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>> cnn's nick valencia joins us from surfside. so, nick, i know you've been talking to many of the family members and the waiting is just the most torturous part for them. what are they telling you? >> reporter: that's right, and these local officials, alisyn, have found themselves using these press conferences in many ways to speak directly to the families, which they meet with twice a day to ensure them and ensure the rest of the world what they're doing here. it is not enough, though, for a lot of these families i've been speaking to, not enough because there's no sign of life, no information that they have. the same information given, essentially, on friday is what they have to go off of today. these family and friends are becoming just anxious by the day, and as the hours tick by. it was just a short time ago that three buses we saw depart from what is the reunification center here, the hotel you see behind me, to take some family and friends to the site of the collapse, much like they did yesterday. this provided some of those