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Morning Joe

Morning Joe 6/29/21

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

Issues, Washington, Politics, President, Campaign, Scarboro, Brezinski, News, Giest, Ms Now, Congress, Government, Election

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Officials assured residents of the Miami Beach-area condo that collapsed last week that their building was safe, despite a report that strongly indicated otherwise, while also disregarding residents' concerns that nearby construction might compromise the stability of the beachside high-rise.

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0:00.0

Good morning and welcome to Morning Joe. It is Tuesday, June 29th. We're going to get right to the news. We're looking at all angles of the surfside collapse. We're entering day six of the search for survivors in that Konda collapse in southern Florida.

0:22.0

Eleven people are now confirmed to have died while 150 people remain unaccounted for.

0:28.2

The process of sifting and digging through the massive piles of rubble is slow and painstaking,

0:34.3

but rescuers continue tirelessly to work around the clock in 12-hour shifts

0:39.8

in hopes of finding even one person alive.

0:44.6

I think every moment's critical.

0:46.7

This is why, you know, we're working 12-hour shifts.

0:49.4

State Fire Marshal Jimmy Petronus, stressing crews are using high-tech tools, scanning debris for signs of life,

0:56.8

battling tiring conditions made even tougher by Mother Nature.

1:00.6

Every time it rains, it creates challenges, lightning creates challenges, shifting in the rubble,

1:06.0

tank banks challenges. If the rubble shifts, we stop because you can't take a chance of the rubble shifting

1:11.8

and harming somebody's life below. We have people waiting and waiting and waiting for news

1:19.8

that is excruciating. We have them coping with the news that they might not have their loved ones come out alive and still hope against hope that they will.

1:33.3

They're learning that some of their loved ones will come out as body parts.

1:41.0

I mean, this is the kind of information that is just excruciating for everyone.

1:48.5

Meanwhile, in April, just two months ago, the president of the Champlain Tower South Condominium

1:53.1

Association sent a letter to residents warning their building was in desperate need of repairs.

1:58.3

The letter, which were reviewed by the Wall Street Journal,

2:06.6

urged residents to pay the $15 million in assessments needed to fix structural problems in the building. The condo board president wrote that the concrete damage to the building would, quote,

2:11.5

multiply exponentially over the years, and indeed, the observable damage, such as in the garage,

2:17.0

has gotten significantly worse over the years.

2:19.8

According to the journal, the letter was meant to explain to residents why construction projects

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