we have to go through old mine works and then you have to go into that mine. it s 1100 feet deep, so there s an opportunity for it to deviate and miss the mine, but we think we re within 100 feet. after we withdrew the mine rescue team, we started that drill hole back down into the area where the first drill hole was at behind the rescue chamber area. you don t want to drill into that area while you have a mine rescue team under ground in case you hit into an explosive mixture. that will take about an hour. it s been an hour, so it should be drilling through now. we ll know if we ve hit or miss and if we ve hit it, it will take about an hour and a half to withdraw that drill out of the hole. then about an hour to set a small fan on the hole that s already sitting there, but we ll have to plum it into the hole. at that point in time, we anticipate it would take us three to four hours to pump from
brought out of the mines and to the man drips and outside. they were able to leave what material they had everything has to be hand carried up there. they were able to leave it up there. when we are able to go back in it won t be nearly as strenuous as when we first initially went in there. what happened now is a second bore hole was within 100 feet of penetrating into the mine. if that we talked about the other day, we have to go through an old mine works and then you have to go into that mine, 1100 feet deep. there s an opportunity for it to deviate and actually miss the mine. but we think we re within 100 feet of that mine. and after we with drew the mine rescue team, we started that drill hole back down into the area to where the first drill hole was at behind the rescue chamber area. you don t want to drill into that area while you have a miner rescue team underground in case
is making all of these decisions. but basically the timetables is what i think you need to know. what to expect and about what timetable to expect things, so the people that are watching and praying with anticipation that they will have a timetable that they can expect, too, without thinking the next two hour or three hours something will happen. with that, i ll turn it over to chris. he can explain to you, show you on the map what they ve done. things we tried to brief you on earlier. and then also what timetable before something new would be started or the rescue and recovery efforts would start. chris? we sent our mine rescue teams in. had teams from massey, state, federal, and from companies around the area, have sent teams in here icgs and others. so we had teams. we took four teams inside the mine. each team is comprised of six people. and you have state and federal that goes in, so each team gets ramped up to about eight people
is, how do we know what we re doing right now is right. good point. if the people who were in charge then were so sure, so sure that rearview mirrors are remarkable things. all right. christine, thanks for very much. i want to go back to chad myers. we do have a tornado on the ground. chad, tell us about it. eight miles west of ft. ruker in alabama. very close to enterprise. same storm we talked about ten minutes ago. law enforcement now is saying a tornado is on the ground. we re watching it on the ground. no reports of damage yet. obviously it s on the ground, it s going to be doing something. headed toward the town of ozark. ali, there are other cells in lines here. also in georgia that are rotating at this hour. we ve been talking about a potential for tornadoes for three days now but just hasn t been must have humidity in the air to do it. you get close to the gulf coast. to be clear that area to the left is one type of a pressure zone and the area to the right is th
area, check that shelter out. then by that time, the team that went across the long wall would be complete, would be able to move up to where the other team was and we would hoping to be able to advance up to where the miner section was, which was in this area here. our teams were at this point when we found that we barometer, as you guys see out here, the storm came through and the barometer dropped and we started to see the methane pick up in our bore hole that we ve got drilled down that we re using to detect what we have inside the mine. we took one sample and we wasn t really concerned about it. we thought that it could have been just a outer line sample. but the next three samples also escalated as well to the point where we started getting concerned. as soon as the atmosphere returned to where our sarples show that we were in explosive mixture, we immediately called underground and had our miner rescue teams withdraw. so 32 people we basically