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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101012:18:02:00

before that around 8:00 p.m. eastern. by side me is a basic model of the capsule that will be used to hoist the miners from the rock cavern where they survived a half mile underground. this will show you what happened when the cave-in trapped the miners on august ath. they were trapped on the left where the rock pile was. they tried to get out and couldn t. they went back down and got into a shelter about the size of a living room. since then they ve received food, water, medicine and other supplies through a narrow four inch shaft that was drilled down to them. if everything goes according to plan, the capsule like the one that you see here is going to lower a rescuer down to the miners to start the process of bringing them up to the surface one by one. right now officials are testing the capsule, lowering it down the rescue shaft, pulling it back up, making sure it s not stuck. previous tests were conducted without problems. but the minister of mines stressed that the operation is no

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101012:15:00:00

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101012:20:14:00

the rescue shaft. he is here. we know the cement is dried on the platform so all systems really are go. still says that he hopes to have the first miner back on the surface by midnight and that so far everything seems to be going according to that plan, brooke. carl, what are you hearing as far as this vow of silence that these miners all huddled half a mile underground are saying, nope, we re not going to talk about this. i have heard whispers of that kind of thing over the last few weeks that i ve been here. but today, one of the family members showed me a letter that she had received in the last few hours from her miner brother. and in that letter, it said quite clearly in response to the request for media interview please tell her no, that is a negative. we will not do an interview. there will be no exclusives either. that is because all 33 of us have taken a vow of silence.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101012:11:02:00

these miners are going to see sunrise tomorrow for the first time in 69 days. it s just an amazing thought to me. but, yes, all systems are now go. that steel tubing, encasing is in place. the cement, a platform at the top of the rescue shaft has now dried. and we ve seen that test of the phoenix capsule, the rescue cage, as well. pretty dramatic pictures there as we saw that slide right down about 2,000 feet. had a camera attached. but that has allowed the engineers to test the integrity of that tunnel and they say it is a. okay. they say there are no chance of rock falls, they say that the phoenix capsule is performing really well. all systems are go. really what they need now is the president to arrive. also we re told that maybe the bolivian president will be here, as well. all along, the chilean president has said that as each of those miners comes out of that hole,

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101012:12:02:00

we are here seven weeks a innoceand in that time, we have never seen preparations move as fast as they are now. the lights, as the dawn breaks here over the desert, that shows that the rescue crews have been working around the clock. they have not stopped. and today is no different. but we re told that now all systems are a go. steel casing to reinforce the rescue shaft is now in place. a cement platform above the rescue shaft has now dried. the winch systems are in place, as well. the phoenix capsule, a cage to pull the miners one by one back to the surface is tested, as well. we have seen dramatic video of that sliding into the rescue shaft with a cam are attached and that the technicians say show that it s solid. that the phoenix capsule is operating well. it means around midnight

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