louis process and estimated 70 million buffalo carcasses of a process more buffalo bonds and more buffalo than ever existed at any one single time. there was a point when a guy commented that you could not find it buffalo bones out of the union pacific rail line. guys like to pick them after rain. they sold by weight, and it drove a thriving thing. this picture was taken during the bone crisis. and, it is all stoles. i make a comment in my book that the man on top looks like an exclamation point at the end of the long sentence about destruction. this company oddly is still in business in a different form. what they do is, they make bone ash and when you watch a movie where there's a lot of oil like the beverly hillbillies, men in black and many tennessean oil spill your probably looking at the products of evan expert though they died vegetable oils so you have it by the critical environmentally safe thing to demonstrate oil spills. that is what they do it bone. they are still around but they moves now. i want to jump ahead. this photo is called something like the aftermath of a hide hunte

that is a pile of buffalo chips. that is enough to cook dinner, have a little bit after dinner and cook breakfast. you had to find the dry ones, the perfect density. i want to jump ahead and show another image. this is a strange looking photo, the child is so misplaced, it was taken on the plane in colorado. it is estimated that families cross the oregon trail, there is a woman named fanny kelly, shipped over buffalo jetblue judge she had a slave. part of the attack, his head was closed and open with a hatchet and her husband was left for dead. one of her children was killed, of her children crawl off in the bushes and she was taken prisoner and she wound up in what many historians -- she was rescued and ransomed back. she was a great proponent of cooking buffalo chips. when she wrote her memoirs -- it really worked. people tend to no, you saw dances with wolves and you know the honda and there's something about cooking. 2 things that everyone knows. on the texas plains, you can think of the extermination of the buff

there's always a debate with buffalo. we have had debate about whether we should bother saving them all or let them vanish and drive indians onto reservations, whether we should call them bison or buffalo. now there is a debate about the notion of disease free, genetically pure animals, there's a movement that suggest we get rid of anybody who has cattle disease, and start all over again from scratch. it is funny because all the ones we're talking about that are genetically pure, don't act like buffalo as much as these guys act like buffalo. they're not wild, they don't get to go where they want to go. if i own a buffalo next yellowstone park, it steps on my land, that is not the case here, not the case of these animals. it is important to keep in mind that we need to adjust our definitions of wildlife and this notion of this genetic purity and disease free thing gets out of hand, we are going to take another step back, and be less close to restoring these things in an ecological, not just genetic, way. anybody have any q

the gets sworn in in buffalo. this isn't going to teach politics similar to a kenley company doesn't guarantee creates a could -- he said he would have politics similar to president mckinley, but he did not. he began a radical conservation project. in 1903 he wanted almost all with john boroughs. then he went to the grand canyon. and when to the north woods -- redwoods of northern california. then he went to yosemite. so the president and john spent three days in the wild, camping under redwood trees. roosevelt thought the redwoods were our great cathedrals. they slept in a snowstorm without a tent. roosevelt's, with his enthusiasm, "to the greatest day i have ever spent in my life freezing in a snowstorm with john." john was more about in this. he would talk more about the plant. roosevelt was out there looking at the birds. they had a friendly competition. roosevelt thought john was one of our great figures. roosevelt was a hunter conservationist. jon scott only in extreme cases of congress should you shoot an a

there was a man who bread buffalo at the bronx zoo to repopulate the plains with buffalo. there is dr. c. heart miriam who ran the biological survey. there are many. these aren't household names and i wanted to inject them into the mainstream history. i didn't want them to be relegated just to a specialist. it's just not roosevelt i'm writing about but a circle of these people around him. >> you talked about mindoro. how many other places did you spend time in to research this book? >> almost all. there are hundreds going down, but all of his national parks and his monuments i have visited. i travel the country a lot. this has been my hobby really visiting roosevelt's places. and so what was very exciting for me, i'll just pick a place that i hadn't been on this book that isn't one, pine knot is a canyon outside of char lotsville that is in the wild. roosevelt saw the last alive passenger pinch i don't know. it is now an extinct species. roosevelt wrote the last observation of one in the wild. pine knot shows the real t.r., the rustic the person that was most comfortable i

the british also burned buffalo and neighboring blackrock. the pioneers of western new york fled east in terror. there was no defending the state western flank by the effective transportation of arms and supplies. the few roads were so abominable that the federal government spent a staggering $60 million on wartime transport, including a dollar a pound for cannonballs that cost a fraction of that to produce. the cost-of-living artillery from artillery from albany to them major-label warfront on lake erie was more than double its purchase price. transportation of material from washington to the lake was up to five times the production cost. the british blockade of american for a trip port, one wagon of war supplies loaded in worchester massachusetts arrived in charleston, south carolina, two and a half months later. nothing had changed dramatically in the decade since peace was restored until the erie canal opened on a fine fall day in 1825. so that sets the stage for what the country was like until the erie canal got built. before trains, pla

the frontier village of buffalo, there was no more expected time did wednesday october 26, 18 wi-fi. the the population of just over 2400 had been swelled by dozens of the state political and merchant leaders and hundreds of settler families from the surrounding countryside, bold, eager to celebrate the completion of the great project that would determine their fortunes and the fortunes of many others. gathered in a lake erie port of buffalo, that 20 years earlier had been just a lark on the land developers matter their state had such surged past virginia and pennsylvania to become the most populous of the united states. new york's namesake city, new york city, had recently displaced philadelphia as the nation's largest city and was taking control of the young american economy. infield drawing rooms and counting houses across the atlantic the words of new york were becoming equivalent to economic opportunity for laborers, speculators and proto- industrialist alike. and yes, until this fine morning, until the fall morning, new york was no more assured of becoming the empire state dan

on the frontier village of buffalo, there was no more expectant time than wednesday october 8th, 1985, the population of over 2500 had been swelled by dozens of this is political and merchant leaders and hundreds of settler families from the surrounding countryside, all eager to celebrate the completion of the great project that would determine their fortunes and the fortunes of many others. gathered in lake erie port of buffalo that 20 years earlier had been a marked man when developers map the leaders of it new york they have surged past regina to become the most populous of the united states. new york's namesake city new york city had recently displaced philadelphia as the largest city and was taking control of the american in fields, a driver as an accounting houses across the atlantic the words new york were becoming equivalent to economic opportunity for laborers, speculators and pro industrialists alike. and yet until this fine morning new york was no more assured of becoming the empire state and west virginia, pennsylvania or even ohio, south carolina or to one way. nor was th

recent report, from one of the state to inspectors over the same type of airplane that crashed in buffalo earlier this year. it is also said that this inspector may have been retaliated against for raising these concerns. now, once again i know you were a new thereby your inexperienced person with aviation. what might we do to prevent, what would you recommend we do to prevent intimidation of whistle-blowers and blocking their points of view? >> interestingly, you might recall i was a member of the irt which was a special committee appointed by former secretary peters and we looked into some of these cases, and what we found, and that board by the way had a former chairman of the ntsb. we did number of safety experts on that panel and we looked into this particular allegation. at the time it was an allegation about the conduct and the retaliation. i was reasonably convinced that the member of the committee that the faa took appropriate action. i was not with the faa then. we were critiquing the faa and it was pursued by the ig and it seems to us that the time that it was handled in accord

2009 at 715 pm colgan air flight 3407 bombardier -- thank you 400 crashed off of niagara airport in buffalo in new york it is operating as a part flight from newark new jersey. four crew members and 45 passengers were killed. of the aircraft destroyed by eight impact and afire one person in a house was killed and two individuals escaped the house with minor injuries. . . the ntsb has issued numerous recommendations to the faa on stall training, pie lit records, a remedial training, situational awareness, pilots monitoring skills, low airs ditto alert systems, a pilot professionalism and fatigue as well as aircraft icing. two of the series, aircraft icing in human fatigue are on the boards most >> while there are currently more than 450 open recommendations to the faa, on january 12 of this year, the faa took action on some of those recommendations when it published a notice of proposed rulemaking. >> race in numerous safety recommendations, the issue that we issued to the faa. in 1995 the ntsb issued recommendations for the faa to require an airline to evaluate an applicant pilots experienc

they bread buffalo at the bronx zoo. he was the founder of the bronx zoo.i didn't want them to be relevant gated anymore just to a specialist. it's a circle of these people around him. how many of these other places did you spend time in? >> almost all. all the national parks are vivelted. this has been my hobby visiting roosevelt's places. when was very exciting for me. pine gnat is a cabin in the wild. roosevelt as president saw the last alive passenger pigon. there used to be 100 million. roosevelt wrote the last ob serveation of one in the wild. pine knot shows the real t.r. people don't want to think of roosevelt's conservation as a policy as much as a passion. >> he got romantic excitement from seige speesies5m÷ in the wild. this place is paid for by the taxpayer. >> that's one of the reasons i wanted you to come. you look in the fass i have yick coast. you see them on the map. he saved those. he was very interested in wild life photography. he would come to the white house and show him pictures of wild oregon. he went to portland and met him once. th

with buffalo. is romanticism is this, and it's something i want to make clear, he's a child of the post civil war era. he saw the north fight this out. 600,000 or more dead. he believed the north misted up, the american dream got messed up in the north because of hyper industrialization. philadelphia had sewage dumped into rivers. it smelled. it was not guilty. the south was stigmatized due to slavery and racism. he thought the new america was going to be reborn west of the mississippi river. in order to develop than the south and the north, you had to have cities like a boulder or austen or portland or eugene that had greenbelts around them. that you don't want a metropolis. he went to los angeles and t said angeles andoo big. want -- he said to los angeles, angeles,nd saudid don't get too. it was done with grandiosity parity said if you don't like a strong president, don't look at the roosevelt. "i so declare it a federal reservation. also declared a national monument." locals were how outraged w

we'll hear about the circumstances surrounding the crash of flight 3407 in buffalo, new york. senator byron dorgan chairs this two-hour hearing. >> we'll call the hearing to order. this is the hearing of the subcommittee, the senate commerce committee, cassette in aviation. i want to thank all of you for joining us today to talk about the importance of the issue of aviation safety. this is the second hearing that we have held this month to discuss the subject of aviation safety with a particular focus of the safety of regional carriers. in this hearing we will receive testimony from representatives of the nation's network carriers and regional carriers from the air transport association and from the regional airline association respectively. we'll also hear from the airline pilots association and from mr. scott mauer representing the families of continental flight 3407 which crashed on february 12th of this year in new york. i do want to say as well as i start this hearing i had intended and wished to have representatives of the carriers themselves at a hearing and so we did n

we've all heard about the buffalo and countless buffalo that were running the plains then and all of other wild things, but here, our great icon of freedom has anybody here ever heard that there were vast rivers of horse running across the plains then? it was something i didn't know and i was just thrilled to find out, but at the same time kind of saddened, because it -- you know, i kept thinking as i was writing my book that this lost history, what's happened, what are we doing. the battle of the little big more than, which of course is known as custer's last stand, was really a great victory for native americans. and in fact, the horse that became known as the lone survivor of that bale, and there were others, but the horse that became known as the lone survivor, was named comanche. it was a cavalry horse. taken by the cavalry off what was once called the great horse desert of texas. there were so many horses down there that the -- there was an area on the map known only as the great horse desert, and if you told somebody, hey, i'm going to the great horse desert, they would know e

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, a new york or rather in buffalo new york. this flight was operated by colgan air. the plane was operated by captaining co-pilot, both of whom had committed fairly long distances to get to work and were found to have had little rest before the flight. the co-pilot revealed her experience in flying in icy conditions in the transcript of the voice recording that i fred and i am sure my colleagues have as well. the captain had previously failed a number of flight tests. we will hear from the ntsb which has been investigating but it sounds like the captain just made the wrong decision at the wrong time, flying in very difficult icy conditions. at i worry when i have looked at this, and read the transcript of the cockpit recording and all of the other issues, that there are issues here of fatigued, training, commuting and perhaps salaries that could have played a role. i am concerned about the airlines and the faa's ability to prevent inexperienced pilots from flying planes they might be less familiar with than they should be organ

rail car back to oklahoma as a gift to the comanche to get the plains repopulated with buffalo. roosevelt's row manhattan six is this and it's a point -- romanti six is this. he saw north fight south, 600,000 dead and he believed the north messed it up, the american dream got messed up in the north because of hyper industrialization. philadelphia had sewage dumped in the river and it smelled and it wasn't healthy for you. the south was stigmatized due to slavery and racism. his eve was west of the mississippi river. he thought the new america was going to be reborn there and in order to do it differently than the south and the east, you had to have free people, the principals of lincoln, but have cities like bolder or austin or portland or eugene that have green belts around them, that you don't want a metropolis, los angeles would bother him. he went to l.a. and he said don't get too big. he wanted smaller-sized cities where you have universities and businesses surrounded by wilderness, that you could go on day trips backpacking and feel replenished from the crunch of the speed

i think the tragic crash in buffalo, new york has activated a lot of interest in asking questions. did we drift along here and allow the creation of a couple different standards in training and so on? we will know more about the answer to that as more disclosures come from the ntsb and so on. we learned some from last week's hearing and this week's hearing. we have decided to, in the name of those we love, find a way to make a difference and make sure that others do not experience the same thing. this hearing is adjourned. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> coming up next on "the communicator's," a discussion on president obama's choice to lead the fcc. later, supreme court justice anthony kennedy delivers the commencement address at stanford university. then, bill clinton and the steady hoyer honor retiring democratic leadership ceo al from. tomorrow on "washington journal." a look at iran and the health- care debate on capitol hill with tony blankley and jon- christopher bua. later, a look at the cov

when i was in buffalo, my uncle -- he was head of buffalo state hospital. and i have a family member receiving shock treatment for depression and in other family members who was severely mentally ill and receiving treatment and have a very challenging time until she received the modern medication. i went on to cleveland to train and then was in the navy during the vietnam. and, lieutenant cmdr helping and the veterans returning veterans dealing with the emotional issues through the war. i have been in business all of my life. i went into business because i found it hard to have, i didn't find the adequate services that i felt my patients and others needed. so i developed hospital help and then went into the insurance business and develop services for the needy. i have always had a particular interest in serving the underserved. yes, we have had a challenge and that health reform was not past several years ago. but we cannot let that bother us. we must move of forward. this is a time break now, this is a most unusual time where we have the president, the con

he would juggle navy with this sort of western, hunting -- like this one with the buffalo on top. roosevelt knew everything. as president, roosevelt did not just know about gray wolves or cougars, he was the world's authority on them. in a scientific way. george berger ird co-founded the boone and crockett club to save the game of america, to save buffalo, antelope, deer, terrible from being exterminated. they would commission articles and roosevelt would write this one right here on elko. you can just turn the pages. roosevelt got involved in bringing out the books. it was about gentleman hunters. they were working to save animals to shoot the animals. people have problems with that today. it was the hunters of america that formed the early conservation movement. it was done by field and forest magazine. field and stream magazine writer. all of the sporting journals that started putting in -- that you have to have bag limits, you have to put a fischbach if it has eggs. you have to not shoot a dove. -- you have to put a fish back, if it has eggs. at ohio university, a man there? r

. >> and were left there, would be left there, and how did they traverse the canal to -- buffalo, for example. >> most goods would not come up the hudson river in barges, they got to the hudson river. >> initially, in sailing ships but ultimately in increasingly larger steam boats, a steamboat having been invented in 1807 and the canal completed in 1825. so it was a separate's men, goods went from new york city up the hudson to albany and then, they were trans-shipped to canal barges. did i answer your question? no, tell me. i'm not sure i did. >> [inaudible]. >> okay. >> [inaudible]. >> mules were owned by the canal companies and you had barges that took goods and you had also barges that took passengers, but in all cases, pulled by -- actually originally by horses, for the first couple of years and then it was discovered that mules are actually -- pull harder and longer and with -- in a more docile manner. anyone else? >> how many companies were this? how many canal companies were there? >> well, there were a bunch. initially, there were a couple of guys whose names escape me now, w

and how did they traverse the canal to buffalo, for example? >> most goods would not come up the hudson river in barges. they would go up the hudson river, initially for a brief period, but ultimately in increasingly larger steamboats, they had been invented in 1807 and the canal was inflated in 1825. so it was a separate segment, goodman from new york city up the hudson to albany and then they were transshipped to canal barges. to answer your question? >> i'm not sure i did. [inaudible] >> okay. go ahead. [inaudible] >> the mules were owned by the canal companies. and you have barges that took good and you also have barges that the passengers, but in all cases pulled by a originally by horses for the first couple of years, but then it was discovered that mules are actually, paul harder and longer and in a more docile manner. anyone else? >> how many companies were there? how many canal companies were there? >> there were a bunch. initially, there were a couple of guys whose names escape me now who started the first passenger canal boats, and w

as was brought up during the ntsb as regent -- recent hearing of the tragic accident in buffalo, many pilots are not getting adequate training or enough rest. airlines are requiring pilots to work longer days and more of them each month. frequent changes are forcing pilots to decide between commuting or taking another haircut to train on new equipment. the consequences, the quality of airline pilot careers has been greatly diminished and and the severe erosion of benefits and quality of life are motivating experienced aviators to move to other professions. current training practices do not take into account the drastic change in pilot applicants's experience. they assume pilots are far more experienced than they may actually be. there must be a new focus on standardization and even fundamental flying skills. to meet this challenge, airlines and other providers must develop methodologies to train for that lack of experience and train for judgment. current training practices need to be adjusted to account for the experience level of that new pilot and into initial training with his or h

the circumstances surrounding the february crash of flight 3407 in buffalo new york. this is a hearing held by the transportation subcommittee on aviation operations. it is about two hours. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and i thank you again for conducting these hearings. i would just add my comments to yours. i agree with everything said about the concerns of this flight. a lot of us get on regional flights every week, going back and forth to our home states. we assume a lot when we get on a plane. i know all americans do. we need to make sure there is a standard of safety for every american. i am looking forward working with the chairman on language that would reveal the pilot record. some things seemed to make common sense right now. i do have the pleasure of introducing mr. scott maurer, who is the father of a 30-year- old who was in the 3407 crash. he was born and raised in at reading, pa., where they raised their daughter. he currently lives in south carolina. the appreciate you taking the time to come to washington. i think this is his third week here, and i know

would juggle navy with this sort of western hunting -- like this boone and crock et club with the buffalo on the top. roosevelt knew everything. what i'd like people to understand is that as president, roosevelt didn't just know about gray wolves or cougars. he was the world's authority on them. and in a science way. george byrd grenl, an undersung hero of america, co-founded the boone and crockett club with roosevelt. it was specifically formed in the late 1880's out of new york to save the big game of america, to save buffalo, antelope, deer, caribou from being exterminated. they would commission articles and roosevelt would write them -- see, this one's on elk. these are great old books that roosevelt got very involved in bringing out these boone and crockett club books. it was about gentleman hunters. they were working to save animals to shoot animals. people have problems with that some today. but it was the hunters of america that really form the early conservation movement. it was done by field and forest magazine, and what became "field and stream" magazine, but all those sporting

grover cleveland was elected mayor of buffalo in 1881, governor of new york in 1882 and president in 1884. so in three years went from mayor of buffalo to president, first time he ever went to washington was for his inauguration. so it's kind of -- and it's funny because harry remembers grover's second election, harry was born in 1884, so the second time grover was elected, of course, it's nonconsecutive. i'm not going to do the math now but another great democratic president that harry was quite fond of. harry himself for his own unlikeliness was born 125 years ago. his early life was unremarkable. worked in a bank. he was a farmer. on his father's farm in grandview. he opened a haberdasher with his friend in kansas city. and in early 1922, there was a financial crisis in the country, a panic and he and jacobson lost the business and he was 38 and living at his mother-in-law's. at the time bess told her mother don't worry harry going places and her mother said, he better hurry up. the circumstances did not poor trend greatness but fate, destiny, chance, god -- something intervened a

ray lahood about this buffalo accident. and as we read this it's just got to us. i'm going to share this article. began to the last hour of his life by engaging the autopilots on the continental connection flight 3407. he said, autopilot is engaged. all right, replied his co-pilot. it is probably a good thing. so those words so both pilots complaining their lack of experience. in addition the transcript shows panic was the play lost control. while engaging in the idle banter in the last minutes of the flight they stop checking the plane's instruments and fail to recognize -- fail to realize that the plane was flying so slowly that it could stall. but flight 3407 apparently had troubles far earlier. might have been joking when he said it's probably a good thing that the plane was on autopilot, but in reality it wasn't a joke. the safety board recommends the pilots turn of the other pilot and flight manually when icing could be an issue. a minute later he noted he was hired by colden air which operated the flight with just 625 hours of flying experience. that is not

in the buffalo crash we were told that that carrier had had a training, they train their pilots on thestick shaker but not the stick pusher and so if that is the case i guess the first question in mind is if you're in a cockpit with a device called a stick pusher which is going to be a device that is going to automatically move you toward a some sort of that safety function in that fight, and have never had experience with it or not been trained in it, is that a significant efficiency and how could that happen? capt. prater, can you tell us? >> first of all, every airplane has different characteristics and different safety features and pilots should be trained to the proficiency in each and every one of those. i cannot testify to words of the conditions on the training of this individual airmen or crew, but i can say more generally is that there is a huge cost to training air men and so it does come down $2 and cents. i have severe concerns that the regional industry who looks at their pilots as if you will part-time help, training help, it may not want to spend as much money making su

he was hitting .291, eight homers, 28 rbi's in 42 games with buffalo -- buffalo in the internationalague with 25 extra-base hits as of may 26 now getting time in here at the major league level because of injuries and making a start in left field. >> jim: he's going to get a real good pitch to hit if jeremy can throw a strike. you've got beltran and wright coming up. >> gary: did he and he fouls it back. this will be the fifth 3-2 count of the ballgame for jeremy guthrie. >> jim: again, he's going to get another pitch to hit. exactly what we talked about earlier as you look at your lineup. you have the fifth best average guy coming up next with the leading hitter in the national league behind him and he walked him. >> gary: as it leadoff walk. the second one, second walk surrender in the ballgame. martinez on with it. this lineup, you've got cora left-handed, beltran is a switch hitter, schneider is left-handed. castillo is a switch hitter. actually, it's the right- handers who have done more damage against guthrie hitting at .309. left-handers .259. we talked about how pelfrey has no

that i have read extensively about the most recent crash that occurred in our country, the crash in buffalo, new york. frankly, a number of things happened on that flight that caused me great concern. there were a number of mistakes that occurred, and number of things that to me were revelations that were quite stunning and led me to question was this an aberration, was it something that happened only in the cockpit of this one plane or is there something else at work? is there a set of standards that is applied one way in the one set of carriers and another way in another set of carriers? i don't know the answer but i think it is important that we ask those questions. the plane that crashed in new york was a q400 operated by a captain and co-pilot to have communicated long distances to get to work to meeting, found to have had a reasonably a little rest before the flight, the co-pilot raised issues in the transcript that i read in of the conversation in the cockpits of her inexperience with icing conditions. clearly that evening they were flying is significant icing. the captain had failed

i want to say i have read all i can read about this particular accident in buffalo and i know that we have put-- we put a magnifying glass on this and bucket every part of it but i was stunned frankly learning what i learned it and i wondered, is this a complete and somalia? is it just happenstance that in his cockpit, below 10,000 feet insignificant icing conditions there was discussion about careers and career choices and things that deal with i think one of the mentioned professionalism? clearly that was not what the requirements would be at that point, and the amount of time and the equipment, the compensation paid to the pilot, the fatigue of potentially both, what appears to be an inappropriate response to controls that gave them appropriate warning. a whole series of things then you look at that and you think, this is a stunning said the failures. is it just something that is byzantine end unusual tibet cockpit, or is this a harbinger of something that is much broader and that we ought to be concerned about. that is why mr. babbitt you assume the reins of an agency that is very

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and the circumstances following the crash in buffalo, n.y.. following that of the communicators, president obama's choice to head the effort cc. -- the fcc. people don't want to think of roosevelt's conservation as a policy, as much as a passion. he put aside 240 million a. of wild america. now when people are talking about and formalism, roosevelt is becoming the key figure to understanding this. he was the only politician of his day who understood biology and bird migratory patterns and mating habits of the deer and elk and antelopes, and did something. >> wilderness warrior. or download the c-span podcast. >> now tributes to michael martin, who addressed members for the final time. his last day is sunday, june 24th. he had to step down after an expense scanned appeared he is the first speaker of the house to be forced out 16¢ 95. british prime minister - gorham brown -- gordon brown spoke. >> order. one of the things of the speaker moving on is a signature. i can inform the house that in the past few weeks, i save several hundred bottles of

host: buffalo, new york on the democrat line. caller: good morning.n't know if you've ever been a smoker. i have. many other listeners this morning who have been smokers in the past have found it a living hell to attempt to give up cigarettes after they've been smoking them. the reason for that, as you know, is the addictive drug which many scientists say is ever bit as strong as heroin. my question is this. i assume congress will pass this and mr. obama will soon sign this giving this the fda authority to regulate the context. my question is this, this is the real $64 question americans should pay attention to. will obama direct the fda to regular the amount of nick owe teen in cigarettes. if that nicotine was reduced, americans could kick the habit easier and perhaps we could faster arive at a smoke-free america. guest: you raised a couple of good points. one being, you are right, this bill doesn'to+3 ban nicotine outright. some academics vo said if congress really wants america to stop smoking they would have banned cigarettes or nicotine. you rai

in the buffalo creek in 1972 in logan county, west virginia, it failed and killed 125 people and destroyed 4000 homes. it cost over $400 million worth of damage in 1972. host: with the energy bill coming up in congress before too long, what would you like congress to do? caller: i would like to see them change some regulations. we are not against coal mining. the technology exists not to have these things. and also on the mountaintop removal, the original law in 1967 said if they remove the top of these mountains and return it to the original come to work, they have to make a post mining plan that benefits the community. host: were they going to revisit some of those regulations? caller: basically, you cannot fill within 100 ft. of a stream. they eliminated that. they go in and level these mountains off in the fill these valleys. host: frankland, ark., on our independent line. caller: i have watched c-span for a long time. i am a little nervous. just a couple of points on what your last discussion was. i worked for the fdic. part of the rules were the director -- the directors were persona

buffalo and antelope and deer to prevent from being extinct. these are great books that roosevelt got involved and it was about gentlemen hunters. they were working to save animals to shoot animals. some people have problems with that today. it was the hunters of america that formed the early conservation movement. it was done by feed and forest magazine and field and stream. but those sporting journals, that put in you have to have bag limits. you have to put a fish back if it has eggs. you have to not shoot a doe. and we take this for granted. and the scholar at ohio university, and he proved chapter on garnel, because he's another important figure. garnel was the american authority on game. >> who pays for all of your travel to all of these sites and this research done? is that part of what the publisher promises you? >> yeah, they give you an advance and i squander on the traveler and make no money. this book on roosevelt was very expensive for me. >> do you know how much it cost? >> i don't, i rent the cheapest car i can and stay at a mode

reported to buffalo's minicamp.pped a lot of passes today. >> drops are part of the game. i'm a professional, and you should go in the game, every game prepared, and there are drops, and that's just part of it. but i'm pretty sure i would assess my performance and say i could have played better. but that wasn't the case. >> there's no pressure on me at all. i know what i'm capable of. i'm very thankful and gracious for the opportunity, and i'm going to embrace it i feel good. i can play this game, and i know here turk is going throw the ball down the field. i feel very confident in the guys that we have in rotation on the offensive side of the ball, and i know -- don't talk much about the defense but those guys fly around. i'm looking for big things from those guys. they're going to be instrumental in what we do on offense. >> other nfl news and notes. federal bankruptcy judge has given michael vick a july 2nd july 2nd deadline how he is going to pay back his creditors. >>> ordinarying to the green bay gazette fav f

. >> from their days as the buffalo braves the clippers franchise has a long history of selecting forwards high in the draft. back in 1972, the braves selected bob mcadoo second overall. he won the mvp for the braves in 1975. other notable selections include terry cummings, danny manning, lamar odom and darius miles. >> the angels have won five straight and sit atop the a.l. west. a game and a half ahead of the rangers. they begin a three-game series in arlington. crushes the offering from padilla. a two-run jack. his 13th of the season. angels up 3-2. next batter, moralis. back-to-back jacks for moralis. angels win it 5-2. easy out there, guys. always a lot of fun until somebody gets hurt. rivera, his eighth home run in june that ties him for the second most in major league baseball. the angels have won six straight and 13 of their last 16. >> the a.l. central leading tigers continue their nine-game three city road trip in oakland. 6-1, they trail. rick had been 7-1 in his last 10 starts, he goes 4 1/3, allowing five earned runs, mark ellis and sweeney both homer. oakland has -- [inaudibl

. >> from the days as the buffalo braves the clippers franchise have a long history of selecting forward. back in 1972 the braves selected bob mcadoo second overall. he won the mvp for the braves in 1975. other notable selections include terry cummins, danny manning, lamar odom and darius miles. >> the indians are a game and a half ahead of the angels. they began a three-game series in arlington. top of the sixth, crushes the offering. padilla, a two-run jack. his 13th of the season. next batter, moralis, oh, boy, back-to-back jacks for moralis. his 13th of the season. the angels win it 5-2. easy, easy out there, guys. >> always a lot of fun until somebody gets hurt. for rivera, his eighth home run in june, that ties him for the second most in major league baseball. the angels have won six straight and 13 of their last 16. >> how about the a.l. central leading tigers. continuing their nine-game three city road trip in. oakland the a's up 5-0. top of the sixth, one out. suzuki, an rbi single. back to wimbledon now, serena williams on a collision course with her sister. taking on daniella,

. >> i am a member of the national press club and a freelance writer from buffalo, new york. in your earlier answer, you leave open the door for future participation in a democratic iran. can you tell us, if you have any research today, that tells how many people would support you in iran? in other words, in this turbulent time, what is your approval rating? >> well, people support me because of the very fact we're talking the same language -- freedom,, democracy, human rights. i'm not demanding people to support me today because of me. i'm demanding people support me so that i can best serve them achieve what their goal is, which is to achieve freedom. that is a totally different function. if tomorrow -- for the umpteenth time, i repeat -- if tomorrow in iran there was a choice for people to say "we want mr. pahlavi, after liberation, if we want to be in -- if we want him to be involved," we will hear the answer that. that question is irrelevant, irrelevant to what we're doing now. i have just as many supporters who are republicans and would want to have a republic in iran,

heard the story of the tragic crash and february this year continental connection flight 3407 from buffalo york station york it was a bombard your/eight both of private says had commuted fairly long distances and burr have found to have little rest. the co-pilot revealed the inexperience in flying in icy conditions that i have read in the transcript the captain had failed a number of flight test. we will hear from the ntsb which has been investigating but it sounds like the captain it made the wrong decisions at the wrong time. i worry when i have looked at this and have read the transcript of the cockpit recording and all of the other issues, there are issues of fatigue, training, commuting, and perhaps the salaries that could have played a role. i am concerned about the airline's and faa's ability to prevent an experienced pilots from flying planes they may be less familiar with and then they should be or icy weather when they are less experienced that you would expect them to be. we are supposed to be having a one o level of safety for regional and major carriers and i want to hear from

. >> but in cities like gary, indiana, cleveland, ohio, buffalo, new york, what are you sensing? >> i'm sensing people have grown up expecting a factory job. they don't have that factory job. they aren't quite ready for whatever new industry emerges. that new industry isn't hiring that many people yet and it's frustrated. and it has political ramifications for state and national politics. >> i think that's why you saw the obama administration last week dispatch secretary soles, a whole bunch of cabinet secretaries throughout the midwest to basically tell them we feel your pain and here's what we're trying to do to help. it's not enough, but i think that they are aware of the political ramifications and they want to show that they are on top of it, they are concerned. whether it's enough to get people through the crisis is a big question. >> final point? >> again, how they deal with this could really have an impact in terms of the next governor's race in ohio, the next senate race in ohio, on down the line. this is starting to actually give the republicans, which was the party out

i think the tragic crash in buffalo, new york, has activated a lot of interest in asking questions. did we drift along here and allow the creation of a couple different standards in training and so on and enforcement. we will know more about the answer to that as more disclosures come from the ntsb and so on, and we are learning some from last week searing and this week's hearing and for that we are indebted to the people who are witnessed. mr. mauer, we are especially indebted to you and the families who decided in the name of those beloved find a way to make a difference and make certain that others do not experience the same fate. so we appreciate all four of you being here. this hearing is adjourned. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> people don't want to think of roosevelts conversation as a policy as much as a passion. he put aside 240 million acres of wild america. >> from crater lake to devils tower and the grand canyon or president theodore roosevelt was on a mission to save the west. >> and so now as people are talking about environmentalism and green m

host: here is buffalo, new york on our democrats line. caller: hello. my question is, you said that in seven days of the intermission is deleted from your system, correct? guest: yes. caller: what about frequent fliers? does this policy get at par due in activity on line? people have to be cautious about putting their information out on the web like that. guest: that is a good question. it is the reason it has taken so long to get this program up and running, to guarantee the privacy protection. in the first couple of years there were legitimate concerns about this in particular. the whole system has been re- written to ensure the privacy. the two best things are that it only takes a limited amount of data, your name, gender, date of birth. it gets rid of it seven days afterward. host: "the new york times" article says it will begin to kick in later this summer. could you pin that down for a more exact date? guest: no, it is a moving target. it is up to airlines and travel agencies and everybody else to implement it. i understand the plan is to get a co

to buffalo, new york on the the republican caller: line good morning, thank you for taking my call. this concerns the previous cobbing of the geneva conventions were said not to apply to the detainee's we have now. in july george w. bush said plainly that the geneva conventions would not be extended to the detainees and no one spoke against it, not even nancy pelosi. she is now against the techniques that were used. i think of it as advanced course in. host: did you say it advanced coercion? caller: yes, we're not breaking their fingers are doing physical harm to them. host: how much of a say should congress have compared to executive authority? caller: if obama was look for advice that might be wise, but to have them make decisions for him -- there is a difference between the two branches, but to have congress decide what should be done, i did not agree with that. host: here is a story on the iraq as u.s. troops began to move out by tuesday. this is our reuters report. tennessee, good morning on the independence line. caller: good morning, and thank you to all of the cable companie

caller: yes, i am an independent from buffalo, new york. in my household we will give the president and incomplete. here is why. both parties will get anything they want. those guys want to make their hundreds of millions of dollars. they will get to. let's hope the president has not miscalculated this whole thing in a political sense and pays for this down the road. i am for the president and for this country, but let's face it. the banks, whatever they want they will get. trillion dollars have been put into this thing and i think we're missing the point -- there's a lot of stuff on the balance sheets which is not being talked about. we're guaranteeing all the deals. this whole thing -- let's hope that it works out. host: one more call from tacoma, washington on our independent line. sorry, wrong button. caller: yes, hello. i just want to say this -- the whole banking industry is based on the rothschilds and there's a famous quote from them and it goes like this "give me control of the money and i care not what laws your lawmakers make." t