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A piece of furniture or a filing cabinet. that, then, creates a void and they have to shore that. but thats the work that theyre doing to stabilize the building, as they go from areas where they can stand, to areas where they have to crawl. to areas where they have to skim around on their stomachs to make access. so, thats the shoring. another example. that rainstorm that you had come through. that creates a different load of moisture. causing that rubble pile to be, again, more impacted, additi...

So, they have all this here. when the rescue mission, sort of, started. i -- i guess they arrived right away. we are talking, again, 28 hours ago, now. so, what was the first thing, after they started to search the rubble. did they bring in fema and other organizations, here, as well, do you know? >> yes, and -- and i got to say that the members of the miami-dade fire rescue have responded to disasters around the world. so, these are very well-trained individuals that have done this, before. the...

Like this to have mixed, i guess, residence. people who live here permanently. so, families with children, senior citizens. and then, also, people have vacation homes. and/or snowbirds. its very typical of this area, and so, at any point in time, its difficult to say whos in the building. because there could be visitors that, you know, if you have a condo, you might let your friends borrow it. or your family borrow it. and so, there is no, easy way to have a list of individuals who are in the bu...

Went down was the middle buildings that face the ocean. thats the area for the reroofing. at this point, theres only been reroofing work, that i am aware, that was done. and then, the part that was still standing, i heard, is where they were going to be doing the rest of the work. >> i have been all over the world covering disasters. i was in haiti. and i remember one of the things that struck me is that building codes are just very different, in different parts of the world. in haiti, there rea...

To the extent that we can. the second problem that we have in the american working economy is that the working model for younger americans has been shifting into contracting work. part time work where people dont get medical care. they dont get retirement benefits. and thats really hurting the ability of people in the working environment to move forward. those are two issues that really need to be addressed. >> alex? >> senator, is there room in the democratic party today for jim webb? the democ...

Account is going to be an exceptionally long term project. >> absolutely, the next part is as the water does received, we start transitioning out of the search and rescue and into the life-support logistics distributions and restoring utilities so that local businesses can reestablish, open up, and start rebuilding infrastructure so that people can start to the contracting work to come back into their homes, et cetera. >> shannon: patrick hamilton, our thanks to you, all of the men and women wor...