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Schafer, center for advanced studies, thank you. >> thank you. jane: we're waiting at this hour for a news conference on the mining disaster in west virginia, just about to get underway with the governor, joe manchin, 25 are dead, we're hoping to hear more on those missing. we'll bring it to you when it begins. so much out age about the multi-million-dollar salaries and bonuses on wall street in the wake of the financial collapse. the big bosses have been taking pay cuts, but guess who is raking in more money than ever? jenna lee with the answer.

So it's all along this river valley area. it's a huge mine complex under the mountains just to my left here. bill: and the roads wind their way through the southern hills of west virginia there. steve centanni, thank you. he's 30 miles southeast of charleston, west virginia and we see again in the mining communities, everybody is attached to this and you're going to see that story play out throughout the rest of the day here. martha: these people are so long and they have a life-long connection to this work. what do we know about this particular mine? the massey energy company started operatio...

>> this is fox news alert. tragedy in west virginia. 25 miners are dead. four still missing after a mine explosion. 3:00 yesterday afternoon. the town in west virginia. it is the nation's worst mining disaster in 26 years. >> joining us is the administrator of the mine safety and health administration, the federal agency in charge now probably of looking into what happened. is that correct? will you be investigating? >> ultimately, we will be investigating. naturally, we're still in a rescue mode but in time, there will be a full investigation. >> all right, we understand that -- and we heard ...

Virginia. now the governor of west virginia says it could be tomorrow night before the first hole can be drilled to try and rescue those minors still trapped. >> this is a tough one. i think the families have talked about it. but there's a shred of hope. >> now as a community let's come together and pray. because if you're from here, we're all coal mining families. >> and a community in mourning waits to learn the fate of their loved ones. 25 miners did not survive in what is being called the worst mining disaster in more than two decades. right now officials say the situation involving the fo...

Would be the worst disaster since farmington in the early '70s. as ken ward said, this is something that is in the sadness of all the glory of west virginia characteristics, climbing hills all the time, this is the tragic part. >> senator jay rockefeller of west virginia, thank you so much for joining us tonight. the whole country is pulling for those west virginians in that mine tonight and for their families. thank you. >> thank you. >> the tragedy comes hours after the complicated nature of mining disaster rescue made front page news around the world. news r it was in northern china that 11...