I can tell you, we're going to fix -- something's broken. It must be fixed. And it's an absolute horrible price that we in West Virginia hav...
What happens now is, you have a lot of theories, a lot of hearsays. They try to construct everything they can, and then put it factually, pr...
That's not going to happen in West Virginia, not under my watch. And I'm committing and committing all the resources of our state to make th...
They can be assured that the loss they have and the loss they suffer might be the loss that be prevented and be suffered by another family i...
I'm sure all the families have gathered together now and they're all pulling their strength from within, praying for the best and I want the...
The rescue team's allowed to go back in. That means the air quality had to be good enough so there was no danger to them, or a very minimal ...
I'm still very optimistic and very hopeful and still praying for that miracle, but our odds are pretty much against us, as you know. It's an...
The one body that has been recovered was the one person that was left right there where the force of the blast came. And the 12, the tram wa...
I understood, we have a crew down in? You make sure you call me back and brief me before I go to that church because people will be asking m...
I said, we better find out what is going on, walked in there. And they're yelling and cheering that 12 are alive; 12 are alive. And I'm thin...
How that got misinterpreted or miscommunicated, I can't say.
I said, if we can just give families information, Anderson, that's all I wanted. I said, let them know what's going on the best that you can...
I feel confident that Jerry would have taken the time to pray.
I said, well, what is the correct? Do we have one, two, three, four? What -- how many? What is it? We just don't know for sure, is what I wa...
With the air levels that we have to deal with, it's still an uphill battle and it's still -- the odds are against us. From that being said, ...
We will have a full investigation. And our intentions is -- and our goal is not to have one injury, lose one life in West Virginia.
We didn't know what went on. And I asked my security people with me. And I said, what is happening? And they didn't know, because we hadn't ...
Twelve miners alive.