Salt mine as part of their shift and didnt come back. Now a major rescue operation is under way. Emergency rescuers are on the scene trying to do all they can to get those minererout safely. This morning, emergency crews racing to free 17 miners trapped in an elevator nearly 900 feet below ground in upstate new york. Cagag is stuck 850 feet down with people on it. Reporter Asha Mckenzie a local reporter is live on the scene. The 17 miners have been trapped for more than five hours at this pointnd it all happened after a technical error with an elevator that sent the miners 900 feet underground trapping them. Reporter local fire and Police Departments scrambling to help. Manpower needed to backfill out in lancing on a rope rescue. Reporter a crane is on site to help extract the miners. It will lower a basket to carry out four to six miners at a time. Their spirits are remarkly good. Again, we have very outstanding employees. Situation. Understanding at the time it takes to approach this
Youre gonna have so much noise and dust and dirt. Other downtown hotspots optimistically say whats good for the city will be good for everyone. Katie 15 45 35 were not wwried about the construction, i think that the improvements to downtown and even to the area directly in front of the theater are going to be wonderful. Joni 15 48 31 the end product, like any other big ppject when its all said and done, its going to be beautiful and wonderful, i just hope were still here. The good news is this type of project t nt have to be done again for another 3040 years. But Business Owners say theyll continue talking with the city to minimize the negative impact of the street closure. Covererg the corridor in ic, dora miller, cbs 2 news ten at 10. Temps are in the 30s 30sshowers are spreading norhteast norhteastmostly c cudy skies prevail prevailskies will cloudy light rain. Temps will climb from 34 at 8am to 38 at 3pm m cbs 2 news ten at ten continues now with ongoing coverage of the war on terr
Kcrgtv9s Jill Kasparie joins us in the studio. Jill, people involved with the project say this will mean a lot to the town. Thats right. The people behind this project say they know theres not much in garrison. So, the Library Board was determined to have a place built for kids and adults. Car nats on the quiet streets of this Small Community you wont find a lot happening. But not far from the Old Buildings on the main stretch you will find some activity with a flashing open sign. 5 48 24 we are proud of it. We are pleased we were able to get this done and do it for our community. And its no mystery as to how this Library Project got done. 5 331 it has been very fun. It has been extremely stressful the members of the Library Board made it happen. After the City Council Told them they couldnt borrow money, they decided to raise much of it themselves. 5 37 33 we also had bake sales markets, you name it we did it. They were dedicated, even when people doubted them. 5 49 01 my husband, at
Saturdays jackpot will be an estimated 675 million, the largest in history. All that ive got some new categories, favorite late night show host who is in this room now. The ladies of the talk, someone tried to steal the spotlight. You aint gonna pull no steve harvey up in here. North korea claims it has successfully tested a Hydrogen Bomb. And we have exclusive footage of the test. We came back from a beautiful Family Vacation which i call, lets pay a lot of money to go lets fight on bikes. Lets fight about how well seem to be. Welcome to cbs this morning. This is an urgent effort underway to rescue miners the trapped deep underground in upstate new york. Nine are still stuck about 800 feet below ground in lansing. Demarco morgan is following this breaking story. Reporter this image behind me shows the crane that arrived on scene a few hours ago to help in the rescue effort. Were told the responders are bringing up the miners four at a time. So far what we know is that around 10 20 p.
Should be a brief lull in the action on monday with only a small chance of mixed precipitation late on monday. Should mixed precipitation fall on caucusgoers, it seems it would be very isolated. The main show looks to arrive on tuesday with heavy snow, strong wind, and cold air to follow by wednesday. While still too early to get into amounts, this will very likely be a storm of high impact in the area. Please stay tuned as we move through the weekend. Toda y partly cloudy high 3541 winds se 515 alo 35 dbq 35 iow 39tonight mostly cloudy low 2531 wids w 515 alo 28 dbq 28 iow 29tomorrow mostly cloudy high 3945 winds sw 515 alo 40 dbq 40 iow 43tomorrow night light mix late low 3036 nds s 510 alo 31 dbq 3232 iow 33 thanks kaj. The clean up process will soon begin after a chuhuh burned to the ground. Firefighters were called to the old Saint Peter Lutheran Church in lamont. This was around 6 30 last night. Its on oak street, just east of east street. Multiple Fire Departments were called in