harrigan on scene and adam housley on scene and our technicians and photographers around the world, it's been an honor to host this. we'll see you in a few minutes as it came to a close. >> target literally gave $150,000 to one of the most anti-gay politicians in this state. >> a boycott against target stores is driven by the far left but wait until you hear the dirty tricks behind this action. >> who is the taxman? >> christine o'donnell running almost 20 points behind in delaware put out a new ad chastising her opponent. we'll show it to you. >> i got nowhere else to go! >> and dennis miller has some thoughts on bristol palin doing the rumba. >> ♪ my umbrella >> uh-oh.

>> caution, you are about toenter the no spin zone. "the factor" begins right now. >> hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. the dirtiest campaign trick we've seen so far this year. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. if you're looking for good prices on stuff, you might have shopped at a target store. they're all over the country with the company based in minnesota. according to an editorial today in "the wall street journal", target has gotten targeted by dishonest far left fa gnattnati you may not believe what i'm about to tell you. last july, they donated $150,000 to a group called mm forward. it gives support to political people that are business friendly, both republicans and democrats get backing. after target's donation, mm forward put out a tv ad supporting tom emmer, a republican who is running for governor in minnesota.

the ad highlighted his position on taxes and spending. he is a conservative socially as well as financially. enter the vicious moveon.org crew funded in part by george soros. after hearing about target's donation, move on attacked the company. >> target and other big corporations are trying to buy our elections. >> no way! >> we don't like that! >> but if we all work together, we can stop them. >> yeah. >> boycott target, our democracy is not for sale. >> moveon.org responsible for the content of this advertisement. >> move on didn't stop there because tom emmer opposes gay marriage as does president obama and vice president biden, move on accused target of bias even though the company has a 100% rating from the human rights campaign. unfortunately, some folks did what move on told them to do and

target got hammered in some areas. >> is the c.e.o. here to talk to us? we have petitions from 240,000 people. >> target literally gave $150,000 to one of the most anti-gay politicians in this state. >> now, if that scenario isn't dirty, dishonest and disgusting, nothing is. target delivers low cost goods to working americans, it has a good employee record and helps communities. just because it donated money to a pro business organization, the far left wants to punish it and label it anti-gay. this is what our democracy has come to. so the next time you hear the left scream about dirty money and shifty tactics on the right, think about target. you might also go to a store this upcoming weekend and buy something at target. just to send move on and its acolytes a message. and that's a memo. now the top story tonight, one

of the guys involved in the political process this year is fox news contributor karl rove. writing in "the new york times" today, columnist maureen dowd says karl rove has put together a potent operation to use anonymous donors to flood the airways with attack ads from democrats. i guess miss dowd missed the target thing because she's after you. i'm not quite sure what she's after you about. i mean, have you done anything wrong? come clean. come clean on my program. >> she's after me. she's after me because i'm a conservative who is following the tactics of liberals. i notice she's never written a column in which she eviserated the league of conservative voters. she hasn't attacked the natural resources defense council action fund which is a 501c4, does not disclose its donors and we're calling the unions to disclose

the names of the people who are contributing to their political funds. unions have a special carve out in american politics, they're not obligated to report the name of the people who give them money. >> you're saying that the left is the same thing as the right does, there are some organizations that don't have to put forth their donors and don't. what about this target thing? >> i mean -- >> look, the target thing gives me some concern because they've already -- they've already -- the left has already won this battle. they have taken a high profile company that had a very good record from a perspective of gay rights and beat them up publicly. every c.e.o.'s nightmare is to be in the place where target was when they've done something, in this case, done something to a pro business group in the state that has said something favorable about a conservative republican candidate and get beaten up for it and this has probably caused target not only to step back from being involved in groups like minnesota forward but discouraging business

executives from taking a role in politics. that's what they want. the left wants to intimidate people in stepping back from active political participation in our country because they're afraid they'll get beaten up in the public arena. >> the right, though, plays hardball, too, i'm not sure there are any boycotts in motion by any right wing organization right now but what disturbed me most about the target thing is that the company just gave money to a pro business organization. they didn't give money to emmer. he was supported by the pro business thing. move on, this is what they always do and i hope you guys don't do this as well. i haven't seen you do it. >> don't accuse of us doing it. there's no evidence. >> as i said, i hope you never do it. all right? because move on is so patently dishonest that they basically convince morons, you know, people who have no idea what's going on that target for some reason gave money to an anti-gay politician. that's not what happened. that's not even close to what happened.

target just gave money to a pro business organization as we said, and then that organization makes its own determination about who to support and who not to support. so by move on's definition, if you gave any money to any organization that supports capitalism in the united states and any of that support wound up with any candidate who opposes gay marriage, they should be boycotted. that's insane! >> the suggestion was -- the suggestion was that the leadership at target were bigots. >> that's a lie! >> this is harsh. >> i know. i know. i'm not -- i'm not defending it. i'm saying it's the reality of the left. if you -- they're trying to signal to the american business leader that you better fall in line, shut up, sit down and remain on the sidelines politically or there will be a price to be paid for you. look, the likelihood of any law being changed in minnesota that would undermine the gay friendly agenda, gay friendly policies of target are slim and none and slim is getting on his horse. but that's not what this is about.

there is an alliance between most of the people on the left so that they take care of each other and one of the things they take care of each other is intimidating people from taking an active role in politics. >> all right. karl rove is also a target for move on. pardon the pun. they're after you. and you have -- you and jon podesta, the head of the center for american progress and those guys are really heavy duty lobbyists for the left. you have criticized him but move on says you're just like him. you guys did the same thing. >> well, that's my point. center for american progress is a 501c4 that plays an active role, liberal interest group. american crossroads is a 527 and reports its donors on a monthly basis. crossroads g.p. s. is a 501c4 like the center for american progress subject to the same rules and does not have to disclose its donors. and because we have set up an institution modelled deliberately on what the left has been doing for the last several years, since the passage

of bipartisan campaign reform act, they are criticizing us for adopting their tactics which is to use these entities as they're legally allowed to be used under the law and not have to disclose the donors. center for american progress doesn't disclose its donors. neither incidentally was a group called americans for jobs, health care and progressive values required to disclose its donors before the end of the 2004 democratic primaries and the spokesman for that group was mr. transparency himself, robert gibbs who for months refused to say who was contributing to americans for jobs, health care and progressive values as a savage without disclosing his donors. makes him look a little hypocritical, don't you think? >> i think the whole thing is dirty, really nasty. this target thing bothered me and was so dishonest. next on the rundown, more bad polling news from president obama. george stephanopoulos will analyze. then, dick morris trying hard to get republicans elected this cycle but why? coming right back. ♪

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what's in your wallet? oh, that's the spot! >> impact segment tonight. new reuters poll, more bad news for president obama. 43% of americans now approve of the president's job performance. 53% disapprove. that's the lowest approval number the reuters poll has ever reported. joining us to react, one of the stars of abc's "good morning america," george stephanopoulos. we all know about the economy and how that's hurting mr. obama and the democrats in general but there's got to be more to this. because it looks like it's taken on a life of its own now and in the reuters poll, it shows that democrats, people who are in the party are now turning a little bit away from the president. so there's got to be something more. >> the democrats are turning away mostly because of the economy and remember, the president is still at a higher place than bill clinton was at this point in his term, ronald reagan and all of their major political institutions so, you

know, he's not in a death row right now. as far as the problem with democrats, they're upset about the economy but he's also got a problem with liberals who wish he would have done more on issues like gays in the military, on health care. they feel he hasn't been exactly the liberal hope that he wanted. i think on the other hand, part of the reason the president is being held back although it's mostly the economy is because he went forward with health care. i think for a lot of independents and republicans, that kind of sealed in this big government image that he's been trying to fight. i think something else going on is, you know, the president doesn't love the theater of politics and i think he's paid a price for that. something as small as -- and i totally get why he would want to pray in private but the fact that he hasn't gone to church very much over the course -- >> i think you're getting closer to really beside the economy what the president's problem is. that is the folks aren't

connecting with him any longer and you say he's not in a spiral. he is. when you're -- when your inauguration poll stands at 70% approval, 70% of the country is wishing you well, wants you to do well and you're down at 40 after less than two years. that's a 30 -- >> you're on to something there, i think. i think the third thing that really is causing the trouble right now is that unrealistic expectations at the beginning. he was probably higher than he ought to have been. >> he's a rock star and everybody wanted a hit after hit after hit. >> and they were, you know, promising something he could never have delivered on and that was this whole promise of fixing washington. bringing the parties together. you can work towards that. look, the problem now, george, as i see it here. there's two problems as i see it. number one, a lot of people say oh, well, reagan was like this and clinton and that's true. >> that's true. >> but here's the deal. reagan, number one, didn't lose

the folks. folks still liked him but they were unsure about his leadership. >> not at the time. not in october of 1982. >> you're telling me culturally that reagan had a separation from the folks the way that obama has now? you're crazy. >> he had separation from democrats at that time the way that obama is having trouble. where he had less of a problem, i would agree with you, i think reagan always had his base. >> when you go to a state like ohio and it's 33% approval rating for president obama, you're done. that's a bellwether state. that's the state where regular folks say look, we've lost confidence in his leadership. that's number one. >> that's what it is today. >> they've lost confidence. >> ok. and number two is, number two and this is really going to be very difficult for president obama to overcome. if it is armageddon on november 2nd and he loses both houses which could happen, his power is gone! he's gone!

>> again, you know, bill clinton lost both houses of congress in 1994 anden it endedp helping him get re-elected. >> different time, though. >> i agree with that. that gets back to the fundamental point. if what happened in 1995 or 1996, the economy roars back or in 19 -- >> there is breaking news now on fox newschannel. i'm shepard smith in new york and this is the rescue of the next to the last miner. his name is ariel ticona. this is a man who while he was under ground had a wife who gave birth to a child. that child they planned to name caralina but instead named her hope which is the name of this camp. and it's the name of this operation. and as the translator takes us through, let's listen as the next to the last miner is loaded into the cylinder for his ascent to freedom. >> get in touch with him.

>> ariel ticona is a 29-year-old man. rubble removal machine operator who, like the rest of them, has been stuck in this mine for 69 days. he was able to watch the birth of his daughter on a video link from above. saw the birth. they have another child that watched along with him. now, famine strukzs. >> go! >> excellent. thank you. >> 21 inches across and about to be strapped in. attached to monitoring devices. >> she kept the communication alive with cortez, the two of them. the two guys.

they were our ears and our eyes downstairs. that's why they sacrificed themselves and they are leaving last. thank you very much. give me the coordinates. >> mechanic is fine. we are all in place. attention. miner number 32. nurse is fine. mechanic is fine.

>> yes? hello? >> good, how are you doing? >> greet this man 69 days later. at this point when all of this was beginning, the word that we got from the chilean government was there will be a 30-second delay on all of this, just in case something goes wrong. you see the chilean flag there to block our view just in case something went wrong. so if that ever happened, what transpired? this rescue operation has been so marvelous, he said, so emotional that there was no reason not to allow the eyes of

the world which have been watching this operation so closely to see it. that from a beaming president to a news conference after the first of the men was brought to the surface and now the 32nd, ariel ticona on his way up to the top and freedom. if you've been with us, the progress of this has gone much faster. originally it was taking 20, 25 minutes to go from the bottom of the mine shaft all the way to freedom. the last one took less than nine minutes and now the familiar walk though now in the darkness of night of the rescue -- of the man's family members and most likely, though i can't tell from this darkened picture, the president -- the president and his wife to greet them. balloons in hand as the 32nd of 33 miners makes his way to the top. it has been an astounding thing to watch. we're told the estimate is more than a billion people around the world have watched this emotional story and now the first lady on the far left in

the white. and the president and family members. let's listen. >> correspondent steve harrigan has been on the scene from the beginning and steve, there is a familiarity to this but no less emotion as a result. >> that's right, shepard. and also a wardrobe change by the president and his entourage. once the sun dips here in the desert, it gets quite cold. that's one of the things the miners are going to have to adjust to going from 90 degrees and humid down there to real chill up here at night. this operation, of course, was begun at night for a reason. there are concerns about the miners' eyes after not seeing the light of day for two months. not only do they have those special sunglasses but also hoping to pull most of them out at night so cold night, spirits

here soaring in a different sense. a sense of relaxedness towards this operation as it's gone successfully now since the first moments really without any hitches. the same capsule still being used, battered, banged, paint chipped but that capsule still being hauled up and down by that giant reel, by that giant winch still operating more efficiently than when it began. rescues coming out quicker than half-hour at a time. that's double the pace they thought they would be making. >> the president and the first lady and the wife of ariel ticona and i might add that his daughter, hope, was born on september 14th. she will turn 1-month-old tomorrow. and her father will be there to see her. the emotional stories from this just keep coming, steve. >> you're right. and also, this is a different kind of rescue. you know, this is not your

grandfather's mine rescue. this has been high-tech since the first moment. you were talking about that -- that birth. well, actually, the miner himself, ticona was able to witness that birth through a fiber optic line dropped down into the mine so he was able to see on video the birth of his own daughter so while life is changing, while he was removed from it, he was by remote video able to play a part in that birth. >> as we wait for the ascent to happen and in a moment, i'm guessing we'll see the scale there, i guess you might call it, the grid which shows us how far up the thing has come. dave singleton is with us, a water resource division president for lane christiansen company, head of a drilling operation in afghanistan for the united states and he's one of the ones who picked the drillers sent from the united states or at least americans. in some cases from afghanistan over to chile. he's been very involved in the whole project. and mr. singleton, this must be quite a moment for you. >> it's an incredibly exciting.

we're just so thankful to see every one of those miners get to the surface. what a day. >> the drilling happened so much more quickly than even the chilean government had predicted. >> it did. but i want you to know we were -- we were confident in the guys that we sent and in the drilling plan and again, we're just so thankful to see these guys get to the surface. >> one thing that you keep noticing in rescue after rescue and humanitarian effort of any kind around the world, there always seems to be an american present and i know that must be a source of pride for you and all the other men and women who worked for lane christiansen. >> it really is. we're thrilled to be a part of this effort. and boy, there's a lot of great things to emanate from this. no doubt about it. >> 200, he said, meaning 200 meters to go. more than half way up now. i guess everyone who did the drilling on this project, was

everyone in afghanistan at the time and how did you choose them? >> no. basically, we had a couple of guys that were in afghanistan and a couple that were here in the united states. again, we just looked at the work that needed to be accomplished and it was pretty clear to us that we needed guys that would stick with the job and would keep, you know, keep their heads about them because it was a technically difficult job and obviously we ended up getting the right four guys there. >> i don't have any idea how one could begin to drill a shaft that isn't straight away that makes it -- that makes a curve half way down. it's way beyond my comprehension. but i guess you guys understood it from the very beginning. >> yes, we did. and again, we -- we had good guys there and they did an outstanding job and obviously got it done. relatively quickly. i'm sure not as quickly as the

miners would have hoped but certainly quick enough to get to this day. >> well, it's been a great thing to see and i know they're as appreciative as we are impressed. thanks so much. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> all right. and there's the wife waiting for another ear-to-ear smile as her husband arrives back to freedom. ariel ticona as i mentioned, 32 years old, trapped underground as his wife gave birth to their daughter. we thought maybe we might see this now, what, almost 1-month-old child but this probably wouldn't be the right environment for chile at least, maybe not for new york city or boston. but for chile, it is quite cold out tonight and you can see the steam rising as it did this time last night from a -- from a mine which, for the vast majority of the time i'm told was about 90 degrees fahrenheit, is that right, steve? >> that's right, shepard. that mine, conditions were pretty much standard and

unchanging. very different from the surface here which starts out very cold at dawn, and then cold again at night. hot in the day. this is one of the driest areas in the world, too. it can go five or six years here without seeing rain. also, an amazing sky most nights as well. several observatories here because the stars in the sky are simply unbelievable to look up at. now we're getting close to that coming through the surface again. >> the celebration begins. let's listen. you know, steve, i've been surprised at how -- the consistency of the excitement every time. there must be a lot of people around there who are awfully tired. >> certainly a sense of exhaustion not only among the family members but among these colleagues. they're trying to pull out to save the men that they worked sometimes 20 years with.

they're there living it and witnessing it and this is hard, physical work. in hard conditions. we've seen the hand tools out. we've seen working around these machines, pouring concrete, sledgehammers. this is a physical, tough operation in the desert. a desert which is boiling in the day, cold at night. these men have the physical pressure of the job and the emotional pressure knowing what the stakes are. they're not drilling for copper. they're not drilling for gold. they're trying to save their friends, people they worked with. >> bravo! bravo! yeah. >> very good. >> and as his wife looks on from a now somewhat battered looking but still perfectly performing cylinder, steps ariel ticon back to freedom at last.

>> everything all right with you? >> feeling excellent. >> excellent. excellent. >> so everything is fine? >> ok. >> go ahead. thank you, doctor. take this off. bravo. >> attention, miners! chile!

the miners of chile. >> the mother of his newborn daughter. the daughter he has not yet met. you can take the hair net off but don't touch your sunglasses. leave them on all the time. yes! yes! bravo! >> mr. president, ariel. ariel, your daughter is waiting for you. welcome. thank you very much. >> hear that, your daughter is

waiting for you. i have to kiss them. what an excitement and your wife waiting for you. i congratulate you. congratulations, i'm so excited. ariel, thank you very much. thank you very much for your patience and everything that you did for us. yes, that famous telephone. never lose the hope. ariel, ariel. welcome. welcome. you have such beautiful daughters.

these are the first communications telephones. this is telephone made by chilean for our miners. excellent. you did a great job. great! bye-bye, my friend. well done, ariel. of course. thank you.

bravo. one, two, three. my wife, colleagues. bravo. yeah! >> now, off for medical evaluation and associated press wires are now flashing -- >> all the helmets. don't worry about it. >> associated press wires flashing across the country and around the world, dateline san jose mine, chile, associated press, only one chilean miner remains to be pulled out. as end nears for dramatic rescue in chile. and again goes the wheel and there is el telephono with el microphoneo.

>> this is the very first telephone and from here, we spoke with the president of the republic and with their families. everybody. something so simple. so simple. very simple. very simple. and with this tiny the things, you can build a whole country. thank you, everybody. everybody. >> mr. president, excuse me. allow me. thank you very much. we are so grateful to you. all of you. we had to do what we had to do. it's our duty. thank you for your support. it was so nice. first, anxiety. then hope.

and now the happiness. thank you very, very much. honestly, from me and all our co-workers, mr. president, million of people saw the images. thank you very, very much. you know, the landing on the moon, there were 600 million people. what happened here today, it was watched by 1.2 billion people. we are a great country. and the united states is a great, great country! we are very in solidarity with them and very grateful and appreciate their help. >> well, if that doesn't make you feel good, i don't know what will. united states drills, united

states technology, chilean spirit. chilean fortitude. chilean prayers and from around the world and this ordeal, we can only hope, is about to come to an absolutely perfect ending. i can remember in the early days of this ordeal, reporting that 33 miners were lost and thought to be dead at the bottom of this shaft beneath the desert in chile. and that was the end of that and then one night, a flash wire from associated press, a note had come up and after 17 days, the longest in the history of the world, they were alive, every one of them. but then there was no way to get them out. and the early reporting was, we'll try to get them out by christmas. months and months. they had no more food left. they had a limited supply of oxygen. they had no water that we knew

of. we knew very little bit -- very little about their circumstances. and all we did know was if even one of them was able to be rescued, it would be the unprecedented rescue of all time. and instead, all together, over the past 24 hours, we've watched a -- an event for the history books. and i know i'll never forget and steve harrigan on site, i know you'll never forget. >> shepard, some -- what really gets me is watching these families embrace with each other. when you see a husband and wife kiss and everyone is standing around and applaud, first thing that comes to mind is the scene of a wedding. these embraces are something very different than that. these miners have had two months plus underground alone to think about what's important, what are the priorities? and we've seen -- we've gotten some glimpses of what they've been thinking about from their letters and now from the first

interviews that have come out. and really, over and over again, we see a devotion and a dedication to family. and we're seeing that, i think, in some of those embraces between husband and wife and father and child. just the intensity of that emotion, that bond and it's all going on publicly and yet, there's no sense of nervousness or sense of being in the spotlight. they're oblivious to the fact that the entire nation and the good chunk of the world is watching. it's really just them at that moment. it's a husband and a wife. a wife who thought her husband was dead. her husband who thought he'd never see his wife again and that's the moment that we've seen repeat over and over again and i think that's part of the amazing nature of this story, the strength of that bond. >> and next luis alberto urzua who is a 54-year-old man, he's the shift foreman and supervise or. he's been the leader down there, hasn't he?

>> this is the man i can't wait to see and hear more about. we've heard some about him in written, print interviews that have come up by really the message in the bottle system that they were using early on where they'd send down these small tubes. he's just said a few brief remarks about when asked about the danger of this profession of mining that people say such great pride in. you always have to respect the mine every time you go underground and you get a sense of someone who is extremely careful and orderly and who the other miners really listen to and respected. i think that's why he was chosen by them for the position of last man out. it was a position several vied for, a position of honor, a man seen not only as strong physically but strong mentally and a man who especially in those remarkable first 17 days of darkness and of being alone

really helped keep the group together. this is not about individual achievements. this is about the group and this is a man who has put the group first. since the get go. and that's why he's going last. >> well, in the mine, each group leader reported directly to the man on your screen. he volunteered to stay to make sure every man was safe. he said i'll leave once they're home free. the analysts say his leadership helped these miners survive those initial 17 days as steve mentioned. he'd reportedly only worked at the mine for, get this, two months before they became trapped down there. and when the rescue workers made the very first contact with the miners, it was luis who was first person they heard. and he said, we're told, we are well! and hoping that you will rescue us.

and all these days later, here we are. here's how he describes the cave-in. i'm quoting now from luis. the hill came down at 1:40 in the afternoon. we were worried for our colleagues who were headed out with a full truck. then the dust bowl came. and in four or five hours, we couldn't see what was going or on what the situation was. then we saw we were trapped by an enormous rock blocking that whole tunnel. he told the president that the confinement was like hell and now his chariot awaits. let's listen. >> ok, i'm back.

>> this is the last miner coming now. hello, rodriguez? >> please get in touch.

they want to talk to you, please. >> he's coming. >> here we go. who wants to talk to me? hello? rodriguez, manuel, what's up? manuel, we have to feel the pride and i'm very excited. i'm very happy.

we are concluding now the major work. thank you very much to you, manuel. because under these conditions in the mine, you have to have a manhole and the character, very, very special. i know that i didn't talk to you. it's everything is perfect. you are the one. who has to appreciate what you have done and we value that you are sharing it with your family, your friends. thank you for your words. attention, mechanic, ready. the medics, ready. all right.

javier, javier? javier? attention, the capsule. javier? please, manuel. manuel? manuel? here is javier. manuel? can you hear me? he wants to talk to you. my friend. yes, we are waiting for you. we are rescuing you.

ok. you can start the assension. we are raising the cage. >> and the wheels turn and the cable pulls and the families wait and the world watches with baited breath as the leader from that mine ascends. the men you saw below there were the rescue workers who went down, the medic went down. there are either five or six of them remaining as we wait for the man we'll know forever as

luis to rise. to rise of the day and the flags fly at surface. steve harrigan, describe the scene as you see it live in chile right now. >> shepard, the tension, the excitement, the hope has really all come back here. the media is also gathered, too, on this mountaintop after a bit of a lull when people were sort of taking one miner after the other. everything was going smoothly. no problems. this is what the nation has been waiting for. this final miner to come to the surface. and now that thrill is really in the air here. when people wait to think with real hope now and confidence that this nation can pull it off. they can drill 1/2 underground and save 33 miners. miners who form the backbone of their country's success, the backbone of their country's economy, this government really laid it all out there. when you talk to anyone from some of the 12 nations who participated in this rescue,

they tell you whatever we ask for, this government did it. they gave it to us without question about cost or efforts. so a tremendous effort now and a sense of pride and hope and the excitement just like with the first rescue right back now, shepard. >> steve, we're watching on the right-hand side of the screen as flags fly. i can only assume those are on scene, right? >> that's right. and this is a moment not just of hope for one individual but really a moment of patriotism here. you do see the flags everywhere. you see it flying all around town and this is a moment of pride for a nation. a nation who is often in the news for things like earthquakes. now this is a nation in the news for heroism. for heroism of its miners and for the success and the skill of its engineers and its government in organizing a remarkable rescue and in organizing a remarkable political and

television event. they controlled the media. they control the many pictures. and they really have controlled mother nature. after a major disaster, they've come out doing something no one has done before. go in the earth and save their own. >> chileans! >> good evening. we are going to get them out. >> the 33rd miner ascends, he

volunteered to stay there. he said he wouldn't leave until they were all out. he organized them in the initial 17 days. decided who would eat what and how they'd live or die together. he reportedly only worked for this mine for a couple of months. and when the rescue workers made first contact with him, he said and i quote -- we are well. and hoping that you will rescue us. and here we are. this man is a former futbol star, soccer star, after they became trapped, he ordered the men to huddle. took three miners to scout out the tunnel and once he realized they were trapped, he set up the rules and he made the regulations. and each and every one of them followed. he ordered the rationing of the food. he's a trained topographer and made detailed maps of the underground space. he set up a 12-hour work

schedule, set aside work areas, sleep areas, bathroom areas. he used the headlines of the -- headlights of the mining trucks to simulate daylight and keep the miners sane. it's not fair for us to write the history. they'll do that for themselves. but it sounds as if if there's an overall hero here from the depths of that mine, it may be the man we're about to see. half way up and moments away now from the last miner coming home to see family and a grateful nation and a curious world as around the world, we share a moment of, i don't know, unbridled joy. men who were thought to be dead in our newsroom, many, many months ago. now really sort of rising from a tomb. the two shouts that greet each of those who comes up, it's

chile, chile. greets every man after the 69 days below earth and here we go. let's go, chileans. good evening. we are getting them out. >> ♪ go, chileans going to get them out let's go let's go chileans this evening we're going to get them out ♪ >> chile! chile!

>> as we wait a little more on luis urzua. under his leadership, they c conserve the use of their helmet lamps. they fired up a bulldozer to carve into a natural water deposit. but otherwise, minimize using vehicles that contained -- that contaminated available air. >> how you doing? he was the first to speak to the president and now they're speaking to him. he implored the president, don't leave us alone. he has kept everybody's spirits up and he is so responsible,

he's going to see this through to the end, said one of his neighbors. he is calm, a professional person, a born leader. it is his nature, said his neighbor, it is his gift. >> slowly. slowly. easy. easy. easy. he's coming. he's coming. >> one more meter. that's it. hey!

>> in the name of the medics

that executed all the medical aspects of these projects have the privilege to inform you that all the miners rescued including the shift supervisor, in perfect conditions, mr. president. [ applause ] >> an honor to greet you. don't take your sunglasses off. you have the flag.

[ applause ] >> oh son. >> shepard: that's the miners father. the shift supervisor, as a good shift don't take the sunglasses off. you are the last one, that's how a good boss is supposed to be.

>> mr. president, i hope this should never, ever happen again. thank you for everybody. thank you to the entire chile and all the people that helped us. i am proud to be chilean. and thank you to all the people. >> i am taking over your shift and i congratulate you, because you did what you had to do, like a proper captain. we are proud of each and every one of the miners. they gave an example of friendship. and i want to tell to the thousands and thousands of people that worked hard for you to be here,