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But now you see the heap of wood left over. friends and family watched all weekend tearfully as crews carefully and delicately tore down the walls here. a demolition crew started work sunday on a florida home condemned because of a silk hole that killed one of its occupants, hundreds of spectators watch as a backhoe plunged through the roof. >> the family is very close knit. many of the family have actually lived in this house over the years, belong to the grandmother. so they have a close, personal connection. >> crews helped salvage valuables, including military medals and an american flag. ...

They are still in shock this happened in this neighborhood. i want to give you a good look at this house. you're starting to see the crews turn out around this track hoe as they will start the work to tear down the home. look back there at the debris leftover. i say debris, but there are family memories, a lot of history has that's really been destroyed. as the crews go through this house, the demolition expected to start any minute now as crews continue to tear down the house. a demolition crew started work sunday on a florida home condemned because of a sinkhole that killed one of its occupa...

Here it's like a memorial site. all weekend family and friends watched tearfully as crews carefully, delicately tore down the walls here. a demolition crew started work sunday on a florida home condemned because of a sinkhole that killed one of its occupants. hundreds of spectators watched as a backhoe plunged through the roof, ripping down cals, putting pieces of the bush family life on public display. >> the family is very close-knit. many of the family lived in the house over the years, belonged to the grandmother. and so they all have a close, personal connection. >> crews helped salvage v...

Delicate work. on either side are hopes that had to be evacuated. crews are concerned the sinkhole could continue to grow. then say the ground is too unstable for people to get too close. but jeremy bush disagrees. he believes crews should be able to do something to get his brother. >> they had a hard time pulling concrete up. he's in the ground, why couldn't you -- get that long arm, have somebody hanging from that arm, trying to dig my brother out? >> reporter: the day ended with a burial of sorts. the family gathered the memorials left by will wishers, dropping them into the claw the backho...

Day. we have had that e-mail nightmare thinking did i just hit reply all and should i send an e-mail out i'm moving to bora bora? a corporation dealing with disaster and politician caught with the wrong person, how do you deal with it and save your reputation? if you're in trouble the first call should be to the guy in the guest spot, chris lahane, master of disaster. he's co-authored a book by that name, "masters of disaster: the ten commandments of disaamage control." >> how are you? >> good, good. >> when you say, not if but when you get in trouble, you give us ten commandments to follow. w...