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- Tonight, collapsed.

The search and rescue effort in the wake

of a Florida condo's catastrophic failure.

Plus...

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- We need leaders inWashington to wake up.

- [Jenna] The worst gunviolence in over two decades.

- We have an opportunityto come together now,

as Democrats and Republicans,

as fellow Americans.

- [Jenna] The White House planto combat the surge in crime.

This as the former president'sBorder Patrol chief

is shown the door.

And at long last.

- You haven't been to the border.

- And I haven't been to Europe.

- [Jenna] Vice President Harris prepares

to see the humanitariancrisis for herself.

All this and more tonighton "Faith Nation."

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Holding out hope as rescuerscontinue their search

for survivors in Florida.

Welcome to "Faith Nation."I'm Jenna Browder.

- Good evening. I'm John Jessup.

Right now, the search and rescue effort

is heading into another night

in the wake of a catastrophic collapse

of a condominium in Miami.

- Even after dozens of rescues today,

99 people are stillunaccounted for tonight,

and South Florida is bracing for possibly

many more confirmed deathsin this horrific tragedy.

Dale Hurd has our top story.

- It happened at 1:30 this morning

as people slept in thequiet town of Surfside,

six miles north of Miami Beach.

An entire wing of a12-story beachfront condo

suddenly collapsed with a roar,

trapping residents inrubble and twisted metal.

- The northeast corridor ofthe apartment had collapsed,

approximately 55 apartment units.

- [Dale] Building resident Barry Cohen

thought it was a thunderstorm.

- We opened up the door from our apartment

and there was a hugepile of rubble and dust.

When we got to the bottom of the stairs,

we couldn't open the doorbecause the door was,

the steel had bent in the door.

- [Dale] More than 80fire and rescue units

were sent to the scene.

Drones surveyed the area.

First responders rescued oneyoung man from the rubble,

using a bucket to takepeople off their balconies.

Dozens of people werepulled from the wreckage

and heavy equipment was brought in

to help stabilize the structure.

- There's a third of the entire building

that you cannot see from the street,

but it's completely gone in theback towards the beach side.

- [Dale] Two people were taken

to a local hospital thismorning, where one died.

15 families walked out ofthe building on their own.

As many as 99 people arestill unaccounted for,

but some may not have been in the building

at the time of the collapse.

Surfside Mayor CharlesBurkett was not optimistic

that very many moresurvivors will be found.

- The problem is the buildinghas literally pancaked.

It has gone down, and I mean, there's,

there's just feet in between stories

where there were 10 feet.

- The entire structureis now considered unsafe

and residents have been taken

to a nearby recreational center

and will have to be relocated.

As for what could have caused it,

repair work was being doneon the building's roof,

but authorities have not yet said

whether that could have beena factor in the collapse.

Dale Hurd, CBN News.

- All right. Thank you, Dale.

Turning now to news herein the nation's capital.

A rarity in Washington DCthese days: compromise.

- President Biden and a group of senators

striking a deal on infrastructure.

CBN News Capitol HillCorrespondent Abigail Robertson

has more on the $1 trillion proposal.

- Well, John and Jenna, the big news today

is that they have a bipartisandeal on infrastructure

and President Biden supports it.

Now both parties agreethat they didn't get

everything that they wanted in this bill,

but with the president now onboard, lawmakers are hopeful

that it will get the 60 votesneeded to pass the Senate.

- We need physical infrastructure,

but we also need the humaninfrastructure as well.

They're a part of my overall plan.

What we agreed on todayis what we could agree on,

the physical infrastructure.

There was no agreement on the rest.

We're gonna have to do thatthrough the budget process.

And we need a fair taxsystem to pay for it all.

I'm not gonna rest until itall, both get to my desk.

- Democrats are hoping to accomplish

Biden's human infrastructure agenda

through the budget reconciliationprocess in the Senate,

which only requires 50 votes to pass.

Yet that bill could comewith a hefty price tag

that some moderate Democratsmight be hesitant to support.

President Biden, however,says he won't sign

the bipartisan infrastructure bill

unless the reconciliationbill hits his desk too.

John, Jenna.

- All right, Capitol HillCorrespondent Abigail Robertson,

thank you.

And from infrastructure to crime.

A dramatic spike in crimehas created a problem for,

a political problem,that is, for Democrats,

prompting President Bidento announce a strategy

to combat the surge across the country.

- Republicans blame the rise in crime

on Democratic leadership in big cities

and movements like Defund the Police.

National Security CorrespondentCaitlin Burke reports

on Biden's plan to confront the violence.

- 2020 was the deadliestyear for gun violence

in more than two decades.

2021 is already on track to be worse.

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- We need leaders in Washingtonto wake up to this crisis.

Wake up.

- [Caitlin] Through the firstfive months of this year,

gunfire killed more than8,000 people in the US.

That's about 54 people a day

according to the Gun Violence Archive.

- A bullet just comestraight through the window.

You know, they, are we safehome or are we safe outside?

Where are we safe at?

- [Caitlin] Chicago is one of the cities

battling a surge in gun violence,

and far too many of thevictims are children.

- You have parents reluctantto allow their little children

to go to parks, to go out and play.

You know, we've had quite a few children

who have been shot andkilled under the age of 16,

and that` just should not be.

- [Caitlin] Pastor CoreyBrooks runs a nonprofit

in Chicago focused on ending violence.

He told CBN News the situationthere has gotten so bad

it's now affecting the economy.

- In our neighborhoodalone, we had a McDonald's,

of all things, to closebecause of the violence.

We just recently had a Walgreens to close

just because of the violence.

So you have this violencein these neighborhoods

and then you have thingsclosing as a result

and people losing jobs and itbecomes even more difficult

and more stress.

- [Caitlin] The Fraternal Order of Police

released these statistics:

Homicides up by 58% in Atlanta,

533% in Portland,

shootings up by 64% in New York,

and violence against lawenforcement is also spiking.

Ambush style attacks up over70% from this time last year.

The Biden administration has a new plan

to tackle the risingtide of crime in America.

- We have an opportunityto come together now

as Democrats and Republicans,as fellow Americans

to fulfill the first responsibility

of government in our democracy,

to keep each other safe.

Enough.

- The plan includes a new campaign

to crack down on illegal gunsales while also instituting

a zero-tolerance policyfor licensed gun dealers

who violate federal gun control laws.

It also provides cities with guidelines

on how to use leftover COVID relief money

to fund efforts to combat gun violence.

And the president promotedcommunity policing,

focusing on building better relationships

between officers and their communities.

Experts are unclear

on what exactly causedthe surge in violence,

but expect it's aperfect storm of factors:

widespread unemployment,COVID stay-at-home orders,

an increase in gun sales, and a decrease

in police resources amid protests.

Caitlin Burke, CBN News.

- Caitlin.

And joining us now is Clarence Page,

Pulitzer Prize-winningsyndicated columnist

and senior member of the "ChicagoTribune," editorial board.

Clarence, it's great to haveyou with us this evening.

- Good to be with you.- We want to talk to you

about Chicago.

Chicago is on pace for800 murders in 2021.

That's even more than whatwas last year, 769 homicides.

You've been with the "ChicagoTribune" since the '70s.

Is this the worst level ofviolence that you've seen?

- I think it's the worstlevel since the '70s.

There was a big spurt ofviolence in the late '70s

when I was on the policedesk at the "Tribune."

The difference though these days,

part of the difference is healthcare.

Hospitals, emergency rooms

are able to handle gunshotvictims more efficiently

than in the olden daysand so a lot of people

are only being listed aswounded instead of dead,

which is a plus.

But it could be a little misleading

when trying to gauge year to year.

But the important thingis these kinds of trends

are very hard to predict,if not impossible.

I mean, nobody wants to havehigh crime, high violence,

high homicide rates, but it happens,

like in the '60s it happened,

then in the mid-'90s, there was suddenly

a great national crime decline after 1994.

Some attributed that to the crime bill

that Joe Biden sponsored.

Others say that, well, a lotof different factors in fact,

but now all of a sudden,in the last couple years,

it has gone back up again,

not just in Chicago, but nationally,

and that is causing a lot of consternation

and new debate as to the cause of it

and that's what Joe Bidenwas trying to tackle.

- Clarence, as you just alluded to,

the surge in crime and violentgun deaths is nothing new.

I want to ask you though,after a political cycle

in which Republicans attacked Democrats

over some in the partypushing to defund the police,

why the change of heart now?

It seems like there's a stronger tone

and a greater sense of urgency

that we didn't see or hear before.

- Well, there's no change of heart,

but you see the change of coverage.

During the campaign, you hearda lot of different voices,

some of whom wanted to defund the police.

Joe Biden never wanteddefunding of police,

and you may recall, hecaught a lot of heat

from the left wing of theparty because of that.

But nowadays, you'reseeing that cry picked up

by a lot of people.

Eric Adams in New York,a retired police officer,

led in their initial balloting for mayor,

a black Republican ina very Democratic town.

But a lot of New Yorkers arefed up with the sudden upsurge

in violent crime as well,just like people in Chicago

and around the rest of the country.

So I think Joe Biden isriding with the political tide

trying to sound tough on crime,

but not as tough as hesounded back in the early '90s

when the first crime bill was passed.

- Yeah.

Clarence, is the additional funding though

and the resources to law enforcement

from this White House too little too late?

- Well, you know,

you can't say anything is too late.

I mean, it's certainly, it would be great

if we could predict these kinds of surges

before they happen.

But I think, as far as too little,

that's the question ofthe kind of priorities.

This bill, or the packagethat Biden is proposing,

is much more aimed atthe root causes of crime.

But also, he's calling for crackdowns

on unregistered weapons, acrackdown on illegal gun dealers.

And even the NRA agreesthat we shouldn't allow

illegal gun sales.

So, Biden is trying toget a consensus here

of people on the right and the left

for various things like background checks

which had about 80%support around the country,

including gun owners, and thatsort of thing should help.

Right now in Chicago,

there's a steady flow oftraffic from out of state.

Even though they've gottough gun laws in Chicago

and nearby, a steady flowfrom next door in Indiana.

The Republican US attorney

worked with DemocraticMayor Lori Lightfoot

on cracking down on that this past year

and that's had an impact.

So that's the kind ofdirection Biden is pushing.

- Clarence, my apologiesfor stepping on you earlier.

Former President Trump claimed the mantle

of law and order during the 2020 campaign,

painting Democrats as weak on crime.

That strategy didn't workthough, with Democrats gaining

a lock on the House, theSenate, and the White House.

What about the midterms,

these upcoming midterms in 2022?

Are Democrats in danger ofvoters favoring Republicans

who promote themselves asrestoring law and order?

- Well, Democrats are in danger, period.

A remap that doesn't go their way

and the polling shows thatthey have a kind of jeopardy

that always happens with the midterms

for the party that does nothold a majority in Congress,

and that is, or I shouldsay the opposite party

from the president alwaysscores certain gains.

So the pressure is onBiden to sound tough enough

to impress the middle of the road voters

to swing in his directionwithout sounding so tough

that he alienates his own base.

- Yeah.

And we'll see what happens.

We still have a long time until 2022,

so maybe this time next yearit'll be more of an issue

and we'll see where things stand then

and voters will evaluate for themselves.

Clarence Page, thank you so much.

It's great to have you.

- Thanks, Clarence.- Thank you.

Glad to be here.

- [Jenna] And coming up,

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A roaring post-COVID economynow growing at a solid clip

in the first three months of 2021.

The first quarter saw a 6.4% growth rate,

setting the stage for what economists say

could be the strongesteconomic year on record

in some seven decades.

The news comes amid this week'sjobless claims declining now

for the second week in a row.

Weekly unemployment claimshit 411,000 last week.

That's more than the 380,000economists had expected.

The results, though positive,

underscore a stillchoppy pandemic recovery,

with a record 9.3 million job openings.

- And joining us now is GregMcBride, senior vice president

and chief financial analyst for Bankrate.

Greg, it's great to have you with us.

Let's start with a jobless claims,

now in decline for a second week in a row.

But with 9.3 million jobopenings, as John just mentioned,

there are still hundreds of thousands

of Americans out of work.

How is that possible?

- Well, you've got 9.3million job openings

and we have 14.8 million Americansthat are still collecting

some form of unemployment insurance.

There's definitely a mismatch,

whether it's availability or skills.

Everywhere you drive, you seea lot of help wanted signs.

The economy is roaring back.

That's the good news.

It's going to take a littlebit of time to close that gap.

There are job openings,

but this type of economicgrowth and the revenge spending

that we're starting to see from consumers,

that's just gonna powerthe economy even more,

I think which is goodnews for business owners.

They just need help fillingthose open positions.

- The economy, Greg, hasbeen extremely strong

in the first quarter.

Many expect it to keep growingfor the rest of the year.

I'd like to get your thoughts on that.

- Yeah, that 6.4% growth rate

for the first quarter was outstanding,

but I expect the economyis gonna accelerate

even further from there.

For the year, the economyis expected to grow

in excess of 7%.

And in particular, Ithink the second quarter

and third quarter, thoseare really gonna stand out

as the stalwarts, youknow, when we kind of

stack the quarters up against each other

at the end of the year.

This is going to be thefastest year of economic growth

probably since the early 1980s.

And we've got an economy

that is not only growing backto its pre-pandemic size,

but expected to become biggerthan it would have been

if we had not had a pandemic.

So the economy definitely roaring back

and still accelerating.

- There's a lot of talk, Greg,

about spending programshere in Washington.

We were talking aboutthe infrastructure plan,

$1 trillion, that got alot of movement today.

What effect would thesekinds of spending plans

have on the economy?

- Well, ultimately, that's gonna be good.

It's gonna be job creation.

It's just that that operateswith a pretty notable lag.

It's not something that's gonna provide

an immediate shot inthe arm to the economy.

It's probably 12, 24 months away

before you really start to seeactionable economic activity.

But nonetheless, I mean, we'll take it.

You know, the growth rate thisyear is gonna be outstanding.

Growth rate next year will be decent,

but the pace of growth is gonna slow down.

So, you know, theseadditional infrastructure

and things that create jobs,that's gonna provide a boost

at a time when we'd otherwisebe seeing a more time break

of growth in the economy.

- Well, certainly good news,

and for a lot of folks,just ready to, as you say,

use that revenge economy, if you will,

holding on to all the savingsfrom the COVID period.

So Greg, we always appreciate Bankrate

and we appreciate you comingon and sharing your insights.

- Thanks so much.

- [John] Well, when we come back,

big changes in PresidentBiden's border policy

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A shakeup in PresidentBiden's border policy.

The head of the Border Patrol is out

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- All this as the vice president

prepares to go see thecrisis firsthand tomorrow.

Senior National AffairsCorrespondent Heather Sells

has the details.

- Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott is out,

less than two years afterformer President Trump

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A longtime supporter of border walls,

he told CBN News in 2019

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- Where we've put that in place,

we were able to increase our effectiveness

from about 10% to over 95%.

- [Heather] Also Wednesday,the vice president announced

she will visit the border on Friday.

For weeks, she's takenheat from both parties

and the media for not going,even as she led efforts

to contain migration.

- You haven't been to the border.

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- [Heather] The White Housepress secretary stressed

that Harris timed her trip to coordinate

with Homeland SecuritySecretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

In early June, Harris traveledto Guatemala and Mexico

focusing on the root causes of migration

and she urged CentralAmericans to stay at home.

- Do not come.

- [Heather] Yet now, theUS is opening its doors

to potentially tens ofthousands of asylum seekers.

The Biden administrationis offering a second chance

to those forced to wait inMexico under a Trump policy

and had their asylumclaims dismissed or denied.

This comes alongside record waves

of unaccompanied migrant children,

with many fleeing violenceand extreme poverty.

- These children are looking for safety

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They've suffered in ways thatmany of us can't imagine.

- [Heather] Jose fled ElSalvador several years ago

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and start a career in law enforcement.

He credits Bethany Christian Services

for connecting him with his foster mom.

- She welcomed me at her home,

even though she didn't know who I was,

even though I was from another country.

- Former President Trumpwill visit the Texas border

with Governor Greg Abbott next week

as immigration shapes up tobe a major issue for 2022.

Heather Sells, CBN News.

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- Finally tonight, who let the cows out?

Dozens of cows escaped a slaughterhouse

in Southern California

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- And Jenna, it was captured on video,

showing at least 40 cowsroaming free for over an hour

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Cars, cows, and scooters there.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies,

with the help of experiencedranchers, rounded up the herd

and eventually loaded them on to trailers.

- Yeah, it's not very often you see 'em

in a city like L.A.

You know, more rural parts of America,

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