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Another boy has been removed from the cave where the soccer teammates have been trapped for 18 days. that makes it two out today. rescue teams working right now to bring out two more boys and the coach who remain in the cave. lets go to ivan watson in northern thailand with the latest. ivan. >> reporter: dave and christine, that is right. we can report that an eyewitness part of the rescue operation tells cnn that a tenth boy has emerged from the cave complex and is now being checked over and tr...

Actually lower and shallow, it is harder because the current is stronger and all of this is being done in the darkness as well. we can report that a tenth boy has been rescued in the last couple hours. there remain two boys and the adult soccer coach who are still to be rescued as well as three thai nailvy s.e.a.l. divers and the doctor. they remained with the group ever since they reached them trying to maintain their health and ensure they survive the terrible ordeal. dave and christine. >> iv...

Elections. >> phil and michael. thank you. only eight hours after the pick. lots to mull over. >> indeed. thank you. the operation to rescue the four remaining boys and soccer coach from the cave in thailand has resumed this morning. officials are hoping the rescue efforts end today. lets go to northern thailand and bring in cnns ivan watson. ivan, what is the latest? >> reporter: dave, the rescue operation resumed again at 10:00 a.m. local time. it has been under way for six hours. resumed ea...

>> the good news is now it is a matter of when they get to hug their parents and eat delicious meals again. lets go back to ivan watson not far from the cave for the last word on the three boys and coach remaining inside that cave. ivan. >> reporter: well be following closely the continuation of this rescue operation. remarkable multinational effort which has some 90 people and number of international divers and thai divers conducting this per perilous operation. the chief predicts the four boy ...

The thai government doesnt want to have anything go wrong in the critical and vulnerable period in the hours and days after the rescue. >> you have a good point, ivan. they were said to evacuate the strongest first. are we led to believe that process continued and we should be cautious? there is still a long way to go if you believe the three remaining boys could be among the weakest as swimmers or conditions physically? >> all right. ivan is working the scene. we lost his audio. we will let him...

Some of them, brooke, spent 48 hours aboard this vessel after spending days trapped in tripoli and are going to be very relieved, i expect, to set foot on land again and away from the conflict and the chaos in libya. >> sure. im sure that feeling of relief is an understatement. we are not going to move away from these live pictures, ivan. youre doing an amazing job of helping me walk through what were seeing as they move the stairs close to the maria dolores ferry and as we wait and watch for th...

Shores. >> do you know, ivan, do we know what happens next once these 300 people arrive there on land in malta? >> reporter: well, on the wharf below here, we see a number of ambulances that are lined up. we see emergency personnel on hand to try to help them. there are more than a dozen u.s. embassy staff here, all prepared with phone cards and numbers. we understand that some people may be taken to hotels. the airport here in malta is being used as a transit hub. theyre chartering flights to t...

Some 250 miles offshore of libya, these are the first live pictures of this ferry that the state department had chartered. there are about 300 or so passengers on board, 168 of them americans. this thing had been pushed back not just one but two days because of bad weather and rough seas. i know we have ivan watson standing by with me in malta to walk through this occasion. ivan, just walk me through. this is so, so significant for these people on board who have been very desperately trying to l...

Sanctions against libya and suspending diplomatic operations in the country. so that certainly is significant. well be checking in with dan lothian as well as some of our folks at the united nations. also, though, ivan, i do want to mention as we look at this ferry lets talk p about a plane. we know p.j. crowley with the u.s. state department had tweeted i think within the hour or so that the flight chartered by the u.s. government had left tripoli at 1:49 p.m. eastern time to take those u.s. ci...

Planes to presumably fly to the united kingdom from here. we know there are other vessels going to come in later, one tonight with around 2,000 passengers, most of them chinese that have been trapped there. it does give you a sense of how scary the scene is right now inside libya, certainly inside tripoli. one of the people we talked to yesterday, brooke, a couple from indonesia, the woman said, you know, it was very scary. the man said, we spent days locked up in the house. we were too afraid t...