Coal Mine Explosion - Massey Coal - Upper Big Branch
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Coal Mine Explosion
Upper Big Branch - Massey Coal Mine
01:00:00
STORY:++US Mine- NEW At least 12 killed, 10 missing in US mine blast
LENGTH: 02:12
SHOTLIST:
++DAY SHOTS++
Montcoal, West Virginia - 05 April 2010
1. Wide shot traffic near mine ++MUTE++
2. Mid shot mine entrance ++MUTE++
3. Mid shot helicopter taking off
4. Wide shot mining company truck and trailer
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Grace Lafferty, local resident:
"We really just came to pray, because we don't have immediate family in the mine but we know so many people that work here; our pastor works at this mine."
6. Wide shot mine entrance ++MUTE++
7. Mid shot emergency vehicle ++MUTE++
8. Wide shot pickup truck near mine entrance ++MUTE++
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jenny Waycaster, family member:
"I just started getting all these phone calls, they asked me if Kevin was working the evening or day, that's all they said. When I told him evening, they told me there had been an explosion."
10. Wide shot sign outside mine ++MUTE++
++NIGHT SHOTS
11. Wide shot ambulance ++MUTE++
12. Wide shot police officer talking to onlookers ++MUTE++
13. Wide shot mining company truck and trailer ++MUTE++
14. Wide shot traffic near mine ++MUTE++
Charleston, West Virginia - 05 April 2010
15. Wide shot exterior of hospital; pan right to ambulances
16. Close-up emergency room sign
17. Close-up hospital sign
18. Wide shot ambulance
01:02:15
STORY:++US Mine 2- NEW At least 25 killed, 10 missing in US mine blast, Obama, victims' families, analyst
LENGTH: 03:20
SHOTLIST
Washington, DC - 6 April 2010
1. Wide of US President Barack Obama walks to podium, audience applauds, he greets people
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"I want to send my deepest condolences, our thoughts and prayers to the families and friends of the workers who lost their lives after an explosion took place in a West Virginia mine yesterday. At this moment, there are still people missing, there are rescue teams that are searching tirelessly and courageously to find them. I spoke with Governor Manchin of West Virginia last night and told him that the federal government stands ready to offer whatever assistance is needed in this rescue effort. So I would ask for the faithful who have gathered here this morning to pray for the safe return of the missing, the men and women who've put their lives on the lines to save them, and the souls of those who have been lost in this tragic accident, and may they rest in peace, and may their families find comfort in the hard days ahead."
AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Montcoal, West Virginia - 6 April 2010
3. Early morning shot of moon
4. Pull out from mine to satellite trucks parked
5. Framed photograph in woman's hands, tilt up to her crying as she holds photo
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle McKinney, daughter of Benny Willingham, miner reportedly killed in accident:
"He was a family man and he loved the Lord; we know where he is at but we still want him back."
(Question: And you just want to hear something too I'd imagine?)
"Yes we do... we just want the call, the official call. We want to know where his body is, my mom wants to know where he is."
(Question: How is your mom doing?)
"She's not... my mom is a very sick lady and he took very good care of her. She's got diabetes, a new hip, she's going blind in her eyes from the diabetes."
7. Wide of Tiffany Ellis, Willingham's granddaughter, indicating family members on photo, and his sister-in-law
8. Close of photo as Ellis indicates her grandfather Benny R. Willingham, miner reportedly killed in accident
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Tiffany Ellis, granddaughter of Benny Willingham, miner reportedly killed in accident:
"He wasn't my grandfather, he was more like my dad. I grew up without a dad and he stepped right in my dad's shoes. My dad.... I don't know, he promised me to walk me down the aisle and now he is not here."
10. Close of photo of Willingham and his family
AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Washington, DC - 6 April 2010
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Davitt McAteer, Lead investigator into the 2006 Sago mine disaster: (talking about methane gas)
"It is probably the largest, the single biggest problem for coal mining in the world. It tends to be involved in most, if not all, the disaster explosions that we have in this country as well as abroad."
Montcoal, West Virginia - 5 April 2010
12. Wide of traffic near mine
13. Mine entrance
14. Helicopter taking off
15. Mining company truck and trailer
01:05:17
STORY:+US Mine 4- WRAP 25 dead in US mine blast, worst since 1984, reax ADDS CEO
LENGTH: 03:32
STORY NUMBER: 642184
DATELINE: West Virginia - 6 April 2010
SHOTLIST:
Montcoal, West Virginia
1. Wide shot police roadblock at entrance to Massey mine
2. Mid shot of building in Massey mine site
3. Close-up police officer talking to people in car
Dry Creek, West Virginia
++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: THESE SHOTS ARE NOT FROM MASSEY MINE++
4. Various shots of coal from nearby site
Montcoal, West Virginia
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Manchin, Governor of West Virginia:
"They're telling me that the first hole could be as late as tomorrow evening before the first hole is down. Knowing what the conditions would be then to send the rescue teams in. So, it's going to be a very long, slow process. Of course the families, you know, we went through the whole thing again about the 4 that we haven't located. We have 18 people in the mine; 14 have been located and we know have been passed away, 4 we don't know."
6. Manchin during briefing
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Stricklin, An administrator for the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration:
"It's quite evident that something went very wrong here for us to have the magnitude of this explosion. So, it's apparent that something was wrong and I would just ask to give us an opportunity to conduct a full investigation and we'll leave no stone unturned to get to the bottom and tell you exactly what was not going right here when this explosion did occur."
Julian, West Virginia
8. Sign outside Massey Coal Services headquarters
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Don Blankenship, Massey Chief Executive:
"When I first heard that there was CO (carbon monoxide) at the mine, I was hopeful it was just a smoking bearing or something. But we've scrambled to get in place and of course as the seriousness of it progressed we've become more and more concerned and of course we launched the rescue effort at an early stage."
10. Cutaway of interview
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Don Blankenship, Massey Chief Executive:
"Well, it's not possible to put production ahead of safety because you can't be productive if you're not safe."
12. Pan of headquarters
Montcoal, West Virginia
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Candice Atkins, Family friend of one of the miners:
"Profit over human life is what I think; all they care about is money. Cause all the citations they did not care of it, money over human life. That's basically my opinion."
Dry Creek, West Virginia
++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: THESE SHOTS ARE NOT FROM MASSEY MINE++
14. Pan of coal
Whitesville, West Virginia
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Name not known, Resident:
"My brothers, my dad; all of them was miners. My son used to work in the mines, which, you know, he had got hurt. He is not working in the mines no more, he has been trying to get back in, I don't want him back in. I don't care if he has to clean toilets, I don't want him back in the mines."
16. Wide of restaurant
17. Close-up of decoration on wall
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Asbury, Has two sons who work for Massey mines:
"Well, everybody knows mining is dangerous but if you're going to live here, which is our home, if you're going to live here you're probably going to end up working in the mines. Young kids know that and any middle aged person that is working out of state and decides to come home, he knows he is probably going to end up going underground, working in the mines."
19. Wide Asbury walking inside restaurant
01:08:43
STORY:US Mine 4- REPLAY 25 dead in US mine blast, worst since 1984, reax. CEO s'bite
LENGTH: 03:32
DATELINE: West Virginia - 6 April 2010
SHOTLIST:
Montcoal, West Virginia
1. Wide shot police roadblock at entrance to Massey mine
2. Mid shot of building in Massey mine site
3. Close-up police officer talking to people in car
Dry Creek, West Virginia
++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: THESE SHOTS ARE NOT FROM MASSEY MINE++
4. Various shots of coal from nearby site
Montcoal, West Virginia
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Manchin, Governor of West Virginia:
"They're telling me that the first hole could be as late as tomorrow evening before the first hole is down. Knowing what the conditions would be then to send the rescue teams in. So, it's going to be a very long, slow process. Of course the families, you know, we went through the whole thing again about the 4 that we haven't located. We have 18 people in the mine; 14 have been located and we know have been passed away, 4 we don't know."
6. Manchin during briefing
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Stricklin, An administrator for the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration:
"It's quite evident that something went very wrong here for us to have the magnitude of this explosion. So, it's apparent that something was wrong and I would just ask to give us an opportunity to conduct a full investigation and we'll leave no stone unturned to get to the bottom and tell you exactly what was not going right here when this explosion did occur."
Julian, West Virginia
8. Sign outside Massey Coal Services headquarters
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Don Blankenship, Massey Chief Executive:
"When I first heard that there was CO (carbon monoxide) at the mine, I was hopeful it was just a smoking bearing or something. But we've scrambled to get in place and of course as the seriousness of it progressed we've become more and more concerned and of course we launched the rescue effort at an early stage."
10. Cutaway of interview
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Don Blankenship, Massey Chief Executive:
"Well, it's not possible to put production ahead of safety because you can't be productive if you're not safe."
12. Pan of headquarters
Montcoal, West Virginia
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Candice Atkins, Family friend of one of the miners:
"Profit over human life is what I think; all they care about is money. Cause all the citations they did not care of it, money over human life. That's basically my opinion."
Dry Creek, West Virginia
++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: THESE SHOTS ARE NOT FROM MASSEY MINE++
14. Pan of coal
Whitesville, West Virginia
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Name not known, Resident:
"My brothers, my dad; all of them was miners. My son used to work in the mines, which, you know, he had got hurt. He is not working in the mines no more, he has been trying to get back in, I don't want him back in. I don't care if he has to clean toilets, I don't want him back in the mines."
16. Wide of restaurant
17. Close-up of decoration on wall
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Asbury, Has two sons who work for Massey mines:
"Well, everybody knows mining is dangerous but if you're going to live here, which is our home, if you're going to live here you're probably going to end up working in the mines. Young kids know that and any middle aged person that is working out of state and decides to come home, he knows he is probably going to end up going underground, working in the mines."
19. Wide Asbury walking inside restaurant
01:12:20
STORY:US Mine 2- REPLAY Crews drilling 3rd hole to save possible blast survivors, presser
LENGTH: 03:42
DATELINE: Various - 7 April 2010, recent
SHOTLIST:
Montcoal, West Virginia - 7 April 2010
1. Wide pan left entrance to mine
2. Pan right from mine sign to entrance
3. Close-up mine sign
4. Medium shot Performance Coal Company sign
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Joe Manchin, West Virginia Governor:
"They've decided to drill a third hole, and the reason for that is the first hole went so fast and so well, if the third hole with the big rig they have there, they can get these three down, they could be venting a lot better and pulling more air out, and, if you will, decantering (sic) that area quicker."
Montcoal, West Virginia - 7 April 2010
6. Wide shot rig on truck
7. Tilt down on rig
8. Various of drilling site
Montcoal, West Virginia - 7 April 2010
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kevin Stricklin, US Mine Safety and Health Administration:
"There has been no signals that have been sent down that borehole. Basically the only signal is if you were a miner underground and you heard the drill drilling you knew that people would be coming after you."
10. Cutaway reporters
11. SOUNDBITE(English), Kevin Stricklin, US Mine Safety and Health Administration:
"We've shut this mine down on 29 occasions in the past year. I do not have the authority, or my people do not have the authority, to permanently shut a mine down. We can only shut it down until the condition is corrected."
(Reporter: Is 29 a lot?)
"29 is higher than average."
12. Wide shot mine
13. Medium shot mine
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nick Rahall, Democratic Congressman from West Virginia:
"I have heard stories, in no way confirmed, of unsafe methane and dust buildups. I have talked to individuals who have been in coal mines, or have loved ones that are working in coal mines, or have lost loved ones in coal mines, who will not be identified of course by name, but will say that something's fishy here, that there are corners being cut, that they wish somebody, not themselves of course, would take them by the bullhorns and investigate."
Whitesville, West Virginia - 7 April 2010
15. Pan from house to sign that reads: "pray for the coal miners and their families!"
16. Close-up sign that reads: "pray for the coal miners and their families!"
17. Wide shot Terri Stewart, ex-wife of miner Stanley Stewart, who survived the blast
18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Terri Stewart, ex-wife of miner Stanley Stewart, who survived the blast
"I hope that some of the things that can happen is that they will take more safety precautions, you know, with the way that the mine is handled, the way that the company promotes safety and what they do when they're in violation of anything that they should be doing. I hope that whoever, the powers that be, would come in and inspect them more to make sure that they are following safety procedures, that they are making a better effort to protect the miners that are in there."
19. Wide shot restaurant
20. Close-up restaurant exterior
21. Woman working in diner, Kimberley Sears
22. SOUNDBITE: (English) vox pop, Kimberly Sears, Whitesville resident:
"It'll be scary every day that one of their sons or one of their nieces or nephews, whatever, goes down. It's just going to be a scare each time they go underground."
01:16:06
STORY:+US Mine- WRAP Rising gas levels force rescue team to leave mine ADDS presser
LENGTH: 02:30
DATELINE: Whitesville/Montcoal, 8 Apr 2010
SHOTLIST
Montcoal, West Virginia
1. Pan to Performance Coal Company sign
2. Close up of Performance Coal Company sign
3. Wide of entrance to mine
4. Pan down of entrance to the mine
Montcoal, West Virginia
5. West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin pointing to map of mine
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Governor Joe Manchin, West Virginia:
"Started with you at 6:30 and we had great hopes, right that this was going to move pretty quick and by now we could have had some comfort and closure to families and maybe we would have had a miracle who knows, we all thought that would happen this morning and when it didn't happen, but then you have to settle in to reality that you have got 32 brave people, you have got 60 or 80 brave people that are willing go in there and do whatever and you just can't take that risk."
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Stricklin, administrator for the Mine Health and Safety Administration:
"We have to get in there, we have to try to get in there sometime, and if we can't do it with the barometer and the reduction in the explosability, we have to put the nitrogen in there and get people in there tonight."
8. Mid of presser
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Stricklin, administrator for the Mine Health and Safety Administration:
"We committed to the families that we wanted to get into the chambers within 96 hours and we are trying to do everything in our power to do that, without taking a chance on the rescue teams and we think this is the way to do it."
10. End of news conference
Whitesville, West Virginia
11. Interior of restaurant
12. Various of customer watching news conference
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Sue Pauley, Whitesville resident:
"It is sad. You know, just like anyone else we want answers. We want to know if those guys are alive and we hope and pray that they are. And that's what we're going on. We believe in the Lord and we know that he can and he will come to their rescue."
14. Various of US flag at half mast in front of the fire and rescue building
15. Various of sign outside bank saying "Pray for our miners!"
16. Traffic
01:18:26
STORY:++US Mine 2- NEW Crews prepare to go back into the mine, funerals, Obama sot
LENGTH: 04:01
DATELINE: Various - 9 April 2010
SHOTLIST:
Washington DC, 9 April 2010
1. Mid of US President Barack Obama walking out of the Oval Office and out to Rose Garden
2. Cutaway of Obama
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"This has been an unimaginably difficult week for the people who live near Montcoal. Thirty-one workers were inside the Upper Big Branch mine when an explosion ripped through its walls on Monday afternoon. Two were saved. Twenty-five were lost. And for the four who remain missing, we are praying for a miracle. I want to offer my deepest condolences to the friends and the families of the fathers and the husbands and brothers, nephews and sons who were killed in this accident. I'm also in awe of the courage and selflessness shown by the rescue teams who've risked their lives over and over and over this week for the chance to save another. They've worked around the clock, with little sleep, for the past few days, and this nation owes them a debt of gratitude."
Montcoal, West Virginia, 9 April 2010
4. Cutaway of Kevin Stricklin, US Mine Safety and Health Administration official at news conference
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kevin Stricklin, Mine Safety and Health Administration:
"Based on the nitrogen inerting the 22 longwall area, a decision has been made again to send rescue teams underground. They are gearing up or going underground, basically as we speak.
6. Cutaway of Stricklin
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kevin Stricklin, Mine Safety and Health Administration:
"We're right now at 95 hours. So, we're confident that if they got in there (the rescue chamber which they have not searched yet) and they were alive that we would be able to still rescue them. Probably, we're somewhere in the vicinity right now hopefully getting in there within three and a half to four hours to that refuge chamber."
8. Wide of people outside mine holding banners supporting miners
9. Pan of girl holding sign reading: "My daddy is a miner"
10. SOUNDBITE: (English), Brittany, Local Resident:
"It really hurts my feelings because I wish they'd find them. I mean, I can just keep praying, that's all I can do. So I hope that they find them in the other chamber and I hope they are okay and have been...++INAUDIBLE++ That's all I can pray for."
11. Mid of Theresa Davidson, local resident holding sign reading: "We need 4 miracles"
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Theresa Davidson, Local Resident:
"Devastated. We're wanting our miners out and we pray and hope that we can bring everybody out, give the family closure."
13. Wide of mine entrance
14. Close up of mine entrance
Mullens, West Virginia, 9 April 2010
15. Wide of church, where funeral was held for Benny Willingham
16. Mid of church sign reading :"In loving memory of benny Willlingham and all who perished with him."
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kay Fulford, Friend of Willingham:
"And if someone did not know him, they missed out on a lot. They missed out on a lot not knowing Benny."
18. Mid of Fulford walking towards church
19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ronnie Thompson, Friend of Willingham:
"On Tuesday morning is when we found out that Benny did not make it. And so we started making our plans whenever the service was going to be, that we knew we would be coming. We were going to be here for Benny?
(Reporter: Why is it so important for you to be here for this service?)
"He was so much part of us, the seven of us."
20. Mid of Thompson and other friends of Willingham walking into church
21. Wide of church service
22. Mid of Edith Willingham in middle, wife of Willingham, and others in front of casket
23. Mid of mourners with photo of Willingham and family
24. Close up of Edith Willigham being comforted
25. Various of funeral service
01:22:31
STORY:US Mine- REPLAY Bodies of four missing miners found, reax
LENGTH: 02:17
DATELINE: Montcoal - 10 Apr 2010
SHOTLIST
1. Ambulances arriving at mine to retrieve miner bodies ++NIGHT TIME++
2. Ambulances drive into mine entrance ++NIGHT TIME++
3. Ambulances parked outside mine entrance ++NIGHT TIME++
4. West Virginia Governor walks to podium
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Manchin, West Virginia governor
"We did not receive the miracle that we prayed for. We have accounted for the four miners that have been unaccounted for. We have a total of 29 brave miners who we are recovering at this time. We have been spending time with the families as you can tell. It's a very difficult time. They're strong people, very loving and good people, but very, very hard times."
6. Tammy Gobble, local teacher, seen from back, listening to press conference
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Manchin, West Virginia governor
"None of the chambers had been deployed and none of our miners suffered, so this journey has ended and now the healing can start."
8. Tammy Gobble, local teacher, listening to press conference
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Tammy Gobble, local teacher
"The families get some closure, but the pain is still there. It won't go away."
10. Man hugging Gobble
11. Tight shot of Gobble's face
12. Man leads distraught Gobble away
01:24:51
STORY:++US Mine- NEW Obama and Biden at memorial service for West Virginia miners
LENGTH: 03:48
DATELINE: Beckley, West Virginia - 25 April 2010
SHOTLIST:
1. US President Barack Obama and US Vice President Joe Biden walking into memorial service, UPSOUND: audience applause
2. Obama and Biden shaking hands and taking their seats
3. Pull out from Obama and Biden with backs to camera to wide of stage, with white memorial crosses, photos of the miners, and large wreath with 29 white roses
4. Wide of West Virginia First Lady Gayle Manchin reading out the miners' names
5. STILL showing miner Jason Matthew Atkins (first name to be read out)
6. Applause as Atkins' family walks in, Obama clapping (standing right of screen)
7. Mid of row of photos of miners who died
8. Obama walking to the podium
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"How can we fail them? How can a nation that relies on its miners not do everything in its power to protect them? How can we let anyone in this country put their lives at risk by simply showing up to work, by simply pursuing the American Dream?"
10. Close of miners' photos on stage
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"They began their day as they worked in darkness, in coveralls and hard-toe boots, a hardhat over their heads. They would sit quietly for their hour-long journey, five miles (eight kilometres) into the mountain, the only light the lamp on their caps, or the glow from the mantrip (underground transport vehicle) they rode in."
12. Close pan of miners' helmets with lamps, each on a white cross (++overlaid with music at source++)
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"Most days, they would emerge from the dark mine, squinting at the light. Most days, they'd emerge, sweaty and dirty and dusted from coal. Most days they'd come home. But not that day."
14. Miner's helmets on crosses, pan up to photomontage of miners who died (++overlaid with music at source++)
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"All that hard work. All that hardship. All the time spent underground. It was all for their families. It was all for you. For a car in the driveway, a roof overhead. For a chance to give their kids opportunities they would never know, and enjoy retirement with their spouses. It was all in the hopes of something better. And so these miners lived as they died, in pursuit of the American Dream."
16. Various of lights on miners' helmets turned on in sequence
17. Wide of lights on miners' helmets alighting in unison, UPSOUND: audience applause
18. Mid of Obama walking out, with his arm on mourner's shoulder, shaking hands with people as he walks out (++overlaid with music at source++)
19. Miners' families walking out after memorial service (++overlaid with music at source++)
01:28:41
NYU34480
Story Name: MASSEY COAL MINE EXPLOSION / CANDLELIGHT VIGIL P1
Date Shot: 2010/04/07
Location: CABIN CREEK, WV USA
Contents:
FTG OF THE CANDLELIGHT VIGIL FOR COVERAGE OF THE FATAL EXPLOSION AT AN UNDERGROUND COAL MINE, OWNED BY MASSEY ENERGY, WHERE AT LEAST 25 MINERS WERE KILLED AND FOUR ARE MSSING
People gather at a candlelight vigil in Cabin Creek, W.Va. Three miners from the area were killed at an explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Coal Mine in Montcoal, W.Va. They were Timmy Davis Sr., Cory Davis and Josh Napper.
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01:33:04