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To bring the remaining others out, the multinational crew of rescuers, guided by ropes and the light on their head lamps. as they make their way through a maze of flooded passageways and narrow tunnels, much of it under water. dozens of team members choreographing the rescue for days. even practicing putting full face masks on boys the same size as those stranded athletes. over the past several days, divers teaching the boys to swim and practicing going under water. preparing for the risky journ...

Divers with little room to maneuver. its not surprising none of the boys are divers, but many of them also dont know how to swim. tonight, with news of this next storm, raining already tonight, their next plan to get the rest out. abcs james longman leads us off tonight from the scene. >> reporter: these are the image the world is captivated by. divers carrying their heavy equipment through twisting tunnels. you can hear them struggling to catch their breath. water to their necks, jagged rocks o...

Tonight, several breaking stories as we come on the air. the race against time, now the final five. four boys and their coach inside that cave. a major rainstorm is now coming. what theyre now planning in the coming hours. and the heroic rescue that played out today. four more boys brought out. the more than two-mile journey, much of it underwater. and now, the parents still waiting tonight to see their boys, who are already at the hospital. also tonight, just a short time from now, the presid...

Caught in a mudslide. more than 360,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes. in some of the worst-hit areas, officials say that the water has gotten as high as five feet. in spain, the annual running of the bulls got off to a gory start. the narrow streets of pamplona were packed with thrill seekers trying to outrun the 1,400-pound animals. officials say five people were trampled with at least one being gored. none of the injuries appear to be life-threatening. the festival lasts nine ...

They have pumped water from the cave to lower the water level so the boys can escape without swimming under water. that dangerous journey killed a trained navy seal friday. oxygen levels are dropping down to 15%. a three-mile-long oxygen tube is installed, and delivered tanks to the boys location. theyve also considered drilling a hole in the mountain to reach them if the water escape is too dangerous. meanwhile, the 25-year-old soccer coach has issued an apology to parents for taking them into ...

Script and transform what we see every day. this is "nbc nightly news." we begin with the deadly and dangerous crisis in california and many other areas throughout the western u.s. ferocious winds feeding wildfires as record temperatures have put more than 18 million people under excessive heat warnings. our own steve patterson is with the firefighters and evacua evacuees on the front lines of the blazes near santa barbara. >> reporter: tonight a state of emergency in california. the misery ...

Aboard rocky mountaineer. canadas rocky mountains await. call your travel agent or rocky mountaineer for special offers now. tonight, raging western wildfires. californias governor declares a state of emergency as record heat and high winds fan dozens of parent insider attack in afghanistan. time is running out to rescue the thai soccer team traed in a cave. oxygen levels are low and monsoon rains are on the way. the world mourns the loss of an icon. the man who cocreated two of our most r...

Vilanthan, an i.t. consultant, volunteering to dive in these treacherous conditions. >> they are record-breakers. they are real pioneers. >> reporter: now just two of the dozens of divers interrupting jobs or vacations to assist thai navy seals in this dangerous race against time. this man is a diving instructor who has been here all week. >> there is lots of risks. this is of a mag -- magnitude rescue thats never been done in the history of known man. >> reporter: the death of a diver, a tragic...

This video of the cave complex was taken just hours before a diver died here. his fellow rescuers up to their neck in water clinging to ropes, clearing a path to the trapped boys. the diver former thai navy s.e.a.l., sam saman gunan, was putting oxygen tanks along the exit route when he ran out of air. we will bring the kids home, he said, as he left to volunteer. this, his last instagram post with fellow rescuers. morale is great, he wrote. his fellow divers told me they wont but im still posit...

I am the only black. i felt this is racial profiling. >> tonight the man in the video viewed millions of times speaks exclusively to us. the tow truck that led police on a wild chase that came to a smashing end. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. im kate snow in for lester tonight. the situation in thailand for the boys soccer team trapped in a cave is growing more urgent by the hour. torrential rain is in the forecast, and the amount of oxygen in the cave system is f...