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Tonight 99 souls are listed as unaccounted for officially. Theres been one fatality. Crews have been on the scene for almost 24 hours now using extrication tools, their hands, search dogs, microphones. Earlier today a boy who was trapped in the debris was pulled out alive. For the very latest, were joined tonight by telephone by charles briquette, the mayor of surfside, florida. Joining us by telephone, because the weather has turned so suddenly severe, we cant get a tv signal out of there, which also means think of the underground rescue effort and how that will be slowed down and hampered by rainfall. Mr. Mayor, ive been watching you on television all day. I think were pretty close to the same age. When i woke up this morning, saw the pictures in your town, i thought of the Marine Barracks bombing. I thought of oklahoma city. And then ive seen your comment all day long. Buildings dont fall down like this in america. Obviously theres that investigation, but update us tonight on the search for living souls. Youre right about the rain. Its heartbreaking now that weve i think its slowing us down and we dont have the time to be slowed down. The rain has stopped, thank god, and well pick it up and continue until were finished. Well just keep going. Youre right. These building do not fall like this in firstworld countries. This is a thirdworld event, and we need to understand why this happened. But now is not the time for that. We need to focus on getting people out alive if we can. Your lifes work, if im not mistaken, you came from the building and Property Management industry. So this is not an unfamiliar topic to you. What is the chance this being florida you had a slowmoving underground sink hole beneath this building known to no one until now . Listen, thats a very plausible theory. There are several plausible theories. But again, this was a catastrophic failure that happened in an instant. You know, we were not aware of any signs of this in advance, so thats why its so crushing for us to have this happen. I woke up this morning and was called at 2 00 a. M. , thought i was going to see a balcony that had fallen off. I never imagined i would see a building down to a pile. Its just something no one ever expected. Its just actually its left us speechless, but were dealing with it. The countys been here. The white house has called. Weve had both our u. S. Senators call. We had one of those u. S. Senators here. We had the governor here. We walked the property with him. Theyve all theyve all committed to Helping Surfside and theyre following through. Theyre not just talking the talk, theyre walking the walk. Weve had governor desantis, like i said, we had Debbie Wasserman schultz, who has been incredible, we had mayor cava from the count who has flooded us with resources. We have no lack of resources. The only thing we have a lack of is luck. We just need to be able to find some people alive in that debris, and thats exactly what were doing. So were just crossing our fingers and working as hard as we can, as fast as we can. Last question. I know youre looking for things to feel fortunate about, and i have to say all the disasters we cover, miamidade fire rescue, their search teams are often the first to arrive anywhere in the country. Theyre so good at what they do, so theyre on the job with a lot of help. They stop to have silence to try to listen for survivors inside. And i guess tonight for everybody watching, were in the business of hoping for air pockets, hoping that concrete and rebar held up and there are there are people in there just waiting on us to get to them. Listen, you said it exactly right. Those guys i mean, were going to have our day with those guys theyre heroes. That building thats Still Standing was in imminent danger of collapse. Those guys didnt think twice. They went up in that building. They checked every single apartment in that building knowing it could come down at any minute. Theyre still working underneath that building knowing it could come down at any minute. Its sitting down to me we have such great guys on our team and youre right about that, theres no one better than the miamidade First Responder team. Weve got a lot to be proud of there. We got a lot of work in front of us. Wherever people are running out in this country, First Responders invariably are running in. Mr. Mayor, we cant thank you enough for joining us tonight. Were all Thinking Of You and the souls inside that structure and your city. Best of luck. Well be watching from afar, mayor Charles Burkett of surfside, florida, our thanks. Well have an update on this stilldeveloping disaster later in this hour. For now, though, we want to turn our focus to washington and a rare sight today, a smiling president and ten senators from both parties emerging in the white house driveway to announce their agreement on a bipartisan infrastructure plan. We have a deal. And i think its really important. Weve all agreed that none of us got what we all wanted. This reminds me of the days we used to get an awful lot done in the United States congress. We actually worked with people. We got bipartisan deals. The plan will cost just over 1 trillion to be spent over eight years time. There are still a lot of hurdles to overcome. The president and Top Democrats warning the agreement will only move forward if its paired with a much larger package of spending and tax increases, which republicans say they will never agree to. I expect i expect that in the coming months this summer before the fiscal year is over that we will have voted on this bill, the Infrastructure Bill, as well as voting on the budget resolution. If only one comes to me, im not this is the only thing that comes to me, im not signing it. Its in tandem. At the other end of town, Speaker Pelosi also stressed both bills must be passed to get. Together. There aint going to be an Infrastructure Bill unless we have the Reconciliation Bill passed by the United States senate. The speaker also confirmed today she intends to create a House Select Committee to investigate the 1 6 riot insurrection and desecration of our capitol. Last month you will recall Senate Republicans blocked the last chance to set up any kind of a bipartisan commission. Justice Department Today revealed at least 500 arrests now have been made in connection with 1 6. As of tonight, Rudy Giuliani, once one of the most feared federal prosecutors in our country, former mayor of New York City, former trump attorney, can no longer practice law in the state of new york. His law license had been suspended. A court in new york ruled that giuliani made, quote, demonstrably false and misleading statements while fighting to reverse the 2020 Election Results on behalf of trump. Heres how giuliani responded. They listen to the false allegations that have been made by the democrats. Im wondering for an investigation they can find. This is an investigation in search of a crime. Thats not american. Thats what they do in dictatorships. Trump came to his defense in a statement, defending his friend rudy with a dated cultural reference as Quote The Elliott Ness of his generation. Were looking ahead to a couple major developments expected tomorrow. Vice president harris makes her first trip to the southern border as vice president. Shes visiting el paso, texas. Republicans have repeatedly criticized her for not visiting the region in office. Former president s traveling to the border next week. In minnesota, former Police Officer Derek Chauvin is sentenced tomorrow for the murder of george floyd. Prosecutors have asked for 30 years. His lawyers want him to get off with just probation. With all that, lets bring in our leadoff guests on this thursday night. Peter baker, the veteran journalist and author. He is chief White House Correspondent for the new york times. I cantnesia alcindor from pbs news hour. And former u. S. Attorney joyce vance who spent as a federal prosecutor, and cohost of sisters in law. I have to begin with your beat. Here we are, our lead story tonight happens to be while not federal, infrastructure in this country nonetheless. It will be a har ah rowing and interesting investigation into what happened in florida. Is the white house confident that on their uber approach on the federal bill, their approach to it as agreed to is going to work . Its a bit of a highwire act still. Obviously the president was very happy today. You saw that in his demeanor. Probably the happiest day hes had since he took office. To be able to say that he could deliver a bipartisan agreement which was so critical last year to the country, a country thats been so divided along party lines, thats a big deal for him. But by tying it to this Reconciliation Bill, that is to say a bill that will almost certainly only get democratic support for social spending and other programs the president would like to pass, it creates a little bit of a danger zone ahead. We dont know whether thats going to be something that can pass or not. It works if republicans were to say, fine, go ahead, im going to vote against it and my vote against it will be beneficial for me anyway, so its okay. But if they hold hostage this agreement that republicans and democrats agreed with, the Infrastructure Bill, because of that, we could still be in for a lot of difficult negotiations in the weeks ahead. The reason why the president and pelosi are emphasizing this, because the pressure theyre under from the left, which has already upset the president for compromising in the first place compromising means youre giving up some of the priorities you held out in the beginning. Yamiche, compromise, of course, is something he knows very well and speaks of warmly. What does this framework, this agreement do for joe biden in the city you cover so well . Well, this Infrastructure Deal is President Biden catching his white whale. So many people, including democrats, said that he was wasting his time , that white house officials were wasting their time negotiating for weeks over infrastructure. And now this is President Biden saying you can compromise in d. C. , you can move something through congress with giving up a little bit and gaining a little from the other side. So this is really President Biden in some ways really underscoring that the thing that he ran on, which was bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle, that it works. In talking to officials today, they said the thing they hope Progressive Democrats get out of this is that compromise has to happen for things to work. They say just look at the New York City mayoral race and the Democrats Fwhg Louisiana and virginia. Theyre saying, yes, the party is divided, but it needs to be rational in order to win elections and in order to get things done. So thats what this deal really says. But i have to tell you the president was very jubilant. We saw a rare white house driveway and a place an impromptu press conference. What does it mean to get your law license suspended in the city where you were once among the most feared federal prosecutors in the United States . This is really an extraordinary fall from grace, brian. This is the kind of thing that lawyers are cautioned against in law school and as a brandnew member of the bar with your bright, shiny to license practice, you take so much care to avoid inadvertently falling into what giuliani found himself in. This is an unrelenting issue. It comes from the appellate division. Theres evidence Rudy Giuliani made false and misleading statements to courts, to legislative bodies, to the American People that made it difficult for people to have confidence in the outcome of the election. And its important that those allegations are uncontroverted. They take them as true, that giuliani has done nothing to disprove them, although he had the opportunity to because the fact that they are so blatantly true combined with the fact that giuliani continues to pose a danger to the community is what warranted the action that they took today, suspending his license to practice law the while final outcome of these proceedings is pending. The suspension is remarkable. The one thing thats so important in this opinion is that its detailed and its factual. The last footnote in this opinion about Giuliani Oosthuizen and it points out when he was given the opportunity to defend his comments, to defend their truth, he didnt. He, in fact, just referred to all sorts of affidavits that everyone provided. He talked about a confidential informant and they conclude we dont know why a private citizen like giuliani would have access to a confidential informant. So its a resounding opinion , no reason to believe that this will not result in disbarment. Peter baker, back to applications. We go to your beat and a fellow member of the White House Press corps, Michael Bender of the wall street journal. Cnn has new reporting from his new book about the trump white house. This particularly is about our summer of protests in the streets. He writes, quoting the president here, thats how youre supposed to handle these people, trump told his top Law Enforcement and military officials. Crack their skulls. Trump also told his team that he wanted the military to go in and beat the expletive out of the civil rights protesters, bender writes. Just shoot them, trump said on multiple occasions inside the oval office according to to the excerpts. Peter, talk about the combination of the sitting president back then and how chaotic that summer was inside the west wing. Well, i think this book by Michael Bender pulls the curtain back on what we were seeing in the summer out loud. I mean, we saw the president in public, and Double Standard down when he was in private. Not only running on this idea of Law And Order and suggesting Lethal Action protesters, he was railing at his military, he was railing at his aides. The tension that was there with the military, which is not believed its role is to be in the streets of American Cities enforcing the law. It was a huge Friction Point between this past white house and the pentagon. I think youre seeing in these excerpts a bit of the back story of what was really going on. We had a Commander In Chief who was basically, you know, cracking down on protesters both violent and peaceful, and a military that was resisting it in the form of General Milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Yamiche, what do we know about the pelosi announcement of the select committee and the question so many people want answered, will they have the power to compel witnesses, compel testimony . Well, it seems as though the details are still coming together. There was reporting that this was going to happen because, as we all remember, republicans were refusing and have refused to investigate what happened on january 6th. The question is, who are they going to be able to pull into the congress . How are they going to be able to force people at times to be able to answer questions about all of the Different Things that we still dont know, including how involved was the president , how involved were republicans . Did anybody give these people maps . Did anybody understand exactly how bad these people were going to be . Did they understand they were going to try to hang mike pence and kill nancy pelosi . So theres a lot of questions to be answered here. Almost every single month we see new video of these people and of course these cases are going through the court, Something Like 500 arrests have been made. So there are real questions there, and nancy pelosi seems as though shes ready to get to the bottom of a lot of them. Joyce, another reason were happy to have you tonight is a preview of tomorrow, the chauvin sentencing. As i said, maximum 30 years, his lawyers want just parole. What aggravating circumstances will the judge be looking at to form his Sentence Recommendation . So the judge found based on pleadings that were filed that there are aggravating circumstances here. That means its not youll forgive me for saying this, but its not a Garden Variety Second Degree or thirddegree murder, that there are factors above and beyond what you would normally find present in a murder that make this even more heinous, for instance, committing this murder in the presence of young children. And so the judge will consider those factors as he decides what sentence he should give. He has a lot of discretion here. And judge cahill is known. He has a reputation for being a moderate sentencer. But this is a case that may call for something more. One of the big issues tomorrow is whether we will see Derek Chauvin try to defend himself. He has