west virginia senate state. the state's governor is running against republican businessman john racey. also the mountain party candidate is participating and the constitution party member. west virginia university school moderator -- is the moderator. this is one hour. >> we have assistance tonight from the women's league of voters pri. mary anne reed is our moderator. >> thank you for joining us for this live debate broadcast on west virginia at pbs and public radio. with the balance of power in congress at stake, the u.s. senate race in west virginia has become one of the races to watch. it is probably no exaggeration to say that the outcome of this election could have a significant impact on important issues facing americans such as health care, the economy, and the environment. the winner of the west virginia senate race will serve the remaining two years of the late robert byrd's term. he is the longest serving senator in u.s. history and he held his seat for 51 years. these are pretty big shoes to fill. with me in the studio are the four candidates will looking for the senate say. they are the democratic governor, joe manchin, republican candidate racey, the constitution party jeff becker

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west virginia senate seat. the state governor, john mention is running against the republican, john rase. also contributing as jeff becker. west virginia universityttendee. reed is a moderator. >> this is a news and public affairs presentation of west virginia public broadcasting. >> welcome to the 2010 senate candidates debate, sponsored by the associated press and west virginia university's school of journalism and the league of women voters of west virginia. anight's moderator is vojvodina read vojvodinadean reed. thank you for joining us. with the balance of power in congress at stake, the u.s. senate race has become one of the races to watch. it is probably no exaggeration to say that the outcome of this election could have a significant impact on important issues facing all americans such as health care, the economy and the environment. the winner of the west virginia senate rate will serve the remaining two years of robert byrd's term. he held his senate seat for 51 years. these are some pretty big shoes to fill. with me on the candidates going for the sea. they are democratic gov. joe mansion, jeff tucker, and jesse johnson. directing que

julian bales, he's a neurosurgeon at west virginia university. what have we discovered?s inserts electrodes deep in the hypothalamus, this study will see if this possibly will have some benefit for patients with morbid obesity, the ones that really their life expectancy will be affected. >> larry: does it work? >> electrodes are placed in the hypothalamus into the center that makes you feel full. the other part is your appetite center where your drive to eating is. these electrodes have contacts on them that go through these areas and a pacemaker type generator is inserted under the skin and from that we're able to change the settings and try to see if we can affect the appetite drive these patients have. >> larry: what have you learned so far? >> we have learned in the first series we have done that the procedure can be done safely, we have learned that we don't think we're having side effects and that we can affect the urge to eat, decrease the urge, we're looking at it being well tolerated. but the real -- the jury's still out where we don't have all the results yet,

west virginia senate seat got under way a moment ago. the moderator is barry reaed with west virginia university. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> thank you. i want to understand you just heard from to politicians. what they said, give me control of the mta. >> per question, which i will direct. the open question is directed to all candidates and each person will have one minute to respond. each candidate will be asked to give a closing statement at the end of the program. my role as moderator is to make sure that the candidates a dhere to this time limits and to keep the discussion moving. we are going to ask the first question in the order in which the candidates are seated, beginning with governor manchin, and we will reverse this order for closing statements. the candidates have not been given the questions in advance. to our first question, addressed by michael myelanie hoffman. >> this is ben and negative campaign. if you are elected, what positive changes we make to not only improve the lives of americans, b

west virginia, but i have prospered since 2004 a change, a way to stop mountaintop removal immediately. and then transition away from burning coal. we are wasting a non renewable resources that west virginia university itself identified more than 5000 products more than 20 years ago that we can manufacture in that sense. i have proffered a new coal economy based on carbon. carbon manufacturing, to rebuild manufacturing in the state of west virginia and rebuild the middle class in america and started from the hills and hollows of west virginia. it this can be done now. -- if we have the political will and someone who would stand up on the floor of the united states senate and fight for it, and i will do that. >> john raese, you oppose cap and trade. >> yes, i do. it would be disastrous for this country and for west virginia. it is not about the environment. it is about controlling manufacturing in this country. when you look at the essence of co2 release in this country, if you take all of the oceans in the world, they emit 125 billion -- of co2. it does not make any sense. when you look at the scenario in the state of west virginia and the myth that there is global warming, and the other myth than m

julian bails, chairman of the department of neurosurgery at the university of west virginia remains.e take you back to the scene and show it to you. as seen in chile at that san jose mine. the capsule is going down to pick up the third miner. as greg christianson, one of our key producers at cnn just said to me, it is a little mind-boggling, isn't it? mike, we'll start with you. we're all the way here. we're in los angeles. you're in san francisco. dr. bails is in west virginia. and we're seeing the scene below the earth from chile. >> yeah. i think mind-boggling is exactly the right way to put it. we're just looking around here in the control room and everybody is kind of shrugging their shoulders as if to say i can't believe we're watching this. the thing that occurred to me, i don't want to put words in anyone's mouth. i can't get over the fact that every day these guys do what they do. but it is not until you have a sego. not until you have some kind of calamity. it seal like some kind of cosmic tap on the shoulder where the whole world goes, oh, yeah, right. they are basically h

west virginia's third congressional district. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome mr. elliott "spike" maynard. [applause] >> mr. nick rahall is the current representative of west virginia's third district. he graduated from duke university in 1971 and attended graduate school at george washington university. he once served as a staff member for the late robert c. byrd. he was first elected to u.s. congress in 1976 and is currently serving his 17th term in that office. he serves as the chairman of the committee on natural resources and vice chairman of the committee on transportation and infrastructure. he is the democratic incumbent for west virginia's third congressional district. please welcome mr. nick rahall. [applause] >> thank you. >> the order of tonight's debate will be as follows -- each candidate will be given two minutes for opening statements. after the opening statements, we will begin our questions. the moderators will ask a candidate a a question. the candidate has two minutes to respond. candidate b will be given one minute to rebut, and candidate a will have 30 seconds to respond to that. next questions will be asked of candidate b in the same format. once candidates are given the stop sign, they will b

west virginia. and a student's sex list goes viral. one duke university student rates the men she's slept with. she never expected it would end up in the hands of others. >>> and the small town in california made headlines when people learned how much city officials were getting paid. that town is not alone. it is happening across our country. we have a list of salaries that will shock you. and the party that could cost students more than their tuition. police slapped them with $86,000 in fine for a party? is that crossing the line? we're going to discuss that. >>> and we begin with big political news in key races across the country. with the november midterms 26 days away, in new york carl paladino is planning a statewide address in just a few hours. he has bought three minutes of tv time at 5:13 p.m. eastern time. what does he plan to say, and why is it such a mystery? >>> in florida another tea party backed republican marco rubio just finished a town hall meeting. it follows last night's heated debate in the senate race between rubio, governor charlie crist, running as an independent and dem

clinton swings into action on monday, joining manchin for an event at morgantown where the university of west virginia is. the outcome in that state may tip the balance of power in the senate. governor joe manchin, our guest live in "america's newsroom" and that high stakes race. we'll talk to him live. martha: look forward to that. >>> in the meantime there is a new twist and new details on the search for an american man reportedly shot dead on a border lake by mexican pirates. that is what his wife believes happened out there. according to a local lawmaker, the effort to find david hartley has been made even more difficult because search crews have worried about their own safety out there, fearing that they might be ambushed by the mexican pirates as well, who there has been evidence of them being seen in these waters. hartley's wife, that was a picture from the personal collection, she says that men on speed boats approached them and then shot her husband in the head. mexico has questioned the details of this story, but now, a witness has come forward, describing that scene, but asking not to be id

west virginia's third congressional district. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome mr. elliott "spike" maynard. [applause] >> mr. ray hall was born and west virginia and graduated from duke university in 1971. he went to graduate school of george washington university. he once served as a staff member for the late robert t. byrd. he is currently serving his 17th term in that office. he serves as the chairman of that natural committee of natural resources. is the democratic incumbent for west virginia's third congressional district. please welcome mr. nexrad call -- nick rail -- rahall. [applause] >> the order of tonight's debate will be as follows. each candidate will be given two minutes for opening statements. after the opening statement, we will begin our questions. the a moderator's well as it a question period -- the moderator will ask candidate a a question. the next question will be asked of a candidate b. >> our timekeeper will give time cues of 30 seconds, 15 seconds, and stop. once the candidate is given the stop sign, they will be allowed a few seconds to complete of thought. neither candidate shall be allowed to interrupt one another. >> prior to the start of tonight's

west virginia's third congressional district. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome mr. elliott "spike" maynard. [applause] >> mr. ray hall was born and west virginia and graduated from duke university in 1971. he went to graduate school of george washington university. he once served as a staff member for the late robert t. byrd. he is currently serving his 17th term in that office. heerves as the chairman of that natural committee of natural resources. is the democratic incumbent for west virginia's third congssional district. please welcome mr. nexrad call -- nick rail -- rahall. [applause] >> the order of tonight's debate will be as follows. each candidate will be given two minutes for opening statements. after the opening statement, we will begin our questions. the a moderator's well as it a question period -- the moderator will ask candidate a a question. the next question will be asked of a candidate b. >> our timekeeper will give time cues of 30 seconds, 15 seconds, and stop. once the candidate is given the stop sign, they will be aow a few seconds to complete of thought. neither candidate shall be allowed to interrupt one another. >> prior to the start of tonight's event, w

virginia tech hokies. 65 degrees with a light wind out of the southwest. university of richmond the spiders taking on the towson tigers in rihmond. sunshine. 71 degrees. perfect weather there. syracuse and west virginia, in rgantown for a noon kickoff. partly sunny skies. i'll be back in the second half of the show with the other most important picks of the day. those are coming up in a few minutes. back to you. >> now we now know one of the teams that will be playing in is year's world series. dan hellieas highlights from a historic game in texas in this morning's sports in a minute. >> good morning, everybody. your "sports minute" begins welcome back baseball and the texas rangers are going their first world series. we start in the bottom of the fifth inning. vladimir guerrero, what a big hit this was. doubles in two runs to spark a four run fifth for texas. and then in the top of the ninth, feliz strikes out rodriguez to end the game. let the celebration begin. the rangers beat the yankees 6-1 in game six of the acls. they are moving on to the world series. the redski will travel to chicago later today in advance of tomorrow's game with the bear kickoff at 1:00. the skins will have to hav

running reds of the university of nevada las vegas are in morgantown take on the west virginia mountaineers my 50 cents is woirj. >>> in our headlines this morning police are continuing their investigation into a mysterious murder that happened in a wooded estate in fafax county. the body of 61-year-old yung yun was found in his home by a familyember thursday night. police are only saying that it is an apparent homicide and that yun died from trauma to the upper body. missing from the home is his gold lexus with virginia tags xyw-8197. police ask that if you see the vehicle or have any other information you contact them immediately. >>> another burglary in northern virginia has police questioning if a serial burglar may be expanding his territory latest burglary happened friday morning in the waterford area of loudoun county. investigators are looking into its possible link to 87 incidents in fairfax county and 14 in pnce willia all have happened just over the past two months. the latest break in is similar to the others. it happened during the early morning hours twlilzs were home sleeping

west virginia for the first year or two. i am proud to be from west virginia. i love their sports teams and their great universities. i have two sisters, one in los angeles and one in north carolina. my wife is my high-school sweetheart. she has put up with me for 40 years. i have a granddaughter is the love of our life who is 2 years old. she loves to cuddle. i hope that never goes away. i am very proud of my two young adult children. i believe in trying to make a difference both in our family and in life. we do a lot of things right, but we cannot always do better. >> how does your background influence how you perform as a leader today and you are out local leadership? >> i think most people from west virginia are just plain good people. if you have education and the power of internet, you can do almost anything. i have lived in ohio and atlanta and boston and chicago and pittsburgh and indianapolis and silicon valley. i have seen much of the country. my wife is a speech therapist. >> i have two young girls, and their aspirations change every day on what they want to be. did you always envision yourself being a ce

university. discover education working at devry.edu. >> welcome back. current west virginiaing into votes for his senate bid where his opponent currently is leading by 6% in the polls. john raese is that opponent and joins us right now. good morning to you, john. >> good morning, steve. >> you're not supposed to be ahead. what's happening? >> well, i think what i have done is caught somebody possibly a little bit asleep on the switch. we've been running a very positive campaign of capitalism and free enterprise. it's something i've done probably for the last 26 years here in west virginia for running for senate three times now and for governor for once. but for the very first time, my conservative message is resonating like you can't imagine so we feel very good right now about where we are. >> ok. part of it could be the conservative message. the other part could be that there are a lot of people in your state who feel that -- and you've made this kind of a campaign issue is that a vote for joe manchin is a vote for barack obama. yesterday, the governor took a shot at the p

university showing dan manchin up 10. >> he's used this ad. he said they think and the republicans think you're a bunch of hicks in west virginia. >> they shoulde said country. country would have been fine. >>> mike allen, thanks so much. we'll talk to you later in the show. >>> coming up, the president takes his campaign tour to the america's youth. they can ask does he deserve another four years. oprah makes a cameo on the daily show delivering a surprise gift to the studio audience. she gives out a lot of gifts. stephen colbert gets even with oprah. we'll show you what happened when "morning joe" comes right back. ♪ [ indistinct shouting ] ♪ another day ♪ another dollar ♪ daylight comes [ dogs barking ] ♪ i'm on my way ♪ another day ♪ another dollar ♪ working my whole life away ♪ another day ♪ another dollar with the humana walmart- preferred prescription plan, you have more time to remember what it's really all about. enroll starting november 15. go to walmart.com for details. enroll starting november 15. did you know a problem in your heart can cause a stroke in your brain? it's true. an irregular heartbeat, called atrial fibrillation, or