when they were found alive it could take until christmas to drill down to them. and then they put a plan together, not only one plan, a plan a., but then they put two the aactive plans together to see if they could get down there further. and it was the plan b drill, a drill normally used for drilling water holes that made it down to the miners first. and then as well, the whole time line of the rescue itself has been telescoped. and last night we saw them tinkering with the rescue capsule, we thought there may be a glitch there, they were just making sure the wheels were running smoothly on the capsule. and since then, there hasn t been a hitch. they haven t suffered any damage to the fenix rescue capsule, everything is running fine and ahead of schedule. karl, we ll continue to check in with you, a good description of what s going on. karl is there with our team, and in the bottom right of the screen you can see the chilean mining minister giving an update. we will bring you any ne
zealand. good luck, amanda, and all of our friends there. thank you very much. thanks very much. no problem. a huge, huge new drill could soon make all of the difference of the world for those miners trapped beneath the ground for nearly a month. karl penhaul is at the site of the collapsed mine in northern chile. reporter: you can see that these are scenes almost of jubilation, because what is arriving now is a new drill. this is the drill for the so-called plan b. it is called a skram t-130 drill, and it is normally used for drilling water holes. but the engineers believe they can use this drill to drill down to the shelter where the 33 miners are, and in almost half of the time that they can do