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They're explosive. a decision would have to be made that everyone would be extracted from the mine because of the explosive atmosphere. unfortunately, we have the worst scenario, so i'm going to let kevin expran to you how that decision and how they came to that conclusion. >> good morning, everyone. as the governor said we've had a setback. as to what we were doing, we had rescue teams and they entered the mine about 5:00 a.m. and prepared as we talked earlier with four advancing teams and two traveling in different directions and one across the long wall face, and one towards long wall 22 wi...

Explosive. the decision would have to be made that everyone would be extracted from the mine because of the explosive atmosphere. unfortunately, we have the worst scenario, so i'm going to let kevin explain to you how that decision and how they came to that conclusion. >> good morning, everyone. as the governor said, we've had a setback as to what we were doing. we had rescue teams that entered the mine about 5:00 a.m. prepared, as we talked earlier, with four advancing teams, two traveling in different directions, one across the long wall face, one towards long wall 22 with backup teams in pl...

Workers themselves. they were able to ride in on rail to the same point to we were able to get to the other night, and once they got to that point, they are required to -- because of the debris that's on the track, they have to dismount and they have to walk about a mile and a half to get to the point where we had gotten to the other night. our hopes was to establish a fresh air establish up at what we call the mule train, basically the para center and computer center of the long wall, we would leave two teams there, backup deals, and have a team cross the long wall face, find the missing indi...

Long wall face, and we found what we consider to be eight of the nine crew members that would be working in that area. i mentioned that the conditions that the rescue teams are in when they're under there is very quick, they're moving very quickly. they may have passed over someone who was there, or that individual, for whatever reason, may have left that area and went somewhere else, we don't know and that's up to us now when the rescue teams go back in to find that individual. >> is that area imbalance -- equally as accessible, same debris in the way, do you participate two hours from the al...

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