very closely with mayor cava in addition...

But todays not the day for that. todays the day to try to save as many people as we can. there will be a time for that. and as soon as that time comes, we will be on that, like you cant believe. >> yeah. >> so, right now, were just -- our job is -- is getting people out of there, if we can. >> yeah. i want to talk to you about this coordination. the coordination effort that you talked about, between local, state, and federal authorities. can you talk to us, more, about that? what do you have goi...

Any circumstances but speaking with a lot of these family members when theyre unaccounted for, its a really, really difficult thing because they just dont know. i know first responders are working around the clock to get all those answers and to save as many lives as they can. but this has been a really, really difficult thing. so, i just thank the community for really coming together both here in surfside and miami-dade and really florida and throughout the country. we really appreciate that. i...

Call. we had one of those u.s. senators here. we had the governor here. we walked the property with him. theyve all -- theyve all committed to helping surfside and theyre following through. theyre not just talking the talk, theyre walking the walk. weve had governor desantis, like i said, we had debbie wasserman schultz, who has been incredible, we had mayor cava from the count who has flooded us with resources. we have no lack of resources. the only thing we have a lack of is luck. we just need...

0 under way. after he designated the pulse nightclub where 49 people were killed in a mass shooting back in 2016 and lets listen tine the president right now because hes talking about the condo collapse in florida. >> and i promise you the administration, the congress will do everything possible to be of assistance now and after this occurs. after they decide exactly what the stay of play is. i am glad to welcome everyone here to the, to the white house here and in person virtually. survivors an...

Bear. we are standing by to help. i will introduce the director of emergency management. kevin guthrie, also going to hear from mayor cava, and the mayor of surfside as well. kevin? >> good afternoon, kevin guthrie with florida emergency management. just to update whats going on with state resources, we have members of the state emergency response team that are activated, working this event, including members from obviously the chief officers and fire maur shall and includes law enforcement and ...

Can function, can get things done and particularly on an issue that, as rob mentioned, weve been talking about the need for a large infrastructure package for decades. today we are delivering. >> let me just state very quickly i am proud to be a part of the bipartisan group and always can be there if we work together like we did. we have an infrastructure package that the mayor has the needs of this koiptry for the 21st century and it is an opportunity for us to show the brld they can keep thing...

Expeditiously and hopefully be able to find some survivors. >> president biden said earlier today that he is ready to send federal aid as soon as the governor declares a state of emergency. the mayor of miami-dade said that she has presented that to governor desantis, its on his desk. is he going to sign that? >> sure. its my understanding mayor cava just sent that up to the governor his review. i know he is reviewing it as we speak. we know that right now there has been no unmet need from the c...