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The earth shake, so, michael, were going to continue monitoring this. the good news is, it really appears like the rescue operations here have resumed because they would not allow these rescue workers back on that mountain of rubble if they didnt believe that this structure was secure enough for them to return, but again the breaking news here out of mexico city is that there has been a 6.2-magnitude earthquake in southern mexico. michael? >> rosa, thanks for that report. for more now we go to c...

That rescue workers know theyre here, that the mexican government know theyre here and that they are here because they are supporting not only their efforts but hoping and praying that they will reach their loved ones alive and they will pull them from this rubble to safety. >> i think anybody watching who puts themselves in that position can say, you know what, thats exactly where i would be as well until i knew something. rosa flores, thank you so much. >> so lets now go to allison chinchar in...

Others talked to each other, soothing each others fears, waiting for rescue workers to reach them. martins leg was broken. he sat there in excruciating pain. what was going through your mind? [ spieaking spanish ] he said, i was talking to god and hoping that the rescuers -- >> reporter: martin opens his phone and shares a picture he took of himself while he was trapped. he hadnt seen it. the emotions overwhelm him. [ speaking spanish ] i imagine that you believed there was no way you were getti...

Crashing down. what was it like when the earthquake struck? it all happened to fast, she says. we didnt have time to get out. in five or six seconds the building collapsed. she says she reached for her phone and started sending these text messages to her husband. love. the roof has fallen. were trapped. i love you. i love you so much. were on the fourth floor near the emergency exit. there are four of us. and then you can see a series of phone calls that wouldnt connect. that was enough to alert...

>> reporter: ana, let me bring you up to date of the operation here. we are in mexico city. we got an update from an israeli defense force rescue team commander, there are rescue workers from four countries, the u.s., japan and israel and mexico working there over night, the mexican team recovered the body of a victim from this collapsed six story building and the israeli lieutenant colonel says there believed to be 50 or 60 people trapped inside. it is dangerous work and unfortunately, the lieu...

Above crashing down. what was it like when the earthquake struck? [ speaking spanish ] it all happened so fast, she says, we didnt have time to get out, in five or six seconds the building collapsed. diana reached for her phone and started sending text messages to her husband. love, the roof has fallen, were trapped. i love you, i love you so much. were on the fourth floor near the emergency exit, there are four of us. then you can see a series of phone calls that wouldnt connect. that was enoug...

Was once aban office building -- an office building. among the rescue workers there still hoping to find survivors is a u.s. team from the los angeles county fire department. they are a famed urban search and rescue team. they are part of what is a slew of u.s. aid coming into mexico, and the u.s. ambassador to mexico told me today that the united states remains committed to mexicos long-term recovery. listen here. >> initial response, food, water, that sort of thing, is actually overflowing in ...

I always believed i was going to get out alive, he says. finally, after 17 hours, rescue workers the pulled all of them out alive. they are now recovering in the same hospital on the same floor, but havent been able to see each other since they were rescued. they were brought together in an unexpected moment of had horror and survive. and i teach him a phrase in fwlish that he and his friends can share. we made it. we made it.. in english, we made it. >> we made it. >> ed haven dare ra, cnn, mex...

Earthquake, we saw that rescue workers rushed off the rubble and you can see that they just started going back to their rescue operations just now, but as you mentioned, this is a 6.2-magnitude earthquake that hit the state of mexico, southern mexico, and we are just northwest of that area. but very tense moments here as police and other authorities asked everybody to get to the center of the street. from talking to locals here, they told me they heard the same alert that we heard here on tuesda...

The back of the building. that the emergency exit was in the back of the building and thats where they hope that some of these people are alive and well, but christi and victor as you know, 90 hours now for the people who are trapped inside. family members have a tent city of sorts out here. theyve been here waiting, hoping for news, and a lot of them say that theyre not going to leave, because they want to make sure that the rescue workers, that the government of plaxico know that the people tr...