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Conditions, nothing this bad. good evening to you. thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> 99 people are unaccounted for tonight. whats being done right now to find anyone who may still be trapped in this rubble? >> well, theres an established process for any type of collapse search and rescue. so early on, as we saw, those surface victims, those victims that were lightly trapped were removed. then we brought in the technical search personnel. these are highly trained, highly experienced personne...

Spoken under some other, you know, conditions, nothing this bad. good evening to you, thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> 99 people run acare unaccounr tonight. whats being done to find the people still trapped in the rubble? >> theres established process for any type of collapse search and rescue. early on, as we saw, those victims that were lightly trapped were removed, the surface victims. then we brought in the technical search personnel, highly trained, highly experienced personnel. thei...

Its one of these quick reaction teams that will travel to other parts of the country to lend their expertise. these early hours, you know better than us, are crucial, are they not? if youre going to find survivors, you need to be in there looking in-n-out, right? >> absolutely. the search and rescue begins immediately. there is a structured process of removing the surface victims, those lightly trapped. and whats happening now is theyre looking for voids. theyre doing void searches. the next par...

Day to come talk to me. we were talking at commercial break and you said as we look at the pictures on tv, it looks absolutely crazy and chaotic. you say it is organized chaos. what do you mean? >> thats correct. actually a different phase that we go through in building collapse. the first phase theyre going to do is remove all the surface victims. the victims that you can see on top of the pile, easily can be removed, very little debris removal to get to them. theyll remove them out. then the n...