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This is the kind of travel and risks that come with living in this kind of state, comes with the territory. >> our cnn all-platform journalist patrick oppman. thank you. lets talk about the weather conditions at the of the crash. rob, we got some information from the ntsb but you have been helping sort through it. >> temperatures were above freezing, so they would have had to be flying well above the surface for an icing situation. so at this point, that probably is unlikely unless they were t...

They insert themselves down in this crater an work up. hes not at the bottom, hes about 500 feet up at a 70-degree angle. yesterday they were able to insert a volcano rescuer down into that crater. he was able to see the man but not able to make contact with him, not able to get close enough to effect that rescue and wind conditions yesterday afternoon were just too dangerous to try to pull off that rescue. now with the cloud cover, theres drizzly rain that weve had all last night and theyre jus...

Thats from rita, and looking in to that, we found out about the single largest project. the single contract from the whole stimulus funding. lets zoom into it. weve got a map and it will take us all the way in to this, which is the savannah river site, at akins, south carolina, they got $1.4 billion to clean up this site which was constructed in the early 1950s originally to produce some of the basic materials used in the fabrication of nuclear weapons. so, thats one. and then we also have anoth...

Change immediately. but they are at least hopeful for the future as we look at relations between the united states and cuba opening up under president obama. now under president elect trump, theres still no telling what will happen. >> all right. thank you so much for bringing us the latest there. its been going on for hours now. >> were going to show you a different picture, havana cuba where the mood is somber and sad. patrick oppman is the only u.s. correspondent in cuba. what are people sayi...

With an exclamation point. cnn is covering the story from all angles. we have patrick oppman in miami. i want to go straight to chris moody in miami. because what a scene it has been in little havana, not just overnight. we thought it would subside, but even where you are now. >> reporter: thats right. celebrations have gone on since the middle of the night when people here in the exile community in little havana in miami spilled into the streets and they have been celebrating and cheering and t...

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>> heartwarming, isnt it? miners one by one traveling back to their lives and their loved ones from running into the crowd to dropping to their knees in prayer. you cant help but fall in love with each one of these guys. were going to keep talking about this all morning as were watching this and talking about the scope of the rescue. its unprecedented and the joy at the scene is pretty much unbridled. 11 men rescued so far. working on number 12 right now but once they reach the surface, theyre b...

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Guys to get them to come down in weight. one miner at a time lifted to the surface. the journey expected to take under 20 minutes. as its pulled upward, the capsule is expected to rotate 350 degrees, some 10 or 12 times in the entire process. lets get a little more information on this, because its going to be fascinate to go watch. it happened after all this time waiting and digging. were going to want it to happen correctly. patrick opman is there at the san jose mine. patrick, tell us about th...

And were there live right now. im going to bring in patrick oppman in a second standing by outside the san jose mine. this is the first time weve able to put this on our air right here on cnn. this is the first pictures of what theyre calling the phoenix. this is a teeny tiny capsule here 21 inches around, six feet tall. you can see theyre putting a guy inside. no, its not one of the miners. this is one of the emergency crews hopped in there to test it out, test out the fit and the movement with...