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Cave earlier on. but then because of the -- it is the monsoon season here and the rains came through. they were actually pushed back. and then they had all these come in and we had the americans here, the australians, the swedes, the chinese all came in to give a helping hand. and today they got up to a section called the t-section. now, the t-section was around about 500 meters from the beach where they were going to push to. and they got caught there for awhile because the water was actually moving quite quickly through the place. also the cave system is quite narr narrow. and with all the e...

A sacred spot for early mesoamerican cultures before water filled the caves these discoveries are mung the most important in the world and. this is a scientific treasure trove we have a lot to investigate we're talking about a period of over ten thousand years from the first inhabitants of the americas its environment to the mayan culture. and their own might be even longer cave systems waiting to be discovered. so the researchers are itching to get back to work. you're watching g.w. news still to come shortfalls in germany's armed forces parliamentary report says there aren't enough troops an...

>> reporter: well, nothing is for sure in this extraordinary operation, george. because of the technical and dangerous nature of getting those boys through those narrow cave systems and out into the outside world. so there is a sense of activity, a flurry of activity if you will around the cave system this morning. the expectation is because it went reasonably well yesterday, so well in fact that three of the boys were able to be sent by ambulance and one by helicopter to a nearby hospital, that they would attempt again today after those technical specialists got rest and were able to get thei...

We were about two miles back from the front and even if that distance you got smacked in the chest, got the wind knocked out of you and it looked like a giant nuclear mushroom cloud going off. so the next day when we went back up the mountainside, we could see that many of the caves stms had collapsed and lot of the top of the mountain was sort of crispy from the effects. so it is a massively scary and effective bomb. my conversations with officials in kabul they've told me that general nicholson -- this bomb during did obama administration for use in the afghan fighting system because he knew...