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Be here in just a matter of hours. how does the weather, how does the rain specifically complicate this process? >> well, from the basement where they are working, obviously you already have water there so it's going to accumulate more water making their work efforts a little bit more difficult, but on top you are now making, you know, all that rubble, the rocks there a lot more slippery so their footing is going to be affected by it plus there's an added weight to it. so it has that effect on the entire rubble pile itself. plus it makes working a lot harder because obviously the rain is going...

Rubble. i can't get a look at the direct operations but i can tell you it's massive -- >> seems like we're having some technical difficulties with you, steve. are you there, do we still have you? >> reporter: do you still hear me, yasmin? >> yeah, go ahead. >> reporter: just incredible work efforts, incredible rescue efforts. we're having problems out here, obviously with the cell, and workers are pulling people from the rubble. that's what's going on right now. we'll come back as soon as we can. >> yeah, clearly, the cell service is being knocked out by the earthquake. >> and the power being ...

Are able to continue to do their job in a way that's professional and respectful, and you can see the raw emotion on everybody. we're you know, two days into this. we're going to be here for a while, and making sure that everyone is -- really capable of continuing to work in their capacity, and making sure that they are doing good work, even with heavy hearts. >> reporter: heavy hearts and doing it methodically, painstakingly slow with their progress. hoping to get back into the building this afternoon to continue recovery efforts, brianna, and they know rain is in the forecast and they're not...

It very quietly so as not to disturb the work that is going on with the towed pinger locator. >> fred, this is maybe a silly question. why not just throw the resources at this now narrowed search area? >> i just don't know how many they have available but they are pretty readily available. and if they decide to choose where to use them, they want to use them in an area where the ship's not likely to be operating because they want the environment to be as quiet as possible. so they don't want to overlap their work efforts. they want to use them together to coordinate the efforts. >> makes sense...