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Fires, shifting materials, Twisted Steel and water up to their waist at some points. Yeah, theyre searching for people in there. Theyre searching for mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters, children. Officials say they have heard sounds from underneath the debris. They are not confirming exactly what those sounds are. They said it is very possible the debris moving, metal, concrete, et cetera. But, with that news, Family Members are doing their best to hold on to hope. There is hope. Its just dwindling by the minute. There is a certain hope in the air but it is a very strange kind of a f...

Live for that. it's devastating for all of us waiting and watching families. it's excruciating. and i agree with him, seeing it is unbelievable and that's just from the perimeter. to be on that pile and digging through the rubble, it's not just concrete, it's dust. things have been crushed because of the weight of that pancake effect. it is truly overwhelming the experience. the dogs they continue combing as well. the cameras, the sonar equipment, the cranes and we have hundred of people now taking turns on that pile. >> i want to ask you a little bit about the investigation. i spoke an eyewit...

Neighboring buildings here. this is as we are seeing now the event of multiple reasons. some people are looking at the slab of the pool area failing, others are looking at the structural damage of a slab that would fall and then create a pancake effect. at the end of the day, we will not know what the final process of events happened here until we get the final engineering reports from the forensic engineers who are looking at this, and this might take months or even up to a year to really figure out the process how this failure occurred. >> kobi, that report is going to be an autopsy after a ...

Correspondent drew griffin is working the story. i know you're finding out more information. what are you learning? >> they were major structural repairs with major price tag. anywhere with 80,000 to $330,000 per homeowner based on the size of the unit. still, there was nothing in all of those reports that seemed to indicate that this building was in imminent danger of catastrophic collapse. >> reporter: as new evidence emerges of past inspections, cracks and potential dangerer, this short surveillance camera video itself remains the best crews so far as,000 and why the towers south fell in wh...

Was moving or the building was moving into the land. but it was obviously the building itself moved. a very small portion, which is about over the measurement period of six years, is about half an inch. >> reporter: he said that sinking didn't occur in other buildings right around that complex. he said the sinking alone likely would not have caused the building to collapse. but experts say it could be associated with tension and possible cracks inside the structure. local officials say there was roof work being done on the building. they're careful to say that may not be the cause of this disa...