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Point is there's a lack of investment in affordable housing in america and allowing the developments to be plagued we put lives at risk. they're wide open to catastrophic fires. so it's a -- i see housing quality and safety as a matter of life and death and this is proof. >> how do you change that? >> we need to do something in washington and invest in affordable housing part of the built back better fact. many date back pre-war and the people of the bronx deserve the same standard of everyone in new

Happening in your district. this building fire, it is awful. 19 people confirmed dead. what do you make of it? >> it is tragic and terrifying. it is the deadliest fire in more than three decades. we want to get to the facts. what were the cause of the fire? 19 people died, 9 of whom are children. many of these buildings are old. not everybody apartment has a fire alarm. most have no sprinkler system and the risk of a fire is much higher in the bronx. i know the mayor is on top of it. i got a call from the governor with support. this is as great of a tragedy for the bronx as any you could

The fire s.t.a.r.t.ed somewhere on the third, second or third floor and an open door and it obviously if the door was closed it wouldn't have spread as quickly as it did and looking into that but obviously a lot of witnesses were on the ground. here's a witness we spoke with a short time ago describing what they saw. take a listen. >> i went upstairs to fix breakfast. i saw smoke coming in the door and then people screaming help, help. she was down stairs. i told there's a fire. we hovered in the back room and next thing we know we see flames coming out the back windows and stuff. smelling the...