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Identify. to find out -- i know that everybody want as number and we don't know. we expect the number of deceased to go up. how far, i don't know. but we're expecting the worst, maybe a couple dozen victims here. we've met with a roomful of people and you know, they're holding on hope until they hear. families hold out for hope until they hear that final word that their loved one is gone. i think the mayor said it best, there's two parts to this case, what's going on here now, the families, the sensitivity that we have to have toward the families and moving forward later on and dealing with al...

>> dan simon, thank you very much. stay with us. dan said the press conference with oakland's mayor will begin in 15 minutes. now joining me on the phone, the city of atlanta fire department, give us a sense of what these firefighters and first responders are dealing with. we're looking at the blaze last night. it is immense and we know this is a mixed use building. there have been reports that potentially that second floor was built in sort of a make-shift fashion. we know there was only one staircase between the second floor and the lower level which made people fleeing the flames, made it e...

Not see any evidence of sprinklers because obviously this was not permitted as a r residential building and he said in order to have had that party there they would have needed special permits but no permits were filed with the city. what else stands out to you? >> reporter: that's right. there were no permits for having this party or no permits for people to live there and we don't know if there were permits for people to work there either. they simply had a permit for a warehouse is the way i heard the building inspector describe things. what stood out to me, poppy, is you also have the very...

The closure they deserve. we are working very hard to comfort those families, to give them the type of support and information access that they deserve. but because of the devastating nature of this incident, we have been extremely limited in our ability to get access inside the structure as well as to perform the very careful work that must be done for us to absolutely be certain of an identification of a lost one. and that is what we are focused on doing and that is what i had the horrible tough job as the mayor to do this morning to explain to those families to those friends, to those loved...

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...