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basically they are saying on the news conf: 1) the rescue teams started climbing at 4:00am this morning, 25 climbers heading to the summit from the south side, 30 from the northside, with additional (as I understood what he said) support teams possitioned in forward locations and at least two back up teams. 2) ETA to summit was "by midday", but depends on conditions. I suspect they will be up shortly (because they have been climbing for 5 hours). I'm sure the media will have a better wrap up posted shortly.

there is a Saturday morning news conf. scheduled to start shortly after 9:00am channel 8 TV said will go live on TV or for a web stream seems like katu.com will have it (they have a link that i can't get to work). Hang in there guys, good vibes for everyone up there this morning. I can see the top of the mountain from my window right now. I hope they can get up there or are already climbing now. http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/videoPlayer.php?vidId=57406&live=yes

Making my first post to say I'm also thinking of all involved up there and sending best wishes and positive energy to everyone on the mountain. Hang in there!