tonight on "nightline," the revival. they come by the thousands to be healed and touched by the lord. but the last ministry this man ran was mired in controversy. is this a miracle or just a mirage? ab-fab. fantastical land of eye-possibling physique and unapologetic debauchery. now mike "the situation" sorrentino explains how "jersey shore" changed reality tv forever. the final countdown. the inside story of how these trapped miners than to spend

their last hours of captivity as the rescue mission reaches its clim climax. good evening. i'm terry moran and we'll begin with the line between faith and false hope. several times a week,000s of believers from around the country flock to a revival in mobile, alabama, in search of healing and not only spiritual, encouraged by videos that have spread on the internet, many earnestly hope for a divine cure to physical conditions as serious a paralysis or mindness but who presighs over this flock? my co-anchor bill weirs for the series "faith matters." >> reporter: it is two hours till revival time and a small crowd is already waiting for the

doors to open. some have traveled through the night drawn by the wonders they've seen on the internet. >> come on. >> heal me. >> he was praying for a heal and i didn't see nathan. i saw jesus. >> we're hoping for a miracle for my wife. she's blind and almost totally deaf. >> reporter: lee and janet join the rush into the convention hall. and that god as descended on coastal alabama to mend bodies and save souls. their anticipation builds as the thousand plus crowd is led into song as tears roll many pray in tongues, that spontaneous language of the holy spirit ♪ >> reporter: one-hour worship rolls into two and moves from ex-use bans into a trance and

back again until nathan morris announces the healings have begun. >> heal the brittle bone disease right now. it's been healed now. >> reporter: he calls for testimonials. >> i want to hear what god is doing. >> reporter: and many describe how god cured them right here night nights before. >> the miracle is that the lungs open. >> i came in limping and i left walking without a limp. >> jesus! come on. >> reporter: their stories fill lee and janet with even more faith and hope but they will have to wait to be touched. >> i need to take an offering tonight. >> reporter: a second healing session will come after the sermon and the offering. >> if you say to the people we want this revival to continue i'm going to ask that you would give tonight. >> reporter: though he is conspicuously absent from the pulpit john kilpatrick presides over this a position he knows quite well.

>> it was the most wonderful feeling that i have ever felt in my whole life. >> reporter: in the mid '90s he went from an obscure preacher to a pen at pentecostal minister a miracles lasted for five years as his congregation nearly tripled in size. >> it's almost like gas collecting in a room and then someone lights a spark or match and the room explodes into the presence of god and power of god. >> reporter: but an award winning investigation raised questions about the resaval's finances. his ministry denied any wrongdoing. >> for the press that came after me at brownsville was a vendetta and it was over a certain thing that i'm not going to get into but it was a vendetta and it was picked up by newspapers around the world. >> reporter: while history seems to be repeating 15 years and 60

miles from brownsville kilpatrick insists this time there is no reason for controversy. what is a typical offering bring in? >> expenses is $16,400 and most nights we have in the neighborhood of 7,000s, 8,000 come in. >> reporter: the size of this revival largely depends on word of mouth and youtube spectacles. >> put your hands on my leg. >> reporter: attendance jumped after this went viral. it shows kilpatrick and morris helping a paraplegic out of her wheelchair. her struggle is obvious but for believers, this is proof of god's power in mobile. >> a lot of you are holding her and this is a woman with atrophied muscles forcing her way along. why didn't god heal her entirely? why wasn't she able to get up

and run around the room if that was a miracle. >> what i want to ask you, why does she have to? >> it would be a lot more convincing. >> who do we need to convince? i think as far as she's concerned she was in a wheelchair for 23 years and now she's walking. >> reporter: we wondered if she ever tried this with physical they a therapists. we reached out twice but she did not respond. but debbie, she was eager to share how complications from a decade of deliberately untreated breast cancer filled her lungs with a gelatinous fluid. doctors tried to drain and open them but nothing happened until her husband brought her here. now they're clear? >> yes. >> reporter: what about the cancer? >> the cancer is still there as far as i know and so i'm just believing in god to finish the work. >> reporter: do you think by taking medicine or chemotherapy it might show a lesser fate?

>> no. i was perfectly prepared to walk the way the doctors had said but god spoke to our hearts and said don't do it that way. you follow me and so i said, okay. i know when god speaks to me. >> reporter: hank hannergraph is convinced they have been dangerous misled. >> when you start to deny your symptoms because you are told that you've been healed of whatever malady that you have, you are now putting yourself at risk. >> reporter: as president of the christian research institute and author of "counterfeit revival" hanegraff has been a critic of him. he says god can heal but these services are a form of group hypnosis on desperate and vulnerable people. >> this is something you can find in vegas in a good magician's act. this is just plain old soc

sociopsychological manipulation. fast food christianity on steroids. >> reporter: why do you need to touch them on the forehead is the room is so full of the spirit? >> when you lay hands on people there's times that you feel something go into them. it feels like warmth. it feels like a wind. sometimes it feels like heat. >> reporter: i think the apositiapostle said beware of false prophets. >> i believe what the god is doing is that he is blessing this. >> i want to keep my belief in god and my belief that god can do anything. i want to say with a childlike faith i do believe. >> reporter: that childlike faith positively glows on the faces of this couple as the night builds. morris, kilpatrick and team of

prayer warriors wade through the crowd slaying believers in the spirit. janet seems empervious to the stimulus around her until she is eventually touched and gous down with a peaceful smile. after the service she is still without her vision. >> we'll be back and we'll have that opportunity again. >> reporter: you will come back. >> yes, sir, we'll come back again. definitely. >> reporter: and they'll have plenty of opportunity. the bay of the holy spirit revival has been extended indefinitely. i'm bill weir for "nightline" in mobile, alabama. >> faith matters there. our thanks to bill weir for that report. when we come back we'll shift gears completely and catch up with that reality star who seems to be just about everywhere right now from "jersey shore" to the dance floor.

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so now so now to reality tv. a place in our culture that gives new meaning to shock and awe. but even amid the raucous tendency of reality tv, "jersey shore" stands out. its characters bare all alas and one of the most colorful is known as the situation. you may have caught some of his sideline work as a dance competitor but what explains "the jersey shore" appeal. chris connelly goes on the town

with mike sorrentino ♪ >> reporter: on mtv's reality show "jersey shore" 20 something housemates hit the club, the sack. >> round two. >> and hit each other with state-of-the-artless abandon. >> ha. two girls. >> reporter: with its over the top bods and bottomless beverages, "jersey shore" is a huge ratings hit. thanks in good measure to this guy and these abs in the house. he is 28-year-old mike sorrentino. >> how are you? >> reporter: known to all as the situation. >> this is the situation right here. my abs are so ripped up it's called the situation. >> reporter: a nickname even the producers needed some getting used to. >> what kind of name is situation, man? >> what are you referring to? i was like well i'm kind of referring to my abs but referring to my personality. >> did you take any steroids to

make that help? >> never, never, never. the steroid is a bulkier look. i have a more thin lean look. i also believe i have pretty good camera presence, just automatically one-liners are not practiced. they just come out quick, naturally. >> guess what? i'm about to smash tonight. >> reporter: as naturally as he pops open that six-pack -- >> i need to trademark this. >> reporter: the situation's catch phrases have shown pop culture stickynesses from naming unattractive women grenade. >> there's one grenade. >> reporter: to his morning routine of gtl. gym, tanning, laundry. >> and everybody laughed and i said, that's gym, tan, laundry, gtl, one day it's going to be big. gym, tan laundry, everything is put together, you feel great, you look great, awesome night.

>> reporter: now is the abdominal showman flarning those for ellen degeneres hawking a book and workout tv hawked by fans every time the situation presents itself. >> thanks, guys. >> reporter: he's even tangoing his way across the floor on "dancing with the stars." >> they predicted me not getting past the first round. >> reporter: thank goodness for hasselhoff. >> i'm already in the fourth round right now. i wanted to take that challenge to show people that this kid is intelligent, owns his own company, you know and has branded himself. >> reporter: that branding has meant marshaling the forces of situation nation and monetizing his moment in the spotlight. ♪ trying hard now >> reporter: that's just the beginning. there is a protein enriched vodka, jewelry and clothing lines. even an ipad iphone apartment. >> then you press tanning.

>> reporter: with a gtl-gps. i heard you're making $10 million a year. >> well, that is an estimate but the iphone app alone is selling between 200 and 700 copies a day and it's $5 so that alone is in the millions, i think. >> reporter: while it might have been a voyeuristic kick of reality "jersey shore" come straight out of the playbook of the 1960s sitcom. the situation's aura of quotable cool makes him the 21st century fonzi. >> hey! >> reporter: leader of the pack from a very different kind of "happy days." do you think the situation is a role you're playing. >> to be very honest with you, it is a part of my personality, but not the -- not the full circle. you are know? >> reporter: you know what people say about the guys on "jersey shore."

they say they're morons. >> they can say that all they want but at the end of the day when they see, you know, you know, different -- if they happen to see a different aspect of me, okay, which is the business owner, had trademark -- you know, most of my sayings, and underneath that the at least a dozen endorsements, if i was a moron, so to speak, how did this moron able to do that. >> reporter: how indeed. just a few years ago mike sorrentino and his washboard abs had washed out of the real estate business. >> so i had lost the house, the car, the dog, you know, everything i had and i talked to myself. what am i going to do with my life. >> reporter: a assistant as an underwear and fitness model led to a "jersey shore" audition. >> everybody knows me as a --

>> reporter: he has no real power to control. >> he's been a creep and don't want to hang around with him. >> reporter: when a recent one portrayed him in a negative light -- >> he slapped me in the mouth. >> reporter: you said you were contemplating retiring from reality tv? >> yes, i did say that. if that's how they wanted to portray me. i was upset and contemplated not necessarily retiring from reality tv but possibly retiring from "jersey shore." >> reporter: that would be a bick thing. >> you know, it probably would be a big thing but like i said i was very upset and, you know, i don't hold it in. >> reporter: but the stars of reality tv play back can be a you know what. a third "jersey shore" season has already been shot but the situation has other things on his mind. scripted tv, even movies. >> you know, i found what i love to do and -- >> reporter: what is that? >> that's being in front of the

camera. now that i'm in this world, i love it, you know. >> reporter: i'm chris connelly for "nightline" in los angeles. >> the situation. thanks to chris connelly for that. up next we have some dramatic very manies in chile where freedom is suddenly around the corner for 33 miners and their families and we are at the site. how smart is the new ford edge? well, it can show you the most fuel-efficient route to where you're going. it can find the best price on gas. show fuel prices. and now its v6 gets the best highway fuel economy in its class. say hello to the new ford edge. quite possibly the world's smartest crossover. is a powerful force. set it in motion...

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excitement is building at the chilean site where 33 miners have been entombed for 68 days and everyone from engineers to the miners to their families

anticipating that the trapped men will begin to emerge from the earth tomorrow evening but first there is one more dramatic hurdle. one more act of endurance they must face and jeffrey kofman has our report. >> reporter: tonight, everything is in place for what may be the most challenging rescue ever attempted on earth. in about 24 hours, this cramped capsule they call a phoenix will be dropped 2,000 feet underground to carry those stranded miners to the surface one man at a time on a 15-minute journey in a space a little wider than a basketball hoop. rescue officials showed off the special suits each miner will wear bearing his name, compression socks and a girdle and headset for communication and wear heart and temperature monitor, the men are now taking aspirin because of concerns of blood clotting and soon begin a liquid diet to cut down on nausea and begin when the pulley system is in place sometime on tuesday.

above ground outside the mine gates families of the miners have faithly waited 68 days for the return of their husband, fathers and sons and now their patience is about to be rewarded. >> amen. >> reporter: in this remote desert moonscape of northern chile media on a scale rarely seen. media shantytown of rvs and t t tents is home to more than a thousand journalists and tech anything in additions from 33 countries. the plight has captured the attention and hearts of the entire world and why not? they have endured conditions few, if any of us, can imagine and even fewer could tolerate. entombed in a collapsed mine almost half a mile underground for 68 days, if they've shown the world a resilience and tenacity that inspires all. just hours after they were found, we met lilianiry veres wife of gomez. i'm okay, thank god.

i hope to get out soon. patience and faith. "i'll wait as long as it takes," she told us. today we met her again. "i'm anxious," she says "and happy, happy that this nightmare is coming toen end." well, finding the men was difficult. keeping them alive and i'm getting them out has been just as challenging. everything had to fit in four-inch tubes to sustain them. it was the breakthrough this weekend that makes it all possible. the so-called plan b drill broke through with its 26-inch shaft. that caused spontaneous celebration. today, that drill rig left given the farewell of a kwon querreying hero. these two americans operated that drill rig that reached the men early saturday. jeff hart was drilling water wells for the u.s. army in afghanistan when he got an urgent call to come to chile. >> this is definitely the toughest hole that i've drilled since i've been in the business.

>> reporter: do you ask yourself i wonder if i could survive 65, 66 days trapped down there? >> you absolutely do. the real hero is the guy that kept those guys in line and kept them alive on very, very food and they have somehow put it together. >> reporter: for hart and drill supervisor jim stefanik there will never be a more important job. >> we came from afghanistan thinking that we're on one of the most important jobs we'd ever go on supplying water for the military. this is so far above that this is literal -- there's lives at stake. >> reporter: their work is done. now the chilean coordinators have to finish the job. what they, the miners and fair families know is that the entire world is cheering them on. i'm jeffrey kofman for "nightline" at the san jose behind in chile. >> what an incredible story nearing its end thanks to jeffrey kofman for that report and when we come back, more from the pine but first here's committee. >> jimmy: with what's coming up next on jimmy kimmel live.

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