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At champlain tower. youre looking at 40 units that may have been affected. how many people were inthere at the time it happened? it happened at 1:00. but units are going in there with drones on top to see if there are any survivors and who they might save. im told this happened at about 1:30 in the morning. so were looking at a multi-unit, 80 units, multi jurisdictional coral gables, pompano beach, other firefighting units are here. not clear at this point how many were injured or if there were ...

Geoff, a new number from the miami-dade county police director over at the center where theyre encouraging family and friends to seek out their family members. the police director announcing there are up to 99 individuals that are now unaccounted for. again, 99 individuals potentially unaccounted for. there may be fewer than that missing under the rubble. that number is based off the calculations of the champlain tower. theres the potential, hopefully, that a large number of those individuals we...

Account for you. the person in the middle moved in the building in 2003. her dream was to retire on the beach. on the night of the collapse she woke up on the floor and a portion of the building they did not fall. she said the building suede like paper. she called her brother and checked on other people in the voice mail from her brother recorded some of her horrifying experience in real time. heres a portion. >> oh, my god! the whole entire building is gone. >> rodriguezs attorney says this is ...

>> the worst thing that could have happened was to have a storm come in and blow that building down on top of the pile. >> reporter: rescue teams halted their work temporarily but resumed just over an hour after the demolition began. today workers hoping to access voids in the rubble that they couldnt before the remaining tower was brought down. >> it will help us move forward unim unimpeded. >> reporter: this as new condo documents obtained by cnn shows a presentation was prepared for residents...

Demolished. look at that. charles watson is live in surfside with how officials think this will help the search for survivors. good morning, charles. >> reporter: good morning, ashley and carley. what remained of champlain tower is now gone as we start to feel the winds associated with tropical storm elsa. the remnants were imploded just after 1030 sunday night. it happened in a matter of seconds. you seize the explosives go off and then it comes crashing to the ground as a plume of dust and deb...

Several engineers cnn spoke with say that 2018 report did not foresee a catastrophic collapse. and minutes from the condominium association board meeting the following month shows that a town official told residents it appears the building is in very good shape. champlain towers south was in the process of recertification. a miami-dade county government structural and electrical assessment of any building 40 years old. according to the condominium association attorney, the building had multiple ...

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Search and rescue has been suspended in the tower could be taken down in a matter of hours. a short while ago i spoke to the mayor who said the storm which was hurricane tropical storm elsa could hit the area, it could potentially low the power onto the search and rescue site. hovering over the search and rescue crews so any effects from the tropical storm, there could be another catastrophe. the residence we evacuated not allowed to go back to belongings for the are using might have been in the...

And rescue came to a sudden halt. the entire facility had to be evacuated. they had to leave the entire area more than a half days loss of search and rescue, critical time. engineers reviewed their remaining structure, and determines the rescuers can go back. also tonight, we have some brand-new cell phone -- to show you shortly after the building collapse. >> oh, my god. oh, my god. speak of the death toll is now at 18, including two children, 5 people still unaccounted for, also knew tonight, ...

Coming with shovels and their hands. >> part of me has hope we can find a miracle, nothing would be more amazing with such gravity and despair than to find one person alive in the rubble but we will hold out hope as long as you possibly can our message to the family everyday is that no matter what happens, we are here for you. reporter: also miami-dade mayor ordered an inspection, all buildings older than 40 years old, one tower has a documented, hundreds of residents were given just a few hours...