The Rescue Effort Continues To Save Trapped Chilean Miners
Two-thirds of Chile's trapped miners are now up and out of their half-mile-deep dungeon as the rescue operation gains speed. No. 22 came up into the desert sun more than 17 hours after the rescue capsule dubbed ``Phoenix'' extracted the first miner. He is Samuel Avalos, a 43-year-old man who had been working as a street vender before he found work at the mine to earn more money. Former Pennsylvania Governor Mark Schweiker knows first-hand the thrill of rescuing trapped miners. He was on-hand for the rescue at Quecreek in 2002 ...and joins Paul & Rose on the KDKA Afternoon News about the effort.
