6-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy could have survived that. they were playing in a hole at a construction site when the dirt wall gave way. the public information officer with lincoln county emergency management is on the phone with us this morning. thank you for joining us. we know you're busy. we understand the workers have been digging all night. at one point we heard they had gone down more than 20 feet with no sign of the children. where does this stand right now? >> right now, with this -- just like you said this is a systematic, slow, tedious process to get to these children. we have to go down layer by layer through the dirt to try to get down to the children. the efforts have been ongoing overnight, they will continue until we can bring closure to this family from this tragic incident. >> let's backtrack a bit. woe we're watching pictures of the recovery effort that's underway.