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June 28, 2021

Miami condo collapse: Missing NYC woman moved to Florida for a ‘fresh start,’ friend says

A Manhattan attorney who survived a bout of COVID-19 moved to the doomed Florida condo tower this year for a “fresh start,” according to her best friend.

June 28, 2021

Miami condo collapse: Woman told husband on phone she saw pool cave in before building fell, report says

A woman missing in the deadly Florida condo building collapse called her husband as the tragedy unfolded — and said she saw a sinkhole where the pool used to be before the line went dead, according to a new report.

June 28, 2021

'WMAG': Miami mayor explains how Cuban refugees settling in South Florida made America great

On Fox Nation's new season of, "What Made America Great,” Fox News host Brian Kilmeade traveled to a Miami neighborhood called Little Havana to learn about the Cuban community that settled there, fleeing from Fidel Castro’s regime in the 1960s and becoming an economic success story.

June 27, 2021

Families of the missing visit site of Florida condo collapse

Families of the missing visited the scene of the Florida condo building collapse Sunday as rescuers kept digging through the mound of rubble and clinging to hope that someone could yet be alive somewhere under the broken concrete and twisted metal.

June 27, 2021

Developers of doomed Fla. tower were once accused of paying off officials: report

The developers of the Miami condo tower that collapsed were once accused of paying off local officials to get permits for the site — which needed $15 million in repairs just to bring it to code, a new report says.

June 27, 2021

FEMA chief in Florida to coordinate building collapse federal support efforts

The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is in south Florida on Sunday, coordinating with officials as the official death toll in the Miami-area condominium collapse rose to at least nine people, with some 152 building occupants remaining unaccounted.

June 27, 2021

Miami condo collapse: Death toll rises to 9, Surfside sister building to be probed by 'army of engineers'

The mayor of Surfside, Fla. stressed Sunday that the first priority of rescue crews is to find the some 156 building occupants who remain unaccounted for and reunite them with their families – as the cause of the 12-story building collapse remains unclear four days later and alternate housing will be provided for residents in a sister building as an "army of engineers" is set to set to begin a "top to bottom" review of its infrastructure.

June 27, 2021

Florida family gets 16 calls from grandparents who remain unaccounted for in condo collapse

As surviving family members of the collapsed Surfside condominium cling to all signs of hope, one family says it received 16 calls from a landline belonging to their grandparents who remain among the 156 unaccounted for as rescuers continue to search through debris for signs of life.

June 27, 2021

DeSantis: If Florida didn't lead fight against federal COVID overreach, US would look like Canada

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his record on handling the COVID-19 pandemic, remarking that if he did not stand up to the continued overreach by the federal government, the U.S. as a whole would be as severely locked down and economically depressed as Canada.

June 27, 2021

Florida family hopeful after missing grandmother's mementos found in condo rubble

A photo of 92-year-old Hilda Noriega with her late husband and baby and birthday cards given by her prayer-group friends just two weeks ago were found by her family among the heaps of rubble and twisted metal that was once the south wing of the Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida, north of Miami Beach.