in appalachia, a single 30 milligram pill of oxycodone sells for $30.t's three times the street price in florida. and 10 times the price paid at a paying clinic. in other words, the bottle of pills you paid $500 for in broward county, you could sell for $5,000 in greenup county. >>it's created entrepreneurs out here that literally send dozens a month, dozens a month down there. (mariana) you say dozens of people out there just to buy pills? >>just to go to florida to buy pills, and do a turn about come right back. if i front you the money and you go for me, i give you half of the pills. and you get me the other half of the pills. >>so i'll be able to feed my addiction without having to pay anything up front? >>exactly. you get your addiction fed, i make money. everybody's happy. everybody except the old worn out sheriff of the county's not happy. (mariana) with florida several hundred miles outside his jurisdiction, sheriff cooper focuses on the only part of the pill trade that he can. >>wanda ten. >>today the sheriff is going to serve a warrant on a ma

too, and as it moves into some colder air, this is going to be snow mainly for the mountains in appalachiaas you cross over in maryland, some of the amounts really die down. as far as virginia goes, there will be higher amounts. also for anyone skiing in the mountains this president's day weekend, great for you guys. here's a bull's eye heaviest amount. this amount cuts off quickly and we see all of the watches and warnings for the heaviest bull's eye down to the southwest. for us, that's brought down some of the numbers. in the green area, a trace or an inch is possible. if anything falls, it will probably melt on the roadways. accumulation really isn't until overnight hours tomorrow. here's a one to three and that doesn't include eastern parts of the shore. higher amounts the farther southwest you go. the storm comes here and then monday, back up in the upper 40s. this is not lasting long. the forecast on the waters, small advisory in effect until tomorrow night as winds pick up as the storm approaches. it changes to all snow. this storm goes farther to the south and may not see anything

different from somebody from ohio or somebody from chesapeake different or similar to somebody from appalachia. so what did it mean to be an american if you were from different parts of the nation? so my plan was to do that. to look at how these guys talk about america. how do they talk about the united states? how do they tike about the union, talk about the confederacy, the south? hoping that they would do it substantially different from each other, and voila, i would have something to say. so i headed off into the archives -- >> what archives. >> guest: i was in the archives from every state but one. so 45 archives represented in this book. some of them, the huge ones that immediately come to mind, the library of congress or pennsylvania, which has an enormous army history collection, but also smaller libraries, state historical associations, the alabama department of archives and history, the vermont historical society, jackson county historical society in independence, missouri. and again, the point was i really didn't want to read more about u.s. grant. i wanted to read about the grunt,

and in appalachia, you can wash it down with a pretty girl's station, which is what they call a lemonadeor grab a drink at the bubbler in wisconsin, a water fountain to the rest of us. it's perfect for a parched throat. or as they say in mississippi, a parched -- >> goozle. >> reporter: it's a celebration and reminder of our rich, real diversity. a country where you can eat a plate of noodles. or hit a river to go noodling. that's barehanded catfishing. i tried it in missouri. we all night speak differently. but we all speak american. and if you don't like it, you have a bad case of mulligrubs, and you should go shut yourself in the rumplekammer. john berman, abc news, new york. >> and by the way, heard from a lot of you from my beloved kentucky. and thank you for informing everyone out there. you don't wear pants. you wear britches. >>> thank you for watching. we're always there at abcnews.com. and george and i and the team will be right back here to follow the results tonight, as they come in, from michigan and arizona. stay with us. we'll see you then.

there's no reason why a kid that's growing up in a poor area of appalachia should get a less effective education or why that person's teacher should only earn a third as much as the teachers in a wealthy suburb of cleveland. so i agree in concept. there should be an effort in the country to equalize the funding of -- by the formulas by which we finance the schools. that said, this has been -- there have been endless legal battles over this in states for probably a half a century. and probably this will never be solved in the courts. it isn't going to be a question of political will. i don't see it actually out there. i don't think the american people generally are -- we have a lot of problems in our country. that's not one that i see -- that's high on the radar. but it's a problem. >> next up, arizona. phoenix, arizona, derrick, independent line. >> caller: good morning. my question is concerning the ethnic makeup of the committees that are writing these curriculums for our children. i'm here in phoenix, arizona, i just recently met a couple -- a young man who came out of school a year

liability should we give it to coal companies that are taking five hundred mountains and rated them in appalachia and dumped in the mountains into the streams for twenty five hundred miles of streams are gone now that kind of limited liability maybe is not such a good idea should be piece shareholders really be exempt from the disaster in the gulf of mexico no liability for when they got the profits for years of safety cut in there was a good debate to have and we maybe we should be exploring if we are going to have corporations what are the rules that we the people right. for them right and seems that they've been writing the rules for themselves for a long time i think that's right through through lobbying and through corporate through influence of politicians i think that's right and the worst thing about citizens united on this constitutional speak to corporate speech corporate rights is now when we try to write some rules they get struck down by the of the century the corporate takeover of our bill of rights so even when we're stepping up to say well no we're going to put some controls and a

so we do have reason to celebrate in this legislation a way of completing the appalachia highway system in -- in my part of -- of the region. senator rockefeller's been working very closely on this issue and i really applaud his -- his leadership on it. we're going to be looking to see whether we can't provide some additional, through amendments to this bill, where we might be able to strengthen more to make sure that these projects get the priority that they're entitled to. we have, for the sake of flexibility, combined many of the specific programs into more general programs. that's part of the balance in this legislation, to give greater flexibility to local governments. that's important. but we also want to make sure that the federal -- that the national priorities receive the attention that they need and the appalachia highway system is a national priority. we want to make sure that it's, in fact, done. i wear another hat as -- as -- as chair of the water wildlife subcommittee on the environment and public works committee, and i want to do everything we can to make sure that the fe

in march of 2010 when consol decided buy dominion's natural gas exploration production assets in appalachiareat deal for dominion. looked cheap, down from nine when exxon bought xto, but it's now down to $2.70. you heard mark. it could go lower. consol seriously overpaid for these assets, and now they're stuck with exposure to the natural gas market, and it's a perpetual house of pain. no end in sight. one more thing, you own this stock, and the president is re-elected, look for some sort of carbon tax that could deck these guys, and if the house goes democrat, i'm telling you, that's a lay-up. plus, the sierra club seems to be running our environmental policies these days, and now they hate natural gas almost as much as coal. i get the bulletins every day. the eco political democratic nexus is totally stacked against this company. the bottom line, the coal analysts rate console a buy because they think it's the best of the bunch, but i think you need to sell this stuff because as long as coal is going lower and natural gas is in the gutter, consol's stock could be going lower too. being th

portions of appalachia could get snow. those are your top stories.le sources" is at the top of the hour, but now back to "fareed zakaria gp s." >>> this past week the man expected to be china's next president paid a visit to the white house. no meeting of leader is as important. two biggest defense spenders, the two most powerful leaders in the world. i am joined now by an expert panel. gordon chang is a forbes columnist. james fallow is a former speechwriter for james carter. he has a new book on china coming out this may, "china airborne." and roderick is a professor at harvard university. he's written more than a dozen books on china. jim, you were at the lunch for xi jinping. people who meet him say that he strikes you immediately as a different kind of chinese leader. warmer, more personable. did you feel that way? >> it's hard to judge, of course, seeing a person in a ceremonial event like that, but certainly i have seen hu jintao in a similar setting and hu jintao seemed a more stsholid expressionless character. what was striking is that just

the bottom of the well as the great late derek bell would say, if you leave children to rot in appalachiavations or ghettos and you leave them to face danger and you leave them in an ecosystem where they die young and they never have a spirit that children have to learn and to grow. they never thrive. they never thrive. if you leave them there, you know what? you and i may be safe now but those dangers that metastasized and germinate and grow in an ecosystem of violence, guess what? they germinate dangers that come back at the middle class. we might not see it today but your grandchildren are going to face it and your great grandchildren will face it. and that's what chief bratton cystic wonder why. look at the back of this book. i've got can't become of course -- of course my great cousin would give me a poor become but i also have chief bratton and i the great retired general, i'm sorry had to retire. a stan mcchrystal. i love stan mcchrystal. i'm a military kid. is just like my dad. we headed out of came under to assist our gang problem and he said do you know something we're germinati

about goods coming in from the west coast, because at that point he was just hoping we would get to appalachia. he had no idea what was going to happen here. but he calls to us from history to do our job and accept the challenges that come our way. and the appropriation bill really shouldn't be a challenge. it is nuts and bolts good government. i -- this week in arkansas, i had five town hall meetings, and they were great. got lots of good questions, a few pointed questions. you all know how it goes, y'all participated in those as well. but it is great. it is democracy in action. when people can show up in a community and ask their senator questions, that means the system's working, you know? and we need to -- it's working back home. we need to get it to work up here. i think that's one of the things i saw or heard over and over this week in arkansas is expectations for this congress are very, very low for this year. i mean, we talk about the 10% approval rating. i'm sometimes surprised it's that high. mr. graham: would the senator yield for a second? mr. pryor: yes. mr. graham: here's the goo

you take a guy like fdr and you have people living in appalachia with his picture on the wall.nd of politician you are. >> you may recall that a week or so ago that rick stengel was one of your guests and he was talking about the funeral train for fdr and someone in west virginia being asked, well, did you know him? and the response was no, but he knew me. and that -- that comment as wealthy as fdr was and we have other political leaders, obviously, the kennedies come to mind, who were able to connect with people and people really felt they had their backs and that they understood their suffering and their struggles. so i don't think it's wealth. i think it is cultural. i think it's the way people are raised. >> i think you're right. >>> coming up next, the news you can't use. can you enjoy vegetables with sauce and still reach your weight loss goals? you can with green giant frozen vegetables. over twenty delicious varieties have sixty calories or less per serving and are now weight watchers-endorsed. try green giant frozen vegetables with sauce. oh there's tons. french presse