once you are under more than 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 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 rescuers quickly get the sand away from meena s face and get him oxygen.
seven feet down there, not only is that an enormous amount of 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 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
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 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
the fighting echoing all around us. israel pounding the area for days. hamas militants fighting back. small arms fire, so be careful. reporter: a bulldozer cleared the way. these rescue workers going down the street, banging on doors, calling out for the wounded, clearing one house and then moving on to the next. then, frantic digging. a wounded man pulled out from under his house that collapsed. it s scenes like this that have triggered a u.n. investigation into war crimes. each side here accused. the u.n. says nearly 75% of the almost 700 palestinians killed here were civilians. israel says it s targeting militants and accuses hamas of using innocent people as human shields, itself a war crime, while more than 2,000 rockets have been fired from gaza into israel. two israeli civilians have been killed, while more than 30 soldiers have died. secretary of state john kerry is back in cairo after spending a day in israel, pushing a cease-fire deal and leaving empty-handed.
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 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 rescuers quickly get the sand away from meena s face and get him oxygen. they place a bucket over his head to protect him from the