At least 11 dead, 150 missing as search enters day 6; U.S. officials: Afghanistan withdrawal could be completed within days; House expected to vote tomorrow on resolution to create select committee to investigate insurrection;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Families cling to hope as responders search for survivors; More than 800 responders on ground in Surfside; Biden to meet with families, visit collapse site Thursday; Prosecutors pursue grand jury investigation into collapse; Condo board warned of building decay in April 2021 letter; Engineers hunt for answers in the Surfside building collapse; Miami Herald: pool contractor saw water cracks below pool deck; Miami-Dade mayor: building audit has uncovered serious issues; U.S. officials: Afghanistan withdrawal could be completed within days; 1,000 troops could stay to assist with security; House expected to vote tomorrow on resolution to create select committee to investigate insurrection; Speaker Pelosi says she could veto GOP picks for select committee on January 6 insurrection; GOP leader McCarthy: Pelosi never talked to me about select committee on insurrection; GOP Rep. Gosar: “I have no idea” about promoted upcoming appearance with a white supremacist; Delta variant now accounts for 1 in 5 cases nationwide; L.A. county: wear masks indoors even if you’re vaccinated; 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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0:00.0	Sadness in Surfside, Florida, turning to frustration, even anger, the lead starts right now.
0:09.7	Praying for a miracle might be all that's left on day six crews are still risking their
0:14.2	own lives, and a desperate attempt to find survivors of the sudden condo collapses families,
0:19.6	curl understandably frustrated, and believe that the crews might not be moving fast enough,
0:25.1	and their upset that warning signs might have been ignored.
0:29.4	The GOP squashed a bipartisan January six commission where they nearly got everything
0:34.2	they requested, and so now instead they get Speaker Pelosi with the final say on a select
0:38.8	committee to investigate the deadly insurrection.
0:41.4	Who might be on it?
0:42.4	Plus, breakthroughs, and not in a good way, the Delta variant sounding some alarms and
0:48.8	masks in some places are now making a comeback.
0:56.8	Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin today with our national lead in the
1:00.1	new troubling details about just how badly the Surfside Florida condominium building
1:05.0	was deteriorating in the days, months, even years before it collapsed last Thursday.
1:10.4	It is now today the six day of search and rescue efforts officials in Florida have confirmed
1:15.1	at least 11 people have been found dead, 150 remain missing.
1:20.0	Today Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis said that the government will continue its search
1:24.7	until every missing victim is found, and now the state attorney for Miami-Dade County
1:29.4	is pursuing a grand jury investigation into why the building collapsed.
1:34.3	This at the same time is more photos and letters and building assessments are surfacing
1:38.7	detailing previously known cracks in the concrete, standing water, roof damage at Champlain
1:44.4	Tower South, as CNN's Drew Griffith now reports.
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