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The mission to rescue the boy's soccer team from a flooded cave is offering nothing but more issues so far. heavy rain is expected for northern thailand, raising fear the flood waters that trapped them will rise even more. correspondent jonathan miller is there on the scene for us. jonathan, what are officials now saying about the options, about the chances? what's going to happen the next few days? >> reporter: well, this drama that's been unfolding here in north thailand is, i think, rapidly reaching its peak. we have another 24-hour window before these monsoon rains set in. the sense of urg...

Burn through oxygen hoses, get more intense and i think we would have lost the airplane there and then. >> les? >> we don't know if indeed it happened where the equipment was that was starting to shut down. so different things would have happened depending upon where the origination of that fire was, assuming that it was in that e and e-bay we saw earlier, the avionics bay. but as far as the turns once again i agree with john nance that it seems a little suspicious that there were a bunch of turns. but where were the bunch of turns if that's accurate information? >> and again, we have to look ...

The last few days. but if they did change course very severely a numbers of times before the straits of malacca that is not indicative of an airplane out of control. on top of that we've got the situation here where the turn to begin with whether it was programmed before or not was off in the wrong direction. if we had a fire, remember swiss air 111, it progressed. it would burn through oxygen hoses, get more intense and i think we would have lost the airplane there and then. >> les? >> we don't know if indeed it happened where the equipment was that was starting to shut down. so different thi...

Even if they were having problems keeping control of the airplane because of smoke or fumes, there would have been an attempt to go back to kuala lumpur or to the nearest airport, not to turn off to the west as it did and then to have several course changes. those course changes are what tell me that regardless of what happened this was not an in-flight emergency, this was purposeful. >> so you're saying, john, that if the crew had been overcome or was dealing with some sort of mechanical issue, there would not have been those course changes? >> i don't think there would have. those course cha...