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Deep, 1100 feet deep inside the mine to hopefully use a camera and can see about 100 feet out and see that final rescue chamber to see if it was deployed. we just learned about 20 minutes ago, they were able to make it to one of rescue chambers and it was not deployed. this final rescue chamber, really this is it. they call it the inerting pushing, pumping all of the nitrogen to improve the air quality so if they can get back in there and attempt the fourth rescue, they can do so. they were still referring to this as a rescue mission. >> just to sort of explain to people that were listening to...

About last evening. we have the nitrogen in the head gate 22 where we have a fan that had been set up and pulling samples from. as soon as the rescue teams get outside and i'm sure they are out by now, the inerting process begins by sticking nitrogen in. as the governor mentioned, we have bore holes that we're trying to put into the mine today. three bore holes that are of concern to us, that we need. the first one and the most important is the bore hole that's going in close to the refuge chamber that we could not visit. it's down approximately 400 feet. and the intent is to drill feverishly ...