The 33 miners trapped underground for weeks now will be reached within 24 hours and should start getting pulled to the surface sometime next week, which if memory serves is well ahead of the expected schedule. (When they found these guys, they were making like they were going to be down there until Christmas, so this is good news for them.)
They were showing the weird little tube thinger that's going to rescue them on CNN and holy mother balls does it look unpleasant. Basically a people tube, that's literally standing room only it sucks you up one at a time through the rock. Can you imagine if that thing breaks? Ick. I don't consider myself all that claustrophobic, but being stuck in a jumbo sized toilet roll in the middle of a bunch of rock would not be fun.
UPDATE: They've broken through...
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