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Spirits. but the clock is ticking. nbc's janis mackey frayer has been on the ground in chiang rai, thailand. >> reporter: chris, rescuers are dealing with this looming threat of the monsoon rains which could push water levels inside the cave dangerously high and perhaps even fully flooded. it's why rescue officials are considering an evacuation attempt in the next day or two. they've been rehearsing possible scenarios. they've been practicing with the boys wearing full face masks and practicing breathing. but there are no easy next moves here. the kids don't even know how to swim, let alone ha...

Here. the kids don't even know how to swim, let alone have the diving skills to navigate nearly three miles of murky water. another option they're exploring is finding a different way into the cave system. there are hundreds of people walking around in this area, looking for cracks. looking for chimneys. looking for places where they can drill and drop ropes to pull the boys out. pumps are trying to get the water out of the cave system but one of the experts i spoke to here says there just isn't enough time the rains are going to come and erase any progress at this point. meanwhile, medics are...

Trialing throu drilling through the mountain? >> reporter: it is something they're considering. there are hundreds of people walking around this area trying to look for any opportunity to create a new entry to the cave system. they're looking at cracks, chimneys, looking at places where they can drill, the idea being they would drop ropes to the boys and pull them out. i spoke earlier with diving expert here. he thinks that that is probably the safest scenario. but it's also a very difficult one in order to find this sweet spot, so to speak, and for the drilling to begin. >> there is a danger ...

Rescue these 12 boys, age between 11 and 16 and their soccer coach who is 25 years old. now, they are trapped in a cave system. i want to show you the entrance to the cave system. this is as far as we can get to it. but this is the entrance and this is where divers, cavers, where the military and volunteers are heading down this path to the mouth of the cave. this is the only entrance so far to this giant labyrinth where the boys are. but they located them last night. it was miraculous. people were in tears. this country is really just so relieved considering so many people thought they had di...

Hour. the strategy is to teach the boys how to scukubcuba dive, so can make their way out of the cave. that is the challenge. what the rescuers have faced, dave. >> any sense of a time line how long we could be waiting? >> reporter: look. i mean, it could be weeks. it could be months. just really depends. we know that some of these boys can't swim. so, this cave system, it's huge. it's 10 kilometers long. it's like a labyrinth. some of these areas, some of these chambers are flooded. so, these boys are going to have to learn to breathe through a scuba mask. if anybody has learned how to scuba ...