1.   Rescuers are trying to drive the stranded whales back out into the open sea.

2.   Rescuers have tried unsuccessfully to drive them out into the open sea using a line of boats with their engines running.

3.   But the woman died as rescuers tried to get her to a hospital in Dubrovnik.

4.   By the time rescuers first tried to smuggle Feng out alone, he could barely walk because the couple had spent so long cooped up in one room.

5.   Now, the rescuers were trying desperately to save their own lives.

6.   Rescuers tried to identify which government office they were in by the style of furniture they encountered or the contents of papers strewn about.

7.   Rescuers were trying to reach an elderly woman trapped on an upper floor.

8.   A fire official said rescuers were trying to pull bodies from the crumbled building.

9.   For a second day, people pleaded for rescuers to try to find loved ones in towers of rubble of what was once apartment buildings.