CNN: Only one miner came out alive...

[arcos]

Lots of confusion on...

Anderson Cooper seems stunned, as well as the woman who is telling what happened...

[Kingshakabobo]

1. WTF???????????????????????????

[aquart]

2. What?

I thought it was one dead, 12 alive not all in good shape.

[Erika]

3. 1 alive 12 dead My God!

[beam me up scottie]

4. Is there a link?

I don't have tv and there's nothing on the website.

[txindy]

7. Right now it's just being broadcast on CNN

Websites haven't been updated, yet.

[beam me up scottie]

8. Thanks.

This sucks.

[arcos]

12. They have a breaking news banner on top now...

I guess the story will be up soon...

www.cnn.com

[beam me up scottie]

13. Thank you.

:hi:

[Dongfang Hong]

5. What?!

CNN front page still saying they're alive.

Fuck it. I can't believe anyone would do this.

[Skittles]

11. this is tabloid journalism

it is disgusting

[Skittles]

6. so much for "God's miracle"

:(

[johnfunk]

15. I was getting a bit fed up with the TV evangelizing, but I feel awful...

... for the families. Miners have been screwed for generations by the Man and the State.

[Skittles]

17. there's something about miners

to me, they are the "working man" personified.....they are all of us

[Erika]

9. So Much for the Governor's Miracle

These people are damn angry and they well should be.

[DanCa]

10. A honking horn wtf is going on?

[gauguin57]

14. msnbc changed its story

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10682163

BREAKING NEWS

Updated: 3:04 a.m. ET Jan. 4, 2006
TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. - Family members report that 11 of the 12 coal miners who were initially thought to have survived an explosion in a coal mine have died. The sole survivor is hospitalized.

The families were told by company officials about the deaths more than three hours after Gov. Joe Manchin said he had been told 12 of the miners had survived. Tears of joy turned to tears of grief as families demanded answers about what caused the miscommunication.

"We feel like we've been lied to all alone," said one family member on CNN.

[norml]

16. Only one US miner reported alive (BBC)

Only one US miner reported alive

Only one of the 12 trapped miners found in a US coal mine on Wednesday has survived, reports from the US say.
CNN said only one man - critically ill and rushed to hospital - had been found alive by rescuers, just hours after news all had been found safe.

CNN named the survivor as 26-year-old Randal McCloy.

Relatives had celebrated in churches after reports that the rescue attempts had found all 12 men alive in an air pocket in the mine.

"Everybody is stunned," said Sam Lands, the brother-in-law of Martin Bennet, who had been in the mine.

"I thought I was going to pass out. I couldn't believe it. We've been lied to all along. We need answers."

West Virginia Governer Joe Manchin had earlier praised news of the men's rescue from the Sago mine a "miracle".


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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4579698.stm