there is no reality tv show better than this. that is the fenix capsule for the fourth time it has descended down into the chilean mine to bring up yet another of the trapped 33 chilean miners. the fourth so far. an actual life-and-death drama being played out before the world. truly an extraordinary story, of hope, of survival, of celebration. and we are all watching it unfold live thanks to chilean television. and as we ve been watching and monitoring chilean television, they ve been talking about the united states. they ve been saying that they re aware of the fact that there are people outside the chilean embassy. they say they are grateful for the prayer chains they have heard about in miami.
mario sepulveda was the second to safely emerge handing out rocks to chile s president and then channelling the crowd s adrenaline rush. reporter: with made-for-tv characters emerging more than 1,700 journalists and camera crews at camp hope are ready to capture the dramatic capture. which sandra lily has been watching all night and it occurs to me that those broadcasters must be running on adrenaline as well because they ve been on the air nonstop. absolutely and they really have done a superb job wall-to-wall the chilean television. talking about the sixth miner osmon araya, you were talking about apparently he s very religious, evangelical and one of those things that when they had their communications, when they were in the mine, he always
journalists. they re miners. so i think that they re already sort of anticipating how life changes when they have that media spotlight. and that s one of the reasons that some of the professionals in chilean television were saying. that they one of the reasons that they want to isolate them apart from medical reasons is because they think psychologically they couldn t deal with the media onslaught. thank you. the author of rocket boys, which became the movie october sky. i m sure you ve been hearing our conversation about how great they look. sow strong they seem. oh, they do. yeah, were you amazed. yes, very much so. heartened, really. again, this comes down to the great planning of the folks that put together this whole rescue during the many days before that happened. they re get ago they were able to get down enough food and enough water to keep these these young men healthy. and, yeah, they look great.
lift, so that it wouldn t get caught up when it went through these little curves. it is some of the hardest rock on earth that they had to drill through. so they brought numerous drills in from different parts of the world. it was that drill from pennsylvania that did the trick. and so far six of the 33 have been rescued, and as we said, we re watching and waiting as they re doing last-minute visual inspections on that capsule before they let it go down underground. and sandra lilley has been following all of this with us, as she s been watching chilean television. to my unsophisticated eyes, i don t know these men, i didn t know them before. obviously, they stepped out of those capsules i d only seen pictures but theyf i thought that they looked so great. they just seem so contained and self-possessed. it was sort of cute chilean
stretcher. but you can see the men could easily walk away from this ordeal, at least the first three anyway. we could see some problems later on. and of course, there is a tape delay. this picture is controlled by chilean television. there is a 20-second delay fwe see any problems. and if there were real bad cases, the chilean flag would have been moved in the picture, really blocking our view. but so far, we have been able to see everything, see the miepers greet their family, greet everybody, their friends and co-workers and really jump on top of the stretcher, having no need for it, but at least going through the protocol. we see them on the gurney. he goes through the doors, is that like a make-shift hospital? where is he going through those doors? reporter: sure. part of that that tunnel there was was intended to obscure the video you from the cameras on this hill. but that hasn t been necessary,