appalachia. every single story in the local newspaper but one involved in drugs. car crash where the mother was alleged to be under the influence of drugs a, meth lab in a parket5c,. this affects people across the country. parents want their kids to be drug-free and educated in school and they don't want their families impacted. there is a spirit of community. it is not just about law enforcement are having a good prescription drug monitoring plan which kentucky has, but it is also about the leadership in that state. this issue has really been taken on. i have been impressed what i saw in kentucky and i hope they could be helpful to the new governor in georgia and getting the law moving forward. host: is this problem unique to america? do we see this in canada and other western countries that guest: it is not unique to america. the countries and governments in which prescription drugs and pills are more widely available are also experiencing similar problems. i don't think anyone is to experiencing it to the degree that the united states is. we are also the only c

they were children in appalachia with the lisalyn from ponder and many will say i would have given my i.t. a home like you have, you ungrateful person she said to her husband, you know, just treat her like a dog she is still on grateful to you. so these people were just terrible about the way they were feeling and you don't feel you have a right to have some pain in some ways it is more demoralizing and in many ways friedan anticipated the bill clinton feel your pain, the oprah approach. however, unlike the self-help books that followed her, she said like the self-help books you are not alone. your opinion is valid. it's okay to feel this way. your not abnormal. but she also said the fact that you feel this way is a symptom of a larger social and political problem. so one of my -- to one of the women i talked to said it myself in the first self-help book i read the was the last 1i needed once i got that message down to read now friedan has rightly been criticized for ignoring the special needs of the working-class white women and african american women and i felt some fascinating rese

. >> reporter: on farmland across appalachia, hundreds of drilling rigs are working 24/7 to fan a vastnew resource. crack it open the right way b and this prehistoric seabed become and important source of natural gas, probably the second largest reserve in the world. >> everybody thought we were running out of natural gas. today we think we have got somewhere between 100 and 200 years' of natural gas. >> reporter: it sounds like a great idea, decades of cheap gases to heat homes and even power fleets of vehicles. but the process to extract the gas, hydraulic fracturing has drawn heated protests. water wells have been contaminated with methane and then, there is what happened to don and carol johnson. in may of last year a huge pond built by the resources leaked into their pasture, forcing their entire herd to be quarantined. would you be comfortable eating the meat from these cows? >> no. >> not really. >> reporter: no? >> i wouldn't want to take the chance. >> pennsylvania's new governor, an avid supportedder says there are bound to be mistakes in an industry as new and rapidly grow a

parts of appalachia, it's well suited to it.but other parts-- new england, the southeast-- it's not. >> smith: and that means building a lot of new infrastructure. every year, us power plants emit up to two billion tons of co2. these emissions alone equal the total worldwide flow of petroleum today. disposing of such a volume of co2 would require building a massive new pipeline grid. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the american electric power second quarter 2007 earnings conference call. >> smith: even before the global credit crunch, big banks were getting nervous about carbon capture and storage... >> and our first question this morning comes from the line of dahlen rose. >> smith: ...asking utility executives more and more questions about cost. >> i was just wondering if you could compare the price of the new coal plants that you are planning. >> what we said all along, that we thought integrated gas would be 20% to 30% more costly than the more traditional pulverized coal. that really has proven to be the case. >> smith:

appalachia, poor people, regular folks that didn't get what they needed and didn't have the opportunity that this country should give everybody. the two americas are the upper 1% that aren't going to be paying more taxes, and the other 99% that do. one gentleman said, the democrats want everybody to pay more taxes. no, not everybody. just the millionaires and they wouldn't go along with that. because the millionaires are the party that control the republicans. that's who they are about. they won't fund -- put a tax proposal won that will tax millionaires because they want the middle class to pay more. their budget blueprint that's going to come out lowers the overall rate to 25%. even more for millionaires. and the billionaires, they are not watching today, mr. speaker. because they've got their lobbyists working for them. they came here in december and they took the estate tax from $1 million exemption to a $5 million exemption. and they took the rate that really mattered to them from 55% to 35%. so they can pass that wealth on and continue the differences in america. two americas. the

when it is harder to get a permit to mine coal in alachua than getting a heart transplant -- appalachia, you can see this is not just their policy but the one policy that is working. because of the cost of energy is going up. president obama -- then senator obama told "the san francisco chronicle," under my cap and trade plan and a trustee rates will necessarily skyrocket. i believe we need exactly the opposite energy policy. our energy policy should be more american energy. when the british landed at jamestown they looked over the rail 400 years ago, and they saw abundant american energy in the form of timber, the form of woo d, and for 400 years we had abundant, affordable american energy that has been one of the great comparative advantages -- advantages to our economy in competing in the global marketplace. we need more oil, we need more natural gas, we needed to make sure that liberal opposition to hydraulic fracturing, the new technology that has increased our natural gas supplies so tremendously by making gas available back we did not know we were able to produce economically. we