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Rescue teams, brave men and women, under the rubble. >> so that fire is creating heavy smoke conditions, of course complicating the search for survivors. no more rescues overnight. four have tied, 11 injured, 159 remain unaccounted for. new questions today after the town of surfside released documents relating to the building, that show that in 2018 inspectors observed concrete cracking in beams and walls. and now officials are turning their attention to a nearby building. >> that building is the same design, the same building, probably the same materials, same name. i reached out to senator s...

Building down the street, built by the same builders, around exactly the same time -- >> potentially with the same material. potentially with the same plans. >> right. >> which is the exact issue that i raised the other day. when i came home and i had a call from residents who lived there saying they were afraid and they explained to me it was the same building, that triggered my intention to call senator scott and mayor cava and ask them what they thought about my idea to deal with the people in there because they didn't want to stay there. they were afraid. so, what we did along those lines ...

Great companies here in florida, lennar homes and their ceo stewart miller. they're doing $1 million for the relief efforts. and we have people from all across the country that are donating money to be able to help for both, we have the one at and then you also have the one here for the surfside relief fund. both of those are great. we're going to be supporting both of them with some of our stuff and i would urge people to help out with that. we are working very closely with mayor cava in addition to working with the federal government. as needs arise the state is here to help and the federal ...

But today's not the day for that. today's the day to try to save as many people as we can. there will be a time for that. and as soon as that time comes, we will be on that, like you can't believe. >> yeah. >> so, right now, we're just -- our job is -- is getting people out of there, if we can. >> yeah. i want to talk to you about this coordination. the coordination effort that you talked about, between local, state, and federal authorities. can you talk to us, more, about that? what do you have going on there? >> yeah. it's -- it's been amazing. we've had -- we've had a call from the white ho...

Any circumstances but speaking with a lot of these family members when they're unaccounted for, it's a really, really difficult thing because they just don't know. i know first responders are working around the clock to get all those answers and to save as many lives as they can. but this has been a really, really difficult thing. so, i just thank the community for really coming together both here in surfside and miami-dade and really florida and throughout the country. we really appreciate that. i've also been talking with mayor cava, we both agree. we need a definitive explanation for how th...