Watch Live: Officials hold condo collapse briefing as Tropical Storm Elsa nears Florida
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Officials are holding a media briefing in Surfside on Tuesday morning as Tropical Storm Elsa nears Florida, complicating search efforts nearly two weeks after the deadly condo collapse. The death toll stands at 28 and another 117 people remained unaccounted for.
Search crews at the Champlain Towers South collapse site worked through the night while dealing with the rain bands and gusty wind from the storm. At least 80 search and rescue team members are working on the pile at any given time, rotating in 12-hour shifts. On Tuesday morning, weather concerns remained.A cybercriminal group claims it stole personal data belonging to more than 500 million Ticketmaster customers. Although the event ticketing service, owned by Live Nation Entertainment, hasn't confirmed the attack, security experts warn that it could put users of the platform at risk for a range of scams.
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.