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of -- piece of history. check it out. this is a fox news alert. i'm angela earhart. there is more information coming out about the mine explosion in west virginia. it is being called one of the worst u.s. mining disasters in u.s. history, and more tragedy continues to roll in as the death toll continues to go up. it now stands at 25. miners killed by an explosion and four are missing. rescue operations have been halted for the time being. we do have a reporter on the scene. jay gibson is -- jake gibson is a fox news correspondent. jake, tell us what you are seeing. >> we are here on the ground in west virginia. the governor of west virginia should be briefing reporters here within the hour.
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it is very sad news out of here. so far we only heard of 25 dead and four missing. no survivors found. there are family members milling about here and there. everyone in the community seems to be sad about the developments. it seems to be a tight knit community. they are rolling out help. they will try to drill into the side of the mountain to get to where the miners are. the problem is, in order to do that they have to get to a certain spot in the woods. they have to cut through the woods and then bull down into the mine and hopefully find trapped miners. we are waiting to hear from the governor in this hour, and then around 7 a.m. we assume there will be more briefings starting to happen around here as the sun starts to rise here in west virginia. >> jake, were you there for the press conferences this evening? >> yes, i arrived for the one about 30 minutes ago.
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>> why the discrepancy? >> sorry? >> why the discrepancy. they told us 12 were killed and 10 were trapped. that is 22 miners. now they say 25 are dead. >> yeah, they made a count and they had 25 dead and 4 still missing. there are rescue crews out there hopefully having a shot at picking up survivors. [bad audio] >> all right, just to explain to the viewers, we are having trouble with cell phone service because he is in a remote area. the mine is 30 miles outside of charleston, west virginia. jake, do we know how they discovered these bodies, these 25 bodies? i know some were outside. they were being trans rt poked away from the mine during shift change and they got caught up in the explosion and were killed in that.
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what about the others missing for so long? were they found under ground? >> you know, they weren't -- they were giving outnumbers at this point. a lot of questions they weren't ready to answer at this point or didn't have sufficient feel. i think a lot of this information is still kind of new information that they are trying to assemble and gather together and figure out exactly what is going on before they send out information that may turn out to be not accurate. >> jake, you said family members are milling around there. they are just allowing any family member that has a missing or deceased loved one to be there on the site? >> well, i think that most of them are not here, but occasionally you will see a person walking by who looks somber. if you talk to them they said, yes, i had a family member or brother or sister or something that was involved.
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come down to hear the information. the governor and a lot of officials -- [no audio] they see all the media and they are coming down here hoping for information about their loved ones. >> trying to get answers. describe the scene for me. if you do a 360, what are you seeing on each side of you? >> [no audio] >> i'm sorry, jake, start over. i couldn't hear you. seems we are having trouble with his cell phone connection. jake gibson, he is one of our producers at fox newschannel there on the scene at the mine where the mine explosion took place on monday afternoon at 3:00. just to recap what he was saying, all of the media outlets have joined him there are meeting there, congregating there waiting for the governor to brief reporters and producers there on the scene with new
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information. we are being told that 25 are dead, four are still missing. jake was telling us that family members are stopping by on occasion to ask if the media has heard any updates, but most of the family members were not there. we found out first baptist church was a meeting area for all of the loved ones. this was when we were still -- there were still many missing. but now we are told four are missing which are not to devalue those lives. four is a lot of individuals because they are someone's family members. they are still missing and 25 are dead. we will learn more as the daylight -- as the sun comes up. and we will continue to keep you posted. we'll let you know what the governor does say as soon as he briefs the reporters. we now return to "red eye" which is already in progress. >> yes i think that -- you know, i think it is nice that he and elin made an agreement
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so he could appear at the masters. you know, one of the things he was allowed is he has to keep his woods sleeved. i think that's important to a marriage. i think that they made a promise that he would land less birdies in his stroke play which is important to a marriage. and even more important is he is not allowed to compete in any skins games off the green. >> wow. i like the fact that you know more about golf than i do. >> one more golf reference she missed. he shouldn't have anymore sex with hookers. >> i see what you did there, bill. >> did tiger ever hit on you? did you ever run into him? >> nothing. i'm -- >> really. wait a second. >> please give us the scoop. seriously, did he ever come on
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to you? >> i have never met tiger woods. but me and elin had a night at sprung break a couple years back. let me just say. >> you met tiger? >> yeah, i met tiger. >> he flirted lightly. i opened for dice. then after the show he went "you are awesome." >> that was code. >> bill, you are a minister. tiger is going to renew his vows and do you think this will help? >> absolutely. first rehab and then renew your vows. my favorite part -- we didn't show the clip, but my favorite part is he wept too into all these distractions and he said he missed his kid's birthday. that would never, ever happen again. he neglected to mention the reason he missed the birthday was he was in sex rehab. his kid is turning one.
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he didn't even know his own name or he add birthday or that his dad is so very dirty. but you will be embarassed. >> aren't you glad he is having fun again? >> no. >> will tiger woods respond to this thing? does he have to? >> i think he will stick with one scandal at a time. >> this thing is -- >> here is why it didn't happen. if it had happened it would have been national news at the time. it is not like this happened in 63. he is the same age as me. that would have been front page. that is a huge story. >> so he will just -- he will not respond? >> i think the reason is because, a, the media is pathetic and will not question it. but there is no way to prove it either way. it is a child's memory against her going, i didn't know it was happening. you will never get a concrete answer. she won't go, oh, yeah, it did happen and he won't say it didn't. you can't prove it either we. >> the only thing that bugged me is how they were saying she had physical problems based on this accusation, like she had
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migraines. when i hear that i think, that smells funny. if he keeps bringing up the story and she is implicated she has ever right to say, i have nothing to do with this. i want to know. >> and gloria allred has every right to make cash. >> i am miz -- miserable if gloria all re d is not making cash. >> that's why you become involved with the law, to do that. she is really a contributor. now to the greg-alogue. it is aed to fish of truth. -- it is a toad fish of truth. >> so chris morris is a brilliant british comedian responsible for insanely funny programs. but now he is coming out with a new film called "four lions" which is a comedy about suicide bombers. check out the trailer, check out the trailers. >> i use different voices.
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>> different voices. >> different voices. >> show me. >> show me the voices, come on. >> one of them is my voice. >> i know what that sounds like. give me another one. >> it is a terrorist voice. why do you want to do a terrorist voice? >> i will be disguised. >> yeah, as a terrorist. >> now, i haven't seen the flick, but i read a review about the comedy. and a few things bug me. as far as i can tell the movie is based on premise that all terrorists are buffoons. and from there he attempts to dehumanize these keystone cops. he is probably right that all terrorists are useless tools, but over looks the facts that buffoons need only succeed once to kill dozens or hundreds or thousands.
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it comes down to this, is a homicidal mentally challengeded person any less dangerous than one with a phd? it depends on where you are standing when the blast goes off. he seems more worried about offending terrorists. there is no intent to mock islam, but this worry underminds his whole premise. if they are so incompetent, why would you worry about offense? i think that van gogh, murdered by an extremist, lurks in his brain. but van gogh took risks. he condemned religious extreme mitch. judging from the interview, it doesn't sound like morris did the same. so he is safe. which is the last thing morris wants to be. if you disagree, you are probably a racist homophobe who eats unicorns. i have a frog in my throat
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there. carrie, do you think it is time for a comedy about suicide bombers? >> sure. i think satire is really important, and we have to be careful how we work around that. i think it is interesting that this guy is making light of terrorists, but he is also being very sure that he doesn't mock them. it is probably because he knows they will kill you. >> exactly. that's the thing that bothers me. i love this guy though. he is an amazing comedian. the stuff he did in the 90s predates everything for sasha baron cohen. but it seems like he held back. >> this is the edgest comedy since "leap year." but i like the fact he is making fun at all. look at "hogan's heroes." they didn't address what the nazis were. they made fun of it on some level, but they didn't say, look, jew's are being -- they didn't take the horror of what it was. i don't mind him doing that.
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as long as he is not praising it. he says, i am not mocking islam because he know there's are a bunch of terrorists that will kill you. >> monty python, didn't think for a ement month a bunch of catholics would kill them. that's not what catholics do. i hate the idea. the idea that bugs me is incompetence makes a threat almost endearing. isn't it adorable they will accidentally blow themselves up. >> what they are getting at -- and i like this idea. we all at times have so much reference for these guys that we fear making a comical situation out of it. i really think they are ridiculous. we should make fun of them like team america feigned fun of kim gong i will or -- kim jong-il or matt damon. >> i think you are right and i think that is one of the best weapons. you just have to be -- you
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should go all out. >> but greg, he is not saying, i am not mocking islam, meaning that islam extremism is okay. he says, i am fry trying to paint the whole of islam with this brush. >> that's why i don't get the argument. if you are making fun because i am an extremist, you are a dead man. if he was actual actually -- i think $braver to say, i am not making fun of all of islam. the extremists are going after him either way. >> the extremists he is painting are not harmful, just bumbling idiots. >> well, he is right. but they can still people 9 on you of 10 bumbling times. >> you can't address the real fanatics. >> yeah, you can't get a laugh out of daniel pearl being beheaded. there is nothing funny about that. i haven't seen the movie and i
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am dying to see it. chris morris is a seen yus. you have seen brat's eye. it is an incredible show. he is not stupid. >> at the end of the day, last time i checked there are no movie theaters, so i don't know what he is worried about. >> very good point. >> at the end of the day, it is what it is. we can all agree about that. from terror to hairor. not only do blondes eat babies, but make more money and marry richer husbands. they found the -- that troughs, the world over make $2400 more than their dark-haired counterparts. the yellow haired husbands earn 6% less than their betrothing buddies. all of which makes sense to olga, the president of the international blog association who tells the daily male,
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quote, beer urgly, burglypoo. she says "blondes have confidence so we can date men. then we say, i'm sorry, i'm bland and can get away with it." whatever. if that were the case, why would you need an international organization of blondes? that's as stupid as a duck in a address. i take that back. that wasn't stupid. sultry is more like it. i go to you, carrie because are you the blonde of the group. the lady who did the organization, do you side with all of this? >> it is all coming together, greg. phase one is complete.
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clone 1 has spoken well. >> i just like the way she does that. >> creepy. >> creepy and arousing. >> sc, in your workplace, do you witness blondes getting praiser wren shall treatment? >> i don't get the allure of the blonde. i have been a blonde, and i didn't feel more empowered or more attractive. but if it gets me a bigger paycheck, i will go back. >> but i think it is creepy when guys dye their hair blonde. >> i have no hair color preference. the difference between brunette and blonde is about 75 dollars on a website. i really don't foe what it is. you -- i was going to speculate and then realized i had nothing. have you ever done that? >> that is every day of my life. >> jim, why do we need an international cose yawtion of blondes?
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>> bill or jim? >> jim. >> i do believe that olga is the international association. it is in the address book and it is the same as her home. i agree with jim who cares. they are all the same when the lights are off. when the lights are off and you are watching your porn, it doesn't matter. this next story just graduated with a degree in storying. congrats story. why were these women bearing their breasts? we'll pick up the coverage where special report left off.
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or at least a guy as cool as this one.
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>> two dates for the price of one. sc, if it was socially acceptable, would you travel with the hood down? >> that's awesome. i have never heard that. no, i wouldn't. but this is ridiculous. th is why feminism is a joke. gurls take themselves so seriously at the shock that people would look at a bunch of naked girls walking around outside. come on. >> that's the great thing about the story. it is a shock. it is almost adorable. >> she is outraged. >> oh my god, they were looking at us topless, and they were not even topless. it is proof guys look at everything topless. >> i don't need that smut in my neighborhood. >> jim is the first one to picket against it. >> i would never move to this town of utopia. >> carrie, how about you? would you condemn this or applaud this? >> here is the thing.
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i will applaud the men. it was great they were helping out. without their bras, the women needed all the support they could get. >> you are the king of word play tonight, carrie. i must admit you are taking over the word play man tell from who ever did it before. >> it was karl rove. >> yeah, it was out of control. bill, you had this idea of the boobless burka that covered the whole body except the boobs. >> no, it was the boob yaw macaw which just showed the nipple. didn't pan on you. -- didn't pan ow. andy liked it. as you know i am a journalist first. i put in port less and topless and rally in the google search and i saw some of the pictures. some things are .ed to the north and some are pointed to the south. it was not a good rally. >> women have to realize that medical niche was created for
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men so they can get laid. that's all. do you have a comment on the show, e-mail us? and to leave a voicemail, it is so easy it will make your eyes explode. still to come, the half time report from andy levy. he's a charmer, isn't he? >> tonight's half time report is sponsored by this weekend's easter party. i would say it is a success, but have i to admit things got crazy toward the end. luckily everyone got home safe. thanks this weekend's easter party.
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welcome back. let's find out if we have anything wrong so far. we go to andy levy. a baseball fact, the squat of baseballers leads 31-17 which is amazing they lost the first 8 outings in consecutive sequence. >> it is now 32-17 as the metros win it 7 points to 1 in the first outing. >> fantastic. >> let's go metros. let's go metros. everyone! >> let's go metro. i'm on your side, andy. >> appreciate it, carrie. >> she does think the metros exist though. >> tiger woods, well i guess given his liking for sub miss cive women, it is no surprise he is making his come back at the masters. you mentioned that tiger woods' kindergarten typeher
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has retained gloria all re d, but doesn't plan to sue tiger. i don't get that. >> i think they were hoping the press conference would never take place like the one with rachel. it happened. >> jim, you mentioned how tiger said he wasn't having fun before, and now he has fred couples so who needs all of the porn girls? did you notice he went out of the way to say how many hugs he got from fellow golfers. is that good from a sex addict? >> him hugging them from the back. >> carrie, greg asked if tiger ever hit on you and you said you and elin had a night at spring break a couple years ago. do tell. >> i can't hear you, andy. i am too busy being blonde and counting all of my money. >> that's dangerous.
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>> she is now evolving into a prop comic. >> she is carrie top. >> yes, carrie top. i said the red headed guy. she is turning into the red headed guy. >> bill, you did an excellent tiger impersonation during the story. >> i can't tell if you are kidding. >> you just sound dorky. >> it was better the first time. >> you are truly a great travelin a. >> yes, rest in peace. >> what? >> chris morris, greg you said morris seems more interested in -- more worried about offending terrorists than extremists. he said he what in london and claims the guy said, i have no objection on you trying to make a comedy out of this. if it is funny, i'll laugh at it. >> that was a cover your as quote. sc, i feel like you place matt damon in the same category as
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kim jong-il. >> team america did that and i bought it. >> it is an insult to kim jong-il, by the way. >> and his fashion sense. and four lions has an 80% rate. they call it a take down of the imbacility and misses its target and unable to recognize the fundamental paradox at the core. >> i was right. >> andy is ballsy, but wobblely. >> but i am seeing someone about that. >> you are. >> blondes make more money. it is time for the highlights again. no, don't do that again. >> come to the dark side. >> you mean the light side? >> yes, i'm blonde. >> greg, at one point you said you were thinking about jim,
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but looking at bill. i feel like it is a glimpse into your wild side. i feel like jim at the gym. >> you were amazed by the woman who said she was enraged by a wall of men watching. cut her some slack. she just got out of a convent. she don't know. you said this is why medical niche is a joke. well, if it leads to women walking around topless, i am all for it. >> but it leads you to not understanding men which is clearly the problem here. it is not about the topless ness, but the girl going, i can't believe men showed up to watch. i just like the phrase "wall of men" screaming for a club. >> speaking of the story, carrie, yesterday you tweeted, quote, the votes have been counted and i will be wearing see 3 span -- spandex running through the screen on red eye. what happened? >> that outfit was in the
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wash. it sucks. it got little holes in it and i am sorry to let down the twitter fans. >> there is nothing worse than when see through spandex gets holes. >> not buying it. name and town. >> all right, i am done. >> thank you, bye andy. dismie she is so sukzy that laundry gets her on valentine's day. she hosts every wednesday at 8 p.m. eastern. she is so hot that hot air balloons are called carrie keegan air balloons. and jim norton, check out his tv on ice dance. is it and yellow -- and yellow discipline. is sexiness worth sweet stakes, well they would offer it with no purchase necessary. her prom was a bomb. remember constance mcmillin? she sues her high school because they wouldn't let her bring a female date to the
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prom. and remember how the school cancelled the event and how a judge ruled the county school district was not enforcing the district to hold the prom because a private prom is being organized and mcmillin was involved in that. remember how you thought that was the end of the story. and remember how you are always wrong. you are always wrong and i still love you. >> they wept to the private -- went to the private prom, but only 7 other students were there. the aclu which represents her now says there may have been another event, a secret event that all the other kids were invited to. even worse, the whole sham was set up by the parents, possibly with the involvement of the ict school district and an alien monster. i think we have tape of the other prom. still only had three people
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there. didn't miss much there either in my book. >> try it again. >> okay, start over. >> sc, do you think these young lesbian women were misled? >> that is a terrible premise for a question. >> that's a terrible premise. when did prom become so political? it used to be pure about stealing peach schnaupps from the parents' liquor cabinet and rolling around in a golf cart, but someone had to go and make it all serious. >> who did you carry? who did you carry? you popular girl. >> jim, how was your prom? >> i don't know, i didn't go to either one. you know how it is in rehab. >> i love you got rehab out of the way in high school.
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>> i really did. i didn't go. i did go when i was 22 and my girlfriend was 17 and that wasn't creepy at all. >> carrie, what do you make of this? the jury is still out whether there was a secret program -- prom, and if there was a secret prom, is that wrong? >> well yeah. did we learn nothing from "foot loose"? >> that is true. what is "foot loose"? >> seriously. i also think mississippi is just holding up their end of the deal. no tolerance unless we absolutely have to. >> bill, remember how your high school told you your prom was cancelled and it turned out to be the best one ever. >> i never heard about the last part. >> no one told you. >> high school. i just love the aclu that used to protect free dosm speech -- freedom of speech. they have now gone to chaperoning dances.
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>> i know, it is sad. it is the politicization of prom. we will do a special on that. coming up, so awesome it may melt your face into a puddle of mess. they are called the scorpions and they rock and really rock hard. they are there, rockers.
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my next guests have sold more than 150 million albums worldwide. that's a lot of millions. they have been playing since 1965, but even better they are named after my favorite predatory ar throw pod. the hits "rock you like a hurricane" and" winds of change" cemented them as heavy
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metal superstars. but they announced they will be retiring to promote their 17th and final studio album. it is called "sting in the tail." they take sting from "the police" and shove him up a scorpion's butt. it is packed with more hard rock than the grand canyon. if you don't buy it you are a cannibal. we welcome rudolph shanker from "the scorpions." first, i love the leather. not enough rockers are wearing leather these days. you killed four cows for that outfit, didn't you? >> we don't kill anybody. we came all the way from germany. it is raining in coffle calf. >> and -- raining in california. >> announcement. we like the announcement which is fantastic. >> i am devastated because the sticker on the album says it is your latest, but your last. why is it your last? >> because we decided after 40
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years on the crazy train we want to get out with class and style with a powerful album and tour to follow that would take us all around the world for the next 2 and a half years. then get out of this when we are still on top of the game. >> is it still hard to rock people like a hurricane? is it more like a spring shower? >> no, i say one thing, it is not a spring shower. it is something like if you have time on your side you can make a decision like we did. we noticed by the end of the production we have something special. this special thing knowing what we did in the 90s, working against the stream we know that we are on top of the wave. we are skating on top of the wave, and we want to stay on top of the wave on the highest
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note to say goodbye. after all these years, 100% rock and roll energy. instead of the running fast machine after all these years, 70, 80 shows in 25 countries around the world. no spring shower, man, it feels like hurricane. >> even despite global warming, you are rocking like a hurricane. i love that. i know i am not going out on top. i will always go out on bottom. >> you go in from the bought m to. >> have i to ask you -- i have to ask you, what if you change your mind? is it possible that maybe a year from now you will want to go back in and then we said, this is our last one and we will do another one? >> a year from now, we are still on the road. we come to the u.s. in june. we go all over the state, and then we go to south america and go back to europe. a year from now we are still touring. i tell you to come back, come back again and say goodbye again. all of these games. we should have started this 10 years ago, maybe yes, but this
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is the final thing. >> you go from country to country and which has the best groupies? >> america. >> yea! >> they are raised on rock. >> yes, they are. they are looking for rock wherever they can find it. >> i don't think it is rock, greg. >> yeah, it sounds like crack. not rock. >> there is no place in the world, wherever we go, there is no place in the world where you would see in concerts where you see so many girls showing their boobs in front of the stage. it is the u.s. only. >> it is truly the american spirit, the patriotism of their breast. >> also we created this and she needs to tell. give her inches and feed her well. most of those songs were inspired from touring the
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u.s., from "the zoo" to" rock you like a hurricane" and you listen to them and you know what it is all about. >> as you guys have gotten older, do the groupies stay the same age, or do they age with you? >> no, they get younger. no they are getting younger. >> oh my goodness. i didn't know that was possible. no wonder you have a positive outlook. >> that's the reason we still look young. we have the right people around us. i tell you, in the age of the internet, it is great to see that our music is reaching out to young rock generation as well in so many parts of the world. you can see those kids in front of the stage singing songs that were written before they were born. >> i have one last question. he wanted to know why clause doesn't wear his jump suit with huge yellow moon boots anymore? >> i have grown out of them a little bit.
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>> awesome. thank you so much. fantastic interview. the sorp yen's new album "sting in the tail" is now available. go out and get it. it is awesome. stay right there. when we come back, red eye has more.
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>> he took me to a magical palace and he flies me around. and we float away to the land and we float, float, float, float. who is in the house? tell me who is in the house? jay z, who is in the house? you take him high ♪ you take him low ♪ you take jay z wherever you go ♪
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>> this is a fox news alert. i'm in new york and you are looking now live at joe mansion, the governor of west virginia. he is filling us in on what is happening, the latest on the mine explosion. let's listen in. >> we are going to do that and do that until we have accounted for everybody. i don't think there is anything newer than that i can tell you right now. jimmy is my office of emergency service director and he has been here the entire time. i got on site an hour ago. and the congressman has been here and he called me immediately and i said, congressman if you can go and i will get there quickly. i want to thank him for being vigilant. these are just tough times. it is tough times. these are good people. they are hard-working people.
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they are good people. and right now, i told them to do what they do best and love each other and come together as a family. with that, any questions you might have. >> what has mr. blankenship told you? in the weeks leading up to this -- we haven't talked about any of that. as i said, my main focus right now -- and when you have a situation like this you have your safety people and wootin has been here for some of the briefings. they are up there and they will get into all of that. all of that will be unveiled and finding out what happened. >> any idea as to when the rescuers went in and when they were pulled out? >> i got there and it had to
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be 2:30, 2:30 range, 2:45 when i was at the command center and they were just all being pulled out and came out at that time. the 2:30 time frame would be when they ran into the high methane levels. >> did they say they passed the 25 bodies and were looking for the four additional bodies? >> they had -- they have a body. they have a count. that count is they worked their way in and there are the four that are in the furthest part of the mine. govenor, we were told earlier that a couple of the oxygen masks were removed. is there any reason to believe -- >> we have heard that. this was a horrific blast.
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when the reports are all done, you will see that the damage done to rails and that sort are substantial. it is a horrific blast. so what we had in 2006, we put in place and passed it all in one day and congress took it and they took it and ran and passed federal laws, but basically it was quick response which we had quick response and notification. communications. a blast of this size would take out that kind of communication. and then you have the caches and the chambers and there is a chamber in that area so we still pray. >> governor, you were closely involved with the operations and the rescue efforts over there four years ago.
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how is this different as far as that operation? there has been a lot of prague prague -- the progress made in the blast zone? >> i'm sure the rescuers have adjusted. if they have air they will go as fast and quickly as they can. if there is no debris and things of this sort, a lot of the damage was done on the tops. so that means all of your build up and the blast from what they are telling us happens on the top end. but they got back and it wasn't because of anything blocking. the air was just so horrible they made a decision that it was too dangerous. >> can we ask you how long it is going? >> that i don't know. jimmy, do you know? >> no. depends -- as they drill through, it depends on what they are running through. as he told earlier, there are several hundred feet they have to drill through.
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i think there are three sens they have to go to to get to where these men are or where they think they may be. it too take several hours to do that. >> most of our mines up north, where i come from, the northern coal fieldses, we always dealt with the 1968, farmington to my hometown, the farmington explosion. we dealt with the ventilation and all the things that need to be done to hold that down. this is unusual. i don't know the background of this mine. i'm sure it had to have some gas. it just doesn't happen all of a sudden. there had to be reports of that. >> can you tell us the location of the men? i heard different reports how far down deep they were? >> the information we have right now -- the additional
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men still under ground are in different locations. they were about 6,000 feet from the portal into the mines where the mine works where the fresh air was. it advanced 2,000 feet further into the mines, and then there were exploring another area that was under development. that's when they acquired higher levels of methane and caw bonn dioxide. the only prudent thing to do was to bring the rescue teams outside until they could reestablish ventilation and get the air cleared up and put those teams back in as soon as possible. >> governor, at what . this is unacceptable? >> it is never acceptable to lose a life in any occupation.
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mining has been a danger, but there are other dangerous occupations. as a state, i never blamed -- in 2006, i just knew we had to change them. we did everything we could. there was nothing going to pea -- to protect you from a blast. if there is something we can guarantee, we will do it. and knowing this build up or knowing we are in a gash shoes situation and until we see the report we don't know. >> you mentioned farming. your own personal experience of the loss of your uncle in that miep, how does it play when you have to consult family, and now here at big branch? >> let me tell what you is so difficult about this. there are family members up there and i respect how you

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