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why? gender equality in the workplace? tonight the mid term elections seen through coal country of kentucky. how they see their future. we begin tonight with a growing ebola crisis and the global fight to stop it. in africa, six u.s. military aircraft and 100 marines have landed in monrovia bringing medical supplies, construction equipment. also, building a 25-bed hospital for health care workers there. we have learned that thomas eric duncan's temperature spiked to 1 '03 degrees during his first visit. his high fever was marked with an exclamation point on his records with a note that he had

been to africa. he was discharged with a prescription. he died days later. now the crisis has claimed over 4,000 lives. cases are now doubling every three to four wieks. weeks. more from zoo ins and technology expert jake ward. >> the math is pretty scary john. that's why experts are worried. epidemiologists rely on the basic reproductive ratio. every one person that ratio describes how many other people could be infected. the ratio for the most common diseases varies widely from one to the next. pertussis is extremely large. for one infected, 17 others are

affected. and ebola because it involves direct contact with body fluids doesn't spread as easily as others. its ratio is between 1 and 4. in west africa, it's between 1 and 2. it's far more deadly. when one becomes infected they remain communicable for quite some time and need large resources to deal with it. three essential numbers, 70, 70 and 60. 70% of burials need to be conducted safely. and 70% of infected people need to be in treatment within 60 days. at the moment, only 18% of infected people are in treatment centers, that's why everyone is so worried.

now by this math we need between 10,000 and 15,000 people in treatment right now. if we don't do anything the way things are going right now in one month that number will reach between 45,000 and 50,000 people and in two months, that number will become more than 100,000 people. and that's where it gets very scary. because handing even a single patient, requires 52.8 gallons of water, 20 gallons of bleach, eight pairs of rubber gloves and three body suits. we're talking about committing incredible amount of supplies to every patient. and that leads us to the even bigger patient. there are only 1100 beds available in guinea, cyril and liberia. appropriate for treating ebola patient. the u.s. military has pledged to build more beds but by that time, november, we're talking

about 50,000 people needing beds. even if those treatment centers are huge, that's only 3400 beds. if you take all those available beds and add them up, this time next 0 we'll still be short -- month we'll still be short 43,000 beds. we have to commit massive resources, right now. to this situation, john. >> that's jake ward record repo. now to the new story we brought you last night. a new jersey high school hazing. seven players have been dmarnlgd connection with the hazing. the accusations which included sexual assaults led to the cancellation of that team's season. in st. louis a relatively calm night in the wake of clashes between police and protesters. the arrest comes after an off duty police officer shot and killed vondurant meyers.

the shooting took place a short distance from where michael brown was shot and killed in august. ash-har quraishi joins us. good evening, ash-har. >> over the last two nights, as you mentioned, protesters facing off with police, police say opened fire on an officer after that officer made chase, off duty police officer and in return the police officer fired back fatally killing him which sparked new unrest in the st. louis area. this came just ahead of a weekend of resistance which has been planned in support of michael brown. we are hearing from organizers they expect thousands of activists and protesters.

taking place in four days of rallies and marches and panel discussion. for racial profiling going on in the st. louis area for far too long. we also heard from the family of michael brown telling the people coming out in a statement, "we understand firsthand the powerless frustration felt by people of all walks of life regarding their interactions with law enforcement and for that reason as michael brown's parents we ask that those coming to show support for our son do so within the law." now we're in downtown st. louis right now. tomorrow morning a march is supposed to begin right here and continue on. that's one of the events we're going to see in the next few days. organizers say as part of these protesters and rallies which they intend to keep peaceful there will be civil did obedience and they -- disobedience and they expect

arrests to take place. john. >> thank you, ash-har quraishi reporting. >> witnesses say dragged from his home and shot if a public square east of tikrit. the u.n. envoy says if the embattled city of kobani falls it could leave civilians at risk of being massacred. to keep kobani from falling the u.s. state department is putting pressure on turkey to take up the fight. mike viqueria has more. >> retired general john allen came away from an ankara. >> doesn't mean we won't continue the conversations and

welcome support from them going forward. we're going to need support from them for the long haul. it's not about one day or one week or one month. >> friday, secretary of defense chuck hagel called on turkey to allow coalition airplanes to use the interlict air base. but turkey refused. said turkish air strikes are not enough. >> as we've said we don't want a buffer zone but a security zone and a no fly zone absolutely have to be put in place. because this crisis is of a different dimension. >> reporter: but that's a nonstarter with washington. where officials say a no fly zone will lead to a fight with bin laden answebashar al-assad'.

the administration again braced for a long fight. >> they've found themselves brutal, aggressive. that's why we took the fight to them. but nobody felt with air strikes they would stop fighting. >> reporter: and john, general martin dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, will host the push to plan the coalition campaign from here on out. >> heather hurlburt, welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> explain why you think turkey has been so reluctant to get involved in the fight against i.s.i.l. >> turkey has two objectives different than the u.s. and the coalition. one is they care much more about getting rid of president assad, syria's brutal ruler than

i.s.i.l. they see assad as a much more large threat to them. and further, the town that the i.s.i.l. is threatening to topple, they are allied with the with other forces that threaten it and weal they don't mind so much if i.s.i.l. takes over that town. >> so they're more concerned about kurds than they are about i.s.i.l? >> yes. and you know, again, from their own narrow perspective you have to remember that the kurds and one particular kurdish group fought a more than a decade long civil war inside turkey in which tens of thousands of people were killed. >> so the syrian town of kobani is right on the turkish border. what are the turks watching and why he thr sor are they in sorta

holding pattern there? >> couple of reasons. during the period when there is still an activit an active conff those towns harbored one of the leaders inside turkey. there is a little bit of revenge going on here i'm sorry to say but turkey is actually in a piece negotiation with its own kurds and there's some speculation that the turkey government are trying to let the syrian kurds to get as have desperate a situation as possible,s and extract more from them on peace negotiations. >> is there anything more they can do to get turkey involved? >> there are more things they can do. the question of whether they can choose to do them or should choose to do them is a little different. one of the things the turkish

government is aiming for is having the u.s. government take a more active role in ousting bashar al-assad, turkey is actually frankly tolerating or actually sheltering i.s.i.l, a i.s.i.l. cleric was actually released in the last 24 hours. it's possible that more pressure will be put on the turkish regime so it's possible that the u.s. can put more pressure on turkey from the inside. turkey is a nato ally. how much more the u.s. chooses to pressure them is a question. >> if turkey gives more money to

the peshmerga forces? >> to continue to tolerate i.s.i.l. and other groups, the other challenge for the u.s. policy is pretty much, much of the aid and assistance that you want to get into syria whether it's fighters fighting i.s.i.l. or fighters fighting assad or fighters fighting both has to come in through turkey. so the turk government has a lot of choice about who it lets in and who it doesn't let in. >> it's an example of how complicated this is and not an easy fix for united states and the region. heather, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> today this remarkable young woman from pakistan won the nobel peace prize. malala yousafzai since her

shooting she has been on a campaign. she's the youngest person to receive the prize. >> you all may understand, because no one was allowed to go to school. at this time i stood up for my rights, and i said would i speak up. i did not wait for someone else. i had really two option he. one was not to-d options one was not to speak, and the second one was to speak up and then be killed. i chose the second one. i want 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 this time. now i want to become a politician, a good politician. and when i heard that i cannot go to school, i just for a second thought that i was never able to become a doctor or i was never able to be who i want to be in future and my life would

be just getting married at the age of 13 or 14, not going to school, not becoming who i really can be. so i decided that i would speak up. so through my story i want to tell all children all around the world they should stand up for their rights, they should not wait for someone else. their voices are more powerful. their voices it would seem that they're week. but at the time no one speaks your voice gets so loud everyone has to speak up, has to hear it. it is my message to everyone that they should stand up at their rights. >> outrage at microsoft ceo, to wait for recognition instead of asking for a raise. >> it's not really about asking for the raise but knowing and having the faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along.

and that i think might be one of the additional superpowers that quite frankl frankly women who t ask for a raise will actually be good karma and come back. >> after that nadella said he was wrong and he apologized. silicon valley has been under criticism this year and other years for sexism. rachel suarez, we're proud to have you with us. >> thank you for having me. >> what was your rations when you heard it? >> my rations was pretty much the same as the world's reaction. >> you were upset. >> i was upset. the ceo of one of the most powerful tech companies, powerful companies in the world that has 17% of its executive order are women, saying don't

worry, don't ask for a raise. the system will take care of you, and that is same system that has the gender wage gap where women tend to make 78 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. >> how does a person get to that position and have that sort of idea when it comes to women? >> i personally was flabbergasted. we have lean-in which now is shorthand for woman demanding more and wanting a seat at the table and there has been a lot of press around the diversity numbers released by google. >> those diversity numbers say -- >> those numbers say -- >> there's a lack of diversity. >> a lack of diversity, lack of women, people of color going up the chain. what those numbers show to me is

he's never had push back for them. the grace hopper conference which is the largest gathering of woman technologists in the world, to say that so glibly and that was mind boggling to me. >> just because there are not women in the room when he's having negotiations would -- >> gosh darn it this is so good of us to have diversity, it's also much better for your organization because you have diversity of perspectives and you're going to hear things that you would not otherwise hear. >> recruiting, obviously this does nothing for microsoft's recruiting of women does it? >> well, unless a lot of women start asking for raises and receiving them, i think microsoft's only course of action is not only do better but show they're doing better.

>> why are women less likely to go into the tech industry or get into the tech industry? >> i think are there is lots of evidence both anecdotal and across the board that women once they enter the industry face a more challenging environment in terms of being less likely to be promoted, less likely to be included, taken seriously. i mean this is across the port in the coo corpus but in tech. the reason i called it change the ratio when i started it in 2010, not to change the ratio of women who were involved but change the ratio of people who were being seen, el elevated and recognized. >> he apologized but this is not a quick fix. you can't just apologize to this. what has to happen? >> he has to give a lot of raises number 1. i think it would be refreshing

to see an influx of new faces in the microsoft management structure and i think it would probably be better for their bottom line as well. >> do you think he should resign? >> you know, that is a question for internal management.and for himanagement and forhis board. >> and investors. >> he was having that interview with one of his board members. i'm not interested in a head on a stick. i'm interested in positive change so this is a great teachable memo moment. so he has an opportunity to do better and the whole tech industry has the opportunity to do better. >> rachel sclar, good to have you. >> thanks for having me. >> coming up. the kentucky senate race, the race that could not only change the votes in congress but also the leadership. plus: their creative videos have over 156 million hits on youtube.

we'll talk to ok go about how they create those video sensations.

>> for tonight's friday arts segment the return for ok go. the band known for its music videos, many who have gone vir viral. thomas drayton asks about their humble beginnings and now. >> the difference between then now, being in a rock band is such an incredibly unlikely job, this should not work but we should try it anyway. this is what we want to do. seven or eight years, that i really believed i would wake up in the morning and my job would be still there. >> your fourth studio album, hungry ghost. >> you have to be crazy to be a musician these days.

it's a job that everybody wants and nobody gets and even once you get it, you don't make any money. so it's like a -- yeah, you really have to be a little bit crazy yes. [♪ singing ] >> do you ever worry though about evolving in your music and alienating our core fans? >> our fan base has been cool with that. when we first sort of broke big for the weird videos, it kind of helps establish the idea that like we were going to chase our craziest views. >> they're really cool videos. what is the thought process that was behind we've got to create these ultracool crazy videos? >> it goes the other way. we go, we have to create some awesome. that's a great idea, you chase

it. nine times out of ten you make something cool your friends see and no one else. but when the internet involved, there was a place to put these things that didn't have a name. but they didn't operate the way traditional music videos did. >> the first video that ours that went technically viral is a video of us dancing in damian's backyard, million ways to be cool. and that wasn't supposed to be a video at all. that was a rehearsal tape. we had choreographed that to do at the end of our live shows. we had choreographed that for the end of our arena. we sent it to a bunch of friends. >> next thing we knew it had been downloaded 100,000 times. we made the treadmill video,

that god a grammy and catapulted us more into mainstream. then we have a question, are we going to run from this and try to be cool are are we going to embrace this? i don't think dancing on treadmills, chasing a creative idea that didn't have a ready made box, you know? and so we've been doing that. >> hungry ghost, the second studio album since you broke away from the label. how has that journey been? >> wonderful. >> it has? >> we have to work a lot on business stuff that's not always the most fun. >> i think what's nice about having broken away, we don't have to ask permission anymore for any of our ideas. we have a crazy ideas, we get to follow up. we don't have to say, is this

cool? we have to hustle to figure out ways to afford it now, but at least we don't have to ask someone, you know, can we do this? we can just do it. >> we weren't a very good fit for the major label system because they need to know in advance where their profit center is going to be. they consign 20 bands knowing that 19 will fail but the one that does succeed will make it x way, generally in record sales. for us we aggregate our risk across lots of creative projects rather than lots of bands. we might make our money from licensing, we might make our money from a video sponsorship, we might make our money from a tour, we have no idea. >> have to leave it there. thanks for coming. >> thanks for having us. >> next, fed up in kentucky. deciding a pivotal election but are the candidates listening to

the people? and avalanche of adds, 500 hours of political spots, you might be surprised where the cash is coming from.

>> a critical race for the u.s. senate. >> they're getting a lot of misinformation when i.t. comes to politics. -d when it comes to politics. >> in a state bombarded by ads. with voters conflicted over health care. >> do you like obama? >> oh! >> and a struggling economy where coal is is king. >> will you be here in ten years? >> why this battle ground state will help determine the balance of power in congress. our america votes, 2014, fed up in kentucky. >> i'm john siegenthaler, voters in kentucky are frustrated, who do they blame? well here's a clue. on thursday, kentucky's

democratic senatorial candidate, refused to say whether she voted for president obama. she knows people are fed up with the white house and with president obama. libby casey went to kentucky. the outmany come in kentucky could determine who holds the balance of power in washington. thousands of people worked the miengs anmind but jobs are dryi. libby casey reports. >> in eastern kentucky, generation after generation of coal miners have done the hard, dirty, dangerous work of extracting what they call black gold. >> every young boy wants to be like his dad. i see my dad come home from the mines every day and just fell

right into it myself. >> reporter: pride like coal runs deep here. clyde buster bennett iii known as buster. >> we go over it under it around it. >> c. d.'s family has been in coal for over a century. will this be here for you in ten years? >> we'll be lucky to still have five years. >> most mines have shut down gone idle or bankrupt. c rmd calls it a war on coal. >> seems like everyone wants to get on the band wagon on environmental issues. clean air clean water act, production down, income down

about 70% from where we were before obama came in. which means we've had basically a 70% reduction in the workforce. >> reporter: how hard is it to get jobs in this industry? >> it's very hard especially in this county right now. >> why? >> just the impact that i guess the war on coal has had on this part of the county. >> a free fall three years ago cost 7,000 coal jobs in eastern kentucky. now there are fewer than 12,000 miners throughout the entire state. >> i worked at five different 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 but the obama administration says those coal fire plants are the nation's worst carbon polluters, utilities are responding. >> this is coal country. >> yes, ma'am. >> you are providing electricity

to coal country. >> yes. >> and you're moving away from coal. >> yes, yes we are. >> red pauly is the president of kentucky power, the producer of electricity for eastern kentucky. it's shutting down its coal plants and converting another to natural gas to save money. bottom line pauly says he has to change the cost of energy for its comerms. eastern kentucky's coal is the most expensive to mine. $70 a ton, compared to $10 a ton in wyoming. the thing is, coal was in bad trouble before the obama administration. these are hard realities to face. >> its hurts. >> yet eastern kentucky, ever

proud and defiant still celebrates coal as a way of life. >> libby casey joins us. is coal the main thing in the mid term elections? >> the economy and what i.t. means for jobs john. coal makes up 1% of the industry's workforce, but a strong lobbying 72nd print. in kentucky to be a candidate you got to be pro-coal if you want to be pro-jobs. even though people talk about the economy as their number one concern, they didn't just tell us that, they told polls that for months, what they kept coming back to is their feelings. do they relate to the candidates do they feel comfortable with their values, ultimately john those feelings may trump their own economic interest. healthcare may be one of the best examples of that. people just don't like it

because it's called obamacare. >> libby casey, 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 is here to explain why. >> reporter: kentucky still produces about 8% of america's coal but that's just a fraction of what it was just a decade ago. back in 2003, mines in kentucky produced 100 million tons of tons but 2013 it was 80 million tons. why the big drop? tougher ep regulations. we told you kentucky coal is more expensive than wyoming coal. easier and cheaper to get coal out of the ground in places like wyoming or north dakota. kentucky simply does not produce as much. just about 2.5 tons for every

hour an employee works but in wyoming nearly 28 tons an hour. most of the easy to reach coal in kentucky has already been tapped while in the west it's still easier to dig up because much of the coal is close to the surface. so while mines in kentucky are closing up shop they're still digging in places like wyoming. >> randall pinkston, thank you. as libby mentioned, kentucky has had one of the most successful rollouts of the affordable care act. despite that obamacare often brings a negative response. here is libby casey again. >> frank dixon's body is damaged from working in the mining industry. >> i'm all right. >> what does that feel like? >> hurts. these days i can't hardly get up. >> reporter: like so many others in eastern kentucky

mining dixon lost his job in 2012 making $90,000 a year. >> 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. >> reporter: losing work meant losing health care coverage. the affordable care act started, dixon signed up and qualified for a medicaid plan. here, obamacare goes by connect, ky. >> do you like obamacare? >> oh -- um -- 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. >> reporter: dr. sharon colton treats about 70 patients oday, they come from all over coal country. with kyect. -- >> do you think 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, however they got it they're happy about it. they don't look at the politics. >> reporter: but the term obamacare is poison in kentucky. a pole conducted in may said that 50% of kentuckians surveyed, dislike obamacare, but when asked about connect, only 20% disapprove. here in mining country a man's

life expectancy is only 68. >> involved in rock falls and very, very serious mining accidents, if they are not killed they often have devastating injuries, they're disabled for the rest of their life. >> reporter: frank dixon says insurance bureaucracy is holding up back surgery and he's frustrated that politicians in washington don't seem to listen. >> i would like him to come down here, the president, and sit and talk just like we're talking. i wouldn't be smart i wouldn't be hateful. just listen and look and see. >> reporter: it is a thought he and kentucky voters will take to the ballot box when they decide a tight race between mitch mcconnell and allison lundergran grimes.

>> and coming up political ads cramming tv channels why most of them who pay aren't even from kentucky. the bluegrass state and friday night lights.

>> america votes. 2014. this week polls said political races tightening in several battle ground states. the gop hopes to get control of the senate. democrat alison lundergan grimes so close to mitch mcconnell,

the most expensive senate race in u.s. history. and more than half that money is coming from outside the state. here is libby casey. >> these are serious times. >> reporter: everywhere you go in kentucky -- political ads blast the air waves. on tv alone, kentuckians have sat through almost 500 hours of political commercials, 500 worth of keith hooting for one race, the tight battle, between mitch mcconnell and alison lundergan criems. >> how much did that cost? >> this week it's about 1.1 million. >> reporter: run l all those ads requires massive sums of money.

it's impossible to trace millions of those dollars. louisville political operative scott jennings works for two outside groups laser focused on keeping senator mcconnell in office. >> the volume of advertising we've been able to do i think has made a tirches in altering the political -- i a differencen altering the political landscape. >> reporter: sunk $10 million in kentucky. one has donors like a texas oil company and big money private equity firms in connecticut and new york. they're betting the pro-business mcconnell will have more influence if he rises to majority leader. but dark money doesn't have to say who gives it the cash. so 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

fortunate race is. we are fighting a race here in kentucky ha that has national implications. if mitch mcconnell wins, he will most likely be the majority leader. >> reporter: and if alison lundergan grimes wins -- >> listen to the commercials and it could sort of confuses you. >> angela's vote could determine which party controls the senate affecting policies for years to come. so outside groups have spent more than $24 million in kentucky. dark money alone has topped $10 million. and most of the dark money coming in has been used against alison grimes. >> grimes embraced obama's platform and his election.

>> these guys are really about tying alison lundergan grimes to president obama. >> absolutely because she is tied to president obama. >> that barrage placed the grimes team on defense. >> that allowed them to get defined by the other side before she defined herself. >> it's hard to out-shout millions of adds. waging their own ditch mitch campaign. >> 30 years of mitch mcconnell i don't think we could take anymore. >> cross says there's so much money and noise that kentuckians aren't hearing much real debate. >> people say they are getting most of their information from television. they're getting a lot of misinformation when it comes to politics. >> it gives them an edge. >> we'll get more from lobby in just a minute. but first, where does the kentucky race fit with the

larger control of the senate. let's bring in mike viqueria with more on that. mike. >> well john cyber me metrics, r just saber rattling in the air, they only need six seats to do so, a reversal of six seats. there are about 11 of them in play at this point. two of them in moofn montana ant virginia, those are gone to republicans in all estimations and so is south dakota, although there is a late charge by a third party candidate. kentucky is one of the ones, they need another three of the eight. one of the ones they are counting as republican. if it goes wobbly, there is a recent poll that the mcconnell poll had in the margin of error. that complicates the math for republicans. but you look at the riffle

context, the six-year itch, sixth year of a presidency, bill clinton is the only one to break the trend of losing seats. the odds are against republicans not taking control of senates, they are against democrats maintaining control. >> why would it matter if mitch mcconnell loses his role in the senate? >> mitch mcconnell is very well respected among republican circles, he's disciplined but maybe not charismatic ahead of the cameras, but herding cats was the way tret lot trent lottt it. >> attorney general nomination is coming up from president obama.

other than that you can probably expect more gridlock to come. but mitch mcconnell if he were to lose to alison lundergan grimes, it wouldn't make a big difference how the senate would operate or for that matter how washington operates. >> looking forward to kentucky, young people in coal country dealing with very adult issues, what they think the future holds for the blue grass state.

>> america votes, 2014. >> we have talked about the economy in kentucky, the conflicting views over obamacare and about the almost endless commercials on tv in that state. but on friday nights most people in kentucky are not talking about politics at least this time of the year. they're talking football and their future. libby casey reports 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.

>> we're at coal miners memorial stadium. this is home to the ha harlan county black bears. let's go in. teenagers in harlan used to count on staying here and becoming business owners. labor leaders and politicians. that's how it's worked for generations. but now the career pipeline has ruruptured. they are following parents who have lost job or striking out on their own. steven skidmore is 17. >> my whole family. my family revolved around coal mining. they are all laid off, retired, there is no jobs. dad is a taxidermist. that is our income.

but you look at harlan county, used to you come here and always have a big field. there are things going downhill. everybody i know has had to move find work. >> game is pretty lopsided right now. the black bears are losing 28 to 0. what's going on with the team? >> could be just a bad night, there's been a lot of kids move like i say because of the coal mines. they started 20 football players that had to move this year because of no work. >> jay phillips is also 17. he's part of a group of student leaders from eastern kentucky trying oimprove high school education in appalachia. >> you are starting to go to college next year? >> yes. >> is that typical in your age group? >> would you come back to harlan? >> that's a tough reality to

face but no, i would not come back to harlan. >> do you think you'll stay here after you gray from high school? >> i'd like to but i doubt it. i'll probably go to knoxville or indianapolis or something like that. become a police officer, do welding, you know, try to make a living, that's what it's about. >> steven you're only 17 but you're talking about really grown up things, how a man makes a living, how he makes a future. >> well you've been down roads, i've watched getting jobs, having a lot, in three months i'll be 18. it's about time to either find job or you know, or how i'm going to be out on the side of a road living in a box and i don't want that. >> our father, halloweth be thy

name. >> the harlan county black bears got trounced tonight. but it will rebuild. what's in store for the county? if it were just a matter of community pride or spirit there would be no worries. but can harlan county survive if coal goes away? >> that's on the mind of these kids' parents, picking a senate for kentucky, they are asking if either major candidate has any solutions to improve kids' futures. >> so lobby, wa -- libby was ths something you heard from everybody? >> john, emple we went people frankly said they were pretty apathetic about the senate candidates. everyone is ready to vote against someone. they're less likely to vote for someone. they would like to vote against president obama or for mitch

mcconnell, who has been in office for a long time. they have said, i'll pick the lesser of two evils. mitch mccanal is running as the anti-obama candidate and alison grimes is running as the antimcconnell candidate. >> voters told you kentucky is an anti-voter state with value principles. what does that mean? >> people have very complicated feelings about the role of government and how it should play a part in improving people's lives in helping them. should government be hands-on or hands-off? we talked to people critical of folks who they say are taking food stamps, but rural kentucky is having to rely on those very

government programs. so 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, john? >> i assume many of the voters are upset with the way the politicians are addressing the economy or not addressing the economy? >> reporter: absolutely. alison grimes did come up with a plan this summer, she's trying to woo voters, and mitch mcconnell is talk about getting president obama out of kentucky, the war on coal, they will have a debate next week and this will be an opportunity to get an idea of their true economic plans snrp what surprised you most about kentucky? >> we just met two students and i was struck by their honesty about what their future looks like. they're such young guys and they

are having fun like teenagers but they have a pretty gnawing knowledge that, eastern kentucky, though a beautiful place, rolling hillsides, they love their homes but they don't know how they are going to be able to stay there. >> libby casey, thank you very much. that is our special are program, fed up in kentucky. join us for our in-depth reporting next week from alaska. have a great weekend, we'll see you back here on monday.

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