>>horton: lot of times i'll just drive up here by myself or with a couple of my buddies or maybe mywife and we'll just sit around and enjoy the quiet and peaceful afternoon. couple of beers? yeah we'll have a couple of beers. yeah. that's a fact. maybe grill. sometimes we pitch a little shoes. have a good time. >>reporter: those opposed to mountaintop mining claim it's already ruined over 500 mountains covering 1.5m acres, and is slowly but surely destroying the appalachians. >>webb: looks like afghanistan. you know, it's supposed to look like rich thick forest. >>cline: if they do away with mining and coal. west virginia is going down. it can't survive. >>raney: they don't offer any alternative to it. they say do it underground. you can't mine that coal underground. so they give you easy answers and they walk away. >>still to come on world business >>stunning scenery and sailing in the banda sea in indonesia. >>and big brother is watching the streets, but is cctv really an effective deterrent >>crime time television... and the rest in just a moment on world business... >>the uk relies

and i think the thing will happen rather naturally yes there's of course always the fear of willy horton by the way letting people out who are quote nonviolent offenders doesn't really protect against that because somebody is in for a nonviolent offense this time they have a record that someone more complicated the best people who let out from a crime control control perspective or the old people who committed a violent crime at twenty five and have been ever been in ever since fifty five year olds don't commit a lot of violent crime now i just have to ask you one last question here because if the idea is to monitor people let's say through you know certain electronic devices through these ankle bracelets then do we have a fear that that might go too far that some of my abuse that system and take advantage of it and it's no longer going to be former prisoners who have ankle bracelets on but i doubt you know anybody that's arrested for a dui is going to have to wear an ankle bracelet and you know maybe if you just spend one night in jail they put one on you. sure sure the cheaper and simp

it would take three or four months to complete horton. -- had to complete. they are having to dig at half a mile down. a cage will be lower to rescue the men one by one. the process could take several days. copper mining is how they make money in chile. the price has risen dramatically in recent years. mines in this region are being reopened. this mine was closed in 2007 because they had a bad safety record. they were allowed it to start again. >> this woman's father is the oldest of the minors. he used a teller that this mine was not safe. >> he said it was very dangerous and they have several fatalities and they reopened the mind >> the family members want answers from the miners' bosses. >> the trade unions representing public sector workers in south africa who have been on strike for nearly three weeks say that they're considering a new wage offer. the government has raised its offer to 7.5% after the president called for reconciliation. the former cuban president fidel castro has said that he was responsible for the persecution of gay men and women in t

horton received some positive analyst comments, helping boost its stock by more than 4.5%. lennar and pulte also rose despite the disappointing new home sales data. results from toll brothers may have helped. it was a surprise profit, it's first in almost three years.v> toll builds luxury homes. revenues continued to drop, but less than feared. shares responded with a rally of almost 6%. company management thinks there will be pent-up demand for higher-end homes "once the recovery takes hold." earnings season is winding down, but a hand full of retailers are still turning in their results. teen retailer american eagle outfitter's results came in as expected, but they were hit by a double whammy of lower margins and higher costs. the company also announced it will close up to 100 stores over the next five years. women's clothing store coldwater creek surprised analysts with a slim profit compared to the forecast loss. sales were better than expected and it cut costs. coldwater creek shares rocketed more than 40% higher on nine times its usual volume. even with the rally, the

in the republican primary, jane horton is vying against tea party favorite ken bach. minnesota holds a gubernatorial primary while a senate seat is up for grabs in connecticut. richard blumenthal awaits the winner of the connecticut gop primary between rob simmons and linden mcmahon. and in georgia, sarah palin's star power will be put to the test. >> are you ready to bring it on? >> reporter: her pick in the republican primary for governor, karen handel, is pitted against former congressman nathan deal. some experts say the key to today's primaries is actually who shows up. democrats will be paying close attention to see if republican momentum is holding. a recent pew research study shows gop enthusiasm is at a 16 year high. 77% of republicans say they will definitely vote this year compared to 65% of democrats. a big motivating factor, the economy. >> on the national landscape, there is one single issue. and that's the economy. because the economy is so bad, it ends up being a referendum on the president. >> reporter: democrats head into november eager to maintain t

and as bush era is about to become operational the host of antiwar radio scott horton tells our team there is nothing to fear from the plant except for rhetoric coming out of washington. the bush area actor has nothing to do with nuclear weapons grade fuel at all it's a light water reactor and in fact george bush had said that he was perfectly fine with the operation of the bush area after since the russians would be providing the fuel and would be removing all the waste it's basically impossible to harvest plutonium out of this reactor for use in any weapons without the whole world knowing and of course iran is still within their safeguards agreement and the bush era actually just has nothing to do with the nuclear weapons program at all the israeli government themselves have backed off the claim that bush air is a step forward in any nuclear weapons progress in iran whatsoever american israel threaten them with war on virtually a daily basis and offer a nuclear program a nuclear weapons program that does not exist there is no manhattan project in iran every bit of their nuclear pro

board each year just about seventeen percent are found suitable for parole and of those governors horton egger has overturned more than sixty percent previous governors reversed ninety percent so why why this obsession with incarceration because most governors in california certainly at some point in their career feel that they may have. possibility of running for president they're concerned about granting parole to inmates who might go out and commit a serious crime but many of these women's records show they would not be a danger to society that they were young and scared for their lives or for the lives of their children. ok those are the number we. are on the way for him to be on the one. end of the line for many is here. in prison for life despite their sentence you can't turn parole boy of sentences into. what we call l.-wop sentences life without possibility of parole simply because. the rights groups or others think that if you've been convicted of murder you should never be paroled a broken system chance is given then taken away here and still hope the system will change for cam

anyway, we have -- you found your soul mate ten years ago, officer horton. >> officer hardy. >> and wheres sleeping right now because he's been working so much. >> yes. he's getting a little rest. we like that. happy anniversary. >> thank you. >> let's check your weather, see what's going on, and we'll show you our pick city today happens to be nbc 3. mostly sunny, mild in syracuse, new york. my old stomping grounds. in ave a beautiful day her the northeast. some heavy showers and thunderstorms firing up today, down through the southeast. we have a risk of strong storms there. also through the central plains and much of montana a risk for strong storms, beautiful weather up and down the west coast. showers in the southwest. gulf coast hit or miss thunderstorms as well. >>> here is the san mateo bridge, sunny breaks on the west side of the peninsula, otherwise, still misty, spots around the coast. around the interbay today, we will see temperatures staying quite cool. 60s, oakland, 70s, down toward redwood city, los gatos, morgan hill, 87 degrees. the weekend will look much the same. we wi