This is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie leave from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. If you call it powerball fever when the jackpot is 450 million, what are you going to do saturday . Youre going to explode. Spontaneous human combustion. I can barely do the math. Its getting interesting. Lets get to the top story. A race to free a group of miners who have been trapped for hours more than 70 stories below ground in upstate new york. Tom costello is following the developments. Tom, good morning. They have brought in a giant crane to help free 17 miners who have been trapped yall night below the cayuga salt mooin 50 miles south of syracuse, new were told theyve managed to get several of the miners out. Theyre lowering the basket and lifting them out two or three at a time. They became trapped at about 10 20 last night when they were headed down to the mine floor about 2,300 feet below ground to begin their over
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