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Next conference prepared to answer your questions. but we have got to get back to securing this structure, to compassionately addressing the remains of victims that still are in the building and also bringing comfort and information to the families. so we thank you and we will be back with you again. thank you. >> there you have it. officials in oakland, california tonight giving us more details on what has become an absolute tragedy there. a massive blaze claiming multiple lives. the headlines here, officials saying we expect the number of deceased to go up, perhaps, a couple dozen victims. a...

To recover the victims and to identify those that are missing, how do they go about determining the cause? what is the first thing that your teams would be looking for? >> well, the first thing we're going to be looking for is the owners of that space or the folks who were throwing that party or that artist event last night. we want to speak to them. we want to know exactly how many people they had in the building and talk to the building's owner to understand the makeup of that structure. and considering the building had fire code violations in the past, it means that the fire department or s...

Incident happened. when you see the types of pictures you're looking at with the tons of material, the items in there, that building may not have been designated as a structure to hold that many people. when you get a fire permit, there's a situation where you have that can only hold so many people. if they violated that code, that could be a problem which may have contributed to why so many people were injured and lost their lives in this tragic fire today. especially with only one staircase going downstairs. >> what do you make of the fact that it is now, you know, hours later? it's more tha...

I'd like to bring this back in focus on the fire. focus on recovery, focus on information for victims. so i'm going to take two more questions that are related to that, and we will prepare an additional press conference with more information at later time to discuss more about permitting, building structure, et cetera. so we'll take two more questions. you, sir? >> [ inaudible ] -- stairwell -- [ inaudible ]. >> there was a single staircase accessing the mezzanine. it was apparently constructed out of wood and was on fire when the crews entered and burned away from the fact it was not viable t...

That. we will prepare an additional press conference with more information at a later time to discuss more about permitting, building structure, et cetera. we'll take two more questions. you sir. >> can you tell us about the stairwell to get to the second floor -- [ inaudible ] >> there was a single staircase accessing the mezzanine. it was apparently constructed out of wood and was on fire when the crews entered. and burnt away to the fact that it was not viable to obtain the second floor. >> do you guys have an assessment -- >> go ahead sir. [ inaudible ] >> trying to get a picture of what i...