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It is 6 minutes past the hour, 10:00, here on the east coast and if you are joining us, good morning, and, we will continue to cover this, throughout the morning and all of these developments, out of chile, a great occasion to check out the newest edition of the fox news family, fox news latino.com, is now on-line, covers the national issues, and events that impact a very important segments of america, and, just like foxnews.com, foxnewslatino.com is updating 24/7 and we have a great staff on the web site and they have been working on it for three years and now it is officially launched. martha: add it to your favorites and put it next to fox news, and fox business, a great resource and this is an extraordinary story and so much focus on chile and it s a great moment, in many ways for the country as we watch the folks come out with the flags and their pride in their ....
Longest effort ever, and the men lost up to 22 pounds in body weight, one of them, one of them, has become a father. martha: one became a dad while he was there, another one was proposed to and is now engaged, he comes up to get ready to plan a wedding. it s a remarkable story. and joining me now is mine safety expert bruce dial. welcome. talk to me a little bit about, you know, you have a background in mine safety and inspection, have worked in this field for decades. when you see these guys coming out, they appear to be very composed. they seem to have gone things seem to have gone as well as they possibly could among these 33 men in this small space. yes, it s very miraculous that they ve been able to withstand the ordeal of being down there two months, and then the excitement and the ordeal of coming up this shaft, it s never been no rescues have ever been done like this before. ....
facing the nation saying, is that the best you ve got? to david axelrod in the white house it ain t a good time for the white house. i suspect just makes you wonder, karl, in terms of the strategy, and, you know, kind of obfuscation and talking about stuff other than what is going on in the country is all they ve got and if that is the case it looks like a fairly desperate situation for democrats in the country and i don t base that on anything, exempted, the polling numbers we are seeing, you know, strategically, is this a good way to go? we re now starting to hear democrats and the l.a. times story, yesterday, democrat candidates and candidates scratching their heads, saying what is the white house doing? this is not helpful to us and look, it s not. the american people are concerned about jobs, the economy, spending deficits, obama care and those are the things driving the ballot and when the white house goes off and talks about phony charges about foreign money, stealing ....
The rock. reporter: we ll get more of what is happening at center rock, coming up later in the day, stick around. bill, back to you. bill: laura ingle live in berlin, pennsylvania where the heart of darkness is now degree daylight for the first time in 69 days, and you know, my parents are 71, right? my mom, she watches cable news all day long and stayed up late last night to watch this and my father, 71, he looks 51. martha: he does, i have met him. bill: he stayed up until 2:00 a.m. and to get my dad to stay up to 2:00 a.m., it must be special and this story certainly is. martha: it is an amazing story and, you know, it is a great sort of equalizer, i think, around the world, you know? you watch the people and they could be you, your family and could be anybody you know. going through this situation. and, you know, when these kinds of stresses are put on people, and the way that respond, you just have to your heart goes out to them and last night it was a 7-year-old boy, who was ....
Not at this depth and this heat and that amount of technology that they used to get them out. martha: when you bank those initial 17 days, all these families, what all they went through, probably assuming in many cases the worst, then learning that indeed they had been in this area that allowed them to survive, you know, it s just an unbelievable story for these families on the outside. that s right. yeah, they were probably trained on what to do in case they were trapped, but they were never trained on how to handle it to this extent. martha: talk to me a little bit about, you know, mine safety and what we ve learned about this. as we were talking about moments ago, sadly, in most cases, it doesn t end in this way. you know, what have we learned from this accident and this collapse near this tunnel that maybe they can improve on the next time around? i think we ve learned quite a bit about the cooperation that it took between the government, the mining company, the miners, ....