be part of your investing occasion. a weak global outlook is scary and justifiable to be a little nervous. but relax. in terms of what you can control, you can't control everything. that's it for tonight. good night. >> hi, everyone, i'm john siegenthaler in new york. dire warning, the u.n. predicts thousands will be killed in kobane if it falls, as pressure builds on turkey to get more involved. no-show, north korea's kim jong-un still missing. he's never been gone this long. >> a 17-year-old fighting for the right for girls to get an education the youngest nobel peace prize winner. >> fed up in kentucky, voters

frustrated but hopeful about the future. america votes 2014. we begin tonight with more disturbing beheadings at the hands of isil. twenty people were killed, including this iraq journalist. this comes as we heard to new warning from a u.n. envoy that things could get worse. despite a week of u.s. airstrikes, isil controls 40% of kobane, a town on syria's border with turkey. taking it would be a strategic win and symbolic one. it would be the first isil victory since airstrikes began. 12,000 civilians could be massacred if isil vees that town. isil could soon take more border

territory. france is calling for a buffer zone between jair and turkey to prevent isil from moving north. stephanie decker reports. >> the u.s. led coalition has been active in kobane. more airstrikes targeted isil positions in the northern syrian town. the fight remains relentless and it's angering the kurds watching from across the bored are in turkey. >> the real enemy of kobane is in the isil, it is the president's government. we do in the expect anything else from the turkish government, the turkish state or turkish nation anymore because of the stand against this atrocity. >> international pressure is growing, the united states has made it clear it wants turkey to step up militarily and now the u.n. special envoy to syria is urging the turkish border to open its border and allow kurdish fighters to fight isil.

>> >> our appeal to turkey to take some specific additional actions to stop the advance of isil. we need that because otherwise, all of us, including turkey, will be regretting deeply that we have missed an opportunity of stopping isil and sending a signal that that cannot continue. >> what is clear is that the battle for kobane is a fierce one and it is ongoing. another point that the u.s. special envoy made is that if kobane falls to isil, the group will control almost 400 kilometers of border with turkey. isil is reported to have made further advances from the east into the city. there is no i mean,staking these sounds, it is a constant battle taking place street by street. to make matters worse, many forced to leave now watch helplessly with no idea of what will become of their homes. aljazeera on the turkey-syria border. >> the u.s. continues to insist the only way to defeat isil is

with the help from allies. mike viqueira has more from the white house. >> american officials have been open about their desire to get turkey more involved. after a high level delegation from president obama spent two days negotiating with turkish officials, there is still no commitment from turkey to get involved in the military fight against isil. >> the mission to convince turkey to join the fight, but after two days of meetings, retired general john allen came away with only a pledge for more talks. the state department vowed to keep trying. >> just because allies didn't come out two weeks ago and say they'd do something doesn't mean we won't continue conversations and welcome support going forward. we are going to need support in the long haul. it's not about one day, week or month. >> turkey promised to help train syrian rebels but that is still months off. friday, secretary of defense

chuck hagel called on turkey to allow coalition war planes, use of the air base in turkey, but turkey refused, meeting in geneva with u.n. officials, the turkish foreign minister said airstrikes are not enough and called for a no fly zone near his country's border with syria. >> as we said, we don't want a buffer zone, but a security zone and no fly zone absolutely have to be put in place, because this cries is of a different dimension. >> that's a non-starter with washington. where officials say a no fly zone would lead to a fight with bashar al assad's air force, turkey wants assad out but toppling assad is not the american goal. as isil makes military gains in iraq, perhaps threatening baghdad itself, the american braced'd public for a longs fight. >> they are brutal, aggressive. that's why we're taking the fight to them. no one thought as soon as we

started air fights they would stop fighting. >> the coalition building effort continues. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the army general will host 20 defense ministers tuesday here in washington to talk about military plans against isil. >> david road was kidnapped by the taliban and held for months. he's now an investigative reporter for reuters. welcome, it's good to see you. >> thank you. >> you write that an over centralized white house has been overwhelmed by the conflict in syria. >> there's been a progression with multiple presidents, starting with the clinton administration. in this more complicated world, an era of 24/7 media and partisan attacks, white house has tried to control events more and more, gotten extreme under

president obama, the white house that managed every response to syrian policy. >> does that work? >> it doesn't when you've got multiple cries like this summer, ebola, the challenge in ukraine with russia and then syria, as well. >> in some ways, you have to let the departments do their job? >> but this is the problem for the administration, the problem is sort of our politics and the constant warring. the white house fears another benghazi. that was something that the u.s., the white house wasn't paying much trouble to, a terrible tragedy, americans killed, but one former administration official said it nearly cost the president his reelection bid. the white house now monitors world security worldwide. >> some say why shouldn't the white house be involved, why let the pentagon do it. >> we were told by the former u.n. ambassador to syria, the

members he met with had to be approved by the white house, getting training for how to do better management as a civilian government or better training for how to deal he with the media was approved by the white house. he said that's counter productive. d.o.d. officials say you have to delegate and if the lower official fails, fire them. in our political culture, is that going to affect the white house. >> benghazi, or incidents like that? >> it's continued when george w. bush was president, there was a constant attack, anything that went wrong in iraq was brought up. it's the sense that foreign policy has become pretty sides. due to communications, the white house can email people every day in afghanistan and iraq and turkey, you know in west africa and kind of micro manage, because now we have instant communications and news media is much more aggressive. >> the national security staff has gone up from the clinton administration that 100 and now 400. is that the result of all this?

>> it's the result of the 9/11 attacks, obama administration officials say there's a large homeland security council they brought in as part of the n.s.c. even at 400, you know, no white house can manage, you know, these complex crisis. they to have rely on the pentagon, the state department, the treasury department with sanctions, you know, it's an incredibly complex world. >> you interviewed a lot of insiders in the white house and in these democrats. do you get a sense they're just frustrated with the way things are going now? >> they are and some argue this is sort of bureaucratic griping. they say there was no easy answer in syria. part of the problem is this white house focuses on public messages and the mistake of the white house whether or not to get involved was making statements, assad has loft legitimacy and should step down but weren't willing to back that up. there's been a messaging problem from this white house. >> you talked to insiders and

they said there were key fundamental errors the administration made reward syria. talk about what they said. >> one was and this was disputed, people felt the recommendation in 2012 from secretary of state hillary clinton and leon panetta and they wanted to arm the rebels then. the white house reject that had proposal. they did a small program to arm them later but it was too small. back and forth statements promising to do much and then not delivering that hurt the u.s. credibility in the region. >> fascinating story at a difficult time for the united states when it comes to foreign policy. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> there are no definiteliments tonight in the war against ebola. 100 marines ever landed in monrovia, the planes carrying much-needed medical supplies and construction equipment. army troops finished building a 25 bed hospital near monrovia

for health care workers infected with ebola. ebola patient thomas duncan's temperature spiked to 103 degrees during his first visit to a dallas emergency room. according to records obtained, duncan's high fever was marked with an exclamation point on his record along with a note that he'd been in africa. he was given antibiotics, discharged, totaled to take tylenol. today, the hospital said it's changed its intake process and its procedures. >> some sobering numbers from the world health organization on how severe the ebola crisis has become. the death toll surpassed 4,000. the u.n. special envoy for ebola said cases are now probably doubling every three to four weeks. we get more from our science and technology correspondent, jake ward. >> when experts assess the danger of an outbreak like ebola, it all comes down to math. at the simplest level, a measurement called the

reproductive ratio describes how many people the disease is likely to in effect, for every one infected, that describes human other people should be. the reproductive ratio for the most common diseases varies wildly from one to the next. whooping cough is extremely infectious. for every one person infected, 17 secondary infections can result. small pox infects as many as seven and ebola, because it involves direct bodily fluid is between one and four. in this outbreak, it's between 1.5 and two. the trouble is although it's for less communicable, it's far more deadly. when in effect'd, they remain contagious for a long while. taking lots of supplies to treat them. the reproductive ratio for ebola needs to get below one in order to stop this epidemic. here is how we would theoretically get there.

wednesday, three essential numbers were report'd, 70, 70 and 60. to control the epidemic, 70% of burials of people killed by ebola need to be conducted safely. no one should be infected while preparing the dead to be buried and no one should touch the dead. 70% of infected people need to be in treatment within 60 days. at the moment, only 18% of infected people are in treatment centers. we're nowhere near where we need to be. by this math, we need between 10,000 and 15,000 people in treatment right now. if we don't do anything, in one month, that number is going to go up to between 45,000 and 50,000 people. in two months, that number will become more than 100,000 people. handling even a single patient requires major investment. treating and cleaning up around one patient for just one day requires 52.8 gallons of water, 20 gallons of bleach, eight pairs of rubber gloves and thee

body suits. we are talking about incredible amounts of supplies. that leads us to the bigger problem. right now, there are only 1,100 beds available in guinea, sierra leone and liberia, the heart of the epidemic. even here, we have roughly 1700 beds available for this kind of treatment. the u.s. military pledged to built 17 treatment centers by mid november. by that time, we're looking at 50,000 people needing beds. even if those treatment centers are huge with 200 beds apiece, that's only 3,400 beds. this time next month, we are going to be short 43,800 beds world wide. those people are not going to ever a place to go in their countries or in any other unless we drastically improve the supplies and real estate that we commit to this problem. >> that's jake ward reporting. >> now we turn to north korea. every year, that country celebrates the founding of the working party. it's a major event.

today, it was overshadowed by two things. first, the no-show by dictator kim jong-un and military stair down with south korea. we have the latest from seoul. >> on a day that was supposed to be about kim jong-un and whether he would appear for the anniversary of the creation of the ruling workers party in north korea, the big story that turned out to be an exchange of fire across a demilitarized zone. it's the first time such a thing has that happened since the fighting of the korean war in 1953. it was all sparked by balloons carrying hundreds of thousands of propaganda leaflets launched by north korea defectors here in south korea he i can't. they were warned if they let this happened, there would be consequence. anti air draft machine gunfire were launched against these balloons, bulge lets traveling and landing in south korean

territory. the south careens gave warning they would return fire. they did so. there was a second response from south korea. all of this happening on this important day in north korea, one usually marked by kim jong-un's attendance at the moss liam which houses the bodies of his father and grandfather. no show from him once again. he hasn't been seen since september 3, more than a month now, prompting speculation as to the state of his leadership and health. the south careens say that his leadership appears to be robust, adding further fuel to the speculation that there's something wrong with his legs. he was seen limping in the last video that we have of him from july, and it's possible that he's being kept out of view while he recroup rates. >> rooterring from seoul. >> the african american community plans a vigil to honor a black teen killed wednesday in

what police say was a shoutout in st. louis. his family says the teen was unarmed. randall pinkston reports. >> pro testers versus police, not in ferguson, missouri, but in st. louis, where another case involving a white police officer and an african american teenager reignited anger and frustration. last night, demonstrators confronted police over the death of teenager. >> tempers boiled over after officials said myers was killed when he allegedly fired at an offer duty officer during a foot chase. police in protective shields tried to disperse the crowd. at one point, using what appeared to be pepper spray. protestors used milk to soothe the sting. meijers family claims the teen who was facing charges of weapons possession did not have a gun, that he was holding a

sandwich which he had just purchased. st. louis police say they recovered the weapon meijers allegedly used. they also report no arrests from last night's protest. the mayor of st. louis announced plans for a dual local and federal investigation and deliver results to the circuit attorney to consider criminal charges. evidence will be turned over to federal prosecutors for a review of federal civil rights violations. the st. louis investigation comes two months after the shooting death of michael brown in ferguson, a case where heavily armed police were accused of treating protestors like enemies instead of american citizens. prosecutors are still presenting the case to a grand jury. today marks the beginning of a weekend of resistance, a marsh schedule would odds the prosecutor's office demanding his resignation and the arrest of the officer who killed michael brown.

tonight, a candlelight vigil i also scheduled from the site of his death to the police department. randall pinkston, aljazeera. >> the youngest person ever to receive a nobel prize. we'll hear from malala yousafzai in her own words. >> at 18, lots of young people make choices, but in israel, the those is already made.

>> the death toll could be much higher than anyone known. >> posing as a buyer... >> ...people ready then... >> mr. president >> who should answer for those people >> i'm joie chen, i'm the host of america tonight, we're revolutionary because we're going back to doing best of storytelling. we have an ouportunity to really reach out and really talk to voices that we haven't heard before... i think al jazeera america is a watershed moment for american journalism >> the nobel peace prize were awarded to two people today, the first, pakistan's malala

yousafzai. she first shot in the head by taliban gunman in 2012 for promoting female education. at just seven, malala is the youngest person to receiver this prize. she first in a chemistry class in england this morning when she found out she won. >> you all may know this, the taliban did not allow children to go to school. i stood up for my rights. i did not wait for someone else. i did not wait for someone else. i had really two options. one was not to speak and the second was to speak up and then be killed. i chose the second one. i wanted to learn who i can be in my future, and i also had dreams. i also had dreams like a normal child has. i wanted to become a doctor at that time. now i want to become a

politician, a good politician. when i heard that i cannot go to school, i just for a second thought that i would never be able to become a doctor or i would never be able to be who i want to be in future, and my life would be just getting married at age of 13 or 14, not going to school, not becoming who i really can be. i decided that i would speak up. through my story, i want to tell other children a around the world that they should stand up for their rights. they should not wait for someone else and their voices are more powerful, their voices, it would seem that they are weak, but at the time when no one speaks, your voice is so laud that everyone has to listen to it. everyone has to hear it. that's my message to children all around the world that they should stand up for their rights. >> malala yousafzai, 17 years old. malala shares this award with the indian winner, one of the

world's leading campaigners against child labor. he said a lot of work remains but he hopes to see the end of child labor in his lifetime. >> by the time teens reach 18 years old, they face a lot of decisions. in israel, one decision is made, facing compulsory military service. two israel teenagers of taken a very different path. nick schiffron reports. >> when this 18-year-old packs her bags. >> these are the fancy uniform to wear outside of the base. >> filled with toiletries and clothes. >> you need lots of undershirts, because you sweat all day. >> a prior book. >> i love operating. i have a really strong relationship with god. >> her dog tags. >> weird to see my name on it. so very grown up. >> she fulfills and expectation shared by hundreds of thousands of israel 18-year-olds. >> i'm also going in with a lot of my friends, so we're all going to be in this together. >> can you show me he what you

pack to go to jail? >> when this 18-year-old prepares his bag. >> you have no clothes. >> they're giving me their uniform. >> toiletries, they give me, also. >> only books, sheets and a tall. >> he packs for protest. >> when gives you comfort in prison? >> the means of telephone that they have every day. >> every able jewish israel 18-year-old other than the ultra religious must complete military service. three quarters of men and the majority of women serve. >> dara will serve in the military education wing, train the generation that follows her. >> i feel like it's the right thing, like what i'm supposed to do. the mission. >> in israel, the military fills society. soldiers walk openly. joining the military is a right of passage. even if that means going to war. >> a soldier's unit helps open career and society doors. >> when you're in the army, it's part of something. it's a language, a way of

speaking, away of going about it. it's embarrassing not to go to the army if you can. >> people say they want to kill me and i don't have the right to live her. >> udi refused to serve so inned and jim prisoned. he refuses because he disagree witness israel's wars and its occupation. >> israel doesn't need to occupy the palestinian nation. when you occupy people, you can't be surprised they are bombing you. no one just say ok, i will be imprisoned. gaza is the biggest prison in the world. >> his friends support him, but it's not easy. his brother fought in gaza, his father and grandfather fought. he believes young israels are indoctrinated. >> everyone in israel is cool and education system going to brainwash. >> there are people who refuse to serve. what do you feel about those people? >> on a personal level, i really, i understand it.

on the more national level, i think it's a disgrace. i think it's absolutely the most selfish thing you could do. >> for dara, service is a religious and national duty in a country all too familiar with war. >> i have so many friends who have been killed over the years, so many, it's crazy. no one, 18-year-olds, no one my age in the world knows death as much as me or my fellow friends, no one. >> a decision about war and peace that each israeli 18-year-old must make as soon as they finish high school. nick schiffron, aljazeera, jerusalem. >> for more on the challenges facing teenagers in this country, tune in to edge of 18 this sunday. it airs at 9:00 eastern, 6:00 pacific time. >> our special report, fed up in kentucky, the heart of coal country deciding a pivotal election, but are the candidates listening to the people? in an avalanche of ads, 500

hours of political spots. you might be surprised where the cash is coming from.

>> a critical race for the u.s. thoughts. >> they're getting a lot of misinformation when it comes to politics. >> in a state bam barred with ads, with voters conflicted over health care. >> do you like obamacare? and struggling economy where coal is king. >> will your business be here in 10 years? >> this state could help determine the battle of power in congress. our special report, america votes 2014, fed up in kentucky. >> from jobs to the economy to the millions spent on campaigns, voters in kentucky are frustrate. who do they blame? here's a clue.

on thursday can be kentucky senator yell candidate race made national news when she refused to say whether she voted for president obama. she knows people are fed up with the white house and washington. voters complain politicians just aren't listening. we went to kentucky to hear from people about issues that could impact next month's mid term election. the outcome could determine who holds power in washington. first up, the economy and in eastern kentucky that means coal. for generations, thousands there worked the mines and made a good living. jobs are drying up. libby casey reports. >> in eastern kentucky, generation after generation of coal miners have done the hard, dirty dangerous work extracting what they call black gold. >> every young boy wants to be like his dad. i seen my dad come home from the mines every day and it was just

i fell right into it myself. >> pride like coal runs deep here. clyde, known as c.v. owns four coal mines in harlen county. >> we've got the most miners in the world. we don't look at mountains as obstacles. we go over it, around it, through it or under it. >> when you look around here, will this be here in five years? will your business be here in 10 years? >> we'll be lucky if it's still here in five years. >> most local mines have shut down, been idled or gone bankrupt in the past decade. c.v. like most around here blames president obama and the administration's environmental regulation. they call it a war on coal. >> it seems like everybody wants to get on the bandwagon on the environmental issues. the clean water act, the clean air act. people have been led to believe coal is bad.

we're down 70 percent from before obama came in. we've had basically a 70% reduction in the workforce. >> how hard is it to get jobs in this industry. >> very hard especially in this county now. >> why? >> just the impact that i guess the war on coal he has had on this part of the county. >> a free-fall three years ago cost 7,000 coal jobs in eastern kentucky. there are fewer than 12,000 miners through the whole state. >> i worked at five difference mines that shut down and laid off and stuff like that. >> coal generates 93% of kentucky's electricity and more than a third of electricity across the country. the obama administration says those coal fire plants are the nation's worst carbon polluters. in june, it proposed rules to cut power plant emissions nearly a third we 2030. utilities are responding. >> this is coal country.

>> jerusale you're providing ely and moving away from coal. >> yes, we are. >> it's shutting down one of its biggest coal plants and converting another to natural gas to save money. bottom line, he says he has to keep rates reasonable for customers. >> for me to continue to do that with coal was going to be greatly more expensive than it would be for gas. >> it's not just regulation. eastern kentucky's coal is the most expensive in the country to mine. $70 a ton compared to $10 a ton in wyoming. the fact is, coal here was in trouble long before president obama took offers, declining 63% since the year 2000. these are hard realities to accept. >> it's very painful. it hurts. >> there is so much pain in coal country, yet eastern kentucky, ever proud and increasingly defiant still celebrates coal as

a way of life. >> libby joins us from washington. is the economy the number one issue in this mid term election? >> the economy and what it means for jobs. coal jobs make up just 1% of kentucky's workforce but the industry la long had a powerful and wealthy lobbying footprint. in kentucky to be a can't date, you got to be pro coal if you want to be pro job. even though people talk about the economy as their number one concern, telling poll that is for months. what they kept coming back to were their feelings about the can't dates, too they relate to them, do they feel comfortable with their values. >> ultimately, those feelings may trump their own economic interests. health care is a perfect example of that. kentucky has had one of the most successful rollouts of the federal health care allow in the nation and yet people just don't look it, because it's called

obamacare. >> we'll talk about that later. thank you. >> as we saw, people in kentucky's coal industry are hurting. the decline in mining in that part of the country is dramatic. randall pinkston explains why. >> kentucky produces 8% of america's coal, just a fraction of what it was just a decade ago. in 2003, mines in kentucky produced a little more than 113 million tons of coal. by 2013, it was just under 80 million tons. why the big drop? tough p. regulations play a part but economics put pressure on kentucky. kentucky comb is more expensive than wyoming coal. a ton costs $70 in kentucky, but $10 if it's from wyoming. that's because it's easier and cheaper to get coal out of the ground in wyoming or north dakota. kentucky does not produce as much. 2.5 tons for every hour an

employee works but in wyoming, it's nearly 28 tons an hour. most of the easy to reach coal in kentucky has already been tapped. in the west, it's still easy to dig up, because much of the coal is close to the surface. while mines in tuck tug are closing up shop, they're still digging in places like wyoming. >> as libby mentioned, kentucky has had one of the motor successful rollouts of the affordable care act. despite that, the word obamacare often brings a very negative response. >> frank dixon is 52. he worked as a neck nick in the mine industry. >> you look in pain. >> i'm all right. >> is that your back? >> yeah. >> what does it feel like? >> it hurts. [ laughter ] >> there's days i can't hardly get up. >> like so many others in eastern kentucky mining, dixon lost his job in 2012, making

$90,000 a year. >> since your position has been eliminated. >> what's it like now? >> kind of ashamed to say it, but now i'm on $300 a month food stamps. >> losing work meant losing health covering. for a year, he and his son were uninsured. the affordable care act started and the state set up its own health exchange. he qualified for a medicaid plan. >> here, obamacare goes by connect, k.y. for kentucky. say obama care and he bristles. >> do you like obamacare? >> hmm... umm... i don't know how to answer that. some things are left unsaid. >> i do recall at least one patient who said well, i don't want it, even if it is free, because he didn't like president obama. >> are you still able to get

walking in? >> the doctor works at the clinic wimp treats 70 patients a day. they come from all over coal country. with connect, more are able to pay for their care and new patients are seeing a doctor for the first time in years. >> do you feel like your patients understand what connect is versus obamacare? >> they probably don't. they may not. i think some of them are just happy to have insurance, and however they got it, you know, they're happy about it. they don't look at the politics. >> the term obamacare is poison in kentucky. a poll conducted in may found 57% ever people in kentucky surveyed dislike obamacare. when asked about connect, 22% disapprove. kentucky ranks worse in cancer deaths and smoking rates, in the bottom 10 states for obesity and poor mental health. here in mining country, a man's

life expectancy is 68. >> men that are involved in rock falls and in very, very serious mining accidents, and if they are not killed, they often have devastating injuries, disabled for the rest of their life. >> frank said insurance bureaucracy is holding up because surgery and says politicians don't seem to listen. >> i would like him to come down here, the president, sit down and talk to me. i wouldn't be smart alec or hateful. just listen, just look and see. >> it's a feeling he and other kentucky voters will take to the ballot box in four weeks when they decide a tight senate race between mitch mcconnell and allison grymes. views about the act act will help shape who wins and kentucky voters may not be able to get past the nickname obamacare. >> political ads cramming t.v.

channels. why most of the people who pay for them aren't even from kentucky. >> plugs the future debated in the bluegrass state under friday night lites.

>> america votes 2014. >> this week's poll showed political races tightening in battleground states. the gop hopes to seize control of the senate. in kentucky, the top republican in the senate is in a tough race to keep his job. this week's bluegrass poll has allison games ahead of mitch mcconnell by two points. it's so close, it's within the margin of error and the race for senate in kentucky i go setting records. it's on track to be the most

expensive senate race in u.s. history and more than half that money is coming from occupied the state. here's libby casey. >> these are serious times. >> everywhere you go in kentucky, political ads blast the airwaves. on t.v. alone, people from kentucky have sat through almost 500 hours of political commercials. 500 hours of mid slinging, self promoting and skeet shooting for just one race, the tight battle between republican senate leader mitch mcconnell and allison grymes. >> how much did an ad like that cost? >> last week, we spent about a million dollars and this week $1.1 million. >> running those ads requires massive sums of money, half coming from groups outside kentucky with no connection to the campaigns. in fact, it's impossible to even trace millions of those dollars.

louisville political operative scott jennings agreed to pull back the curtain a bit. he works for two outside groups laser focused on keeping senator mcconnell in office. >> the advertising we've been able to do has made a difference in altering the public affairs discourse over the last months. we have donors from all over the place. both campaigns do. >> $10 million and counting is sunk into kentucky, one has donors like a texas oil company and big private equity officials in new york. they're betting the pro business mcconnell i will with have more influence if he rises to majority leader. the other group is funded with dark money. it doesn't have to say who gave it the cash. even people in kentucky are literally in the dark about who is trying to influence their votes and why. >> it goes to show you just how important the race really are is. we are fighting a race here in

kentucky that has nothing implications. if mitch mcconnell wins, he is most likely going to be the majority liter. >> if grymes wins, democrats will topping one of the most powerful republicans. >> you listen to the commercials and it sort of confuses you, you know. >> angela fugate's vote could determine who controls the senate. outside groups have spent more than $24 million in kentucky. dark money alone topped $10 million. most of the dark money pouring in, 82% has been used against grymes. do the math and outside groups have spent $16 on each voter. >> games embraced obama's platform and his reelection. >> these guys are about tying games to obama.

>> absolutely, because she is tied to president obama. >> journalism professor al cross covered kentucky politics for four years and said that barrage put the grymes campaign on defense. >> a campaign team allowed they are candidate to get defined by the other side before she defined herself. >> it's hard to out shout millions of dollars in ads. fighting back, outside grooms supporting grymes, waging their own ditch mitch campaign. >> i don't think we can take anymore. >> there's so much money and noise, people from kentucky aren't hearing much real debate. >> people say they get most of they are information from television. they're getting a lot of misinformation when it comes to politics. >> we'll get more in just a minute. first, where does the kentucky race fit with the bigger fight for control of the senate? let's bring in mike viqueira at

the white house with more on that. >> sabermetrics advance polling, standard polling or just a finger in the air, everybody figures republicans have the best chance of taking control of the senate. they only need six seats to do so, a reversal of six seats. the map has 11 of them in play. two of them in montana and west virginia that are currently held by democratics. those are gone to republicans by all estimations and so is south dakota, although there is a charge by a third party candidate mixing things up. in kentucky, one they feel is going to have them counting on is republicans. if it goes wobbly, one recent poll called an outlier that had games ahead by two points, although that was in the margin of error. that complicates the math for republicans. this is a six year itch election, the sixth year of a

presidency. they typically lose a lot of seats. bill clinton is the only one to buck that trend. >> if the gop can gain control of the senate without kentucky why does it matter if they lose mitch mcconnell in the senate? >> it doesn't matter. there will be another to marsh in and take the role of majority leader. mitch mcconnell is very well respected, disciplined, perhaps not cars massic in front of the cameras. but a majority leader who can keep people in line, herding cats was the way the former leader trent lott put it. there's a lot at stake here. what does it matter if republicans take control of the senate. first of all, judicial nominations, that's a big deal. the attorney general nomination is coming up, president obama, other than that, you can probably expect more gridlock to

come. mitch mcconnell if he were to lose a allison grymes, it would not make a big difference in the way the senate operates or washington at large would operate. >> still ahead, looking forward in kentucky, young people in coal country dealing with very adult issues. what they think the future holds for the bluegrass state.

>> with obamacare and endless commercials in kentucky, by friday night, most people aren't talking about politics. they're talking football and their future. we report from one high school game. >> it's your typical small town, just stereo typical small town america. everybody knows everybody. it's just a good, friendly, quiet place to live. >> where coal miners memorial

stadium, home to the harlen county black bears. it's friday night with a big game. we're going to talk to them about what their future looks like. >> teenagers used to count on staying here and the becoming business owners. labors, leaders and politicians is how it's worked for generations. now the career pipeline is ruptured. young adults are leaving eastern kentucky, following parents who lost jobs or striking out on their own. steven skidmore is 17. >> my whole family. my family's evolved around coal mining. >> you don't work in the industry anymore? >> no, they're all laid off, retired. there just ain't no jobs. dad, he's a taxidermist. that's our income. you look at harlen county, used

to you come here and always see a big feed. everybody i know has had to move to find work. >> the game's lopsided now. the black bears are losing 28-0. what's going on with the team? >> it could be just a bad night. there's been a lot of kids moved, like i say because of the coal mines. there probably have been 20 football players that played last year that had to move because of no work. >> jay is 17, part of a group of student leaders from eastern kentucky trying to improve high school education. >> you have aspirations to go to college next year? >> yes. >> is that typical among your friends. >> more so now. there's been a downturn in the coal industry. >> you said you want to be a doctor. >> yes. >> would you come back to harlen? >> that's a tough reality to face, but no. i would not come back to harlen.

>> you think you'll say after you graduate from high school? >> i'd like to, but i doubt it. i want to -- i'll probably go to knoxville or indianapolis, somewhere like that, and become a police officer, do welding, just, you know, try to make a living. that's what it's about. >> you're only 17, but you're talking about really grown up things, how a man makes a living, how he thinks about a future. >> well, you've been down roads, you know, i've watched dad get jobs, lose jobs, go without, and ever a lot. in three months, i'll be 18. it's about time to either find a job or, you know, or i'm going to be the i'd of the road living in a box. >> the harlen county high black bears got trounced tonight.

folks say it's a rebuilding year and the team will get better. the question is what's in store for the county. if it was just a matter of community pride or spirit, there would be no worries, but can harlen county survive if coal goes away. >> parents head to the voting booths soon to pick a senator for kentucky and ask if either major candidate has solutions to improve their kids' futures. >> you talked with voters from all walks of life. was there something you heard from everybody? >> everywhere we went, people, frankly said that they're pretty apathetic about the senate candidates. everyone is willing to vote against someone. they're far less likely to support someone. for example, they'd love to cast a vote against president obama, or they'd love to vote against mitch mcconnell, who's been in office a long time. we heard i'll pick the lesser of two evils when i go to vote more

times than i can count. the ads in kentucky reinforce that. mitch mcconnell is running as the anti obama candidate and games as the anti mcconnell candidate. you've got a circle there and the ads, the barrage of adds is really all about the negative. that's the feeling people are taking away. >> experts told you kentucky is a value voter's state with democratic economic principles. what does that mean? >> people have complicated feelings about the role of government and how it should play a part in improving people's lives and helping them. should government be hands-on or hands-off? we talked to a lot of people who are very critical of folks who they say are taking government handouts, people who are on welfare, people who are using food stamps, but rural kentucky is really struggling. we met a lot of people down on their luck, out of work and having to rely on those very government programs.

the question is, will they ultimately support those programs and will they support the democrats who champion them or will they stick with more conservative republican values. >> i assume many of the voters are upset with the way the politicians are addressing the economy or not addressing the economy. >> absolutely. allison grymes did come up with a jobs plan this summer and she's trying to move both professionals and blue color voters. mitch mcconnell is talking about getting the federal government out of kentucky so free markets can reign. once again, the war on coal. they will have a debate next week. this will be an opportunity to get daylight between their two economic plans. >> what surprised you the most in kentucky? >> we just met two high school students, jay and steven from harlen county. i was struck by their honesty about what their future looks like. they're such young guys and having fun like a lot of

teenagers, but they have a real gnawing knowledge that the future looks bleak for them. eastern kentucky is beautiful, rolling hillsides, central appalachian country. they love their home but don't know how they're going to stay there and that's a big concern for young people. >> fascinating report. thank you very much. that is our special report america votes 2014, fed up in kentucky. join us all week for in depth reporting, next week from alaska. have a great weekend. we'll see you back here on monday.

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