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There are secondary collapses that can happen and, yeah, it is a very hard job indeed. ok, so it is a technical collapse. you have already highlighted issues of weight there. what would be their first priorities, then? well, they will have already assessed the scene, in terms of utilities, making it safe from that point of view, looking at go and no—go areas, even assessing initial signs of places where voids might be. it was 1am in the morning, most people would have probably been in bed. in ...

Stories. thats the hope versus honesty kind of thing. but balancing it with the risk that these search and rescue guys are putting themselves into, as well. as you mentioned, debris falling on them. when you start to learn about engineering, i hadnt realized that theres different kinds of collapses. theres pancake collapse, which is what this is, but apparently, for some who have been really examining the video of the collapse, theres a whole variety of -- theres a v-shaped collapse, theres diff...

Democratic party, as well. monica alba, susan del percio, juanita tolliver, thank you all. appreciate it. up next, the step the mayor of miami-dade, florida, is taking to prevent similar collapses to the one in surfside with a rescue mission is still undergoing. four people are confirmed dead. 159, still, unaccounted for. we are live at the scene, on the other side of this break. we will be right back. . yep. the american cancer society recommends screening starting at age 45, instead of 50, s...

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Missing. theres a news conference in less than an hour. well be taking that news conference live to get the latest, perhaps more information on those missing. there is a massive search and rescue effort under way underneath the area of collapse. and kerry, walter isaacson is one of the guests for this hour and he joins us now and has a question for you. >> kerry, thats a great report and you talked about how great the rescue teams are. i was wondering what type of new technologies after 9/11, af...

Responders plot out and execute a response to something that just has this sort of, i mean, the scale of the destruction is just unfathomable. >> unfortunately the team was built to respond to earthquakes where you have structural failures. both of these teams were teams that we supported and deployed them to haiti to do rescues there. so, part of the whole idea of how the urban search and rescue teams was for structural collapses and built for earthquakes. but the reality has been they have bee...

With before. and they are trained to deal with these -- these problems. and work through the problems. >> chief, when you say you have never seen a building collapse, in this way. can you -- can you elaborate? >> i -- i, like the rest of the folks in my profession, are going to be very interested in the research that comes in the aftermath of this to help us understand how this building collapsed. ive watched, over and over again, the security footage. and it just amazes me, how this building co...

Is resting on top of something which is not secure which is resting on something else which is not so secure. what are you doing to make sure these teams are okay, and just how dangerous is it for these first responders? >> its certainly a dangerous situation. the rescuers, you know, assess the risk. they rely heavily on their training, their experience, and these structural engineers who are very experienced in these types of structural collapses. theyre the ones that are going to tell us its a...

Dangerous, the risk is measured and they are taking that risk because they are still in life safety mode. >> bill: we heard the press conference 90 minutes ago. i thought a very intriguing question about the sounds and tapping that has been heard over the past 24 hours or so. can you help explain to our audience what that indicates, whether its a sign of life or whether its the rubble moving or the steel twisting beneath? >> the reality is it could be either and in my experience in these types o...

Victims to survive. and thats why these rescuers are risking so much, and working so diligently in order to effect live rescue. >> and, michael, i think we have you now. you are a certified emergency manager. you have seen collapses, before. in terms of the danger for the -- the first responders. and the -- the actual search that -- that is underway. how active can that search really be? when the concern of -- in -- in a collapse like this is -- i mean, at this stage, would they even be able to ...