officials say that nathan woessner was buried for about 4 1/2 hours. according to newly released 911 calls, nathan's father and a family friend tried hand digging him out before rescuers and heavy equipment arrived. >> my friend's son, he got stuck in a sand dune and he's under the sand and we can't get him out. he's up on the dune. >> can anybody see him or is he completely covered by sand? >> colin, is he completely covered by sand? yes, my husband and his dad are trying to dig him out. >> can you imagine? officials say luckily an air pocket saved this little boy's life. reports say nathan's injuries are not life threatening and that his outlook is good. that is one lucky little boy. >>> well, canadian authorities plan to perform an autopsy today to determine actor cory monteith's cause of death. the 31-year-old "glee" actor was found saturday night with no indication of foul play. monteith had a history of drug addiction and even checked himself into rehab last april. the actor said he struggled with addiction since he was a teenager. in a forebodin

. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, little boy was clinging to : nathan woessner had been following his dad on ad dune >>> hard to believe this little boy was clinging it life. >> nathan was phenomenon lowing his dad on a sand dune climb. rescuers discovered him under 11 feet of sand. four hours later, barely breathing, but conscious. after two weeks in the hospital in critical condition, he made a full recovery and his parents are calling it nothing short of a miracle. >>> just to let him know how much strength he has given others, you know, and to never give up on that. >> you'll never know how much we appreciate what they do for us. thank you. >> nathan's parents say this experience will remind them to treasure every moment with their son. >>> the a's continue to light up the score board in a big way. the defending champions, they got one last day in the sun at the white house. the minute is next. ,,,, goodnight. thanks, olivia. thank you. so you can make a payment from your cell to almost anyone's phone or email. (speaking french) so you can express your gratitude... in the moment. cu >>> this tim

on friday nathan woessner was playing at indiana dunes national lakeshore, which is about 20 miles east of gary. he fell into a hole and when his family and friends tried to rescue him, the entire dune collapsed. >> my friend, he got stuck in a sand dune and he's understood the sand dune. they can't get him out. >> firefighters say nathan survived because he was caught in an air pocket and is expected to make a full recovery. >>> a bloody end to the final running of the bulls in pamplona, spain. officials say a 23-year-old woman from australia is in grave condition after being gored in the back yesterday. four other runners were hospitalized with cuts and bruises. >>> harry potter author j.k. rowling conjured up a secret identity. she used a private pen name. robert galbraith was supposed to be a married father of two. rowling's magic touch has turned "the coukoo's calling" into a bestseller. >>> and a fan at a cleveland indians game did something nobody's ever done. he's snagged not one, not two, but four foul balls. it happened on sunday. he caught three of them. the fourth he picked

the hospital tweeting nathan woessner released this update. the child remains in critical condition, but when he arrived, he was able to respond to simple commands and he has responded well to mechanical ventilation. good news there. and we learned in this story that actually, on the way to the hospital, he started crying in the surveillance. so welcome relief, of course, for the rescuers and his family. >> so scary. such a popular area, when you hear that story, it just terrifies me. as a kid, you run on the dunes. parents hang out on the beach and you just run the dunes. >> can you imagine, three hours? you have to think the worst, right? >> it turned into a recovery mission. >> for them to have the deal and watch the people digging him out and the idea that that kid comes alive. >> obviously, nothing's more important in a parent's life than their child, but now after something like this, the gift is just so precious. >> a good sign of him crying in the end. >> exactly. >> we'll stay on him. we're going to want to see -- >> and of course you

. >> not only did 6-year-old nathan woessner survive against all odds he's doing better than expected according to his doctor i spoke with last night. nathan's grandfather is sharing what it was like at the moment any family member would dread, he learned his grandson had been swallowed by a sink hole. >> we thought nathan was dead. >> as 6-year-old nathan woessner recovered in the hospital his grandfather holds back tears as he recalls the terrifying phone call he got from his daughter friday afternoon. >> she was hysterical and she said "dad, dad, we can't find nathan. he is, he is under the sand dune. qur". >> reporter: his grandson was following his dad on a sand climb at indiana national park when suddenly he slipped into a sink hole and disappeared underneath a mound of sand. >> by the time the park people got there they had dug a hole between four and five feet deep and still could not find nathan. >> reporter: after more than three and a half agonizing hours, rescuers discovered nathan 11 feet underneath and rushed him to the hospital in critical condition, breathing but uncon

. >> reporter: for nathan woessner, it was supposed to be a fun start of summer by camping near the beach when all of a sudden tragedy struck. >> 911. >> my friend's son got stulk in the sand dune and he's stuck under the sand and they can't get him out. >> reporter: he fell into a sinkhole friday afternoon. when family and friends tried to dig him out, things went from bad to worse. >> they were trying to free him and the whole holcomb pleatly collapsed. >> reporter: it became the scene of a frantic rescue effort by park officials, police and firefighters, even ek ka vags companies and backhoes were mustered to help. >> you know you can't get a very steep angle on your hole. it's going to keep collapsing down on itself. >> reporter: miraculously he was found inside an air pocket 11 feet under the surface. but when he was pulled out, he was not responsive? >> when you're holding a child that you thinks who life was -- it's hard to deal with. >> there were guys on their knees crying all over the place. >> reporter: after the child was transported to the hospital his exhausted rescuers lear

the doctors here at the comer children's hospital in marveling at young nathan woessner's recovery. >> he's actually doing very well. he's improving every single day and we hope to have the breathing tube out by the end of the week. and i would hope that he would possibly be out of his hospital in 10 to 14 days. >> reporter: attempts to flush the sand out of nathan's lungs have been effective. >> his lung injury is not nearly as severe as i expected it to be. and it has not gotten more severe over the last couple of days. it's actually gotten better. >> reporter: last friday afternoon, do it was on a hike with his father greg at the indiana dunes at lake shore when he simply disappeared beneath the sand. >> nathan was hollering out and greg didn't hear him. so greg told him, lay still, nathan, don't move. and they frantically began to dig to get him out. >> reporter: trying to dig him out made matters worse and deepened the hole. excavating equipment brought him to the surface and they did not expect good news. >> when they found nathan, he was cold and lives and the coroner was there

. >> reporter: a family friend calls 911 as onlookers frantically try to dig out nathan woessner. >> can anybody see him or is he completely covered by sand? >> yes, my husband and his dad are trying to dig him out. >> reporter: the 6-year-old was no match for the highest of the sand dunes at this national park along lake michigan. he'd climbed the dune some 12 stories high, an area off-limits to the public when it gave way. >> the sand just literally drank him up. for me to think about that, how the earth just literally consume your child and leave no traces. >> reporter: little nathan sank 11 feet. he was buried alive down there for more than three hours. rescuers think there was an air pocket possibly created by an old tree. >> perhaps its trunk had rotted out creating this void or this hole but that's still uncertain. >> reporter: whatever saved him the first responders who dug with shovels and heavy equipment now admit they were talking to even touching a little boy they weren't sure was still alive. >> i was talking to him, you know, just like i would talk to my own son. by the

the doctors here at the comer children's hospital in marveling at young nathan woessner's recovery. >> he's actually doing very well. he's improving every single day and we hope to have the breathing tube out by the end of the week. and i would hope that he would possibly be out of his hospital in 10 to 14 days. >> reporter: attempts to flush the sand out of nathan's lungs have been effective. >> his lung injury is not nearly as severe as i expected it to be. and it has not gotten more severe over the last couple of days. it's actually gotten better. >> reporter: last friday afternoon, do it was on a hike with his father greg at the indiana dunes at lake shore when he simply disappeared beneath the sand. >> nathan was hollering out and greg didn't hear him. so greg told him, lay still, nathan, don't move. and they frantically began to dig to get him out. >> reporter: trying to dig him out made matters worse and deepened the hole. excavating equipment brought him to the surface and they did not expect good news. >> when they found nathan he was cold and lives and the coroner was there.

. >> reporter: for nathan woessner, it was supposed to be a fun start of summer by camping near the beach when all of a sudden tragedy struck. >> 911. >> my friend's son got stulk in the sand dune and he's stuck under the sand and they can't get him out. >> reporter: he fell into a sinkhole friday afternoon. when family and friends tried to dig him out, things went from bad to worse. >> they were trying to free him and the whole holcomb pleatly collapsed. >> reporter: it became the scene of a frantic rescue effort by park officials, police and firefighters even ek ka vags companies and backhoes were mustered to help. >> you know you can't get a very steep angle on your hole. it's going to keep collapsing down on itself. >> reporter: miraculously he was found inside an air pocket 11 feet under the surface. but when he was pulled out, he was not responsive? >> when you're holding a child that you thinks who life was -- it's hard to deal with. >> there were guys on their knees crying all over the place. >> reporter: after the child was transported to the hospital his exhausted rescuers learn

nathan woessner was released wednesday from chicago children's hospital. nathan has suffered damage to his lungs but they expect him to make a full recovery. >>> tired travelers in johannesburg got a treat, a free cup of coffee, however they had to yawn to get some. it's a specially made coffee machine, employs facial detection software, you yawn, a cup appears. it's funny watching them try and figure out where the button is. hmm, get frustrated. >> they're about to yell at it when it comes out because it looks like they're yawning. >> you look at me with crazy eyes. >> i like that. that's the face i'll have to look out for you. it's all over but the funeral. >> just bring out some coffee. >>> time for our political gut check all the stories you need to know coming out of washington and around the country. first up, congressman steve king defending his remarks that many young undocumented immigrants are drug dealers. john king is here to talk more about this. john, you know steve king is known to speak his mind quite often and he is not backing down from h

nathan woessner was warmly welcomed at his church sunday morning just two weeks after surviving the unthinkable. >> i remember the paramedic coming in and saying he's alive. those were the sweetest words i ever heard. >> nathan had been following his dad on a sand dune climb at indiana lakes shore, when suddenly he slipped into a sinkhole and disappeared into a mound of sand. as rescue workers frantically searched for nathan, his parents admit they feared the worst. >> we really did think he was gone. we were bracing ourselves for that. >> reporter: after nearly four agonizing hours, rescue workers discovered nathan 11 feet under the sand breathing but unconscious and rushed him to the hospital in critical condition. he remained on a breathing tube for days while doctors worked to clear sand out of his fragile lungs. nathan has since made a full recovery and was sent home friday morning. doctors say they believe an air pocket kept him from suffocating. his parents now thanking the rescuers, doctors, and nurses who helped save his life. >> you never know how much we appreciate what they did for

. >>> 6-year-old nathan woessner after being rescued from a sand dune continues to improve. he's been upgraded to good condition. his family is saying his survival is nothing less than a miracle. >> there's no wiggle room on the miracle side of this equation. nathan was under the sand, under more than 11 feet of sand for more than four hours. the sand didn't crush him and he didn't suffocate. he's coming out of this with no ramifications. >> his father, a pastor, by the way, say they expect nathan to be released from the hospital by the end of the week. we are so glad to be able to report that. >>> man versus fish? the fish won. we're going to show you rescue footage from a helicopter plucking 54-year-old anthony wickman from a capsized boat off the coast of hawaii. wickman hook add 230 pound tuna on friday. during the fight, the giant fish capsized his boat, tossed him into the water. wickman was able to call his wife for help after scrambling on to the hull of his boat and was then rescued. in case you're wondering the tuna was still on the line after wickman was rescued.

. >>> first, their son's story -- by all accounts, nathan woessner shouldn't have made it. what started as a fun family weekend on the shores of lake michigan. >> just all the fun thanks come with camping. >> quickly took a terrible turn. nathan, his father greg, and friends were climbing a 126-foot sand dune named mt. baldy. >> just remember telling, you know, kind of hollering, screaming, that nathan fell in a hole. and from there, just utter chaos. >> my friend's son, he got stuck in a sand dune. and he's like under the sand, and we can't get him out. >> until rescuers arrived, they tried to dig nathan out using only their bare hands. >> i just had such panic and fear and desperation to get to him. i remember watching the backhoe digging, and they were soaked in sweat and covered in sand. and they were just digging -- >> frantically. >> those rescuers did not give up. after digging more than three hours and more than 14 feet, they spotted nathan's head. he apparently sunk straight down. authorities say a sunken tree may have created the air pocket that allowed him to sur

greg and faith woessner say it's a miracle. 6-year-old nathan was playing at the dunes at the indiana lakeshore on july 12th when a sand dune collapsed. it took rescuers more than three hours to pull him out. he went back home on friday and his parents say it's a blessing he can't remember what happened. >> he says he can't remember anything. i can't imagine remember those feelings that he was feeling down in the hole. i don't want him to remember that. >> doctors say nathan is doing well but still needs more rehabilitation. >>> and a crowd at a concert in cleveland got quite a surprise saturday. amanda berry came out on stage for her first public appearance. she's one of three women rescued in may after being held captive for more than a decade. ariel castro, the man charged well kidnapping her , pled guily on friday and was sentenced to life without parole plus 1,000 years. >>> according to one expert, the chances of recovering $53 million worth of jewels stolen on sunday are slim. the jewels were part of an exhibit in caanes, france, and as charlie d'agata reports, it's not the fir