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Alive. day five, it is starting to feel like a very, very scary situation. >> yeah, i think over the weekend especially, after the sort of initial frustration from the families about not knowing exactly what was happening, they were able to see up close. they were taken as close to the site as they could get to sort of witness the search efforts themselves. and they saw the hundreds of people who are working near the pile. they saw this labyrinth of tunnels and machinery that is now working ther...

Michael david altman. at this hour 150 people still unaccounted for as hundreds of rescue workers tried to make their way through deep pockets at the site of the partial collapse. officials say a team of engineers expected to arrive late this afternoon to inspect the north and east towers to determine if there any structural issues with those buildings. that has become a top priority following the release of an inspection report in 2018, to expose the parking garage under the 12 story building w...

Was pulled from the rubble. the rescue workers are going around the clock 24 hours a day looking for crevasses, cracks. last might we went to a vigil on the beach. dozens of people from the community, family members as well and you get a sense of the range and depth of emotions are feeling, grief, sorrow. hope is the word you hear most often holding onto hope something positive will happen soon. here is what some of the folks had to say about what they were thinking and feeling. >> my sister mov...

Task is daunting. but are they themselves at risk for potential further collapse while theyre on site, on the pile? >> that was of particular concern early on. it still is, but early on, they really had no idea what they were facing, and they were going through the bottom, through these tunnels because they thought that was the best chance that they would have to find what they called voids, which are empty spaces where they might find life, and so they started at the bottom, drilling through bi...

Rescue workers themselves wouldnt be injured. we did hear today, which is a frightening thought, of one of the rescue workers kind of falling down the mound 25 feet. we were also told there were no serious injuries, but the teams travel with trauma surgeons, in large part to protect the workers because it is very dangerous, because they dont know if theres going to be a secondary collapse. and when there were those conditions of fire and thunderstorms and rain and sort of things that could desta...

>> thank you, mr. secretary. now the surfside mayor. >> good morning. i would just like to add a few things, talk about my -- i walked the site this morning and tell you what i saw. we had overnight, there were issues with some things falling off the building. the west side of the pile had to be cordoned off a little bit because it was becoming excessively dangerous to work there. what has happened is -- i understand the work continues from the sides and underneath, but that area was cordoned of...

Access to the basics. obviously air, water, and food. and then what sort of health the person was in in the first place. in terms of their own resilience. you have to take into account climate conditions, access to water from rainfall. theres lots of different factors which is why people dont put an exact sort of time stamp. but i think thats how a lot of rescue workers who include trauma surgeons and other doctors and nurses, thats how they approach this. >> yeah. we heard the israeli commander...

Amount of workers, rescue workers on the site working with cranes and taking off debris and the work continues. i attended the family meeting this morning. it was -- it was informative. the israelis had announced that they were going to be bringing in additional workers which made the families -- rescue workers, which made the families, i could tell it was more of a relief in the room. there was frustration. there was a little anger. there were some more questions about why the work has to stop ...

Challenge after challenge. starting today we are expecting thunderstorms for the rest of the week, with extended lightning. and if you look at the debris pile, youll see this is a partial collapse. there is a portion of the building still standing, so there is mangled rebar. there are large pieces of concrete that are dangling. that, of course, is a huge concern, and it was overnight. my colleague john berman asked the mayor of surfside about this and heres what he had to say. take a listen. >> ...

And they saw the hundreds of people who are working near the pile. they saw this labyrinth of tunnels and machinery that is now working there, and they were able to sort of have a private moment there to grieve. so i think that has led to officials starting to ease them into the idea as horrible as it is, that this is going to be a long, pain-staking process and what they might find are human remains but its going to be very difficult. the rescue workers i have spoken to talk about just the enor...