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Identify. to find out -- i know that everybody want as number and we dont know. we expect the number of deceased to go up. how far, i dont know. but were expecting the worst, maybe a couple dozen victims here. weve met with a roomful of people and you know, theyre holding on hope until they hear. families hold out for hope until they hear that final word that their loved one is gone. i think the mayor said it best, theres two parts to this case, whats going on here now, the families, the sensiti...

>> dan simon, thank you very much. stay with us. dan said the press conference with oaklands mayor will begin in 15 minutes. now joining me on the phone, the city of atlanta fire department, give us a sense of what these firefighters and first responders are dealing with. were looking at the blaze last night. it is immense and we know this is a mixed use building. there have been reports that potentially that second floor was built in sort of a make-shift fashion. we know there was only one stai...

Not see any evidence of sprinklers because obviously this was not permitted as a r residential building and he said in order to have had that party there they would have needed special permits but no permits were filed with the city. what else stands out to you? >> reporter: thats right. there were no permits for having this party or no permits for people to live there and we dont know if there were permits for people to work there either. they simply had a permit for a warehouse is the way i he...

The closure they deserve. we are working very hard to comfort those families, to give them the type of support and information access that they deserve. but because of the devastating nature of this incident, we have been extremely limited in our ability to get access inside the structure as well as to perform the very careful work that must be done for us to absolutely be certain of an identification of a lost one. and that is what we are focused on doing and that is what i had the horrible tou...

Next conference prepared to answer your questions. but we have got to get back to securing this structure, to compassionately addressing the remains of victims that still are in the building and also bringing comfort and information to the families. so we thank you and we will be back with you again. thank you. >> there you have it. officials in oakland, california tonight giving us more details on what has become an absolute tragedy there. a massive blaze claiming multiple lives. the headlines ...

He absolutely did. it was exactly what he was doing by accepting the call. i want to show you a tweet from 2011. donald trump tweeted this. you know, long time ago. why is obama delaying the sale of f-15 aircraft to taiwan? wrong message to send to china #timetogettough. that is exactly the opposite. how do you square the two? >> i think the point that he is making here is that he believes we do need to have a new day with the people of china, the government of china. they have been taking advan...

The confirmed number right now is nine. but with you know fire krurs as well as personnel from the coroners office have been inside the building over an hour and pulling out bodies. so we would expect more of that information to come forward in terms of the number of people dead. this was such a horrific situation, yet people gathering for a holiday party, live music up on the second floor, about 50 to 100 people there enjoying the evening and the flames broke out at 11:30 at night. thats when t...

The other thing that stood out for me is that only one body thus far has been removed. we had reason to believe that crews were making progress because they did get into the building at one point but then they determined that the building is still structurally unsound. so theyre trying to shore up the structure so they can get in and have a greater look and remove more bodies, poppy. >> absolutely. you could hear the pain in the voices of the mayor and fire chief and all the officials trying to ...

Out. at this time we have only been able to recover one decedent from that scene. this is going to be a slow process for us. we are anticipating being out here for a minimum of the next 48 hours. so we will be at this scene, the scene will remain active until its entirely searched and gone through. in addition to that, we have our family assistance center that is up. it was put together on the spur of the moment. its now functioning much more efficiently. and were getting to talk with the famili...

>> chief reed. deputy chief hoffman. sergeant ray kelly to my left. hes with the county sheriffs office, coroners bureau and we have other city not only leaders but services that are here on stage with us today from the city administrator to the chief of police to the red cross to building division for the city of oakland. we have a lot of new faces and our media guests today. so we would ask you if you could identify who you are and which media agency you are with when it comes to question time...