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Happened. >> had there been any updates. im not sure what the updates could be. but what have you heard? >> we have heard officially nothing other than what is on the news. i did get a call from a reporter that let me know that theyre taking dna swaps at the community center so if anybody has any family members that were involved to go down there. so when were finished up here, that is where im going, to provide a dna sample but officially i have not heard anything. >> that is -- even that is ha...

Identification purposes, san yeah. a assume that is part of the standard protocol when youre talking about i.d.ing some of the victims that youre just talking about. >> yeah, i mean it is. and you typically think about this again for things like airplane crashes. so this magnitude, a building collapse, is something many places here in the >> it has happened around the world. you start to gather clues and talk to these families. you find out are there distinguishing characteristics? trying to fin...

Buildings dont just fall down like this. especially when theyre being inspected and rebuilt. so that is the hardest thing to process, how this happened without anybody, you know, knowing something or missing something. >> youve talked about how your mom had told you that she had been woke unup in her sleep the night before because some kind of creaking sounds. >> right. >> how concerned was she about that? >> she wasnt very concerned. she heard some creaking and it woke her up. and then she just...

Dave downy. thank you for being here. you might not be able to screen. we have a line of crew members, a line of rescuers, rescue workers. theyre all working together with these red buckets. we can see them pulling out debris by hand, this kind of bucket line, if you will. talk to me about what that signals to you, what they are doing, why they would be focusing in on this area, if you will. >> well, what theyre doing now is theyre trying to, as precisely as possible, begin to delayer this colla...

Pancaked. thats how everyone has described it. knowing that, seeing how this came down, what are the challenges for search and rescue, specifically when a building, a 12-story building like this has pancaked? >> maintaining the safety of the rescuers and making sure theres no further collapse or injury. but specifically, the challenges that theyre dealing with are trying to get some of the larger pieces of concrete moved, get some of the larger debris moved, and make sure that theyre not disturb...

Leading this investigation even though there are three committees involved -- says you may not even call the whistleblower to testify. as a matter of basic fairness, shouldnt republicans, shouldnt the president get a chance to at least hear and even to confront the accuser who set all of this this in motion? >> the whistleblowers not the accuser. the whistleblower pulled the fire alarm, first responders show ised up, they saw flames, smoke, a collapsing building and the president holding a gas, ...

Leading this investigation even though there are three committees involved -- says you may not even call the whistleblower to testify. as a matter of basic fairness, shouldnt republicans, shouldnt the president get a chance to at least hear and even to confront the accuser who set all of this this in motion? >> the whistleblowers not the accuser. the whistleblower pulled the fire alarm, first responders show ised up, they saw flames, smoke, a collapsing building and the president holding a gas, ...

Leading this investigation even though there are three committees involved -- says you may not even call the whistleblower to testify. as a matter of basic fairness, shouldnt republicans, shouldnt the president get a chance to at least hear and even to confront the accuser who set all of this this in motion? >> the whistleblowers not the accuser. the whistleblower pulled the fire alarm, first responders show ised up, they saw flames, smoke, a collapsing building and the president holding a gas, ...

Evacuated and theyre saying its collapsing so fast they dont know if they will get to all the rooms. >> reporter: maggie on vacation with a friend and three toddlers escaped the collapsing building with little time to spare. >> it was a near-death experience. >> reporter: maggie and everyone else in the building were able to escape because a security guard went running through the halls ordering more than 100 people out. >> there was people sleeping. i literally had to wake them up and tell them...

Frame, where doing things back then would have helped. i mean, then youve got this quote from energy secretary stephen chu, which is we need to raise gas prices back in 2008. republicans are going to use that again and again and again until november. jon: all right. so its not over yet. well keep an eye on it. >> definitely not over. jon: steven hayes, thank you. >> thanks jon. jenna: we have breaking news for you, its not clear if this was a building that collapsed or something else. theyre cal...