FOG BLOG U.S. NEWS LOG: SAD REALITY SETS IN AS BODY COUNT RISES TO 16 IN SURF SIDE CONDO COLLAPSE:

Death toll rises to 16 nearly a week after Florida condo collapse.....SURFSIDE, Fla., June 30 (Reuters) - Another four bodies were found overnight in the shattered ruins of a collapsed Miami-area condominium tower, the mayor of Miami-Dade County said on Wednesday, bringing the confirmed death toll to 16 nearly a week after the building fell.

Nobody has been pulled alive from the mounds of pulverized concrete, splintered lumber and twisted metal since the early hours of the disaster. County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told a news conference there were 147 people still unaccounted for.

Officials have said they still harbor hope of finding survivors. Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said in an interview he had promised families that rescue crews were "not leaving anyone behind."

"We've not gotten to the bottom. We don't know what's down there," he said. "We're not going to guess. We're not going to make a life-or-death decision to arbitrarily stop searching for people who may be alive in that rubble."

He said every day the rubble pile is visibly shrinking, indicating progress