Engineer found structural damage years before Florida building collapsed; rescue effort continues

SURFSIDE, Florida: An engineer found evidence of major structural damage beneath the pool deck and "concrete deterioration" in the underground parking garage of a Florida 12-story condominium in a 2018 report, three years before it collapsed without warning this week as most residents slept.

Despite around-the-clock work at the site in Surfside, a shore town near Miami, search-and-rescue teams had not found any additional survivors as of Saturday morning, Miami-Dade Mayor Danielle Levine Cava told a news briefing. She urged people not to give up hope that some of the 159 people still unaccounted for might be found alive, but she acknowledged that a smoldering fire was hampering rescue teams, filling the area with smoke and frustrating firefighters' efforts to locate the source.