certainly his trip to the mississippi delta, appalachia had a huge iannfluence on him.eople weren't aware people were starving to death in our own country at that time. very few people knew that. for him to come back from that trip, having seen kids with distended stomachs and not enough food to eat, he was outraged. genuinely outraged. i think another moment in the film that i really appreciate is the letters that my father would write, you know, at these extraordinary historical moments, integration of the university of alabama and also after my uncle jack died, too, the children in the wake of these convenients talking to them about what the meaning of it was. i think it speaks so deeply to his commitments, to both social justice and also his love and respect for the children. >> i was going to say, fatherhood, to document that for your children. i would say the struggles of the poor in the country something we are not looking at with the clearest of eyes, that we're just aware of in a broader sense. thank you to rory kennedy. "ethel" hbo at 9:00 p.m. i will be there

if you're a generational poverty what do you do all of the family what do you do for a family in appalachia that has basically you know no income no job prospects there's no industry there and their kids are trying to go to school and they're hungry i mean me personally i'm not going to do anything for them except fight for policies that will allow them to achieve self to independence yasmine all money from their dad like tagg romney did hey give me ten million bucks i'll start a company i mean you have to talk about food stamp and roman like it's a good thing it's a good sign that there are so many people who need handouts from the government i want to know it's clearly not a good thing that people need them but it is a good thing that we are feeding people out you know the average height of americans you know it absolutely is the average height of americans one hundred years ago was about three inches shorter than it is right now why because we eat better nutrition i mean actually there's a generational. difference well i mean you said what are we going to do for them but i think the rele

that is why esidential candidates are careful had in appalachia, ohio, virginia, west virgina to be carefuls why folks have wwr on coal signs in front yard. you see them all over the place. they are scare what is coming. these guys are stepping carefully, these are real people, real voters with real concerns. melissa: that is big issue. thanks for coming on the show. >>> they say sports and politics don't mix. one mitt romney suppter learned the lesson the hard way duringiants-reds baseball game. details coming up next. you can never have too much money. we'll be right back > melissa: it is timfor a little fun with spare change. we are joined with julie baginski and our own dennis kneale. thank you for coming on, guys. first up, this is the start of the giant game last night. it was delayed because the fan ii running across the field with the romney-ryan sign. i think they said something about a statement on a woman's right to choose, obviously, got people's attention. we are talking about it. i cat we people do things like this. what do you think? >> you know, any time th for cops brandish

then further south the storm brought blizzard conditions to parts of appalachia, more than two feet of snow blanketed some parts of west virginia. and a snowstorm in western maryland was so severe that it caused a pileup of tractor trailers there. but there is a small ray of light, despite flooding, despite power outages and mass transit closures. the new york city marathon is still set to go on as scheduled this sunday. for more on what's happening on the ground in new york i welcome back into "the war room" my current tv colleague and fellow former governor, eliot spitzer. eliot is joining us on the phone. thanks so much for being inside "the war room" tonight by phone. >> eliot: jennifer, my pleasure and thanks for all of the attention to what is going on in new york state and new york city. >> jennifer: what is your experience? obviously your show has been canceled at least i'm speaking up a portion of that as well as cenk uygur. for you personally, what have you been seeing? >> we couldn't go on the air as demonstrative of the damage being done across the city, lack of power lack

the first program we ever did in the united states was during the depression in 1932 in appalachia, andhe precursor to the school feeding program. and so now we're going back to our roots of school lunches and. >> gavin: speaking of going back to one's roots early childhood education, preparing to enter the k through 12 system. critical focus to save the children? >> critical focus. what we found is just a year of preschool makes a huge difference. 25% more enrollment for those kids in getting into primary school and staying. >> gavin: that's a broad stat that transcends particular countries. >> it's an overall statistic and in some countries its even higher. getting kids into one year of preschool, even if it's an informal preschool under a tree with a volunteer we've taught and trained in that community, it makes a difference. kids are ready for school. they have an idea of what school is about. they have learned basic things. they have learned to social eyes with other kids. very similar to what we see in the united states, what preschool is all about. it has demonstrated over and ov

i go to belmont county and zanesville and cambridge and woodsfield and these communities in appalachiaw i want to keep programs strong for veterans. veterans have a higher unemployment rate. we're always working on helping with manufacturing. there's a lot of small manufacturers in these small communities, and i want to make sure that these workers get an opportunity to send their kids to school. we have more coal mine jobs today in ohio than we did four years ago. it's not a huge number anymore, but it matters in our state, and we're seeing those -- i think those miners come around and support the president in the end in pretty large numbers because they know he fights for them on taxes. he fights for them on issues of opportunity for their kids, for all of that. >> i hope they don't go for those race-baiting terrible ads on welfare which are nothing more than a cheap ploy to get people to vet for their resentments. thank you, senator sherrod brown. >>> the endorsement president obama would just as soon not have. and this is "hardball," the place for politics. [ woman ] ring. ring. pr

. >> woodruff: in parts of appalachia, the problem was snow. the hurricane dumped up to a foot of it after merging with a cold front catching some people off guard. >> i wasn't ready for it either. woodruff: meanwhile in the midwest, the storm's power stretched all the way to chicago as waves crashed along the shores of lake michigan. the windy city also got gusts up to 60 miles an hour especially challenging for cyclists like this one. >> it's really tough going north. it's very usey going south. you don't even have to pedal. >> woodruff: those same conditions were felt in parts of michigan and wisconsin with voluntary evacuations in some towns. the weather also scrambled air travel, radiating out from the northeast. reagan national in washington and other airports were practically deserted after thousands of flights were canceled. and at sea, the 63-year-old captain from a replica of the h.m.s. bounty was still missing after his ship sank off cape hatteras north carolina. now on the ground reports beginning with the situation in new york city

in appalachia we need to see better gas prices. in illinois and wyoming we could see demand pick up as gas prices move higher. melissa: if president obama gets reelected seems that would be terrible for coal. why do you agree not agree with that. >> it is terrible for coal his administration, negatives for coal during the obama administration has been i can baked into the stocks and fundamentals. even if obama does win he can't control the weather. he can't control china stimulus. demand for coal in china. weather picks up, economy gets better. on the day after the election my guess the coal stocks would sell off. melissa: thanks, michael. >> a pleasure. lori: so vice president biden's performance last thursday night was any indicator, president obama, well will come out swinging against governor romney, the second presidential debate. that's tonight. will it hit home for voters? lou dobbs is here. melissa: let them eat caviar. a senator's shocking new report on the government's $19 billion in wasteful spending. first look at the 1

. >>> more snow falling in appalachia mountains this morning thanks to sandy.ower lines are falling, too. let's go back to anna werner in elkins, west virginia. anna? >> reporter: we have about maybe six or more inches on the ground here where we are in town in elkins. one to three feet estimated at the higher elevations this morning. and the consequence of all of that wet, heavy snow falling is power outages. it is weighing down power lines, weighing down trees. and now an estimated 150,000 people in west virginia have no power and the snow continues to fall. overnight plows tried to keep up with the we heavy snow and high winds. it was already too late for medical deliveryman gary adkins. his car flipped on a road slippery with snow. >> this was a truck stopped that got sideway in front of me. and -- when i went to slow down my truck went sideways and there was no stopping. >> that was. >> it that was it. over in a second. >> reporter: one traffic accident's fatality blamed on the storm as blizzard conditions swept in monday evening. it only got worse overnig