Chile Mine Rescue: Join the Live Chat
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Tonight on 360°, special coverage of the mine rescue mission in Chile. Crews are getting ready to free the first of 33 trapped miners. We'll give you an up close look at the effort.
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I hope they check the door out well once it's at the top again. All they need is for it to pop open and jam.
Fantastic! Wonderful news for the miners and their families. Best wishes to them all. What a relief! Thank goodness for the rescuers.
I contacted family in Poland..They are ALL watching the Incredible Rescue Mission
This is spectacular news coverage at it's finest.So uncommon anymore to see something "good" on the news.When usually news is sad,upsetting and stressful to watch,I am uplifted and joyed to see this happening.
Evening Mr. Anderson:
What actually took place in Chile was the awesome work of God. Keeping the miners safe in his arms. May God bless the miners, and their families. God Bless all the rescuers.
My heart can not begin to express how happy I am for the the miners, their families, and Chile. I have been fortunate enough to live in Chile on two seperate occasions and have experienced how strong these people are. I truely believe they can handle anything that is thrown at them and I am so lucky to have been able to experience their culture.
Thank you so much Anderson and CNN for keeping such a close watch on this.
FUERZA CHILE!!!!
Good evening Anderson! This is a phenomenal night! I give all the thanks, praise and glory to Jehovah Elohim for rescuing these 33 miners! My 300 Facebook friends and I have prayed daily for their safe recovery and kept faith that they would be delivered! We have lived to see a miracle! Blessings!!!!
I was just thinking-when they make a movie of this all this waiting will be cut out. LOL, I know that's a silly thought.
I is really amazing to see the live footage. I have been following this closely. I manufactured the special drill pipe used on the rig that completed the evacuation shaft. I have been getting information since the rig was moved into place.
A good day for the miners, their families and Chile!
Tom
Respect to Chile. We should all strive to be as united, strong and hopeful. And mindful of our rights, as Sepulveda (#2 to be out) has written to his family.
Thank you Lord
Proud daughter of Chilean parents Jose and Isabel and proud grand daughter of a Chilean miner. NOW everyone will know where Chile is and the Atacama desert as well as Copiapo (Co-pee-ah-poe).
@Scott, that's an excellent question about a backup capsule.
My dog is even glued to the TV watching this! lol
One good thing about the little tube, Linda from Texas, is that these are miners who are doing this. They are lots more used to these situations than the average person....or the average person who undergoes an MRI!
Truly amazing coverage of this rescue and these men being reunited with their loved ones! I will continue to pray for those still not on the surface and for each and every one of these men and their families for the days to come! God bless each and every one you who contributed to helping these men to safety!
Kim
Ontario, Canada
Watching the rescue with my family... this is a phenomenal prowess... my kids are riveted to the TV... they will remember this their entire life... a miracle of technology and faith... what a great message for our future generations !
Indeed is a miracle that the first miner comes to surface, am very happy actually tears comes out from my eyes watching the families of these miners and when i saw the first rescuer tears of Joy, i thanks God for those moment and i thanks all the people that God has used in this operation, the Government of Chile and others,God bless them all... am so happy.
If there is a rescue worker already down there, then why do they need to send more workers for the miners? can some one please clarfiy that?
Thanks.
It's like Jonah being trapped in the mouth of the whale, and God rescuing him.
Anderson, awesome work, and yes the world is watching. Talked to family in China, and yes they are watching live, and glued to the TV like everyone else, Awesome Coverage. Bring 'em home alive. John.
We're all Celebrating and Praying with you!
We're all ONE with CHILE Tonight!
I just got home 2 weeks ago from a 3 week trip to chile.. It was interesting to hear what the people over there had to say about the minors etc.they are very loveing and caring people. all of them. Very religious..
My prayers are with them all. I just cried like a baby when the first one was rescued. so interesting to watch and see what modern technology can do these days.
thanks anderson for great coverage.
Hey Justin D it will be a rescuer because they know how to do it
This is such a significant moment in journalistic history with cameras in the mine, cameras at the top. Thank you to the Chilean government for providing these images, and CNN for broadcasting it. I really feel like I'm watching the first time a man walked on the moon.
Thank you Anderson for carrying this live feed on your show tonight. I'm in Harrow, Ontario Canada and yours is the only channel I can find the live feed on! You rock!
great news thanks for shairing. Her whe have 7 coalmines ( all are closing now for more then 10 years) with a lots off accidents and killings the deep was twice of the mine in Chile
Any report from the hospital on the status of the first miner rescued?
Mr. Cooper;
I am so thrilled to see a miracle of great proportion and surely the miners were correct in their assessment that there were 34 down below-God included.
God bless them and their families! I've said prayers for them constantly and God has answered them!
There is Audio and Video in the Cage, plus extra Oxygen and other precautions, they should all be fine on the way up....It takes 45 minutes to Ascend...I am Very Proud of the Engineers that kept these Men ALive.
why are they rescuing the guys that are in good condition first? shouldn't it be the other way around? just cuirious...
So the problem now is the door of he capsule!!! Has long as they make it to the top, it doesn't matter!!!
Anderson,
This rescue is amazing, but I'm confused about something.
You're saying they are sending down a "Rescue Miner," so....does the cage hold 2 people – the rescuer and the miner who was trapped?
It looks like it only holds one and we only see one exit....
Thanks,
As I'm watching the miners being rescued I'm wondering why they don't mark on the cable attached to the capsule the place on the cable where the capsule has reached the bottom. I think that would be easier to gauge when it has reached the bottom.
2 thumbs up for those that have helped rescue the miners!!
Justin D., I think the rescuers are trained how to do that.
Why are they sending rescuers down with tube? How are they going to be brought up afterwards ?
Anderson, I just joined this chat and not sure if this question has been posed yet. Is there a backup rescue capsule onsite in case something happens to the primary?
to Linda in Dallas, TX
The drilling company is not from Texas, is Chilean and the capsule was made for ASMAR (Army shipbuilding)
They must be scared out of their mind to sit in a tube of that size. I guess its like sitting in an MRI for 20 minutes. Best not to look.
Mabuhay (greetings!) from the Philippines! very inspiring effort by men!
How truly amazing our God is. And what faith those men have. Faith is an action word, something I sometimes forget, and those men are great role models in faith.
My Prayers and thoughts are with all of the families and miners and the people of Chile as I join the rest of World who are also praying for the successful and safe rescue of all of the 33 miners.
The capsule has just safely arrived below for the second time.
Tonight is one of humanity's great achievments. It is truly remarkable, what people are capable of when acting with faith and good will.
All the best to the Chilean miners and thier families.
God is good.
Hi Anderson !!! This is a miracle, so exiting, tears falling
How is the LAST miner/rescuer going to get HIMSELF back to the surface with no help getting into the tube?
God bliss the miners, family and rescuers and Anderson and your crew.
we are watching your live coverage right now..what an amazing effort as well as coverage
Great!!!! I am glad the second miner is about to get back up when they take the rescuer out of the capsule!!!!!!!!!
Good news for a change. God Bless all those who contributed to this rescue. It's time for all the world to work together like this with Aloha. Stupendous!