Obama will go to W.Va. to eulogize miners killed in explosion

By Michael D. Shear

President Obama will deliver a eulogy for the West Virginia miners who died in the nation's worst mining accident during a memorial service on Sunday, the White House announced.

The president will travel to Beckley, W.Va., for the memorial from Asheville, N.C., where he and his family be spending the weekend.

Obama will be joined in West Virginia by Vice President Biden, press secretary Robert Gibbs said.