right now on "america this morning." new details from the florida building collapse investigation. nine people have died. more than 150 are unaccounted for. the email coming to light revealing the concern that a member of the condo association raised in 2019. plus, as the dangerous round the clock search goes on, we hear from one member of a family who fears they lost five loved ones. and another family who received 15 phone calls from their grandparents' landline phone after the caps. we're live in surfside, florida. also, the u.s. military launching air strikes in the middle east, targeting militants backed by iran.

what the pentagon is now saying. feeling the heat like never before. 112 degrees in portland, oregon. it's so hot a street car cable melted. the once in a millennium heat. what's on top today. we take you on the first cruise to set sail from the u.s. since the pandemic. what's different. a yaba daba doo and the legal fight over this house with flintstone character statues in the yard. the new sighting some are calling the hand of god. good morning, everyone. we begin with new details about the condo building that collapsed in south florida and the history of complaints about safety. >> nine people are confirmed dead and 152 people are unaccounted for. any hope of a miracle is dwindling with each hour that passes. >> we've learned about an email

from a member of the condo association in 2019 voicing concern about the structure of the building. faith abubey joins us from surfside, florida, with the very latest. faith, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, mona. the army corp. of engineers arrived here to help with the search and rescue mission which is growing more desperate and dangerous by the hour. this morning the pain-staking search and rescue operation at the collapsed condo tower is entering its fifth day. >> we need a few more miracles. >> reporter: workers digging through mountains of debris. small fires have been breaking out. >> not only do we have the debris of the pile itself, not only do we have the risk of collapse, the risk of getting injured with the debris, but we had to deal with rain. >> reporter: a team of israeli search and rescue specialists arriving to help. abc news getting a look at the

tent city pofor the local urban search and rescue task force. they've been deployed around the backyard.h'r >> how long do you keep working on search and rescue? >> that's up to command. we'll keep going until they tell us to stop. >> reporter: when the building collapsed the condo was in the middle of a 40-year recertification project. it's required of all local buildings of the that age. released emails from 2019 it was estimated the building needed more than $9 million in repair including failed water proving. the president of that engineering firm tells "the washington post" their findings were, quote, fairly typical. he said nothing in the 2019 survey, quote, raised a red flag. he tells "the post" the investigation could uncover a perfect storm of failures. "the new york times" reports engineers say the failure appeared to start at the bottom of the buildings, not the roof where work was being performed. also being examined work being done nearby.

abc news has learned a member of the condo association wrote neighboring construction work was too close saying workers were digging too close to our property and we have concerns regarding the structure. a local building official said, quote, there's nothing for me to check. growing concern about the sister building behind the site. the mayor is urging people to evacuate even though they don't qualify for fema assistance. president biden spoke with the head of fema after she visited here. he describes the situation as an unimaginably difficult time for these families. mona? >> faith, thank you. let's turn to the victims of the collapse. the families are desperately waiting for answers. one family fears they lost five of their loved ones. families shattered by the building collapse in surfside have now visited the scene clinging to hope that someone can be found alive.

>> to see the devastation is something to see in person. >> reporter: to help with the identification process, grief-stricken relatives are being asked for dna samples and unique characteristics of their loved ones like tattoos or scars. authorities have released the names of eight victims ages 26 to 83. this family tells stephanie ramos authorities used dna to confirm their two relatives were killed in the collapse. three other members of their family have yet to be found. >> my nephew had muscular dystrophy. he couldn't move. i know for sure when the alarm went off, she ran to him and she was with him and they were together. >> reporter: loved ones hanging pictures of missing on a fence near the site. valerie and his wife just moved in to their seventh floor apartment. >> is he in the hospital? is he in the rubble? they just don't know.

we just want to know already. >> reporter: jake samuelson holding out hopes for his grant parents who lived on the third floor. his family received 16 phone calls from his grandfather's landline phone only to pick up and hear static on the other end. >> we were shocked and thought nothing of it. we answered. it was static. >> reporter: leo soto is waiting for updates on his friends. they lived on the eighth floor. >> you're watching grandmothers and moms and families that have been affected differently. generations of life taken from us. >> surfside set up a website for people to donate to the victims. $1.2 million has been raised so far. now, the u.s. launching new air strikes in the middle east taking aim at iranian backed militias near the syrian border. pentagon officials say there are serious threats. julia macfarlane is with us. julia, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, mona. the pentagon said president biden authorized these air

strikes against iranian backed militia groups. they conducted drone attacks against u.s. personnel inside iraq. f-15 jets targeted weapon storage facilities. the pentagon calling this a matter of self-defense. it's too early to know if there were casualties. this is the second attack ordered under the biden administration. the last one came in february after rocket attacks damaged a base in northern iraq and killed a civilian contractor. this site had command control and logistic capabilities for attacks. >> we're also following a bizarre story from the uk where classified documents belonging to the british military were found near a bus stop. what are you hearing? >> reporter: the 50 pages of documents were found at a bus sop in kent in the rain. a member of the public found them and reported it to the bbc. they contained classified information about a war ship and

information about british operations in afghanistan. they reportedly came from a senior official at the ministry of defense. the government launched an investigation to figure out how they were misplaced. the russian foreign minister said 007 isn't what he used to be. mona? >> julia macfarlane in london, thank you very much. former president trump is lashing out at his former attorney general who dismissed election fraud claims at, quote, bs. former attorney general bill barr tells abc's jonathan karl that mitch mcconnell urged him to publicly reject trump's election fraud claims because they were hurting republicans. when barr told the media he found no fraud, he said trump threw a fit, asking how could you do this to me? in a new statement overnight trump called barr and mcconnell spineless. another shooting in new york city. this time a man visiting times square with his family was wounded. police say a group of street vendors were arguing when one of them pulled out a gun and opened

fire. the bullet ricochetted and hit the victim in the back. he's expected to recover and no arrests have been reported. the heat wave baking the northwest is being called a once in a millennium event. 33 million people in seven states are under an emergency heat alert. many people won't see relief until wednesday at the earliest. blistering temperatures, 112 degrees in portland melted a hole in a street car cable. that service is now suspended. it's expected to be just as hot or hotter in portland. it was 110 degrees in eugene, oregon. forcing a five-hour delay in the u.s. olympic track and field trials. let's take a closer look at your monday forecast. >> good morning to you. we're talking about the heat to continue here as we head into the new week from seattle all the way down to redding, california, even around boise where numbers will be in the triple digits where numbers should be in the 80s or 70s.

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spellers are in contention to take the final round and right now on "america this morning." new details from the florida building collapse investigation. nine people have died. more than 150 are unaccounted for. the email coming to light revealing the concern that a member of the condo association raised in 2019. plus, as the dangerous round the clock search goes on, we hear from one member of a family who fears they lost five loved ones. and another family who received 15 phone calls from their grandparents' landline phone after the caps. we're live in surfside, florida. also, the u.s. military launching air strikes in the middle east, targeting militants backed by iran.

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