his desk by early next week. savann savannah? >> nbc's brian mooar in west virginia with the latest for us. thank you. >> i can clearly recall as if it was yesterday, it was quite a while, going down there to cover a coal strike. maybe about 15 years ago. the idea that conditions were as desperate then, both economic as well as physical conditions working in the mine, are the same today. i can't think of another american industry where these violations would be allowed to occur repeatedly over and over and over. >> you wonder, 124 something like that violations in one year, how serious are they and why isn't -- i mean, why aren't these mines shut down if it's that grave and that serious or are these just miner infractions? >> you know what, brian mooar cited some violations said the wokkers were in imminent danger.