>> i went into the chamber with another gentleman with hard hats on. i yelled out three times, anybody there? no replies, i've done that twice ten minutes apart. i believe there's nobody in there, and if they are, they're unconscious or passed away. >> reporter: a group of people looking inside the building after the first quake when the second one hit. the outlook for them is bleak. >> actually when the shocks happened, the people up in the tower, that's full of rubble, they're probably passed away. a lot to go in, but we've got to wait until search and rescue to go inside. >> reporter: just down the road, a group of doctors from melbourne were attending a medical conference and raced to the cathedral to help. >> we're just waiting for them to clear that, you know, that there's any structural damage that would put us at harm. and once we get that okay, we'll head in and try and help some people. for the time being, we're trying to accumulate any supplies that we can. and we've taken some from the stores around, and everyone's