Oct 08 Watch Rescuers Pin Hopes on ‘Plan B’ to Free Trapped Chilean Miners Chilean authorities have been hard at work on three plans for rescuing 33 miners who have been trapped underground since Aug. 5. Jonathan Miller of Independent Television News reports on the mounting drama and excitement as the race to free… Continue watching
Oct 08 Timeline: Trapped Chilean Miners May Be Near Rescue Site where rescued miners will be pulled. Photo by Ariel Marinkovic/AFP/Getty Images Rescue workers burrowing toward Chilean miners trapped a half-mile below the surface could possibly reach the 33 men by Friday night or Saturday and start extracting… Continue reading
Sep 13 Problems With San Jose Mine Emerge in Wake of Trapped Miners’ Ordeal COPIAPO, Chile | For about a month now, most of the international stories about the Chilean mine disaster have been about what many people see as a miracle: that all 33 miners survived the cave-in that took place on… Continue reading
Sep 10 Trapped Miners’ Families Stay Vigilant in Chile By Tom Bearden COPIAPO, Chile | The makeshift tent city at the entrance to the San Jose gold and copper mine houses relatives of the 33 miners trapped by a cave-in nearly half a mile underground. For more than a month, they have… Continue reading
Sep 07 Chile Dispatch: Trapped Miners Sent Small Luxuries, but Pine for More COPIAPO, Chile | On Tuesday afternoon, a city of Copiapo truck dumped a fresh load of firewood next to a small cluster of tents where several trapped miners' families have spent the last month camping on the rocky ground. Continue reading
Sep 07 Watch 3 Options Explored to Rescue Chilean Miners, But No End in Sight for Saga It's been a month since a mine collapse in Northern Chile trapped 33 men. As efforts continue to keep them healthy and happy, a rescue date still isn't set. Jeffrey Brown talks to Tom Bearden about the options being used… Continue watching
Aug 27 Watch News Wrap: Homemade Bombs Kill 3 U.S. Troops in Afghanistan In other news Friday, an American prisoner who was imprisoned for trespassing in North Korea arrived back in the United States. Also, three American troops were killed by homemade bombs in Afghanistan. Continue watching
Aug 27 A Glimpse of Life Underground for Trapped Chilean Miners By Natalie Friedman The drama of 33 trapped Chilean miners continues with the release of the first significant video footage taken thousands of feet below the ground. A camera was sent down through an emergency shaft being used to deliver food, water… Continue reading
Aug 26 Watch 6:19 Anxiety, Cave-In Concerns Among Mental Hurdles for Chilean Miners The good news that 33 trapped Chilean miners were still alive was soon tempered by the possibility that they may not be rescued until Christmas. Judy Woodruff speaks with University of Southern California professor Lawrence Palinkas about the psychological hurdles… Continue watching
Aug 23 Watch In Chile, 17 Days Underground Just the Beginning for 33 Miners In Chile, rescue crews learned that 33 miners are still alive after 17 days stuck underground, but it could take months to free them. The country's president has appealed to other nations to help speed the recovery effort. Continue watching