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that's the same type of aircraft and missile that shot down the chinese balloon off the coast of south carolina. one of the questions we asked at the pentagon briefing was if there was so much intelligence to gain by letting the previous balloon fly across the united states and being able to observe it, why was this one shot down so quickly especially when the senators were furious it wasn't shot down earlier. was the pentagon wbowing to political pressure. >> the decision to shoot it down before it entered into u.s. airspace, the pentagon bowing to pressure from the hill? >> we're g...

Across, not roads, but more like rivers with a few bags in their hands. Th they just grabbed a few snacks, pillows. In many cases they were carrying pets. As we talked about last night, still one of the big issues is power. 100 of the island not having power right now, only those that can get to generators, also, the first thing people still ask me is, do you have signal. People desperate to find out the condition of loved ones who they cant get to because of flooding many because of debris . And loved ones who cant get out, because of that same reason. The government has announced that fema h...

That gives us some hope and optimism that the work we're doing is meaningful and that there's the potential to still have victims alive in the rubble. >> your team has rescue dogs specifically trained to find people in the rubble who are still alive. how vital are the dogs to your operation? >> yeah, they're essential. along with the tactical search component that we have such as listening devices and search cams. so the dogs are one of the first assets we deploy on a rubble pile. we'll send one dog running over the pile to see if they alert on human scent. if they do, we'll send another dog t...

Unaccounted for. recovery efforts intense five after the crews knocked down the remainder of the building. the timetable before they find everyone is still unknown. >> we're expecting the progress to move at a faster pac with our recovery efforts, but there's a search component as well. there are certain aspects as we're going through. unfortunately we don't have an exact time frame date-wise how long this is going to take. >> families who lost loved ones were brought to the collapsed site to meet with first responders, and they held a moment of silence to honor their victims and their familie...

Hands better? >> well, they sent us down to haiti, we had a search team looking for worksites with rescue teams to follow us up. and rescue those victims. we break it up into a search component and a rescue component. as one site is being worked on, we'll have a small team out looking for other worksites for our guys, so we're not wasting any time. >> i was with your team when a woman came up to your team on a street, a mother who said her daughter was trapped and we're showing some of the video from back then. and your team spent -- i mean, just heroic hours combing through that wreckage, put...