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You why in a little bit. first, let's go to news. it's time for a look at some of today's top stories. there's been apparently no response to rescuers banging on pipes in a west virginia coal mine where four miners are missing. 25 miners died in monday's explosion. meanwhile, new reports show the mining company, massey energy, has a history, a history of safety violations. let's go to msnbc's norah o'donnell live in west virginia where a news conference just ended. nor ra? >> reporter: good morning, mika. we're getting new information at this hour. today we're going to probably learn the fat...

Goes down. the pipe that goes down is basically used for the drilling purposes to ensure that when we start sucking the air out of the mine, we're not pulling the air from the voids, the mines that were mined above us. we have to have a -- a total casing that goes down into the mine that we want to ventilate. and that's the intent of taking it the whole way down, the 1,093 feet into the whole scene we're involved in. as far as the seismic, what it is is there's holes drilled from the surface down a certain distance and there's microphones stuck into those holes. now, miners are trained when th...

Time ago. officials say there has been to response to rescuers banging on pipes at the coal pine where four miners are still missing. 25 miners died in pond's explosion while new reports show the mining company, massey energy, has a history of safety violations. msnbc's norah o'donnell is live in naoma, west virginia with the latest. norah? >> good morning. that's right. they did not hear any tapping on those pipes, but the governor of the state says they are making better and that anticipated progress in reaching those miners. in fact, today, we may learn the fate of those four miners. here's...