conscious, he was talking. nbc s miguel almaguer was there for dramatic rescue. miguel? jose good morning. this is why search teams from all across the globe have been pouring into this region. what they call a miracle rescue something the entire city is rallying around. this is where the cry for help came from buried deep beneath this massive pit of twisted concrete and metal a teenager s withering voice finally heard by search teams. he s been here five days say locals trapped inside a hotel. a los angeles county urban rescue squad a lock away with search dogs when they get the call and scramble to assist. the rescue is fraught with danger. right now he s got corrugated steel on top of him. reporter: buildings everywhere here reason r on the brink of collapse. search teams will risk lives to save one. is six perilous hours into the rescue, this is the moment that would rally the region the
battlements hand made, made out of fences and whatever people could find. tires, corrugated steel, pieces of wood. whatever garbage bags, whatever they could find. and they re just piled up. you can probably see some behind me. but there are just layers of these very primitive defenses, effective against the riot police more than a week and a half ago, but very primitive. and it s just an extra ordinary scene. you have people camped out, huddled by fires, protesters who refuse to leave the square. boxes of empty beer bottles ready to be made into molotov cocktails if violence once again breaks out. i ve been to a lot of front lines. it reminds me a little bit of sarajevo back in the early 90s where you had residents trying to stop snipers in the hills from firing mar tore mortars ie
and this is just one of dozens of shrines all throughout independence square, if not hundreds of shrines. there s an enormous barricade here. you may not be able to see it in the darkness, a barricade made out of tires, out of corrugated steel, fences, sandbags, whatever people could get. it was a barricade used against riot police a little more than a week and a half ago when some of the fiercest fighting took place. this is just the first line of defense on this street heading into independence square. there s about five or six levels of barricades going into the square. this is on all the streets that feed into independence square. as you know, thousands of russian troops now occupy crimea in the southeast of this country, a peninsula in southern ukraine. this occupation taking place on land and in the sea as well with russian warships today clocking the narrow kerch strait between crimea and russia. but russian president, vladimir putin, gave a press conference