SURFSIDE (VINnews) – A young Jewish girl who made international headlines after being mentioned by the mayor of Surfside, Florida. has met today with President Biden at his visit with family members. In a press conference on Monday, Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett spoke of the girl, who appeared to be about 11 or 12 who […]

WASHINGTON (VINnews) – A tearful and emotionally moved Rep. Debbie Wassermann Schultz, who represents the district in which the condo collapsed in Surfside, FL, delivered very moving remarks on the House floor paying tribute to the victims of the tragedy & those still missing. She also thanked the first responders for their efforts in the […]

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Dr. Benjamin Abo is collecting pieces of a puzzle from the debris of a partially collapsed Florida condominium building and getting glimpses into the lives of the people who lived there. The EMS physician arrived at the 12-story Champlain Towers South in Surfside on Thursday morning along with scores of first […]

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — President Joe Biden drew on his own experiences with grief and loss to comfort families affected by the Florida condo collapse, telling them to “never give up hope” even as the search for survivors paused early Thursday, a week after the building came down. Addressing some of the families touched by […]

US president says federal government has 'the power to pick up 100% of the cost' of search and cleanup effort following collapse of 12-story beachfront condominium

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Rescue efforts at the site of a partially collapsed Florida condominium building were halted Thursday out of concern about the stability of the remaining structure, officials said. Search crews that have been atop the pile of rubble for the last week stopped work shortly after 2 a.m., Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella […]

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday offered comfort to the grieving and federal support for the ongoing efforts to search for the missing and rebuild after last week’s collapse of a high-rise condo building along the Florida coastline. Biden, responding to what appeared to be the deadliest calamity of his young presidency, […]

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — A team of technical experts from the federal government and outside specialists are going to gather building material samples and study soil conditions in order to determine the engineering reasons behind the collapse of a South Florida condominium building, officials said Wednesday. The team assembled by the National Institute of Standards […]

10-year-old Lucia Guara and 4-year-old Emma Guara were found alongside their mother Anaely Rodriguez; number of residents unaccounted for stands at 145

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava says two additional victims have been found in the rubble of a collapsed condo building in Surfside, Florida, bringing the death toll to 18. Cava announced the information at a Wednesday evening news conference. Levine Cava says two of the victims were children. She says the […]