96th and 97th victims of Florida condo collapsed identified: "It's hard because you knew the loss was preventable"
CBSN
As the remaining rubble from the collapse of a 12-story oceanfront condominium in Surfside, Florida was cleared away, officials said 97 victims have now been identified, many of them using DNA analysis. On Wednesday, police said 24-year-old Anastasia Gromova and 58-year-old Linda March were identified.
Gromova, a Canadian from Montreal, had just been accepted to a program teaching English in Japan and was visiting the condo for one last hurrah with friend Michelle Pazos. Gromova's body was recovered three days ago and was one of the last to be identified. Her grieving family rushed from Canada after the collapse and had spent weeks in agony waiting in Miami.Rodeo star Spencer Wright and his wife are making end-of-life preparations for their 3-year-old son after he was found unconscious in a creek, a close family friend said in updates posted on social media and confirmed to CBS affiliate KUTV. The boy had been playing on his tractor before he ended up in the water and a mile downstream.
The launch of Boeing's star-crossed Starliner spacecraft on its first piloted test flight is slipping to at least June 1 to give engineers more time to assess a small-but-persistent helium leak in the capsule's propulsion system, and its potential impact across all phases of flight, NASA announced Wednesday.
Washington — As former President Donald Trump's "hush money" criminal trial in New York proceeds to closing arguments next week, the legal focus is moving south. His attorneys and longtime aide Walt Nauta appeared before Florida federal Judge Aileen Cannon, where they sparred with prosecutors during two contentious, day-long hearings on Wednesday.