(7 Aug 2007) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of area outside mine, zoom in to mountain
2. Wide of mountain with zoom in
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Huntsman, Utah Governor:
"You have to be optimistic with a situation like this. You have families not far from here, you have six miners who all could very well be alive. In fact, the experts would tell you that are. And the rescue attempts are increasingly close to the cavern where they think they are located, so yes, hope is in order at this point, heavy doses of hope."
4. Wide of helicopter carrying Utah Governor Jon Hunstman taking off
5. Wide of Robert Murray, Murray Energy Corporation Chairman at news conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Murray, Murray Energy Corporation Chairman:
"It's quite possible they're alive, and I want to believe that they are, and we're wasting no effort to get to them."
7. Cutaway press
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Murray, Murray Energy Corporation Chairman:
"We are turning over every stone, working very closely with the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration. As I told you earlier, I take the safety of my employees to bed with me every night, and we will be here on our feet until we get these men out, one way or the other."
9. Wide of truck hauling mine equipment
10. Wide of truck hauling mine equipment
11. Mid of police officer talking to man in truck
12. Wide of police car
13. Mid of police officer talking to man in car; car drives away
STORYLINE
In Huntington, Utah on Monday, hundreds of rescuers struggled with falling rock and debris in a desperate race to reach six coal miners believed trapped 1,500 feet (457 meters) below ground by a cave-in so powerful that authorities questioned whether it was caused by an earthquake.
As the rescue stretched into the night, workers were unable to make significant progress and the initial effort was declared a failure.
"Hope is in order at this point, heavy doses of hope," said the Governor of Utah, Jon Huntsman.
More than 16 hours after the collapse, searchers had been unable to contact the miners and could not say whether they were dead or alive.
If they survived they could have enough air and water to last several days, according to Robert Murray, chairman of Murray Energy Corporation, which owns the mine.
"It's quite possible they're alive, and I want to believe that they are, and we're wasting no effort to get to them," he said.
"I take the safety of my employees to bed with me every night, and we will be here on our feet until we get these men out, one way or the other," he added.
Rescuers planned to spend the night bulldozing a road outside the mine to make way for a drilling rig that can punch holes large enough to improve ventilation and determine whether the men were alive. They also planned to continue drilling from inside and outside the mine.
The mining crew was believed to be about four miles (6.4 kilometres) from the mine entrance.
About a mile (1.5 kilometres) from the mine's entrance, there was an all-day procession of trucks hauling heavy machinery headed toward the site to claw at rock and raw earth.
Federal mine-safety inspectors, who have issued more than 3-hundred citations against the mine since January 2004, were also on hand to help oversee the search.
The mine is built into a mountain in the rugged Manti-La Sal National Forest, 140 miles (225 kilometres) south of Salt Lake City, in a sparsely populated area.
The collapse did not appear related to an explosion.
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