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The sale of the site on Collins Avenue closed Wednesday. Ninety-eight people died when the towers that stood on the site collapsed.

The deadly building collapse of the Champlain Towers South pushed state and local governments to start taking a closer look at the condition of older buildings

101 Studios, Grain Media and the Miami Herald are partnering on a documentary about the...

After they heard the boom at 1:15am on June 24, 2021, Jonah Handler and his mother, Stacie Dawn Fang, went out on their balcony to see if they could figure out where the noise...

Chaplain Dustin Hawkins details the role he played during the search and recovery efforts during the deadly Surfside condo collapse.

>> hi, thanks for having me. yeah, it is incredible, it has been a year, its a feeling i never had before, it feels as if the year has flown by and at the same time it has been an eternity. >> what kind of answers have you gotten about why the condo collapsed, why this happened? >> none. we have gotten no real answers. im glad the federal government is continuing to investigate the causes. but it doesnt look like there is really go to be any accountability for why this happened or who was respon...

Your grandmother, looking back a year later what do you want the world to know about them and what you lost at surfside? >> i lost a piece of me. our family lost our two matriarchs. they were the life of the party. my grandmother was 87 years old. and every time i read that, i still think it is sounds as though she was a regular 87-year-old, she wasnt, she would go zip lining, she travelled with her friends, she would rent a car in europe and drive all over the place. she was a very active woman...

Done enough to make sure that this never happens again? >> im glad that they ended up passing the legislation they did when the initial session ended. they couldnt pass anything despite the fact there was support from both political parties, everybody was in agreement they needed to do something and they couldnt get it done. im glad they did pass legislation. the concerns i have is that this is going to be the only thing they pass. and part of the problem with that is there is an enforceability ...

Being able to access the care adds an element of stress. so, but i do think on the other hand, we do have the ability to do that, and i think this is something that we will see implicates a lot of families. >> dr. angeline beltsos, thank you for taking time to talk to us and helping us understand this aspect of it. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> of course. still ahead, remembering the lives lost in surfside, one year later. despite millions in settlement money and promises of chan...

A year after a man lost his grandparents in the Surfside condo collapse, he's keeping their memory alive and honoring everything they did for his family.