rocks and bringing them into the car. all of them resting well right now here in this hospital in pershing county. this was a huge rescue effort with several hundred volunteers involved, not to mention pple in the air as well. how exactly in the end were they found? reporter: it s pretty amazing how they were canvassing looking for this car. what at the end helped them out is the fact they were able to look at cell phone forensics, some specialists in this area were able to ping where they st got a signal from their phones and were able to then change their search from air and from land about the same time. they said they were able to spot the car and able to rescue this family after two days in this bitter bitter cold out here in northwestern nevada. that is simply astounding, stephanie elam, thank you so much. stephanie is at the site where we re expecting a news conference with doctors at the hospital where the family is. we ll get the latest update on their condition. in me
from stephanie. we know the family was rescued earlier today. what is their condition now? reporter: what we are hearing, is that the family is resting comfortably. there is no frostbite. the adults did a good job on keeping the children warm. we heard they started a fire outside of the car and warming rocks and bringing them into the car. them resting well here in this hospital. this was a huge rescue effort with several hundred volunteers involved, not to mention people in the air, as well. how exactly in the end were they found? reporter: it s pretty amazing how they were canvassing looking for this car. what actually at the end helped them out is they were able to look at cell phone forensics. some specialists were able to ping where they last got a signal from the phone and changed their search from air and land about the same time. they said they were able to spot the car and rescue this family after two days in this bitter, bitter cold out here in
happened. they didn t leave their vehicle. they didn t panic. they let people know they were going to be out. when they did not return at the end of the day, the search got started at the end of the evening. how were they rescued, stephanie? it s amazing because what they were able to do, they call it cell phone forensics, but what they started to do was track down the pings coming off their phones. nay found the last tower with the last ping and changed the direction of their search. at the same time, they were spotted from the air, they were also spotted with binoculars on the ground and they found the family there huddled in by the car. amazing, the cause of that, and the other thing, too, everyone keeps saying it, they did the right thing by staying together and staying in the car and just working on keeping everyone warm. and the parents did a really great job here of doing that for these four children, brooke. sharing that one candy bar among all of them for those two days.