joushli i journalists here, and some of the journalists are not so polite, but he was, so i let him pass. this is faster than expected, and we thought 30 to 36 hours, but they have quickened up the pace and know what they are doing, but we have to keep in mind that there are five mine experts, and the last ones up, and they won t have the attention but it is still a situation to keep an eye on them, but still, six miners to come up, and five mine rescue officials and then they will close this mine forever. wolf. all right. gary, stand by. i want to take a quick break and show our viewers before we do that, the family reaction when the 27th miner, franklin lobos came to the surface. watch this. 27 is now just a few meters from the top of the rescue shot, and we are here in the tent where the family has been waiting for him for last 70 days
soon as that phoenix capsule cranks up, within a half hour, he will be down with the 33 miners. the first human contact they have had from the surface in 69 days, anderson. we can also see coming in from the eight-inch diameter rescue shot, we can see smoke coming up. that s nothing to be worried about. that s humidity because there s a temperature differential. it is very warm down in that mine shaft. it is very cold here, that is just steam coming out of the ground. we can see there the still looking at these pictures, it looks like manuel gonzalez got in that phoenix capsule, it looks like he s just stepping out again for a while, just to make sure things work. we can see on the ground there the oxygen tanks, again, to have this oxygen supply there for all
engineers will be putting a camera down that rescue shaft which is 28 inches wide as we know, and they will be checking what they call the integrity of that rescue shot. checking to see if the drill hole through that granite rock is solid enough or if there may be a risk of rock fall. if they think there is rock fall, a solution. put steel piping all the way down to the tunnel where the miners are and then once that is in place, then the rescue cage known as the phoenix capsule will be brought slowly to the surface with the miners onboard one by one. but that, if they decide to go for that option, that could take anything up to ten days before the miners are back here on the surface. but what engineers are hoping and a mining consultant i was speaking to this morning, he says he believes that the first 100 yards is the critical area of that rescue shaft. they might encase just 100 yards of this shaft and then drop the