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His diplomatic career in the united states is now pretty much over, karen. what if this wasn t a diplomate? what if me, you, or anybody else, smoked on the airplane or made that off-the-cuff comment in a much more charged environment in the wake of 9/11, would we be facing criminal charges? i think it is entirely possible. whenever you are on the airplane, we hear the announcements. no smoking in the bathrooms. it s a federal violation. the u.s. government takes these things very seriously. everybody is, of course, to obey the rules. diplomates with that diplomatic immunity, 97% of the time, diplomates do obey the laws in the united states. they all know they have diplomatic immunity. overwhelmingly most of them absolutely do obey the laws. everybody knows you are not supposed to smoke on airplanes. technically, they can t charge this man. any u.s. citizen without diplomatic immunity, most ....
Inside that mine? depending on obviously on the strength of the fire, intensity, if the shelter is deployed, i don t know the precise temperature, but it s obviously not as great as the temperature would be were it not deployed. we have hopes, continue to hope. we re working as hard as we can. to get our mine rescue teams back in the mine. hopefully we ll be able to accomplish that this afternoon. i can t give you a definite temperature at which that shelter might withstand. if there s a fire in the proximity, close proximitity to the refuse chamber, do you think the people inside could survive? it depends on the intensity ....
Combustible. you mentioned the unanticipated variable, all of the smoke. you know there s a fire somewhere in that mine. for those two reasons they had to pull the 16 guys out. as joe manchin emphasized, this was a tough call to tell the rescuers to retreat. we had a long night. a difficult night. we ran into some problems and notified this morning and teams worked around the clock got up into the section again and kevin will explain to you where this all happened and ran into some bad conditions. and again had to pull the teams out. reporter: so now that the teams are pulled out, they have essentially two options right now. option number one, and this is what the governor referred to as a game changer. continue drilling down with the other hole. they can place this tiny camera ....
Conservatives at the southern republican leadership conference that they can win in 2010. we are going to be talking about state of the union host candy crowley. the am fix blog up and running. cnn.com/amfix. we begin the hour with a heartbreaking development in the search for four miss be miners in west virginia. rescue teams forced to abandon the search after they stumbled upon some major problems underground. a fire is burning deep inside the mine. all the smoke and deadly gas making the mission too dangerous to continue. brook walled win is librook bal is live at the scene of the search. you can understand, this is day five since that explosion went off on monday afternoon. the rescue, the urgency here ....
Refuge chambers. well they proceeded into the mine, they got to the first rescue chamber as the governor said, located close to where the long wall face was and it was not deployed. in that area where the rescue chamber was, there were 900 parts per million right at the chamber. they broke the plane and went towards what is head gate 22 and when they broke the plane and went into the four connecting entries, we have smoke in all four of those entries and the smoke is traveling from this side towards the long wall face indicating that we have a fire somewhere. so it was at that time that a decision was made to evacuate the rescuers and to begin the inerting process that we talked ....