28 Confirmed Dead; Search Resumes after rest of Building Demolished

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

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🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Search crews are finding more bodies in Surfside, Florida following the demolition of the collapsed condo. On Monday, 4 more bodies were discovered. The Mayor of Miami-Dade County, Daniella Levine Cava says the demolition of remaining building went "as exactly as planned." Tropical Storm Elsa nears Florida. A tropical storm warning has been extended up Florida's Gulf Coast. Check CNN.com/weather for updates. President Joe Biden says the U.S. is closer to independence from COVID-19 despite narrowly missing his 4th of July vaccination goal. Trump appears to acknowledge facts of prosecutors' criminal tax fraud case against his family business. He told a crowd in Sarasota, Florida Saturday that "every company" does "fringe benefits." Trump also mocked the prosecutors for pursuing the charges. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.6	Barclays, here for every goal. Happening now. We're standing by to speak with the Miami-Dade Mayor about the
0:38.3	condo rescue operation. Crews found more bodies in the ruins after explosives flattened the rest of the building.
0:45.6	Also tonight Americans are in the final hours of celebrating an epic July 4th holiday,
0:51.6	but experts are also warning our new freedom from COVID-19 is clouded
0:56.1	by the fast-spreading delta variant and an eye-popping new admission by former
1:00.9	President Trump, he seems to be acknowledging the central facts of the new criminal
1:05.2	tax fraud case against his company.
1:08.4	We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
1:11.8	I'm Will Flitzer. This is a Situation Room special
1:15.2	report. We begin this hour in Surfside, Florida with CNS Rosa Flores.
1:29.2	She's on the scene for us. Rosa 27 deaths have now been confirmed.
1:35.0	118 people are still missing.
1:38.0	Update our viewers on the very latest.
1:40.0	You're there.
1:48.3	Wolf, a lot of mixed emotions here after the demolition of this partial building. Look, yes, it did expand the search, but for the surviving families, it was a devastating move
1:54.4	some of them telling us that they couldn't bear to watch everything they
1:58.2	own come crashing down in a matter of moments. Tonight, thanks to the demolition Sunday of the last standing portion,
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