in terms of the clothing, one of the key pieces of clothing here, we re told they re going to be wearing sneakers. they need comfortable shoes. until now, they ve been wearing thin-soled rubber boots that had been sent down earlier on to replace the steel-capped safety boots they had been wearing. they will also be equipped with, i understand, green overalls, green overalls that are also waterproof, because there s an amount of undergroundwater that is filtering through the rescue shaft, so the miners, this is to avoid the miners getting damp. each of those overalls will be embroidered wlt miner s name, just so rescuers know exactly who is coming out. i also want to bring in the director of mine safety, you have been in one of these capsules. as they re checking, what are they going through and checking right now? all right. now they re checking the cable.
mountain. they are singing about the land that they are final he being reunited with. after the video, the drama continued and got worse because it was the next day, august 27th that officials said it could take months to rescue. that s when plan b was put in place. then there was a plan c that involved a third hole being drilled on september 10th. a week later, we found out that the plan b bore hole reached down to the miners. that was a hole, not a rescue shaft. we are jumping to october 9th, the escape hatch reached the miners, and over the last couple of days, that escape route was created and ready to go. you re looking at all of these weeks and all of the drama leading up to today, and leading to great news. we re following it every step of the way. as you said, we have video down there, up above, i-reports from
he is 53 years old. you know what, karl penhaul is now being debriefed on cnn international, our sister network and let s listen in to see what karl is saying. reporter: but now 27 miners back on the surface, and it looks like the fight against death has been won. and now franklin lobos the 1970s and 1980s chilean soccer star turned miner hugging sebastian p pinier who is the now at the tent where his family has spent the last 70 days waiting for him, and we saw as the rescue capsule came up the rescue shaft, they were launching
didn t think about came from nasa. the redundancy was one thing that was stressed by the folks at nasa, to keep going over the list of things that we need to do. we re going to take a break and move our way over to another location, lawrence, just for a few moments. we ll join you back shortly. okay? thanks, kerry sanders reporting live from copiapo, chile. the first rescuer has been lowered into the rescue shaft. that rescuer is manuel gonzalez. he ll be going down to where the miners are to help them board the capsule to go back up. no one can know better what these men are feeling right now than other miners who have been in the same situation. joining me now are blane mayhew and tom foy, they re survivors of the 2002 quecreek mine
process. we re told it could take up to 48 hours, so we could be watching incredible images over the next two days, rachel. natalie, in terms of the way things are expected to proceed from here on out, you described a mine rescue expert to be lowered at least part of the way down through that rescue shaft. aren t we also expecting other mine rescue experts, paramedic, medical profegers may go all the way down into the chamber before the miners are before the miners themselves are brought to the surface? reporter: absolutely. what they re going to do first is send the first mine expert down into the shaft the first time around. this is after they do that partway test with him. they will leave that mine expert there, they will allow the first miner, who, as you mentioned is florencio avalos. he ll be load and be the first