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The driest places on earth. how are you going to get water from here? >> an enormous watershed, 1300 square miles approximately the size of rhode island. >> he heads a california company that owns 45,000 acres in the mojave. hes proposing taking hundreds of trillions of gallons of desert ground water a year, and piping it over 100 miles to the populated suburbs around los angeles. the key to the project is this old railroad line which runs right through the property. the problem has been its reg...

Of people showing up here. lets talk about the red tide. which is to its credit is a naturally occurring event. it often happens after hurricanes. so it happened in 1960 after hurricane donna. in 1980 after frederick. in 2006 after charlie. and now after erma. here is where the political piece of the puzzle comes as these dead fish pop up all over the place. the governor, rick scott who is running for u.s. senate, made a decision to cut $700 million from the water management budget and we have l...

David against aa ga goliath eagr to drill and cash in. >> now we have environmentalists saying we cant do this. whats wrong with this picture? >> as the government rushes towards development, community meetings lay bare the fight, tribe versus tribe, neighbor against neighbor. >> we have thousands of gallons in places that have seen destruction but restraint is what we lack. when did we all become owners of the land? its always owned us. >> theres a rush to sell off two 400,000 leases by next ye...

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 youre talking about generally 3/4 of an inch to one inch of rainfa...

Reason for encouragement. this story is far from over. thank you for your expertise. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. between the heavy rainfall about to come, the lack of oxygen as paul is mentioning in the cave and the shear number of days that those kids are trapped underground, the urgency is never higher to get them out. here is tom foreman with how phase one happened. tom? >> reporter: ryan, the initial part of the rescue went a little faster than officials expected. two boys came out a...

Emily, something their families will have to keep a close eye on. obviously a long way to go here, four boys rescued, eight others and their coach still underground. emily davis, thank you again for giving us your perspective on this. we really appreciate it. >> my pleasure. between the heavy rainfall thats about to come, the lack of oxygen in the cave, and the sheer number of days those kids have been trapped underground, the urgency has never been higher to get the rest of them out. here is ...

Fashion by the commander who said, this is d-day. its now or never, and the reason he said that, and you can possibly see some of it, is falling rain and falling oxygen levels. the rain really started to come down in torrents here, and that threatened to flood the caves and undo all the work of pumping those millions of gallons of floodwater out of the caves. and the second thing was falling oxygen levels. they had fallen from an acceptable level of 21% to 15% and below, and that was going to we...

Boys will be feeling. so they are really worried about that. in fact they told some of the rescuers to get out so the boys have more air and they are trying to pump air in. again as you mentioned, second thing is torrential rains expect bed. we dont know exactly when. but they are talking about maybe tomorrow, be sunday, maybe through monday. and then it will rain for days and days. so there is a critical point where all that pumping of millions of gallons of water out of the cave complex is neg...

They talk about wanting to get out quickly. and going back to your question, alex, they do have some reason to be worried. first of all, the falling oxygen levels. why is that critical? if you think of altitude sickness, being on a high mountain, thin oxygen, thats what those children are suffering, some of them, at the moment. the oxygen levels are falling to a critical degree, and the governor says hes really worried about that. secondly, there is the possibility of torrential rains that could...

There. we talked about it last hour, very interesting here, the idea of using water displacement, basically pushing the water out so theres more air pockets so the kids can get out. its an elon musk idea, right? >> it is. it looks like theyre going to give this technology a try. effectively what they do, they put this canvas tunnel into the existing tunnel here and they full it with air. the idea is that the air would push the water out. theres compression, they have air locks and it could creat...