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Desperate effort to search for survivors. >> reporter: it has been a tough day for the rescuers and an even tougher one for the waiting families. knowing that the team sent into the mine this morning got within 500 feet of the rescue chamber where the missing miners might have been able to survive if they made it that far. dangerous combination levels of methane, hydrogen and carbon monoxide drove the rescue teams out. setting the effort back by hours. until crews could drill another larger hole...

To a rescue chamber where they hoped, thought possibly, if these miners had survived this blast they might have been able to seek some shelter and await the rescue workers who went in three times and now went in a fourth time today trying to see whether anyone might have survived. four miners still unaccounted for and officials say that as soon as this rescue operation is worked through, then they will quickly work into a recovery operation for the 25 miners known dead. families already going th...

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Officials now say crews will not likely be able to go back inside. they will have to use cameras to check out the second chamber. lets get the latest from naoma, west virginia. >> reporter: they are hoping to drop it down a drill hole in the next couple of hours. that should give them the final word on whether any of the four unaccounted for miners managed to survive the initial blast on monday and managed to reach what could have been, what would have been their final sanctuary, a place where t...

Mooar on the ground for us in naoma, west virginia, this morning. i know there was a news conference last hour. bring us up to date. >> reporter: the odds were long from the beginning. they just got a lot longer. rescue workers were forced to high-tail it out of this mine yet again this morning after finding smoke in an area where they were making some progress toward one of these final rescue chambers that they hoped that a couple of these miners might are been able to find shelter. smoke means...

Why? because we can. theyre doing something with gloves on. good morning, everybody. welcome back to "morning joe." >> getting breakfast. >> theyre blogging. >> theyre having some tang. 6:30 on the east coast. time for a look at todays top stories. rescue workers are resuming their search for the four miners missing after mondays deadly explosion in a west virginia coal mine. officials say levels of gases have dropped enough now to resume the search but they have acknowledged it is unlikely th...

Hole. at that point in time, we anticipate it will take us three hours to four hours to pump from that hole to get the atmosphere back down to a level that would allow us to take our mine rescue teams in. >> reporter: and then, like i said, hopefully 7:00, 8:00 eastern, thats when that rescue team can move back in to the upper big branch mine, ali. >> all right. give us a sense of where these rescue chambers, which we keep talking about, for anybody that doesnt know much about them, where in the...

Prevent this type of tragedy from happening again. earlier today rescue crews were forced to turn back because of a gas mixture inthe mine. crews did make it within 25 feet where the missing miners may have gone. rescue teams will resume the search tonight. >> this is a set back. its the worst of the options from the rescue attempt. but the rescue attempt is valid, because if they are alive, they are in the chamber. >> and we are joined with the latest. brian, i know they were turned back relati...

Total thats in there. so you have 32 people thats inside the mine that was sent in when we thought that our air readings were at a level where it would not pose a danger to the rescue workers themselves. they were able to ride in on rail to the same point to we were able to get to the other night. and once they got to that point, theyre required to -- because of the debris thats on the track, they have to dismount and they have to walk about a mile and a half up to get to the points to where we ...