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Conditions, nothing this bad. good evening to you. thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> 99 people are unaccounted for tonight. what's being done right now to find anyone who may still be trapped in this rubble? >> well, there's an established process for any type of collapse search and rescue. so early on, as we saw, those surface victims, those victims that were lightly trapped were removed. then we brought in the technical search personnel. these are highly trained, highly experienced personnel. they're part of -- they're team members. they're right here locally, and they are now engaged i...

Spoken under some other, you know, conditions, nothing this bad. good evening to you, thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> 99 people run acare unaccounr tonight. what's being done to find the people still trapped in the rubble? >> there's established process for any type of collapse search and rescue. early on, as we saw, those victims that were lightly trapped were removed, the surface victims. then we brought in the technical search personnel, highly trained, highly experienced personnel. their team members, miami-dade sponsors one of the 28 national urban search and rescue teams, so they'...

It's one of these quick reaction teams that will travel to other parts of the country to lend their expertise. these early hours, you know better than us, are crucial, are they not? if you're going to find survivors, you need to be in there looking in-n-out, right? >> absolutely. the search and rescue begins immediately. there is a structured process of removing the surface victims, those lightly trapped. and what's happening now is they're looking for voids. they're doing void searches. the next part will be starting to de-layer some of the rubble to, again, uncover some void spaces if they e...

Day to come talk to me. we were talking at commercial break and you said as we look at the pictures on tv, it looks absolutely crazy and chaotic. you say it is organized chaos. what do you mean? >> that's correct. actually a different phase that we go through in building collapse. the first phase they're going to do is remove all the surface victims. the victims that you can see on top of the pile, easily can be removed, very little debris removal to get to them. they'll remove them out. then the next thing they're probably going to do is start working on getting what we call void exploration....