that s where we ll start and it is just hours from the start. that s the word we re hearing from chile s pinster of mines on when the rescue will get underway. beside me here is a basic model we ve built of the steel capsule used to hoist them from the rock cavern where they survived half a mile underground for more than two months now. a graphic. it shows you what happened when the cave-in occurred. it happened over here on the left. you can see the miners tried to get out. they couldn t. so they went back down into an area underneath sort of the size of a living room. the little line that you can see there, that s where that was a supply tube. about four inches wide. that s how they got food and water and medicine and communicated. the big one is the one that was drilled. that one is the one that is where they re getting rescued from. if everything goes according to plan in a few moments from now the capsule like the one that you were seeing, we ll show you
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