Utter Darkness News Today

Off of the coast of nigeria. >> around the corner. youre going to find some stairs. >> reporter: divers on a grim task, searching for a sunken tug on the ocean floor to recover the bodies of 12 crew members. >> we already recovered four bodies. so the anticipation wasnt great we were going to find anyone alive at that stage. >> reporter: then -- >> you found one. >> hes alive. >> the driver saw a hand in the passageway. we seen it was a body. when the diver reached up to grab the hand, the hand ...

The bodies of 12 crew members. >> we already recovered four bodies. so the anticipation wasnt great we were going to find anyone alive at that stage. >> reporter: then -- >> you found one. >> hes alive. >> the driver saw a hand in the passageway. we seen it was a body. when the diver reached up to grab the hand, the hand grabbed the diver it. >> it was the ships cook. he had been on the bathroom when a massive rogue swell capsized the ship. as the tug sank, harrison scrambled into a cabin and fo...

Children cant study at night and center to breathe in the kerosene fumes that are toxic. 1.5 people die every year from indoor air pollution, right? theres nothing they can do to lift themselves out of poverty. theyre condemned to live their lives in utter darkness. no way to pump water. no way to refrigerate vaccines. no way to deliver a baby at night. no way to communicate with the outside world, right? so energy poverty undermines every attempt of these people to achieve a better life for the...

Technicians this morning who are fighting to prevent a meltdown at the crippled fukushima nuclear plant. this morning, the group of 50 were forced out of the facility for nearly an hour following a surge in radiation levels that authorities feared put their lives at risk. so who are they? one of the best descriptions of this so-called faceless crew is in this mornings "new york times." that writes in part, quote, they crawl through the labyrinths of equipment in utter darkness pierced only by th...

And medical expertise from around the world. down below, what might have turned into "lord of the flies" chaos instead became the 33-men democracy with miners organizing, choosing leaders, deciding on the honor of who would be the raft tlast to leav. in the hour ahead well take you inside that race, moment by moment, the challenges and setbacks, how they were overcome, the mechanical and human ballet that made it possible. ultimately to the incredible sight of those men emerging one by one from ...

[speaking in a foreign language] >> reporter: the miners, through strict discipline and rationing, have survived 17 days on two days worth of food. now supplies pour down the pipeline while gratitude rises up. hello to my family, my children, my wife, my mom, one man says before he breaks into tears. thanks so much from all of my heart, another adds in the ghostly darkness. miners have organized a chain of command. each one has been given a job. they have times for work, for exercise, for relaxa...