corner. check out how this thing he is not having it, trace. he is not having it. check out what he does when they try to get him to succumb to the ropes. >> trace: it is not the proper way to get -- >> dana: do you know the proper way? >> trace: no, but i know that's not it. >> dana: we'll find out what the proper way is and inform them tomorrow. "the faulkner focus" is next. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. white house, republicans going at it over the surge in violent crime in democrat-led cities. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". another dangerous weekend in our nation's cities. look at this number. in chicago 74 people were victims of shootings this weekend. six people died. new york city 23 people shot, two of them died. the violence exploding right in the heart of times square. police saying a 21-year-old tourist who is a marine was

shot in broad daylight hit by a stray bullet while walking with his family. the "new york post" cover today shows a picture of him. we're told that marine is now recovering. and police are looking for the shooter in that. just days ago, senator lindsey graham ripped president biden's crime policy saying democrats have declared war on the police. white house senior advisor cedric richmond hit back. >> let's talk about who defunded the police. when we were in congress last year trying to pass a rescue plan -- not the rescue plan but an emergency relief plan for cities that were cash strapped and laying off police and firefighters, it was the republicans who objected to it. republicans are very good at staying on talking points of who says defund the police but the truth is they defunded the police. >> harris: republican congressman jim banks says

president biden has become a tool of the far left. >> joe biden is being held hostage in the white house by the squad and the radicals in the democrat party who control their party. criminals in every city in america are liking what democrats are selling. that's why you are seeing unprecedented crime waves across america. if we're serious about reducing violent crime in america joe biden will go on a national public relations campaign and admonish the radical voices in the democrat party that have stigmatized police officers and law enforcement. >> harris: aishah hosni is live in new york city. there are words that well, the police are under attack. we're under attack, too, citizens with the crime spiking. >> that's right, harris. good morning to you. you see the thousands of people around me. that marine just like one of them trying to enjoy his day with his family in what is supposed to be one of the

safest places in new york city, right, the big apple. take a look at what happened to him last night. you see here this man in a red jacket fired a gun right in the heart of this area. you see tourists scattering everywhere. that bullet hit that marine in the back. the gunman got away. a lot of folks were shaken up. it happened one block from where a 4-year-old girl was shot over mother's day weekend. remember that video, harris? back in april another tourist from kansas city, he was shot on his way back to his hotel in times square. we're seeing a crime surge in this area. the nypd is reporting a 173% jump in robberies, 201 spike in felony assaults and 800% increase in hate crimes. the department added a new mobile command post with 24 extra officers patrolling this precinct to try to make tourists and people going back to work feel safer. mayor bill deblasio addressing

this 30 minutes ago. listen. >> the bottom line is we are going to flood the zone in times square with additional officers to make sure this situation is resolved once and for all. we are going into the summer of new york city. we have more and more activity out there. more and more jobs coming back and more tourists coming back. they have to be safe and feel safe. >> harris, we're seeing that visible presence this morning. you see the police officers behind me. we're told there are more than 100 unformed officers in times square right nou. >> harris: that's needed. it is the corner of the world as they say. that's one of the highest rents in the nation. that is a high-rent district. it is not -- so people don't get it confused. those businesses will leave and it will impact revenue throughout the city if they can't afford to keep themselves safe. glad the police are on the job.

thank you. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez who supports defunding the police as you know, is down playing concerns that we all have about rising crime. >> we're seeing these headlines about percentage increases. now i want to say that any amount of harm is unacceptable and too much. but i also want to make sure that this hysteria, it doesn't drive a hysteria and we look at the numbers in context to make responsible decisions about what to allocate in that context. >> harris: let's get some context, shall we? pete hegseth co-host of modern warriors on fox nation. she is saying our reporting of things is causing hysteria. 700% in spike in crime in certain cities. that's hysterical but not funny, frightening. >> so apparently harris what you did for the first couple of

minutes of your show was adding to that hysteria as you reported on the fact that 74 people were shot in chicago this weekend. do you know there are over 117,000 gang members in that city? yet the far left which has run that city for most of a century only makes it worse and points the finger at police officers and then you have someone, the leader of their party saying there is nothing to see here. same thing with cedric richmond. i'm glad you played that segment. talk about projection. you deny, deny and counter accuse. not a single republican in the united states of america that has called for the defunding or even slight reduction of police forces. it has been all democrats and it has been all demoralizing for the people trying to get their arms around it and a joker like bill deblasio that will flood the zone. so flood one part of the city but last year you let rioters flood every zone of the city

and didn't do anything about it. you won't charge people. have a catch and release policy. people are being murdered by criminals that should be in jail and are let out. that's the most demoralizing thing you can do for law enforce: it is democrats in democrat-led cities and this is their policies. they tell you nothing to see here, just your hysteria. >> harris: i don't think anybody doubts that with the two cities that we're leaning in hard on. their numbers are mind popping today and that's chicago and new york. and so they put all those resources as you said in times square. we don't want businesses to leave but where does that leave everybody else in the city? what if you are a few blocks away like we are when we're in the city working? there are not enough cops and they want to defund them. let me get to this. a former police officer had this to say when asked why the country is facing a surge in

crime on msnbc. >> officers now we see across these 18,000 police departments are butt hurt because, you know, they can't run willy-nilly through a police department and abuse with reckless abandon and too cowardly to quit the department but stepping away from specific units. >> now the cops are cowards? now the cops are cowards? the ones who run toward the hail of gunfire when everyone else runs away? the people who arrive on emergency scenes when someone has a horrific accident? everytime someone has the worst day of their life some police officer is there trying to do what they can to save that person regardless whether they're black or white, gay or straight, regardless of who they are. republican or democrat. that's the true sentiment of the billowing up of the 1619 critical race theory strand in the left wing of the democrat

party which points at institutions and people who are a part of them that maintain the civility in the country and make them the bad guy. everyone in plain sight. they used to hide it and now it is up front like they weren't socialists, now they're embracing marxist theories. eventually they have to own it. we pay the price for it, though. the people in bronx and queens and elsewhere who aren't in times square bear the brunt of the fact there is hesitation from law enforcement. >> harris: right. they break it and we pay for it. that's not actually how it's supposed to go. the u.s. is launching air strikes targeting iran-backed militia groups near the iraq/syria border. that happened over the weekend. the action comes as the biden administration is pushing to revive the iran nuclear deal and as president biden meets with israel's outgoing president today. however, democrats like senator

chris murphy are warning quote, unquote, my concern is the pace of activity directed at u.s. forces and the repeated retaliatory strikes are starting to look like what would qualify as the pattern of hostilities under the war powers act. both the constitution and the war powers act require the president to come to congress for a war declaration under these circumstances. a democrat saying that, pete. you say what? >> i agree if there will be sustained conflict in this type of nature congress should be notified and ultimately those types of powers do reside with congress. my problem with this is it's incoherent. it is self-defaoengt. under the trump administration iran knew where we stood. we wouldn't tolerate attacks on our troops. there are a couple of attacks on facilities iran was using drones against american forces, good, i hope we filled every

drone operator in those facilities. at the same time, we're walking up to the negotiating table prepared eventually to give sanctions relief to the iranian regime just as a hard liner was elected. they try to get the deal done while they think they have someone reasonable. not true. in comes a hard liner. if they do the deal done is now flush with cash from the sanctions relief and would still drive the nuclear weapons program which we know they did even under the deal as well. this is an administration like obama totally blind to the evils of the iraniage regime and they're goal. they joined the internationalist club. america first is gone. what's it replaced with? i'm not quite sure. >> harris: you've served and you know what the ground looks like when senator murphy and others are saying that it's

starting to look like ongoing hostilities, what's happening? >> it means you can -- you can slowly drip your way into conflicts. our history is full of examples you're involved in something much bigger than you thought you would. i'm more worried about talks they're holding to get back into a deal and ultimately it doesn't stop the iranian bomb which every president says we can't tolerate. i don't believe the biden administration will do what's necessary. >> harris: thank you very much. >> i would say that they've been doing buildings here for 50 years, 60 years and this is the first problem that we've had and it is a bad problem and something that's very, very wrong here. and we will get to the bottom of it. as far as i'm concerned, job one is to get those folks out of that pile of rubble and reunite them with their families.

>> harris: job 1a is figure out if it's prevented. what's the truth here? the mayor of surfside, florida responding there to reports that engineers had warned back in 2018 about structural issues with that condo building that partially collapsed last week. you see the numbers on the bottom of your screen. 150 people still missing. nine people confirmed dead. family members are facing an agonizing wait. >> the situation is so devastating. she didn't deserve this. we don't deserve this. we are just holding onto hope. >> our grandmother, my mom, every single saturday would come and spend the day with my son. are they coming today? i told him he will never see them again. >> harris: just feel their pain. another family says they've gotten 16 calls from a land

line that belongs to their grand parents who are among those missing. no voices could be heard, just static. officials are set to give an update on surfside within the hour and when that happens we'll bring it to you live. she is going to represent the united states at the tokyo olympics. so why did she turn her back on the american flag during the national anthem? the backlash over this athlete. and there's this. >> i don't think it would get any republican votes. i don't think it will get support from the american people. it is a leftist wish list is what it is. >> harris: the bipartisan infrastructure deal. the president nearly blew into the wind the other day. is he back pedaling enough to save it now? senator tom cotton is in "the faulkner focus" next.

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>> harris: anger and confusion on capitol hill after president biden suddenly backed off threats to derail the bipartisan infrastructure deal. biden said he would only do that deal if congress first passes a much larger spending bill jam-packed with liberal goodies and their priorities. the president backed down when republicans threatened to walk away. >> there are a lot of republicans. every one says there is no way we'll support this first bipartisan bill if it is in any way linked and connected to this much bigger basically freight train heading toward socialism. >> harris: now backlash from the left. bernie sanders tweeted there will not be a bipartisan

infrastructure deal without a reconciliation bill that substantially improves the lives of working families and combats the threat of climate change. peter doocy is live at the white house. peter. >> trace: good morning. we have an interesting before and after to show you here. so as the white house was celebrating this bipartisan agreement on the framework of an infrastructure deal the president said he didn't want to sign it unless congress also sent him at the same time a bill that included more money for things like childcare and addressing climate change. >> president biden: only one comes to me this is the only thing that comes to me i'm not signing it. it's in tandem. >> sounds straight forward. the president says that's not what he meant. my comment created that i was issuing a veto plan and that wasn't my intent. republicans who sat with the president and thought he may have pulled a fast one on them say they are okay.

>> first i was very glad to see the president clarify his remarks because it was inconsistent with everything that we had been told along the way. i'm glad they've been delinked and it is clear we can move forward with a bipartisan bill that's broadly popular, not just among members of congress but the american people. >> some progressive say they would rather the president not walk back his veto threat to sign both bills or no bills. >> the fact of the matter is that while we can welcome this work and welcome collaboration with republicans in those areas where there is agreement, republicans are more than welcome to join so that we can get this work on infrastructure done. but that doesn't mean that the president should be limited by republicans, particularly when we have a house majority. >> if the president is cleaning this up today he is doing it quietly. no infrastructure meetings on his public schedule. >> harris: i love the way you put that. if he is working on it, he is

silent. peter doocy, good to see you. thank you. republican senator tom cotton of the great state of arkansas sits on the judiciary, armed services and intelligence committees. good forsee you today. boy, that's one arm twisting from the president and then it comes with whoops, didn't mean to do that. >> it was pretty remarkable last week. washington is a place of lot of bad faith and double crossing but i don't know if i've seen someone double cross negotiating partners in two hours. when he had a celebration to celebrate the deal and two hours later said he wouldn't sign it unless he got a multi-trillion blow-out spending bill. joe biden was a little confused what his position was. look, it is not enough for him to say he misspoke or didn't know what he was talking about. he talks to nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. they can stop this bill just as easily as joe biden could by

not sending it to him in the first place. if they don't make those efforts it will be clear they aren't negotiating in good faith and their goal all along is just to pass a multi-trillion dollar spending and taxing blow-out. >> harris: senator, two quick questions as follow ups there. what was on the list for their priorities among the left? >> well, if you look at what they proposed and what will be in that bill a lot of the green new deal. and second it will be a lot of welfare spending. the democrats want to bring back the old style welfare before bill clinton and republicans in 1996 reformed it where they send checks to households without any breadwinner. much less not only people working but people not getting job training or going to school. just checks for every household. i don't think many americans support that and one reason why the democrats are struggling to put the votes together for more taxes and old style welfare and

the green new deal. >> harris: i wondered why aoc would step in so heavily. her initials are on the green new deal. how ugly is the -- we can see it from here. >> i'm sorry, what was that? >> how bad is that democrat on democrat crimes. democrats are turning on each other. alexandria ocasio-cortez going after moderate senator kyrsten sinema over her opposition to kill the filibuster to push through the democrats' aamendment. the congresswoman says it shouldn't matter. >> i do not believe in the defeatism of saying we'll lose in the future and this will

automatically mean that anything we do now is going to be reversed so we might as well not do anything now. our job is to legislate and help people. wouldn't it be better to get people healthcare and voting rights for three years instead of zero years? >> harris: so senator, what is your pushback on that. she doesn't really have the experience to see how this is going to bite them politically moving forward. >> you know, politics as in life the shoe is on the other foot. these progressive democrats want fdr, lbj style agenda but they don't have that majority in the senate or at all. people who have been around the block lineman chin and sinema know republicans will be back in power and we might ban all late term abortions or abortions after a child can

survive outside the woman's womb. >> harris: i want to get to that. we showed joe manchin for a second. you may have seen it. your comments went along with the video rolling along. they are going after kyrsten sinema and joe manchin. he has even called them out. you are launching an initiative called veterans to victory starting with three house members seeking reelection in 2022. this is about that push about taking over the majorities in the senate and house. >> harris, my time in the congress, the number of veterans has fallen to historic lows. some of that is an artifact of timing. my generation of veterans is not quite as old as your typical house or senate member. last year i helped work to elect a lot of veterans.

miller-meeks in iowa won a close race. i will expand that program this year. she will be part of it. mike gallagher from green bay and van orden who lost a race in wisconsin by a few points in one of the most conservative seats held by a democrat. we'll endorse more candidates as the months unfold. a lot will be picking up seats from democrats or open seats. i have found from my time in the congress that veterans bring so many skills. their courage, discipline, mission focus. we will have a lot of strong conservatives willing to fight to secure our border. stop the crime wave. stand up to the radical democrats pushing things like critical race theory in our schools. we'll win back the majority in the house and senate. >> harris: you know, the military i always point this out to those watching "the faulkner focus". former military makeup north of 19% of police forces across the country.

so when you talk about that spike in crime, having them in the mix to talk about how we go forward will just broaden out the conversation if they run for office, too. senator cotton, great to see you today. thank you. >> thank you, harris. >> harris: the battle over critical race theory. you just heard the senator mentioning this in schools is intensifying on both sides of the political debate. digging in their heels while the president signs a race-based executive order and this. >> it's pretty obvious kamala harris doesn't care about this issue. i think it's rather obvious she only went to visit where there was a convenient airport, where she could do a quick photo op to say she did it. she was sick of getting made fun of by conservative media. >> harris: vice president kamala harris facing a wave of criticism over her first border visit over the timing and the location and more. former acting ice director tom

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>> i'm not going to give her a break on this one. she didn't have a meaningful border visit. it certainly fell far short of my expectations. >> she went to a legal port of entry where we know this is not where the crisis is occurring. folks are not coming across legally. they're coming across illegally. >> trace: the root causes are the messages coming from the biden white house and created a humanitarian crisis encouraging people to come. >> harris: vice president harris facing criticism over the border trip. she avoided the rio grande valley, the epicenter of the crisis. some people pointing to the fact that she did not visit fort bliss, the largest processing center in the nation for unaccompanied minors. there was a representative at the table but it is only about

10 miles from where she was in el paso. why didn't she go? the vice president gave a message of hope to illegals, a contrast to the do not come declaration she issued while visiting guatemala and then she took some shots at the trump administration. >> it is here in el paso that the previous administration had the separation policy was unveiled and so we've seen the disastrous effects of that right here in this region. it is here in el paso that the return to mexico policy from the previous administration was implemented. we've seen the disaster that resulted from that. here in el paso, if you want to deal with the problem, you can't just deal with the -- [inaudible] >> harris: tom homan former director of ice. we may have to go to the news conference in florida

momentarily. your top line thoughts. >> the vice president of the united states is lying to the american people. she inherited the most secure border in my lifetime. i have oh done this job for 35 years. we had the most secure border ever and they tore it apart. el paso family separation. her administration and her talking points has resulted in 24,000 -- 24,000 family separations because of their open borders policies. parents put their children in the hands of criminal cartels to enter the united states to know they'll be released. she goes to el paso not the rio grande valley. why not go to the rio grande valley? she can't ignore the crisis when she goes there. why not go to the front line and talk to the men and women of the border patrol? she won't like what they said. the trump policies work. you created this crisis and we're dealing with it. it is a shameful political

stunt by her. the only reason she went is because president trump is going this week. i will accompany him this week. we're going to the border and talking to border patrol agents and governor of texas so talking about real solutions, something she did not discuss at all. >> harris: such as important topic and we'll come back to it. i want to head to surfside, florida and former congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz is talking now and this is her district. >> structural damage, building collapses, they were investigators in 9/11, they were investigators in a number of structural incidents around the country and are the best of the best when it comes to making sure that they do a complete and thorough overview during a preliminary investigation now to determine whether or not they open a full investigation. i'm not an expert. i would expect it is natural they would decide to do that and their role is to very

forensicly review and the process of going through the rubble even during the search and rescue process to help make sure that evidence is preserved. they are working with the task force to do that to make sure that even with the army corps of engineers that is embedded in their team to take a look at some of the issues that have arisen anecdotally. issues like the questions around the structural damage to the pool area that has been mentioned and other different points of weakness. they will look through that preliminary investigation and determine whether they open a full investigation and that is triggered when they get a sense of after their preliminary review of whether or not any decisions and fact finding that they engage in as a result of that investigation can have longer-term implications and

recommendations for how we change federal oversight, federal law related to building construction and the kinds of code enforcement that will have to be made on the ground. it is really important and very significant that they are here as early as they have been because getting them here embedded with the task force and making sure they advise on how evidence should be preserved once law enforcement takes over will give them a better chance of answering the question i've been asked over appeared over. we all have been. how will we deal with the long-term implications of this? did this only impact just this building? we have as we've said structures like this all the way up the coastline of the united states and what this will be able to help do they are fact finding, not a fault finding agency. long-term investigation of theirs would give a chance for me as a member of congress be

able to adopt changes in federal law that will help them make sure when structures are built that something like this could never happen again. i will continue to be engaged with our very seamless local, state and national leaders to make sure we continue the whole of government approach. thank you for all your work. >> thank you, congresswoman and governor ron desantis. >> i had a chance to meet with a number of the urban search and rescue teams today and as i've seen them over the last many days. they've been going at it for over 100 hours straight. when there is danger they run towards it. they shepherded a lot of people to safety initially and they've been every minute of every day since the building collapsed trying to identify survivors. they are putting themselves at risk in order to do that. not only because you could have

additional collapse and deep seated fire they had to fight and hazardous environment and on the scene non-stop from the beginning. i want to thank them for what they've done. we have other folks throughout the state that have been able to come and supplement those teams in south florida, they are the best of the best and we had the israelis come in and take a look. and the israelis told some of the families what those miami-dade search and rescue folks did is exactly what we would have done, exactly what should have been done. some of the best in the world and israel coming over deserve a lot of credit for putting themselves out there. the search continues and it will not stop until there is a resolution. thank you for that. we are also working in conjunction with fema as well as in conjunction with both local government and private

organizations to bring relief services to the family members. that solved relocation assistance and things like mental health counseling. we've beefed that up on the ground. what we want to do is working with fema, identify all the families, get them registered face-to-face which fema is doing and doing a good job of and be able to provide these services. i have the head of volunteer florida on the ground to help coordinate with all the great volunteer organizations. the outpouring with the charitable donations has been incredible. millions of dollars and i think there will be millions more. a testament to this community in surfside as well as the greater miami-dade area and florida and the united states as people from across the country have been involved in that. so those recovery efforts from the family of helping them get back on their feet. helping them cope with trauma will be ongoing. this is something that is going

to require community involvement, local government, state government and fema for a while and we're in it for the long haul. the final thing is of course rescue, number one, care for the people that have been displaced number two, but we do obviously need to identify why this happened. i was able to meet with the nisc folks today and they were created after 9/11 and have done a handful of thorough investigations since their creation, 9/11, they did joplin, missouri from the tornadoes, they are doing hurricane maria in puerto rico. they did a rhode island nightclub fire that happened almost 20 years ago and so they've never done a straight building collapse that wasn't involved with either hazards or terrorism. this is something that is important and very thorough and something that is not going to happen in a day or two. it will take a long time. that's the time horizon they work on.

i understand that. what i told the mayors, surfside has retained people to look in and obviously miami-dade with state attorneys are doing an investigation. i think those investigations may be able to provide us with some information maybe a little sooner than nisc and it's important. if things need to be done at the state level we obviously would want to get information as soon as possible. so we pledge at the state if they need support from engineers, experts, whatever we need whether it's surfside, miami-dade we're here to help. the people of florida want to understand how could this happen and make sure it doesn't happen again. we'll work on that for the long term. in the interim thank you for everybody going through that rubble and thank you for being on the front lines for us. your work is very, very important and it has been very selfless.

>> thank you, now lieutenant governor. >> thank you, good morning. i will be speaking in spanish. [speaking spanish] >> harris: with respect to those who are tuning in and watching in both languages, i just want to fill in a couple of gaps while they translate what the governor just said. we did not get new numbers right off the top in terms of any survivors found, further victims but we do know the number has changed and the focus remains on reaching those people who were caught in that rubble that you see on the right side of your screen. they want to help bring some answers and closure to those who are waiting, of course, and hope against all hope that

someone might still be alive. they will not give up the search. nine people confirmed dead, 150 still unaccounted for in that accident, that partial building collapse. we mean 30 to 50% of that building. the mayor, charles burkett who is introducing everybody and filling in a few gaps along the way on the left side of your screen has said that it was up to 50%. when you look at it up close it is unbelievable how much damage there is and that anyone made it out alive. we do know that more than three dozen people did. some had to be helped off that property, some crawled and were able to run even in instance episcopal to get away from the building which fell last week. previously we heard from the current florida congresswoman debbie waser man schultz. i wanted to make reference to

her. i wanted to come back to what you see on the screen because today we know that they have controlled that fire that they were trying to control for days. it was a hot spot and kept reigniting on a floor they needed entry onto and they worked on that all weekend long. there was progress there. the hopeful progress that we would love to tell you about, that they found more survivors, that just isn't happening right now. as they hold this news conference as promised, that's what we've been watching for, to see if that kind of information would come on board. you have heard about the investigation and that coming next and all this and the reports of engineers that say hey, back in 2018 we have complaints of structural problems and we heard from some of the witnesses saying that their relatives in that building the day before the collapse, one mother telling her grown son i woke up in the middle of the night to sounds of creeking and loud noises in

the building. there is no way to know this sort of thing would have been coming. looking back on that now pretty amazing information. the mayor and he is now going to the mayor of miami-dade county. let's watch. >> work continues throughout the night 24/7. the tireless work of our first responders. these are truly the men and women who have dedicated their lives to saving lives and this is what they live for is to save lives. so they are out there with every resource that they need to insure that they can search this area, they can sweep the mound with cameras and dogs, with sonar and additional heavy machinery that has come in to start to clear away the debris. we're exploring all possible avenues that they identify. and we will continue and work ceaselessly to exhaust every

possible option in our search. i repeat, the search and rescue operation continues. as the governor as the congresswoman said, and the lieutenant governor, there is going to be a thorough and full investigation of what led to this tragic event. we are going to get to the bottom of what happened here. right now our top priority is search and rescue and find the people. and as you can see we have a truly unprecedented mobilization effort underway with the full resources of our local, state and federal government on hand already for days already and people coming in from around the state and around the world to assist us right here in surfside. i am so grateful to all of the leaders and all of the teams and especially those who are up on the mound and putting their own lives at risk to find

others. this morning we did recover another body. that brings the count to 10. the total number of those accounted for is now 135. and the total unaccounted 151. our detectives are working in realtime right now to audit this list. we're receiving multiple calls still from family members about the same loved ones and the information is coming from various sources. i want to stress as we have from the beginning these numbers are very fluid and they will continue to change. i want to provide you, as we have done and will do, the best updates as soon as we have them. remembering that we told the families that are waiting that they will be the first to hear,

and they were the first to hear about this 10th victim that we uncovered today. so we will continue to support all of the families and loved ones who are affected, with their mental health, social service, physical needs. they have professionals on site, a full gamut in the family assistance center. the miami foundation, one of those that launched the donation site is also on site to assist these families with the cash assistance they need to get on with their lives as well. and we know that as with the millions have been collected across the different donation sites, it is really quite incredible. so please continue to pray for the families. continue to pray for the search and rescue teams, the best in the world. we have hundreds on backup.

we have the people we need. we are continuing without stop. thank you and god bless. [speaking spanish] >> harris: and again with respect to those who speak both languages, we are going to just fill in a couple of headlines there while what she just said was translated. this is the miami-dade county mayor. another body has been recovered. so 10 people now are on the deceased list after the collapse of part of that structure in surfside, florida. the number got a little larger. 151 unaccounted for at that complex. and so the numbers change. remember, moments ago i was saying we aren't getting it from any of them. we heard from a u.s.

congresswoman, lieutenant governor, governor ron desantis and now the county mayor of miami-dade is speaking and as she translates what she just said, we can see on the screen very plainly that look at the men in the center of your screen. those men and women who are on the ground doing this work, painstakingly and with love because it would take that to stay there. dedicated as they search, have now come across another body. the county mayor telling us they wait until they can inform the family before they tell the wide media. now there have been 10 people who have died. with that number shifting she did say -- we know this, we've known it all along that the numbers are fluid. we don't know what the configuration is that got that number to go up again to 151 unaccounted for.

i'll ask my team if that hotline number is still there. daily people are calling that and what they hope for is if you knew somebody in the building and you know that you haven't matched what you are being told by authorities with your loved one who is missing, give them a call so they can either add or subtract from this list. if you know that person wasn't in the building and is safe and sound, please call and if you need more answers about where that person might be and there is a possibility that they were in this building, please call. so that's part of the reason why you will see that number, the 151, go up and down. today it has gone up and so has the number of dead. i'm going to ask my team to ready that hotline, reunification hotline we had in the first couple of days of this. i know from talking with authorities myself, including the mayor of surfside, charles burkett, that that number is still in play in all of this as they try to piece together

what's happening. we're watching now and we can dip back in when my team tells me the county mayor of miami-dade and trying to get some answers now on what might be next. there is the number there on your screen. what might be next in the investigation because the stories are now popping and people are talking about reports that were made and that perhaps the city and county might have been aware of some structural problems as far back as 2018. so you heard this county mayor and everyone else who has been up to that microphone saying they will be looking into that. the first thing is to get some answers and closure in those areas or continue to hope for survivors as well. this is mayor burkett. let's tune back in. >> good afternoon. governor, thank you for your leadership. you don't get a break. hurricanes, pandemics, this governor has been boots on the ground and leading since day one. mayor, your staff and amazing.

the folks of miami-dade county. it's an international issue. we've seen support come from the federal and international community and citizens of the state of florida. proud to be here with the search and rescue men of women of task forces assigned here. this is the largest ever deployment of task force resources in the history of the state of florida that's not a hurricane. it's the same that was deployed to hurricane michael. a 12-county storm event. they're working around the clock, 12 hours at a time midnight to noon, noon to midnight. they come from tallahassee, orlando, tampa, israel, mexico, jacksonville and fort myers, they come and leave their families to come and work around the clock. the reward is the lives they save. they are making the efforts as we speak right now and they don't stop. they hardly rest. they come off for about 45 minutes and check their pulse

and 02 levels and go back to work. that's what they do. they work to save lives. i have the honor to be here with them and so proud of the efforts taking place here. i can't say enough for the leadership of the florida department of emergency management and fema. they have provided as they know the magnitude of this event. it came from a camp and now we've created a city inside of a city. several blocks and we appreciate all the patience that the communities have had here in the region as we do the most amazing efforts in the history of the state of florida to save the lives at risk because of this terrible tragedy. governor, thank you for your leadership, mayor. >> thank you. >> from the florida division of emergency management. >> good morning, everyone. kevin guthrie from the emergency management.

yesterday at 4:15 yesterday afternoon the mayor asked for the assistance of the federal incident support teams related to urban search and rescue. fema was in the room at the exact same time. the informal communications of that request happened in minutes. so that was -- that request was sent out and mobilized and we have followed up the necessary paperwork. i think it's important for everyone to understand as soon as mayor cava and can chief and director ramirez need a resource we're sitting together and working together underneath the leadership of the governor, lieutenant governor, mayor cava and others to make it happens instantly. congresswoman said there is no daylight between either one of those. that's important for everyone to know. i will say we also are mobilizing today a florida dhs bus to help people get i.d. cards for those displaced. they need i.d. cards and driver's licenses and things of that nature. that bus will be deployed today

and should be here on site tomorrow. thank you. >> thank >> thank you, and now the surfside mayor, charles prickett. >> i just have a handful of things i wanted to share with you. this morning i was at the site and i observed hundreds of search and rescue people actively using their hands, digging out and doing what they are here to do. i also observed that heavy equipment and the federal government has sent down to us in action, moving them away from the pile. secondly, i visited with the families again this morning as did everybody probably standing here and we heard from the israeli team that is here and one of the things i wanted