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See if i could hear something. obviously. everyone here is well aware that the longer this operation goes on the more it becomes one of recovery rather than rescue. but still there are glimmers of hope. all thirty say they pulled more than fifty people alive from thirty nine collapsed buildings across the city but while people have rallied together in adversity tuesdays earthquake has raised an uncomfortable question. how could these buildings suffer so much damage standards were supposed to hav...

Firefighters civilian volunteers theyre all here the scene at whats left of this primary school is being played out nonstop on t.v. parents agony and relief shared with the nation. states that you know my children went to school here for six years from preschool to fourth grade thank god i took them out of the school and they were saved. and. the ills. the constant flow of work is arduous and incredibly delicate finding survivors is one thing getting them out safely quite another to see a. parti...

Are organized and they keep going, maybe we wont be able to have to face any more collapses. >> were joined for the latest of whats happening across the quake zone. and meteorologist pedram javaheri joins us. there have been no more building collapses since the earthquake which is the result of no aftershocks, which is not what most people had expected. >> absolutely. its extremely rare, very unusual to see that. typically you get an aftershock of 5.0 or greater after a quake. with a 7 pbt 1 you...

Theyre already buried in the recovery for the earthquake that hit august 7. theyre always responding. its never enough and they can receive a lot of criticism. the amazing thing, and you all have been talking about this, is the response from the public here, just the amount of volunteers that have turned out. actually, theres more volunteers than they need at these sites. theyve actually told people, please dont come because most of us dont know what to do in these situations. everybody wants to...

Standing outside those school gat gates. the question is if there are survivors in there, how are they going to get to them? >> let me add one more thing. because let me just again tell you more complication to what youre seeing in that sandwiched building. when a building like that collapses, the water lines break, the power lines break. so theres live power lines. water pouring. gas lines break. so what pictures wont show you, you will be able to smell and feel and know if youre, like you said...

Sides. the troubling issues are when you have old buildings like havana is full of, and they get soaked with rain or theres flooding and when they dry out thats where the danger is because they can buckle or collapse, and most of those that died were as a result of the building collapses. a very worrying situation and we will have to wait and see what will happen here. >> patrick, thank you for the update, and we hope you and everybody there gets power as soon as possible. meanwhile, last tues...

The situation in the morning. what we are seeing is theres major trees the and obstructions in the roadways. and access around portions of the island have been diminished. but weve opened up a lot of our major corridors so that we can get rescue assets on to the island. >> hey, chief, i just want to be clear. did you say you had a wreck u, you had to conduct a rescue? >> we conducted a few rescues getting people that were inside houses, water coming into them and/or had medical issues. a couple ...

Collapses and essentially the other one engulfs it. i was briefly distracted by this tornado warning, which is in the vicinity of ft. pierce and what looks to be interstate 95 in that purple box. i dont have any other information. that just popped up as we got on the air. heres a different view. hurricane irma has been kind of warbling just a little bit. it doesnt make a beeline anywhere. it sort of does these little jogs, and well continue to see that. probably key west is going to see the eye ...

Sort of a good picture of what weve seen all of these branches and dirt have come down throughout the day. of course weve seen the images of the two cranes here in miami that have spun, including two partial collapses as well. this road where i am is biscayne bouleva boulevard. this was filled with water earlier, definitely not passable by cars. the main cars weve seen go by are the emergency response vehicles. there are situations that they do plan to respond to today. while the rain has let up...

Thats it. just, you know, i prepared this whole week, and i hope everyone else has done the same. >> sounds a little bit like pardon the expression, the calm before the storm, walk the dog, take care of your loved ones, well be thinking and watching. take care. >> hurricane irma has ravaged the kreen, leaving 23 people dead and key stroig the local island of barbuda, 95% of their island community reeffect i havely wiped out. >> the tremendous amount of roofs on homes are off. a number of homes h...