DEADLY BUILDING COLLAPSE, Urgent Rescue Underway After Deadly Florida Building Collapse

 

HOW THIS HAPPENED.

THE DEVASTATING MOMENT THE STUD

COLLAPSE CAPTURED ON

SURVEILLANCE VIDEO, A WING OF A

12 STORY BUILDING CRUMB BELLS.

A FEW SECONDS LATER Urgent Rescue Underway After Deadly Florida Building Collapse, ANOTHER

PORTION OF THE CONDO COMPLEX

ALSO FALLS, LEAVING A MASSIVE

PILE OF DUST AND DEBRIS.

TONIGHT, THE SCOPE OF THE

DISASTER IS OVERWHELMING, WITH

FEARS THE REST OF THE Urgent Rescue Underway After Deadly Florida Building Collapse BEACH SIDE

BUILDING MAY COME DOWN, TOO.

RESCUERS ARE URGENTLY BUT

DELICATELY COMBING THROUGH THE

RUBBLE. 

>> THEY ARE IN SEARCH AND RESCUE

MODE.

THEY ARE TRYING TO IDENTIFY

SURVIVORS.

I KNOW THEY MADE CONTACT WITH

SOME AND THEY ARE DOING

EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO SAVE

LIVES.

>> THE NIGHTMARE HAPPENING AT

1:30 IN THE MORNING, NO WARNING

FOR RESIDENTS SOUND ASLEEP.

DOZENS OF RESCUE UNITS

RESPONDING.

>> 12 OR 13 STORIES.

MOST OF THE BUILDING IS GONE.

>> STARK IMAGES SHOW THE

BUILDING BEFORE AND AFTER.

OFFICIALS SAY THERE WERE MORE

THAN 130 UNITS, AT LEAST HALF OF

THEM DESTROYED.

IN MANY OF THE CONDOS LEFT

STANDING, THE OUTSIDE WALL IS

NOW GONE.

FROM THE BEACH, YOU CAN SEE

INSIDE NOW EMPTY HOMES THAT

SURVIVORS SCRAMBLED TO FLEE IN

THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.

>> RIGHT NOW, I HAVE GOOSEBUMPS.

FEEL LIKE MY HEARTBEAT IS 100.

>> FROM A HOTEL, WITNESSES SAY

THEY COULD HEAR SCREAMS FOR

HELP.

>> THE WHOLE BUILDING HERE IS

GONE, THE WHOLE BACK SIDE OF IT. >> HAVE PEOPLE STANDING UP THERE

>> HAVE PEOPLE STANDING UP THERE

THAT NEED TO BE EVACUATED.

>> RESCUERS USING LADDERS TO

REACH BALCONIES, GETTING DOZENS

OUT OF THE BUILDING, INCLUDING

THIS YOUNG BOY PULLED FROM THE

RUBBLE.

NICHOLAS BALBOA RUSHED OVER

AFTER HEARING WHAT SOUNDED LIKE

THUNDER.

>> WE APPROACHED THE BUILDING,

BEGAN TO HEAR WHAT SOUNDED LIKE

SOMEBODY YELLING, MAKING NOISE.

>> DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT THE

NOISE WAS, WHAT THE SOUND WAS?

>> SOMEBODY SAYING HELP, HELP, I

AM OVER HERE.

THEY WERE STICKING THEIR HAND

OUT THROUGH THE RUBBLE, WAVING

THEIR ARM.

>> TAKING THIS PHOTO AFTER HE

HELPED LEAD RESCUERS TO A BOY,

TELLING FIREFIGHTERS HOW TO

REACH HIM.

>> JUST ASKING PLEASE DON'T

LEAVE ME ALONE.

DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE.

>> THERE ARE GROWING FEARS FOR

THE MISSING.

POLICE SAYING 99 PEOPLE ARE

UNACCOUNTED FOR.

ONE TELLING US OVER THE PHONE,

SHES BEEN UNABLE TO GET IN

TOUCH WITH HER PARENTS, RAY AND

MERCY.

>> IT HAS BEEN NONSTOP PHONE

CALLS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHO

IF ANY OF THE JANE OR JOHN DOES

SENT TO HOSPITALS ARE MY PARENTS.

WERE NOT GETTING ANY

INFORMATION YET. 

>> NOW SHES TRYING NOT TO THINK

OF THE WORST.

>> I CANT BELIEVE THAT THIS IS

ACTUALLY HAPPENING.

I FEEL LIKE THIS IS STUFF THAT

HAPPENS IN A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY

AND THIS IS ONE OF THE PRETTIEST

CITIES IN SOUTH FLORIDA.

>> THE GROWING MYSTERY HERE,

WHAT CAUSED SO MUCH OF THIS

MASSIVE BUILDING TO FALL TO THE

GROUND.

>> I KNOW THAT THE EFFORTS ARE

FOCUSED ON ENGINEERING, THAT WERE LOOKING AT WHAT MIGHT BE

WERE LOOKING AT WHAT MIGHT BE

CONCERNS WITH THE CONSTRUCTION

OR CONDITION OF THE BUILDING.

WE DO NOT HAVE ANY INFORMATION

AT THIS TIME TO REALLY SAY.

>> TONIGHT, WE SPOKE TO

SURF SIDES MAYOR.

>> YOU RUN A SMALL TOWN, YOU

CANT IMAGINE.

>> BUILDINGS DON'T FALL DOWN IN

AMERICA LIKE THIS, THEY DON'T. THEY FALL FOR A REASON.

THEY FALL FOR A REASON.

WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE REASON