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of course, the bestiality video wasn't bad for children, because it was a woman and a male horse. nothing gay. >> paladino trails cuomo by double digits. in the most recent poll of new york voters. all that attention from late-night comedians isn't helping him. thanks for watching "what the week." remember, stay engaged, think for yourself, and have a great good evening, thanks for watching, tonight a look inside the rescue that riveted the world and brought 33 miners back from a dark underground dungeon that might just as easily become their tomb. 33 miracle men. they were alive 13 days before the rescuers reached them. down below what might have turned into lord of the flies chaos, instead became a 33-man democracy, with miners
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organizing, choosing leaders, deciding on the honor of who would be the last to leave. up above, the race to save them was on and so was the countdown to rescue. in the hour ahead, we're going to take you inside that race, moment by moment, challenges and setbacks, how they were overcome, the mechanical and human ballet that made it all possible. all the elements that led first to miners safe underground and the incredible sight of those men emerging one by one from weeks of darkness. we're going to start at the beginning with tom foreman. >> reporter: august 5, 2:00 in the afternoon, 2,300 feet underground, a shaft collapses in the san jose copper and gold mine. 33 miners are somewhere behind the rubble, their condition unknown.
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the chilean president promises every effort to rescue them but knew collapses complicate the formidable task. august 12, the miners' families have set up camp on the surface to keep watch on the drilling. a week has passed and an official says there is little chance the men survived. relatives would later say they argued with that assessment from the start. >> translator: i always told the media every time i was asked, i know my husband is fine, i know he's alive, and i know he's keeping up all the others in the mine because that's the kind of person my husband is. >> reporter: franklin's sister lobo never loses faith for a minute. >> translator: i got a call when i was at home and they said frankie is gone. and i said no, he's alive and god is going to get him out of there. >> reporter: so even as authorities hint that the search may need to wind down, the families are sending a clear
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message, keep looking. >> 33 men have been trapped underground since august 5th. their families prayed they were alive, those prayers have been answered. >> reporter: august 22nd, a stunning breakthrough. an exploratory drill hitting a chamber deep in the earth and comes up with a note attached. all 33 of us are fine in the shelter. >> scenes of joy, tears of happiness on the outside of this mine located in the northern part of chile about 450 miles north of santiago, our country's capital. we said after 17 days, we don't know anything about them. we made contact with the shelter, the shelter was located about 2,250 feet below the surface and when the probe came out with a piece of paper that had a message written on it, it said, we are all right, that we are in the shelter, the 33 of us.
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>> translator: i'm very proud of my brother because he's strong and that's why he's been able to achieve this, to remain alive for 11 days. >> reporter: rescuers celebrate too knowing that technology and teamwork have produced a near miracle. >> translator: all of you who brought us coffee, who brought us food, who made the logistics of all this possible. this is what brought this about. this country never gave up and we miners, we never will give up. ♪ >> reporter: a phone line is dropped down and rescuers above hear as if from beyond the grave the trapped, exhausted miners singing the national anthem. soon a videocamera is lowered and the first ghostly pictures emerge. [ speaking spanish ]
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>> reporter: the miners through strict disciplined rationing have survived 17 days on two days' worth of food. now supplies pour down the pipeline while gratitude rises up. hello to my family, my children, my wife, my mom, one man says, before he breaks into tears. thanks so much from all of my heart, another adds in the ghostly darkness. the miners have organized a chain of command, each one has been gavin job. they have times for work, for exercise, for relaxation. the routine has clearly kept spirits up. real soon we'll be out of here yet another assures those above. but real soon runs smack into reality, engineers studying the
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chamber where the miners are trapped have reached a daunting conclusion, it may take up to four months to bring them out. >> up on this barren hillside, relatives have planted a tag for each of the miners trapped underground. 32 chilean tags. one bolivian flag. as long as it takes, the chilean government is vowing to bring each one of them home alive. >> i want to bring you our karl penhaul who was the first on the scene for us. the first drill that came through and the miners attached a note to it, and we have some pictures of the note, the president of chile held up the note. what did the note say and did the people who were drilling know that they were alive or were they just kind of seeing what would happen? >> reporter: no, they had no knowledge or, in fact, after all this period, 17 days and the difficulties it was sending a probe into the mine, one of the reasons of the difficulties of
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putting that probe into the mine and locating exactly the refuge area was because the mine map supplied by the mining company was so out of date, they didn't know where the refuge was according to those maps. so really it was sticking a whole series of different probes into that hillside, the proverbial needle in the haystack. so after the 17 days they came up to the refuge, they didn't know if the men were alive. so what the men did is bang, bang, bang on the side of that drill with a spanner to send a vibration up the tube. they painted the tip of the drill red to let them know. and they taped on two notes. the first note written by jose ojeda, he said, we're in the refuge, the 33 of us, we are well. when that got to the surface, that was the most miraculous message to the rescuers on top. they didn't believe that all 33 would have made it.
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they didn't believe that they would be able to hit the refuge. by that time, they were almost giving up hope. but it was a second note attached to that drill bit by mario gomez to his wife. i remember the words of that. it starts off, dear lil'a, i'm well. thanks to god, we will make it out of here. >> karl, when you first arrived, how organized was it? >> reporter: the families were very organized because they had been there already 17 days standing vigil for these miners, it was really the families that drove the whole initial phase of this rescue operation because they clearly said to the government, they clearly said to the mine company, you will give us back our loved ones dead or alive. if they are dead, you will burrow down and bring their bodies back and if they are alive, you will find them. so they had organized themselves physically into one large group. of course they were living under very rudimentary conditions. people who had the warmth of their own homes in a city have
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gone up into the middle of the chilean desert and were camping out in the boiling hot days and in the absolutely frigid nights, anderson. >> and for the miners down below, those first 17 days, that's really the most extraordinary of all, because it was completely, they were left up to themselves. they didn't know if anyone was going to be able to find them, they didn't know if anybody knew they were alive or if everybody just assumed they were dead and they really kind of organized themselves. they started rationing food and they really were responsible for their own survival? >> reporter: those 17 days were the most key and the most amazing period from the earliest interviews. we're hearing that the miners have some kind of pact of silence so we're not hearing full details, but the details that i have heard so far from those miners, they had 120 cans of tuna between 33 of them. that meant that they rationed out half a plastic spoonful of
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tuna per miner a day. they organized themselves into work groups, but even so, they said they couldn't see a hand in front of their faces for those first 17 days, it was so dim. and then the issue of the shift foreman stepping up there, he said in some comments we have from him, that he decided that his only leadership quality would be to tell the truth to these men. at one stage he said, i'm going to tell you straight, we may make it, but it's more than likely we're going to die. although the men appreciated the honesty, but a couple of the men fell to the floor and didn't get up for a couple of days until their colleagues rallied back on the record them. but he told the men that they may make it out of there they may not. so the first 17 days they were aware, if they find us, they find us, if not, not. >> amazing. karl, appreciate all your reporting these long weeks and months. thanks very much.
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when we come back, the three-way race to drill the shaft into the mine. the one chilling moment when the drillers heard a hard bang down below. >> that's what we didn't want to hear. we still hadn't punched through into the mine. it was definitely a heart-stopper. we're thinking, man, something goes wrong in the last minute. sorry i'm late fellas. [ evan ] ah it's cool. ah... ah. ah. ah. ah. ah. ah. ah. ah. ah! ah! whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what is that?
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♪ 33 miners alive and apparently well. this was a good news/bad news story taken to a chilling extreme. the miners may be stuck until christmas. four months down below. how would they endure, let alone thrive as they did? tom foreman picks up the story. >> reporter: august 31st, after
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a message of support from the pope and a careful review of plans, tunnelling to the chamber begins. three tunnels will be drilled simultaneously, dubbed simply plans a, b and c. >> a key piece of machinery, that will be used to drill a hole down to the shelter 700 meters into the ground where the miners are is now being moved into place. >> reporter: plan "a" relies on a drill used to pierce ventilation shafts. plan "b" uses a drill digging water wells and will come in at an angle. and plan "c" will use a drill from oil exploration. experts from around the world have been called to consult on the engineering and the welfare of the miners. >> this is an operation that's probably unprecedented in scope. never have so many been trapped for so long and so deeply. >> reporter: the miners themselves are apprised of the rescue plans and approve.
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we are more calm with the video you sent us. everything upstairs is exactly the way we imagined it. september 6th, a problem. the "b" drill which seems to be making the best progress breaks and must be repaired. >> we are taking action because of the problems that we had with plan "b," but everything is on schedule right now. >> reporter: throughout the month, the waiting and drilling going on. electricity and lights are fed down to the men who have lived in utter darkness except for occasional use of their helmet lamps. through the small boreholes, mail is sent from loved ones above, clean clothing is pushed down, oxygen, water as well. the miners have asked for a chilean flag and some religious objects including a crucifix. concern over their health persists. many have lost weight and are sending messages about their struggle. >> they are not sleeping well
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and they are very nervous. in some ways, depressed. >> translator: i want to eat so many things. i'm hungrier than ever. all these days i have been dreaming about my mom cooking for me. >> reporter: by and large, they show remarkable resilience. i want to say thank you to all our families who had the courage not to abandon us. we know what you have done. we're calm down here, conditions are not that good, but we know we will make it out. september 26th, as if to prove it, the capsule designed to bring the men up through which ever borehole is done first arrives. it is red, white and blue, the colors of the chilean flag, it is called the fenix.
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>> because i think it's a process of rebirth. we expect we will have these miners out of this mine, is a sort of rebirth of a new life. >> reporter: october 1st, everything speeds up. officials unexpectedly announce the rescue which many thought might take until christmas is now slated for the second half of the month. october 9th, word comes that drill "b" is bearing down on the miners. there's now sharp concern that the drill could cause a general collapse in the chamber. the final moments are nerve-racking. then -- victory. the path it has cut is narrow, twisting and will need to be shored up with steel pipe. but for the miners, it is golden. and three days later, the first rescuer steps into the capsule and descends. >> joining us now is one of the men responsible for punching
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that rescue down into the mine faster than anyone could hope. jeff hart knows drilling and knows life and death. his last gig was in afghanistan. he's an engineer with the lane christensen company. i spoke with him moments after the first miner was brought to the surface. congratulations, what was it like for you to see this first man being brought out alive after you have been working on this and your colleagues around the clock to make sure this happens? >> we worked real long and hard on that and to actually see that capsule come through the first time through the hole that we drilled is just unbelievable. we're all kind of in disbelief that we're part of it. >> you had more than a part, and your colleagues did as well. you guys were working around the clock. there were three different drills, plan "a," "b" and "c." you were plan "b." you actually started later but you broke through first. i heard you said this is the most difficult drilling project you've worked on. and you just came back from afghanistan. why was this one so tough? >> the geography and the
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stratosphere is very difficult to drill. it's very abrasive, it's extremely hard, it's got broken parts in it. and so it eats up bits. we had a hard time with the angle, keeping the bushings in the bits and we just had issues. but together as a team, everybody just kind of came together and we made this thing work. and it's an awesome feeling. >> and were you manning the drill when it actually broke through, when it actually reached the miner? >> yes, sir, i was. >> what was that feeling like? i mean did you actually -- could you tell that it had gotten that close? >> you know, we did, we stopped 2 1/2 meters shy, just so we could make sure the miners could actually go down and make sure our depths are correct, they did over the phone tell us it is 2 1/2 meters, so drilling the last couple of meters is obviously nerve-racking. we could still have a failure at
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that point and lose the hole. so until you're actually in the line, it's not over. so, yeah, we had a very nerve-racking couple of meters there and then in the last six inches, we had something around the rig pop. everybody's asked us about that. we still today don't know what that was. >> i heard you described it that you thought your heart almost stopped? >> well, i tell you, that's exactly what it was, because that was what we didn't want to hear is something like that because we still hadn't punched through into the mine. and so it was definitely a heart stopper, we're thinking, man, something goes wrong in the last minute. but it ended up, we watched the video that the miners had come through for us into the mine and everything worked out well. >> you're a hero not only to the people there, but to all the people that have been watching, you and your colleagues. >> i appreciate that. when we come back, testing the shaft and the rescue pod planning the rescue and choosing an emergency worker to make that
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such a dramatic moment. rescuer manuel gonzalez being lowered into the escape shaft. it happened at 10:19 p.m. eastern time. he was literally charting the unknown. he was the first of six rescuers who would descend into that darkness. until that moment, the escape capsule had been tested unmanned and the tests had gone well. but there are no guarantees in any rescue operation. especially one on this scale. as gonzalez and the capsule vanished from sight, the world waited with fingers crossed and what we saw minutes later was truly extraordinary. here's gary tuchman. >> reporter: 68 days after the collapse of the san jose mine, the beginning of the end of the saga is now clearly in sight. the world gasps in disbelieve
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that the images more than 2,000 feet undergrounds. it's the first time anyone outside the immediate rescue team has seen live video of the miners. there are cheers and hugs for the first rescuer, manuel gonzalez. he is the first person to have physical contact with the miners since august. the men appear in good shape, most of them in their underwear and shirtless in the 80-degree heat of the mine. 31-year-old florencio avalos switches places with gonzalez. up above, an anxious quiet falls over the rescue workers and families. there's also now a nervous silence among the 32 miners still underground. >> we have been told this should take about 15 to 17 minutes for him to be brought up. but the wheel seems to be moving quicker than the wheel when they went down to get the miners. what's amazing, anderson, is this, this is the ultimate live shot.
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i got to tell you, this reminds me of when i was 8 years old watching neil armstrong step on the moon for the first time, that's the kind of awe we have here. after 15 agonizing minutes, the capsule finally reaches the surface. it's now 11:11 p.m. eastern time. in nearby copiapo, pandemonium. avalos appears to be in good physical condition. rescuers feared the miners would become dizzy during the long, bumpy ride, but avalos walks out of the capsule unaided, wearing special sunglasses to protect his eyes from the rescue lights. his family members, crowd him with joy on his return. he also hugs chilean president
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sebastian pinera and other rescue workers before being wheeled into a nearby medical facility. during those long months of isolation, avalos was the cameraman filming video of the miners to send up to their families on the surface. those families even while celebrating avalos' return soon hope the other 32 survivors will climb one by one into the capsule for their own ride back to freedom. [ speaking in native language ]
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>> reporter: florencio avalos had been the cameraman for a lot of the videos that we had been watching for several weeks. and he was selected because he was in good health. but i don't think anyone realized once he got to the top just how good a health he seemed to be in. >> reporter: no, it was amazing. we didn't know what to expect because these men had been underground for almost ten weeks. and the cage opened and he got out and he looked joyous, he looked refreshed and he was so ecstatic, and his little son was there with tears coming out of his eyes. it was just an amazing moment and it made us realize that this is going to be an incredible day or two days, we didn't know at the time -- of these amazing emotional reunions that we would never get tired of watching. >> was there talk at all of sending up the weakness members first before they ultimately decided to send up two of the stronger members?
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>> reporter: the idea was they didn't know how this capsule called the fenix would react the first time up. they did test it without human beings, a mine rescuer went down in it and that was successful. but they didn't know necessarily 100% sure what would happen when a miner went up in it. >> i don't think the miners got the recognition that they deserve. >> reporter: no. it was really amazing. that was one of the thing we didn't know about that so many rescuers would go down in a mine. but they were key. they made sure everything was organized and that everyone was calm. that they were dressed properly and mentally were ready for the ride up. it was nice, we covered the 33 men coming up, and that was a very happy moment, but then we continued a very important story, the six mine rescuers. it was still a risky ride. when the six of them got up, all 39 men, that was a cause for a major celebration. >> no doubt about it. gary, thanks.
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♪ cause you've called ups, that's logistics ♪ when florencia avalos stepped out of that escape capsule at 11:11 p.m. eastern time, one miner, safely outside breathing fresh air for the first time, making everybody believe it could work for everybody. it was still a marathon ahead. 32 more miners still waiting a half mile underground. would their nerves hold steady,
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would the escape capsule hold up? they did and it did. so many incredible moments. here's tom foreman. >> reporter: mario sepulveda rose out of the earth, hugged his wife then embraced his whole country. [ chanting ] >> reporter: i was with god and the devil, he said, god won. the long night ended for the youngest miner, jimmy sanchez, 19, for the only foreigner, bolivian carlos mamani. and for jose ojeda --
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at 63, mario gomez, the oldest was the first freed in the new dawn. he kissed his wife and prayed. so did others. esteban rojas trapped with two cousins, asked his wife to renew their wedding vows while below, she said yes. edison pena led sing-alongs of elvis songs underground. ariel ticona's wife had a baby while he was trapped below. i hope this new life ahead of you is happy, the chilean president told him.
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so it went around the clock. and finally the last man, the leader for all the trapped miners, luis urzua. you have been an inspiration, he is told. the country is not the same after this. ♪ >> reporter: then they sang the chilean national anthem, a song of hope, unity and strength for people who have shown so much of all three. at last, the six rescuers who descended to help were brought up. the first one in was the last one out.
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manuel gonzalez waved and bowed to the camera so far below, then rode up to a tumultuous celebration. then a talk with the president about the lessons of the disaster, the rescue, and the hope for the future. i hope we have learned from this and that chilean mining will be different, he said, and hope that things will be done correctly, that things will be done right. this is what i want. >> just amazing moments. up next, how they did it, while trapped for more than two months after a hoof mile underground and 17 days before anyone even knew they were alive. up next what it takes mentally to endure man versus wild.
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[ speaking in native language ] that's mario sepulveda, no mistaking his joy. he was just glowing, pumped and it was hard to believe he had spent more than two months underground. we saw over and over as the miners were pulled out just how resilient they seemed and how happy obviously after all they had been through. few of us are going to come close to experiencing what they have experienced, thankfully. not even bear grylls who hosts "man versus wild." we talked via skype about what it takes to live through such
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extreme conditions. from a survival standpoint, what really stands out to you about this story? >> it's such a long period of time, you know, it's hard to kind of get a grasp of just what it might be like to be underground for that amount of time. i have endured storms up mountains, being stuck in snow holes for long periods of time, but we're always talking kind of days rather than weeks and months. and i think just -- you know, the reality of what these guys have gone through, it's going to take a long time to recover. what will happen is the massive euphoria, that outpouring of emotion, but that's the honeymoon period. the hard time, i think people will find for the survivors will actually be a month or two down the line when your body and your mind starts to process your emotions that you've kept a lid on all that time underground. >> those first 16 or 17 days
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after they realized they were trapped, when they weren't sure if rescue was coming, they weren't sure if anybody was going to find them, they were in pitch black conditions, they're in a room about 600 or so square feet. there's 33 of them. that's got to be the toughest time, even for guys who are used to being underground, just not knowing if anyone's going to actually find them. >> it's really terrifying and i think one of the hardest emotions to deal with for the survivor is the not knowing, not knowing if rescue is ever going to be able to reach you, not knowing if anyone is looking for you. these are really hard emotions to deal with. once they realized there was a glimmer of hope, however small that glimmer was, then you can start to settle into that routine. but that initial not knowing must have been frightening. i think also the fact that your senses become deprived to everything that we take for granted, like light, warmth, sleep, rest, even things like family, love, children, you start taking all that away from people and, you know, stuff
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happens and i think all emotions get very heightened, the good emotions and the bad emotions, things get blown out of proportion. and i think for these guys, they pulled this off and they survived this, that's something they should be so, so proud of and what an amazing experience for them to go through. >> and for those first 16 or 17 days before the drill got to them, they were basically surviving on little pieces of fish, i read mackerel and tuna that were already in the mine and also obviously water. how long can someone go on just that kind of a diet? >> well, you're into survival food then. but your body can last, you know, up to like 40 days without food. they were on very limited rations, they can survive a while. but, again, it's measured in weeks and the important thing for them was water, which they did have. but, again, you know, it's -- you're really reduced to basic levels in life. you've got to just admire that
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fortitude and that courage and the way they must have had to work together. and it just shows that human beings, when we're really put up against it actually we're all survivors underneath it, regardless of how we see ourselves and we struggle with this and struggle with that, but when you're squeezed, you're like grapes, you see what you're made of. and these guys should be really, really proud. wow, what an amazing journey. >> is this an experiment you would want to try on your show? being underground for this long? >> no, three months, that's too long. we tend to take about five or six days to film in "man versus wild" and after that, i'm well ready to go it out of there and go home. i admire these guys so much. i've been praying for them. i'm so glad to see these men on their way to safety. i once went 3 1/2 months without a shower and it took me about a month to smell normal again, so i don't know what these guys are going to smell like at the end. but what a journey and i'm so glad they're on their way out. >> appreciate your time, thank you. >> take care.
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up next, the unforgettable moments, like this one, the rescue workers down below, holding a banner that read "mission accomplished" after the last miner made it to the top. gary tuchman shares the memories he remembers most coming up. [ applause ] [ speaking in native language ]
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that's the 27th miner to emerge. he's a former professional soccer player. no doubt they wanted to make sure his skills were still up to par. one of the most incredible moments was when manuel gonzalez arrived in the underground chamber. we didn't know we were going to get video images of that, but there it was, it popped up on the computer screen. those miners' first contact with
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a human being from the outside world, first direct contact in more than two months. i want to bring in gary tuchman. gary, so many amazing moments during this rescue as you have covered it. what really stands out for you? >> reporter: what stands out for me is when the first miner, florencio avalos made it to the top. the reason it was so significant is because we weren't 100% sure that this would be successful. it was very nerve-racking. once we knew that -- the capsule started moving, we watched the wheel turn the clockwise position, which means it was coming up, and we watched the rope being pulled, we knew it would take 15 to 17 minutes for florencio to make it to the top. but time went so slowly. when we saw the capsule come above the hole and saw this man in the cage, it was just amazing. not only did we know that this man was safe, but it made us
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realize that we didn't need to be as tense. that there was good cause to know that it was going to be successful. >> i sort of felt watching television throughout the day, i felt bad for the miners, excitement for some of the spectators around the world had waned. for people there, though, it seems like there was equal enthusiasm for everybody who came out. >> reporter: it was really incredible because i was watching it on a perch where we could eyeball the situation about 200 yards away. i was with about 150 other reporters from all over the world. it was like the united nations of journalism. and each and every time a rescue occurred, there were tvs about five minutes away from where we were standing doing our live reports and we would gather near the tvs when we weren't on the air and everyone was watching with equal interest and emotion. we find of forgot we were reporters, we were just people watching it and we were caught up in it each and every time.
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>> gary, appreciate it, thanks. of course the story is far from over. 33 men and their families have begun their lives again, begun them anew, some of the miners say. there are going to be a lot more stories to comment for now, though, that's our report. thanks for watching. thanks for watching. i'll see you next time. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com [ evan ] ah it's cool. ah... ah. ah. ah. ah. ah. ah. ah. ah. ah! ah! whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what is that? how come my dap wasn't like that? huh? it's just an "us" thing. yeah, it's a little something we do. who else is in this so-called "us"? man, i don't know. there's a lot of us. [ chuckles ] ask your friends what it's like to be part of a group that's 40 million strong. state farm insures more drivers than geico and progressive combined.
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