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Rescue crews worked through the night, in the rain, to search for as many as 99 people who were unaccounted for after a 12-story oceanfront condo tower partially collapsed in Surfside, just north of Miami Beach.

The state of play About half of the 130 units collapsed. The Champlain Towers South Condo is 40 years old, completed in 1981, the Miami Herald reported.

  • Much of the Champlain’s beach side sheared off for unknown reasons, pancaking into a pile of concrete and metal 30 feet high.
  • One person was confirmed dead, but officials feared that number could skyrocket, AP reported.
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Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett told CNN's Don Lemon: "We've got hundreds of people at our community center. If this is like a missing airplane, they want to know where their loved ones are."

  • "We have no problem with resources. We just have a problem with some luck — we need a little more luck."

Burkett, speaking under an umbrella as rain hindered the search, added: "In the United States, buildings just don’t fall down ... We’ve got to understand what happened here ... But today’s not the day for that. Today’s the day to try to save as many people as we can."

  • "We've got guys that ran into the building, just like in 9/11. ... They grabbed a few people ... that couldn’t walk out on their own."

This story is developing. Please check back for updates.

Transcripts show George Floyd told police "I can't breathe" over 20 times

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Newly released transcripts of bodycam footage from the Minneapolis Police Department show that George Floyd told officers he could not breathe more than 20 times in the moments leading up to his death.

Why it matters: Floyd's killing sparked a national wave of Black Lives Matter protests and an ongoing reckoning over systemic racism in the United States. The transcripts "offer one the most thorough and dramatic accounts" before Floyd's death, The New York Times writes.

The state of play: The transcripts were released as former officer Thomas Lane seeks to have the charges that he aided in Floyd's death thrown out in court, per the Times. He is one of four officers who have been charged.

  • The filings also include a 60-page transcript of an interview with Lane. He said he "felt maybe that something was going on" when asked if he believed that Floyd was having a medical emergency at the time.

What the transcripts say:

  • Floyd told the officers he was claustrophobic as they tried to get him into the squad car.
  • The transcripts also show Floyd saying, "Momma, I love you. Tell my kids I love them. I'm dead."
  • Former officer Derek Chauvin, who had his knee on Floyd's neck for over eight minutes, told Floyd, "Then stop talking, stop yelling, it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk."

Read the transcripts via DocumentCloud.