i m constantly in pain. i don t have the gene that produces connective tissue. reporter: he feels compelled to tell his pastor, buster sorries, the rest of his story. no longer am i dying from morphans but i m living with hiv. reporter: jay gavin, as his friends know him, found out he was hiv positive four years ago. he s never mentioned it in church. keeping that kind of secret is common in the african-american community. if the average person in this church knew how many people they interacted with in this church who were hiv positive, it would be scandalous. reporter: the pastor doesn t know gavin s hiv status yet. gavin is going to tell him today. gavin knows he s not alone. statistically in his church of
only 21 inches in diameter. one at a time will be lifted in a journey that will take about 20 minutes. as it s pulled up, the capsule is expect to rotate 10 or 12 times as it gets there. patrick is on the scene for us and will be there when this happens. patrick, tell me something. i m trying to get my hand around all that s going on. is it relevant this capsule is going to rotate as it brings these miners up? reporter: absolutely. that s one of the issues the miners face is nausea. they ll spin. slowly but spinning. that s one of the reasons they re putting them on a liquid diet, something a nasa space agency recommended. there are isolation experts down here. they are extremely helpful with the chilean government that has never dealt with a mine rescue on this size. and some said they never dealt with men suffering isolation quite this long. they said trained astronauts have trouble with this kind of isolation in space.
guys to get them to come down in weight. one miner at a time lifted to the surface. the journey expected to take under 20 minutes. as it s pulled upward, the capsule is expected to rotate 350 degrees, some 10 or 12 times in the entire process. let s get a little more information on this, because it s going to be fascinate to go watch. it happened after all this time waiting and digging. we re going to want it to happen correctly. patrick opman is there at the san jose mine. patrick, tell us about this. first of all, why is it rotating, why couldn t they make it bigger for the miners who might have been bigger in size? tell us about some of these details. reporter: well, the miners, unfortunately, ali, had to get smaller, many of them, to fit in this capsule. we re told some of them lost as much as 20 pounds. if there has ever been a reason to go on a diet, these men had it. every inch that has to be drilled here takes so much time. so they drilled what they call the biggest hole poss