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Fox News correspondent Charles Watson gives the latest updates from Surfside, Florida A concrete slab that supported the pool deck at Floridas Champlain Towers South condo building, which collapsed last month and resulted in the deaths of at least 95 people so far, needed "concrete structural repair" to seal 500 feet of cracks in 1996, new documents obtained by the Miami Herald show.  The report adds to concerns that the condo building may have been unsafe for years or even decades before it c...

Updated: 2:00 PM PDT, July 6, 2021 The governor said they are monitoring the hurricane closely and that Tropical Storm Elsa will most likely bring heavy rain and winds to the Surfside area, but said he will be removing Miami-Dade from the list of affecting counties. More victims have been pulled from the Florida condominium collapse, bringing the total death toll to 32, including children, with 113 people still unaccounted for, according to Miami-Dade County Mayor Danielle Levine Cava.  On S...

As condo crashed down, they escaped through smoke and ruin By KELLI KENNEDYJuly 3, 2021 GMT FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Alfredo Lopez and his wife Marian were asleep when the first thundering blast jolted them awake. Moments later, a second boom, much louder than the first, shook the bed on the sixth floor of their Miami apartment. Alfredo rushed to wake his 24-year-old son Michael, urging him to get dressed, before running to the balcony window. “All I could see was just white dust, very ...

5 Lawsuits Filed in Surfside Condo Collapse; Judge Says $48M in Insurance Is Not Enough Five lawsuits have been filed against the Champlain Towers South Condominium Association in Surfside, Florida as of Thursday afternoon as plaintiffs move to preserve evidence at the site of the partially collapsed high-rise to stake a claim to a share of the reported $48 million in insurance coverage available. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman held an online emergency meeting Thursday morning. Attor...

Rest of collapsed Florida condo tower demolished Doha Madani and Tim Stelloh © Provided by NBC News The remaining portion of a Miami-area condo tower that partially collapsed was demolished Sunday night after engineers declared it unstable, officials said. Search-and-rescue efforts were put on pause at the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, Saturday afternoon as officials worried the unstable structure could come down on crews working the debris pile. The building ca...

Rest of collapsed Florida condo tower demolished Doha Madani and Tim Stelloh © Provided by NBC News The remaining portion of a Miami-area condo tower that partially collapsed was demolished Sunday night after engineers declared it unstable, officials said. Search-and-rescue efforts were put on pause at the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, Saturday afternoon as officials worried the unstable structure could come down on crews working the debris pile. The building ca...

Survivors of the collapse share the stories of how they escaped. Author: KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press Published: 12:00 AM CDT July 3, 2021 Updated: 12:00 AM CDT July 3, 2021 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla — Alfredo Lopez and his wife Marian were asleep when the first thundering blast jolted them awake. Moments later, a second boom, much louder than the first, shook their bed on the sixth floor of their Miami apartment. Alfredo rushed to wake his 24-yea...

Tragedy beyond tragedy: Champlain Towers South was a catastrophe in slow motion By: CNN By Rob Kuznia, Scott Glover, Curt Devine and Casey Tolan, CNN (CNN) -- Sara Nir was up late, checking her email when she heard knocking sounds that went from a soft tapping to hard pounding to a frightful crash overhead -- as if a wall had collapsed in the unit above her ground-floor condo. Raysa Rodriguez was sleeping in her room on the ninth floor when she awok...

As condo crashed down, they escaped through smoke and ruin KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6This Wednesday, June 23, 2021, photo provided by Albert Aguero shows him, his wife, Janette; 14-year-old daughter, Athena, and 22-year-old son, Justin Willis, vacationing in the Miami area from New Jersey. They all were able to escape the building collapse of Champlain Towers South the following day. “When I opened the staircase door and half the staircase was mis...

As condo crashed down, they escaped through smoke and ruin KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6This Wednesday, June 23, 2021, photo provided by Albert Aguero shows him, his wife, Janette; 14-year-old daughter, Athena, and 22-year-old son, Justin Willis, vacationing in the Miami area from New Jersey. They all were able to escape the building collapse of Champlain Towers South the following day. “When I opened the staircase door and half the staircase was mis...