louisville/michigan tonight with the ncaa title on the line. go michigan! come on. go louisville! now you want both. i m conflicted here. welcome back. thank you. welcome to early start. i m john berman. i m zoraida sambolin. it s monday, april 8th. we start with breaking news, a frantic search for two small children buried when a dirt wall collapsed. it s now turned into a recovery effort. it started sunday afternoon, rescuers have been working around the clock digging by hand but they now fear the worst. a 6-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy were playing in a hole being dugout for the basement of a new home when the dirt wall gave way. after hours of digging this morning, rescuers say what had been a rescue effort is now a recovery effort. they dug down 20 feet with no sign of the children so far. we will bring you the latest as we learn more. a developing story, a
we begin this hour with breaking news a recovery effort is underway in north carolina where authorities belive two young children were killed when a dirt wall collapsed on top of them. it started late sunday afternoon in rural lincoln that was being the basement of a new home. the dirt wall there gave way. a short time ago we heard from the lincoln county department of emergency management. this is a very systematic and slow, tedious process to try to get to these children. we have to go down layer by layer through the dirt to try to get down to the children. the efforts have been ongoing overnight, and they will continue until we can bring closure to the family from this tragic accident that has occurred. the incident is in the infancy from a standpoint of an investigative stance. the local sheriff s department will be conducting the investigation, so they will be the ones that will be able to answer the circumstances
recover the bods of two young children who were buried when a dirt wall collapsed. the 6 and 7-year-old were cousins, playing in a hole that was being dug out for the basement of a new home yesterday when the dirt wall just gave way. we re going to get the latest from richard devane from our affiliate wcnc. we re seeing a little bit more activity out here. i ll tell you god monday morning. there have been a shift change. some crews are coming in. some crews are going out. just about 10, 15 minutes ago, i was walking up the road. spoke to a couple. it was the brother of the father of one of those kids. he said right now the family is trying to deal with all of this. they thanked the public for their respect of their privacy and also for their prayers. we can tell you that as you said yesterday, as we look at this scene right here that the police the emergency workers have said that they were trying to save the children. but then they made that grim
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aid programs. you should apply for as many as you can, as many scholarships as you can, as many schools as you can that are within the kind of the realm of what you want to do. the money aspect, i think, is always a big issue. nnamdi, we really appreciate you joining us and hopefully we can talk to you closer to football time when you re now with the san francisco 49ers. so now we used to say you were our favorite philadelphia eagles player and now you re our favorite 49ers fan. you have no choice. you have to be a 49ers fan. we appreciate what you re doing for those kids. we ll talk to you soon. the bodies of two children were recovered today from a construction site in north carolina. that tops our look at stories around the news nation today. the 6-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy were playing at a site sunday evening when a dirt wall collapsed on top of them. the two were cousins. they were visiting their grandparents. what caused that collapse