51 People Unaccounted For In Massive Miami Condo Building Collapse

Update (1035ET): Bad news is beginning to trickle out from this morning's condo building collapse in Surfside. Earlier, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said, "brace for some bad news." 

Now Miami-Dade County Commissioner Sally Heyman told CNN that at least 50 people are unaccounted for in the building collapse. 

Axios reports 51 people are unaccounted for. Still, the numbers remain loose. 

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Update (1010 ET):  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has told the press to "brace for some bad news" following the condo building collapse in Surfside early Thursday morning. 

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Update (0950 ET): Absolutely stunning video of the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, has been posted on Twitter via "Andy Slater." 

Here's a GIF of the video, just in case the post is taken down. 

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Update (0810ET): Mayor of Surfside, Florida, the location of the condo collapse, spoke with CBS News, he said: 

"We're all just scratching our heads trying to imagine what in the world could have happened... It looks like an earthquake."

Twitter user "John Cardillo," says he spoke with "one of the first responders at the building collapse on Miami Beach/Surfside and initial working theory is a sinkhole."

Cardillo added: "Having lived down here 17 years I've heard more than a few architects and engineers express concern about this exact thing."

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Update (0714ET): An update on the beachfront condo tower collapse in the Miami-area town of Surfside via AP News says there is no word on "casualties or details of how many people lived in the building."

Authorities have said, "the entire backside of the building has collapsed." 

 

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A shocking report from Miami, Florida, early Thursday, of a condo building collapse, where at least nine people were taken to various local hospitals, according to CBS Miami. 

Miami-Dade Rescue Fire tweeted that an 80 unit condo building in a 12-story tower in the town of Surfside, part of Champlain Towers, experienced a "partial collapse." 

Reasons for the building's collapse are not yet known. 

 

Here's a skycam footage of the collapse. 

Scenes on the ground are stunning. 

Here's the video from within the building. 

... and this all plays into aging private and public buildings and infrastructure across the country are in need of serious repair. 

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