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Florida Rescuers Continue Condo Search as Tropical Storm Elsa Nears
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1:10Now PlayingOfficials overseeing the search at the site of the Florida condominium collapse seemed increasingly somber Tuesday about the prospects for finding anyone alive, saying they have detected no new signs of life in the rubble as the death toll climbed to 32.
With noise from power saws and backhoes in the background, crews in yellow helmets and blue jumpsuits searched the debris for a 13th day while the weather complicated their efforts.
Wind and rain from outer bands of Tropical Storm Elsa lashed the Miami area.
Search-and-rescue workers continued to look for open spaces where people might be found alive nearly two weeks after the disaster struck at the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside.
Up-close video footage and photos released Tuesday by the Miami Dade Fire Rescue Department show workers lugging pickaxes and power saws through piles of concrete from which long strips of snapped steel rebar protrude.
They are painstakingly driving shovels into the rubble and dumping debris into large buckets that are then passed down a line of fellow workers, emptied and returned; on their knees, digging with gloved hands through pulverized concrete, and lowering themselves down high rubble piles with ropes.
No one has been rescued alive since the first hours after the collapse, which struck early on June 24, when many of the building's residents were asleep.
Up to 113 people remain unaccounted for, though only 70 of those are confirmed to have been inside the building when it collapsed, Mayor Danielle Levine Cava said.
Severe weather from Elsa threatened to hinder search efforts.
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