and we have now been in this rescue mission 14 hours and 4 minutes. that means the rescuers are a little bit ahead of schedule. initially the mines minister calculated it would take a total of one hour to extract each miner. so we re a little bit ahead. but still with the rate that they re going, it still looks like we re going well into tonight, possibly until the wee small hours of tomorrow morning with this rescue. let me tell you about miner 18. rojas, the man coming up next. and you said it a little bit before. but while he has been underground, he, like many of the other miners, had a lot of time to think. and he has been with his partner, jessica, for many years. 25 years, i believe. she told me. and in one of the first letters that he sent back up to the surface, he said, i ve been rethinking this. he said we ve been together for so long, let s do this properly. let s have a full catholic church wedding. and that s a great story in
that s 28 inches wide through the hardest rock on earth. the capsule, 26 inches wide. the fenix 2, as the miners are climbing in, it s working flawlessly. the engineering involved in this, the tests, all of the efforts that have gone into this, an estimated 1,000-plus people involved in preparing all aspects of this rescue. the helicopter pilots taking them to the hospital, the reports from the hospital thus far that everybody looks great. i mean, you could not have thus far a happier ending, and every family member now still waiting now that we re past the halfway point. they have the confidence that it s going to be perfect for all of them all the way down to miner number 33. and we just watched, kerry, the 18th miner, esteban rojas, in the last hour. next up is pablo rojas, his cousin. what else can you tell us about his story? i have one of those baseball