unique thing about it, larry, it s a biological testing area that was created by a guy named eric traub, a nazi under him letthimler and ss and using wood ticks and mosquitos for warfare and that s the conspiracy. the first case of lyme disease was in lyme, connecticut, across the water from plum island. and imagine this, they re doing this type of research there, this type of danger, and they re 80 miles from boston and 75 miles from downtown new york. the most populated area in our country, larry. larry: wow. couple of other things, jesse, that show renews friday night, its second season on trutv. yep. that s true. larry: i m sorry, what were you saying? i was going to say they let me do jfk this year, larry, and everybody asks me what i can bring new to the john f. kennedy murder. how about an audio, visual and
jose mine. another step towards getting 33 men out of the ground. they have been trapped half a mile below the earth s surface for 68, now going on 69 days. karl penhaul is outside of the mine and he ll join us with the latest. what is the latest, karl? reporter: what they are doing is making sure that the phoenix rescue capsule is operating exactly as they intend it to operate. we ve seen the technicians operating on that capsule, fixing cables, fixing cords, making sure that the oxygen supply is working. they are also making sure that the fiber optic cable that takes a video and audio signal up to the surface is working as well. the rescue capsule has a wide angle camera to feed information back to the rescuers as to how each miner is reacting as he heads back up to the surface. they are fine-tuning the cable t s. possibly halfway down, i would guess, judging only a matter of time that it was down there and then pulling it back up, making sure that the cable on the winch