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Back in. there are still slim hopes that four missing miners could be found alive. 25 workers were killed in monday's explosion. that's the worst u.s. mine disaster since 1984. brooke baldwin is standing by in west virginia. she's got the latest. brooke, what do we got? >> reporter: right, ali, you said slim hopes, but still, a lot of people hopeful. we won't know the fate of those four missing miners until, you mentioned it, we hear about the air quality and these rescue teams are able to go in and try to get these guys. the official word now, we can report, that these mining officials are ...

Call. i really don't know. >> all right. great. >> that's mike snelling who runs the surface operations for massey mines. this is some of the video now from one of the two drill sites where they're drilling in to not only take exhaust out the methane gas in there, but to also allow fresh air in so that rescue crews can go in. there you're seeing the exhaust that's pulling out the fan and the tube that's working pulling out that toxic methane gas out of this massey mine. they're using a rotary drill, going down. it's gone, snelling told the news crew, about 560 feet down. and it would be about ...