If youre joining us from around the world, thank you for joining us. Im victor blackwell. Im Diane Gallagher in for christi paul this sunday. Breaking news. The operation to save the 12 boys and their coach, they have been stuck in a cave in thailand for more than two weeks. That rescue mission now under way. A local governor calling this dday. The highrisk mission starting just hours ago around 11 00 p. M. Eastern time so about eight hours at this point. Officials say that it should take about six hours for the skilled divers to reach the boys and then another five hours to exit. This entire operation, though, could take two to three days as the boys are being rescued onebyone. The monsoon rains will intensify over the next week. Translator yesterday, the water level was the lowest. And, today . The water level in chambers number one, two, and three, inside the cave is low enough to walk through them. The water of some parts recedes as much as 30 centimeters and considered the lowest
so we hope the rescue can go on as planned. rafael rouge, thank you for your time and your work you have put in with these boys. thank you. the layout of the cave there and the spot where the soccer team is trapped represent more challenges for the rescuers. look at this. the group was found two and a half miles from the entrance of the cave which is about six-tenths of a mile underground. the divers take one boy at a time. that part is more than a mile long. they will have to travel through narrow and flooded passages which some have described, consider this, as having absolutely no visibility. once they reach the command center, special rescue teams will take over at that point. they will help the boys through the rest of the journey which is more than a mile to the exit and it may require carrying those boys on stretchers.