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Rescue workers are racing against the clock in thailand. british scuba divers found 12 young soccer players and their coach alive in a flooded cave nearly ten days after the team went missing. >> how many of you? 13? brilliant. >> more heavy rains are on the way. fears are growing the children and their coach could be stuck a half mile below ground for months. this is the beginning of the rainy season there. here is the vice-chairman of the rescue team that found the children talking about what ...

>> 13? >> yes. >> brillian the. >> brilliant, indeed, now, rescue workers are trying to get a four month food supply for the kids. four months, why? because theyre not sure how to get them out. andny want to teach the group how to dive so they can make it out of the cave. former cia operative robert behr, good to have you for this. >> thanks. >> now, i want to be happy because we thought they were gone and they are not, theyre alive, but four month food supply? learning how to dive? what is the ...

Tom foreman, this is a system of caves. its more than six miles long where the boys -- where the cave -- part of the cave where the boys now is one mile in. more than a mile in. explain what rescue workers are working against. >> theyre working against darkness and cold and rushing walter and time. lets take a look at the structure of this mountain and the caves inside, what they have to deal with in terms of challenges there. this is where the boys went in. theyre more than a mile into the moun...

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Could take a couple more days. but there is rain coming. so its got to happen in the next couple days. the alternatives are quite lengthy and arduous. drilling into the side of a mountain to get to the cave or waiting for the floodwaters to subside that could make months. so the first option being looked at very hard right now. but, at least the family and friends and the rescue workers are very happy right now. these boys are still alive and, again, that next challenging stem getting them out. ...

Local time teams searching thai and international rescue workers, divers, including u.s. military service members from japan. found them. but they were about two and a half miles down the cave. they are said right now to be in stable condition. unbelievably. they survived drinking water that was dripping off the sides of the cave. but they had no food. rescue workers brought them liquid food. high protein as well as medicine and now they are with them to keep them alive. and get them ready for t...

Thats when it all went bad. heavy rains flooded parts of the cave trapping them underground. monday night local time after days of frantic searching by thailand and international teams, divers and u.s. military from japan the 12 boys and their 25-year-old coach were found. as much as 2 1/2 miles underground into a mountainside. theyre said to be in stable condition. they survived by drinking water dripping from the cave but had no food. they were quickly supplied with a liquid food and medicine ...

A week. they were pulled from deep inside of a partially flooded cave this afternoon. the boys aged 11-16 and a 25-year-old coach disappeared when flooding trapped them there. maybe silk divers and other rescue workers made progress in the passageway monday after passing through a key chamber with waters that have blocked their progress. republicans gearing up for the midterm elections, gunning to keep control of congress. they have just announced some up-and-coming young guns. candidates that c...

Keep searching. here a thai navy seal carrying an oxygen tank. they blurred the faces on the photos. water rushing around this guy. the crews spend the morning bringing extra oxygen supplies to keep along the rescue route. here look at one of the divers in the tunnels. some of the areas so narrow that the divers couldnt get through there during certain times with the tide with all of their gear. they had to carry in these drain hoses. thats to pump the water out which at times filled the ceiling...

Fearing the worst. shepard? >> shepard: unthinkable that this has happened. live pictures now. this is from the rescue scene again. its just after -- 7 minutes after 2:00 a.m. on a tuesday morning there. we just heard from the rescue workers. hundreds of them, were told. theyre saying theyre going to do everything they can to get if kids out. a lot has to do with the tide. well have the live pictures up and available. should there be any developments, well go live. at home, president trumps sear...