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A week after the Uttarakhand disaster in which a portion of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off and triggered a massive flash flood in the Chamoli district, authorities have managed to recover 38 bodies so far while over 200 others continue to remain missing. Top developments:
Mining disaster in two decades. all family and coworkers can do is hold out hope until this evening. our chief correspondent jonathan hunt is there. what is happening? >> they've just about got the second hole drilled, the critical second hole, which is wider than the first. that will allow more of the gases to escape. what they're doing is dropping a fan down there to speeded process of getting the methane out of the mine. they'll put monitors down there and over the next few hours, read the levels of methane. they believe by 6:00 p.m., they will have it reduced to a decent level whereby the ...