that those with insurance are fatter than those who are without, and because there are folks in appalachialot of them are pretty fat -- who are without, because there are folks like illegals and those in appalachia. a way to support your deviant behavior, i guess. people feel more secure getting fat, but there are a lot of folks and do not have insurance that are fat, right? >> well, everybody has access to secure, one way or another, whether it is with insurance or not, but the study from the rand corporation is clear, and that is people with insurance are having their eating subsidize, and there are those that are on the government are being subsidized more than those you have to pay for it with their own money. neil: so for thin,k fi fit docts like yourself, you see this todd wade of fatties coming at you -- you just see this tidal wave of fatties? >> be todd oh is here. the question is, what do we do to stem the tide, and what is the smartest way to allocate our dollars -- the tidal wave this year. -- is here. neil: dr.. thank you very, very much. doctor, thank you very, very much. joi

it caught on and was played in appalachia. and the backwoods. it had its own time to nurture and developed a special sound that it has. >tavis: you got turned on to this instrument how? >> it was the 1960's. i was a teenager and i lived in orange county. the folk music craze had started. there was the kingston trio and pete seeger. a lot of that came through orange county. i fell in love with the banjo. i could not believe it. i watched them play. it was like watching a mystery. i bought a book, how to play the five-string banjo. and an instrumentalist taught me some things. i took a 33 rpm records of banjo songs and slow them down and lowered the attuning so would be note for note. so you learn the song that way. >tavis: you are self-taught. >> i guess so. tavis: you never took formal lessons. >> i never did. the farthest i got was in the book. here is the way your fingers roll and you memorize that. and you start combining them. as time goes on to become more relaxed. it is scary for someone who is an actor to put out a music record. it is the

she has taught first graders in the mountains of appalachia, english to kids in mexico and africa's faminee 80s she fed starving children in sudan. >> we know where we stand, don't we, bob. >> reporter: these days here at the boston home, sister bridgette herself a breast cancer survivor remembers when she was the one in need. >> when i came back, they would look at me and say -- sister, you know, you kind of look tired. if you want to sit on my lap i will roll you back to the office. >> a nun inspiring with a simple message even if the body has failed you the spirit is still alive. peter alexander, nbc news, boston. >>> that's our tuesday night broadcast. thank you for being with us. i am brian williams. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. the new swiffer sweeper cleans so completely... you'll never go back to your old broom again. and now a song for mary... from a mr. broom. ♪ don't you want me, baby ♪ don't you want me, ohhhh new swiffer sweeper is redesigned... to clean deeper into corners. dry cloths trap and lock 50% more dirt, dust and hair than a broom.

it's a not like appalachia. next chart, 97% of color tv. 26% have wide screen tv, go ahead, tan yachlt. >> how many of those same people are in deenk being bankrupt because they can't afford health insurance? how many of those people are sitting there -- how many of those people have savings? >> how many middle class people have savings, tanya? the fact 90% of poor report they are not hungry and they have plenty of food to eat. >> they're not starving? >> one thing we're leaving out. people don't necessarily stay poor their whole life. they move upward. >> upward mobility, exactly! >> you people -- >> it turns out in 2007, 12 1/2% of this country lived in poverty. in 1993, 15%. this wealth gap is misstating the problem. the poor have never been better off, julie. >> dennis, you're arguing because people can put food on their table and not starving, suddenly we're living in sang gra la in 2009? >> i don't want you guys digging into my pocket and giving it to the poor. if i want to give to the poor, i'll do that t

appalachia cola, 71. this morning was 63 degrees, tallahassee record low 60 degrees. now we are in the 80s. 70 still around chicago. much of the east, unusually cool. here's the pattern there are showers, thundershowers mid part of the country. little waves upper level-waves from the jet stream, to our north. so all we have been seeing have been one lonesome little shower pop up, around bowie. that's moved off. other ones out in the mountains of west virginia. there's that one that has fallen apart. that's the end of it. made a few raindrops and that was it. little batch down there in madison county. if you are getting rain out there, you are lucky ones. shenandoah valley and up into the mountains of west virginia and few others also, pittsburgh. really nothing much around us. yesterday there were rain showers out in rappahannock county. washington, virginia, had over two inches of rain. and here's what it is doing now in shanghai. they are getting ready for the wonderful eclipse and 82. look at the dew point. it is 77. really very, very tropical air. feels like it is

that is to say that the poverty index, whether it is appalachia, or inner city chicago or new york, but do not underestimate the impact of humiliating race profiling, police, and judges, and then education. a black kid's more likely to be expelled from school. list does not stop so let's make it, if it's just the three of them, that's a small classroom for a big subject. i would think a white house conference on structure and equality and how to make it equal and profiling would be an appropriate national gesture for the nation. >> all right, well, the reverend jesse jackson, as always, sir, it is great to talk to you. thanks for joining us on msnbc sunday. >> thank you. >>> new this morning -- more calls coming in for iran to abandon its nuclear weapons program. this morning on nbc's "meet the press," secretary of state hillary clinton called iran's nuclear pursuit futile. >> we will never let iran, nuclear arms, not nuclear arms. it is something that we view with great concern and that's why we're doing everything we can to prevent that from ever happening. >> but let's be specific. a

care to people who do not have health access in this poor part of appellation -- appellation -- appalachia. it is gone to the point where there are thousands of people who do not have health insurance, who do not have coverage, who are in difficult help -- a drive from all of the east coast of the united states to come in the most powerful and greatest nation in the world to camp for days in this parking lot and wait in the hot sun for our said that they can get their teeth pulled. they don't have dental care so an extraction could be all that they get, or get a mammogram, tested for cancer, but were down on their vision. they can get a pair of eyeglasses for the first time in our life. i went down there for the first time this week in and sat at the registration desk. people started coming in on tuesday. by the time i was there for three hours, i was up to talking to the people who were 900 in line, there for at least 18 hours before they got in. at the same time, it is one of the most inspirational things i have ever seen because of the passion of volunteers. it is also one of the most c

and the rest of appalachia, ohio . this is really going to really put a cloud across our economic security and our national security and our nation. the department of energy can go back. they can look at the technical data which they didn't do when they issued their de significance. they can go back and look at what they are asking usac to cough up and recognize what they have already put on the table. and they can go back and understand that the president made this promise to our vernor on september 2 and they can go back and they can do the right thing because it's not just the right thing for my community or mr. space's community or ohio, it's not just the right thing because our president made a pledge to our governor. it's the right thing for our nation. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. does the gentlewoman have a motion? mrs. schmidt: yes, i have a motion. that the house should adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: without objection -- the question is on the mo

the commission utilizes the same model that has ep abled the appalachia regional commission to have a bottom up approach and not for profit organizations and others bring projects, ideas to the commission from the local level. the regional commission model helps foster improved collaboration and coordination within the region and among federal and state agencies while also serving as a vehicle to leverage additional public and private sector investments. by taking a regional view, the commission can promote projects that confer a broader benefit without states having to compete among themselves for scarce funds for the region. i thank the committee for their hard work to see that the northern border regional commission receives the funding necessary to make the commission a reality for this region. i thank my colleagues from the region, representatives michaud, pingree, shea-porter, welch and my new colleague, john mchuge, for their efforts and secure -- john mchugh, for their efforts. i ask my colleagues to vote for the rule and the underlying bill and i yield back the balance of my

that stepped in, got the regulatory entities together, resulted in a plan on appalachia coal mining. now the efficacy of that action plan remains to be seen, i grant you, but at least a plan is in place and the rules of engagement are set forth. now, if this amendment is part of a continued protest against the administration's position on climate change, let me clear on that point. i voted against the house cap and trade bill. i did not support it. but i do support as the subcommittee chairman has said the right of this president or any president to establish positions in his or her own white house. and if president obama wants he wants an assistant on climate change, it was the right of him. it was the right of president bush before him and many other presidents in the past. so i urge my colleagues to oppose this ill conceived, vindictive -- the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. all time has expired. the question son the amendment offered by the gentleman from georgia. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. mr. broun:

coming from appalachia, one of the things we see, for example, is a higher rate than average or normal in diabetes incidents. how do we make wellness and prevention programs address these specific regional despairities when it comes to chronic diseases like diabetes? >> well, there is a new grant that we just made available which actually focuses specifically on areas with the highest rates of diabetes and chronic disease in terms of providing incentives and providing additional resources to not only coordinate care, but do much more effective monitoring of conditions. i think that there's no question that preventative care at a much earlier stage helps, but also what helps to prevent hospitalizations, amputations and a variety 06 things is to make sure that that those suffering from diabetes actually are staying on an appropriate regime and that monitoring is what the grant is designed to do. i think we're trying to follow some best practices which have proven to be very effective and my guess is your area is likely to be, unfortunately, rising high on the list of an area that's likel

as an op-ed this morning in "the washington post" called "is president breaks hearts in appalachia." a coal mining site in west virginia, the essence of the piece this morning from the son of robert kennedy, saying that the government needs to do more in west virginia. caller: you are pretty close to where i am. we are just below pittsburgh, about an hour and 15 minutes. host: west virginia has more wal-mart employees than: police. caller: that is -- -- then can coal employees. caller: a lot of that had to do with coal and timber, and we have a great medical facility here. but that is going to come to a grinding halt here pretty soon because he is not a friend of the coal fields. you know, i am for the green energy initiatives he has taken, but that cannot be our lead. we've got to remember what brought us here, and oil, gas, and coal are still king. we need to support that industry, lower taxes to where small businesses can flourish and just -- and i agree with the guy from bucks county, i just do not think we can do it from the top side down, we need to go from the bottom up. host:

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in a community in southwest virginia in appalachia, kind of completely at the end end of the state, aple of catholic nuns this woman insisted bernie had a beetle she started driving around community to community to dispense pharmaceuticals and health care supplies in a horribly underserved part of our commonwealth of part of our nation. she started this 50 or 20 years call this a very self wagon. the bill became a bus and then the bus became a winnebago and then people started to hear about sister bernie and the same aires "healthwatch" again. a few years ago a group of doctors and physicians and dentists and students set up a can basically on a weekend of the virginia kentucky fair grounds right down on the virginia kentucky border and they just that we are going to provide free medical care or dental care to people who don't have health lacks is in this portrait of a policeman and i didn't know what they would see. it would be a free weekend and see how many we serve. this thing has now grown probably 10 years in in terms of itsç current location there at the fairgrounds, it has gr