What Really Happened in the Miami Tower Collapse
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🗓️ 30 June 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The South End of the Champlain Tower's condo complex in Miami collapsed in the middle of |
| 0:09.7 | the night. There weren't tourists milling around or people lounging on the beach to witness |
| 0:15.4 | the tragedy or recorded on their phones. Days later, that means piecing together shards |
| 0:21.8 | of what happened that night. You can watch security camera footage eerily silent showing |
| 0:27.7 | the tower pan-caking down. You can listen to stun cops responding on the police scanner. |
| 0:33.6 | There's no need in a tire of buildings. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Matt and Leverton. |
| 0:40.7 | 12 and 13 stories. |
| 0:43.7 | Both of the buildings gone. We've got to make it a high average. |
| 0:48.1 | None of this makes the collapse make any more sense. Now, at some tennis courts about a block |
| 0:54.9 | away from the building, family members have been assembling their own remnants from the disaster. |
| 0:59.6 | Bits and pieces from the lives of 149 people still missing in the rubble. |
| 1:06.3 | Danny Rivera, a reporter for the local public radio station WLRN, has been there. |
| 1:12.2 | That area has really converted into a makeshift memorial. There's like a green mesh on the fence |
| 1:20.6 | and people have just been slipping flowers into it, photos of the people that are missing. |
| 1:31.5 | The first responders have been going to and some of the most heartbreaking things there |
| 1:37.0 | are some things that first responders have gathered from the debris. They've taken little |
| 1:44.3 | children's toys. There's like a wini the poo just covered in dust that they recovered |
| 1:49.3 | from the rubble and they put it there too. |
| 1:55.4 | Danny was one of the first reporters on the scene after this building came down. He's |
| 1:59.6 | been in the town of Surfside, which isn't too far from Miami Beach almost every day since. |
| 2:05.9 | Cronkling, what's still technically a search and rescue mission. When was the last time |
| 2:12.5 | they were able to pull someone alive from the rubble? Do you know? |
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