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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. there's 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 mentioned. the families of the victims are gathered at the mine together. they have been visited by the re...

Dead or alive. but it's 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. it's 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 be alive are not good. the only hope, the literal only hope is that they may have made it to the ...

Haven't 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 wouldn't know them and again, being in a rescue operation, so we had to explain to the families that's 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 would be quicker than that. they're telling me what they have to do and how they have to go through...

Can you commit today to having a public hearing as with sago? >> we'll do everything. we'll have a complete investigation first as we've 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. i've been in touch with the appropriate chairman and there will be a hearing in congress. >> what are the steps you're taking from here on out? >> the steps that's being taken now, the drilling process tells us if it's safe to go b...

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 shell's 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 three-foot-long hull ripped into the hull somehow, and forced it to return to shore. it happened earl...