BLITZER: January was a month of unimaginable tragedy for coal miners and their families in West Virginia. Now February is starting off with news of yet more grief. Let's go straight to CNN's Fredricka Whitfield at the CNN Center for details. Fred?</s>FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Hello again, Wolf. Well two more miners are dead after separate accidents in the mines in West Virginia. Officials say in one accident, a man driving a bulldozer hit a gas line causing it to burst into flames. In the other accident, officials say a miner died at an underground mine when a wall support came loose. In light of today's mine deaths, West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin is taking action to assure his state's mines are safe.</s>GOV. JOE MANCHIN (D), WEST VIRGINIA: But I can confirm that we have had accidents at three separate coal mines, two underground mines and one surface mine, that have resulted in two deaths today. As a result of these three incidents, all of which occurred within just the last few hours, I'm calling on the industry to cease production activities immediately and go into a mine safety standdown.</s>WHITFIELD: Including today's deaths, 16 miners have died in West Virginia mining accidents in about a month, Wolf.</s>BLITZER: Fred, thank you very much, Fredricka Whitfield with the latest on that. We'll continue to watch this story. Just ahead, the hunt for Osama bin Laden. More than four years into it, where does the United States military stand right now? I'll ask the commanding general in charge of combined forces in Afghanistan. Plus, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan arrested at the State of the Union speech. Why Capitol Police now say that was a mistake.
West Virginia Governor Orders Mines Shut Down for Safety Check