Attempting to figure out, to explain, how this might have happened. In the meantime, Family Members are holding onto hope, and they are desperately waiting for answers. My nephew was here with a wife and three four children. Im just asking god. My mom is an absolutely amazing person. Shes a fighter, and she fights for every single one of us. And we wont stop, until we wont stop fighting, until we find her. I want to get, now, to sanjay and cnn correspondent, rosa flores also there at the scene of the building collapse. Rosa and sanjay, this is you know, this is heartbreaking to hear from these families. And there are, still, so many questions about what happened here. No doubt, brianna. And rosas been here since yesterday morning. It is tough, i just have to say, listening to those Family Members. I cant even imagine if your if you dont know, at this point. And that is the case for 99 people, theyre still unaccounted for. I i wonder, do we have any more insight, as to what, exactly, ha
Fires, shifting materials, Twisted Steel and water up to their waist at some points. Yeah, theyre searching for people in there. Theyre searching for mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters, children. Officials say they have heard sounds from underneath the debris. They are not confirming exactly what those sounds are. They said it is very possible the debris moving, metal, concrete, et cetera. But, with that news, Family Members are doing their best to hold on to hope. There is hope. Its just dwindling by the minute. There is a certain hope in the air but it is a very strange kind of a feeling. Ive rarely had this feeling except in the war zone. Were dealing day by day, theyre now finding more and more people and i hope and pray theyre found soon and everything is good. Those poor, poor people. Officials say that President Biden has been receiving updates on this. Hes expected to address the tragedy there later today at the white house. We dont know yet if he will then go on to v
Sense. Wel welcome, this is early start. Im christine romans. It is 5 00 a. M. In new york. Laura has the day off. We again with a residential Building Collapse theyre miami beach, dozens of rescue units are on the scene. Were heading there right now, this happened just in the past few hours. We know Something Like 100 units from miami rescue are on the scene there trying to dig through this partial Building Collapse. If you know miami, this is 88th and collins, the village is called surfside. Again, well bring you live details as we get them this morning. Next 24 hours hugely critical to the biden agenda, senators will heat with the president today after shake hands on a bipartisan infrastructure deal, they are also staring at a fast approaching deadline on Police Reform. And democrats under pressure to actafter Voting Rights failed in the senate. Daniella diaz is live for us. What are they doing as the clock ticks down . Reporter it is pretty critical that they actually reached a dea
Good morning. I am kasie hunt on this thursday, june 24th. Well start with the news. There appears to be a long awaited break threw on bipartisan infrastructure talks. Specifics of the deal, including how it will be paid for, have not been released, but lawmakers seemed optimistic as they left a closed door meeting with officials last night. Republicans and democrats have come together along with the white house, and weve agreed on a framework, and were going to be heading to the white house tomorrow. Meanwhile white house officials also met with House Speaker nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer yesterday. Democrats are considering two ways to pass their Infrastructure Priorities with or without republican support. We had a very good meeting we got into quite a bit of detail. Were all on the same page. Both tracks, the bipartisan track and the Budget Reconciliation Track are proceeding at pace, and we hope to have voting on both them in the house and the senate in july. The bottom line, the
Debris and the partial debris was covering the door next to us, as well. We took two elderly people with us that we didnt know. We met them in the staircase to our apartment and decided to go out to the balcony and wave down fire rescue and they are heroes. Theyre just unbelievable human beings. It is just overwhelming to see when we opened the door and saw that the building had collapsed. It was just surreal. We also have new Surveillance Video showing the moment that the tower collapsed. We have to warn you, this next 20 seconds may be very disturbing, difficult to watch. So lets get right to nbcs sam brock who has been covering this Rescue Operation throughout the morning. Sam, what update can you give us at this hour about people found, rescued, injuries . Reporter the most relevant thing you said just now, andrea is an unknown number of people that theyre searching for. That is the Million Dollar question right now. So many families on edge and just hoping that well get some clari