Surfside mayor: Search operation 'absolutely not a recovery effort'

Although no survivors have been found since the day of the Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside, Florida, the city's Mayor Charles Burkett is still holding out hope that some of the more than 120 people who are still missing will be rescued.

"It is absolutely not a recovery effort," Burkett told CBS News' Ed O'Keefe on Sunday's edition of Face the Nation. He said he still considers the operation a search and rescue mission, pointing to other instances in which people were found alive under collapsed buildings after longer intervals.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.