Watch Live: Officials give update on Surfside condo building collapse
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Officials in Surfside, Florida, are holding a briefing Saturday morning at approximately 10 a.m. on the condo building collapse. The confirmed death toll rose to 79 on Friday after additional victims were recovered.
Fifty-three of the victims have been identified, and another 61 people are potentially unaccounted for, said Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. Work at the site in Florida, just north of Miami Beach, is focused on recovering victims and trying to bring closure to the families of those who are missing. Crews have been searching the site for more than two weeks, and no one has been found alive in the rubble since immediately after the building crumbled.Two climbers were waiting to be rescued near the peak of Denali, a colossal mountain that towers over miles of vast tundra in southern Alaska, officials said Wednesday. Originally part of a three-person team that became stranded near the top of the mountain, the climbers put out a distress call more than 30 hours earlier suggesting they were hypothermic and unable to descend on their own, according to the National Park Service.
There's no making up for what Olympic hurdler Lashinda Demus lost on the day she finished .07 seconds behind a Russian opponent who, everyone later learned, was doping. What the American 400-meter hurdles champion will finally receive is a great day under the Eiffel Tower where she'll be presented with the gold medal she was denied 12 years ago at the London Olympics.