the miners began doing the chile chant, the chi-chi-chi chant. and one of them picked it up and chanted it back to them. and it was quite impressive show. larry: what would you say is the biggest medical concern? there are multiple. certainly myself and my chilean medical colleagues are not going to breathe deeply until they are all safely out from the mine. but it ranges from engineering failures to rock collapse or low blood pressure in the miners as they ascend and folks who lock their knees when they stand up straight at attention. there is a myriad of things that the chileans have practiced for,
up. it seemed incredible they have that patience and sense of humor. one of the women said, well, it s a luckier number that we re getting it the next day. they seem to be in very good spirits. they re holding up well. absolutely. that s good to know. the other thing we were laughing about is the second miner, mario sepulveda. he s already emerging as a superstar. he came flying out of that capsule. he s handing out rocks. he had his bag of rocks with him from down below. he was leading the chile, chile chant. absolutely. hi gone into the main newspaper from spain and there was a big headline, the mario show, so he s definitely stealing the spotlight. he s definitely getting world recognition for his antics. the other one is carlos mamani. he is the bolivian, the only non-chili k non-chilean there. he came over for economic reasons. am i right, he s the one who
chile, chile chant. they are going through basic medical protocol. triage for physical and mental conditions. they re put on gurneys though most of them can walk perfectly fine. taken to a local hospital here. some of them are helicoptered out. there are two floors of a main hospital in town. initial report from minister of health say the first eight miners they checked, including one who was diabetic, who they were concerned about, are in excellent health so far. good news as the nation watched this, deemed to be a very difficult feat of engineering. that capsule, itself, built by the chilean navy. with help design from nasa. that is the daughter hugging the oil minister right now who has been on the scene since the get-go. it s remarkable to see a cry six where you have 33 miners underground for more than two months turn into a political opportunity. that is exactly what has happened here for the mining minister and the president himself. who has really been in power
gets his own hospital room? that s correct. the helicopter was taken the first four miners, and mamani will be the only one that has his own room but his president will get there in a couple of hours and have a meeting with him. they had said earlier on the chilean television, they will be very respectful if a family wants to go back to bolivia. they will make it much better. but if for economic reasons they ve been in chile for a few years. if they want to stay, they ll have them stay. it s their decision. look at that capsule. they re putting it back in the tube and about to start the descent for the sixth rescue. the first one at about 11:10 p.m. we re now at 3:47 east coast time, 4:47, so, they re getting into the early predawn hours there in chile. osmon araya at the bottom of that tube and waiting to be rescued after 70 days down in that mine. we ll continue to watch it.
out 33 times across that little mining town in the desert of chile that s been described as a moonscape. but, 19 years old, planning to go back to school. you wonder if he ll go back to school, if he ll reassess what his life plans are, and how, frankly, some of this success and some of the money will change the lives, thomas, for these folks who have known a very day-to-day kind of existence. where they knew what they were going to do when they got up every morning. they had their routine. to say that has all been thrown into chaos, i think, is not an overstatement. because what s about to face them, the international spotlight is something few of us can imagine. the options they have before them with endorsement deals w media interviews, with the different things that never would are come their way if this tragedy hadn t come into their lives. is something that hopefully they