. >> reporter: for 72-year-old steve rosenthal, every day is a reminder of what's lost.y of those neighbors have you not heard from in the last two weeks now? >> a lot. it just seems like everyone that had an oceanfront unit that i knew is gone. i don't know the exact number. i don't even want to know. >> reporter: he lived in unit 705 of the champlain towers south for 20 years. he remembers when he first moved to this little slice of retirement paradise. >> it was wonderful. you know? great people. you had the ocean, the beach out here is magnificent. >> what about the building itself? >> fabulous. retirement, this is where i was going to be. >> reporter: rosenthal says what happened on june 24th will haunt him, when three portions of his condo complex came crashing down in the middle of the night. >> the unit next to you? >> 704 line, the people are dead. it stopped. it literally stopped at my door. another 24 inches, my unit is gone too. >> reporter: i first spoke with him last monday, days after the collapse. his arms still bruised. >> the dust starts coming down fro

with that, miss rosenthal we welcome >> you thank you, congresswoman and thanks for your leadership all over the years, ranking member gallagher and other distinguished members of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to present the findings and recommendations of the independent review commission on sexual assault in the military. i also want to recognize the leadership of secretary austin and dr. hicks and the service leaders who met with the irc and shared their views. the irc was comprised of 12 high little qualified experts from outside the department of defense, three of whom are with me today. five of the irc's members were former military commanders and two served as judge advocates. as you know the irc made 82 recommendations across four loins of effort, accountability, prevention, climate and culture and victim care and support. because leadership is at the heart of military culture and unit climate, these recommendations target leaders at all levels. for decades, as you well know, service leaders have said that there is no tolerance for sexual harassment and that se

with that, miss rosenthal we welcome >> you thank you, congresswoman and thanks for your leadership all over the years, ranking member gallagher and other distinguished members of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to present the findings and recommendations of the independent review commission on sexual assault in the military. i also want to recognize the leadership of secretary austin and dr. hicks and the service leaders who met with the irc and shared their views. the irc was comprised of 12 high little qualified experts from outside the department of defense, three of whom are with me today. five of the irc's members were former military commanders and two served as judge advocates. as you know the irc made 82 recommendations across four loins of effort, accountability, prevention, climate and culture and victim care and support. because leadership is at the heart of military culture and unit climate, these recommendations target leaders at all levels. for decades, as you well know, service leaders have said that there is no tolerance for sexual harassment and that se

. >> reporter: lynn rosenthal headed the commission whose findings and recommendations were endorsed by both the commander-in-chief and the secretary of defense. according to the report, roughly 135,000 active duty service members have been sexual assaulted since 2010. >> every survivor we talked to who made an unrestricted report, which means it would be fully investigated, told us they regretted it, every one. >> reporter: sara joachimstaler told norah as part of a year and a half long investigation, she faced immediate retaliation. >> o'donnell: you were stripped of your rank. >> they were trying to break me down. they just go after you because you're the victim and you're the problem. >> reporter: among the recommendations, bring in professionals from outside the military chain of command who actually know what they're doing. >> this is a system that has operated for decades with inexperienced lawyers and investigators and a near total lack of prevention specialists. >> reporter: in the past, military leaders have resisted many of these changes, but rosenthal said it's time for t

let me bring in steve rosenthal. he narrowly survived the building collapse.nt was one unit over from the part of the building that went down. this, his hallway, blocked by concrete and steel. he was rescued from his seventh floor balcony by firemen reaching for him, from their truck's ladder. he met with joe biden and the first lady today. steve, good evening. thank you for being here. >> hi, poppy. thank you for having me. >> i remember watching you that morning, with our -- with our reporter on the ground, and i remember you talking about waiting for them to come up in the cherry picker and to rescue you. today, to have the first lady and joe biden there must have meant a lot, given all you went through. can you tell me about the meeting? >> it was -- yeah, it was amazing. on a scale of 1 to 10, it was 100. it was fantastic. the president was fantastic, the first lady was fantastic. he gave, you know, he talked about the grief with his son, when his son passed away and died. and then he walked around -- there must have been 200 people in that room. he walke

lynn rosenthal, welcome to the "newshour". you write that the military has failed america's sons and daughters and service members know it. what do you mean? >> we found that there is this great chasm between what senior leaders say about sexual assault and sexual harassment and what junior enlisted members experience. so senior leaders will say that there's no tolerance for sexual assault and sexual harassment, and yet junior enlisted members say there's quite a lot of tolerance, and particularly for women we heard sexual harassment is just part of dai life for many. >> reporter: the in recommendation that we've highlighted and others highlighted are the independent prosecutors who you describe need to decide whether to prosecute sexual assault, sexual harassment and domestic violence. why doing they should decide and not commanders? >> we found that because of this broken trust that junior enlisted service members do not trust their leaders to handle these problems, they don't trust that there will be accountable for sexual

second, we will hear from chair lynn rosenthal and members of the independent review commission so they can share their recommendations. the toll of sexual assault and sexual harassment has taken on our military is devastating and incalculable. we do know the numbers, but behind the numbers are lives destroyed and scarred. since 2010, the department of defense estimates that roughly 135,000 active duty service members, 65,400 women and 69,600 men have been sexually assaulted. and about 509,000 active duty service members, 223,000 women and 286,000 men, have experienced sexual harassment. one in four servicemen and one in sixteen servicemen experience sexual harassment. one in sixteen servicewomen and one in 143 servicemen experience sexual assault. service members who do not identify as hetero sexual encompass 12% of the active component force. accounted for 43% of all sexually assaulted service members in 2018. but these women and men are not just data points on a powerpoint slide. they tell harrowing stories of sexual violence, of careless commanders, of indifferent commanders, of a s

. >> i've got to be quick here, your client steve rosenthal, how did he escape the building?ning through his door, saw that he was closed off by the fallen concrete. he went out onto his balcony and they rescued him with a cherry picker from his seventh floor balcony. >> how is he doing? >> he's exhausted. he has been using every hour of his day trying to help victims, trying to obtain what gives them some help, there's lots of things that need to be done on an individual basis, on a legal basis, to give them a place to live, to find a way. these folks that have survived have lost their home. you can't go back into that building. and get in and get anything out. you're forbidden from doing so. everything that these folks that survived have, are tied up and likely to be simply imploded and lost forever. they have no homes, they have no personal property. >> and what floor was he on that he was cherry picked from, by the way? >> seventh floor. >> wow, what an experience. >> and everything else next to him fell to the ground. he heard the cries of those who were still alive but

joining me now is a survivor of the collapse is steven rosenthal. he is suing the association. desantis. what was that conversation like? >> well, it was actually a good conversation. i met with him and his visors. we met for 25 minutes and he asked -- he wanted to know my story, how i survived, how i got rescued, where i was. and then we got into what do you need? what are we doing for you? what do you think going forward? i told him i thought that the federal government, the state government, the county government, private donors i think should step up and buy the property and make it into a memorial park and put some sort of a plaque on there saying because of this tragedy the condominium laws were changed in florida. so this tragedy doesn't happen again. and he just asked me about -- i told him about issues with the mortgage i was having, with the homeowners, florida power and light, and he directed this one to take care of this and this one to take care of that one. it was a nice conversation. >> when you look back at it -- because you brought it up -- how did you survive,

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do the julius rosenthal partnered with booker t. washington on an essay and the 5000 roads and schools. rosenwald put up capital money, 4 million and blacks raised the other 4million and participated . that was conscious at the roosevelt schools in 1940, the education gap road within six months. if we were able to close it when our classrooms were crowded, we would have half the budgets of white schools, if we were able to accomplish this closing of the education gap in the midst of virulent racism, when racism was enshrined in law , the question is why can't we do it today in institutions run by our own people for the past 40 years with a per capita expenditure of as high as itis for education ? don't we deserve the right to have these questions at least discussed? >> it seems to me there's a paradox in what you just said because on the one hand you're very much in the school of black history in which i was socialized. i associate it with people like carter g woodson and you know, people who focused on what we've done. what we've b

steve rosenthal's condo was one unit away from where the building collapsed. he shared these pictures with cnn and spoke with us about the president's visit. >> it was fantastic. the president was fantastic. the first lady was fantastic. he gave, you know -- said his speech, talked about the grief, his son, when his son passed away and died. there must have been 200 people in that room. and he walked around and talked to every single person. as long as that person was talking to him, he listened. and i'm not embellishing this at all. if a person talked for 6 minutes, he sat there and listened for 6 minutes. it was absolutely incredible and it was very uplifting. very up pressed. >> authorities say a portion that is still standing will likely be demolished although a final decision could take weeks. >>> the miami-dade fire chief reports dangerous shifting. search teams are working in three of the nine grids at the collapse site. >> we think it is safe in the areas where we have our team. >> is it still a search and rescue operation? >> yes, sir. >> in other wor

rosenthal, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, hi, neil.y ask you, if you can kind of tell us where you were, what happened. >> okay. i was sleeping, you know, it was about 1:20, i guess a.m. in the morning and i heard the loudest thunder clap i ever heard in my life times 100. and i went, okay, you know, it's miami, it's june and you know, big storm coming. and about five seconds later, the bed began to shake. bedroom began to shake and i honestly thought i thought this is a dream and i'm in an earthquake in california and i'm ready to roll over ap you know, go back to sleep. about five seconds later, the dust from the ceiling starts falling on me an and i thought, well, this is no dream. i jump up i run through the living room to open up the sliding glass doors to see if the city of miami is on fire because i think it's just a major earthquake, and running 10,000 earthquake, you know, with my luck. this is the 10,000th year. i can't see anything, just all dust. i run to the door to open to see the hallway and i just get hit with a plume o

do the julius rosenthal partnered with booker t. washington on an essay and the 5000 roads and schools. rosenwald put up capital money, 4 million and blacks raised the other 4million and participated . that was conscious at the roosevelt schools in 1940, the education gap road within six months. if we were able to close it when our classrooms were crowded, we would have half the budgets of white schools, if we were able to accomplish this closing of the education gap in the midst of virulent racism, when racism was enshrined in law , the question is why can't we do it today in institutions run by our own people for the past 40 years with a per capita expenditure of as high as itis for education ? don't we deserve the right to have these questions at least discussed? >> it seems to me there's a paradox in what you just said because on the one hand you're very much in the school of black history in which i was socialized. i associate it with people like carter g woodson and you know, people who focused on what we've done. what we've b

with that, miss rosenthal we welcome >> you thank you, congresswoman and thanks for your leadership all over the years, ranking member gallagher and other distinguished members of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to present the findings and recommendations of the independent review commission on sexual assault in the military. i also want to recognize the leadership of secretary austin and dr. hicks and the service leaders who met with the irc and shared their views. the irc was comprised of 12 high little qualified experts from outside the department of defense, three of whom are with me today. five of the irc's members were former military commanders and two served as judge advocates. as you know the irc made 82 recommendations across four loins of effort, accountability, prevention, climate and culture and victim care and support. because leadership is at the heart of military culture and unit climate, these recommendations target leaders at all levels. for decades, as you well know, service leaders have said that there is no tolerce

for survivor rosenthal the life changing experience of surviving this is still, for him, very hard tohom. >> i can't describe it i can't -- there is no adjective. it's surreal when another level times another level. >> everything was shaking? >> everything was shaking. it was insane. that's all i can say. unless you were there, you can't understand it. you can't comprehend it. >> you really are lucky to be alive, do you think? >> it's a miracle. >> today is day 14 on the pile for these formerly search and rescue teams which are now going to be recovery teams. the number one priority right now is to help provide closure for the families of the missing. mike? >> mike: we expect an update from officials there in the next five to 10 minutes. we will take you there when they begin. phil keating live in surfside. thanks a lot. ♪ ♪ also breaking tonight, america's crime crisis. president biden met quickly today with one of mayors of america's most troubled cities chicago about the surge in deadly violence. this comes as the president visits the heartland to promote his spending agenda withou

the next one is from jerry rosenthal, um asking given the strict religious beliefs of many 18th century new englanders the records contain statements, but an illness was sent by god due to the suffers moral shortcomings, and this may be particularly interesting given apartment. yeah. well, you know, there's a change in tenor over time, but there's there is a very common kind of refrain a providential refrain trying to understand the purpose of illness what one how one's supposed to react to it and it changes over time, but this overall sense that illness can be intense a chance for self-examination for repentance and renewal to let go of things of the temporal world, you know, kind of direction the 17th century and bradstreet writes about that that god strikes in its a correction and she actually desires that she feels like she sits loose from god and being smitten in a way reminds her of what's most important, you know the drama of the soul as opposed to getting caught up in in everyday life sorts of issues. and also we have somebody like cotton mather who writes in the sort of densely

second, we will hear from chair lynn rosenthal and members of the independent review commission so they can share their recommendations. the toll of sexual assault and sexual harassment has taken on our military is devastating and incalculable. we do know the numbers, but behind the numbers are lives destroyed and scarred. since 2010, the department of defense estimates that roughly 135,000 active duty service members, 65,400 women and 69,600 men have been sexually assaulted. and about 509,000 active duty service members, 223,000 women and 286,000 men, have experienced sexual harassment. one in four servicemen and one in sixteen servicemen experience sexual harassment. one in sixteen servicewomen and one in 143 servicemen experience sexual assault. service members who do not identify as hetero sexual encompass 12% of the active component force. accounted for 43% of all sexually assaulted service members in 2018. but these women and men are not just data points on a powerpoint slide. they tell harrowing stories of sexual violence, of careless commanders, of indifferent commanders, of a s

. >> including steve rosenthal who lived in the condo 20 years before it collapsed. >> we lost everything. when he was finished he literally went to every table, talked to every person and as long as you were talking he was listening. it was amazing. it really was. >> reporter: fema says it likely be weeks before the rest of the building behind me is brought down. president biden has ordered a federal probe into what caused the collapse and also pledged to pay for the recovery efforts here, the federal government will for the first month. jericka. >> omar, thank you. >>> this morning millions of americans hit the road to get a jump start on the weekend. according to triple a more than 47 million people are expected on roads and in the sky, nearly matching pre-pandemic levels. errol barnett shows us what's in store for travelers. errol, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jericka you and everyone else hitting roads can expect lots of company. the increased demand in fuel is pushing up prices at this stakes here, an exxon prices moved up a few cents to $3.29, slightly higher than the n

that's a little unclear although some indicate that she's in talks with hollywood attorney rosenthal. in court and spears has the option of calling in just like she did last time. we have no word on whether or not that will happen, but we will certainly learn more when things get underway here in about two and half hours. jeff, thank you. britney's fight has led to protests all over the place. here in washington, they are in washington i should say. >> here in washington people are gathering at the lincoln memorial. anita vogel joins us now in the studio with all the details about this. >> i am going to be heading out to that rally in a little bit. we all know britney as the mega pop star in superstar entertainer, but behind-the-scenes she has been fighting a battle from freedom from what she calls in an abusive guardianship controlled by her father and under the eye of the courts. last month she told the judge in la she had been overly medicated, forced to perform concerts and prevented from having more children with little access to her $50 million fortune. today her supporters are

reform would have on command authority, i would point to the head of the i.r.c., the chairwoman, lynn rosenthal, who said, quote, the i.r.c. rejects the notion that by removing legal decisions from prosecution from command structure, that commanders have no role. it's simply not the case. commanders are responsible for the climate they create. they are responsible for working to prevent sexual assault and sexual harassment, and they are responsible for making sure that victims are protected when they come forward to report. so the idea that they would havn interest in solving this problem if they are not making a technical legal decision we think is simply false. the same logic extends to all serious crimes. commanders will still be responsible for setting the culture that prevents them from protecting victims, from maintaining interest in solving these problems, even if they are not making these complex, technical decisions about whether or not a case should go to trial. and in a great number of these cases that do not go forward to trial, they come back to the commander for the commander to u