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Holding out hope for a miracle. of course people here pointing to other instances people have survived upwards of two weeks or longer in collapses. but this is absolutely a search and rescue mission right now. they are not calling it recovery just yet. families meanwhile staying at nearby hotel. did reach out to get their thoughts on demolition. they were briefed prior to it taking place and many understand this was necessary step in the process to try to go deeper into the pile. as it stands ri...

About whether or not people in that crowd feel like its normal to have a company car, send kids to fancy schools, or have an apartment on the side. lets talk about the legal implications. he is saying i did all of these things, whats young with them? whats your take? >> exactly, three quarters of an admission. prosecutors would love this, normal fringe benefits. paying for grandchildrens schooling and also for someones wives car. they charged a whole fraud scheme here, not occasional collapses. ...

Over to the right and show the side of the building where the rubble is hanging off. look at how difference that could be with a tropical storm coming, fredricka, and what what could be blown out therefore and on to the rescuers below. really quickly now, i know ive got to throw back to you but we could take you in tight on where the pool collapsed. you see the deck to the right of the pool and then where it dropped about 8 feet from here. and to the right of where that dropped, it dropped again...

Sometimes all you can do is find a small, quiet corner and cry a little while and let out some of the pressure you have building up. we each have our moments of strength. we each have our moments of weakness. it is a historic effort being put forth to find any hopes of survivors. >> yes, i agree. i think we all have to be patient because the rescue teams are doing the very best they can. these people have had every obstacle thrown against them. thunderstorms, lightning, gas leaks, fires, floodin...

The idea of the people who had their finger in this, you got to help us understand what that means as i appoint of clarification. we had a forensic exappropert w looks at collapses, as a man who knows the area and suggested, without proof of this particular building, and that matter, that sometimes boards in this area would pick people because of their rates and not their expertise, and that thats something that has to be looked at with who does the inspections and who oversees that. does that r...

Everyone from joe manchin to bernie sanders on that big spending bill. so, its pretty fragile right now, democrats on both sides, the house side and the senate side, are figuring out whats the best way to message this. and whats the best way to get it written into legislation so that everybody can agree. >> andrew, if this all collapses and essentially we see not much of anything happen, who pays the price for that? >> well, the country pays the price for that, frankly. you know, democrats and r...

Is going on right behind this building we are seeing right here. the mayor pointed out yes it is a search-and-rescue operation but it is also an evidence-gathering operation right now. they are trying to piece it together so they can analyze, forensically, whats happening. one of the things some engineers who have looked at the collapse, video of the collapse, and also looked at different pictures like the ones today. told "the new york times" and "the miami herald," theyre of the mind that this...

Trapped under the rubble? lets discuss this and more with our own dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, you were here the other day. youve covered these sorts of disasters around the world, haiti, pakistan, nepal. what factors are at play if there are people trapped and as we know, 150 wonderful, wonderful people. they were just in the building in the middle of the night. 150 people are still unaccounted for. >> right. wolf, well, i mean, its tough to talk about. and youre seeing it with your own eyes. peop...

Still be alive in there. that has happened in some collapses like this, and as some of the rescuers have said, they are taking just as seriously the j job of retrieving those who did not make it, john. >> tom foreman, as always, thank you so much. this is so helpful. understanding whats going on there, really appreciate it. so many skilled rescuers working as hard as they can to find life in this debris. joining me now is ricardo iseman, vice president of kedina international, brought v voluntee...

Toll. ive been part of collapses due to this corrosion and people by ignorance or they kick the can down the road because these repairs are expensive. these kind of things happen. i have seen collapses. of course, not nearly as big as something like this. ive seen collapses on floors, on single columns and things like that. but when you have this kind of spawling and you have one beam or main column give the rest of the building can come down because everything is tied into everything else. and,...