DeSantis holding out ‘hope’ for more survivors in condo collapse with 51 still missing

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held out hope Thursday that more survivors will be pulled from the rubble of a partially collapsed oceanfront condo building near Miami, where dozens of people remain unaccounted for.

“We still have hope to be able to identify additional survivors,” the Republican said in an afternoon press briefing, shortly after touring the disaster site in Surfside, just north of Miami Beach. The ocean-facing portion of the 12-story building collapsed with a thunderous roar around 1:30 a.m., leaving at least one person dead, at least 10 more injured and 51 people unaccounted for, according to officials, who noted that those 51 people weren’t all necessarily inside the building.