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Announcement last night that this was now a recovery effort. that's after hours of frantic digging, and hoping on sunday afternoon, after those two cousins were trapped under loads of dirt. now this all happened when a 7-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl played in a large hole that was dug as part of some sort of home construction project. the support walls apparently gave way, trapping the two beneath at least 10 feet of dirt. emergency workers tried to save the kids using their hands, shovels and eventually larger equipment but around 9:00 last night they realized that there was nothing the...

Weight to bear, but there's no oxygen down that deep either. >> once you are under more to four to six minutes, brain death starts to occur. by ten minutes your chance of survival is very limited. my expectations is this is a body recovery at that point. just horrifying to think of that. >> but lifeguards, firefighters, police, and the volunteers continue to work feverishly. >> i tried to pull a couple of them out of the hole after about 20 minutes of digging, but they just wouldn't come out. they were in there and they were going to pull him out. >> after close to 30 minutes of frantic diggin...

>> i tried to pull a couple of them out of the hole after about 20 minutes of digging, but they just wouldn't come out. they were in there and they were going to pull him out. >> after close to 30 minutes of frantic digging, finally news comes from the center of the giant pit. rescuers can see the top of meena's head. >> that's a long time though. >> and unbelievably, it looks like he's alive. >> he was taking slow, deep, gasping breaths, and his ears were blue, which indicated to us that we were literally, literally within a minute or two of perhaps losing brain cells and matt dying. >> the r...

Four to six minutes, brain death starts to occur. by ten minutes your chance of survival is very limited. my expectations is this is a body recovery at that point. just horrifying to think of that. >> but lifeguards, firefighters, police, and the volunteers continue to work feverishly. >> i tried to pull a couple of them out of the hole after about 20 minutes of digging, but they just wouldn't come out. they were in there and they were going to pull him out. >> after 30 minutes of frantic digging, finally news comes from the center of the giant pit. rescuers can see the top of meena's head. >>...

Soil out and use the pot as an instrument to dig. >> fire department battalion chief jeff boyles who arrives to coordinate the rescue effort knows the clock is ticking. five. ten. fifteen minutes pass. >> once we started hitting the 15-minute mark, i had to start preparing in my mind that if this personal really is five to seven feet down there, not only is that an enormous amount of weight to bear, but there's no oxygen down there that deep either. >> once you are under more to four to six minutes, brain death starts to occur. by ten minutes your chance of survival is very limited. my expecta...