While visiting steel workers in South Carolina, Vice President JD Vance accidentally mistook reporters for steel workers due to their get-ups.
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00:00yeah hey guys how we doing good see you oh you guys are just reporters you got all the shit on
00:17i couldn't tell good to see you guys thank you what are we doing here we're making some steals okay
00:35that's awesome that's good so you're gonna get to see a charge get dropped and um see the fireworks
00:41start you start the furnace up a key lot okay yeah i'd love that okay when you say charge get dropped
00:45what do you mean so what we're gonna do we're gonna take a bucket it's got a lot of scrap steel
00:49about 135 tons of scrap we're gonna drop it into the furnace okay let you strike the arc on it
00:55all right that's awesome
00:56so how hot is it in there well the last the last temp we took was about 2,960 degrees
01:11that's pretty crazy we get up sometimes you know around three times okay is that i mean what's
01:18what's the temperature you need it to melt the stuff down it's great dependent but you know i would say
01:22a general number about 2,900 okay so you're right at what you need to be yes sir i guess that makes
01:27sense because the heated anymore would be pretty damn expensive yes okay so that's what we're looking
01:34at right here yes sir you're looking inside the furnace there and those are flare cameras
01:37they help us look for water i see so you can see inside the camera let's look inside the furnace
01:43yeah so they can see it's at the bottom and we're gonna drop about 130 tons okay now you say help
01:50you look for water does water make it dangerous or yes sir water is a serious issue anytime you have
01:58water and liquid steel you know you can have steam explosions okay get pretty bad now it looks like
02:02like steam to me but is that is that just like smoke that's just smoke okay it's not that's not water
02:08got it
02:09you can see a big charge
02:15you can see a big charge