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What they have begun is a drilling process. they are going to try to drill down 1100 feet to where they believe those missing miners are, in order to get some relief and let that methane gas out. once those dangerous levels are gone, they can put the rescuers back in. here is the catch. according to officials, it could take 12 hours to do that. theres a lot of concern about those four miners. as governor manchin told me, the odds are long that they believe they are alive. 25 dead, as you mention...

Dead or alive. but its slow by necessity. those drill holes the governor was talking about have to be bored down into the mountain to release the gas. but before they can begin the drilling process they have to bulldoze a road to get them access to where they need to be. its going to take a long long time. they are doing it as quickly as they can. but they cannot risk the lives of a single rescue worker. governor manchin was saying earlier today that the prospects for the four who may or may not...

Havent identified the other 14? there was a total of 18 unidentified. you identified four, why not the other 14? we had rescuers from all different parts of the state so if they saw them, they wouldnt know them and again, being in a rescue operation, so we had to explain to the families thats how their loved ones were identified, by friends of people who worked with them. >> 12 hours until you can vent those three holes? >> to get down through the drilling process, you know, we were hoping it wo...

Can you commit today to having a public hearing as with sago? >> well do everything. well have a complete investigation first as weve done before. then davd came in and helped me with that the last time. i will consult with him again to see how to best proceed, but you want to wait. to imshah and the state does their job. >> a congressional investigation as well. ive been in touch with the appropriate chairman and there will be a hearing in congress. >> what are the steps youre taking from here ...

This summer. this is an icebreaking ship. it breaks ice, but it also holds something called the capping stack, which would be needed as a component of the emergency spill response if shells argument ig oil drilling resulted in a well blowout or some. shell has been poised to start drilling the arctic any day now. as it prepared to start the drilling process, this icebreaker was heading out to the drilling site where it was docked in alaska, this ship somehow sprung a three-foot leak. it had a th...

This ship right here pulled into portland under the cover of darkness you see the lights gleaming in the darkness there. thats a shell oil icebreaking. its key to shells efforts to try to drill the arctic for oil this summer. this is an icebreaking ship. it breaks ice, but it also holds something called the capping stack, which would be needed as a xom uponant of the emergency spill response if shells argument ig oil drilling resulted in a well blowout or some. shell has been poised to start dri...

As it prepared to start the drilling process, this icebreaker was heading out to the drilling site where it was docked in alaska, this ship somehow sprung a three-foot leak. it had a three-foot-long hull ripped into the hull somehow, and forced it to return to shore. it happened earlier this month. when that befell that icebreaker, shell announced that icebreaker would have to head all the way down to portland, oregon, to get necessary repairs. that was a big deal. it turns out the trip from ala...

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Point. we dont know what caused the fire, whether there is a spill, conflicting reports on that. lets talk about what we do know. about 102 miles off the coast here, this is what it looked like when this explosion happened out there. this is a production rig. not an exploratory well, a drilling rig like we talked about with bp. thats important and ill explain why in just a minute, bus this involved producing oil from a series of wells beneath the surface. thats a much more closed environment, an...

Does have integrity and could be kept shut in. obviously thats the best case were looking at because no oil is flowing into the gulf of mexico. and conceivably, it could remain that case up until bp has the first relief well completed. >> worst-case scenario? >> well, thats not so good. now, as david was explaining, theyre trying to determine whether or not the well has any breaches in it. and if it has any leaks, its decided the well does not have integrity, there could be a problem. theyve got...