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Running thin. chief correspondent live in mexico city, as one such rescue operation takes place. hi it, jonathan. >> hey, leland, we are at the site of one of those search and rescue operations right now, as i step out here, this was once a four-story textile factory. 100 women were working here when the earthquake has, and as you can see now, the search for potential survivors is going on. eight women, we are told, are reported to still be missing. so there is some hope that they could still be...

Of the people behind me. you were inquiring about the school. >> yes. tell me what the situation ended up being there? >> reporter: you guys were with me every step of the way. in the morning there was a lot of optimism. the name on everybodys lips was this girl freida sophia. every single newspaper was talking about her. we even showed stephanie the headline with a quote from this young girl saying she was hiding underneath a table. as the day went by, we started hearing less detail. we were he...

The help of the partners and the federal government. private sector partners and partners on the mainland. >> governor, quickly, are you getting all the help you need from the federal government? is the interaction going smoothly? >> very well. we are embedding many of the local entities with the federal entities. the director, the administrator of fema, brock long, literally speaks with me every day. the president aides call. the members of the cabinet, secretary of interior, i speak to him alm...

Welcome back everybody. im yasmin vossoughian. it is the bottom of the hour. we begin in mexico as rescue workers there and around the world continue to dig around the clock as they search for survivor from this weeks massive earthquake. officials say the death toll has climbed to 273 with the majority of the deaths coming from mexico city. crews are using dogs, cameras, motion detectors and heat-seeking equipment to find those who may still be alive and trapped underneath the rubble. the presid...

Quote, pay dearly for the things that he has said. this of course is very worrying for analysts in the region because it takes this rhetoric to yet another level, heading into perhaps unchartered territory, if you combine the hint from north koreas foreign minister that the next test could be of a powerful h bomb in the pacific ocean. analysts saying this is heading into an area that were not familiar with and that if that test does go through, something could go terribly wrong. china getting on...

Extraordinary. the work theyre putting forth. but in all honesty, as were approaching 80 hours out, how confident are officials that theyll still be able to find people alive? >> reporter: were going on day three and hope is diminishing, but again, when you have active rescues overnight, not only here but in other sites with that be just brings new energy and life to these rescue workers. and youre seeing it here. so its a country, remember, that also 32 years ago went through a devastating eart...

Communicate, and they got her oxygen. how is it going as they try to rescue her? >> reporter: i just talked to one rescuer removing debris, and he just finished a 36-hour shift. he described it as a roller coaster of emotions. he said the rescue workers are at a high when they hear there are signs of life and then it plummets when they discover somebody inside dead. they continue this digging through the debris and the careful removal of the debris, he explained, because of course they want to r...

They were in collapsed. that number includes will remember children. cnns reporter joins us from the seine. whats the latest there tonight? >> reporter: hi anderson, youre looking over my shoulder, that is the scene of the collapsed part of the school where rescue workers are continuing to work into the night. theres a bit of a confusing scene, theres mixed reports of whats going on inside that rubble and official reports havent come out. then were also hearing from mexican television station re...

>> now to the other national disaster, mexico following tuesdays 7.1 magnitude earth wake. death toll climbing to 230 with the government declaring three days of mourning. over 50 people have been rescued alive. search teams still digging through the rubble of a collapsed elementary school where at least 21 children last their lives. the latest from ed lavandera in mexico city. >> reporter: the frantic search for survivors here in the heart of mexico city continues. you can see the legion of vol...

City, shannon. heartbreak because so many parents still wait outside the crushed ruins of that school not knowing the fate of their children. hope because they believe they have made contact with at least one girl who is still alive. they are desperately trying to get to her. here is what it looks like at the scene. watch this. >> directly ahead of us is the collapsed school. it is a constant hive of activity here as hundreds of rescue workers continue the desperate search for children who may h...