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Carried them out through the passage in the cave complex. the first boy -- okay. the first boy was out of the whole cave complex at 5:40 in the evening local time and the second one was out ten minutes after that. the third and the fourth boys

W.s interior design channel on you tube. play. live. this is division news lawyers from berlin and reports are coming through that the first boys have been successfully rescued from a cave in thailand a team of the elite divers are on a mission to extract twelve boys on their soccer coach problem flooded cave complex they are not gazing the narrow submerged positive ways that took the life of a diver on friday with new downpours and side the case its

Still a race against time and weather so this daunting mission here in the north of thailand is far from over. it has been used for million reporting that will to understand more about this arduous mission which joined on the line by ed sorenson hes a veteran diver and a regional coordinator of the international underwater cave rescue and recovery organization thank you for coming on the program now the thought of teaching children to dive in in a matter of days seems extraordinary what would th...

D-day, it as now or never. and you can just about see through the rain the flickering lights there, four ambulances have gone past. two boys in the group of two ambulances. one boy in each ambulance and within the last hour another two ambulances. those four boys are now at the hospital being treated and there is word there may be another two boys on dry ground inside the cave complex. a short time ago there was a news update. 09 divers were involved with 10 at the apex ott the operation and he ...

System. we understand theyre going to take them out in groups of two and that this is an operation that could take up to 24 hours. what happened about nine hours ago is that a group of 18 divers, 13 of them international and five thai navy s.e.a.l.s went into the cave complex, and ten divers made it to the boys cave. those are the ten divers bringing them out. we dont know exactly how that is happening, but the boys will be going along a guide rope line. they will have a diver beside each one of...

Time to get practiced if they had to do that option. as you heard earlier, at the moment, they cannot be left in the cave. so, it became the best option. none of the options were good options. so, at this point, its the lesser of the evils. i will say, the cave divers who are there are among the best in the world. i know a couple of them personally. if the boys have any chance at all, its because these people are the best at what they do. >> there are reports the parents in thailand traditionall...

Poor kids from humble families. some cant even swim. so its a very difficult operation, but you have to be sensitized to the local incre e expertise, the local needs. >> nbcs bill neely and janis mackey frayer have been up all night covering this for us. well go first to you, bill neely. youve been watching all of this unfold at the caves mouth. i want to know where things stand right now. and ive got to just say, looking at you, you look drenched with rain. i dont think thats a good sign. >> re...

The oxygen in our air we normally breathe is at 21 prls. it had gone down in the cave complex to 15% which means it was getting similar to what mountaineers experience, lets say, on mt. everest. very, very thin air and the possibility that the body weakens quite suddenly. you might not even know it. so falling ouks general levels were a real health concern. the other thing was falling rain. a few hours ago there was an immense cloud burst here that immediately flooded the area around me. so that...

The higher you go, the more dangerous it is for weakened bodies and that what was happening sign the cave complex. oxygen levels went from 21% to 15%. that would have created a medical condition that meant the boys would weaken very quickly indeed for the reasons youre seeing now and the falling oxygen levels the rescue had to happen and the idea that they could drill down through the mountain and get a shaft and pop the boys out or the other option, leave the boys underground until september an...

Conse consent. they were clean to get out. and the commander launched this operation with dramatic words. we may lose the window. this is d-day. and the reason they acted right now was two reasons. falling oxygen hell alevels. it was like the cave system on a high mountain range, like everest. the air was getting thinner and thinner. that would weaken everyone in this cave complex. the seconds thing was the rain. we were in a torrential downpour and there was a red line between the amount of rai...