'There is still hope,' rescue team leader says as search enters 7th day at Florida building collapse
CNN
Rescue teams are entering their seventh day searching the rubble of a collapsed building in Surfside, Florida -- still holding out hope they will find the 149 people still unaccounted for.
"I can tell you that none of us have lost hope," said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Capt. Eddy Alarcon. "We'll march up to that pile and start hammering away and cutting away in hopes that we can find somebody... We're always praying for somebody to be alive, but at the very least it gives some closure to the families waiting to hear from their loved ones." The condo building, Champlain Towers South, partially collapsed in the middle of the night Thursday as many residents slept. Currently, 125 people have been accounted for and 12 have been confirmed dead.President Joe Biden on Sunday delivers his first commencement address of the 2024 season at Morehouse College, where the president may for the first time in months have to confront the angst that’s been percolating on college campuses nationwide toward his administration’s policies on the Israel-Hamas war.
Arab and Palestinian Americans left a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday night frustrated they did not have a clear understanding of how the Biden administration might act upon their concerns as the Israel-Hamas war devastates the civilian population in Gaza, participants told CNN.