today's top stories and the preview of the week from t.v. rescuers are preparing to lift a russian cruiser from the bottom of the volga river where it sank in a matter of minutes last sunday claiming around one hundred thirty nights it's hoped the operation will provide answers as to why the catastrophe. rupert murdoch's former c.e.o. in the u.k. is arrested as part of investigations into phone hacking and police bribery at the news of the world media mogul has repeated his apologies for ethical practices by the newspaper in an effort to save his empire is crumbling reputation. libyan

rebels now have full diplomatic recognition from washington and with its access to colonel gadhafi has assets frozen in the u.s. meanwhile nato has intensified in taxing the capital tripoli in an effort to oust the libyan leader who val's never so. close intercontinental cash crunch as america faces up to the possibility of default europe's debt crisis contagion piles more pressure on the euro the u.s. congress needs to raise the debt ceiling to avoid financial disaster while it's really is on the verge of leaving. well i'll be back with more on those stories more developments in less than thirty minutes from now in the meantime an award winning documentary about one of the greatest environmental and human rights disasters in american history and watch now part two of our special report on this . on the day of this interview the small creek less than one mile from their home flows black and i it's not normal that's come up from an

abandoned home on drugs come from story pot. and i don't know. what takes place in our heart. and maybe a few more years now locked. i'm not help this went down tremendously. and i don't ever like to be helped as i don't ever live these times and i don't think there's anything i can do to help me. and that only thing i want now i want good morals i want them to quit the pump and are quitting jake and whatever they're doing i want them to quit that. and. put them in the style mop maybe even. for the last twenty years. it's been hard. you can't make it without good

water. from. the. booze. currently there are over one hundred forty billion gallons of coal story contained in more than one hundred impoundments in west virginia alone the total quantity of coal slurry in the rest of southern appalachians. on december twenty second two thousand and eight coal ash impoundment at the tennessee valley authorities kingston fossil plant failed when an earthen dike broke spilling over one point one billion gallons of coal ash sludge over three hundred acres. coal ash sludge his waste created from the burning of coal at the kingston coal plant and is believed to contain toxic compounds including arsenic and mercury. the tennessee valley authority estimates the cost of the cleanup job of eight hundred twenty five million dollars this spill

is ten times larger than the exxon valdez spill in alaska and is believed to be america's largest environmental disaster to date we're throwing away the next generation's most valuable resource and that is water and one of the best sources of water anywhere in the world and maybe the best source of freshwater in proximity to one of the world's largest fastest growing populations. and you know with all the hubbub and all the lawsuits and all the carrying on that goes on in the in the press and you know the vanity fair's and. u.s. news and world reports and all of that where the authors are warning people to believe that that we're absolutely strip in appalachia down to nothing. in order to get the mineral is patently untrue it's patently untrue when you look around at the forest of mountains that we have

a recent environmental impact statement from the e.p.a. estimates over eight hundred square miles of mountains have already been destroyed this includes the permanent destruction of over four hundred fifty individual mountain summits across the region the report also indicates a permanent loss of over twelve hundred miles of mountain streams. although federal regulations for mine reclamation require that mountaintop removal sites be returned to their original contour these mines are tain lee granted waivers mined areas are typically graded and then hydro seeded with less pretties or grass which clings to the compacted shale and rock that now makes up the topsoil nature builds soil for free but she creates the soil very slowly and so you're talking about thousands of years to go from something like a rock mass that has essentially no soil as the very thin covering it to generate a few centimeters of soil you're talking about hundreds of thousands or tens of

thousands of years continuing at its present rate the projected loss for mountain talk removal mining is one point four million acres in the next decade an area equal in size to the state of delaware by the summer of two thousand and six at wylie has formulated a new plant for pennies a promise. our government shako do it or a local school board state school board doctor and do it in a way it shows and you know and parents and grandparents it's up to you to get this job or kids you know we're going to go right to money for schools one way or another we're all like we will give the school built in our community. it's ridiculous it's showing that our government should come to this and we can get nothing done for children.

were told last week charleston west virginia the worst do you see you all know this is the rise awareness and raise money for new school it also opens a lot of doors of applying to chapman in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing so it's good in the mining industry to archimedes with the probably get going and pull what we wanted to actually doing to our children the governor made a statement our kids are our future by our tomorrow he should die almost open for our kids of march fourth don't have them all. at least some of. these. burning of coal is or over a century has been one of the most deadly things that humans have gone through the air around them even after one hundred years of burning coal and after one hundred years of so-called improvement of air quality according to the american lung association twenty four thousand people

a year still die prematurely from air pollution from coal plants and the united states almost forty percent of the carbon dioxide emissions come from coal. one of the things that has to happen is that the politicians the leaders of the administration as well as congress state legislators and administrations in the states all those leaders have got the final say hey we want to mine coal in the two thousand election in west virginia was widely credited with giving president bush the margin he needed to take the oval office was the first time the west virginia had gone republican in something like seventy years and guess what's going to happen come november we're going to carry the state of west virginia thank you calls he was widely credited for giving bush west virginia so it's no secret that he had a a large debt to pay to the coal industry and they made sure he paid it through out

mine safety through out the rollback of regulations on dirty power plants through a variety of places he essentially stocked all the regulatory agencies with with former coal industry lobbyists or executives by two thousand and one the bush administration made a flight wording changing the clean water act as igniting waste as will this wording change here the way the expansion of mountain talk removal mining throughout southern appalachians. on january twenty second of two thousand and two president bush returned to west virginia it is such a wonderful day for us and for west virginia to host a special me with those with a special bond to our state ladies and gentlemen the president of the united states thank you. we can do a better job in america one of these days we're going to be driving automobiles

that are fuel differently and that's going to exciting times for america urges new technologies coming down and we can encourage those technologies. so conservation technological development got to be an integral part of energy folks we need more supply you know work it's like going back here in the back and he said i'm real repair and i'm seeing it dig for gold we need to use coal we've got a lot of it and we need to make sure that the east you know way around it will work for the past twenty years larry gibson in this family have been fighting to preserve their ancestral home place on a case for down outside charleston west virginia and when i met with the coal company to ride on my property here me i'm not family members and they tell me that we don't give a damn about people and have her car and we don't give a damn about what he want how bad mellen are we care about is profit we're making

and it was the dollar it was her body and of how bright you know we were playing there and it is a vice president called it would actually nugent kids from magic oh one thing i mean tell me this keeps uncreated to stanley ayres foundation refusing to sell his family's fifty plus acres to coal companies before mountaintop removal began his family cemetery was surrounded by mountain regions today a family cemetery looks out on reclaimed mountaintop removal sites. eighteen years ago when i came back and it took me four years of term nothingness to metairie and in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight and now i'm a third arrest so in eighteen years ago when i started this i couldn't get to people to listen and i even own family. now now have i turned a corner how pressed and other not one day all that was there was before the snow

only there in my own mind only had we are just one. young of the day were never seen you would have seen the young as of the day you were never see the mountains with no women's no boundaries for you could roam. gibson uses the land a cave for him to educate the public about the effects of mountaintop removal one of the biggest questions people asked me if i had a picture of the mountain before was destroyed. here people know plus if you take a picture of a mountain for we're going to be here forever. day by day a seventy five hundred acres of active mountaintop removal mines continue to encircle his property. another family cemetery sits across the ridge on the active mine site although regulations require that family members have access to the cemeteries requests are often not easily granted on memorial day of two

thousand and six keeps in a group of supporters make a trip to the cemetery they want a day we're going to go on the mine site at the cemetery. and we get the how long the ground in different things going on and. it's just to me a safe the whole idea would. join the public help already or go ahead and get to cold even into a graveyard. after filling out a jennifer case and release forms the group is permitted to enter the mine so you know one and a half mile hike to the family cemetery. i mean to sign a release to. have partnered with you i was. the first row to hoe i risk one man in my life was up the. the water was not there and i'm

alone with six seven hundred foot war there now. my mother give me birth. give me life. some are tired through their corner a is your round. i used to be a road over here. one right here. we're going to the wanted. one i hear. your people are taking part in history and if december third been here for two hundred seventy years and never had married people want it in the last hundred years and ice time on telly come through here the winds are generous or kind and since we got a minister here i won't tell you what they said to me. which and these people flame beneath these graves the first time when julian come here four years ago we had

case someone who had dates i mean they're no longer here and they didn't say that we came and got him. and it's not the case and the words are i'm still going to say i'm johnson and i say is we're just not going to hurt here for alone time in mid august of two thousand and six the west virginia department of environmental protection permit to massey energy to expand its plant in north fork elementary by building a second coal silo that d.e.p.t. term in fact the second coal silo was placed outside the permitted boundary of three hundred feet from the school after maps of the preparation plant were found to be inaccurate.

we're. looking. at the. house. nobody would stand up. nobody would stand up to the. high standing up for my grandmother why i stand up to her as well i represent don't feel remorse for failing me free and i will and i will fight and i will try to get something done for these children. no more. we're going to. cut our belief going. to. look. at.

how. big how. how. well you know. as many folks as i have along the way that a lot of folks shows. a lot of focus on the issue we've raised money for the new school. in one of our goals to come here and hopefully in. the sound of birds and i feel that we have time with all three of them and a lot of doors for a lot of people on this issue now is very important for me to walk on march fourteenth two thousand and seven the state board of surface mining overturned the

west virginia department of environmental protections ruling that denied massey energy a permit to build a second coal silo behind the school this decision cleared the way for the expansion of massey energy's coal processing facility two days later a coalition of citizen conservation groups including not just the summer activists returned to west virginia governor joe manchin is office. right. that. was or are her. or her god we have. been nailed for three years for the rights of those children that i see it's raining how sad right now are saying that will tire of the flood

stay and serve it. does that mean anything to you we pray for you all for three years in a super nervous canary really think we need capital to be held accountable for. what i want to hear you know what i'm going to do back to back corner we need to clear this way because people are going to get it back for her i. have news for him or her for her. because we were here in the newsroom at the one you're broke you're on a plane here i'm telling you we are not budging there's more coming god. you know. where for am i here get this right now what they're offering their bill.

for me and in a whisper in the air why is them worrying won't result today we want our kids to. share. what is our here's a tip. for kobe and the coach feel. they're on the wrong phone the phone. we are the paid will it bring them money out them out. farmer where you could be took care of our children. before the state can get involved in this you such as whether school should be the new school should be built a decision must first be made at the local level. i've heard the local school board with the decision on a new school that ignores or before i go to the people of raleigh. so they can determine my own from themselves sorry go join me. now or put

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