Diver in Laos miner rescue effort: "We have high hopes that they are still alive"

In pitch-black tunnels in a remote mine in central Laos, rescuers are risking their lives to save seven miners who have been trapped for a week. "We haven't found them, but the operation is escalating a lot, and we have high hopes that they are still alive," Mikko Paasi, a Thai-based Finnish diver who was instrumental in the rescue of a youth soccer team that was trapped in a cave in Thailand in 2018, told CBS News. Paasi is now in Laos, helping authorities in the rescue effort. …