they are interviewed by oregon senator jeff barkley.'m pleased to be with you to talk about the new book that you've put out, tightrope, and particularly because it is taking a look at a small town in oregon that you come from, and i come from a small town in oregon and i just ponder how in your career traveling

they are interviewed by oregon senator jeff barkley. i'm pleased to be with you to talk about the new book that you've put out, tightrope, and particularly because it is taking a look at a small town in oregon that you come from, and i come from a small town in oregon and i just ponder how in your career traveling the world you are living in a different environment completely and you have reported on world affairs from all different kinds of directions in the worst tragedies on the planet but you focus on a class and oregon. why? >> my mom still on a family farm in the fac place of a humanitarn crisis unfolding there. a quarter of the kids ar that we on my old number six schoolbus are now drawn from this and we've tried to process that. [inaudible] in from hepatitis he survived because he was in the oregon state penitentiary and we wondered for a while is this something and then we realized it is a national problem we have depths of despair. it was kind of a microcosm to which to see that across america. >> you solve this through the le