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Welcome back to msnbc news live in west virginia, rescuers are drilling two more holes into the coal mine where an explosion kill at least 25 people on monday. they are trying to reach the four miners still missing. however, earlier when they bang on the drill pipe, they got no response from those trapped miners. crews are trying to vent poisonous gases from the mine once the air is clean enough. they hope to send rescuers into the mine for the first time since monday to search for those missing miners. it's hoped the four miners were able to reach an airtight safety chamber about 1,000 feet u...

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From the top town. let me state and i've stated this several times that this is not the end, but it will virtually assure us that will be no chance of oil leaking into the environment. we will then proceed to finish the relief well. the relief well is currently 4 1/2 feet away from the ma con da well and about 100 to 110 feet above where they would enter. the end of the casing pipe has been sealed with a cement shoe. they have a drill pipe down and they're ready to drill through that cement shoe and finish drilling out the relief well and that will happen after the cement has been cured for a ...

The only thing i was worried about was the second piece of drill pipe that they discovered stuck inside the blowout preventer, so they had to get this new spool, landing spool over those two. and that went really well on saturday. they bolted those down yesterday, and they landed the b.o.p. stack just a little while ago. so it's gone well. >> if this stack is not used to funnel gas to the surface, but just caps the flow, does that mean we ultimately never get the hard number, the kind that bp cannot fight in court, in terms of how much spill there actually was, obviously, the number that would...