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What they need over the next four or five days while they wait. we have the coordinator of the rescue commission via skype. your message of what youve seen and heard so far relative to this rescue operation, i think the word miraculous has got to come to mind. >> absolutely. we initially werent sure we were going to find them in the cave, then finding them and finding them alive was just the absolute joy. but then the real hard work starts because now you have to figure out how to get them out, ...

Big prop, ryan. >> gene helps us to understand the urgency that they have if they want to begin this rescue. i do want some perspective from a professional cave diver. the coordinator for the national cave rescue commission, mr. mer merza, this mission could be started pretty soon. what is your confidence level right now that these rescuers in thailand can bring the boys out alive. >> one correction. im an open-water diver. im a cave rescue expert. my professional opinion here is that they are...

Can send ground teams. it might seem counter intuitive but even if a cave is relatively well met underground it doesnt mean you know at what point above ground you need to drill down and find the specific chamber. at this stage it does look like the diving option or best case scenario pump enough water out of those chambers to crawl out to a large degree thats the best case scenario. when the rains come though the clock will be ticking and thats why you have all of these rescue workers from arou...

Give us the developments a t this hour, anna. >> they are still looking at the diving option to extract those 12 boys and the coach from the cave that has had them for the last 11 days. we saw incredible video today of these boys. yes, they were smiling but their faces so gaunt, they have lost so much weight so their health is pair mount because they need them to be strong enough if they are going to get out of this cave by diving. you mentioned the full-face masks. well, they would wear them an...

>> reporter: yeah. but options, indeed. you mentioned the diving option. well, the boys inside the cave have been trying on these full-face oxygen masks. they look like a gas mask, but its connected to an oxygen tank. the navy s.e.a.l. divers would wear the masks while the boys are guided out of the cave. you mentioned the passageways. you know how small they are and theyre completely filled with water. these boys cannot swim and certainly have not dived before. this is not what they want to do,...

Options for getting these 12 boys and their coach out. they are really facing bad weather conditions in the coming days. we know theyre pumping water every hour. if the rain comes, and they think it will that it will undo all of that good work. the diving option is still being looked at, the boys are practicing using the full face oxygen masks. we have seen the videos, they are smiling but they are gaunt. they need to rebuild their energy. there has been a development today. and that is one of t...

Anna coren joins us. is there an idea of when they can start bringing people snout is that possible at this point? >> reporter: obviously, jim, that is what everybody is hoping will happen sooner rather than later. youre right. we are racing against the clock. were expecting a change in the weather in the coming days. and that will really undo all of the hard work that has been done. theyve been pumping hundreds of thousands of liters of every single hour. something like 2 million liters of wate...

Weak at this point. >> i guess you have to wait to get the strength back before you can begin to swim and eventually dive. sounds like a lot to accomplish under those circumstances. >> it is. the diving option is of course the most dangerous as several of your folks have said. its not one of the preferred options. i know it seems counter intuitive. but sitting tight and waiting and either getting the new entrance found or drilled in, if that is possible, were waiting for enough break in the weat...

The longer that time that they have to train them and drill them on these things, the safer it becomes. but even if they brought them up at the same expertise as the navy neils it is not a totally safe option. every single trip a navy divers go in and out through there, is also rice ki even for them and these are people doing this for years. >> as you were talking there, were showing more video of boys and smiling in the midst of this. incredible for what they have been through. now, authorities...