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The death toll in the Miami-area condo building collapse rose to 46 Wednesday after workers extricated 10 more victims from the rubble, authorities said.

Mayor Daniella Levine Cava fought back tears as she made the announcement, in English and Spanish, adding that 32 of the victims had been identified and their family members notified.

"Our commitment to this mission is deeply personal," Levine Cava said of the rescue teams that have been working around the clock for two weeks. "We are so grateful to these every-day heroes. They are superheroes."

More than 90 people remain unaccounted for, she said. Detectives were working to determine whether all the missing were actually in the Champlain Towers South building when it fell.

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This is just heartbreaking.

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Oh good grief. Why hasn't this building been condemned?

Condo building held by temporary jacks - for a year.

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One of them blocks a door from completely opening, causing a fire-code issue.

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Binx the cat, who had lived on the ninth floor of the South Florida condo building that collapsed last month, has been found safe and returned to its family, officials said Friday.

Gina Nicole Vlasek, co-founder of The Kitty Campus, posted on Facebook that a black cat resembling Binx was found near the rubble of the Surfside building Thursday night and brought to the group’s nearby facility in Miami Beach. A former Champlain Towers South resident visited The Kitty Campus on Friday and confirmed that the feline was hers, Vlasek said.

“We are so grateful to be able to help in any small way,” Vlasek wrote.

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said during a news conference Friday evening that Binx was recognized by a volunteer who had been feeding cats near the collapsed building.

“I’m glad that this small miracle could bring some light into the lives of a grieving family today and could provide a bright spot for our whole community in the midst of this terrible tragedy,” Levine Cava said.

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Hundreds of victims of the deadly collapse of a Surfside condo building could expect to see compensation in the near future, as a Miami-Dade Circuit judge Wednesday approved the planned sale of the oceanfront property, valued at more than $100 million, as well as the disbursement of millions more in insurance payments for property and personal damages.

Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman told a courtroom packed with civil attorneys that he wanted to start the process of putting the site of the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South up for sale immediately. He also wants the court-appointed receiver for its condominium association to begin disbursing millions of dollars in insurance payments to former owners of the 136-unit building.

Hanzman ruled out the possibility of converting the entire Champlain property to a memorial site because any potential sale for that purpose would not generate much money for the victims of the collapse.

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Originally posted by Steve Miller:
$100 mil for a piece of badly reclaimed swampland with a sordid history, any number of underground structures that will have to be removed, issues with the construction of the building next door, in an area prone to flooding and known to be sinking.

That's chutzpah right there!

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Originally posted by CHAS:

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Originally posted by Steve Miller:
$100 mil for a piece of badly reclaimed swampland with a sordid history, any number of underground structures that will have to be removed, issues with the construction of the building next door, in an area prone to flooding and known to be sinking.

That's chutzpah right there!

If anyone wants to buy that I can make them a better deal on some prime acres near the Mississippi River.

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Originally posted by RealPlayer:
At least there are only two stories to collapse on you.