when you mention calling out for people, i heard a fire commissioner saying they were listening and heard some voices. so what kind of technology do you have at your disposal to be able to hear? because there could be people way, way underneath. they said they were going to the basement to hear the peeps possibly. yeah, the first thing they re going to do is get firefighters in there and do those void searches and if somebody is trapped and you call out to them, they ll answer you generally, if they can. the other thing is if they re way down in a pile, there are electronic devices, both acoustic and seismic, one of them is the acoustic is just a simple microphone we can lower down into voids, find a hole that goes deep in the pile, lower it in there. if you call out, they ll be able to hear you. the seismic is a little more technical, a little more difficult to use. but what it does is any vibrations that can be picked up they ll put it in different spots around the pile and they
if you know philadelphia, this building, this massive building, four stories, collapsed. this happened right around 10:45 eastern this morning. and beneath this the wall of bricks and the debris, people may still be trapped. rescuers, you see them working in teams, gingerly moving brick by brick, to search for survivors. but as bad as this scene looks, we do have some good news that 13 others made it out alive with amazingly minor injuries. i want to go straight to the scene to cnn s sarah hoy who has been covering this as the whole thing broke. sarah, i ve been listening to your reporting and a lot of different information, if you will, with regard to how many people are still trapped. so set it straight for me. is anyone still trapped? what we re hearing is there were 13 people removed and one is still trapped. however no one can confirm exactly how many people are under that rubble.
and the good news is the building the businesses there, there was only one functioning business, it was the salvation army. and the two other ones, it was an old sandwich shop, the hoagie city that was closed down for quite a while and an adult to that was also closed down for a while. so the only functioning one was the thrift store. so it definitely minimized the amount of people in the building. minimized, but yet it was still open. and people were inside, according to eyewitnesses, when this building possibly fell the wrong way. mike adam, thank you so much for sharing your photo. we appreciate it. we will come back to this story as soon as we get more information out of philadelphia. more breaking news this hour, a short time ago, paris jackson, the 15-year-old daughter of pop icon michael jackson, was rushed to a hospital in los angeles. want to go straight to alan duke, live for us in l.a., just outside of the courthouse there
want to take you back to philadelphia quickly. we established a live picture of the scene and of our correspondent there don lemon. don, show me what you re seeing. reporter: yeah. look behind me. there it is. all there. you can see that they got the backhoes in there and cranes and trying to get all that rubble out and doing it very gingerly because they re not exactly sure how many people are still in there. if there is a person in there. earlier you heard the mayor say they thought at least two people were in there, one was brought out. they gave us details on how they got the person out. the person was talking to them. they sent in dog, the dog found the person, person talking to them, they sent down water and food and got that woman out. the mayor told us live on the air not long ago. also cnn confirming two sources tell me that one person is dead, a woman. the mayor held a press conference here a short time ago. he would not comment on it. one reason, brooke, the fire departmen
miss mackenzie did not attend today s news conference. but she will be collecting that check. john zarrella was there for the historic announcement. he joins me from zephyrhills, florida. john zarrella, i m sorry the check is not going to you, my friend. instead this woman who apare apparently cut in line and that s how she got the ticket. is this the story i m hearing? it is an amazing, amazing story. we have been waiting here for two and a half weeks, waiting for the winner to come forward. ever since we got word that the publix behind me is where the winning ticket was sold back on may 18th. there was all kinds of speculation, people were just chomping at the bit here in zephyrhills to find out who the lucky winner was. there was talk it was a publix employee, somebody from the walmart, retired couple from one of the communities, retire .commuretire ment communities near here. all of that put to bed today in tallahassee, florida, at the