many times i will tell my coworkers, go underground. this may be the last day we will see this. reporter: blue sky? i trust god. reporter: again, there are four funerals today. we have confirmed that massey energy who owns this upper big branch mine will be footing all four of those bills. t.j., keep in mind, there are still 21 more funerals to go. brooke baldwin who has been on the story for us. we will continue to check in with you. i believe we are getting some updates today as well. we will check in on those. thank you so much, brooke. we are expecting more news conferences today about the mine disaster. we will bring those to you live. we are expecting possibly around noon to get word on if, in fact, that second rescue chamber was deployed, possibly used. right now, those miners are still unaccounted for. the four could still be
will dana bash, chasing it down for you today. we appreciate you hopping on the line and we ll be talking to you throughout the day. thank you very much, we look forward to hearing from bob stupak as dana said. funerals will be held today for four of the 25 miners killed monday in the western virginia coal mine. meantime, there s been another setback in the attempts to find four miners who are still unaccounted for. the teams reached one of two rescue chambers overnight and found it had not been deployed. before they could check the other chamber, smoke forced them from the mine. workers are now trying to get a camera down there to determine if that second chamber has been used. word on that expected some time around noon. so maybe the next couple of hours. the chambers hold enough oxygen for 15 miners to survive 96 hours. west virginia s governors there is a quote, sliver of hope, the missing miners are in the one remaining chamber. you can only imagine how this week has been for
some stories making headlines today. funerals being held for four of the 25 miners killed from the west virginia coal mine. some funerals being held today. another setback in efforts to find the four still unaccounted for. searchers found one of two rescue chambers unused. they tried to get to the other but were forced out of the mine by smoke. they are now going to drill a little hole to get a camera down there and possibly determine if that second chamber is being used and if those unaccounted for miners are in there. word on that expected sometime around noon today. president obama headed back to washington. earlier today, he got on board air force one and left prague. he had been in prague to take part in the signing ceremony for a nuclear weapons reduction treaty with russia. an update on the u.s. army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at texas ft. hood. major nidal hasan was wounded
retire. we will bring it to you when we get the answers. meanwhile, the funerals will be held for four of the 25 miners killed in that west virginia coal mine monday. in the meantime, another setback in the attempt to find the four still missing miners. teams searching one of two rescue chambers overnight found it had not been deployed before they could check the other other chamber. smoke forced the rescuers to retreat. workers are putting a camera to determine if the second chamber was possibly used. word on that expected maybe around noon today. the chambers hold enough oxygen for 15 miners to survive for up to 96 hours. west virginia s governor says, there is, quote, a sliver of hope that the one remaining chamber is occupied by the missing miners. cnn s brooke baldwin has been there in west virginia for the next couple of days. a lot of people were holding out hope. are they still holding on to it?