joining us now from surfside, rachel spiegel whose mother is missing. rachel, first of all, i want to tell you that i'm very sorry that we're meeting under these circumstances. but i do want you to tell us about your mom, judy spiegel. rachel, can you hear me? okay. i don't think we have rachel's connection -- >> yes. arthel: hi, rachel. this is arthel neville of fox news, we're live right now. if you can tell me about your mother,ty spiegel. >> yeah. my mom is the best person in the world. she is a caring, loving mother, wife, friend, grandmother. i mean, i'm devastated by this, i'm heart broken, and i hope that, you know, or we'll be reunited. arthel: i hope and pray for that as well. when's the last time you talked to your mom? >> wednesday night. arthel: wednesday night. and what was that discussion about, if it wasn't too personal, can you share? >> we, my mom had texted me right before we were all going to bed, and she told me that she was getting a dress for scarlett, my daughter, that she really wanted, a dress that's actually in the mail. arthel

earlier i speak to rachel spiegel who's mother judi is still missing. >> rachel, you're in all our hearts tonight. tell us first some things about your mom. >> my mom is the best person in the world. she is the most loving grandma. i'm in my kid's play room right now. you can see the barbie airplane, the tv, the closet full of stuff. i'm looking at the books, and it's like breaking my heart, because i know the books, the forefront are the ones that my mom either bought or the ones that my mom reads to my kids. i know it. like, gabby's doll house from netflix. like, it's a coloring book. i know all the pink-a-licious. i kids love that. they love when my mom reads that. >> tell us about the last text you had with her. >> the night of wednesday was ws i mean, it will remain in my heart forever regardless of the outcome. she said i love you and said oh, my god, i just remembered scarlet wanted this dress, and it's a disney dress. it's at target. it's a belle, like, sequin rose dress, and she bought the dress. it's in the mail, yay, i got it. she said i love you. she said i know you've been un

and i want to bring on rachel spiegel. daughter of 65-year-old judy spiegel who is still missing. rachel, thank you. i'm sorry. thank you for joining us, and i'm sorry this is happening to you. before i ask you anything else, what do you want to say? >> i just want to say i love my mom and we're not giving up hope. we're there every day. we're working, tirelessly, to bring awareness about what is happening. and -- and about our mom. and, you know, we're gonna do everything we can to fight. >> yep. what else? because i always sit here, in these situations, quite honestly, right, rachel, and i ask people all these questions. and i don't want to do tv talk with you. i just want to know how you are doing, and what you want people around the world to know what the families are dealing with, you are dealing with. about your daughter, who was so close to your mom. i mean, just go on. what do you want to say? >> i mean, it's just so hard. like, you know, i mean, i got the call from my dad in the middle of the night on thursday mor

after visiting the collapsed site last night, among them is rachel spiegel. she is judy's daughter.ry single day. she told me on friday that her mother was like a grandmother to everyone, beloved by the whole community. grandma judy, as they would call her, would pickup her 4-year-old granddaughter from school always making sure she was the first one there, making play dates. she had finally found the disney princess dress her granddaughter scarlet had wanted so much. rachel, judy's daughter is with us again. we were talking. you are in our hearts, on all of our minds. do you have any updates on your mom this morning? >> no updates right now. you know, there are family meetings that are occurring every day at 9:30 and 5:30. so one is occurring right now. my husband is in the other room on the phone on the zoom waiting for the start. he said it hadn't started yet. of course, if you need to go during this interview and join him, we totally understand. but hearing from you, i mean, your voice, after we interviewed you on friday, so many people reached out just to say how much you touch

many other families are still hoping to hear from loved ones including rachel spiegel was 65 -year-old mother, judy, lived in the building. outlook you can hear me. i'm very concerned. the have to stop their operations because of the weather. >> firefighters have been dealing with all kinds of lightning storms of the past couple of days as the search an rescue effort goes into the weekend. firefighters continue to listen for signs of life amid the debris. experts say in previous disasters people have been a pizza five for weeks as long as they have oxygen and water. in this case the frequent rain showers on may coming to the syriac may have been a blessing in disguise. >> but we are looking for is areas -- of survivability. the big is it to assess the certain pieces of debris. rescuers have been bringing rains to move the debris. at the very delicate process because of human life under the rubble. you may be able to see smoke hovering over the scene. that is from the stubborn fire the firefighters believe is embedded all the rubble and it' hard to get water directly on i whenever there

that includes rachel spiegel whose mother judy is mong the missing.'s clinging to hope that judy will come home both for her and for her 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old child. >> she came to me and tapped me on the shoulder and said did you find grandma yet. is she still missing and and i said scarlet look at me in the eyes. i said i'm go doing everything in any power to find her and i'm not going to stop. and i'm not going to stop. >> and now look at this, these are photographs obtained by the "miami-herald" and just 36 hours before the collapse of the south tower, a pool contractor was brought in for cosmetic repairs and he found an exploded rebar in the concrete equipment room on the south side of the underground garage and took pictures and sent them to his boss because it was so alarming. we have team coverage this morning following the aftermath of this tragedy. let's begin with rosa flores on the scene. what stands out to you when reading this full letter that was just three months ago with these warnings. >> reporter: what stands out to me,

among them is the daughter of rachel spiegel, who spoke earlier today with my colleague, alex witt. >> obviously, i'm disappointed that there were red flags that were made and brought to light, and there wasn't action that was taken. yes, they said that there were issues. but no one said it was unsafe to live there. >> with little they can do, loved ones of victims and of those missing were taken by bus to an area near the rubble to grieve and to pray. nbc's antonio hilton has more from surfside. >> hi, alicia. the move this evening in surfside is one of a community that is holding its breath, as there are growing anxieties among residents who are not only connected to the southern tower that collapses but to the surrounding towers and the neighborhood at large. people are worried their homes may not be safe either. and these growing anxieties make sense, as just this morning we learned the death toll grew to nine people, additional human remains have been found, and still 156 people remain unaccounted for. and officials here are being hammered by families, loved ones, with questions.

joining us, her daughter rachel spiegel. thank you for joining us. i know how hard this must be.ou doing? >> i'm not doing very well. i lost the best person in my life, at least we haven't found her yet. hopefully we didn't lose her, but it doesn't look good. we're just exhausted. i'm working tirelessly all day, all night. i got home again at 11:00 last night. you know, trying to spread awareness this morning and then going back on site right after this. we're going to meet with the idf. they want to understand, based on the floor plan of all the apartments, where my mom would have been, and at that hour she would have been in her bedroom. so really explaining to them where she would have been. >> what are officials telling you? have they been communicating regularly? >> yes, i mean, there is two communications a day. there's one right now, actually, my dad and my brother are on the zoom, and, you know, there's one at 5:30. we were physically at the one at 5:30 yesterday. it's really hard to be there. it's really hard to listen. i mean, obviously it's important to be there and li

. >> reporter: rachel spiegel's parents live in the building. her father was away on business. and though there is still no word from her mother, they are not giving up hope they will find her. >> it's hard, but we are still hopeful. >> reporter: linda march lived on the 12th floor. shoshanna, her best friend of 27 years, says the inside of linda's apartment is visible in this photo. >> if you look next to the bunk bed, there is a black chair, an office chair, and she was working from there, and she could look through the window, see the beach and ocean. >> reporter: at least four deaths have been confirmed, including 54-year-old stacy fang whose 15-year-old son jonah was pulled alive from the rubble. overnight, a search and rescue expert encouraging people to stay hopeful saying survivors can live in the debris for days. >> i have hope, and i want our readers and our audience to have hope as well that, again, 8 days, 12 days, it is possible. >> we're told crews are in the garage looking at license plates trying to figure out exactly who was in the building. we're told those cr

. >> reporter: rachel spiegel's mother is also among the missing. >> my mom is just the best person in world. her name is judy spiegel and we have not giving hope that she's there and alive and we're just praying and praying. >> reporter: nicholas fernandez's close friends were visiting from argentina. >> they're exceptional people. they -- after years of fighting, they got a daughter and she was there. she was there and she was an amazing person it's not fair. it's just unfair >> reporter: this building was built in 1981. it's typical of the buildings built in that era with concrete and rebar. the residents had recently been told that there would be a $15 million assessment for repairs to the building. what those specific repairs are are unclear. this morning, many of the people who are here were staying here from south america as well as from israel. this is a predominantly jewish area and this morning, many of the families who did get out say this reminds them of a war zone. savannah >> kerry sanders, thank you so much hoda, those stories break your heart. can you imagine sitting ou

. >> rachel and josh spiegel face the unimaginable waiting for news of their mother judy. >> it's veryt finding more people, but there's still a lot of people left to find. >> reporter: the rescue and recovery efforts continue at the collapse site, and on sunday afternoon, buses carried families to visit the area for a private moment to pray the communities of faith in surfside have become a critical support system. >> what is it like to see the community coming together in a time of crisis like this >> at least for the jewish people, coming together in times of crisis to help each other but to help others as well is part of our dna >> jacob solomon with the greater miami jewish federation says israeli search and rescue teams are at the site, as well as a jewish volunteer organization from mexico all working towards the search e efforts. >> right now it's a severe wound to our communal self, and it's an open wound as well. it won't start healing until everyone's accounted for. >> reporter: outside the jew ish shul in surfside, countless were loaded onto a truck. on friday near ground z

most families of residents share the purgatory of not knowing, like rachel and kevin spiegel. >> i just. i want to go back a day and change everything. >> reporter: 65-year-old judy spiegel, a resident on the sixth floor, remains missing. >> the hardest thing that we're going to do over the next day or two is tell scarlet about grandma. that's the hardest thing. >> reporter: in 12-hour shifts, search teams fight fire, fatigue, the weight of the rubble. sinead and her search dog. >> it is overwhelming. there is a lot of pressure on us because we want the outcome to be spectacular. we want to find someone. >> reporter: i'm standing a couple of blocks from the collapsed building. just beyond that line of parked ambulances, you can see smoke. that smoke is from smoldering fires in the rubble, just one of the obstacles search teams are up against. 15-year-old jonah handler survived, pulled to safety with the help of a passing dog-walker. but his mother, 54-year-old stacie fang, died from trauma. florida governor ron desantis. >> governor: you wake up in the morning hoping that more and more

judy spiegel's daughter rachel holding out hope but giving the medical examiner dna samples if a matchurfside have heard no voices, no deliberate tapping to suggest someone is trying to communicate with the outside world. just nine days before the collapse the condo association's engineer contacted five general contractors to begin the recertification required for florida buildings 40 years old. >> now that the building has collapsed, we're going to need an engineer to try to dig into this. >> reporter: some say asking the question why will come after the agony of what few want to say out loud. >> hopeful about survivors? i'm not hopeful. >> reporter: the just released report talks about problems with the concrete allowing water and salt water from the atlantic to migrate into the building where the steel rebar is, which is what holds the building together, but it's important to underscore there is no significant statement within the report that suggests that a collapse was likely to happen, so you can't draw any conclusions, peter. we've tried to reach out to the condo board that comm

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spiegel. >> thank you. >> reporter: thank you, rachel and josh. other 158 people that remain unaccounted for. we also want to share this with you. cnn spoke with a local rabbi who recounted one of the tragic stories touching his synagogue. >> the one that's really touching me the most is this family came for a funeral of a dear friend of theirs, and multiple family members were staying in that building. they have apartments there. and they're now missing seven or eight family members. i've never seen the strength of a mother that herself went through her own miraculous recovery from a devastating disease, and she's completely distraught that her daughter came for a funeral for someone, a dear friend, and she was there because she said to me, her daughter is the only one that could bring solace to others. so, that story has continuously resonates with me because i'm just blown away by her faith, by her strength, even through her breaking down, i think that's her strength. moo you're welcome. breyers natural vanilla is made with 100% grade a milk an

together looking for answers about their loved ones like 66- year-old judy spiegel who was in the building. we spoke with her children rachel and joshua. tell us what you know and what s you're hoping for. >> what we're hoping for is they will find her quickly and that she's still alive. >> reporter: their father lives there, too, but happened not to be home. joshua believes his mother will be found alive. >> we just want to be with our mom. so -- >> she was the best. i can't live without her. >> o'donnell: oh, manny, it's so hard to hear from these families. so how large is the rescue effort? >> reporter: well, norah, we know between search and rescuef? >> efforts and firefighters, there are more than 100 people on the scene tonight.fi this is dangerous work for them that will likely go on for days. they have sonar devices in there. >> o'donnell: just down the street, the wait is simply excruciating. some families don't know if their lord ones are trapped inside or if somehow they weren't at home when it happened. cbs' david begnaud is with the families, and good evening, david. >> reporter: norah, good evening. we're just

like 66-year-old judy spiegel, who was in the building. we spoke with her children, racheloshua. tell us what you know and what you're hoping for. >> what we're hoping for is they will find her quickly and that she's still alive. >> reporter: their father lives there, too, but happened not to be home. joshua believes his mother will be found alive. >> we just want to be with our >> we just want to mom. so... >> she was the best. i can't live without her. >> o'donnell: oh, manny, it's so hard to hear from these families. so, how large is the rescue effort? >> reporter: well, norah, we know that between search and rescue workers and firefighters, there are more than 100 peopleae on the scene here tonight. this is dangerous work for them and its work that will likely go on for days.k we also know they have sonar devices in there and search cameras, and they've heard what appears to be banging, but no voices coming from the rubble tonight. >> o'donnell: all right, manny bojorquez, thank you. so while those rescue crews are tunneling underneath what's left of the building, as ma

spiegel. you see her right there, a 65-year-old beloved grandmother and mother who is among the missing this morning. her daughter rachelhank you. i have no words. >> thank you. good morning. >> -- that can adequately comfort you, but i am so sorry. and if we could just begin with any updates on your mother from authorities. >> no, we don't have any updates at this time. >> i didn't know her, obviously, but i saw a lot of pictures of her this morning, and she looks incredibly strong, and we're showing them to our viewers now. i want to show people a few specific pictures of your mom. so, there is this one i saw of her toasting with your father on some special occasion. we'll pull that up. >> that's their anniversary. >> was it? >> yeah. they were married in 1982, so they would be approaching 40 years. >> wow. and then there is this beautiful photo of you in a pink dress with your mother as well. it looked like a special moment. >> that was my mom's 65th birthday. we were at four seasons celebrating her 65th birthday. she loved it there. she loves surf side, you know? >> of course. >> it's just heartbreaking. >> we've se

judy's husband kevin spiegel can and her children joshua and rachel join me now.peel off pieces of the building. but the problem is there's a lot of smoke. you know, they're also hosing down the area, and every second that ticks by, it looks -- it's getting worse and worse. >> yeah, it's unimaginable, and we're hoping for the best, but we just want them to find our mother and to get to her as soon as possible because we know that time is of the's essence. rachel: rachel, i saw your interview yesterday with martha maccallum, and i guess my question to you, it must feel so surreal that you're on television talking about this, talking about your loved one in danger. how are you holding up, all of you? >> we're not doing well. i don't think anybody can be doing well under these circumstances. you know, it's -- we are just holding on to hope. we know that it's day three. i mean, we're on the scene, so we know, we see the smoke in the air. we still want a positive outcome, but, you know, we know that time is of the essence. >> right. and, you know, we're a health care f