The search and rescue operation looks for survivors in the debris of a collapsed apartment building in Miami, Florida.
Many of the flats were holiday properties, making it impossible to assess how many people are buried in the rubble. A local state of emergency has now been declared.
Sky’s US correspondent Martha Kelner reports.
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