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Updated 2 hours ago NBC Universal, Inc. Survivors have one trait in common: they truly appreciate how profound it is to be given the gift of life when so many others passed away.  “Every day is a new day and I feel there is a reason, we don’t know the reason, but there is a reason why we are going through this in our lives, and I’m happy every day,” said Sara Nir, who narrowly avoided death in the Champlain Towers collapse with her family.  Dont miss local breaking news and weather. ...

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 ...

Millennium Tower: Surfside catastrophe raises concerns about San Franciscos sinking building CNN 5 hrs ago By Dan Simon, Julia Jones and Ray Sanchez, CNN © Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America/Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO, CA - AUGUST 11: A view of the Millennium Tower on August 11, 2016 in San Francisco, California. A $500 million lawsuit has been filed against building owner the owner of the Millennium Tower, Millennium Partners, and the Transbay Joint Powers Authorit...

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images By Dan Simon, Julia Jones and Ray Sanchez, CNN San Francisco’s lavish Millennium Tower, with soaring panoramic views and world-class amenities, opened to great fanfare in 2009. A dozen years later, it’s still promoted “Your city within the city,” a 58-story monolith with more than 400 multimillion-dollar units in San Francisco’s tallest residential building. “It was billed as one of the top 10 most luxurious buildings in the world,” former Millennium r...

Millennium Tower: Surfside catastrophe raises concerns about San Franciscos sinking building CNN 10 hrs ago By Dan Simon, Julia Jones and Ray Sanchez, CNN © Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America/Getty Images SAN FRANCISCO, CA - AUGUST 11: A view of the Millennium Tower on August 11, 2016 in San Francisco, California. A $500 million lawsuit has been filed against building owner the owner of the Millennium Tower, Millennium Partners, and the Transbay Joint Powers Authori...

Champlain Towers South To Be Demolished On July 4th By Danielle Ong on July 05 2021 12:58 PM People look at a portion of the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building that partially collapsed on June 24, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. It is unknown at this time how many people were injured as search-and-rescue effort continues with rescue crews from across Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Officials in Miami-Dade County are set to demolish the remaining struc...

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...

By Rob Kuznia, Scott Glover, Curt Devine and Casey Tolan, 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 awoke disoriented. The building was swaying “like a sheet of paper.” She ran into the hallway to find that it had been impaled from floor to c...

Through the lobbys wall of windows, Nir saw cars jutting out of the ground, some standing nearly upright, and the pool deck caved in. An earthquake, she thought, dashing back toward Unit 111, toward her kids. Gabe, 25, a night owl, had just pulled salmon from the oven, while 15-year-old Chani was fresh out of the shower. The two stood gaping at their mother from the doorway of the apartment, drawn out by the commotion. "I said, Run, fast!" Sara recalled. "And Chani looked at me. She said: I ...