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Jacqui jeras, thanks so much. momentarily we're going to take you back to beckley, west virginia. live pictures right now. this is a place where a memorial service will be under way for the 29 miners killed in that explosion earlier this month. president barack obama meeting with family members of those victims, and he will be delivering the eulogy as well. we'll take that live. also coming up, a new arizona law continues to generate heated controversy. we'll have a live report.

Calling off the search for those 11 oil platform workers missing since tuesday's big explosion in the gulf of mexico. 115 workers made it off the platform. 17 hurt. 4 critically. we understand that 2 of those critically injured have already been released from the hospital. for the second time in a month, there has been a deadly coal mine accident in raleigh county, west virginia. here's what we know. a 28-year-old miner died yesterday a day after getting crushed between some heavy machinery and a block of coal. we're told it happened just a couple miles from the upper big branch mine. that i...

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Poland this morning observed two minutes of silence and remembrance. we'll have more on that crash investigation in just a moment. anti-government protesters in bangkok are back on the streets after yesterday's deadly standoff with the military. four soldiers and 16 civilians were killed in the fighting. in rio a grim search continues today for more victims of flooding and mud slides that have killed at least 219 people. in musko dp ee, one teenager was killed, several others injured. and tiger woods four strokes off the lead entering today's final round of the masters. tiger has never trail...

"designing women" actress dixie carter has died. the tennessee native was most famous for quick witted julia sugarbaker on "designing women." >> i just want you to know that we're here for you and we care. but, in the meantime, no way am adecorating a 19-room house for some newsy who just blew in from st. louis. >> she also appeared on broadway on on the tv shows "family law" and "diff' rent strokes." funerals continue as rescue crews work to remove the bodies from the upper branch mine. brian mooar is in beckley, west virginia, where one of the miners was laid to rest yesterday. a very somb...