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tons mf coverage coming up, craig melvin picking up coverage right now. >> good monday morning. it is going to be a very busy hour. 30 minutes from now we should be getting a update from officials here. the search and rescue effort from the condo collapse. no one has been pulled alive as of thursday. nine people are confirmed dead, more than 150 others are still unaccounted for. and there is a new memorial giving people waiting for the worst possible news a place to share in their grief. >> what i found in the memorial was a little solice. it was a similarity. it's like everybody understood each other. we might be strangers, we might
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not know each other, but we will hug and cry together. >> we're going to take you there live when it starts. >> also the aftermath of an air strike in iran. why president biden authorized those strikes. there is also big developments on capitol hill this morning. the house voting on the committee to investigate the deadly insurrection. and some news related to the business of our last president, nbc news confirmed that the manhattan district attorney could file charges against the trump organization as early as this week. what we know about that coming up in just a few moments. but we do start with a search and rescue efforts that continue to surfside, florida. trues trying desperately to keep into that massive pile of
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debris. in the last hour they explained just how delicate and meticulous and risky this entire process is. >> 25,000 pounds of concrete in one piece, when you move it it creates a monumental shift in the debris field that could risk the lives of those above and below the surface. we have laser beams that target the debris field. >> sam broke and antonia hilton are on the ground there. antonia i will start with you. 30 minutes from now we'll be getting another update from miami-dade officials. we're on day five now on the search and rescue. new concerns about the safety of surrounding buildings as well. take us through these new developments, if you can.
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>> good morning, craig the situation here in surfside has been growing more desperate. we're now in the fifth day of an incredibly complicated search and rescue mission. to give you a sense of what it feels like here on the ground the first responders and rescuers are going out into heavy concrete, sheet rock, and they are contending with tough weather at time. wind and rain that may return again today and they had to construct a 125 foot long trench to work their way through in the hopes of recovering more bodies and getting more answers and closure to the families anxiously waiting here. all of this was made even more urgent on the heels of the release of a 2018 report that showed that engineers were aware of structural damages,s those same builders and architects
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worked on a neighboring tour. so there is a fear that these homes may not be safe, either. i want you to listen to what the mayor shared on msnbc earlier today. >> the building that is a sister building, two to the north, was inspected initially by the surfside building instructor. we're growing to look at all of the buildings from the last four years plus. >> people that live here and work here are safe now. they live in front of that north tower and she says she will be
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witnessing too much trauma and heartbreak here and it's not sure how it will be for her to return to the site. >> sam, we, again, should learn a bit more here in the next 245 or 30 minutes or so. right now there are nine confirmed dead. more than 150 still unaccounted for. what are we learning about the folks that lost their lives and the families waiting to hear about their loved ones who are still messing? >> as antonia was just mentioning, the psychology and the impact of what this has done to people, people are hopeful but they're also realistic. that fire going on friday for a good portion of the day, was burn sog powerfully, there was so much smoke they had to suspend the operations. the rescue crews themselves
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could not see what they were doing. we know speaking with folks with expertise more people die in fires not from the flames, but from the smoke. that was going on for a day and a half. i think families have an understanding that they're up very, very steep odds to put it mildly. in terms of the kinds of people we're talking to, how they're feeling, these backgrounds, they're coming, there is one couple from argentina, they were in that tower for less than one day just to enjoy their friends apartment and a day at the beach. one couple has been married. they were afraid of dieing apart. maggie ramsey was in orlando when she heard about the collapse. she raced from orlando to try to
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figure out what was going on and came into a footprint of utter tragedy. this is how she described her emotional fate. >> that burden is heavier. your throat, the feeling of like "i could not eat anything or look at anything, that sort of feeling. >> and so one of the things that folks here are drawing strength from, and i think you played part of that sound bite, is the makeshift memorial that has been playing for the last several days. it's not about the fact that we know each other or done, the other family members and potential victims, because we don't. but we can hug each other and cry tonight. also firefighters found toys and stuffed animals in that rubble and they took it and placed it at the men memorial.
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your heart as to go out to the fire works that for five days now they have been trying desperately. we'll come back to you we're also following breaking news. "deter and disrupt. the pentagon says that was the main purpose of airstrikes against iron backed militia groups. they were authorized by president biden, they were in response to drone attacks. so courtney, this is the second time they organized attacks.
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what more do we know about the threat that the militias pose and how the region is reacting there this morning? >> one of these is probably a name that you and many of our viewers know. this is a group that you may recall back in late december of 2019. there was a number of rocket attacks. one that was deadly, and it was and the u.s. responded with a number of air strikes. and iran responded with air strikes where the u.s. military was resulting in a number of traumatic brain injuries. so we have gotten to know them for their rocket attacks, but we're talking here about a different threat. this is something that groups in
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iran and they have been carrying out for some time. there has been a uptick in them just recently. we know of five of them that occurred in recent weeks and the past several months. they took the air strikes against one facility in iraq, two in syria, with the hope of deterring future drone strikes like these. they crash them into the facilities with the hope of hurting or killing americans or damaging property there. the hope with these air strikes is they will be able to take out the facilities where they manufacture some of the small drones. you asked about the reaction in the region though. it's not surprising that iran would condemn this attack. but surprisingly iraq did and call it'd a violation of iraqi sovereignty. we got a statement they called
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the strikes necessary, appropriate, and drip rate to limit the risk of escalation, and tools send a deterrents message. this is what they're trying to send here, one of deterrence with the home that they will not prove deadly. >> thank you, court any. we're also keeping our eyes on kyl because it has been a bumpy ride for president biden's infrastructure deal. he appeared to put the deal in upi did when he said that the bipartisan bill would have to move in dan determine with the other bill. for now the, the efforts that he
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will sign a bipartisan bill appears to be keeping it on track. >> it's clear that we can move forward with a bill that is broadly popular. >> i think leader mcconnell before continues to come together as it is. >> sahill, help us understand where this deal stands right now on the hill. >> it is very much still a live ball. president biden working to bring this out of a pothole over the weekend. he made clear that he is not going to do that even though he still wants the bills to move in tandem. they said they wanted deal to move forward, but it's not good enough for mitch mcconnell who is demanding more. he wants speaker pelosi and
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chuck schumer to delink them without that separate safety package and that is problem matter for a number of bills. they make clear they're not supportive of just a physical infrastructure deal, but they have the votes to stop this. let's look at what one congresswoman had to say about this. >> while we can welcome this work and welcome collaboration with republicans and in those areas where there is agreement, they're more than welcome to join so that we can k get this work on infrastructure done. but that doesn't mean that the president should be limited by republicans when we have a house majority, we have 50 democratic
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senators, and the white house. >> they say what is paramount here, there are centrists that demanded that there be a bipartisan agreement on physical infrastructure. so this is what they're trying to navigate. as it, is doesn't look like they have the votes to pass one without the other. >> thank you. we're staying on top of that with the latest news in surf side florida. they are expecting to start this news conference in 15 minutes from now. we'll get the latest and we'll take you there just as soon as it starts. days after derek chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison, there has been a new deal struck on police reform.
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shaq, we note that this is a day after derek chauvin was sentenced, the brand new booking photos so take us through the details of the frame work and the time line for getting it passed, if you can. >> yeah, legislatures need to move very quickly on this. it was part of a must have budget bill. it need to go through the legislature by the end of the month. and you know this comes after months of negotiations after democrats and republicans in the state, they say they want to do more. back then they had a ban, for example, and they codified that
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guty to intervene, but it adds new regulations to those no knock warrants, it creates a database, as you mentioned, from police misconduct and an office of missing/murdered indigenous relatives or black women. i spoke to an activist that has been pushing with different legislatures to push some of the reforms and she told me she was unsatisfied with what she saw. there is a deep sense they wanted to see more. some legislation that was left out of this deal, this agreement, there is some disappointment there. legislation of restricting when officers can pull over or engage in a traffic stop. that references what you saw in brooklyn center right before the verdict with daunte wright.
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there is also body camera legislation, legislation that requires body camera video to be released a little quicker after a use of force incident. so this is one of those things, a bipartisan compromise that will not leave everyone happy. you have republicans in the state pointing to the state's spike in crime, crime you're seeing go up across the country as a reason they don't want to go forward on more aggressive accountability measures. in the state of minnesota, democrats pushing for more substantial change, getting more than they wanted. >> shaq brewster for us, thank you. meanwhile this morning, a new front in the fight against texas. nearly three dozen local and progressive groups are now teaming up to fight it. they're coalition is called "texas for all."
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organizers say they expect more groups to join. we have the latest on this one for us. jake i know you have been talking to organizers of this group. why did they decide to come together now? >> yeah, these are telling me that voting rights is a foundational issue for them. the groups come from all walks of the progressive sphere. environmental, civil rights groups, a traditional voting group, black voters matter, but also a lot of different groups and they say without loading access, they believe this is deliberate voter suppression. they say we can't get lawmakers in office that fight for our values. so for them they say we have to put all of our energy and all of our work into this voting rights fight in the july special session for us to be able to
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move forward. they're going to be able to put it all on the line. the seven-figure spend in this july special session. and as well as putting all of their memberships behind it. millions of members is the depth of their confined base. >> jane tim for us on this new push in texas. thank you. in just a few minutes we expect that news conference out of surfside, florida. right now in detroit, 30% of the city is vaccinated. how do they catch up to their neighbors in getting vaccine doses to people that need them? we're going to take you through the bold new plan, next. e bold .
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dead. more than 150 unaccounted for. an international team is sifting through that massive pile of debris and they were up against it from the very gipping. the weather, fire, wind, rain, and we'll bring you the update once it starts there. we are waiting for officials to assemble. right now roughly two thirds of american adults have at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. officials are doing everything they can to try to turn that around. they're even going door to door in detroit. ooizy is in droilt following the vaccination efforts for us. it's not just a city she covers but a city that she called home. what are you seeing from this
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approach in detroit? >> thank you for remembering it's my home, it is the epicenter for some of the worst suffering during covid, and they are trying to get as many people vaccinated as possible. this is a major vaccination site that would handle several hundred people a day. they tried everything they said. sports stadiums, barber shots, churches, and now they have one last initiative up their sleeve. we're going door to door directly to get the shot in the arms of people. if we look at the data, 57% of
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people not vaccinated are under 40 years old. that's my generation. >> that's right they're going door to door with door knockers can advancing to ask people if they want the vaccine. if they say yes they will summit the mobile unit. they are trying to get about 150,000 doors, craig, they want to hit every single house in the city because they know know this is coming and we're at 30% fully vaccinated here. >> thank you, i want to bring in dr. patal. let's start with what we just heard from heidi there. michigan saw some of the largest
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outbreaks there. this new strategy taking the vak vaccine to the people. >> we have to make it so convenient that it is inconvenient to say no and pass it up. i think that is a chance to also address people's concerns. people are in the middle. they're not against vaccines, but they're not sure they want one right now. that ground game, much like the ground game we have seen in other efforts to get communities mobilized, i think that is the only way to cross the chasim. >> andy slavitt tweeted this on sunday. 16,000 people are choosing to get newly vaccinated every hour across the country. 16,000, that sounds like a
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pretty impressive number, but we're not going to reach that july 4th goal that the president set forth. is it possible to convince folks is there a week out people left still? >> yes, there will be another conversation about the customs. i think we'll see an increase as we start to see that delta variant number of cases rise, which we will, the delta variant is here. we're seeing 20 bank account of the new cases, craig, even though they're small numbers they're increasing every week in terms of how many are the delta variant. you're protected, but that protection is in jeopardy if a third of them are not vaccinated.
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we want it to not have a chance to reproduce. >> i want to ask you about a new study out. it finds the pfizer and the moderna vaccines have a persistent immune response that may protect against covid for years. the majority of vaccinated people are protected over the long term, and they may not need booster shots. based on what you know, what do we make of it? >> i think what we're finding that we're seeing memory cells. this is our natural immunity, by the way. and our natural immunity creates a fake spike protein, so that is something that we should be able to depend on. we thought that the community could last for years, and let me put a strong caveat to that.
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people with certain chronic conditions may have that now if is promising, but i think we're all, this is a fluid changing target at times. and i think it reinforces to me that the mrna vaccines are holding their ground in many ways. so i think the conversation should be, with your doctor, which one, because we can choose, and what should i expect and talk about that brilliantly. meet people where they're at. >> the door to door concept makes a lot of sense to me. thank you as always. mine while fus have few hours from now. this meeting coming as ifz yal just reinstates a mask mandate.
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now it is one of the first to wristle with a outbreak of the new variant in a highly vaccinated population. so what are you hear hearing from people there about the new rise in cases? >> craig, israel is seeing about 20,000 new cases a day. a few dozen of those is breakthrough cases. that sounds really alarming. they still get the coronavirus, but remember the pfizer vaccine that they used here in israel, also here in the u.s., about 90% effective at stopping infection.
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that's a great number, it's not 100%. we have always known there would be some people fully vaccinated that would also get infected. the reason they're not overly worried is they're not seeing a spike of people going into the hospital. i spoke earlier to dr. gail. >> the patient that's are getting sick again, it is about 80 or 85% that are covered. >> craig, you heard from the gok there they're calm but not
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complacent. they also post planned to let people back into israel. they're going to try to keep things as poeb as possible, they're keeping a close eye on it. >> you probably noticed at the bottom of your screen officials in surfside, florida are assembling for a news conference. i believe we can listen in. we're getting a update on the search and rescue efforts that that collapsed condo building. let's take a listen.
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thank you so much. i'm debby wasserman schultz. i was able to participate in the briefing today, and to sit down and talk can our national exerts, the agency that reviews and comes in to dmds a full investigation is necessary. they were investigators in 9/11 and in a number of structural sends around the country and they're the best of the best when it comes to making sure they do a complete and thorough overview. they're determines right now whether or not they open a full investigation, and i'm not an expert, but i think it is natural that they decide to do that and their role is to forensically review the process,
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going through the rubble, and the search and rescue process making sure the evidence is preserved to make sure that even with the army core of engineers, some of the issues that have risen, but the questions around things like the structural damage to the spool and other points of weakness, they will look through that and determine if they needs to open a full investigation, and then they will decide if any decisions or fact finding they engaged in can have longer term implications and recommendations for how we
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change federal oversite and law and the code enforcement. so it is really important and very significant that they are here as early as they have been because getting them here making sure they advise on how evidence should be preserved will give them a better chance at answering the question that i have been asking, how do we deal with the long term i'm apply indications of this. we have structures like this all of the way up the coastline of the united states. and they're fact finding, not fault finding, and it gives us a a chance to adopt changes in
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federal law to make sir that something like this could never happen again. so we will continue to be engaged with our seamless local, state, and national leaders to make sure we can continue the whole government approach. thank you so much for everything. >> thank you, congresswoman. >> thank you so much. >> i had a chance to immediate with a number of the urban search and rescue teams. they have been going at it for over 100 hours straight, and they have been trying to identify survivors, they're putting themselves at risk. you could have a collapse, you could have a deep seeded fire
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that they have had to fight, and they have been on the seen nonstop from the very beginning. so i want to thank you them for what they have don't. we have other team that's have been able to come, the israelis came in to take a they said they would have done exactly what we did. i think it is a testament. israel deserves a lot of credit for putting themselves out there. and the search continues and it will not stop until there is a resolution. thank you for that. we're working in conjunction with fee ma, local government and private organizations to bring relief services to the
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family members. that involves things like mental health counselling. we want to work with fema, identify all of the families, and we want to be able to provide them the services. the out pouring with the charitable donations has been incredible. the greater miami-dade area and florida and the united statess, they have been involvemented in that. so that family helping them get back on their feet, that is going to be ongoing.
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we're in that for the long haul. the final thing is, of course rescue number one care for the people displaced. we need to identify why this happened. i was able to meet with the nist folks today. and they were created after 9/11. they have done a handful of really thorough investigations since their creation. nfl, they joplin, missouri from the tornadoes. they're doing hurricane maria in puerto rico. they did a nightclub fire from nearly 20 years ago, and they never did just a straight building collapse with hazards or terrorism. this is going to be very thorough and it's going to take a long time. that's the time horizon they work on and i understand that. what i told the mayors, because
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surfside retained people to look in, and miami-dade with the state attorney, they're doing an investigation, i think those investigations may be able to provide us with investigation maybe sooner than an ist, and i think that is important because of the things that need to be done at the state level. we want to get information as soon as possible. so we pledged at the state if they need support from engineers, experts, whatever they need, we're here to help. i think the people of florida want to understand how this could happen, and what could duo to make sure it doesn't happen again. we'll work on that for the long term, in the interim, thank you to everyone going through the rubble. thank you for being on the front lines for us, your work has been important and very self less. >> thank you. >> thank you, goose morning.
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said. here we are day five and the search and rescue work continued throughout the night these are truly the men and women that dedicated their lives to save lives and this is what they live for. they're out there with every resource they need to snauf that they can search this year and sweep the area with area. we're lex employering all possible avenues and we will continue to work to exhaust every possible option in our search. i repeat, the search and rescue
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operation continues. as was said, there is a thorough and full investigation of what lead to this tragic to the bottom of what happened here. right now our top priority is search and rescue and find the people. and you can see we have a truly unprecedented mobilization effort under way with the full resources of our local, state and federal government on hand, already for days, 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
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another body. that brings the count to ten. the total number of those accounted for is now 135, and the total unaccounted, 151. our detectives are working in real time 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've told the families that are waiting that they will be the first to hear, and they were the first to hear about this tenth victim that we
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uncovered today. so we will continue to support all of the families and loved ones who are affected, with their mental health, their social service, their 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 was said, millions have been collected across these different donation sites. it's really quite incredible. so please continue to pray for the families, continue to pray for the search and rescue team, the best in the world. we have hundreds on backup, we have the people we need. we are continuing without stop.
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[ speaking spanish ] >> thank you, madam mayor. and our chief financial officer. >> thank you, good afternoon. thank you for your leadership in all of this. you don't get a break, hurricanes, pandemics, you name it. this governor has been boots on the ground and leading since day one. mayor, your staff, amazing. the folks at miami-dade county, the resilience they've provided. this is an international issue, as we've seen support from the
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federal, international community. i'm the state's chief financial officer and a fire marshal and citizen of the state of florida and proud to be here with the task forces that are 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. the same number of men and women that are on the ground right now is the same as that was deployed to hurricane michael, which is a 12-county storm event. they're working around the clock, they're working 12 hours at a time, midnight to noon, noon to midnight. they come from tallahassee, they come from orlando, they come from tampa, they come from israel, mexico, jacksonville, ft. myers. they are making efforts as we speak right now and they don't stop. they hardly rest. they come up for about 45 minutes, check their pulse, their o 2 levels and they go back to work because that's what
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they do, they work to save lives. i've got the honor to be here with them and i'm so proud of the efforts that are taking place here. i can't say enough for the leadership of kevin guthrie and florida department of emergency management, and fema. this came from a camp and 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, chief. the florida emergency management, kevin guthrie. >> good good morning, everyone. kevin guthrie, florida division of emergency management. yesterday at about 4:15, yesterday afternoon, mayor cava and chief kaminski asked for a
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support team specifically related to search and rescue. fema was in the room at the exact same time. the informal communication of that request happened in minutes, so that request was sent up and mobilized and we have followed up with the necessary paperwork. so, again, i think it's important for everyone to understand that as soon as mayor cava, chief kaminski, director ramirez need resources, we're working with the lieutenant governor, mayor, there is no daylight between either one of those. so i think that's important for everyone to know. i would say that we also are mobilizing today a florida bus to help people get i.d. cards for those that have been displaced. they need i.d. cards and drivers licenses and things of that nature. that bus will be deployed today and should be here on site tomorrow.
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thank you. >> thank you, director. and now the surfside mayor, charles burkett. >> i just have a handful of things i want to share with you. first, 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're here to do. i also observed the heavy equipment that the governor and the federal government have sent down to us in action, lifting off huge slabs and 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 to note was that the israeli commander told us that
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