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At champlain tower. you're looking at 40 units that may have been affected. how many people were inthere at the time it happened? it happened at 1:00. but units are going in there with drones on top to see if there are any survivors and who they might save. i'm told this happened at about 1:30 in the morning. so we're looking at a multi-unit, 80 units, multi jurisdictional coral gables, pompano beach, other firefighting units are here. not clear at this point how many were injured or if there were any fatalities, but in the words of neighbors we spoke with, it seems like an inevitability. i'll...

Geoff, a new number from the miami-dade county police director over at the center where they're encouraging family and friends to seek out their family members. the police director announcing there are up to 99 individuals that are now unaccounted for. again, 99 individuals potentially unaccounted for. there may be fewer than that missing under the rubble. that number is based off the calculations of the champlain tower. there's the potential, hopefully, that a large number of those individuals were potentially snowbirds or outside of town here, and that is why they are encouraging individuals...

Account for you. the person in the middle moved in the building in 2003. her dream was to retire on the beach. on the night of the collapse she woke up on the floor and a portion of the building they did not fall. she said the building suede like paper. she called her brother and checked on other people in the voice mail from her brother recorded some of her horrifying experience in real time. here's a portion. >> oh, my god! the whole entire building is gone. >> rodriguez's attorney says this is her home-video from 2018 showing some type of leak that appears to be causing flooding in the gara...

>> the worst thing that could have happened was to have a storm come in and blow that building down on top of the pile. >> reporter: rescue teams halted their work temporarily but resumed just over an hour after the demolition began. today workers hoping to access voids in the rubble that they couldn't before the remaining tower was brought down. >> it will help us move forward unim unimpeded. >> reporter: this as new condo documents obtained by cnn shows a presentation was prepared for residents last fall and winter on, quote, why we have to do all this now. the garage lacked waterproofing an...

Demolished. look at that. charles watson is live in surfside with how officials think this will help the search for survivors. good morning, charles. >> reporter: good morning, ashley and carley. what remained of champlain tower is now gone as we start to feel the winds associated with tropical storm elsa. the remnants were imploded just after 1030 sunday night. it happened in a matter of seconds. you seize the explosives go off and then it comes crashing to the ground as a plume of dust and debris fills the air. officials were racing to bring the remaining section of the building down before ...