A week since 40 workers got trapped inside the collapsed Silkyara tunnel at Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand, advanced machinery are being brought to the site to aid rescue operations. This follows the decision to drill vertically through the tunnel to create an escape passage.
get their first crack. the citizens, if i get it right, they turn off the microphone. they ask the question, pre-selected. then they re done. still ahead on way too early, it was 24-0 chargers at halftime. and understandably you went to bed. as you wake up this morning, football fans, boy do we have news for you. peyton leads the comeback. also game two of the nlcs, all ahead in sports. stephen colbert on the man who jumped from outer space. stephen celebrating the occasion of putting a man on the earth. that clip and a check on weather when way too early comes right back. jessica was being squeezed from the well where she had been for 2 1/2 days into a rescue tunnel. before long it was clear that this epic ordeal, labor of the heart was coming to an end.
rescue of the miners after, what, 70 odd days. joyous occasion, what s the left do? chris matthews? he uses it as an opportunity to take a gratuitous slap at america. bashes the tea party. totally inaccurately by the way. you contrast that with what dan had to say in his column in the wall street journal headline capitalism saved the miners and he details this company, an american company in pennsylvania which developed the drill the drill, they offered the drill to the chileans who thankfully accepted. they used the drill to drill down the rescue tunnel and the miners were saved. that drill was developed by capitalists innovation and they re looking for profit. it s an american company. celebrate, baby. then you get the colorado company that was working in afghanistan digging wells to come back and use their technology here, using a cage like system that was developed in pennsylvania and together, they put they upgraded it to work on this specific incident.
tomorrow morning, we ll be at number 33. what we showed you when the eighth minor made his way out, again, 33 in all making their way to the surface, a pennsylvania drilling crew digging the rescue tunnel out to them, to their rescue, the company that helped free nine trapped miners from the kew creek mine in pennsylvania in 2002 and what a scene that was. remember that, nine alive, that was the headline across the newspapers in america. you saw the animation, that s how we ve best been able to represent how this capsule is going down beneath the earth and what you re looking at now is the videocamera set up by the government inside the mine itself for the last few days to watch the rescue and make sure the miners are okay down there, the operation is running smoothly. so far, so great. tom foy is one of those rescued miners, he now worked for that drilling company, center rock incorporated, live in berlin, p.a. good morning to you, you re 61, right? 61! bill: when i was with you,
and all of a sudden all the girls were puking everywhere. girls were outside like on their back, and people were so drunk they didn t know what to do. they were rufied so they were ruffied, they were falling down and their drinks were going overwhere and we were picking them up. i carried four people downstairs. we go now to chile where 33 trapped miners are one step closer to freedom. crews are reinforcing the first 100 yards of the rescue tunnel with steel tubing. once that is done, they will send down a doctor and a rescue worker to prepare the men for their journey back to the surface. if all goes according to plan, the first miner could be brought to the surface on wednesday. those are your headlines this hour. i m don lemon keeping you informed, cnn, the most trusted name in news. and happiness comes in 25 delicious flavors. yoplait. it is so good. we need directions to go to. pearblossom highway? it s just outside of lancaster.