> hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church. just ahead here on "cnn newsroom," hope for finding more survivors is dwindling at that collapsed condo complex in florida as rescue crews sift through the rubble of a building that was flagged as unstable years before. concerns over the delta covid variant force officials to lock down a major australian city. and pride festivities turn violent in turkey as police use

tear gas to disperse a banned march. ♪ thanks for joining us. well, as a new day begins to dawn in surfside, florida, rescuers are battling the elements and clinging to hope. the death toll from thursday's condo collapse has now risen to nine, and more than 150 people are unaccounted for as of sunday. this as hopes of finding anyone left alive grow more remote. families face an agonizing wait, desperate for any word on the fate of their loved ones. on sunday they were given an opportunity to visit the site of the collapse, but hope still remains amid prayers for an 11th

hour miracle. >> i expect miracles. i'm expecting many miracles. >> we want to keep maximum pressure, maximum staffing, maximum rescue people on that mound looking for people to pull them out alive. >> brian todd has the latest now on the progress being made in the round-the-clock search efforts. >> reporter: the grim and very dangerous work of the rescue teams is continuing 24/7. rescue officials telling us that about 200 rescuers at a time are combing through the rubble trying to find survivors, trying to find victims to pull them out. what we've learned is that they've dug a massive trench to tunnel into the rubble, and that trench has enabled them to pull bodies out and identify people. that trench is about 125 feet long and at least 40 feet deep. one top fire and rescue official described the trench as horrific. he also gave some bad news saying they have not been able to find the voids what they need to find, pockets of air, pockets

of space that survivors can sometimes find to find oxygen and to find space to make noise. this official told cnn that they have not been able to find the voids that they had hoped for. so that is not good news right now. what is good news though is that they have been able to contain a fire inside the rubble that took days to get to and isolate the fire. that smoke emitted smoke and fumes and particles and they couldn't even see where they were going half the time because of that fire. but that fire has now been contained. so the grim work of this rescue effort continues, and municipalities all around surfside are now taking time to inspect their buildings to make sure this kind of calamity doesn't happen in their areas. brian todd, cnn, surfside, florida. families of the missing were able to visit the site of the collapse. the miami-dade county mayor spoke earlier with our wolf blitzer about what they're going through. >> i think we know that in

grieving there is a process and there are steps and obviously people are angry and frustrated. and then as they see what's being done, they see the work that is round the clock that they believe that people are truly caring for what happens to their loved ones helps them to have some peace and some closure even as they're still grieving for the potential that they'll never see their loved ones alive again. >> are they still holding out hope, though, do you think? >> i think some are, but i think others are recognizing that the chances are closing. for example, not only that bodies have been found but even body parts. and so that's very sobering news. it doesn't mean that there couldn't be a chance that there is an air pocket or a place where someone could still be rescued. so we're all holding out hope for that. >> joining me now is professor of civil engineering at the university of washington. thank you so much for talking with us. >> thank you for inviting me to

be here. >> so, we keep hearing officials say that buildings don't just collapse in america. and now there are concerns that other similar buildings nearby may also collapse or pose a threat to doing that. what massive failure likely took place for this to happen, do you think? >> so, i think that it's important for your audience to understand that this is a very, very rare occurrence. so, one of the reasons unfortunately it makes the news is because it rarely occurs. we design buildings so that they don't collapse. we design them so that they have redundancy. so something like this is shocking, of course, for everyone, including the structural engineering community, which i am a part of. of course, the most important thing to all of us is to support

the rescue effort. but we do want to take this seriously. we want to investigate what happened. but we also don't want to cause unnecessary alarm. it's a balance between those two things, i think, that is very important. and this building was designed in 1979, constructed in 1981. so, it is 40 years old. and the building codes were quite a bit different then. so we are always making advancements in engineering. so, those advancements are implemented into our building codes. so, i don't think that we need to be concerned about modern construction. the question that i think is on everybody's mind is could this happen to another building? we don't know the answer to that. one of the things about buildings is that they're very unique. every building has a unique

framing structure, a unique foundation, is on a unique site. and so we can't just take one building failure and then extend that into what might happen to other buildings. >> the problem with this is that this isn't -- i mean, we knew about cracks in the foundation in the columns. and it's one thing to have portions of a building fall. but to have the whole building collapse, that is extraordinary, and to have that happen in the united states of america has shocked people, and that's what they're looking around thinking, well, how could this possibly happen? and from an engineering perspective, how do you explain that? >> you know, i think it's important to understand that the majority of the report focuses on architectural aspects. there was one particular aspect that focused on the structure. but that was the structure that was below the pool.

and so cracks alone are not a concern because, you know, concrete is weaken tension. that's why we put reinforcement in because we expect cracking. corrosion, the sort of damage we've seen in this building is something that we don't expect and is a cause for concern. there was a building in seattle that had quite a bit of corrosion in an area called bell town. it was actually demolished. so we do have to take this seriously. usually building failures are a combination of, you know, a number of different characteristics that, unfortunately, don't meet the structural requirements. so that could be the materials, could be the connections, could be underdesigned members, could be an overload that it was not intentionally designed for.

it could be foundation or soil failure. and so it's likely a combination of these things, but we don't know yet. and we can't just look at the damage and make conclusions yet. >> it is a horrifying nightmare playing out for those families with loved ones under that rubble. dawn, thank you so much for talking with us. >> yes, of course. and while invesve investigak to figure out what caused the collapse. she told us what went through her mind when she got the news. >> when i heard it, i was really hoping -- i said, lord, please, let her be alive because i want to spend more time with her.

i promise to spend more time with her and take care of her. she was my mother here. she took care of all of us. she was an old renaissance woman. she played piano professionally. she painted, she drew. she feed the hungry. she was a matriarch that many families should really have. and so losing her is a very big loss for all of us. >> and we're also hearing from a family who managed to escape the building before it collapsed. they told cnn they were asleep and they were in the 11th floor apartment when they woke up to the walls shaking violently. from there, it was a race against time. >> all i was thinking is we need to get out of here before this building completely comes down on us. after seeing the walls and how badly and violently they swayed, i honestly don't know how it didn't come down when we were startled basically out of our

sleep. so, yeah, that was the only thing on my mind, let's get down as quickly as possible and away from the building. >> when we opened the front do, that's when we really were made aware of the devastation to the building. i looked to the left, and the apartment is half sheered off. i looked right ahead which is where the elevator was supposed to be. and thankfully the emergency exit light to the staircase was lit up. so we sprinted to the staircase and opened that door only to realize that the wall had partially collapsed there. at that moment it really hit me that we were racing against time to get to the bottom of the building before the entire thing caved in. at least that was my initial gut. >> and, incredibly, the family says they also helped an elderly woman escape on their way down.

still to come, he was once one of donald trump's most loyal cabinet members. now bill barr has a blunt assessment of the former president's election fraud claims. and we'll go live to sydney, australia, now under a stay-at-home order prompted by a growing local cluster of cases. that's ahead.

u.s. president joe biden has ordered military airstrikes against iranian-backed militias in iraq and syria. the defense department says the strikes targeted operational and weapons storage facilities, and house speaker nancy pelosi says they are in response to a serious and specific threat. there has been a series of attacks in recent months by iran-backed groups targeting u.s. and allied forces in the region. cnn's joe johns has more from the white house. >> reporter: just minutes before president biden was expected to arrive back here at the white house after a weekend at camp david, the word started going out that the president had ordered airstrikes on iran-backed militants in iraq and syria, including weapons

storage facilities on the border between the two countries. administration officials called it an act of self-defense and said it was done in order to protect u.s. military personnel who were stationed along the border. the president did not elaborate, but he did tell reporters he'll have more to talk about the situation on monday. joe johns, cnn, the white house. one of donald trump's staunchest allies during his white house days is now bashing the former president's big lie. in a newly released book excerpt, former u.s. attorney general bill barr says he suspected trump's claims of election fraud were all bs, but he still launched unofficial inquiries to appease his boss. but tells ally news, quote, if there was evidence of fraud, i had no motive to suppress it. but my suspicion all the way

along was that there was nothing there, it was all bs. barr resigned almost two weeks after saying no election fraud evidence was found, though his split with trump, at least publicly, still seemed amicable. the former chief of the u.s. food and drug administration says the delta coronavirus variant poses a big threat to communities with low vaccination rates. dr. scott gottlieb says there are regions without enough immunity buildup. he's urging local leaders and doctors to take on a grassroots approach to getting people their shots. he is who he says is most at risk right now. >> there are social compartments in the u.s. both geographic and social compartments where you have undervaccination, they don't have a lot of immunity in the population, particularly rural parts, in the south particularly. you're seeing what's happening in the missouri right now where about 60% of the infections are the delta variant.

that's a reflection we have parts of the united states where we don't have a lot of vaccination or we don't have prior infection. those are going to be the more vulnerable parts of this country. officials are tightening coronavirus restrictions in australia. queensland and western australia are among the regions strengthening their rules. this as a stay-at-home order is already in effect in the greater-sydney area through july 9th. shorter restrictions are also in place in parts of the northern territory. angus watson joins us live with more on this. australia has done so well up to this point with testing and contact tracing, but now it's paying for its very slow vaccine rollout and of course the presence of the delta variant. what is the latest on all of this? >> reporter: well, that's what has people particularly nervous here, rosemary. the delta variant and that low vaccination rate in the

community, under 5% of australians are fully vaccinated. and with those figures they're now staring at outbreaks of that delta variant. here in sydney, authorities say that the variant is moving too quickly for contact tracers to get on top of it. that means that here in australia's largest city, a lockdown had to happen. people were told for two weeks they shouldn't leave their homes unless absolutely necessary. one of the reasons to leave, to get tested en masse for coronavirus, pulling up in their cars there. as you can see, 58,000 people around the state of new south wales coming to get tested on sunday. 18 positive cases from that amount of tests. authorities are. saying that they're happy with that but they are still very nervous going ahead because the variant is catching people in their most slightest of it passing fleeting, they say,

movements between each other. with this unvaccinated population that is a concern. here is what one of those people had to say to me today. >> i think this has been an entire failure, if i'm honest. most of this could have been prevented if it were rolled out faster and with a lot more haste. >> that person there saying that he thinks that he wouldn't have to be locked down if the government had done more to get people vaccinated. now, the problem that the government has is both a supply issue, and australia has bet big on the astrazeneca vaccine, the only vaccine that's being produced her domestically. but people here concerned of that blood clot risk, that very rare risk of contracting a blood clot after you've got the astrazeneca vaccine. that means that people only over the age of 60 are eligible to get it. the rest need to get pfizer. and that supply is running low. >> it is a big concern, they need to move fast on those

vaccinations. angus watson joining us live from sydney. many thanks. joining me now is dr. ashish jha, dean of brown university school of public health. thank you, doctor, for all that you do. >> thank you so much for having me back, rosemary. >> so, dr. anthony fauci says the delta variant is the greatest threat to america's attempt to eliminate covid-19. we know of course that the pfizer and moderna vaccines are very effective against this variant. but what about the 12 million americans who received the johnson & johnson vaccine? how vulnerable are those people right now? >> yeah. so first and foremost, i agree with dr. fauci that this is the biggest challenge we have faced during the entire pandemic in terms of a new variant. it does look like both moderna and pfizer hold up reasonably well. we just don't have the data on johnson & johnson. so the 12 million americans who have gotten the j&j vaccine, my advice for them is hold tight, do not get nervous about this

because i believe the j&j vaccine will hold up well. but we need a little bit more data and it may be that some of those people need a booster shot. but at this point i think most of the evidence suggests that the j&j vaccine is working really quite well. >> and, as a result of this delta variant, the w.h.o. is now urging vaccinated people to mask up. do you agree with that guidance even if people have received the highly effective pfizer and moderna vaccines? >> yeah. my general feeling is if you received the highly effective pfizer/moderna vaccines and you're in a largely vaccinated community, it isn't necessary to wear a mask. but if there are high levels of community transmission and high levels of unvaccinated people, there will be breakthrough infections. and so wearing a mask in that context makes sense. but, otherwise, i would say that you don't to be wearing a mask,

especially if you're around other vaccinated people. >> and if this highly infectious delta variant isn't enough to convince those people who are either hesitant or resistant to getting the covid vaccine, what do you say to those people to try to convince them, and what are the risks to everyone else if they continue to hold out? >> yeah. so first and foremost, i try to understand what's holding people back. i think a majority of people who have not yet gotten vaccinated have questions and have concerns, and they need addressing. and i think we should address it with respect and making sure that we are not talking down to people and really trying to understand those issues and trying to address them. there will always be a small proportion who will be very, very resistant. but i think that's a very tiny minority. a majority of the people who have not gotten it right now still are on the fence, and i think we should try to persuade them, try to make it easier for them. because the risk to them is really quite substantial if we do not do this.

>> and, of course, doctor, we've watched some incredible vaccine rollouts in parts of the world, the united states, across the uk, israel, and other points across the globe. but how concerns are you with what you're seeing happen with infections across the african continent? and what's still happening in india and brazil, and of course areas where there hasn't been a particularly good rollout of these vaccines? >> yeah. this is actually the big issue in front of us. it's one thing to talk about vaccines in the united states where a lot of people have gotten vaccinated. and, more importantly, anyone who wants with uncan get one. in much of the african continent that is not the case. in india and in latin america that's not the case. and we saw what the delta variant did to india. caused tens of thousands of deaths. unfortunately i'm worried that will happen in many other places including in places in africa. the delta variant is now spreading quickly throughout the

world. and there really is the public health measures at matter, but there really is one way to stop this ultimately, and it is to ramp up vaccine production and get a lot more people vaccinated. >> that is the key to everything, isn't it. dr. ashish jha, thank you as always for talking with us. we appreciate it it. >> thank you. the coronavirus has now sidelined many of the united kingdom's top military officials. the defense ministry announced that its armed forces head general nick carter is isolating at home after testing positive. six other senior military officials including the defense secretary are in quarantine after coming into contact with him last week. new infections in the uk have been ticking up in recent days. coming up here on "cnn newsroom," the search for possible survivors from the florida building collapse intensifies. the latest as rescue efforts enter their fifth day. plus, new york's annual pride parade was notably smaller

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>> reporter: yeah. a very difficult few days for these families. we've been outside this hotel for several days. we have been talking to family members. they started to get more updates and that's something that they desperately wanted. they also were trying to coordinate a trip over to the site where obviously workers are still trying to work around the clock to save anyone they can. we saw three bus loads in terms of three groups going over in buss to the site. they finally got their opportunity to be here. we know extra crews have been at it. the operation has sped up over the last few days. look at this video from jason pizzo. he's a state senator. you can see in this video just how dangerous the situation is for first responders as they try to save anyone they can. but for family members this has been tough. when you speak to that state senator, though, you can understand what rescuers are dealing with. >> right now there's really just

universal homogenous sadness. what we tell the families is, you know, they're working as fast as they possibly can. and if you have a loved one in a pile of rubble, that's never fast enough. >> it was really here outside the hotel where we saw groups of people coming out. obviously very upset about some of the information they were learning. it does seem like authorities have stepped up all their briefings with them. this has been very difficult. over the last few days they have been talking with us pretty much nonstop. it has been more difficult than usual, especially with that death toll rising. reporting in surfside, ryan young, cnn. >> and among the 152 people still unant canned for, members of temple menorah which is just blocks away from the rubble. cnn spoke with the leader of their temple. he described the toll this disaster is taking on his

community. >> besides the couples that i mar married, temple menorah is part of a community that's very interwoven. we're all very, very close. so, i know so many members of the community that are unfortunately awaiting to hear the news. >> tell us about some of these wonderful people. >> there's coach arnie and merriam. they're part of the staple of south florida. arnie was a coach here for 45 years. i've been getting phone calls left and right from people of athletes he's trained over the years. merriam fled poland, fled havana, fled havana and came here. we are very heavily latin and cuban. and you're talking about people who have been friends since kindergarten, 70 and 80 years who have been best friends, and their children have married each

other. >> and while many relatives of those missing or killed were able to visit the site of the collapse on sunday, dozens of other families are watching this tragedy unfold from abroad. journalist stefano pozzebon is in colombia with more. >> reporter: this reverberates far beyond the united states border. with dozens of families across south america who remain in af hengs over the fate of their dear ones gone missing when the building collapsed over three days ago. at least 31 people from six different countries in south america are believed to have been inside the condominium when the building fell down. and every hour that passes makes the possibility of safely rescuing them more remote.

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this was the scene in istanbul over the weekend where police in riot gear fired tear gas into crowds to break up a pride march. istanbul and ankora have both been pride events in recent years. local reports say 20 people including a photojournalist were detained saturday after clashes between demonstrators and police. new york celebrated pride month in style this year bringing back its annual parade. last year's event was completely online, and sunday's parade was scaled back because of the coronavirus. notably, absent from the crowds was the nypd who have been banned from marching in the parade for the next five years. cnn's polo sandoval reports. >> reporter: it was on this rainy summer day back in 1996

that some of new york city's finest made pride history after the nypd gave them permission to march in uniform. since then, uniformed members of g.o.a.l. have joined the crowds commemorating the stonewall inn riots. oppressed gay and lesbian patriots revolted against the police and their practices, that the nypd characterized as discriminatory in their mea culpa decades later. there was a sense of relations between the police and the lgbtq community were on the mend. then 2020 happened. while the annual pride parade went virtual because of the coronavirus pandemic, the queer liberation march, separate from nyc pride, took to washington's square park. that's where lgbtq activists ended up in a confrontation with

police. in a same report, witnesses contend officers responded with indiscriminate use of pepper spray after a group of protesters tried interfering with the arrest of a small group that had tried to graffiti a police car. pointing to that altercation, nyc pride voted to ban uniformed law enforcement officers from participating in and from safeguarding the city's pride events for the next five years. >> a simymbol of that uniform f many people in our community, people who are black, who are brown, who are trans can represent violence and fear. >> he explains his organization was prepared for blowback. but he says it's okay if it helps amplify black, brown, and trans voices still marginalized even after decades of progress. >> it's ideal for us to have the visibility of police officers there. but we also want you to be there in a way that doesn't make other people feel oppressed. it's important to have the visibility, but in a way that

addresses the needs of the community that's really under attack. >> reporter: caught in the middle were these people, both gay nypd officers. >> you're taking a part of me away. so why can't i be both? why do i have to go ahead and be thrown in the closet for one aspect of me? >> the only thing that was achieved here was not banning nypd, it was banning gay and queer officers. >> they say nyc pride's decision to ban them in uniform ignores decades of progress made thanks to g.o.a.l. like revised police practices. >> not allowing us to march is separate from a larger conversation about police interaction with particularly queer youth across america. >> reporter: finding common ground won't be easy for quick.

right now nyc pride says it's open to compromise with one caveat, no uniforms or service weapons. >> i know the effect that that can have on people, hey, let's bring that down, let's bring it to a level where you are like everybody else who is walking in our parade. >> i can't march in uniform, but that still doesn't take away that i am proud to equally be both. meantime, some european leaders are attacking the lgbtq community. a new law in hungary has banned materials to promote lgbtq content. despite spearheading the law, the country's prime minister says he is a defender of gay rights. the president of the czech republic is also making waves in an interview with our affiliate

cnn prima news on sunday the president said transgender people are, quote, disgusting. he said there was no reason to disagree with hungary's new law. from the u.s./mexico border to canada, an unprecedented heat wave is breaking records and even interfering with olympic trials. we'll have the details for you on the other side of the break. they can finally come on over again. the covid-19 vaccines are here. it's up to you. this... is what freedom sounds like. and this. this is what freedom smells like. ahhh, enjoy 30 days of open-road freshness. febreze car.

nearly 20 million people in the western u.s. are under excessive heat warnings. some areas broke records on sunday with temperatures as high as 113 degrees farenheit or 45 celsius. more than 33,000 customers in oregon are without power during this heat wave. in portland, the extreme heat has forced officials to suspend some train and streetcar services. and they're urging people not to travel unless it's an emergency. >> reporter: all-time high temperature records shattered here in portland over the

weekend. during the day triple-digit heat. and at night no relief with temperatures in the 70s and 80s, not giving the body enough time to cool down. according to county officials, more than a dozen people had to be taken to the emergency room or a clinic with heat-related incidents. they also say that most of these cases people under the age of 65, which is why they're warning that no matter how old you are, this can be dangerous and even deadly. the problem is that a lot of people here don't have air-conditioning. so, to solve for that, they have set up a number of cooling centers around the city for people to go and at least cool off a bit. we do know that they are trying to help at least the most vulnerable populations. among them, the elderly, the homeless and even pets. we spoke to the coordinator of one of these cooling centers and here's what he told us. >> our goal is to really just protect health and safety by offering people a cooler place to be. and that's really like the base line of what we're trying to offer here.

the space, food, water, the basics, and to just keep the space calm, safe, and accessible for everybody. >> and this unprecedented and dangerous heat wave will continue to affect people in this region over the next couple of days. along the west coast more than 20 million people are under some sort of heat advisory or warning. cnn, portland. it has been so hot in eugene, oregon, the u.s. olympic track and field trials had to be suspended there. the city hit an all-time high of 110 degrees farenheit sunday. the final day of those trials was able to resume sunday night. well, this oppressive heat even extends into canada. one village in british columbia reached 116 degrees farenheit sunday. that's over 46 degrees celsius, marking the highest temperature ever recorded in canada. so this is a man who is going to explain it all to us. these temperatures are

extraordinary. how much longer are we going to see these? >> you know, the entire week. we're going to see conditions cool off just a little bit, rosemary, to still about 10 to 15 degrees above average. but this sort of an extreme heat that we see in the last 24 hours, the all-time records, another day before we see it drop off. looking at the area of coverage. taking you up towards the arctic circle, that's where the heat warnings are extended to. as far north as the arctic circle where this heat has really been covering. you'll notice 300 records still possible over the next several days across the western u.s. and these numbers the hottest ever observed in some 120 plus years of recordkeeping. portland, 112 degrees. previous record from saturday, 108. seattle, 104 degrees. that is 40 degrees celsius. previous record 103 from 2009. and this is not the peak of it just yet.

monday afternoon is when we expect temps to be at their highest. mount rainier is the highest elevation in washington state. camp mir at 10,000 feet is 73 degrees. that is the average temperature in seattle. there is the average, 73. there is the record that will break sunday's record at 109 degrees, which, by the way, would be warmer than what is happening in places such as kuwait into abu dhabi. portland stays well above average for the upcoming week. there's abu dhabi expecting a high of 103, which sits around 40 degrees or so. remarkable heat wave, and officials from the washington state department of transportation saying take it easy on the roads, the roads are beginning to buckle and make it a dangerous go.

if you're speeding down some of these highways and roadways you could run into a dangerous situation if you're not careful. and notice even on the eastern united states heat advisories there for temperatures to exceed 100 degrees, what it feels like outside. in new york city in the shade could be as high as 97 over the next several days. so big-time heat from coast to coast, rosemary. >> just extraordinary temperatures. thank you so much for keeping a close eye on all of that. the uk's prince with and prince harry will reconnect this week amid growing speculation about a royal rift between the brothers. they plan to unveil a memorial celebrating their late mother princess diana. cnn's isa soares has the details. >> reporter: it's being said that death brings the living together. that will ring true this week when prince harry and prince william, distant and living on separate continents, reunite to celebrate the legacy of their late mother princess die ana.

they will unveil the statue on thursday on what would have been her 60th birthday. the brothers co-commissioned the statue from a british sculpture whose portrait of the queen appears on all british coins. and the memorial will live in the palace's sunken garden, a place diana loved. in a joint statement issued in 2017 when the project was announced. ahead of the unveiling of diana's memorial, there's been increased speculation over whether there will be visible tension between her two sons. ♪ the last time harry and william saw each other in person was at their grandfather prince philip's funeral where the two were seen talking quietly before parting ways. >> fortitude and faith. >> since then reports of their relationship breakdown have continued to fill the british

tabloids, citing the decision by harry and his wife meghan to step away from royal life as the main catalyst. along with a bombshell interview the couple gave to oprah winfrey in march in which they suggested racism and increased neglect had forced them to flee the palace. but while the mothers' bond may not be what it once was, they seemingly still agree on one thing, the importance of keeping their mother's memory alive. and it's expected thursday's event will do just that. isa soares, cnn, london. u.s. gymnast simone biles can't be stopped. she has officially secured a spot on the u.s. women's team next month. biles earned an automatic spot on the team with her highest scores at the trial on sunday. this will be her second olympics. she took home four golds from the are iyo egames in 2016. biles has hinted she may even

try to compete at the paris games in 2024. and thanks so much for joining us. i'll be back with more news after this short break.

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hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church. just ahead on "cnn news room." frustration, anger, and searching for hope. rescue efforts at the site of building collapse leaves families waiting for the unimaginable. we'll hear from one family who survived the diaster. health experts warn unvaccinated people face a new covid-19 threa