Brooklyn building collapse: 8 dead, dozens injured

News we're following out of Brooklyn, New York this morning as you see some live pictures right there. The number of people who've been killed in a three-story building collapse is now up to eight people. So right now there's this desperate search to find any additional victims and survivors. We are told that at least Seven children were inside the building when it collapsed, including a toddler who's since been rescued. Firefighters are digging through the rubble trying to find anybody who still might be trapped. We've got Peter Cudahy live near that collapse in Brooklyn with the latest on this search. Peter, what can you tell us? Yeah, good morning, Bob. Jen, as you know, as you mentioned before, Mayor Zoran Mamdani, he announced earlier this morning that eight people have died from the building collapse, 17 injured, as you mentioned as well. Now we're expecting to hear from him again around noon. So There could be an update to those numbers, we could be hearing more, but he really credits the fast response by FDNY yesterday, getting out here within a minute of the first 911 call to saving potentially more lives. As you mentioned before, there were children in this building, luckily none of them have died. Of the people with injuries, there are five people that we do know did have life-threatening injuries as well. Now this building that we're talking about that collapsed, on the very bottom at the street level, it was a store and above it were apartment buildings, right next to the building. That was a construction site where they were doing some excavation work, and that site has had multiple violations in the past, basically work order stoppage notes. And so now, again, the Department of Buildings has come in and stopped work there. They're going to do two comprehensive reviews, both on the building that collapsed and then also on that construction zone. But as of right now, we still don't know what caused this collapse, and first responders are here. They're doing their best to ensure that nobody is left under that building, guys. Peter, have all people been accounted for? So, in other words, is there anybody who's still missing who might have been inside that building? According to city officials, everybody has been accounted for. However, as the fire chief mentioned last night, that doesn't mean they're going to stop looking. He said that this is going to take multiple days. It's going to be a search. They're going to continue until they are sure that nobody's in there. But luckily, no, there is nobody reported missing at this time. Sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, you're saying there's no official cause yet for this collapse. And yet they do know that next door, was there an open pit, was it? Because they were doing construction and they had completely demolished. There was next door, there was a pit or something like that. And so it may have compromised the stability or the foundation of that particular apartment building. Yeah, so it's unknown if there's a correlation yet, but yes, next door they were doing construction work, they were excavating the area. It was a three story building that was being approved. So they were digging down and then they were going to eventually build a building up. But right now again, officials aren't saying that these two things are connected. However, there was construction being done next door and they are going to investigate this. As I said before, the Department of Buildings, they're looking into the history of both of the buildings and they're going to see if there is a connection there. Again, it's been Maybe like 12 hours, so it's going to take some time to figure out what the actual cause is here. But again, they have started to look into that and to investigate that. I'm just curious, how old was this building that collapsed? I mean, has it been there for a long time? Yeah, this is close to a 100-year-old building. I mean, this area in general, most of the buildings are very old here. So, yeah, it is an older building. And that's what they're concerned that the surrounding buildings as well, because there is an apartment next door, that that could possibly come down. So, really, right now, the main focus by the FDNY and first responders here is to make sure that there isn't a second collapse. Everything stays up to this point, but I mean, if you saw, you can't see it from my point of view right here, but where that other apartment building is, the entire, the framework of it is open. You can see it. Yeah, we're looking at it right now. And so those people. Yeah. So those people, obviously they. They need to go somewhere else. So the Red Cross has been here treating them basically as displaced people. And they're going to have to it's going to take a lot of work to get these people back on their feet. And then also to figure out what needs to be done with this building, whether that is inevitably tearing the rest of it down or trying to fix it somehow. Just a terrible, terrible.