totally different dynamic. >> dana: i love that her daughter followed up on that. it was an excellent present. a day she doesn't forget and we won't forget it either. who is your baseball team. >> trace: san diego padres. they're good this year. >> dana: how are the rockies? >> trace: not as good. >> dana: i'm still for them right, mom? harris faulkner is up next. see you later. >> harris: let's get to it. the white house now attempting to flip the script amid the political firestorm over rising crime. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus". defund the police became a rallying cry for many on the left in 2020. and now a potential liability for democrats as crime is skyrocketing out of control. president biden so far refusing to call out the impact of the left's push to defund police. now in a new twist the white house is accusing republicans of being the party that defunds the police because the g.o.p. voted against the president's stimulus bill.

>> president never mentioned needing money for police to stop a crime wave when he was selling the american rescue plan. >> he mentioned that the state and local funding, something supported by the president. a lot of democrats who supported and voted for the bill could help insure local cops were kept on the beat in communities across the country. didn't receive a single republican vote. >> harris: just to clarify the cities have to choose the money will go there. you caught the could in what she said. they could use the money for that. they could if they did. republicans are hitting back. >> what is the answer from democrats to finally reject this radical idea of defunding the police? no, they're trying to blame republicans now for the dumpster fire they created. so we will continue to call them out on their extremist, radical agenda that included defunding the police and it is time for democrats to admit that it was a failure when they embraced the defund police

movement and start reversing it. >> harris: the blame game from democrats to republicans. jackie heinrich reports. >> they argued republicans are the one who defunded police by not voting for the american rescue plan which dedicated $350 billion to state and local governments that could be used to hire police officers. the white house pointed out that president biden, when talking about the american rescue plan, often discussed that money going to police, firefighters, first responders, nurses, essential workers who are all at the risk of losing their jobs amid pandemic-driven budget shortfalls. it was not explicitly often discussed in the context of a crime wave, though. loud calls from the progressive left have persisted. you had congresswoman tlaib tweeting no more policing, incarceration and militarization. it can't be reformed.

ilhan omar said this last year. >> not only do we need to defund but we need to dismantle and start anew. >> republicans say that democrats really need to own up to that rhetoric coming from their own party. listen to what steve scalise said this morning. >> it is time for democrats to admit it was a failure when they embraced the defund police movement and start reversing it. stop trying to blame other people. actually own up to what you created that is causing out of control crime in our cities across america. >> the one interesting thing i want to point out, harris, the president took a slight jab from a democratic mayoral candidate in new yorker eric adams who responded to his speech on gun control. most of the crime in new york city is committed with handguns. a little push from a democrat in a deeply blue city to address policing and the need

to curb this crime wave. >> harris: eric adams is the brooklyn -- jackie, thank you. despite the white house claims here are some democrats on defund. >> i am for defunding the police. >> yes, i support the defund police movement. >> this is the word coming from the street. many suburbs have essentially already begun pursuing a defunding of the police in that they fund schools. >> not only do we need to disinvest in police but we need to completely dismantle the minneapolis police department. the minneapolis police department is rotten to the roof. >> defund the police does not mean abolish the police, it means a dramatic reduction in the number of police in our poor communities.

police are terrorizing communities across the country. >> harris: oakland's police chief is saying the money taken from the police budget will cause real harm to real people and he gets emotional. >> saturday night i went out to a scene of a young man that lost his life. a lady yelled out the window, do something about it. without the resources, it makes it challenging to make oakland safe. and more families find themselves dealing with trauma, find themselves dealing with putting the pieces together. when the yellow tape is gone and when the streets are cleaned up, there is still hurt and pain and tragedy in our community. i hope that we can put politics

aside and put public safety first. >> harris: when the yellow tape is gone. you can't make this part up. just hours after that chief was speaking, two armed robbers held up a television news crew that was interviewing oakland's director of violence prevention outside city hall. thankfully no one was hurt in that. jays an rantz, seattle radio talk show host joining me now. jason, in addition to the crime spike you've seen in your own city you are also seeing the talk of what life is going to be like if they take away more cops. >> absolutely. just listening to the democrats' spin i'm all for good spin if it is good spin. this is awful. it has some political implications. number one i think we all recall after the last election and democrats didn't do as well as they thought they would in the house elections there was a call within the caucus that got heated. they were saying the defund movement hurt.

cedric richmond who is now claiming that republicans are defunding the police was on another network a year ago claiming the defund movement was hurting democrats and they have to get away from that messaging. the democrats are saying they're not responsible they won't buy it and look at some of the republican alternatives. at the same time you have the progressive movement that wants to defund or abolish laorking at the democratic party saying you don't represent me. >> harris: dem on dem political push. this is important to note. when the white house makes the argument that republicans are to blame because they didn't vote for the stimulus bill, jen psaki at the lectern at the white house said yesterday the fact is the american rescue plan was something that republicans, not a single one voted for, which our plan allowed state and local governments to replenish their

police departments and do the other things needed. it allowed for. municipalities have the choice have the authority to not hire more police. in many instances they're democrat-led cities going through this crime spike and they are already talking or doing defund. so why does jen psaki or the white house why would they float something like that out there? they don't control how the cities spend their cash on this? >> people don't realize that. i think they are trying to get a talking point in front of the people who don't realize that. despite the fact that yes, you could have used it but it means you could have chosen not to use it. when we're talking about the defund the police movement in the major cities, democrat-led that are dealing with this crime surge, they didn't use the funds for policing. i am in a city currently still trying to defund the police. so this idea what we're seeing now i think democrats are trying to throw up a whole bunch of different talking

points against the wall and see what sticks. oftentimes it is conflicting with one another. last week the biden would have you believe that dealers are selling ghost guns to white nationalists and that's the threat. now they say the defund movement, we had nothing to do with it. they also said defund movement didn't happen and police departments across the country got higher funding. it is maddening and dizzying. >> harris: we have some cities in the top five and ten for violence. new york is one of them. the new york p.d. just released new video of a suspect in that times square shooting who injured a 21-year-old marine who was visiting the city with his family. the "new york post" cover today reads crosshairs of the world. outrage, a city fails to protect tourist mecca from gun chaos and of course that's a play on words for crossroads of

the world. in an op-ed said the shooting is what happens when you don't police the little stuff. jason, i've heard you say this before. >> absolutely. when you have people who are doing small crimes and they go unpunished, they graduate to more significant crimes. they continue down this path towards more violence and a lot of times we're talking about younger men who end up turning towards gangs because they don't have people in their lives who care about them. they get taken advantage of them by older people within this movement who push them into these types of crimes. this is how defunding the police has hurt. i have a piece up now at foxnews.com when you defund the police it means you aren't staffing them correctly which means they aren't patrolling neighborhoods on foot and bike in their cars. when you don't have any kind of police presence, you give an opportunity for this kind of crime to take place. >> harris: the broken windows argument, right? if there is not a cop standing

there it is not that he necessarily would prevent you from doing something but it is a huge deterrent and when you take away that deterrent, that cop's presence, you get what you are talking about. growing pushback after congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez called concerns about rising crime overblown. >> we are seeing these headlines about percentage increases. 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 these numbers in context so we can make responsible decisions about what to allocate in that context. >> harris: hysterical she calls us for covering the stories. critics are unleashing. more crime since the united states started keeping records is not hysteria it's real and

so are the victims. this is shameful. the people living in her district who are afraid to even put their kids outside don't concur. jason. >> it goes a degree hotter than it should. she says we're all going to die from global warming in 10 minutes and she is talking about hysteria. when you can afford to pay for your own security and live in an apartment that has some security built in you probably don't have to worry about some of this. how about aoc talking to some of the actual victims and tell me if their stories don't matter. we're clearly seeing a rise in crime. they can deny it all they want. they will do it to the detriment of their own political careers. it maybe doesn't hurt her specifically because of her district but it hurts the democratic party. the glass half full look at this is we'll hopefully have more republicans in office who will pursue a tough on crime approach. the democratic approach is not working.

it is killing people. the voters are smart enough to realize that. >> harris: jason rantz, thank you always for joining the program. >> thanks. >> harris: olympic athlete gwen berry is facing sharp criticism for turning her back to the united states flag except from the white house. the white house is defending the athlete plus this. >> painfully challenging because the debris shifts and there are lives underneath the debris and you can't take a chance of risking the lives below or above. >> harris: and the search for survivors of the surfside condo collapse rolls into a sixth day as new details emerge on the damage to the building. a survivor will speak on the scary moments before the tower came tumbling down and joins me live next. take cash out of your home.ito

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>> harris: fox news alert. search and rescue for six days in surfside florida at the condo complex. 150 still missing, 11 dead. miami's fire chief says they aren't ready yet to switch to total recovery mode. families of the missing have gathered at the site to watch the crews work and hold vigils. florida senator rick scott says it is all about safety. >> everybody has to take this seriously and say to themselves what inspections do we need? if we need to spend the money they need to spend the money now. people need to be safe and make sure it doesn't happen again and make sure people feel safe. >> harris: that's what people are focused on too, now. charles watson is live in surfside. as they search for survivors people want to know will it happen again? >> that's right, harris. according to a new report from

the miami herald, a pool contractor tells them he was working in champlain tower south two days before the partial building collapse and noticed something was off. he took these photos we're about to show you there. they reportedly show standing water all over the parking garage as well as cracked concrete and corroded rebar jubds naoegt the building's pool. some of the same issues brought up in the 2018 inspection report that warned of major structural damage to the building. in a letter written to the condo board explained to residents that the building had gotten worse since the 2018 inspection and needed millions of dollars in repairs. according to media reports she wrote a lot of this work could have been done or planned for in years gone by but this is where we are now. she continued on saying when you can visually see the concrete falling it means the

rebar holding it together is rusting and deteriorating beneath the surface. the board retained experts and trusted experts and at no time were they told of imminent threat of danger or collapse. if there was an issue there were proper channels the take steps to rectify up to and including evacuation. that's from a spokesperson. so far 11 people are confirmed dead and more than 150 people are missing as rescue crews work around the clock to pull victims out of the mountain of debris. and harris, engineers are expected to assess the structural integrity of the north tower. we're told that any evacuation orders right now aren't mandatory. most of the residents that live in the north tower are deciding

to stay behind. officials can't say if it's safe for sure. >> harris: i understand that. the pictures you showed us were from that other side. they weren't -- so all of this has to be looked at with people outside the building. i know the city is doing a wider search with other buildings that weren't even built by that group. charles watson, thank you. back with you when the news warrants. steve rosenthal is a survivor of the surfside condo collapse rescued from the south tower shortly after it fell. blessing to you and glad that you are able to be with us today. you brought us some pictures and we see your vantage point in some of these where you stand waiting to be rescued looking down. tell us about last thursday morning middle of the night. >> thank you. last thursday morning i was asleep in bed about 1:30. i heard the loudest thunder i've ever heard in my lifetimes 100. i went okay, we have a big

storm coming into miami, a major storm. it's humid, hot, june. no big deal. five seconds later the bed starts to shake, room starts to shake. i honestly thought i was in a dream in california in an earthquake. that's all that came to me. a dream. 5 seconds later dust starts falling from the ceiling hitting my face. i feel it and i go okay, this is an earthquake. 1 in 10,000 year earthquake hitting florida and my luck i'm in it. jumped out of bed. run to the balcony and to the living room and open up the sliding glass door to see what kind of damage to the city of miami as far as an earthquake is concerned and it is all dust. i can't see anything. i run to the front door to open the door to the hallway. can't see anything. all dust, toxic dust slams on me. run to the bedroom. power is out. put on a pair of jeans and

pants and t-shirt i'm wearing. packed a bag and took two pair of underwear and shoes and my watch, my wallet, and opened up the door to the hallway again and i see what you are seeing right now. everything had collapsed. and the unit next to me is 704 and i'm assuming it is them help me, help me, get me out. i just found out today that they died. i'm one unit from them. if i'm in that unit i'm dead. go to the balcony, see 20 and 30 fire rescues. at this point now i know it is not an earthquake. i don't see any damage across the street. i'm thinking it's the roof. there was roof construction going on. and someone -- another resident said the whole back of the building collapsed. >> harris: i want to cut in here. my team wants to show.

you were hit by some of this and before we flash at that picture with the bruises all over your arms and everything, we'll see it. what was happening to you as you were trying to get out? and when did you determine i can't get out by myself? >> well, once i opened up the door to the hallway and i saw all the concrete and everything just collapse. there was just no way. i couldn't go down the fire escape or the steps or anything. who knows what was going on over there. the hallway was impassable. the other one too scared. all you can do is go to the balcony and wait to get rescued. that was it. >> harris: i know there is a fork thing in the hallway. i don't know what all that is. what is that? you gave it a name when you opened the door. >> like a devil's fork. stop here and you aren't going into my unit.

this is the 704 unit and i found out today they passed and didn't make it. they were a very nice couple from venezuela. very nice people. there they are right there. >> harris: how long had you lived in the building? >> 20 years. i moved in one month before 9/11. >> harris: we are learning today there was a memo, email. information that went out to residents in april there were structural concerns. what were you aware of? >> well, honestly i was aware we needed some work done. 40 years. they assessed us $15 million. mine was $135,000 payable $800 a month for 15 years like a second mortgage. we wanted -- they wanted to upgrade the building. we had to upgrade it. no one that i know of thought anything like this. we saw cracks in the balcony,

we saw a crack here and a crack there. we saw the garage ceiling peeling a little bit but nothing like this. nothing like this at all. >> harris: did you or your neighbors ever talk about leaving after you were notified. interesting the word you used upgrading to keep up i guess with some maintenance. i'm not really sure. i've read the 2018 report which points to some problems in that building. did they include that report to you guys so that you could see it? >> i believe i got the report but that is why we hire a board of directors. elect a board of directors. they make the decisions. i'm not competent enough to know about rebars and concrete and sand. they want to do this and that let's do it. surfside has become a very hot area and i guess they wanted to -- they needed to upgrade the building. >> harris: real quickly. i know that your lawyer doesn't want you talking about this

case but i want my audience to know you are the first individual to sue at champlain towers after the south tower fell. why are you suing exactly now? because the investigations will come. go ahead. >> the lawyer said listen, you need to protect your interests. it doesn't matter the first one or the 100th one. whatever the insurance company will do they'll do to me or the 95th person. it doesn't matter. i wanted to get it out of the way. no question everyone will file a lawsuit. every unit and family member and i just happen to be the first one, that's all. >> harris: have you been able to talk to anybody that made it out that night? there were over 100 who did. >> yeah, i'm staying at the -- red cross is putting me up at the marriott surfside. a lot of us are here. we're talking and some people

in the four lines that didn't make it, one of my friends wasn't there that night. he slept over at his girlfriends. another person that i know happened to just get out a minute before. there are a few people that survived just by chance and just by luck. but if you were sleeping, if you weren't up, you're gone. >> harris: by god's grace there were some of you who survived and we pray for those as they continue what now is still a search and rescue. >> let me just say the fire rescue people were great and that the community has been fantastic and everybody has contributed and the charities and global empowerment and everybody has been great. it is so important to have that community come together and your friends support you. it has been amazing. that's the wonderful part as far as that's concerned. >> harris: steve, thank you so much. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. bye-bye. >> harris: vice president kamala harris's niece is

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>> harris: president biden's border crisis rages on. far left squad member ilhan omar says every single illegal immigrant in the u.s. should be allowed to make this their permanent home. she tweeted we must create a pathway to citizenship for all undocumented people living here. immigrants get the jobs done. critics say democrats have an ulterior motive. >> it is part of a bigger plan. there are reasons we have hundreds of thousands of people crossing our border and the border crisis is being ignored

by many democrats including kamala harris and president biden. i believe for them it is an opportunity. this whole talk about citizenship, amnesty is just a pathway to citizenship and voting rights so democrats can increase their voting block. they can't win without it. >> harris: power panel. richard fowler and rachel campos-duffy. why is ilhan omar saying this? >> well look, i can't speak to that. i don't believe that we need a pathway to citizenship. there are 11 million folks living in the shadows. should the path be long or arduous, sure, but there has to be a pathway to citizenship. we're a nation of law and a nation of immigrants. i'm a first generation american myself. rachel is as well. the idea of being an immigrant

is uniquely american and holding up for 11 million people who are part of this country and work here and pay taxes is unfair to me. >> harris: richard, my former family, my mom has passed since her family is from haiti. many of us come from a long line of immigrants. what you are saying is the people who are coming in now illegally get equal for -- for years rather. rachel, wouldn't it put them full footing with people who came here legally. >> right and people waiting if line trying to respect our country and laws. ilhan omar i respect she is telling the truth out loud. it is very obvious what's going on. when you have the biden administration that basically dismantled every single center of all the security, all the policies. right now we're learning that they are retiring or demoteing border patrol leaders within

the border patrol who want to enforce our laws. this is obvious. tami lauren is right. it is by design and what they're doing. we will get a lot of immigrants who have not been assimilated and who have not -- we will get people who haven't gone through the process who aren't grateful and love our country the way those people who have gone through the process legally have. i absolutely agree this is what's happening and i'm glad that ilhan omar is telling the truth and exposing the lies that somehow kamala harris is trying to get to the root causes. absolutely not. ilhan omar, kamala harris and joe biden knows it's an electoral plan with almost a million people by the end of this year in who have come here illegally. they have put a welcome sign and opened the border and that's what's happening. >> harris: you mentioned the vice president and i want to get to that. vice president kamala harris's niece has gotten a lot of flak for defending critical race

theory. one twitter user highlighted the work of kathryn johnson writing the caption you've never heard of her. george floyd has statues, meena harris responded with this. thank you for making a compelling place for teaching black history and crt in schools. one said black history is taught. crt isn't history of any kind. rachel, i come back to you. >> johnson is absolutely a part of american history. i have to tell you i thought a lot about this. i believe we stop compartment lao*izing it. crt is creating division and also i would neat to meena harris johnson is a uniquely amazing historical figure. george floyd was somebody

caught up in a very bad situation not a role model for black americans. >> harris: richard. >> i disagree with rachel that she says -- the reason for that is knee gaition of -- -- it's what makes this country great. you can come to america and you can live your culture and that's what makes america a melting part of different cultures. >> listen, food and -- >> the american culture is all of our culture that's the point. >> we are talking about ideas -- no, we're talking about very fundamental ideas of rule of law, freedom, liberty, rights. that's what this is about. you are focusing on things like foods and culture and that regard. no, i'm talking about americans who come to america who

contribute to -- >> that's what you are saying. >> assimilation is not a bad word. assimilation has been the foundation of how americans from all parts of the world have come to this country and attained the american dream. i do not want to have us put into different categories. that's not what i want. >> harris: let me step back in here and bring you both back on another day. you have hit a topic within a topic that's incendiary hot and we'll get to it at another time. thank you rachel and richard. could a new round of lockdowns be coming around the corner. the major american city telling its residents to mask up even if you're vaccinated. learn about this. plus. >> i don't care what this woman may say after the fact. she hates this country. i want to be clear she is a black lives activist. she doesn't speak for black americans or america. she speaks for herself. >> harris: it is on for gwen berry. a firestorm over her snubbing

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>> harris: the delta strain of covid-19 spreading across the u.s. and that has los angeles

county officials recommending that people start wearing masks again in public indoor spaces whether they've been vaccinated or not. all of this setting off concern that we're looking at a new round of lockdowns. about 46% of americans are fully vaccinated now. well below the administration's goal of 70% by july 4th. mike tobin live with more on this. mike. >> the delta variant is the strain that was first identified in india where they saw such an explosion of cases. the issue with the delta variant it spreads more effectively than the other strains and more contagious. the case numbers thus far in the u.s. are small but delta cases are increasing particularly in the south and midwest. missouri has seen a covid-19 hospitalizations jump to 800 for the last four days. they haven't been at 800 since may and haven't held at 800 since march. oklahoma is seeing a jump in

cases but falling behind if testing. given the proximity to missouri health experts suggest delta is making a move there. they anticipate the delta variant will take over as a dominant strain in the u.s. by fall. >> doubling every two weeks in the united states and almost up to 20% of all new cases in the united states. so we have to understand this is now going to be a global issue. >> the good news is that doctors suspect that the pfizer and moderna vaccines will work against the delta variant. bad news not enough people are getting the vaccine. 46% far below the administration's goal of 75% by july 4th. >> harris: we'll cover the report as the news comes along with that variant strain. for now the governor of florida is at the lectern at the surfside collapse site. let's watch. >> when somebody is missing in action in the military you're

missing until you're found. we don't stop the search. that's what's happening. those first responders are breaking their backs trying to find anybody they can and they are going to continue to do that and they've been very selfless and put themselves at risk to do it. and i thought about that and then having met this morning with many families who have -- this has turned upside down the worlds of a lot of really great people not only in the state but beyond. and to hear the stories of the folks who have in the towers who either passed away or are missing, the amount of i think sympathy that has been pouring in is emblematic of some of the lives many of these people had been leading. they've touched people all across this world, not just here in southern florida and not just throughout the whole state of florida.

and, you know, it's been -- it's been very heartbreaking and very touching because there are a lot of folks who have been experiencing some unbelievable pain and the folks that have either passed away who are missing are almost invariably incredibly special people who have made a huge impact not only this community but communities all across the country and the world. so when those guys are out there breaking their back on that pile and digging tunnels and putting themselves in harm's way to try to find a void or area where they could potentially rescue people, they have that mission and they are doing it and they aren't shirking from it because they understand that in every one of those condo buildings were people whose different family's world revolved around them. grandmothers, grandkids, brothers and sisters. and i just thank them for all

their efforts and i thank them for leaving no stone unturned. and the families, we will be there for the long haul on this and we are just not going to look back and be there with any support that we can provide. thank you. >> thank you, governor. we'll have lieutenant governor nunez speak in spanish. >> harris: with respect to all of those who speak both languages there is a translator now to say what the governor just said in spanish and meanwhile we have charles watson on the ground. you're with me. one of the big pressing points was how long this is taking. families put pressure on officials. what is that conversation like now? >> you know, obviously a lot of the family members are very frustrated with how painstakingly slow this process is taking. how slowly they are getting

information. but you heard from the governor this is a massive operation, a massive search and rescue mission that they have been undergoing for six days now. it is going to take some time. officials have really been urging people for days now, particularly family members to be patient, to keep up hope. to keep saying prayers. this is going -- that's what they are going to need in the days coming forward. they are going to be working in that collapse site for days because they have a lot of area that they need to cover. obviously over the last few days they have had a lot of elements they have had to encounter. fire and rain that hampered search and rescue efforts a few days ago that they recently got under control. so again the conversation is just have patience with these first responders who are working non-stop at the collapse site. >> harris: you are there.

you know the effects from the heavy rains and other things that have happened in terms of the winds. you can see it off to the right if people are watching it live and can see the right side box. the wind and a dry day today but that hasn't been the case. everything soaked with water gets heavier on that pile over time. so moving the pieces, charles, i understand is really difficult in some instances. we'll go back to the news conference now. let's watch. >> the mayor of miami-dade county. mayor cava. >> here we are day six. the search and rescue continues. it continued throughout the night and throughout the morning. there are currently 210 people working on the mound. the urban search and rescue team has been augmented by teams from all over the state

and all over the world. they are working throughout inclement weather. they are working as hard as they ever have. but they are able to make headway even in the face of all of those obstacles. so they are continuing with the 12-hour shifts. they take breaks. they are monitored medically. and just to make sure that they can get back safely on the mound because it is such painstaking, grueling work. i cannot express enough how grateful we are for their service, their sacrifice, their passion. they live to save lives and that's what we are witnessing. their bravery under extremely difficult circumstances, continuing and continuing. we are also so very grateful for everyone who has joined us in this effort. global teams, state teams, and national teams on stand by for

us so we can relieve the wonderful men and women out there. we truly have the best in the world conducting this effort. the federal teams of the search and rescue personnel are rotating in with our current teams. there are more than sufficient personnel on site. we do not need additional resources. we have the best and we have sufficient what we need to get this job done. since our last briefing, no new fatalities have been confirmed but we have been able to notify each of the 11 families who have lost their loved ones. this is very, very important that the notification has been able to occur and we are grateful to our miami-dade police department for their very sensitive handling of this

difficult matter. and all the names have been released to the public through our social media platform. and today we were also very grateful to learn that our president, joe biden, will be visiting surfside on thursday. he is going to spend time with the families who are affected and with our first responders. we've had his support since he called me day one in the morning and this is so critical that we do have our federal support. so we are very grateful for that and we know that his support will continue throughout. i also want you to know that i have been in close touch with our state attorney, kathryn run dell and very supportive of the grand jury investigation she announced. i pledged my full cooperation as she moves forward. i have worked closely with grand juries in the past and very familiar with the process and i and my team will do

everything possible to aid them in their efforts to continue that investigation. as i mentioned yesterday, our building audit also continues and we are taking swift action to immediately identify and address any outstanding issues with the building that have not yet completed their 40 year certification process. just last night our building officer notified one of those properties, a building in northeast dade that four balconies must be immediately closed to residents due to safety conditions. so we are proceeding at a pace with all the buildings identified and i know within a matter of days or short weeks we will have addressed all those safety concerns. today i am also making an announcement that i will be meeting with subject area experts from multiple relevant fields from engineering to

legal to construction, to development, to soil, to geology to look closely at every possible angle on this issue related to building safety. so we -- they will advise me on issues related to building construction, chain of custody and condo regulation and more so my staff and i can develop a set of recommendations for changes that need to be made at all steps in the building process to insure a tragedy like this will never, ever happen again. and i will be meeting with these experts in the very near future and planning to look for additional experts when insights are achieved from this investigation. we'll continue to pull in additional experts as new information becomes available to insure that we're considering all possible angles, all possible factors and perspectives.

for the families impacted by this tragedy we are continuing to do all that we can to support them in any way that they need. our new expanded family assistance center has over 20 agencies now offering support, short and long term counseling, home assistance, travel assistance, psychological and grief counseling, financial assistance, visa and passport support and much more. we're -- in addition legal support and we'll continue to over our twice daily briefings to the families and we just completed our morning session before this conference. these sessions have been vital to assisting families to understand the nature of this search, the nature of the entire enterprise, and this is so, so important as we proceed daily on our search and rescue efforts to have them fully aware of every step of the process. so please, i know you join with

me in your prayers, your wishes, your hopes during this incredibly difficult time for our families. [speaking spanish] >> harris: we're continuing to cover and watch on "outnumbered" now. that is the mayor of the county of miami, she's given details and one of the big announcements and kayleigh mcenany, my cohost, she announced president biden is going to be there on thursday. >> it's a big deal and day shift, we were told that they didn't have plans going to surfside and now he is going. this is a tragedy of epic proportion when you have 150 missing. we've seen governor ron desantis speak