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The horror of seeing a building that had collapsed in surfside, which is entirely included in my congressional district. i spent the morning before i got on the plane to come down here speaking with mayor burkett and the officials in the city of surfside who have done a remarkable job of mobilizing along with mayor levine cava and her team. it is essential that we have a whole of government effort here. and so my responsibility as a member of congress that represents this community is to make sure that we can have there be no daylight between the federal, state and local governments and ensuri...

We are getting varying comments and one commissioner said she had spoken to the surfside community center where they had received 51 reports of people who had not been reached and whether they were here, on vacation or in the apartment, that was not clear. the mayor was not able to confirm those numbers and the question is dozens upon dozens of people, potentially, andrea, could be underneath the rubble and it is a race against it to try to save the folks, if that's the case. andrea? >> sam brock, exactly. it does look like an earthquake. it looks like haiti and it looks like earthquakes we've...

Had an opportunity to meet with the mayor and team and mayor of surfside and we just toured around the complex to be able to see, and the tv doesn't do it justice, it is -- you can see the collapse of a massive structure. right now, we have fire rescue. they're in search and rescue mode, trying to identify survivors. they made contact with some and are doing everything they can to save lives. that's ongoing. and they're not going to rest. thanks for what they're doing. we were there, got to thank some of the folks that had a change of shift, but they really stepped up. we're making sure people...

One thing. give each other our word and that's it. nobody questions it. they have my word, and i'll stick with what i proposed and they gave me their word and where i come from, that's good enough for me. i'll talk to you all later. >> i have. i spoke with the mayor and the congresswoman and i'll have more to say about that, as well. >> how were you able to reach this deal? >> are you committed to a two-track system? >> there is going to be a two-track system. >> and are you -- i'm not -- [ inaudible ] >> will there be a reconciliation bill? >> i'm not going to answer that one. i have a differ...

Governor desantis. surfside has experienced a catastrophe with respect to the building. i woke up this morning at 2:00, came out to the property, and it was something like i could never believe could happen. it was complete collapse of a building, thought maybe a balcony had gone down. we have 134 units in that building, and half the building is not there any more. we are working hard. there's not a lot that surfside can do except ring the alarm bell and we rang the alarm bell, mayor cava sent the cavalry as did the governor. that made the difference. we have dogs, the equipment, and we're goi...