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11 so far hurt. look at this as a before and after just to see what were dealing with here. the building is 12 stories, has 136 units. 55 of them are now gone. rescue workers are racing to find survivors. but that doesnt mean theyre going quickly. this is pain staking, meticulous, dangerous work. they are focusing -- this is in the garage there. the water is from flooding. they say the flooding is controlled. they are working in one area specifically. why? were going to find out more about that....

Jillian: steve harrigan joins us at the scene as they go through dust and debris. this is devastating, no other way to put it. >> reporter: this is a tough scene to watch. they are bringing in more heavy machinery to try to remove some of that debris. rescue workers going at it another 24 hour session overnight, no clear idea what caused this apartments. here is the mayor of surfside. >> buildings like this do not fall in america. this is a third world phenomena and. it is shocking. there are ca...

This, whether it starts at the bottom when you have layers of compression like this, that there are still voids, there are spaces and arches and areas made where you could have many possible spaces for survival? >> yes, it is possible. and if you go back to videos of buildings crumbling in the past, youve seen miracles of babies being pulled out of small voids either the day after or week after. theres certainly a possibility that this can happen here. but until the rescue workers do their job a...

136 units. 55 of them are now gone. rescue workers are racing to find survivors. but that doesnt mean theyre going quickly. this is pain staking, meticulous, dangerous work. they are focusing -- this is in the garage there. the water is from flooding. they say the flooding is controlled. they are working in one area specifically. why? were going to find out more about that. the early word is that there arent too many different options for them because of what theyre dealing with and what they co...

Speculating, but i can tell you in almost 40 years in the fire service ive never seen a collapse like this, and so all of us that are involved in this type of work are going to be interested to hear what caused this collapse and hopefully learn from it and make provisions so it doesnt happen again, but i couldnt point to any one thing that would lead to this collapse right now. >> chief downey, thank you so much. thanks for all your service and we all just pray for the rescue workers and the vic...

And the weather is not really cooperating. its raining/its not raining, its windy. the rescue workers are there, not just ours, all of the neighbors municipalities have come forward. public works director been on the site since before last night, since the night before. ims loing track of the days. >> im sure youve slept almost not at all. anecdoally one woman woked up the night before the collapse saying she heard creaking. any reports of concerns about the structural stability of this building...

I think they are gone. i dont want to be pessimistic, but we have been calling them like nonstop, no reply, nobody knows anything. we dont have information right now. the site of this building so destroyed is a terrible reminder to the people of this community of what they have lost. and its a sign to the authorities they must begin to establish what happened here, no matter where it leads. this tragic incident has affected everyone in this small community, which never saw the disaster coming. b...

>> after bombshell testimony britney spears is apologizing to her fans. she writes by the way i posted my life seems to look and be pretty amazing. i apology gaze for pretending like i have been okay. >> a surprise. >> a marine veteran gives custom flag for world war ii veteran for his 100th birthday. ♪ ainsley: we begin with a fox news alert. all eyes are now on surfside, florida this morning as crews are desperately searching for survivors that are trapped under that collapsed condo building...

And if you go back to videos of buildings crumbling in the past, youve seen miracles of babies being pulled out of small voids either the day after or week after. theres certainly a possibility that this can happen here. but until the rescue workers do their job and engineers do their job to go in and try to do things safely, then we wont find out the answers for sure. but my heart goes out to those people. the family members and hopefully like the rabbi said we can pray for a miracle and someth...

Dave downy. thank you for being here. you might not be able to screen. we have a line of crew members, a line of rescuers, rescue workers. theyre all working together with these red buckets. we can see them pulling out debris by hand, this kind of bucket line, if you will. talk to me about what that signals to you, what they are doing, why they would be focusing in on this area, if you will. >> well, what theyre doing now is theyre trying to, as precisely as possible, begin to delayer this colla...