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Try disposable, thin sheets. today the staggering death toll in surfside is rising as crews recover for victims in the rubble. 78 people are now confirmed dead. 62 others unaccounted for. now 15 days after nearly half the condos that came crashing down. rosa flores is there for us. rosa, you wrapped a tour inside the sister building. before we talk about that, talk to us about the latest on the recovery operation. >> reporter: you know, the mayor

Solution, but at the end of the day its important to get a common solution for the people of this country. >> at some point it sounds like this needs to be another election, but im guessing that will also be discussed in due time. ambassador, i appreciate you coming on and helping us with as much information. as a south floridian, i want to see notion more than a peaceful and prosperous haiti. heres hope we get that soon enough. thank you, ambassador. >> thank you. i really appreciate having me....

Navigating the next tips. debbie wasserman schultz is here with us. good to talk with you. this is, i think, the next stage of the difficult process. you have a lot of people still grieving, but now you have real-world problems for the people who survived and once lived there. they lost their life savings, perhaps. you have others who live in the communities watching their insurance rates skyrocket, the values of their condos plummet, therefore their life savings at risk. this is going to have a...

They were only taking breaks to check their pulse, to check their oxygen levels to make sure they can continue looking for survivors. but overnight this mission here in surfside switched from search and rescue to search and recovery. >> what a beautiful sentiment of one of the family members to remember these searchers and what theyre going through. >> and for days, weeks now its been going on. and the emotional connection they have to these families theyre searching for. rosa, let me ask you be...

Tower could have been repaired faster under repealed law. the law would have required condos to plan for repairs. the legislature says if it wasnt repealed this never would have happened. i want to bring in john shupey. you say it was repealed after push back from real estate lawyers and property managers. >> this is a story about how to avoid repairs becoming big expensive problems and catching them early. in 2008 a lawmaker sponsors a law that could and did require inspectors, engineers, exper...

And it just strikes me as so disturbing to see this become a political football in washington. i mean, fixing our infrastructure, including the infrastructure that involves buildings, roads, whether these are electrical grid, its really important to all americans. i hope they get their act act tr in washington and get something substantiative passed as soon as possible. it creates jobs and makes us much much safer as a nation to fix the infrastructure and upgrade everything that has to do with p...

As i explained before, its like taking two 3,000-piece puzzles, throwing them up in the air and mixing them all up on the ground and trying put them back together again. >> just incredibly difficult work. sir, there is a discussion of a reserve study where a state would force a condo association to assess their building and figure out how much its going to cost to repair it. does that need to be in place for condos nationally, do you think? weve heard a lot of reporting how there were so many ar...

What condos need, they need capable, experienced people as a consultant or on the boards that understand buildings that can help people understand what they need to look in more thoroughly over what period of time. >> all right. allyn kilsheimer, we appreciate you being here. >> youre welcome. up next, we are following the breaking news out of haiti where the president was assassinated overnight. president jovenel moise and the first lady. president biden said we condemn this heinous act and m...

That looks like its condos or office buildings or something like that. and then that looks like something over there, im not sure what it is, theres a big picture of somebodys face painted on the wall. let me walk you down this way. a couple of blocks away, man, is it fancy over here. its super nice. you have valet parking right here. this is i think a hip restaurant. lets take a peek. with hip people doing and eating hip things. and right across the street, the reality is, artists and other peo...

Into multifamily apartments. the company that operates the facility hasnt responded to our request but they say they have no choice but to close the facility because its operating at a loss. >> market rate housing is the market rate of rentals in todays market which is at an all-time high. if you place multifamily units at this site at the market rate of the greater market rate in los angeles, that is totally above and beyond what this localized community can afford. >> this community, boyle hei...