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[00:00:00] let's talk about the measels
[00:00:09] You have been placing nearly all the blame uh
[00:00:12] on the COVID pandemic and the way that the
[00:00:15] US responded to it squarely with Dr. Fauti,
[00:00:19] but of course he worked for President Trump. Does President Trump
[00:00:22] also deserve some of the blame?
[00:00:26] Well, President Trump, as you recall, wanted to...
[00:00:30] "and the lockdowns, I think the the thing that did the
[00:00:33] most damage to our country was the lockdowns, the
[00:00:37] lockdowns that shut down 3.5 million
[00:00:40] businesses in our country with no due process, no just compensation, all
[00:00:44] of our churches closed our schools and our
[00:00:48] children are still paying the price for that, and
[00:00:51] yet we had the worst outcome of
[00:00:54] any country in the world, how so we have the highest death
[00:00:58] rate from COVID of any nation."
[00:01:00] Well let me just let me just say because I've heard you say that before on the death
[00:01:04] rate from COVID um it's not accurate
[00:01:07] because
[00:01:09] public health experts say that there is a combination of
[00:01:12] factors that went into that, higher rates of chronic illness is, which
[00:01:16] I know you would agree with, gaps to our healthcare system and
[00:01:19] misinformation about vaccines, you just said what
[00:01:22] I said was inaccurate, what I said was accurate, we have the
[00:01:26] highest death rate from COVID,
[00:01:30] there are other countries that had higher, but you can
[00:01:32] argue about why we had
[00:01:35] that, but um, you nobody can
[00:01:39] tell you, mean we have, as you say, we have the highest chronic disease
[00:01:43] bird in the world, but anthony found she was
[00:01:46] mismanaging the covid pandemic and he was doing it under
[00:01:49] the biden administration, president trump wanted to end the
[00:01:53] lockdowns and in fact in Anthony's
[00:01:56] diaries he talks about how president Trump is calling them
[00:02:00] every day trying to get them to reopen the country. yeah,
[00:02:04] well, the lockdowns were done by governors. mean,
[00:02:07] certainly Anthony Fouchy and the president had opinions, but the lockdowns
[00:02:11] were done by governors and largely because and largely
[00:02:14] because largely because they were hearing, they were
[00:02:18] hearing from hospitals saying that their ICUs were
[00:02:23] study after study after study, it's one of overrun and they needed some help while that was happening. that's not true. that's just not true. you're saying
[00:02:27] it's not true. no, they were doing it because Anthony.
[00:02:30] was telling them from the top, you need to lock down, there
[00:02:34] were ICUs that were empty all over the country, including in New York
[00:02:38] at the height. I i'm asking you, going to
[00:02:41] go back to what I asked you at the beginning, which is President
[00:02:45] Trump, and he was the guy in charge, and he
[00:02:49] you tweeted back in 2024
[00:02:52] that he let bureaucrats like Anthony Fauti
[00:02:56] shut down the entire country, um, again,
[00:03:00] he the president was in charge, the president was trying to reopen the
[00:03:03] country when he left, the country
[00:03:06] was state was kept closed for another year, almost a year and a half
[00:03:11] something that you cannot show me after that. let's talk about how to prevent the next pandemic um,
[00:03:15] because there's a lot of litigating and relitigating that I don't think is really
[00:03:19] helpful to do with regard to COVID, and the
[00:03:22] question is about uh so-called gain of function,
[00:03:26] which uh, for people who aren't entirely clear about it,
[00:03:30] "it is, it is a highly risky research process that
[00:03:34] includes manipulating virus to study how it
[00:03:37] behaves as it evolves. now what scientists say is
[00:03:41] that, although it's controversial, it's necessary to prepare
[00:03:45] for the next pandemic to get ahead of it, to figure out what
[00:03:48] these viruses can do. um, what you want to
[00:03:52] end this gain of function research? some scientists
[00:03:55] say, isn't it better just to put better guard rails around
[00:03:59] it?" "people have been trying to put guard
[00:04:03] rails around it for generations and it hasn't worked and
[00:04:06] clearly COVID-19 pandemic and many other
[00:04:10] global pandemics that we have have come from gain of function
[00:04:14] research, the RSV
[00:04:17] epidemic that we have that is the biggest killer of kids in this country
[00:04:20] today came from these kind of experiments, the
[00:04:24] lime disease almost certainly came from this kind of
[00:04:27] research, so '
[00:04:30] "and the scientists, who you say are
[00:04:33] experts, are making the argument that this is
[00:04:36] necessary for pandemic response, cannot
[00:04:39] point to one instance in history where
[00:04:43] research that came out of this kind of experimentation
[00:04:47] as actually provided us something
[00:04:50] beneficial, so how do you prepare then, how do you prepare for the
[00:04:53] next pandemic? I mean, that's literally part of your job now,
[00:04:57] because experts think it's going to happen within the next 10." years again,
[00:05:00] yeah, I mean, I think we did everything wrong the last time,
[00:05:04] so what about now, the principal thing that we need to do is we need to
[00:05:08] listen to what's happening to doctors on the ground, there are
[00:05:12] 50'. million frontline physicians around the
[00:05:14] world, they're mainly now connected through the
[00:05:18] internet. we can tell on the front lines, what's working and
[00:05:21] what's not. if we had listened to those
[00:05:25] doctors during the COVID pandemic, we would have saved
[00:05:28] potentially millions of lives. there were
[00:05:30] therapeutics out there that were working, there were doctors
[00:05:34] that were having no deaths from COVID, and treating in some
[00:05:37] cases thousands of patients and we weren't listening
[00:05:41] to them and said we were doing... opposite, we were shutting them
[00:05:44] down, and then the other thing that I would say
[00:05:48] is that um, we need to protect our constitutional
[00:05:51] rights, that that is the primary
[00:05:54] obligation,
[00:05:56] what does that mean? well, during covid, we completely dismantled our constitutional rights,
[00:06:00] we began censoring people and violations,
[00:06:03] but you're saying what not to do, I'm asking what to
[00:06:06] do, but I, but I want to talk about, well that's something to do, that's that is the
[00:06:10] number one priority. we protect the constitution,
[00:06:14] the constitution was forgive me, but you're just you're talking about rights and
[00:06:18] I'm asking about a potential public health
[00:06:21] crisis that is that is coming, but I do want to
[00:06:24] let's, and one of the mistakes we made in the last
[00:06:27] time was suppressing those rights so people
[00:06:30] weren't being heard, the doctors who were saying you're doing it
[00:06:34] wrong, were being marginalized and
[00:06:37] villified and because because again I really want to
[00:06:41] move on, but Yeah, of course, because you were
[00:06:44] part of the problem, no, I wasn't part of the problem, it was
[00:06:47] absolute press malpractice, you were
[00:06:50] allowing your job, your job, your job is
[00:06:54] fear skepticism toward authority, and you weren't
[00:06:58] doing that, you were
[00:06:59] beating,
[00:07:02] no, okay, are you going to, you want to sit here and attack me or do you want to have
[00:07:05] conversations about public health, I'm not attacking you, I'm asking questions
[00:07:09] about how to prevent the next question, and I'll tell you. what I'm trying
[00:07:13] to do, but I also don't want to use
[00:07:16] this interview to allow you to say things that aren't
[00:07:20] entirely true, you're talking about therapeutics, fine, it is also
[00:07:23] factually true that the COVID vaccine
[00:07:27] worked, the COVID vaccine prevented deaths, there is data
[00:07:30] upon data upon data,
[00:07:34] please, because this is something that is happening as as we
[00:07:37] speak, the cases protected
[00:07:41] children. "I think that what I have talked
[00:07:44] to scientists and doctors about scientists, can you look, can you
[00:07:48] show me one study? Yes, I can, that shows that I
[00:07:52] can, children were protected by the COVID vaccine. I, I can tell you that
[00:07:55] there are vaccine did more good than harm to children. Can you show me
[00:07:59] one study that shows that? I can tell you that when it comes to the
[00:08:03] vaccine, there have been studies that show that because of
[00:08:07] vaccine disinformation, disinformation, there could have
[00:08:11] been 100 to..." lives in the US
[00:08:14] saved, but because people didn't get the vaccine, that's
[00:08:18] why I'm not saying that it
[00:08:20] saying nonsense, you are saying
[00:08:24] a single, I am not saying
[00:08:26] nonsense, talking told you,
[00:08:30] excuse me,
[00:08:34] no, what studies are you talking about, you're talking about studies that actually don't
[00:08:37] exist, I want to talk about, you're
[00:08:41] talking about it,
[00:08:43] study me the study, this is not productive, I am not here to
[00:08:47] defend all of the let me finish, talking nonsense, making assertions
[00:08:51] you can't support, and then when I call you on them there, you're telling me
[00:08:54] that I'm arguing, okay, you want to talk about, you want to talk about assertions that you can't
[00:08:58] support, I'll get there in a second, let me just
[00:09:01] say for the record that I am not saying that the entire way that
[00:09:05] the COVID uh reaction was accurate, it
[00:09:08] was a scary time and people made mistakes
[00:09:11] absolutely. scaring people, why are you saying that?
[00:09:15] because that was the job of CNN, okay, was to put
[00:09:18] the kyrons up about how many people are, we were trying
[00:09:22] to be, we were listening to the leaders in this
[00:09:25] country, including the president who had a daily press conference,
[00:09:29] explaining what was going on and trying to
[00:09:31] listen,
[00:09:33] actually, were you reading the science yourself, the measles cases in the
[00:09:37] US just reached a 35-year high, the
[00:09:41] second uh, record breaking year in a row,
[00:09:44] 93% of these cases are among the unvaccinated. the
[00:09:48] outbreak is happening on your watch, and
[00:09:50] even be before becoming HHS secretary for
[00:09:54] years, you've been one of the leading voices questioning
[00:09:57] the efficacy of vaccines. do you accept some
[00:10:00] responsibility for this measel's outbreak?
[00:10:04] absolutely not. first of all, this is an international
[00:10:07] outbreak, so and we're doing better at
[00:10:11] handling it than any country in the...
[00:10:13] Mexico has 15 times the amount of measles per
[00:10:17] capita that we have, Canada has four
[00:10:20] times,
[00:10:22] England has two times that I call. those measles outbreak,
[00:10:26] you're the most famous, i cause, and i cause 137,
[00:10:30] cases, you're the most famous vaccine skeptic on the planet,
[00:10:33] let me tell you, because actually anthony faulty in his
[00:10:36] diaries answers the question about why we're having a measles
[00:10:40] outbreak right now, the reason we're having a miss outbreak
[00:10:43] because the covid lockdowns, because people didn't like
[00:10:46] children during that period did not get
[00:10:49] vaccinated, and in his diaries he says
[00:10:53] this is going to cause massive outbreaks and measles and
[00:10:56] more children, he says this are going to die, let me finish cuz you could accuse
[00:11:00] me of something, let me didn't, i asked you a question,
[00:11:04] yeah, let me give you the answer, he says in his diaries,
[00:11:07] more children are going to die from measels because of these
[00:11:11] lockdowns than covid, so if you want to
[00:11:14] know and that age group that should have got the MMR when
[00:11:18] they're 18 months and didn't get it, they're the ones being
[00:11:21] infected, the people in this country and we have stopped
[00:11:24] the... outbreaks at record speed in South Carolina, in
[00:11:28] Texas and Utah, in Virginia. We've done
[00:11:31] better than any country in the world. I dispatch immediately the epidemic
[00:11:35] intelligence services to those states, I get on the phone with the
[00:11:38] governor and we stop them in their tracks, nobody else has been able to do that. You have
[00:11:42] bully bl. Let me tell you just one last thing, go
[00:11:45] ahead. The the communities that are
[00:11:48] suffering from mezels are almost
[00:11:51] all religious communities that just don't vaccinate. the the
[00:11:55] menonides have not vaccinated since 1796 since Edward
[00:11:59] Jenner invented the smallpox vaccine,
[00:12:02] you it's hard to blame that on me, as much as you want to blame, no, I don't want to blame you, I'm
[00:12:06] asking you because you have very powerful voice on these issues for
[00:12:10] people who are skeptical that, let me finish, let me finish, and I've never
[00:12:13] questioned the efficacy of the MMR vaccine, okay, let me, let
[00:12:17] me finish, what I want you to do is please use
[00:12:21] your bully pulpet to right now, as we're getting close to back to school,
[00:12:25] say, are you willing to say to parents who have not
[00:12:29] vaccinated their kids that they should vaccinate their kids for
[00:12:32] measles because it is safe and it will help them save
[00:12:36] their children's lives. i we tell people on my
[00:12:39] websites, my public profe say right now that
[00:12:42] people parents should get their children vaccinated for
[00:12:45] measles. measle vaccine is
[00:12:48] effective, it it stops mezels in about
[00:12:51] 97% of the cases, but people should get.
[00:12:55] vaccinated, can I ask you, the Wall Street Journal reported that the president is
[00:12:58] pressuring you to conduct studies probing the link between
[00:13:02] vaccines and autism, is that true? did you
[00:13:05] say probing the link? that what what the
[00:13:08] wall, I'm just quoting the Wall Street Journal, that they that the president
[00:13:11] wants you to go further to probe the link
[00:13:15] between autism and vaccines, he certainly
[00:13:18] does. okay, now
[00:13:21] have you talked to him about medical research that have studied this?
[00:13:25] for 25 years and found no link between autism and
[00:13:28] vaccines, and and and just this is my question here,
[00:13:32] because I don't want to litigate that. My question is, why not,
[00:13:36] because you are HHS secretary now, why not
[00:13:39] study what could cause autism, which scientists do
[00:13:43] believe starts with fetal brain
[00:13:46] development. Why not do some studies on that, whether there's
[00:13:50] your environmental lawyer, whether there are environmental factors that
[00:13:53] go into cont'. to a predisposed genetic
[00:13:57] situation? let me say this first, we're doing all
[00:14:00] those things and as one of the ways that we found tyenal, there's
[00:14:03] 73 studies out there and
[00:14:07] tynal exposure during later pregnancy and during the
[00:14:10] perinatal period to to artist
[00:14:13] monset,
[00:14:15] but you are wrong when you say that this issue has
[00:14:19] been studied, it has been studied and you're rolling your eyes
[00:14:23] and I don't want to, I don't want to have you use our
[00:14:26] air to say this, there have been more than 40 studies involving
[00:14:30] 5.6 million people to conclude there is no
[00:14:33] link between vaccines and autism, this is the head of the committee of
[00:14:37] infectious diseases for the American Academy of people, now let me tell
[00:14:41] you what the Institute of Medicine is says,
[00:14:44] which is the National Academy of Sciences, which is
[00:14:48] the ultimate arbiter on vaccine safety and which it does not
[00:14:52] have an interest in this debate, it says:
[00:14:55] none of the eight vaccines that are
[00:14:58] administered during the first six months of life have ever
[00:15:02] been studied for relationship to autism and
[00:15:05] found two studies, one on the DTP
[00:15:08] vaccine and show that it does cause autism
[00:15:12] and one on the hepatitis B vaccine, that again
[00:15:15] suggests that it does cause autism. the institute of
[00:15:19] Medicine dismissed those two studies because they were based on CDC's
[00:15:23] database, studies that you're referring to are
[00:15:27] all for one vaccine, the MMR vaccine or one
[00:15:30] ingredient thy marosol, so you are using, you are actually
[00:15:34] looking at, you're starting new studies to try to link...
[00:15:37] but you're also telling me i'm not trying to link autism to anything, i'm trying to find
[00:15:41] out why has autism gone
[00:15:44] from also trying to find out how it interacts
[00:15:48] with people's dna, what's predisposed
[00:15:51] to uh to to have autistic child? are you doing
[00:15:54] both? yeah, but but you probably don't
[00:15:58] understand this because you're not a scientist, but
[00:16:01] jeans don't cause epidemic, i understand jeans
[00:16:05] epidemic vulnerability.
[00:16:09] environmental, that's what I'm asking, are you studying the environmental at all the different environmental
[00:16:13] exposures, but your statement, you have been
[00:16:17] fooled, your statement that this has been studied
[00:16:20] is not true, it's
[00:16:21] categorical, it is
[00:16:25] considered, considered by who, by
[00:16:29] every scientist who has studied this, that is not true,
[00:16:32] I can give you hundreds of scientists who have looked at this, so on the
[00:16:35] one hand, do you understand why?
[00:16:38] national academy of sciences, what greater authority? do you understand why
[00:16:41] people are not getting measles vaccines? because you're hearing you say that it could
[00:16:45] cause you're trying to change the subject i'm not, it's very much related,
[00:16:49] show me one of the studies that's been done on the first eight the
[00:16:53] vaccines during the first six months of life, you will not find them.
[00:16:57] the national academy of sciences say if that's the case why are you telling people to
[00:17:00] get the mazel because that is one of the
[00:17:03] vaccines that has been studied,
[00:17:06] okay? the only one that has been studied, do you want
[00:17:10] people to get the the MMR vaccine? yeah, I
[00:17:14] said that already. okay, so I know you're flustered now, and it
[00:17:17] is, I don't, I'm not fltered at
[00:17:19] all,
[00:17:22] honest with the reason I'm frustrated is because I, you are
[00:17:25] the HHS, you are the HHS secretary,
[00:17:29] and you are talking about things that that
[00:17:33] that lead to vaccine hesitancy in this
[00:17:36] country and... and it is
[00:17:39] something that causes problems for
[00:17:42] people when there is not anything, let me ask you
[00:17:44] something, do you see your job
[00:17:48] as ending vaccine hesitancy or do you see your job
[00:17:51] is telling the truth to the American people? I see my job is telling the
[00:17:54] truth, and the truth is that there is is
[00:18:00] the most studied things out there in science, you're repeating it like
[00:18:04] a parot, you're repeating it like a parrot.
[00:18:07] so I've actually read the science, let's you come back
[00:18:11] here and debate the science, I'm not debating this video, of course you
[00:18:14] want, all you know how to do is repeat
[00:18:18] things that people told you and say trust the experts, that's what you do
[00:18:22] during covid, now we know that Anthony Foucie who was the
[00:18:26] expert was lying about everything, about mass, about the
[00:18:29] social distancing, about natural immunity, about the
[00:18:32] transmission from the vaccine, about the
[00:18:36] source of COVID, he was lying and you were punishing
[00:18:39] people for not trusting the experts and now you're rolling out the
[00:18:43] experts again to talk about something that you have no
[00:18:47] personal knowledge of. okay, well guess what, that is my
[00:18:51] job to talk to people, your job is to
[00:18:53] talk, yes, yes, and my job is to get as much
[00:18:57] information as i can, and what we were
[00:18:59] doing,
[00:19:01] skepticism,
[00:19:04] in covid and and still with regard. to these
[00:19:07] vaccines is getting the best information, the best science that we
[00:19:11] can, and putting it out there, and sir, you what you are doing
[00:19:15] is causing information to be out there that
[00:19:18] is not accurate, was lying to you, the National Academy of
[00:19:21] Sciences, which you just cited in November
[00:19:25] said, we support the statement that vaccines do not cause
[00:19:29] autism, this is the National Academy of Sciences that you just talked
[00:19:32] about, look at the National Academy of
[00:19:35] Science most recent report, Okay, and you'll see. I don't, I, I, I
[00:19:39] want to ask you one other question, because it's something that really did help
[00:19:43] Donald Trump get elected, and that is the Maha Movement, and
[00:19:46] specifically the question of process foods, of
[00:19:50] processed foods and uh, the fact
[00:19:52] that people want to feel that their food is safe. My understanding
[00:19:56] is that you're pushing for reforms on food safety and
[00:19:59] ultra-processed foods that have been slowed, in some cases
[00:20:03] blocked by people in the administration who are working on behalf of the
[00:20:06] industries. true?
[00:20:10] no, that is not true. so you feel that you'll be
[00:20:13] able to get these reforms done without any problems? i think the
[00:20:17] grass, um, the two big reforms that you're probably talking about is
[00:20:20] ultrapocess food definition, exactly, and
[00:20:24] the grass standards, and they've both gone through extensive interagency
[00:20:27] process. i'm very confident that we will get them
[00:20:30] both out there within probably a month. well, i'm sorry that
[00:20:34] this uh, and that's good news for people who are very. moms
[00:20:37] and I'm one of them who are very worried about making sure
[00:20:41] that our kids eat food and we eat food that is that is healthy, um,
[00:20:45] I'm sorry that this turned into a
[00:20:48] very contentious convers'. and um my
[00:20:52] job is to try to get the best information out
[00:20:55] there and it does concern me when um you
[00:20:59] come in and say things that have
[00:21:02] i take what you're saying have been yeah
[00:21:05] people who have science scientific backgrounds
[00:21:09] and have tried to talk to you as well thank you for
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[00:22:02] poor sleep. With us is Dr. Jasmina Ćorović
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[00:25:32] Moving mountains at the push of a
[00:25:34] button.
[00:25:38] It might sound like science fiction, but in the Swiss
[00:25:40] Alps, it may soon become reality. In the
[00:25:44] Gotthard massif, researchers at the University of Zurich
[00:25:47] hope to trigger a small earthquake. If
[00:25:51] it works, it could reveal more about how earthquakes
[00:25:54] start and whether they can be
[00:25:56] predicted.
[00:26:00] All this and more groundbreaking stories.
[00:26:12] The big moment is just days away. Researchers at
[00:26:16] ETH University are hoping to do something that's never been
[00:26:19] done in quite this way before, deliberately triggering a small
[00:26:23] earthquake.
[00:26:26] But first, there's still plenty of work to
[00:26:28] do.
[00:26:31] A narrow road is 2 and a half kilometers deep into the Gotthard
[00:26:35] Massif. The
[00:26:38] range is more than 50 years old and no longer in
[00:26:41] use. And now it's a perfect natural
[00:26:44] laboratory. Here the team hopes to make ancient fault
[00:26:47] deep inside the rock slip ever so slightly. We
[00:26:51] sind here wegen. We're here because of this fault zone. You can see the
[00:26:54] boundary here clearly, a thin line. In the
[00:26:58] middle, there's this very brittle material called fault gauge.
[00:27:03] That's evidence that the rock has slipped along this fault line
[00:27:06] before. This is where we're hoping to trigger a magnitude
[00:27:10] one earthquake. auf diese zone möchten wir ein magnitude 1
[00:27:13] erdbeben auslösen. A
[00:27:16] magnitude one quake is tiny, far too small to be
[00:27:19] felt by humans at the surface, but it could reveal
[00:27:22] how earthquakes actually
[00:27:23] begin.
[00:27:27] es geht darum, die
[00:27:28] mikrophysik.
[00:27:32] happens when an earthquake starts, how does the
[00:27:35] rupture propagate? Why does it continue, and where and why
[00:27:39] does it stop? If we understand the underlying physics
[00:27:42] better, perhaps one day we'll be able to make better
[00:27:44] forecasts.
[00:27:47] Men and his 70- member team have been planning and
[00:27:51] building this experiment for five years. They've installed more
[00:27:55] than 200 sensors inside the mountain, hoping to capture
[00:27:58] every moment of the earthquake as it unfolds.
[00:28:04] Here's how they plan to trigger it. The fault has
[00:28:06] slipped naturally before, producing tiny
[00:28:09] earthquakes.
[00:28:14] To reach it, the team has excavated a new tunnel branching
[00:28:18] off from the Bedretto lab.
[00:28:22] From here, they'll pump water through three boreholes directly
[00:28:25] into the fault.
[00:28:28] As water pressure increases, the rock begins to shift. The
[00:28:32] existing stresses in the rock are released, triggering micro
[00:28:36] earthquake.
[00:28:40] Using six high-pressure pumps, they'll inject around
[00:28:43] 2,000 cubic meters of water into the boreholes to bring
[00:28:46] the fault to the point where it
[00:28:48] slips.
[00:28:50] The pump system operates at pressures approaching 200 bar, a
[00:28:54] demanding test for the equipment and a potential
[00:28:57] hazard for anyone inside the
[00:28:59] tunnel.
[00:29:02] The anchoring systems, they're
[00:29:05] secured with chains and anchor pins in case the pressure becomes too
[00:29:08] high and part of the pipe work
[00:29:09] comes
[00:29:13] that could be quite dangerous because there's so much pressure behind it.
[00:29:27] The team checks every sensor and seismic instrument again and
[00:29:31] again.
[00:29:35] They want to make sure that all the data will stream live to the control
[00:29:39] room at ETH Zurich where the experiment will be
[00:29:42] run.
[00:29:45] We're about to launch the first full-scale experiment. It's
[00:29:47] exciting.
[00:29:51] Two weeks later, the control room in Zurich. In just a few
[00:29:55] minutes the test will
[00:29:56] begin.
[00:30:01] One last systems.
[00:30:09] It's been a busy night and morning, but everything looks good and we're ready to
[00:30:12] go. The researchers are
[00:30:16] optimistic, the pumps are ready and the safety systems are in
[00:30:20] place.
[00:30:23] So this button is to manually stop the
[00:30:26] pump, so we can press this button. Once we have it pressed
[00:30:30] for about eight seconds, the pumps in the tunnel stop
[00:30:32] automatically, and this is a safety procedure that will allow
[00:30:36] to have a bit more control. The
[00:30:39] last members of the team have just left the tunnel. This is
[00:30:43] steam to, and that's pressure up by one
[00:30:45] megapascal. Here we
[00:30:47] go.
[00:30:54] The pumps are starting up, forcing water deep into the bore
[00:30:57] holes.