We've got to be hopeful that we hear a lot more stories like that in the hours to come.

Anderson, thank you very much for setting the table. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to primetime.

It is now 9 p.m. in Surfside, Florida. We are in the midst of the agony of the unknown.

And all eyes should be on this situation. We haven't seen anything like this since 9-11.

Nearly 20 hours since half of a high rise building went down on top of itself.

And we are on the clock here and time is of the essence. Nearly 100 people are missing.

Age ranges varied. Families, kids, again. Authorities are still tracking down the last known location

of those 99 people who are unaccounted for. At least one person has been confirmed dead after

this event. 11 so far hurt. Look at this as a before and after just to see what we're dealing with

here. The building is 12 stories, has 136 units, 55 of them are now gone. Rescue workers are

racing to find survivors. But that doesn't mean they're going quickly. This is painstaking,

meticulous, dangerous work. They are focusing. This is in the garage there. The water is from flooding.

They say the flooding is controlled. They are working in one area specifically. Why? We're going to

find out more about that. The early word is that there aren't too many different options for them

because of what they're dealing with and what they could still deal with. Officials say they're all

in this parking garage and some on top. Okay, they're trying to tunnel in. They have sonar,

they have search dogs to help them, and there may be signs of life.

We did receive sounds, not necessarily people talking, but sounds, what sounds like people banging.

Well, not people, but sounds of a possibility of a banging.

He has to call everything because you don't want to give false hope. But that is what we've

seen in a lot of these situations. You're looking now video from inside an apartment that someone

posted on Twitter who says she lives in one of the condos on the side of the collapse. Luckily,

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