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Anything but it is terrifying. Lets play it. You see first one section of the Building Collapsed and then seconds later another section of the building just collapsed and then the smoke rising from the rubble right after that. One eyewitness describing the scene as horrific. And you understand why they say that after you see that Surveillance Video. At least one person has died. More than 50 people are unaccounted for right now. Dozens of fire trucks and crews have been on the scene since early this morning. Fire and rescue confirm that two people have been pulled from the rubble alive. We have video of what appears to be one of them. A young boy being pulled out very early this morning. Now cnns Layla Santiago is live in surfside, florida. What is the latest there . Reporter that number that just came in, the 51 people who have been reported to the Hotline Set Up by the county for Family Members and loved ones to say, hey, we havent been able to reach someone that may have been in that building. Now lets go over a few other numbers. Because that number is the latest new figure that gives us an understanding, a better understanding of what rescue units are dealing with. But we also know there are 130 units in there. Nearly half of them, were talking about 55, collapsed when that partial collapse took place. Ive spoken to people who describe it as the sound of a bomb that went off. One woman said it sounded like the engine of a plane. We know that 35 people were rescued. Two people taken from under the rubble. And one of them we know was quite frankly because of heroes. I want to you listen to this. I could hear i could hear Somebody Yelling and screaming. So myself and another individual, we decided to get closer. It was at that point that i could begin to hear him clearly and hear by his voice that he was, you know, a little boy. Couldnt have been more than in his preteens. So then i saw an arm sticking out of the wreckage and he was screaming, can you see me and what not. So we started to kind of climb up to him, to try and see if we could get him free. But it was too heavy, too much rebar and stuff like that. It was going to take quite a bit of effort to get him out. But he was screaming dont leave me, dont leave me, dont leave me. And so we wanted to stay with him and make sure that we got fire and police over there. So i was able to signal Police Officer using the flashlight of my phone and so the Police Officer came over, he got up to him, i was wearing flipflops so it made the climb a little difficult, but they got up to him, he got a perspective and then he got fire over there to start digging him out. Reporter and so theyre hoping for more moments like that. Where they could get to people before it is too late. Coy tell that you the research is very much still active. The portion of the building that is Still Standing has been cleared but they are still very much on scene, trying to search using dogs, using k9 units. I spoke to the mayor a few minutes ago and she said that shes very hopeful that they will that they have all of the resources they need right now. But of course there are challenges. One being a building that is not stable right now. The other being the fact that it is raining. But i can tell you that what struck me when i first arrived was the massive response, more than 80 units responded and ive seen it people from trauma units to the state attorneys office, i saw someone from there. So there is a very big effort to get to the bottom of what happened and to try to save lives at this point. One may be under the debris, but again that just coming in. 51 people unaccounted for and that is coming from miami commissioner that has given us that information. Kate. Thank you so much, i appreciate it. Joining me now is tom vanesen who Led Search And Rescue operations after the 9 11 attacks here in new york. Tom, were going to play the video of that Surveillance Video that just came into cnn again. And and i just want to get your reaction in seeing this moment of collapse. Tom, can you hear me . Yes. I can. Get your reaction. I know youve seen that video, that Surveillance Video, youre reaction to seeing that video . I was in total shock when i saw it because my impression of up until that point was a much less significant part of the building that had collapsed. That was an enormous amount of concrete and steel and 12 stories and square foot, the project, the mess that those rescuers have to get through as quickly as possible is enormous and it is its a very scary, i think, what is in front of us is going to be more fatalities, there is just no question about that. How many, you dont know. But there will be more fatalities. 1 30 this morning is when fire and rescue said the first calls came in and crews very quickly flooded the scene. I wonder, if were sitting at 11 06 in the morning, what kind of there is a race against time at a moment and dealing with really bad weather blowing through. Some really big serious thunderstorms. What kind of a race against time are they up against here in order to try to find more survivors . Well, the weight of the collapse is the biggest problem if they have to deal with. And there is concerns certainly about more collapse. But i think even worse than or more important to the rescuers, the search and rescue miamidade firefighters, the rescue they brought in, it is a lot of Special Skills that you need to get through that debris safely without the heavy equipment that they will be bringing in also. So some of that concrete and steel, you just cant move now matter how many firefighters and people you have trying to move it. But they are concerned that it will move and on top of the rescuers that they have Digging Tunnels under there to try to find survivors. So, of course, we dont know how long people could survive the amount of weight that we had, the debris that we had, the destruction of September 11th was very different. The dust was so heavy nobody could survive. This looks like a typical collapse where you have concrete and steel and people could be alive under there for a long period of time. So what you want to do is get to them without any more movement, without any of the that heavy weight to you dont want that to move and to destroy them now, to kill them now after theyve been lucky enough, we hope, that there are some folks under there that are waiting for someone to get them out as quickly as possible. We know that in miamidade fire and rescue said that they have the heavy equipment, i think he called it paratex, im sure youre more familiar with it than i, but theyre in the process of trying to secure the inside of the building and that leads to what youre talking about. The concerns in the complex challenges that theyre trained in of how quickly to move in with this heavy equipment because im sure folks are thinking why couldnt they just get in there with a bunch of big cranes and lift the heavy Concrete Slabs off of them. And that would be easy if you werent worried about those slabs moving and killing people who are now alive. So you have to do it very slowly, it is time consuming. The 80 units that have responded with, you know, 300, 400 firefighters, not every one of those firefighters have the skills that you need. So you have to bring in more folks like that. You talked before about Urban Search And Rescue teams, miami, i know florida has a couple of them, theyll probably bring in some more. Everybody is working at a feverish pace, but as calmly and professionally as they can. They dont want to move that debris, put the rescuers in danger, and to, you know, have the chance of getting more survivors out. I was really struck this morning, the mayor there said that seeing the firefighters running into this building before anything was flown about how structurally sound or unsound the rest of the building was, reminded the mayor himself of the fdny on 9 11. What do you think when you hear that, tom . I thought the mayor did a great job describing the situation. And hes absolutely right. I got the chilled too, when i just saw that video a few minutes ago when it came down, all i could think of was what we dealt with that day when we had a 30story building that we could not even go in it because we had no people available. But we had gotten everybody out. And we watched that Building Collapse later on in the day. And the idea of just not being able to do anything in the situation like that is really, really difficult. But theyve got as good of a team as you could possibly have down there. They probably need more help and they will be doing it as good as it could be done. You cant ask to be in better hands than what youve got, those guys and folks working down there now. Yeah. Commissioner, thank you for being here. 50 people unaccounted for right now. I think we always will hold out hope and cover every moment as this as this continues to unfold. Search and rescue, a massive search and rescue, well continue to bring you breaking developments throughout this hour. 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Eh, still. Developing at this hour, a critical meeting at the white house. It is a makeorbreak moment for President Bidens domestic agenda and the president will meet shortly with lawmakers after a Bipartisan Senate negotiators announced a break thru, a tentative agreement on a framework of a major Infrastructure Package. Joining me now is john harwood, live at the white house and manu raju on capitol hill. John, first to you. What are you hearing about this meeting with biden and this group today . Reporter kate, i think this is an opportunity for President Biden to recap the details of this plan with the senators involved as hes been going over them with his staff last night and this morning. And also to try to secure the understanding that this is going to get the support of enough republicans to overcome a republican filibuster. Many hurdles remain and im sure manu will lay those out, criticism from the left and from the right. But what this deal does is create the possibility that in fact on the second part of the two track agenda that president has been pursuing, first on the pandemic and second on changing the longterm course of the American Economy that he could end up delivering a substantial portion of what he has requested from the congress, not in one piece but in two pieces. First in this bipartisan deal, if they could get that over the finish line. And then in the larger democrats only deal in reconciliation, the special Budget Process which would address many things that are not addressed in this bipartisan deal. So then, manu, from your perch, how close or how far are they right now from a real finish line, like enough support to over come a filibuster . Reporter it is just too early to say right now. Because they need to draft this legislation and get every side needs to be briefed about it and people need to review it and were still weeks away from those key votes. But if the democrats leadership gets behind it and joe biden gets behind it, it is a good chance of passing. Mitch mcconnell just had a briefing with Top Republicans moments ago about what this was in this plan and according to the senators who came out of that meeting, mcconnell is in listening mode. Hes evaluating it, not saying how he could come down. Some of the details have not been sorted ourt. On the left the pushback has been loud, including from Richard Bloumenthal called this pathetic and paltry, he needs an ironclad commitment that they will move a larger bill along party lines separately or at the same time, that needs to be assured to him before he even considers vote forge voting for a smaller bipartisan deal. Joe manchin told us earlier today he was not in favor of a price tag up to 6 trillion for that larger package that some liberals are talking about and he said he would not make any commitment about moving on that party line approach just yet. So you could see the Difficult Balancing Act that the Democratic Leaders have to do and also the fact that they had to draft legislation. So a lot needs to happen between now and the meantime before it gets to joe bidens desk. But at the moment they are digesting it ant want to see the deals. So they are far from the finish line but every step matters, manu. Speaker pelosi just made an announcement, a select committee to investigate the attack on capitol on january 6. Let me play for everyone what Speaker Pelosi said. Announcing that the house will be establishing a select committee on the january 6 insurrection. Again, january 6 was one of the darkest days in our nations history. Ive said it now three times. It is imparive that we establish the truth of that day. You reported this is coming, manu. What are you hearing about it, now . Reporter yeah, that she is moving forward and that was very clear that this would happen. She denied on tuesday night that she made any decision but we heard from sources that she was expected to do just that. Because of her concerns that this outside Commission Bill in the senate would not get the 60 votes needed. Republicans blocked that bipartisan propose allergy. She considered having a existing House Committee investigate this as well but her view according to sources who spoke to her was those are too unwielding and big and this is a smaller sub group of members. Well see the details an the scope and the time frame and the like who they may ask to come testify. But this will be democratic led and theyll have subpoena power, to schedule hearings here. So a lot will happen between now and the time we eventually get the report and it is unclear how the republicans will react. Kevin mccarthy have not yet said he will name members to this. He most certainly will. But this will be a partisan fight that will last for months. Of course it will. Because they decided to deny the formation of a independent bipartisan commission. Of course this is going to become a political gross fieght on something that should be apolitical, getting to the bottom of what really happened on january 6. Thank you so much. A lot gg on at the white house that well keep a close eye on this hour. Coming up for us, well take you back to the horrible situation truly that is playing out in South Florida. This Condo Building partially collapsing in surfside. The surfside mayor saying it looks like a bomb went off. Well it surely does. The latest on search and rescue operations as they race against time right now. That is next. When you have nausea, heartburn, ingestion, upset stomach. Diarrheaaaa. Pepto bismol coats your stomach with fast and soothing relief. And try new drug free pepto herbal blends. Made from 100 natural ginger and peppermint. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. Lets get back to the Breaking News coming out of South Florida right now. Search and rescue efforts continue at this hour. Ten hours after the first calls for help came in and were reported. After half of that building year looking at there, a 12story condo Building Collapsed north of miami beach. One person is confirmed dead. But dozens are missing still right now. Cnn justice received Emergency Dispatch Audio from moments after the collapse. Lets listen to this. I need pd on the beach side. I have people coming into the back side. I need them to get everybody out. I think you guys could expedite the resources that are needed right here. Can you bring all of the in front, bring it over here to the north side of the building. And then there is this moment. There is no audio. But you dont need to

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