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>> heartwarming, isn't 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 can't help but fall in love with each one of these guys. we're going to keep talking about this all morning as we're watching this and talking about the scope of the rescue. it's 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, they're briefly united with their loved ones. we wish it could be longer because that's some of the mos...

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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 it's pulled upward, the capsule is expected to rotate 350 degrees, some 10 or 12 times in the entire process. let's get a little more information on this, because it's going to be fascinate to go watch. it happened after all this time waiting and digging. we're going to want it to happen correctly. patrick opman is there at the san jose mine. patrick, tell us about this. first of all, why is it rotating, why couldn't they make it bigger for the miners who might ...

And we're there live right now. i'm going to bring in patrick oppman in a second standing by outside the san jose mine. this is the first time we've able to put this on our air right here on cnn. this is the first pictures of what they're calling the phoenix. this is a teeny tiny capsule here 21 inches around, six feet tall. you can see they're putting a guy inside. no, it's 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 within this steel cage. just imagine that is probably the spot where the miners will emerge from t...