Flood leaves one coal miner missing

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00:00A desperate search is underway for a West Virginia coal miner who went missing after

00:04flooding over the weekend. A crew in the Rolling Thunder Mine in Nicholas County hid an unknown

00:10pocket of water Saturday, causing the tunnels in the mountain to fill with water. It sounds like

00:16literal hell on earth. Remarkably, everyone was able to escape except for one, a yet-to-be-identified

00:23miner. Rescue workers believe the one missing person is trapped three-quarters of a mile beneath

00:30the mountain. Now, they've been pumping water out since Saturday night, but no one knows just how

00:36much water is down there, so we don't know how long it's going to take. Once they get a certain

00:41amount of that water out, the plan is to send in underwater drones to locate and establish

00:45communication with the miner who hopefully is still alive.