wheels. but it is it has all gone off without a hitch. i believe you re looking live there at number eight. claudio janez just making his way out of the rescue capsule, all looking remarkably great. we were talking about it during the overnight hours how they all come out clean-shaven and looking like they re in incredible shape. of course, all these precautions have been taken to ensure that they do well in that capsule. they re wearing their sunglasses now as we re almost eight hours into this rescue operation. daylight is starting to break here. so those sunglasses are going to be all that more necessary here. but of course they re trying to make a gentle transition back to the real world. getting hugs by his long-term partner there, christina nunez. this never gets old. i will sit here and watch these hugs and these tears and every
coast. 7:00 down there in chile. seven of the miners, seven of 33 have now been pulled to safety. you see the excitement on the faces and the stunning amount of energy. the miners all look healthy. they will, of course, be evaluated as they come up. this is video of the first couple that came out. we re expecting number eight to come up shortly. i m willie geist in new york. joe and mika are off. richard has is here from the council on foreign relations. mike barnicle is here. and chris jansing who has been covering this story live on the air for the last seven hours or so. good morning. bring us up to speed, chris. a lot of us slept through the early parts of this. i can t imagine. people are glued to the tv sets last night. it was really exciting. you don t usually get a story where the newsroom stops because we re all jaded journalists, frankly. it was shortly after midnight local time. so just after 11:00 here that the first of chile s 33 trapped miners was pull