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Vespa and found this giant camp with 200 media, 200 support people and then hundreds and hundreds of soldiers, cops, divers, support people and amazingly through the heat, 90 degrees, 90% humidity, all these people, mud, this crowd. the people in this country are so polite, these thai people, all these people shoulder to shoulder in the heat, there was no tension. nobody had a bad word. it was an amazing scene to see that many people. they were cooking. in these giant woks they were cooking 24/7 to feed all these people, including the press, all these soldiers, divers, police. it was just incr...

The five days leading up here, they were all inside a small room in the small building that's attached to the visitation center for the cave system. this is a restricted area, but they were in there lying on mats. we also know the family -- the authorities and the governor, ex-governor who was running this operation went to the families before this started to get permission from all of them to do it because this is an operation that could endanger their lives. they might not make it. they got permission from all the parents. parents have been very, very close to this thing. and i would have to...

That must be boying the teams of divers going in and out of this cave system over the past several days trying to prepare for this moment. alex? >> extraordinary heroes, those divers. risking their lives. one having tragically lost his life while trying to set everything up to bring those boys home. as we approach 8:41 on the east coast. we're breaking in with the breaking news into "politics nation." the reverend al sharpton should be appearing at this hour. we are going to take a short break. we hope to have a news conference shortly, perhaps on the other side of this short break and getting...

Back now with breaking news from thailand. a dangerous mission is under way to rescue 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped in a cave system. the first group is already on their way out. monsoon rains are complicated the rescue efforts. they are using a buddy system. the operation started more than ten hours ago. we are expecting news of the first rescue around 10:00 a.m. eastern time. new attacks from president trump this morning as he takes aim at the russian investigation insisting democrats are the ones guilty of collusion. public opinion turned against the rigged witch hunt and the spe...

Do stand by. we have nbc's bill neely standing by. i know you've been following this story from the start. talk about where things stand right now and the emotion running through the crowd, the fact that two of those 13 are o out. >> reporter: we did know this was d-day for the rescue. those are the words of the rescue commander. what we didn't know was that freedom day was going to come so quickly. just about 15 minutes ago just along the jungle track, two ambulances gradually and slowly came down with we believe one boy inside each ambulance. the police chief has just confirmed that the firs...