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Happened. >> had there been any updates. i'm not sure what the updates could be. but what have you heard? >> we have heard officially nothing other than what is on the news. i did get a call from a reporter that let me know that they're taking dna swaps at the community center so if anybody has any family members that were involved to go down there. so when we're finished up here, that is where i'm going, to provide a dna sample but officially i have not heard anything. >> that is -- even that is hard to process i'm sure, pablo. what questions are going through your mind this morning? >> to be...

Identification purposes, san yeah. a assume that is part of the standard protocol when you're talking about i.d.'ing some of the victims that you're just talking about. >> yeah, i mean it is. and you typically think about this again for things like airplane crashes. so this magnitude, a building collapse, is something many places here in the >> it has happened around the world. you start to gather clues and talk to these families. you find out are there distinguishing characteristics? trying to find things like dna? but also even where in the building were they likely to have been? what unit n...

Buildings don't just fall down like this. especially when they're being inspected and rebuilt. so that is the hardest thing to process, how this happened without anybody, you know, knowing something or missing something. >> you've talked about how your mom had told you that she had been woke unup in her sleep the night before because some kind of creaking sounds. >> right. >> how concerned was she about that? >> she wasn't very concerned. she heard some creaking and it woke her up. and then she just didn't go back to sleep and she just kind of mentioned it. it wasn't really a concern of i'm wo...

Dave downy. thank you for being here. you might not be able to screen. we have a line of crew members, a line of rescuers, rescue workers. they're all working together with these red buckets. we can see them pulling out debris by hand, this kind of bucket line, if you will. talk to me about what that signals to you, what they are doing, why they would be focusing in on this area, if you will. >> well, what they're doing now is they're trying to, as precisely as possible, begin to delayer this collapse. and so they're going to do it with some heavy equipment, but mostly they're going to do it b...

Pancaked. that's how everyone has described it. knowing that, seeing how this came down, what are the challenges for search and rescue, specifically when a building, a 12-story building like this has pancaked? >> maintaining the safety of the rescuers and making sure there's no further collapse or injury. but specifically, the challenges that they're dealing with are trying to get some of the larger pieces of concrete moved, get some of the larger debris moved, and make sure that they're not disturbing what's laying underneath. and so it's -- it takes some time. i've learned over almost 40 yea...