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Thats the issue right now. this is an event that we have never had before. you can look at it, you can speculate how it happened, but at the end of the day, it will take us months. >> it will takes months. how do you even begin to do that? >> engineering is the way to go. and the way these buildings were built which is all the same ways. concrete piles. concrete reinforcement around the staircases and elevators, which is the spine of the building, and you can see how the building pancaked. so mo...

That. search and rescue teams race against time to find survivors in the rubble of that condo building, and one fire official is cautiously holding out hope. >> so in this type of collapse, even though it is a pancake collapse, as the slabs of concrete slide and move towards the droground, they create void. so we are hopeful that we will find patients in those spaces. >> lets bring in samantha gross, a reporter for the miami herald. and you spoke with residents yesterday who were able to escap...

Following for years the studies that have been made by the army corps of engineers about the infrastructure. a lot of times these buildings are complex environments. complex beings. theyre comprised of beams and slabs and columns and they need maintenance. and ive seen up and down the coast hundreds of buildings where you have concrete problems. if not maintained, whether its a concrete problem or a settling problem, it could be a bridge, it could be a building, it could be a dam or a sea wall. ...

That you were in it, it was a while ago, but after 9/11 those of us covering it and looking for loved ones learned quite an education about these things happening. the trade center was a unique catalyst, a unique temperature point, a unique construction point of an interior spine that it had that is all different from this situation. and yet we do not see buildings collapse like this in this country. what does that mean to you in terms of what the universe of possibility is here? >> well, for on...

Wetlands, has been sinking at a rate of 2 millimeters a year for the last three decades. that may also have impacted the building structurally. ( alarms ) >> reporter: the town of surfside requires multi-family buildings like this 136-unit property to be re-certified every 40 years. the process involves electrical and structural inspections of the foundation, beams, columns, slabs, and the roof, where work was happening. those inspections were underwayk for the building, but had not yet been com...

Life. they did hear some banging noises from beneath the debris yesterday. and they are holding out hope they might find some victims alive. the firefighter leading the rescue effort talked to cnn last night. >> so in this type of collapse, even though it is a pancake collapse, as the slabs of concrete slide and -- and move toward the ground, they do create voids, you know, as the rubble crushes and slabs of concrete land on top of it. there are, definitely, voids. so we are hopeful that we will...

♪ oh love ♪ some say this is my greatest challenge ever. ♪ making it out ♪ but ive seen centuries of this. with a companion that powers a digital world, traded with a touch. the gold standard, so to speak ;) so, in this type of collapse, even though it is a pancake collapse. as the slabs of concrete slide and -- and move towards the ground, they do create voids. you know, as the rubble crushes and slabs of cop crencrete land top of it there are definitely voids. so we are hopeful we wi...

Tapping sound. and thats going on here, as well. i mean, they are using -- theyre using all the tools that they have. >> absolutely. weve seen the dogs working. theyre -- theyre an incredible asset to our capability. we always use two methods to verify. so if a dog alerts on an area, we will still use a listening device or a search camera or, maybe, even hailing. calling out in order to -- to determine a location. but if there is any possibility, at all, which is where were at here in this colla...

To in the rubble pile listening for any sounds, tapping, voices, anything we might hear. so occasionally, we will stop all of our operations and just have everybody go silent and listen. that, in conjunction with the dogs moving about the rubble pile, constantly, as well as the listening devices. we have cameras that we can bore holes into slabs of concrete and put into other void spaces in order to see in corners and small areas, also. >> we heard from one official, earlier, talking about how t...

Rubble pile, constantly, as well as the listening devices. we have cameras that we can bore holes into slabs of concrete and put into other small-void spaces in order to see, you know, around corners and in small areas, also. >> were about a block away from this building collapse over here. you can sort of see it over my left shoulder. i am joined now by jimmy patronas, the fire marshal. you have been helping oversee rescue efforts here. thank you for your work. i mean, its been 29 1/2 hours now...