Watch Live: Officials give update on Surfside condo building collapse
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Officials are giving an update on the condo building collapse in Surfside, Florida, on Friday, a day after the death toll rose to 64. Forty of the victims have been identified, and 76 people were still unaccounted for as of Thursday, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said at a press conference.
Work at the site is now focused on recovering victims and trying to bring closures to the families of those who are missing. Dr. Christopher Valerian, medical manager for New Jersey Task Force 1, an urban search and rescue team that was deployed to the collapse site, said the Surfside collapse site isn't typical.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.