reporter: that s right, zain and monita. that s right. right now in chile it s 5:30 in the morning. this is our sixth miner coming up. i expect that at 5:34 that wheel will stop turning and you will see the capsule and miner number six will come out. he s married with four children, worked in the mine for four months before this happened and now he will obviously have a very obviously grateful family. we ve seen some incredible reunions today. what we expected before all this began at 12:10 a.m. local time october 13th here in chile was an emotion eal reunion. we didn t know what to expect because they had been tight-lipped about their plans for coverage of this. we must express none of the cameras are ours. they re full production. we appreciate it. this is a good news story, a breaking news story.
vega seen here in one of the first videos showing the miners were alive followed in his father s footsteps. he was attracted to the mine by the relatively good waves. from the mine also came a marriage proposal. he wrote a letter to jessica janez, the woman with whom he has lived for 25 years. they have three children and two grand children but they never got married in church. he sent the mairriage proposal n a letter. i read what he said and started to shout with happiness. her answer, of course, was yes, and now they re closer than ever to the wedding that had to wait for a quarter of a century. rafael ramon, cnn, atlanta. what you are seeing is the vision within the mine where the trapped miners have been for 68
surface. translator: dear lila, i m okay, thanks to god. i hope to get out soon. have faith, be patient, god is great. we will make it out. the message was from mario gomez. at 63, he s the oldest and most experience experienced of the 33 miners who became trapped in a copper and gold mine in northern chile. reporter: this one one of the first videos that showed they were alive and in good spirits. for eight weeks a small borehole was their only means of communication to the outside world. jo jose was one of the ones weight. he e had given his son a warning. i told my son two months before the cave-in, i said, son, that mine is sending you a warning, stop working there. but he said, dad, i m fixing up my house, i need to carry on.
understandably excited as they are, there s a feeling of a little bit of apprehension because of all the attention surrounding them. but, you know, to see his wife s face as we saw earlier on, that look of anxiety, anxiousness, but, just, you know, cannot wait to see her husband. she hadn t seen him in 68 days, two and a half months. there he is. at the reunion. let s take a listen. chi chi chi, le, le, le. an emotional time for osman and his wife. he s the sixth to be rescue and freed. our gary tuchman is at the soes mine. as great as it is for us to be able to see these scenes because
amazing procedure. i mean we re not only seeing shots of miners coming out being greeted by their family members, but there are cameras underneath the ground. there are cameras where they were in the mine. we ve never had a live shot like that, ever, in recorded broadcast journalism history. to see them underground is amazing. the time it s taken so far each ride has taken 14, 15 minutes for the men to get up. it s so amazing when you see them way below ground and you put the miner inside the capsule and then it takes off. it looks like a toy. not ultra sophisticated. after all it s a wheel and a rope. what i call the wheel is a wheel of good fortune. that s a great way of looking at it, gary. thank you very much.