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There. it s 4.6 earthquake that s rattled south central alaska on wednesday. it was located, the epicenter, about 35 miles northeast of anchorage and felt there in that city. 4.6 certainly enough to feel. usually not enough to do any major damage. we ll keep your eye on that if we get new information about that earthquake in alaska. change has come to virginia in the form of a proclamation declaring april as confederate history month. the new republican governor of virginia, bob mcdonle, issues the proclamation to, quote, understand the sacrifices of the confederate leader, soldiers and citizens during the period of the civil war. some civil rights leaders are outraged. especially since mcdonald left out anti-slavery language that was used by a former gop governor. former democratic virginia governor doug wilder who is african-american called it mind boggling. said it s one thing to sound a cause of rallying a base, but quite another to distort history. joining us now is virginia sta
To declare april as confederate history month. if they had included language to the efgt slavery was wrong and people in america should not have engaged in it would it be okay with you to celebrate confederate history month? i think if we are to have a proclamation of history it ought to be civil war history that takes in mind the sacrifices made by people on both sides, the viewpoints of those who wanted to preserve the union and to free the slaves. we need to do all of those things. senator whipple, do you think that this really does anything to rally the base? that s what the former governor said that this was intended to do. but will it do that? i don t know. the speculation is that he was trying to appeal to his base. but i think he needs to remember that he is governor of all virginians. and keep that thought foremost in his mind. senator whipple, good of you to join us today. thank you so much for your time. thank you. we have been talking online today about spirit a
quickly here. as for the company that runs this mine, massey energy, it has a lot of questions to answer. they have been cited numerous times for safety violations and this very mine has been shut down a couple of times in the last two months because of a build-up of methane gas. state officials say they re going to be looking at that very carefully. but right now this is about a rescue mission for four miners who might possibly have survived this deadly explosion. one thing that may have been overlooked in the search for these four missing miners is that two miners did survive. they were taken to the hospital. they re injured. do you know the status of their condition? reporter: we just got an update on them. one is doing very well. the other is said to be in the intensive care unit. what really bothers everyone here is that these rescue workers got within about 500 feet of where these four missing miners are believed to be. so they re worried about trying to get to them