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Then a whistle cuts through the air and everyone stops. total silence. this gives rescue teams crawling through the collapsed structure the chance to listen for survivors. [ whispering ] the work inside the building is treacherous. wooden pillars have been brought in to fortify whats left of the school. hector mendez is part of a volunteer brigade of rescue workers known as the moles. his team arrived an hour after the school collapsed and the 70-year-old believes more people will be pulled out ...

Alive. its not until you stabbed this close to the collapsed school building that the horrific reality of this scene sinks in. we weave our way in and around the hundred of rescue workers descended upon this school to save anyone who might be trapped inside the rubble. this is the area where crews have been working for the last 24 hours trying to pull out survivors. look at the impact here of the building, crushing that car there. you can see owl of the work rs that have been here for more than ...

Contact with a 12-year-old girl buried under the rubble at her collapsed school. there may be more. what do we know? >> reporter: chris a. sign of life. an hour ago we saw rescue workers raise their fists up in the air and that, of course, means silence. please be quiet so we can hear the signs of life and the signs of life can be followed. heres the delicate dance these rescuers are doing. they listen for the signs of life and then move the debris by hand. only a human hand can be that careful....

Children. the pile of wreckage shifted dramatically this morning. workers have been trying to prop it up with iron beams. we dont know how many sets of human remains may be underneath. a search and rescue team from los angeles in mexico to help, a photo of them here on a cargo plane. the u.s. ambassador to mexico says they have experts and tons of equipment. mexican officials say so far the quake has killed 245 people and injured more than 2,000. our chief correspondent, jonathan hunt is live at...

>> reporter: the frantic search for survivors inside that school building in the heart of mexico city continues. you can see the legion of volunteers shown up here on the streets and surrounding this school bringing all of the supplies that those rescue workers just a block away might need to get through the evening. and also hear of moments like this where they urge everybody to be quiet to rescue workers can continue to hear whats going on inside the rubble. i was up close to that ibuildin sev...

Rubble of a building just yesterday. elsewhere in mexico city, a much more grim scene is emerging. teams, wog through the night to free a young girl trapped beneath the school. 21 children and four adults killed when the building caved in during the middle of classes tuesday afternoon. joining us live from mexico city, nbc news steve patterson. bring us up-to-date for the search of that young girl and other students that may be trapped in that building. were now approaching 48 hours. its a criti...

They are not saying whether they believe those survivors are adults or children. they are simply looking for anybody who may have survived what is obviously a devastating crash of rubble here. they say they will not give up until they can be absolutely certain that there are no more survivors. and other search and rescue operations are ongoing across the city. there have been miracles. two women and a man pulled from a collapsed office building earlier today. president pena nieto says this rescu...

Yesterday 7.1 magnitude earthquake. shes correspondent jonathan hunt is in mexico city. >> bret, we are standing at one of the staging post for the hundreds of official rescue workers and the hundreds of civilian volunteers who are involved in what is a desperate operation now to find anybody who may have survived beneath the rubble of the 40 or so buildings that collapsed here in mexico city. they have gathered here. the bikes you see may look incongruous but they are often the quickest way to ...

>> shepard: hurricane maria is gaining strength as its moving across the caribbean. as puerto ricans look at the damage that the mayor of the capitol city says some places could be without power for six months. maria is bringing catastrophic flooding to puerto rico. the storm hit the island as a category four storm, 155 miles an hour sustained winds. the strongest hurricane according to the national hurricane center to hit puerto rico in more than 80 years. rescue workers today dealing with down...

Believed that there are more people alive. we believe theyre still missing at that location, at least 14 people. how many of them could be alive in that rubble is of this point anybodys guess. mexicos president has made it very clear that this remains at the moment across mexico city and other areases of mexico, a rescue operation. he says his teams of official rescue workers and the thousands of civilian volunteers we have seen will not rest until they are absolutely certain they have done ever...