ah, i am rebecca rich's welcome to the program. hope is beginning to fade for the nearly 160 missing residents of an apartment block in miami that collapsed on thursday. 5 people have now been confirmed dead rescue. workers have been facing setbacks, including a fire that broke out in the rubble. meanwhile, new questions are being raised about why the building hadn't been evacuated earlier . an engineering report released 3 years ago revealed that the ocean front building had a severe structural damage. w's county. jim, following the story from washington a little earlier, she gave us some more details about that engineering report. parents me 3 years before this happened to a consultant, found alarming evidence of major structural damage in that same building. the building is 40 years old, and the engineers report showed plans for a very expensive multi $1000000.00 repair a project that was set to get underway soon. but this did not happen obviously, and the report detailed significant cracks and breaks in the concrete in the wall

i'm rebecca rich's welcome to the program. british prime minister bars johnson has held his 1st in person, talks with us president joe biden. the meeting took place in the english stay side resort of congress bay a day before the g. 7 summit begins to late is renewed, the countries commitments to a revitalized version of the atlantic counter from 941, which prime minister johnson labelled of massive strategic, important for the prosperity and security of the world. the payer also discussed the pandemic can after the talk by detailed us plans to share more vaccines globally. and today, we're taking a major step that will supercharge the global fight against this pandemic. in my direction, the united states will purchase an additional half 1000000000 doses from pfizer. pfizer vaccine will donate nearly $100.00 low and lower middle income countries. they will be the beneficiaries. on joining me now in the studios database chief international editor, richard walker, richard a donation of half a 1000000000 vac saved not to be sneezed at. what kind of an impact will they have on the pandemic? i

ah, i'm rebecca rich's welcome to the program global latest meeting in the united kingdom for the g 7 summit hosted by prime minister on johnson. the summit being held in cornwall in england and marks the g 7 laid the 1st in person in nearly 2 years. they're expected to cover a range of topics. we're focused on. the corona virus pandemic, the climate emergency, and the strengthening of multilateral ties. johnson kicked off the conference with welcome speech. and i actually think this is a meeting that genuinely needs to happen. because we need to make sure that we learn the lessons from the pandemic. we may need to make sure that we repeat some of the areas that we made in the course of the last 18 months or so. we need to make sure that we now allow our economies to recover and i think that they have the potential demands not very strongly. they w cars on the get math is standing by 4th in campus by where the j 7 is taking place. but again, it was a pretty brief speech by a prime minister johnson give us the tells a little bit more about the opening address well, breed. but in his cu