the men one by one to the surface arrived at the mine. the steel capsule will be sent down a rescue shaft once drilling is completed. the relatives of the miners not only had a firsthand look at the capsule but get into the narrow cage which is a little more than 20 inches wide and i have trouble understanding this. i don t know people 20 inches wide and expected to take 20 to 30 minutes to pull each up from the shelter. this is going to be, wow, so close to freedom and, yet, it is so harrowing. they ve been trapped more than 60 days and i suppose waiting a few hours once the capsule goes down is okay. can you imagine the ride up in that little capsule? they could be pulled out as early as next week. when they were trapped, the government expected the rescue effort to last through december. look at that. that s what it looks like. they re in the capsule and it s called the phoenix capsule with oxygen in it. it will have communications equipment in it and escape hatch
from outside the mine. karl? reporter: certainly feels like the beginning of the end, fredericka, but there have been problems with the three drills that you can see there behind me. they have been working around the clock to get down to these miners half a mile underground but over the last 24, 48 hours all 3 of them had problems. some of them routine. had to change hammers and bits and another one, the leading drill, the one only about 500 feet from the miners right now, that ran into problems running into extra hard rock and so in the course of yesterday, it only drilled about six feet. but if it does get a good day and gets passed this area very hard rock then, yes, rescuers say it could complete the distance in about three days. but then, of course, that rescue shaft will then have to be encased with a steel pipe and at least part of the distance. that just to shore it up and make sure there are no rock
watching these videos. they re now able to say to their children, you can have a happy life. please hang in there. that s compelling. you can hear more from dan savage tomorrow night when he talks to anderson cooper, part of his report. the coverage wraps up friday night. i ll put a link to itgetsbett itgetsbetter.org so you can share that. there is just no reason for this to go on and society s got to get together to make bullying of people for any reason particularly because they might be gay. time for globe trekking. first stop, chile. ever so close. that sums up the attempt to rescue 33 miners who have been trapped for more than two months. that rescue shaft is now only 524 feet from the miners. anxious family members are
dangerous period is now because there s a possibility of a new cave-in. to try to prevent that from happening they re concerning whether to line the rescue shaft with steel casing. the drilling continues. they ve been testing the capsule that would bring the miners one by one to the surface. it s complicated. it s half a mile. i m claustrophobic. i don t know what that would feel like. do they sedate them? can you you have to not sedate them too much but they have to be relaxed. chile s president says the rescue could begin as early as october 15th. so things are going much faster than expected. over to israel. troubling case involving two israeli soldiers. a military court has convicted them of using a 9-year-old palestinian child as a human shield during an offensive in gaza last year. they were found guilty of reckless endangerment and conduct unbecoming. it happened when the soldiers found bags in a home and ordered the boy to search them for
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