We got it here in less than 24 hours,' McConnell said. 'Our original estimate to get a crane was two weeks.

He was envisioning the two who were on the floor with him,' Cantrell said.Ĭrews on Sunday were assembling a 220,000-pound (99,800-kilogram) crane driven into the city overnight to begin the delicate process of removing the large amount of fallen debris, McConnell said.

He wanted to make sure his co-workers were safe. The mayor visited the man, who had surgery for a leg injury. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell told media outlets later Sunday that the body of one of the two dead has been recovered and the coroner's office is working to identify the victim. WWL-TV obtained a viewer's dramatic video of upper floors collapsing Saturday before one side of the building crashed to the street. Several floors of the hotel toppled down Saturday amid blinding dust and flying debris. The last thing you want to do when you are trying to rescue somebody is lose someone else,' McConnell said at a news conference Sunday.

New Orleans Fire Chief Tim McConnell said they are treating their work as a rescue mission until they have evidence the missing person is dead along with two other people killed when a large part of the Hard Rock Hotel project crashed down near the city's historic French Quarter. Officials declined to say if they have any indication whether the missing worker is alive after Saturday's collapse. NEW ORLEANS - Rescue crews on Sunday sought to find a worker missing in the rubble of a New Orleans hotel that partially collapsed while under construction, proceeding with caution because the dangerous of working in the unstable building, authorities said.

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