At least 58 people are dead or presumed dead and many others are homeless. The group left after a meeting that lasted more than two hours but did not speak to reporters gathered outside.
They left Number 10 after their meeting with the Prime Minister as demonstrators shouted: 'May out!' just metres away. But his brother, who he thought was right behind him, didn't make it out. We know that there are still bodies of those who died inside the building and we want to return those people to their families as soon as we possibly can. "I don't think I will ever forget them".
Police have been struggling to come up with a list of who was in the building when the fire started, making it hard to determine how many died.
"Government is making money available, we're ensuring that we're going to get to the bottom of what's happened, we will ensure that people are rehoused", the prime minister said.
"Frankly, the support on the ground for families who needed help or basic information in the initial hours after this appalling disaster was not good enough", she said.
Queen Elizabeth II and her grandson Prince William visited a community center Friday where some of the survivors are being housed, and where volunteers have been inundated with donations of clothes and food.
May met with the victims' families along with community leaders at Downing Street on Saturday, as protests took place in London.
Public anger was mounting as residents and neighbors demanded answers for how the blaze spread so quickly amid reports that contractors installed a cheaper, less flame-resistant type of exterior paneling in a renovation of Grenfell Tower that ended in May 2016.
Ms May was met with cries of "Shame on you" and "coward" when she returned on Friday.
58 people are presumed dead in Grenfell Tower disaster
Tower residents and many others in the area are still struggling to come to terms with what they have seen and lived through. Meanwhile, dozens of people erupted into Kensington and Chelsea town hall to protest the lack of response following the fire.
One woman wept saying it was because Mrs May had declined to speak to anyone outside the meeting.
On Friday evening, May was interviewed by Emily Maitlis on the BBC programme "Newsnight" where she sidestepped questions over whether she misread the public mood and anger over the Grenfell fire as well as what her personal response is - leading to more criticism of being called "robotic" and "cold". Government and ministers will cooperate fully.
"No service between Edgware Road and Hammersmith due to the recent fire in the Latimer Road area", said a tweet on the account of the Circle Line. Many residents are still unaccounted for, and police said some remains may never be identified.
Residents of the destroyed tower said May was far too slow to visit the stricken community, that the building had been unsafe, and that officials have failed to give enough information and support to those who have lost relatives and their homes.
"The residents of Grenfell Tower, families who have lost loved ones, and the emergency services who have been working so hard to help them have been through some of the most harrowing and traumatic experiences imaginable", Theresa May said. What emerges in the coming weeks and months will be very hard for many people, including politicians and organisations, but we must get to the truth, Mr Khan continued.
"There's a need for the public to hear you say in words of one syllable: 'Something awful has happened; something has gone badly wrong".
The fire at the 24-story public housing project broke out early Wednesday.
"We were seeking a change to the building regulations for that very objective".
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