Video grab shows resuce crew on site after a partial building collapse in Surfside near Miami Beach. "I'm praying for a miracle," Rachel Spiegel, whose mother Judy Spiegel is missing, told CNN on Friday. Hours later, early Thursday morning, a large section of the Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, a barrier island town across Biscayne Bay from the city of Miami, crumbled to the ground. The first lady's family owned a condo in the building, local media reported. It had been subject to various inspections recently due to the recertification process and the adjacent building construction, Surfside Commissioner Charles Kesl told Miami television station WPLG Local 10.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 25, 2021 23:13 UTC