military and that could play into how they react. shepard: thank you, jonathan. and he is chatting about this story and the big story, the rescue at the mine and family members are coming up to the site right now as we watch on the remote from the switch pool feed from chilean television. jonathan will talk about this as foxnews.com/shep. we are watching the rescue operations closely in chile. so far, 20 miners are up. right now the cage is already on the way up to the surface with the 21st miner, johnny barrios. next we will talk to the nasa doctor who worked with mine officials to keep the men alive. and we will watch the reunion on the surface with the man and his mistress. and his wife says she will not be watching.
so as our viewers look at this timing, if you re doing it along with us, they might report into see some spaces where a little bit more than the 58 to 60 minutes in between as we wait for each and every one of those 33, chris, to come up. and come out of that capsule into the chi! chi! chi! le! le! le! and as you say, this is planned in as you say from the very beginning, at least over the last couple of days when naper really getting a schedule down. right. it would take about 48 hours, they thought, for these 33 miners and the good news that we were hearing earlier on chilean television is that they ve spoken to a couple of the families of the miners in the 20s, and they re in very good spirits. you think that they might be anxious and maybe a little regretful that their miner wasn t one of the first ones brought up, but this really is a tightly-knit community. and everyone seems to be just so happy that everything is going so flawlessly. we re going to wait for that capsule to
world who have been impressed by how slowly and carefully and painstakingly they approached this to make sure everything went right. and i would say, it s not just so far, so good. it s really been so far, so great. because it has been flawless. as we look at jimmy sanchez s dad. you know he is waiting for this moment, and the applause has begun. jimmy sanchez, just 19 years old. finally being brought to the surface in that fenix capsule. what s dad shouting to him? the chilean television has been saying that sanchez is more anxious than the others, perhaps because he s younger. he has not spent as much time in the mines as others.
national anthem. the chilean flag. there it is. oh, my goodness. this is unbelievable, the feed we re seeing from chilean television. still a little bit of caution mixed in with all that. the son of florencio avalos waiting to see his dad. the first miner out for the only place he s known for the last 70 days. and this is the scene minutes later. there it is! bravo! success! he s made it to the surface! wow. it worked. there he is. look at that. there we go.
medic down. it is about a 20 minute trip up and down. make no mistake it is not like an elevator shaft. i think we have a graphic in which you can see the path. it starts on the surface. then it grows it doesn t go straight down. that is not how it works. the truth is, that shaft has two bends in it, as it goes down. there you can see. the cable has to rest against the side of the shaft. you can see how that would create trick . they shored it up in the middle. the hope is the cable is not going to cause any problems. we were reading quotes from the local disaster officials a moment ago. who say we ve been lucky and we have to continue to be lucky or this won t go well. all pictures fed to us by chilean television. if you saw the opening of the shaft a moment ago before the pool feed switched away. you can see see the steam coming out. it is much warmer in the mine than on the surface.