Queen Elizabeth II and Prince William have arrived at a west London site where community groups have gathered supplies for those affected by the tower fire disaster.
"We've seen recent changes giving the federal safety commissioner a bigger role in monitoring products, and COAG is looking into it to provide a national approach", he said.
A Department of Planning spokesperson said details of the audit were not available yet but residential buildings would be audited first.
"This is an unprecedented incident", London Fire Commissioner Dany Cotton told reporters Wednesday night. USA singer Charlie Puth has already offered his support, telling GMB: "I'm travelling back to the States on Sunday but, I mean, they were telling me backstage that [Simon Cowell] can put something together remotely".
Fire risk assessment in tower blocks was "less rigorous" since responsibility for it shifted from the fire brigade to the owner, Sian Berry, Housing Committee Chairwoman of the London Assembly, said. The number of victims is expected to grow. The number of missing people is estimated to be around 76. He said that 24 people were being treated in hospitals, including 12 in critical care.
Specialist family liaison officers are supporting 36 families. Authorities say they've examined original location of fire and there is no indication it was started deliberately Desperately trying to avoid the flames, residents threw one baby and other small children from high windows to people down on the sidewalk, witnesses said.
Commentators compared her visit to a visit Thursday by the British Prime Minister Theresa May, who was criticized for not meeting survivors.
She was also due to chair what is described as a "cross-Whitehall meeting" from Downing Street on Friday afternoon in response to the disaster.
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He told BBC's This Week: "She should have been there with the residents, which is what Jeremy Corbyn was".
In addition, London Mayor Sadiq Khan called for an interim report on the fire to be published this summer. "Families must not face the indignity of having to hand over reams of personal and financial paperwork - which majority will no longer have for obvious reasons - to the overworked and bureaucratic Legal Aid Agency", she said. "What are you going to do about it?" Authorities have not yet issued a figure and have said they genuinely don't know how many people might have died.
Dozens of protesters mounted the front steps and entered Kensington town hall.
Geoff Harris, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, said: "There is no doubt in my mind that the horrific inferno that engulfed Grenfell Tower will provide a defining moment in relation to fire safety in high rise buildings across the United Kingdom".
A "Justice for Grenfell" rally is being planned for Friday evening, with more than 1,700 people on Facebook saying they will march on Westminster.
Many blame the cladding added past year for allowing the fire to spread with frightening speed. Witnesses said the blaze tore through the high-rise's exterior cladding within minutes and seemed to offer a path for it to leap from floor to floor. Many wealthier residents have opened up their homes to tenants who fled the tower, or others who were evacuated because their flats were too close to the blaze.
The refurbishment, carried between 2015 and 2016, saw new external cladding installed on the building.
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