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President Biden visits Florida condo collapse site

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July 1, 2021

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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visit a memorial wall covered in flowers and photos of the missing after a condo tower collapsed in Surfside, Fla.
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U.S. President Joe Biden arrives by car to visit a makeshift memorial to the scores of victims of the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South, near the remaining section of the condo building, seen back center, today in Florida.
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President Joe Biden hugs Incident Commander Mayor Daniella Levine Cava as he and first lady Jill Biden arrive to visit a memorial wall covered in flowers and photos of the missing after the Florida condo collapse today.
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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visit a memorial wall covered in flowers and photos of the missing after a condo tower collapsed in Surfside, Fla.
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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visit a memorial wall covered in flowers and photos of the missing after a condo tower collapsed in Surfside, Fla.
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U.S. President Joe Biden, center, poses for a photo with search and rescue workers after visiting a makeshift memorial to the scores of victims of the partial collapse at the Champlain Towers South condo building today.
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U.S. President Joe Biden, center, pauses to pose for a photo with gathered search and rescue workers after visiting a makeshift memorial to the scores of victims of the partial collapse at the Champlain Towers South condo building today in Surfside, Fla. President Biden drew on his own experiences with grief and loss to comfort families affected by the Florida condo collapse, telling them to "never give up hope" even as the search for survivors paused early Thursday, a week after the building came down.
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U.S. President Joe Biden, center left, is accompanied by security agents as he walks over to greet a group of search and rescue workers, after visiting a makeshift memorial to the scores of victims of the partial collapse at the Champlain Towers South condo building today.
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U.S. President Joe Biden, center right, leaves after visiting a makeshift memorial to the scores of victims of the partial collapse at the Champlain Towers South condo building today.
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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden board Air Force One at Miami International Airport in Miami today.
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President Joe Biden with first lady Jill Biden returns to the the White House in Washington today from a trip to Florida where he met with first responders and family members from condo tower in Surfside, Fla., that collapsed last week.
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President Joe Biden with first lady Jill Biden returns to the the White House in Washington today from a trip to Florida where he met with first responders and family members from condo tower in Surfside, Fla., that collapsed last week.

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