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Hope For Trapped Miners

Renewed hope for a group of Chilean miners trapped underground for the past 2 months.

A drilling rig punched through to the underground purgatory where 33 miners have been trapped for 66 agonizing days under the Chilean desert, raising cheers, tears and hopes on Saturday.

CBS News correspondent Seth Doane, outside the mine in Chile, reported sirens and horns blaring this morning at about 8 a.m. ET, announcing the long-awaited breakthrough.

Champagne sprayed and hard hats tumbled off heads as rescue workers pressed close to the drill, hugging each other and shouting for joy. Down in "Camp Hope," where the miners' relatives waited, one man energetically rang a brass bell even before the siren sounded confirming the escape shaft had reached the miners.

CBS News' Fernando Suarez reports emotions are high, with family members crying and cheering, waving Chilean flags and ringing bells.

The men are still several days away from efforts to bring them to the surface: the rescue team wants to eliminate even a remote chance of something going wrong on their way up, and plans to carefully inspect the shaft with a video camera before deciding whether to reinforce it.

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