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Complex in the bronx. what's the investigation looking into right now? >> reporter: there's a number of things they are looking into. one is why that south closing door didn't shut. the fire was in one apartment building which was two floors and because that door didn't shut, we're told the smoke was just able to go right up to this 19 story building hitting every floor, essentially suffocating and blinding many of the people trying to escape. why were fire alarms going off at many times not just from this one prior days and weeks before this according to some residents and reports. they would...

>> with 30 people in the hospital, 19 deaths, 9 of them are children, babies that we lost. we are all feeling this. we are going to be here for this community to help them navigate through this. >> reporter: over night we did hear from the building of the company that owns this apartment bidding. they said they were devastated bide the loss of life in this tragedy. there were no known issues with the fire alarm in the building and they said that the doors should have been up to new york city's fire code, they did automatically close. when we heard from the fire commissioner, they're looking fo...

Building. there were victims found in each floor of the complex that had 120 units. stephanie, because this building was built in 1972, it's federally constructed, the fire commissioner says it may not -- it may have been built outside of new york city's current fire code and that is something that investigators are all -- also looking into this morning, stephanie. >> and this, of course, was just, what, two, three days after a similar fire in philadelphia that took the lives of 12 people there. gabe, thank you so much. covering that very difficult and developing story. coming up next, we ar...

You look at it, it doesn't have any outstanding building violations after a preliminary search here. it housed about 120 units about 50 years old, but the question is what potentially could be done for buildings like this to try to keep this from happening again. as we just saw, it didn't have any structural violations, but it was a federally funded building, so it certainly leads to the other question of what kind of codes would potentially apply there if it doesn't necessarily fall within new york city fire code. >> polo sandoval, thank you very much. joining me now is democratic congressman...

Anything. >> those were some of the survivors of one of the deadliest fires in new york city history, talking about the moments during the inferno. a short time ago new york city mayor eric adams revised the death toll down slightly to 17 people, eight of which were children. according to the new york city fire commissioner, a malfunctioning space heater started the fire. investigators are looking to see if it was up to new york fire code. joining us now from the site is nbc correspondent lisa gutierrez. what else did we learn from the mayor's press conference today? >> reporter: hey, garrett....