its extent. and it targets. frshs and that has ended up being felt country wide by a great number of people are working that out for you. in menno have sign damage to them and the saturday before, you can see they ve poerded up their windows in the hopes of being this week. encase once again three violence. this time they prepare them selves to be spaered earlier that damage. this is of course enits fourth week. hire in paris, hotel occupancy is down, the ood mobile industry has been effected. and you ll imagine. the vision, the image of france and one of the interesting things and what
let me break it down for you. why wednesday? what is going to happen between now and wednesday? the mines minister said at 4:00 p.m., the miners themselves placed four pounds of explosives around the base of the rescue sharp. that will allow the rescue cage to get down there free without obstructions. also new, engineers lowered down a camera down the entire length to see how solid it was and how sal id the granite walls are. they say it s very good. very few cracks and hence there s very little risk of rock fall. they say the only slightly unstable area is right at the top of the shaft. what they have to do is encase with steel piping about the first 96 yards of that rescue
reporter: absolutely, brooke, because as you say 120 feet, that was the latest fig that the experts have given us, the distance between the drill and the roof of the tunnel where the miners are holed up. what s then going to take place? what goes on in a time line after that, after the breakthrough is the engineers then decide over the space of about 24 hours whether they ve got to encase, put steel encasing the whole lengths of that rescue shaft. now, that would be to prevent rock falls. but talking to some of the technicians back and forth who have been around this area, they say they think they re only going to have to encase the first 100 yards. and that will mean that the miners could be coming out of that hole between two and eight days after that rescue shaft is finally drilled and that will certainly be good news for the miners of course but also for the families who have had such an anxious wait. brooke. between two and eight days