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 out of the city as the president was saying. steve patterson, thank you. we continue to track hurricane maria lashing the caribbean with the warn to puerto rico, get out
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 going to speed up any work efforts simply because of the rain. they re going to still take their time because they want to make sure they don t miss anyone who died in this fire. atf, stephanie, is now involved? right? the federal investigators are involved? reporter: right. they ve been involved, in fact, part of the reason they decided
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. thank you so much live in boston for me. and stay with me. we have much more on this missing plane. coming up this hour, sources telling cnn the plane went down to approximately 5,000 feet when it disappeared from military radar. we will take you back inside the