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Alive. Families like the spiegels. One second to the next second a dramatic change in life. She was the glue that kept our family together. We are hopeful that today will be the day they find our mom. Shes just the most amazing person in the world, and we would do anything to have her back. The death toll from the Building Collapse up to four this morning. Officials caution it may go much, much higher. The big focus right now, Signs Of Life. But a sad truth this morning from the scene with every...

Lets go outfront. And good evening. Im erin burnett. The Breaking News, it is a race against time this hour. Rescuers in florida desperately searching for nearly 100 people still unaccounted for after a condo high rise just collapsed this morning. New video that we just got moments ago here shows a frantic effort under way by rescuers. This video is in the flooded basement of that building. The Building Collapsed, you see those collapse marks, and in that basement, people still desperately searc...

Lets go outfront. And good evening. Im erin burnett. The Breaking News, it is a race against time this hour. Rescuers in florida desperately searching for nearly 100 people still unaccounted for after a condo high rise just collapsed this morning. New video that we just got moments ago here shows a frantic effort under way by rescuers. This video is in the flooded basement of that building. The Building Collapsed, you see those collapse marks, and in that basement, people still desperately searc...

Alive. Families like the spiegels. One second to the next second a dramatic change in life. She was the glue that kept our family together. We are hopeful that today will be the day they find our mom. Shes just the most amazing person in the world, and we would do anything to have her back. The death toll from the Building Collapse up to four this morning. Officials caution it may go much, much higher. The big focus right now, Signs Of Life. But a sad truth this morning from the scene with every...

Lets go outfront. And good evening. Im erin burnett. The Breaking News, it is a race against time this hour. Rescuers in florida desperately searching for nearly 100 people still unaccounted for after a condo high rise just collapsed this morning. New video that we just got moments ago here shows a frantic effort under way by rescuers. This video is in the flooded basement of that building. The Building Collapsed, you see those collapse marks, and in that basement, people still desperately searc...

The conditions here as nick valencia explained, make it tricky for the human beings on the ground. they make it much more tricky for the pile theyre working on. the moisture is not just adding weight to the pile which is accelerating the shift which makes it difficult to be on and to work around and, of course, adds an almost of challenge for those who may be alive on the inside of it, but it is also causing a softening underneath. and these are big challenges for heavy equipment and for the men...

So are they. nobody wants to find people alive as much as these first responders do. they commit their lives to it, train on it and deal with the ups and downs in the worst of situations. and this situation is getting worse for them, not better. now, in terms of what that means in timing, and what that means in terms of the eventualities and what the variables are, well bring on somebody with expertise who oversaw what was being done on the screen when he was at fema. were going to go with craig...

Fire rescue, our boots on the ground, there were almost 50 different departments that responded at 1:30 in the morning last night. they have been working nonstop. the task force working right now, theyre a fema task force. they get deployed all over the world. what youll see at 7:00 at night will be the greatest effort. well have over 80 men and women that will be working with other departments all at the same time to save lives. they wont stop until the mission is over. >> i know youre using ev...

Situation indeed. all right, jennifer. thank you very much. joining us, the head of fire and rescue operations, the chief. thank you so much for joining us. among other things, you also lead a fema task force. what will that response, do you believe, look like? >> thank you, wolf. yes, it is true as the city of miami -- as the concern gross less and less, we turn our attention to our urban search-and-rescue team, and in an effort to leverage them to assist others. right now were activated as a...

Community members were informed. these firefighters are specifically trained, they train all year round, theyre part of a regional task force that can be deployed for just this exact reason. we have our federal teams, the fema task force which can go all over the country and two other countries. local firefighters with specialized firefighters for these specific events if something happens in l.a. county or orange county, kern county we rely on our neighbors and partners to bring these firefight...