decisions remember you always want to make decisions that are going to be safe not hurt all right ed sorenson regional coordinator of the international underwater cave rescue and recovery organization great to have you with us thank you. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the walls the natives of ethiopia and eritrea have agreed to end decades of conflict and reopen diplomatic times it was the first meeting between leaders of the african neighbors in nearly twenty years here at the end eritrea began a border war and nine hundred ninety eight simulations remain to tents and till now . turkey's government has fired more than eighteen thousand state employees over alleged links to terror groups those sacked include police offices military personnel and teaches it comes a day before president added one will be sworn in for another term under the country's a new executive presidency or the one hundred ten thousand public sector workers have been sacked since a failed coup attempt in two thousand and twenty sixteen. meanwhile turkey says ten people have been kille

to give an idea of the arduous mission we're joined on the line by ed sorenson he's a veteran diver and a regional coordinator of the international underwater cave rescue and recovery organization mr sorrels and thank you for joining us can you explain just how dangerous and difficult a mission like this is for having yeah. it's incredible there are so many factors that are there are so many as are taking into consideration when wearing out want to be. free you might have one or two or three in. the area that they're raising they just die pretty much all so it's a miracle that. that john and reve crowned him in the first place and it's. credible that they're that they've actually got some of them out alive and now yourself have saved people's lives in cave rescue missions can you give us an idea of what happens once you emerge. yeah there's every body recovery every rescue mission i've been called to when i by the time i get out . it's usually a good deal of time is passed. there's always huge crowds around and they're always expecting the worst. in cave diving rescue attempts it's alwa

initial reporting that will to understand more about this arduous mission which joined on the line by ed sorenson he's a veteran diver and a regional coordinator of the international underwater cave rescue and recovery organization thank you for coming on the program now the thought of teaching children to dive in in a matter of days seems extraordinary what would they learn before they attempt to leave the cave complex. well there's no way to tell there's a lot that has to go into teaching somebody to dive in an overhead environment for scuba certified for that and he'd know how to swim. then you need to get experience in the open water where the ending goes wrong servers then these are caverns you have the years of age and a good number of hole in the water to that point then each segment along the way there's or after an introduction of a person. and even after all that all that training where each step a little more grinding learn a little bit more safety procedures on how to be some of the things are going to need no use doing the repair or ready for what they have to go through so giving a

ed sorenson had been on stand by in florida. >> it's incredibly exhausting. and they have are doing a super human job. >> reporter: divers will be fighting fatigue and trying to keep the final four boys and coach from panicking. >> it's important to keep them calm. otherwise, they can take the rescuer out with lking through mud you can't see and you have to be careful not to -- broken ankles, broken legs. >> reporter: the rescued boys are being kept in quarantine and two might have lung infections. the most serious is cave disease from bat droppings. >> it's a fun gal infection. it's a complicated disease that affects many parts of the body. in some cases, it's two to three weeks long. they could be out and not get sick for a few more days. >>> time is 4:05. judge brett kavanaugh, president trump's nominee for the u.s. supreme court will make the rounds, who will vote nomination. reaction is divided on party lines. the judge serves on the washington, d.c. circuit court of appeals. he had been considered a favorite for the nomination. judge cavanaugh graduated

in cave diving instructor at the international underwater cave rescue and recovery institution, ed sorenson. thank you for rejoining us. we spoke earlier about the pe l perils that these boys and those expert divers had to face. i have to say, being a scuba diver myself, in very limited circumstances, nothing like this in terms of cave diving, my eyes popped when i heard that these boys were brought underneath the divers. when you look at the kinds of equipment that these kids have to wear. they have regulators in their mouth to deliver the oxygen they need, they probably have oxygen tanks on them, i don't even know how to envision this. can you help describe in extreme circumstances like this, how someone would travel through a cave of this nature underneath a diver and do it successfully? >> it just shows those kids' resolve. how they stayed calm and collected through the ordeal in the darkness, with no food or water, for the first nine days was unbelievable. and then there's a lot of -- most people in the world couldn't do what these kids are being asked to do. so it's the worst of the w

. >>> ed sorenson is a potential diver to go to thailand if needed. e rescue & recovery coordinator. he joins us from florida's blue springs state park. ed, thanks for joining us. what are the risks and the dangers to the boys and the divers? >> well, there is just so many risks in a rescue operation such as this one. obviously the zero vis is one of the biggest. the extreme high flow. in this particular case, the flow seems to be dropping down li bit. should help t but the narrow restrictions are going to be one of the biggest ones. stress is one thing that they really need to keep in mind. these boys aren't used to being in the water. they don't even know how to swim. they haven't had scuba apparatus on, and then to have to get separated from the rescuer and then get stuck through a small hole, it's going to be stressful for them. >> what are you focusing on? as a layperson, we're just saying, please, hurry, get them out as quickly as they can. when you hear an operation is underway, what are you focusing on and saying, oh, this is going well, or, ho