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Warning the worst is yet to come. >> reporter: that's exactly what they were telling us from the wee hours when we first got in touch. they said now is not the time to be complacent. here there are some mandatory evacuations in effect. police officers, firefighters actually went door to door in several neighborhoods last night knocking on the doors and spoke to one woman who said she got the warning from officials and having been through matthew she knew it was time to get out. in terms of what is happening on the ground, they are ready. there are a number of rescue teams who are ready and set...

Sure we can get out and get a fair assessment of the needs as well as to any quick rescues and provide information for the long-term recovery. >> carl, as a task force leader from california, you go into situations, you understand search and rescue. how big is the challenge on the ground there? >> well, we actually had an advantage, over 270 of our personnel were here post irma. we kept our assets here when maria spun up. we hunkered down with the community here. so we had great ground troops even though puerto rico did not receive the kind of damage that the u.s. virgin islands did in irma, w...

All i could hear is i thought i heard him screaming for me to help him. i couldn't do nothing. >>the investigation and the search continues this morning but mr. bush is feared dead at this point. joining us now with the latest is the assistant fire chief of miami fire rescue. and the task force leader of urban's search and rescue team joseph. joseph, thanks a lot for joining us. can you give us some sense of why this happened? >> well, down in florida, we do have certain areas that are prone to sink holes in its most basic form it occurs because we have acidic water, usually rainwater run-off ...

Aide. dennis, hen we hear this, obviously desperately searching in the rubble for a life, the president of mexico says there could be people alive in ten collapsed buildings. the earthquake was more than two days ago. how much time is left? what is the clock that rescuers are racing against. >> caller: hi, erin. thank you for having me on. i am a member of the task force leader of a task force working with u.s. agencies for international development. we were forch not to be called in this morning. we are searching a sight where we have a live hit. there's chaos after a devastation like this. s...