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Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt, reporting tonight from surfside, florida. Good evening we are witnessing a disaster of almost unprecedented scale here in surfside, florida, just north of miami beach, where a desperate Search And Rescue effort is under way to find those that may still be trapped more than a half day after part of a 12story Condo Building simply collapsed. It happened without warning in the middle of the night, practically unheard of kind of catastrophe in this country the destruction starkly visible from in the air, while in the Basement Parking garage, dra...

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...

Crews have been on the scene for almost 24 hours now using extra caution tools, their hands, search dogs, microphones. Earlier today, a boy who was trapped in the debris was pulled out alive. For the very latest we are joined tonight by telephone by Charles Berke yet, the mayor of surfside, florida. Hes joining us by telephone because the weather has turned so severe we can get a tv signal out of there. Which means, think of the underground rescue effort, it will be slow down and hampered by rainfall. Mister mayor, ive been watching you on television all day, i think we are pretty close to the...

Rubble. Ten people are hurt. My son, thats the hardest part. He keeps asking me when is she coming home, he saw the footage this morning. Pj rodriguezs mother and grandmother were in the tower that collapsed. Unfortunately, it happened to other families, too. They were visiting from columbia. This couple whose daughter said they lived in the building for seven years. The front page of this mornings miami herald says it all, tragedy in surfside. This drawing Surveillance Video captures the moment of the collapse. It had 136 units, 55 in the Northeast Corridor that completely collapsed. I want t...

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