Urgent search for 149 missing in condo disaster; 12 confirmed dead

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

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3.6 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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CNN gains access to tower in same complex as collapsed condo in Surfside Florida. Building official who said condo tower in “good shape” in 2018 on leave of absence. New class action lawsuits filed against condo association April letter from condo board president: “Concrete deterioration accelerating...roof situation much worse” --April letter from condo board president: “Observable damage has gotten significantly worse since the initial inspection”. Biden to travel to Surfside on Thursday. New dispatch audio: “The building is gone... it almost resembles the Trade Center” 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. This is CNN breaking news.
0:37.0	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
0:45.0	I'm Will Flitzer in the Situation Room.
0:46.6	We're live today in Surfside, Florida.
0:49.0	We're following breaking news.
0:51.0	We're standing by for a news conference on the urgent search for 150 people missing in the
0:57.0	collapse of the Champlain South Tower condo right here.
1:00.6	That number has not changed in 24 hours nor is the number of confirmed dead which
1:06.4	stands at 11 but new numbers potentially could be released later this hour
1:10.8	stand by for that.
1:11.8	Meanwhile crews are working around the clock despite problems,
1:15.9	complicating their efforts, including bad weather and falling debris. We're going to get the
1:20.4	latest in a moment when the Miami-Dade Bayer and the Fire Chief join me live.
1:24.7	That's coming up within the next couple of minutes.
1:27.2	We'll also go inside the complex's north tower
1:31.0	identical to the one that collapsed where our crew documented significant differences in maintenance.
1:38.0	Lots going on, but first let's go straight to CNN's Brian Todd.
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