shells into homs have gone quiet, but only because the resistance is gone. what comes next could be worse. the eye witnesses are gone or dead, meaning government forces now have free reign, and the fear is they ll use it to move in and keep killing while their leaders keep lying. the regime has told lie after lie about what they re doing. we have documented this on the program over the last year. the latest lie, that one of the eye witnesses who just escaped from homs who you re going to hear from on the program tonight, they say he s dead, he s not, and what he s going to tell us could be the last, best account of the destruction in baba amr. opposition fighters in the free syrian army have pulled out of homs, and the army could be poised to go in. the syrian army, after what our sources say were the two bloodiest days of fighting they have ever seen. in the end, light weapons are no match against heavy artillery and forces willing to target apartment buildings, houses, and
to open. in fact, it seemed to hold there stuck for a little bit if place. and he just burst out of it and immediately started dropping a bag of what looks like rocks of fool s gold or whatever it is, and really kind of stole the show, i think, hugged every single person on the rescue teams tsh here we go with the cheers and the chanting. a scene that will be repeated 33 times over as they load up that capsule one by one. rescue number three soon to be getting under way. when you ve been talking to the experts, i ll address this to both of you, is there sort of a sense that once the first couple are over with, that they re breathing a sigh of relief, that the system is working, they feel the rocks are pretty stable? or is there a sense of anxiety with each and every time it s going to go down and up again? the engineering experts that
florencio avalos will get in and come up. it s expected it will take about 15 minutes for him to come up. they can slow it up if he gets a little disoriented on the way up. but they think about six to 20 feet a minute coming up. described to me as sort of like an elevator in a big building in new york city. it seems his name, the rescuer s name might be written on the side of his helmet. i thought i read gonzalez. i m not sure. kerry, is he the only rescuer who will go down? he will not. there will be at least four rescuers who will go down. two are engineering experts and two are paramedics. they will go down. in the event there is a problem that they encounter and the idea is not only to have the paramedics there for the folks who have potentially any sort of medical problems or panic, but also the idea is so that they
one of the engineering experts who has entered into the phoenix tube. that is the capsule that is now headed down to where the 33 miners are. they ve been down there for 69 days, surviving in an area not small like a tiny cave as most people would believe, but still trapped under the earth. remember, for the first 17 days, no confirmation they were even alive. the family members who were up here holding out hope. and it s remarkable to think that in those first 17 days they survived on what were the rations for two days. they had peaches and tuna. and each man was given two spoons a day. it got them through the first 17 days. then contact was made, food, communications, now the shaft is finally through. they got through on saturday. the phoenix tube is phoenix
7:00 p.m. eastern standard time. as you know, they have to send down two paramedices and two engineering experts. there are some conflicting reports on that that they may already be down there or at 7:00 is when they will enter down into the mine. it will take about 15 minutes or longer for the capsule, the phoenix to get down before it then turns around and begins to come up. so, it s sort of a developing process in terms of the timetable. we do know everybothing is set r today. we do know that the president from chile will come in here around 6:00 eastern, maybe even 5:00 eastern and, of course, he wants to be on hand. so, i think that all the pieces are falling into place. one interesting last-minute development of what they were trying to figure out what to do, they would like to monitor the health of each of these minerser, the 33 as they come up one by one in the capsule.