experienced cave divers, three hours. we have the boys try on the mask and practice breathing. they haven t gone into the water yet. like i mentioned before, the water stream is quite strong and it would be risky to bring them in water now. leland: greg palkot is following this story from london. all right, greg, what are the options now for rescue. yeah, nothing easy, all challenging to try to get these 13 out of this cave. they are 2 1/2 miles underground according to most estimates. much discussed is getting these boys again age 11 to 16 and their coach 25 years old, to dive their way out with special gear and a whole lot of assistance with rescue divers with them. they have been underground for 11 days. as you just heard they ve been practicing with the masks as well as breathing equipment. they would have to swim or dive through a half mile of water that is in that cave.
of construction only 11 lives were lost. chief engineer strauss inhistoried on special hard hats and goggles and breathing equipment for those who work high up and a way to catch those who fell. all he brought a safety net for the roadway saving 19 lives, during the construction of the roadway that are known as the halfway to help club, they banded together and anyone that fell into the net became part of the halfway to hell, club. 19 in total. bridge is sometime undergrowing construction and being retrofitted to withstand an 8.3 earthquake with a moveable barrier to separate the two way traffic, and overtime next 45 years the massive main cables that gracefully drape over the towers get a fresh coat of paint in international orange. after three quarters of a century the golden gate bridge still strong and stoushed difficult and still a looker. gregg: i lived there and
you know, and doing nothing more than that. you know what i m saying? michele hickman we appreciate you joining us today to share your side of things. that target statement said they did work directly with you to address your concerns and sorry for any inconvenience caused but we appreciate you joining us to tell us why you felt so strongly that you and others staged this sit in with mothers at target store across the country. thank you. it is time to launch hour number two. the pentagon warns iran not to bottle up the persian gulf. did you hear about this? new nominees at the top brain trust at the federal receive. and soggy end to 2011. time to play reporter roulette. we ll start with barbara starr. barbara, take us through this. this is quite serious in terms of the rhetoric. we ll see how serious it is in terms of the reality. iran reacting to statements from european countries that want they might place an embargo on iranian oil import, iran saying if that happen
amount of fema funding in this short-term spending bill. fema announced today that it s able to basically stretch the funds that they have in this federal disaster relief fund which is helping recovery efforts for all the natural disasters the country has been facing. they re able to stretch the funds to make it through the end of this week, which is a different estimate, which is a better picture than they ve been painting previously, that they felt the coffers were going to run dry early this week. by doing that, it s key because the end of this week is the end of the fiscal year which really essentially takes the big obstacle that was holding up agreement off of the table. it makes it a moot point. and that is because the fight was over federal disaster relief in just the end of the fiscal year 11 which, as we know, is just the next few days. democrats and republicans were fighting over whether that bit of fema funding should be paid for or should not be. republicans want
federal disaster relief fund which is helping recovery efforts for all the natural disasters the country has been facing. they re able to stretch the funds to make it through the end of this week, which is a different estimate, which is a better picture than they ve been painting previously, that they felt the coffers were going to run dry early this week. by doing that, it s key because the end of this week is the end of the fiscal year which really essentially takes the big obstacle that was holding up agreement off of the table. it makes it a moot point. and that is because the fight was over federal disaster relief in just the end of the fiscal year 11 which, as we know, is just the next few days. democrats and republicans were fighting over whether that bit of fema funding should be paid for or should not be. republicans wanted it paid for, democrats didn t. that issue is taken off the table, as we see, the senate was able to move forward in a 79-12 vote to push through