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Give us a sense of what's going on there, and what it's like. >> i mean, they are moving at the same tempo they did the day it happened, and crews are working around the clock. we have added additional crews. we have over 400 search and rescue personnel at any one time. we've got six to seven squads operating. their work cycles are 12 hours a day, while they're working on the pile. they will work for 45 minutes, come off, put another team on so it's constantly moving, so the tempo is continuing. we're still actively engaged in rescue operations and doing everything that we can to find and brin...

Out week -- a week after a collapse? >> absolutely. i was the team leader in haiti. and we rescued, as you heard earlier, a -- a -- a small child eight days after the earthquake. so, that's why these rescuers continue to have hope. if void spaces can be detected, there is the possibility that people are still alive. we're not outside the window of sur survivability in this type of collapse. a pancake collapse is -- is one of the worst types of collapses you could have. as you said, the lean to where, perhaps, maybe one wall pushes out and you have the floor drop down. or a v-type collapse wher...