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newEmergency efforts continue in West Virginia after devastating floods

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The West Virginia National Guard has operational areas in Greenbrier, Nicholas and Kanawha counties and is covering eight counties, according to a news release from the West Virginia Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Twenty-three fatalities have been confirmed -- 15 in Greenbrier County, six in Kanawha County, one in Ohio County and one in Jackson County.

Retrain miners to do what?

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U.S. Department of Labor officials announced they are sending another $4.3 million in federal money to West Virginia for out-of-work miners. National Dislocated Worker Grant funding will be given to WorkForce West Virginia, which it says it will use to continue service for 1,700 Mountain State residents already enrolled in the program, and about 300 newly displaced coal miners.