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Cnn s karl penhaul has been at the san jose mine for much of that time talking to friends and family. translator: a friend phoned and said the mine has just collapsed and the miners are trapped inside. i said, what? that can t be true. and i began crying. i was crying and i couldn t talk. i was just crying and crying. i said, my claudio can t leave me like this. claudio has to be alive. translator: i was stunned by the news, but i didn t cry, i m not the kind to cry. my wife began to cry and i tried to calm her down. i said, take it easy, we don t know anything for sure just yet. translator: i felt rage and pain and frustration. ....
translator: a friend phone called and said, the mine has just collapsed and the miners are trapped inside. i said, what? that can t be true, and i began crying. i was crying and i couldn t talk. i was just crying and crying. i said, my claudio can t leave me like this. claudio has to be alive. translator: i was stunned by the news, but i didn t cry. i m not the kind to cry. though my wife began to cry and i cried to calm her down. i said, take it easy. we don t know anything for sure just yet. translator: i felt rage and pain and frustration. i thought, how can they be trapped like that? they re not animals, but here in chile, they ve always treated ....
And said the san esteban mine has just collapsed and the miners are trapped inside. i said, what? that can t be true. and i began crying. i was crying and i couldn t talk. i was just crying and crying. i said, my claudio can t leave me like this. he has to be alive. translator: i felt a lot of rage and pain and i felt powerless because i knew this was an accident waiting to happen. a lot of the miners said they had heard the mountain groaning. i never doubted, and i had a lot of faith that they were alive and that they were all together, and that s how they found them, all together. these are 33 hard as rock miners who survived the first 17 days with no contact with the outside world, eating just two spoonfuls of tuna every second ....