four more and their coach in the coming hours pretty soon those elite divers will be getting up and going into the cave system again, nothing is sure with this rescue. but they will be trying to get them out and to end this extraordinary sequence of events. jake? david mckenzie on the ground for us in thigh land. i want to bring in tom foreman in the virtual studio. the same group of divers are getting the last four kids and the coach, do they have enough energy to complete this mission many. one of the reasons we might be in the most dangerous phase of the entire thing right now. look. inside the mountain think about the kids and the coach who are in there. they have now spent more time than anyone else in conditions very cold and they re damp and they re cramped and they re uncomfortable. and they had been in a position where they simply cannot have enough oxygen because it s been cut off in there. what about the divers? we know that this team of 18
the others? nope! get internet on our gig-speed network and add voice and tv for $34.90 more per month. call or go on line today. in our world lead today, it is not over yet. we have seen the rescue of eight boys from that flooded cave system in thailand but divers are still racing against the clock, heavy rains are rolling in and exhausted rescue teams entering tay 16 with four boys and their coach still trapped deep inside that cave. cnn s david mckenzie s on the ground for us in thailand. reporter: eight of the young boys are now free. which ones? not the families have been told even. the prime minister of thailand arrived to comfort parents near the cave site. they have agreed to wait here in solidarity until everyone s child is saved.
that is what led to the initial significant flooding into the the cave system. it has been all but quiet generally speaking over the past several weeks but the pattern now shifts to be much more wet than it was initially when the boys were first trapped in the cave i system. notice each and every afternoon we have bands of heavy rainfall that work their way into northern thailand. with it 15, 20 millimeters certainly possible and you re talking about generally 3/4 of an inch to one inch of rainfall over the next three days we re talking about upwards of 60 millimeters of rainfall, which is about 2 1/4 inches of rain store. it may not seem like that much rain but when you take it and drop it down on a soccer stadium, for example, that s the equivalent to 500 million liters of water just on the stadium floor size there. it s about 135,000 gallons of water or 12-plus swimming moopo. we re talking about millions of gallons of water potentially just from the 2 1/2 or so inches that could be
normally a cave diver is doing it under their own propulsion and leg work. now you have someone potentially pulling an individual along behind him and another diver behind that. it may be the rope helping assist with the speed with which they are making it through the system. certainly wish them well. we should take a moment to remember the diver who died getting that cave system supplied for the rescue. paul sumner. thank you so much. thanks, paul. today marks the start of what could be the biggest week of the trump administration so far. the president set to announce his pick for retiring anthony kennedy in a primetime address from the east room. he will embark on a trip to europe with a nato summit and visit with the queen and sit-down with vladimir putin.
their coach remain inside and are expected to arrive at the hospital tuesday if all goes well. the coach s aunt tells cnn the kids are in good hands. the children s mother trust him and he can take care of their children pretty well, she says. because he loves those kids very much. officials say the 20-hour delay of rescues will allow them to replenish the oxygen tanks and give the elite divers a much-needed break. while the teams rest and reassessment conditions, all eyes are on the weather. forecasted monsoons threaten to raise water levels in the cave where it could mean life or death. jake, at this hour, the boys who have got out of the cave are in a hospital nearby where they re resting in isolation. unbelievably, haven t seen their parents yet. in darkness, behind me, that mountain that s gripped our attention inside the cave system