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Route Z, between East Rob Cook Road and East Timmons Road, is back open as of around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to county fire officials.

Route Z, between East Rob Cook Road and East Timmons Road, is back open as of around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to county fire officials.

Missouri Task Force 1 returned home to Columbia Thursday after a relief mission in Mayfield, Kentucky.

The clock here in terms of the bad weather coming later today? >> we're working against the clock all the time, both for the survivability profile, and the forecast for the bad weather. so, yeah, we're always under the gun for that. we had to shelter our folks a few times yesterday, just based on the lightning strikes and the hail and rain and that sort of stuff, just makes it impossible to move around and do it safely. >> reporter: time is running out, and there's still so much to do. doug westhoff is trying to be optimistic. >> if the space is right, if the void is big enough, these people -...

Those slabs. >> reporter: do you think they're still alive? >> i think it's unlikely. >> reporter: doug westhoff is the task force leader. >> we had people coming by, had indication they were in the store, potentially underneath those slabs. one gentleman knew that his son-in-laws and grandkids were in all likelihood in that store and he waited around all day. >> reporter: mortuary teams wait around, but search and rescue personnel still hope to find someone alive. >> the dogs are trained to search for live people who are trapped or entombed in structures exactly like this. >> reporter: this t...