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24 hours ago. when manuel gonzalez carefully was loaded into that capsule, taking some last breaths of oxygen. and beginning a journey that, frankly, no one knew how it would go. they hadn t had a human being in the capsule who went all the way down. they didn t know if the shaft that they had drilled would hold. translator: how s it going? things are going well. we re waiting for you right here. they re actually yelling down now to manuel gonzalez. just moments away now. translator: slowly, slowly. again, this was manuel gonzalez on the left side of your screen 24 hours ago, being ....
Hugged, kissed, cried. you see the wife standing there as the capsule comes up. we have been told the capsule s at the bottom of the mine. that s remarkable. none of the news media was told that. the chilean government made a live decision to take live pictures and live audio from the bottom of the mine, never done before. a half a mile below. only minutes away from all of the miners being safe and sound. back to you. thank you, gary. we re told, we re about to see on the screen here and everybody at home can see it the fenix, the capsule, is about to enter the cast which is where the miners have been for 69 days. so everybody understands, there s only one miner left, the other folks you re seeing are the rescue workers who came down notice capsule to assist and, of course, they will head back up as soon as the 33rd miner is on the way. kind of like science fiction movie but it s real. i still can t get over the capsule. i m fixated on it. ....
Seen the fenix rescue capsule rise up that rescue shaft and deliver each miner one by one, back into the arms of the people they most love. there was, for example, a minor, mario gomez, 63 years old, he stepped out of that capsule into the arms of his wife, lila, then he took her knee, prayed to god and the virgin mary. rojas stepped out of the capsule into the warm embrace of the woman he has been with for many years, but while he was down, half a mile underground, he decided that when he got out it was time to marry jessica in a catholic church wedding, and that is now what they plan to do. there was ed isson bena, an electrician, part of the team that helped the 33 stay alive ....
There s a book here. there s a book here on how they should they should communicate with the press and talk to people. somebody took it up with them. we saw you reading with a lot of interest. now we know you were praying. for 160 meters. not much longer now. not much longer. we kept praying for everything to go we re showing you on the left-hand side of the screen, the lower side, that s manuel gonzalez 24 hours ago when he was first getting in the capsule to be the first rescue worker down to the miners. ....
The cable come down, to see how far that fenix capsule was going into the mine. they didn t want to crash you to the bottom, clearly they didn t want to damage it any time they went up and down. they made sure there was nobody standing in front of that camera every time that fenix capsule went up and down. they had also done this previously so that the miners could have contact with folks on the surface, not only family members, but also psychiatrists and counselors in case they were having emotional problems. no question about it. and in fact they had even if this was going to go on all the way until christmas, they were going to find a way for every miner to possibly have some type of internet connection as well. we know this happened a lot quicker than christmas, and every miner is very happy about that. yeah, we all are. chad, thanks. appreciate that. still ahead, more family stories as the men who rescued those men return to the surface. still two rescuers to come up. we ....