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Stable. we have people standing upstairs that need to be evacuated. i see many people on the balconies. the building is gone. there is no elevators. there is nothing. i mean, it almost resembles the trade center. >> there you go. rescue teams looking for clues in the rubble to where the bedrooms might be assuming that residents would have been sleeping at the time of that collapse. theyre looking for carpet since the bedrooms were carpeted. they are also finding personal items in that rubble. >>...

Here. thats really the kind of way it went down. while we figured what the next steps were, the fire department was excellent. they were there probably within 2 minutes. and i saw their lights coming, and i went out onto the balcony, which in hindsight i dont know was the smartest decision. but i called down to them and asked them if we needed to evacuate. and they said that to get out of there as soon as possible. so we grabbed minimal items that we could, our phones, our wallets, chargers, a c...

That site. more than 800 responders from 60 agencies assisting with the search for any sign of the 149 people still unaccounted for as the death toll rises to 12 tonight. dispatch audio coming out of a first responder, a first responder, not the first responder arriving on the scene. in the initial chaos after the collapse. people still standing on balconies begging for help. the first responder saying "it almost resembles the trade center." >> we have a 13-story building with most of the buildi...

Balconies. the building is gone. theres no elevators. it almost resembles the trade center. >> any second now officials are scheduled to give an update on the search and rescue efforts. so far 11 people dead and 150 missing and nobody has been pulled alive from the rubble since thursday. nbcs antonia hilton is on the ground. i was listening earlier and you spoke to a volunteer that is searching for survivors and described the scene so vividly as the gates of hell. tell us about the folks you hav...

I couldnt see anything outside. i got my cell phone and called my friend and neighbor dick. there was no answer. i called my brother fred, the call went to his voice mail. i ran through my apartment and out to the hallway, i looked left to the north end of the building, a concrete column had pierced the hallway from floor to ceiling, and i looked at the elevators and the shafts were exposed and the doors were gone. i knocked on several neighbors doors, no answer. i run to the exit, open the door...

January 6th? the right would have lost their minds. and yet thats what 21 house republicans did earlier this month. or if aoc had refused to shake the hand of a capitol police officer who approached her in an elevator. can you imagine the attacks shed have gotten? and yet thats what gop congressman andrew clyde did when officer michael fanone, who was beaten and electroshocked by the pro-trump mob at the capitol on 1/6 approached him on an elevator earlier this month. >> i asked him if he was go...

Inside the structure that was still standing, a race to escape. >> all i was thinking was, we need to get out of here before this building completely comes down on us. >> looked to the left and the apartment is half sheered off and i looked right ahead which is where the elevators are supposed to be, just two empty elevator shafts. >> reporter: told the miami herald his wife, casandra, was speaking frantly about the condo building shaking right before the collapse. according to the paper, she to...

A few minutes later, the fire department showed up. it was -- the response was incredibly quick. i walked out onto the balcony and yelled down to them to ask whether we needed to evacuate. they said we need to evacuate as quick as possible. so at that moment we grabbed our phones, wallets, keys, and went to open the front door. when we opened the front door, thats when we really were made aware of the devastation to the building. i looked to the left, and the apartment is half sheared off. i loo...

So thats why we initially looked left, hoping the exit was there, realized, we really need to get out. and we looked to our right. the elevator was gone. and the stairs are right next to it. but he opens the door and we realized that the stairs are also compromised. and -- >> the wall is missing. >> theres like open air stair now. >> so everything that was attached to the side on the elevators is gone. some floors have the wall, some floors dont. so now were -- its just a mad dash to get down. >...

Thats the issue right now. this is an event that we have never had before. you can look at it, you can speculate how it happened, but at the end of the day, it will take us months. >> it will takes months. how do you even begin to do that? >> engineering is the way to go. and the way these buildings were built which is all the same ways. concrete piles. concrete reinforcement around the staircases and elevators, which is the spine of the building, and you can see how the building pancaked. so mo...