[Petronski]

Geraldo says the broadcast will continue until a resolution is reached.

God bless those workmen, and God bless our accidental Governor Mark Schweiker! (Mr. Schweiker, please run for Spector's senate seat: you are a good man.)

[Petronski]

Rescuers are reportedly less than 15 feet from stricken miners. Pray, people. Please pray.

[Reborn]

Praying and praying! God bless all of these dear souls who are involved in this Rescue! And I just heard the Governor on FOX, and wow! What a great guy!!

Dearest Adored in Heaven, pour out Your Awesome MERCY on all these dear souls, please brings these 9 miners out to us alive and well, and help their weary families with your Amazing Grace. In the Name of the Lord Jesus I pray. Amen

[WFTR]

I used to be involved in the sport of cave exploration and used to read stories of cave accidents. Cavers being trapped by water was one of the most frightening and sometimes heartbreaking of events. In many cases, the cavers seemed to survive as long as one member of the group had the will to hold everyone together and keep everyone's will to live going. When that will was lost, everyone died together within a very short period of time. I had a friend who years earlier had been trapped by rising water. It was a rough experience, but they held on and waited for the water to recede. When it went down, they crawled out. We can only hope the best for these men and hope that they are rescued soon.

WFTR
Bill

[marajade]

How come he isn't running for Gov?

[Restorer]

Sorry for this.

Did anybody actually read the headline? For a while there I thought I was back in the Clinton years!

[Petronski]

Geraldo says the broadcast will continue until a resolution is reached.

Geraldo is outvoted, they will switch away to a pre-recorded Cavuto special on stocks: "Don't Panic."

Feh.

[Petronski]

MSNBC claims only six feet remain. Fox has left the story but promises to rejoin it. There is supposedly another news network called 'CNN' I think, but I dunno.

[Lizavetta]

Betcha they find some more Gore votes down there.

[contrarian]

I just emailed Foxnews and asked them to tell Jerry Rivers to shut up.. I am tired to hear him ask run-on questions (vapid stupid) and then interrupt the person when they try to answer the question... I also asked them to send Jerry back to Afghanistan where hopefully someone will blow his butt to the moon...I requested that they put a HUMAN in charge of the program who would be compassionate and considerate of the feelings of the family members of the miners instead of droning on about how dark, cold, hungry, weak, disoriented the poor miners are (like jerry)

[strela]

What the hell's going on at Fox? They just broke in with a news alert, some talking head was talking, but no audio and/or humming was heard. Then they broke to a commercial.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

What was that Fox News Alert? I couldn't hear anything the guy was saying! Was it just my tv? Does anyone have closed captioning?

[Spruce]

Prayers to all involved

[Petronski]

Hey, some wise and kind soul has updated the headline of this topic. Thanks much (and I wish I knew who and how it was done).

Again, thanks.

[Spruce]

Good news indeed!

[HAL9000]

UNCONFIRMED - but here is the AP report -

BC-APNewsAlert,0022

SOMERSET, Pa. -- Rescue workers make contact by telephone with some of the trapped miners, rescue worker says.

(Copyright 2002 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

[Pistolshot]

More heros, the rescue workers, the miners, and the families

[sneakers]

WTAE in Pittsburgh reporting now that all nine are alive and lots of honking of horns going on in the background!

Praise God!!!

[kattracks]

All Nine Trapped Miners Still Alive, Family Says

SOMERSET, Pa. (Reuters) - All nine miners trapped for three days in a flooded Pennsylvania coal mine are still alive, a family member of one of the trapped men said on Saturday.

The relative said they had been given the news by rescue workers who spoke to the trapped men on a communications device lowered down an air hole.

[Jorge]

This is great! They say all 9 are still alive...but we're waiting for the Gov's press conferance to confirm.
I'm over-joyed. God is good.

[FReepaholic]

Thanks to everyone here on FR for keeping those of us without cable tv informed.

FR is the FIRST place I go to for news.

I was at work on September 11, 2001 and was able to keep up with what was going on by all the posts from the fine folks here.