Brooklyn building collapse: All known missing persons accounted for

Eight people are dead, several others injured in that building collapse in Brooklyn. Our very own Jessica Formoso, she has been at the scene all morning. And Jessica, you've noticed in the last hour or so, we haven't really gotten direct confirmation from the FDNY at this point, but at least it looks different, what we're seeing down there in terms of what they're doing at the site of where the building collapsed. Can you sort of take us through what you're seeing this morning? Yeah, so things have definitely changed and Dan, I do have an update for you right now. My source telling me that all known missing are accounted for, but they're continuing the search out of an abundance of caution. So I just got that information from a source. Again, all known missing are accounted for, but within the last hour, we saw things shift here. You may recall our morning, I was telling you about the command post that was right over my shoulder here. That is where they were taking, when once they pulled out the bodies, they were taking them into that tent that had white draping around, and then into the medical examiner's van. That command post has since moved to the other side here behind me, but it's now, it's no longer They're kind of using it for equipment there. And then we started to see some of the fire trucks moving, leaving the scene here, and firefighters also, some of them moving as well. I'm going to step out of the way so you can take a look. I don't know if you have Sky Fox over the collapsed building there, because before, in the early hours and all last night and through the night, we did see firefighters, rescuers in there with their bare hands searching for those bodies. Thank you. But all night, and through the night and this morning, they were pulling bodies. Last night, we saw that miracle of life, really, the woman pregnant being pulled out of that rubble alive. And from what we heard from the fire commissioner, that woman and her baby, from what she knows, are okay. They are in stable condition, really. That is a miracle. But sadly, I have to tell you that that woman was living in that building in her apartment with other family members. And this morning when I got to the scene, I approached this woman who was crying. She was inconsolable. So I went up to her and I said, you know, are you okay? Are you looking for someone? And she said, yes, my two cousins are missing. So I started speaking with her and she told me she and the two cousins are relatives with the woman. She said the woman that was pulled out alive were family. And the two cousins are still missing. There are two males. One she told me was in about like 31. I'm 32 years old. All morning, no information as to whether or not they are alive or not. They have since left the scene. I've been texting with that woman asking if she has an update. Nothing yet. At some point, I believe it was in the 8 o'clock hour, an official here at the scene came over to them and she handed them... We showed them from her cell phone photos and exchanged numbers, giving them the photos of her two cousins. The last time she had contact with them was at 3 p.m., an hour before this deadly collapse, where she says they were in the apartment, in the kitchen, cooking, and then that was it. They tried to contact them several times after the collapse. She says the phone would ring and ring and ring, but after several hours... The phones would go straight to voicemail. They live here in the area as well. The woman actually lived some time in that building, in that same apartment with her family members. She had since moved out. She's been in contact with the family back in Africa, the mothers of those two cousins. They have been just devastated, heartbroken. And every time, Dan, this morning that a body was pulled, they lost it. I mean, they were clinging to each other, hugging each other. And they're just hoping for a miracle that those two cousins Are found alive at this hour, still no information about their whereabouts, but since 4:30 this morning that we arrived here on scene, we did see four bodies being pulled out. The total right now, eight are confirmed dead, 17 are injured, including seven children. We know that three firefighters suffered minor injuries and this all unfolded last yesterday afternoon at four o'clock in the afternoon. Dan, yesterday people were off, kids were off from school, parents were probably home with their kids because it was Veterans Day. So at that time, at 4 o'clock, people were inside that building, that building collapsing as you saw in that video, into that construction site there. And then half the wall of this other building right next door, as you saw in a lot of the images in here behind over my shoulder, completely gone. You can see the doors, the bedrooms, the clothing, the kitchen there. That is what's left of that apartment building, which last night what they were afraid was a secondary collapse. But they were able to stabilize that building and work throughout the night. And luckily, that building is still standing tonight. But again, this has been a very active scene all night, all morning, Dan. And the fire department, the rescuers, really doing a phenomenal job using all their resources. Even other agencies came to help. Con Edison using what they call this vac. equipment, vacuuming all the debris to help them sift through the rubble, so really just a coordinated effort and all the resources they've been using, everything they've had at hand. And NYPD also here with, we saw cadaver dogs, canine dogs, I mean, you name it. They were using it, and as I mentioned at the top, we now, according to my source, that they have accounted for all the people that they were looking for at this time, but their search continues. I'm hoping to learn a little bit more in the 12 o'clock hour if that presser does indeed happen. Jessica, we do have a piece of sound from one of the people who I believe you were speaking about earlier searching for a loved one. Let's go ahead and take a listen. Thank you. Jessica, we also spoke to the FDNY commissioner, Lillian Bonsignore, on Good Day a little earlier. She talked about sort of some of the complications in what lies ahead. Obviously, it looks like there has been an update. But let's listen to what the commissioner told us, Roseanne and I, on Good Day New York earlier this morning. This could take, you know, a day, two days, three days, depending on how we're able to operate on the scene. So I would say just know that the fire department and all the other first responders are in there trying to find your loved ones. This is a very practiced plan we have, our collapse rescue plan. We, at our technical rescue school at the fire academy on Randall's Island, all of these firefighters have practiced and drilled. With this we have a all hazards training simulator. And these are the images from a little earlier this morning where the firefighters literally were taking out part of the building piece by piece. They had the drones up and things along those lines. We're going to get into exactly what was happening there, what some of the history of the building was with Francis Wang in just a few minutes. But for now, Jessica, thank you very much for your reporting and it sounds like maybe at 11 or noon today we could get an update from the FDNY. Is that right? That is correct. We're hoping to learn more information, but I can leave you with this, that sources are telling me all known missing are accounted for at this hour. All right. Jessica Favoso, thank you very much. We do appreciate it.