we've distributed over 4,000 pair of sneakers to south africa, south america, the caribbean, and appalachia, all areas, even in our own country, where there's just raw sewage. and these children are dying or losing limbs. >> we don't even think that that's possible, and it does -- it exists right here in our country. >> it's so sad. >> so, you think about that -- 4,000 pairs of shoes and how many diseases you've prevented just -- we think that, "oh, it's too difficult to prevent infections." something as simple as shoes on their feet prevents that. >> it was a simple idea with a great solution, and we want to keep doing this, keep it rolling forward, and one day cover a million pairs of feet, 10 million pairs of feet. and, you know, a great goal would be to have everybody in these emerging nations to have shoes on their feet. >> did you always want to start up a charity? >> you know, i've always been involved in charity and other people's charities. i sit on the board of st. mary's children's hospital. but i really wanted to do something that was my own. >> mm-hmm. >> i feel that i've been

, two counties that border appalachia.e in appalachia was adismal, winning, i think, 44% of the counties, less than any than two prior democratic cap dndidates had wo. that landscape is already difficult for democrats, and add on top of that the pain people are feeling, having not rebounded from the great depression in the same way other parts of the country have, and i think that landscape becomes a very tricky, troubling area for democrats, and i think that they are -- or any establishment candidate because i think people are generally upset with government and with the establishment and whether or not it is working for them, and so into that you can sweep a candidate like a donald trump or even a candidate like sanders, someone who speaks to a different reality that we can have if you just follow me and trust me. i think that's what's happening in those areas. >> very interesting. mj lee, charles, thank you so much for that. if you want to see more of the interview, go to cnn.com and click on politics. thank you, both.

we can lift up people and places who have been left out from our inner cities to appalachia. town, hollowed out when the factory closed, every community, scarred by substance abuse and addiction, every home where a child goes to bed hungry, that's what we democrats believe in. that's what we know is possible. so we will build on a strong progressive tradition from franklin roosevelt to barack obama. >>> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

we can lift out people and places that have been left out from our inner cities to appalachia. in every manufacturing town. every community scarred by substance abuse and addiction. every home where a child goes to that is what we democrats believe and that is what we know is possible. >> bernie sanders is vowing to stay in the race. despite the fact that he still trails behind clinton and tonight did not help. he told his supporters that it is not a so-called french campaign. seemingly he is the candidate that can be donald trump in november. >> the campaign is doing as well as it is with the extraordinary energy and enthusiasm that we are generating all across the country. take a look at this room here tonight, we have over 6000 people. [cheers] [applause] >> a lot of enthusiasm there for bernie sanders. clinton is still on solid footing in the democratic race. win the democratic nomination, including superdelegates. that number is of course going to go tonight. steve: for the latest developments log onto our website at fox 5 new york.com. dari: a lockdown triggered at the wh

the ceo of massie energy, the largest coal producer in appalachia he employed 5,800 people and operatedt do an interview with "60 minutes" for years he condoned and tolerated safety violations for the sack of profit. >> right up until the time the mine blew, that was the way the company was ran, everyone undered tunde understood. >> the corporate mentality that he instilled. >> that was the culture. >> profits over safety. >> he set the tone. he set the corporate culture. >> reporter: despite receiving daily reports of the high number of safety violations, prosecutors argued, blankenship did little to correct them because upper big branch was a moneymaker for massey earning $600,000 a day. and blankenship's pay was directly tide to every foot of coal mined. in his last three years at massey, blankenship's total compensation was $80 million. >> the men and women we talked to who work in the mine say the was absolutely understood and expected that if you worked at that mine, you were going to break the law in order to produce as much coal as possible as fast as and as cheaply as possible.

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this is the east side of the appalachia appalachians. take a look at these numbers. 80 degrees back towards jackson, kentucky. 79 down towards raleigh. 79 in charleston. they have severe weather going on. once it moves into the cool air mass, we see the result being showers. we have a few more showers tonight. 7:00 a.m., another tough rush. light to moderate rain developing. tomorrow morning. not a very nice friday. we'll see scattered showers mostly in the morning. most of the afternoon dry, but keep the umbrella handy for sure. temperatures around 52. only getting into the mid 50s again. staying rather cool. we stay well below average over the next seven days. saturday is dry, but still rather dreary. sunday, the rain could be heavy. this is something we're going to be watching very closely. we'll talk much more about this. veronica will see you guys back here at 5:45. i'm rocking the red. rocking the beard. >> today is a twofer. >> don't try to get a jersey. i know what you're doing. >> too many letters on that jersey. >>> police here

most effective lethal deadly fighting force in the world, you would probably go to some town in appalachia, and find the 30 town, anduys in the send them to fight. guess what? our military also represents we are as a nation, fund and -- fundamentally. it does in many respects. i think the idea of saying, this is the standard, and if you can make the standard, you are allowed in. the logic that we cannot integrate women into these units because you have the senior says who are behaving inappropriately, sexually assaulting women, i don't know what to say to that. that's not logical. by the same standard, that would get pregnant.en so, out of the law firms, we should have no women because they have to take maternity leave. catastrophic.e you are on a mission, and somebody is pulled out. it is catastrophic enough when someone is pulled out. >> [indiscernible] what about if a woman gets $30,000 toand is redefine her somewhere else. you have to pull out the guy. what beerould -- saying is we have such a low threshold for how human beings treat each other. that is ok, and we will leave it at that

if you wanted maximum combat effectiveness, you would have the white boys from appalachia. sir, would you stop heckling. at a certain point, our military does represent our values. it just does. that is why we repealed don't ask don't tell. how do we become more combat effective? we have units, and the culture of those units are representing what the united states stands for. >> the bottom line is, if you look at the marine corps, we're the service leading in the number of sexual assaults. we talk about the fact that we have cultural problems. one of the ways we make units more combat effective as we prevent people from doing stupid things, by disrespecting persons of the other sex just because they were girls, as dan would say. if we change the culture in the military and expand the quality of the pool we are drawing from, it will have an impact that is favorable or national security in terms of combat effectiveness. >> my comment is, i am trying to stay in the marine corps fight here. >> one little point before your story. what kate said assumes that the fault is all-male

stand for if not to help the poorest areas of appalachia? is a.r.c. a special agency with a coherent mission or is it just another federal bureaucracy that simply allocates funds among 13 selected states regardless of the need? i hope the vote last night will serve as a wakeup call for management at the a. r.c., a wakeup call that it's time for the agency to reform itself and focus on the counties that most need assistance. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. reid: it's difficult for me to be here today to talk about what i'm going to talk about. because i believe that the senate operates only when there's trust among the members of this body. a man that i served with, i have such great respect for said -- and that's the republican majority leader bob dole -- and i quote -- "i know, i know nothing else i did would matter very much if i ever forfeited the trust of my colleagues. as we all learned around here, if you don't keep your word, it doesn't make much difference what agenda you try to advance." close quote

you have scranton, philadelphia and pittsburgh and appalachia. >> when you look at the general election, pennsylvania has been reliably democratic. she needs to keep those folks in her column against a potential donald trump who has resonated with working class voters, who we also have a lot in pennsylvania. >> interesting. i noted in one of the reports from earlier, when she was in pennsylvania normally she's talking about gun control and how she wants to reduce gun crime and these kinds of things, yet there she was talking about how she had fired a gun as a little girl and all of a sudden she talked about how she understands hunters are there. does that work or do people see this is a little more than just election pandering? >> we heard both messages from her. earlier in the week she was also in philadelphia where there was an event with mothers who had lost children to gun violence and she was talking in a more urban setting about those effects of guns -- >> so when you have messages that are so divergent, does that work? >> i think so far she's still resonating with them based on t

the announcement coincides with clinton's planned campaign swing through appalachia next week where she's scheduled to stop in another battleground state, ohio. meanwhile, bernie sanders seems to be focused on making policy changes to the democratic platform. he expects support for federal $15 an hour minimum wage and a suggestion that more primaries should use an open format. today clinton supporters told "the hill" she plans to take a hard line and won't bow to being demands from sanders. the vast majority of democrats in the pennsylvania primary said they'd definitely vote for clinton in november if she is the nominee, but actors like george takei want to remind democrats that bernie or bust is a mistake. joining me now, human rights activist and actor, george takei. mr. takei, it looks like trump is the most likely nominee. what have your feelings been as you've watched all this unfold? >> well, i think we all should support the candidate that we feel closest to. and in the primary, we need to support the candidate that we find to be the best one. i respect bernie supporters and liber

we can lift up people and places who have been left out from our inner cities to appalachia. in every manufacturing town, hollowed out when the factory closed, every community scarred by substance abuse and addiction, every home where a child goes to bed hungry, that's what we democrats believe in. that's what we know is possible. so we will build on a strong progressive tradition from franklin roosevelt to barack obama. and i applaud senator sanders and his millions of supporters for challenging us to get unaccountable money out of our politics and giving greater emphasis to closing the gap of inequality. and i know together, we will get that done. because whether you support senator sanders or you support me, there's much more that unite us than divides us. we all agree that wages are too low and inequality is too high. that wall street can never again be allowed to threaten main street. and we should expand social security, not cut or privatize it. we democrats agree that college should be affordable to all and student debt shouldn't hold anyone back. we democrats agree th

we can lift up people in places who have been left out from our inner cities to appalachia. in every manufacturing town hollowed out when the factory closed, every community scarred by substance abuse and addiction, every home where a child goes to bed hungry. that's what we democrats believe in. that's what we know is possible. so we will build on a strong progressive tradition from franklin roseosevelt to barack obama. and i applaud senator sanders and his millions of supporters for challenging us to get unaccountable money out of our politics and giving greater emphasis to closing the gap of inequality. and i know together we will get that done. because whether you support senator sanders or you support me there's much more that unites us than divides us. we all agree that wages are too low and inequality is too high that wall street can never again be allowed to threaten main street, and we should expand social security not cut or privatize it. we democrats agree that college should be affordable to all and student debt shouldn't hold anyone back. we democrats agree that

>> so the number one endangered river basin was the chattahoochee flint and appalachia cola in the southeastiver that starts north of atlanta is the chattahoochee river. it's one of the smallest rivers that provides drinking water to a major mel pop tan in the united states. the problem is we just don't have enough water to go around. >> what steps do you think would increase that. we saw in rob recommend go ahead's report farmer saying you need to capture more water, how does that happen? >> we have a lot of state and local leaders here that are advocating for the construction of more damns. we have more than 10 dams on the river and hundreds of other smaller reservation on the tributaries that drain to the river. the last thing we need is another dam. what we need to be doing is focusing on the low-hanging fruit and the cheaper fixes such as increasing conservation, fixing leaks in water lines and over al doing a better job of utilizing the precious water resource. in periods of drought we use and have enough to go around. >> i gather in the area you are talking about there is a legal disp

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negatively impacted by the economic downturn and continues assaults against coal producing states in appalachia. i visited the blue stone dan in hinton west virginia. it is a marvel built in the late 1940's and completed in the 1950's but we must maintain and modernize to make sure we have the safest and the most technologically superior dams and prevention of flooding. it's important -- the importance to the blue stone dam to the surrounding area and all of west virginia cannot be overstated. it's protecting the neighboring capital city of charles town where i live from massive and catastrophic flooding. this bill provides construction funds for projects like blue stone as well as operation and maintenance funds for hundreds of locks and dams across the country, including many in my state besides blue stone, elkins. disappointingly the president's budget cut funding for the corps of engineers. i don't know how you can do that. that irresponsible action is eliminated in this bill. we restore the cut and fund the army corps of engineers by more than $1 billion above the president's request. a sm

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chief mccullen continued the fighting by seeing bart town county earned inclusion in the appalachia program we called hide-a in 2014. it is not another government acronym but a model that works. it kupls state and local -- it couples state and local tax forces with the technology they need. by getting them included in the hida program he brought power to fight drug trafficking and keep the citizens of barts town safe. it's been an honor to work with him over the years. he received an award in 2015 and i know the people of the county appreciate his diligence and determination to fight crime and to keep them safe. so i want to thank him for his service to barts town, to kentucky, and to the nation. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. reid: mr. president, i appreciate the republican leader talking positively about the energy bill. we call it energy efficiency the last two congresses, when we tried so hard under the direction of senator shaheen from new hampshire to get this done. we tried so very, very hard. we had many runs at it. promises from the repub

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effective lethal deadly fighting no, sir the world you would probably go to, you know, some town in appalachiafind the 30 toughest guys in that town who have grown up hiking the mountains, would look the exact same and send them overseas to fight and they would be the best. definitely. but guess what? our military also represents who we are as a nation. like fundamentally, it does in many aspects, it does in many respects and i think the idea of just saying this is the stan sta -- standard, period and if you can make the standard you are allowed in here. so the logic that we can not integrate women into these units because you have senior officers who are behaving inappropriately, sexually assaulting women i don't know what to say to that, that's not logical. it doesn't make any sense. by that standard in saying -- >> it's everybody in all -- >> but women get pregnant. so by that logic, women get pregnant so at elite law firms -- >> it's a higher risk -- >> -- we should take no women because. >> that would be catastrophic. >> to get pregnant is catastrophic? >> you're on a mission and somebody

. >> it's -- for so many people -- and by the way, it's not just drug addicts in appalachia. >> no.ue. i love to gauge the room. how many trump supporters. six people raised their hand and two pulled it down again. there were the few others who didn't raise their hand but were. >> put them up later. >> the super pac ad with the woman who says, you know, it's not very popular. it's a little ham-handed. they could have done it better. if i am the trump campaign that's the message i would be touting. >> security, security, security. >> you know what, it's not cool, it's not popular but i'll tell you why i am for it. >> people talk about his gaffes as though the things he said in the media there were the story. it's the things he said that made his supporters embarrassed in their communities and the schools. the supporters feeling that they had to wince in acknowledging that he is still their guy. that was the damage he did to himself. not an editorial board indictment of his comments. >> i do think the last two weeks have been the first time -- >> hard on the supporters. >> hard-core t

we've tried them in rural appalachia for 40 years, and yet we still have persistent poverty. many of us believe that we would have a better chance with poverty if we would lower taxes in these areas, lessen regulation and instead of sending the money to washington, leave it where the poverty is. my bill alone would leave $500 million in eastern kentucky, $200 million in louisville. we've had much discussion of flint, michigan and the water problem there. my bill would leave $124 million in flint, michigan next week. my bill would leave over $1 billion in detroit. if there are those in this body who can come together and say that we have a unified presence and a unified ability and desire to combat poverty, this is the bill to do it. it's called economic freedom zones, and i hope we'll get bipartisan support in favor of leaving money in these impoverished communities to help them get started again. thank you. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. ms. cantwell: mr. president, i urge my colleagues -- the presiding officer: the senate will

economic growth of the appalachia region. otherwise, mr. president, this is a tough area. and if we were committed to economic growth in this country, i would urge my colleagues to reject the ernst amendment. the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. feinstein: mr. president, i rise to support the comments of the distinguished senator from the state of maryland. i must say when i first came to the senate, i looked at these perhaps with not as full an understanding of them as i have now. but i think the committee supports it, the bill supports it, the appropriations committee supports it. so i certainly agree with you and support you. thank you very much, mr. chairman. the presiding officer: the senator from mississippi. a senator: i rise to speak on the amendments for three minutes if i might. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. wicker: mr. president, i appreciate that. first of all, i don't think the senate is going to pass the ernst amendment because we authorized, reauthorized this important a.r.c.

strung 45-foot wind mill towers along the entire 2178-mile stretch of the ap labor ya trail -- appalachia trail, you may say that's a stretch but that's exactly where the wind towers would most likely go, on our scenic mountaintops where more wind blows and then the transmission lines come down the mountaintops through your backyard. so, mr. president, my objection today is a very simple one. i think $23 billion is enough to spend on wind mills. i have other objections to wind. i think we should focus instead on nuclear power instead of unreliable wind power. i believe trying to use wind turbines to power a country that uses 25% of all the electricity in the world is the energy equivalent of going to war in sailboats when the nuclear navy is available. but certainly i think there is no need at all for senators to say yes to an amendment that spends more money for wind than our subcommittee recommended. we're already spending $23 billion. the taxpayers have been bamboozled into allowing that to happen, and i don't think they would want us to spend more. mr. president, i yield the floor. a