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Patrick Morrisey: “There obviously were a few teams that went down, they dived…”

Featuring: Patrick Morrisey, Republican | Governor of West Virginia

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Gov. Morrisey provides an update on the missing miner from the Rolling Thunder mine.

Published | Video Starts at 03:50

And so that's the biggest challenge right now. And as I mentioned over the last couple days, when you have that kind of volume of water in, it makes it very difficult. There obviously were a few teams that went down, they dived, and that information was very valuable. But it's very difficult to bring together both the diving and the mine safety rescue efforts. (03:50–03:58)

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Asserts that diving teams have gone down into the mine and their information was valuable.

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