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Pulled out alive from the ruins of a hotel where he worked. he is 24 years old, he spent the past 12 days buried under tons of bricks, concrete and wood. the ordeal left him badly dehydrated, but he escaped serious injury. shortly after the rescue, i spoke to a doctor about how jean-pierre was able to live so long without food or water. how do you survive 12 days -- most people say its pretty much impossible. >> well, the main thing, the human body can continue without food for days and weeks, b...

>> quiet. we hear somebody. >> believing they heard a faint cry, the firefighters insert a listening device into the rubble. he tells the victim to tap three times into whatever is nearby. >> they heard a very faint tapping sound, so they think shes alive. theres so much noise around its hard to tell. now theyre bringing in one of the dogs to see if the dog will pick up a sent. jasmines dog is named maverick, specially trained to pick up the smell of a living human trapped in debris. >> what hap...

Get him. why that time between they saying they thought somebody was there, and you all come to get him? >> there was a main reason why we could not go to that area, and any search rate that didnt go was not for long, it was a question of security. that area was not re-secured over the last days. now, it was possible to go. >> now we have these pictures that you all took, these exclusive pictures that are on the air right now, our viewers can see what pictures you took getting your camera into t...

Try to give them -- to give him the main action and we -- >> you pulled him out? >> so looking at the pictures it looks like, wow, he was just there, you could pull him out. but this was lots of time before you put that camera in? >> actually, it took four hours to get access to him and to pull him out. he could not get out by himself. we are to get one of our member -- >> a woman, i saw. she was small, thin, she was the only one able to get into the hole. and she was behind to push him. and the...

Is when a small sound would be heard, a faint tap, a childs cry. but this is haiti and this is real. and despite their best hopes they hear no sound of life. they break the news to minushka and the others, the search is over, they tell them. there is nobody left alive. after four days of waiting, crying and hoping to get anyone to come to her aid, she refuses to believe her daughter and her classmates are gone. the children arent dead, she says. they might be in a coma but they are alive. come b...

Because you see 12 days without food or water, most people say it is pretty much impossible. >> well, main thing is the human body can continue without food for days and weeks. but what the danger lies is not being able to drink water. everybody has minimum fluid requirements on a daily basis and an hourly basis. when youre in that kind of heat, you need more water because youre perspiring and under rubble. so what happens is in excess to water, your urine output decreases, your kidneys begin to...

Thanks for joining us. we begin with really an amazing survive of survival in haiti. about six hours ago a young man

At lant raw. top stories were following this morning. a chilling new audiotape from osama bin laden. the speaker claims responsibility for the christmas day attempt to blow up a northwest airlines flight en route to detroit. the recording also threatens more attacks on the u.s. and in haiti people are still holding out hope that other bodies, other people could be found alive. youre looking right now at images from yesterday of a 24-year-old man, a survivor after 11 days caught under the rubbl...

>> bring the dog. >> we got somebody. we got somebody. we hear somebody. >> believing they heard a faint cry the firefighters insert a listening device into the rubble. vlad is told to tell the victim to tap three times on whatever is nearby. [ speaking foreign language ] >> theyve heard a very faint tapping sound. they think she is alive. there is so much noise it is hard to tell. they are bringing in a dog to see if the dog will pick up a scent. jasmines dog is named maverick. especially train...

As the young man was taken by ambulance to a french field hospital. >> together all of the stuff, and we are very happen. its very emotion. >> reporter: a rescue probably would never have happened if it had not been for the determination of his family. his brother told me i spoke to him, i called his name, and i knew he was alive. he said he tried to get officials attention for days, but it took the help of a greek journalists to mobilize the massive rescue effort. another family member of the s...