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This morning we thought one girl. now we think it may be five people. you just want to get in there and get them out. i assume these rescuers want to get in and get them out. look what we're looking at. you can't see the image, perhaps, but it looks painstaking. like they're building something, like they're shoring it up, as you say, to try to lift something up and get in there because it's a puzzle piece. if you take out something, a building could collapse on someone. >> yes. exactly. i mean, two really important things to understand is that the importance of survivable voids, and so when yo...

That, in and of itself, tom, tells us something. >> yeah, it does. we called it a pancake collapse over and over again. if that is not apparent what that means, all these floors, and you can see in these photographs, have pancaked on top of each other, collapsing down into a very small space, what was in a very big space. why is that particularly challenging? some of it seems sort of obvious. think about the difference here. if you had what they referred tos an a-frame collapse where some of the pillars remained upright, you have a better chance of things catching on the way. you have more sur...