our theme was appalachia strong. we had the question what does appalachia strong mean? i think people are strong. that's what i would say to anybody, to a leader, to a person, by golly to an american. we've been through worse. we can get through this too. this is a great nation of strong people who came here to make something and in this part of a country in a hard wilderness. we can and will thrive together. >> i think my message would be that appalachia needs to embrace what it is and not try to be somebody else. it's got incredible natural resources, incredible beauty. a lot of communities are try to focus on tourism. it's frustrating when i see communities thinking about, like, we got to get some employers in here. we'll build another building and throw it up and see if we can bring a plant in and hire 350 people. you're 60 miles from the nearest interstate. you don't have rail or barge. you're not even making a lot of those cut offs for those types of jobs. what do you have? look at those resources. one of the things it requires solving the broadband piece. one of

overdoses was 72% higher in appalachia counties compared to nine appalachian counties. overdosed threats in several states of the region are among the highest in the nation. this is a tragedy on a human level that impact in one way or another every person living in our communities throughout the region. but another thing i noticed from the moment i took office as the federal co-chairman of a.r.c. was the toll these grim statistics take not only in lives lost but also the impact on economic opportunity. substance abuse robs our workforce of healthy, ready workers, deprives our local governemtns of resources. a.r.c. is an economic development entity. that's our congressionally mandated mission, but i realize we couldn't address the economic challenges faced by many in the region without giving attention to the substance abuse challenge. it was the elephant in the room requiring us to think hard about how we as a.r.c. could help communities respond. our partnership is a part of that and the may report yielded important recommendations. most essential being local leadership

outside of appalachia who have that epidemic of substance use and addiction as they look forward? >> look at not only what you have now but what is coming. especially appellation next its hiv epidemic and all the other problems with hepatitis c in the public health crisis we have following the opioid wiisis in my state alone we have 28 communities to 20 identified by the cdc at risk for hiv outbreak one of those is mine. we are not testing enough to not getting out there ahead of this so to the administration and those in between focus on what is coming and not what is. were dealing with opioids we are shifting to math and heroin and the public health crisis so deal with it and know what is coming. >> looking at the benefit is the fact all the different communities that are working together to combat this issue. and how i feel i don't think it is the end all it give someone a second chance but we have to move past that. but what has happened is all the agencies, police , schools, or county village have come together to be prepared for an event if it happens there. so they are trai

room listening to them like we couldn't see dolly's america clearly and to we met the kids from appalachia and who were really thinking about her and and and feeling her like both in pain and in pride you know what it means just to get on the south you know just to jump in i mean i think she was absolutely right and it's also i mean just to to bring not to helen i mean you know what i hope this podcast is that's part of a like. a new wave of dolly ologists people who are like baking really seriously but dolly taking her seriously because she has is that it's not you made up is that a real term well it was a term that i 1st of all it is i think she is the 1st dolly ologist to my knowledge the 1st person to really sort of like. talk seriously about about dolly and like you know to think about what does she mean to america what does she mean to our culture and we sort of like are following in her footsteps really so helen helen you got it helen has to pick up from there you are the dalai ologist talk to us about what that means to you. but the greatest honor. so but i think one of the fantast

appalachia is known for many different kinds of food.e are known for our local foods, we are known for foods like pawpaws. but west virginia specifically is home to the pepperoni roles. is a smallni roll piece of due that envelops -- a small piece of dough that envelops a piece of steak or pepperoni. the pepperoni roll was inspired by the coal miners in the area. in west virginia, we had a huge italian immigrant population. they were interested in some sort of meal they could take stable,und that was delicious, easy, and portable. somewhere along the lines between 1927 and 1938, we advised the pepperoni roll. it is gaining popularity not only within the borders of the state, but even further outside of the state. we see poppy up ash crony roles pop up in washington -- pepperoni roles pop up in washington d c. it is rooted in our culture and our industry. because it has roots in our coal mining history, it really means a lot more to us. we are seeing appalachian food go all over the place. you can see our dickinson restaurants in large ci

appalachia is known for many different kinds of food. so we're known for our local meats, we're known for fruits like paw-paws. we're known for rams. but west virginia specifically is home to the pepperoni roll. small peroni roll is a piece of dough that envelopes a spicy stick or slice of pepperoni. the pepperoni roll was inspired by the coal miners in the area. in north central west virginia, we had a huge italian immigrant population. and they were interested in some sort of meal that they ould take underground that was self-stable, delicious and easy and portable. so somewhere along the lines, between 1927 and 1938 we devised the pepperoni roll. the pepperoni roll is really gaining popularity not only within the borders of the state, but even further outside of the state. so we see pepperoni rolls pop up in washington, d.c., we've seen pepperoni rolls in pennsylvania and ohio. but i think that what makes it really special is that it's really rooted in our culture and our industry. because it has roots in our coal mining history, it r

different pockets, different parts of the district are doing better than other parts, mining areas in appalachia, they are not doing as well as other parts of my district. when we assess where the economy is going, you try to assess various geographies. one of the things that we heard from the areas that have not experienced as big of a boost to .ther areas as the extension continues, we see more people in the labor market, making the labor expansion broad in terms of who is benefiting. those are things that we will continue to assess. by keeping the expansion go in, that will get to those areas, or that they will be kind of left behind and there is not a lot the fed can do about it? loretta: two things going on. certainly, in the numbers, when you talk to people, they have been bringing people into the workforce. the fact that the expansion has continued, more people are joining the workforce. it has helped those areas. the concern is how sustainable that is. are some long-run structural issues that the country has to do with, including education. we know a lot of people don't have access to ed

people of puerto rican background, mexican-americans, american indians, all kinds of people from appalachia and various other parts of the country. so the idea that you could combine all of these different ethnic and racial backgrounds into one unified message was yet another challenge that they faced in making it successful in washington. >> i'm interested in this sort of writer's question. you break him of of that magnetd get into all of the dimensions. what would be the moment he felt the most personal connection to king when yo you yourself having lived this filled the emotions yourself that surprised you? >> that is a good question. i think i would say to understand his courage it is towards the end of the mountaintop speech. coming to terms with it and being willing to talk about it so openly i really felt a great emotional identity or compassion within and it was thinking about that and about the enormous pressure he was under in fear foand fearfor his life the nighe was killed and i think that is the moment but it's a very good question. >> i used to do eulogies and they talked abou

and babies in appalachia, and the south side of chicago, babies in ethiopia. i am a christian minister. to me love looks like in public and private are the same. so many freedom things. we could go on and on. >> talk a little bit about respect to african-americans. i think that part of what you describe is a kind of historical amnesia for the fact that doctor king was not always well loved within the black community. and he said pretty remarkable pole. from late in his life the says that 55 percent of african-americans did not support doctor king on vietnam and in poverty. many of the poverty part that caught me offguard. >> that's true. it's very sad man sending 2 percent of americans across the board, all colors and 55 are black people disapprove of martin. then with whitney young, black freedom movement, martin looked at it and said what you say might get you money from corporations. typical interest struggle in black leadership. this is over where to go. and martin was saying to corporations are not going to dictate what my conscious actually is. >> i know

we had people love puerto rican background with american indians, and people are from appalachia. and with those different racial backgrounds is yet another challenge that they face to make a successful campaign in washington. >> thank you. >> so you humanize keying in the book. and in those final moments so with you saw the most personal connection to king? and then to feel emotions yourselves and when i began to understand his courage. and coming to terms with it and then to talk about it so open the. and to have that emotional identity and then those enormous pressures he was under. and i think that is the moment. >> king abernathy they thought about their deaths obviously they were attracting death when king says the way it is different from teddy parker the century before so to suffer the physical death of bigotry and racism. one of the biggest elements of the speech and then say do not be deterred the arc of the universe is long but what i worry about but to carry that free cognition and how that comes to a moment here that really echoes to it and to that moment and then to

that is mostly appalachia or white people, that is where you will find a high correlation in opioids, trump support in the primary. it is tied up to the lack of religion. and seeking some other form of identity which could be whiteness. >> i don't think i am a good person to answer that question but i would say, how i saw it flipped on its head in a negative way, and ugly way was why are blacks allowed to be proud of their race and i'm not? people have said that to me. if you are sitting at a bar at applebee's and the person excuses that after eight beers you can start talking about privilege, social structures, talk about cultural capital, talk about majority and minority or simply say it is the right thing to do. >> my answer would be if you identified as polish no one would hold that against you. we still have difficulties because there are days when irish kids beat up the polish kids, beat up the jewish kids. the whiteness is replacing other identities specifically religion. >> french, canadian, american. >> they would most likely be trump voters. i will say to this point when i g

and happy to report, we also see decline in counties in the state of maine and across appalachia in the number of neonatal abstinence syndrome babies being born or getting into treatment right away. while we're on the topic, i think what we're talking about today is part of the president's overall health care vision because he's done things like improve kidney health initiative. we're alts going to be doing maternal mortality which is way up in this country. the highest -- one of the highest in developed countries. and in increasing. we're working on rural care. and i think the country wants to have another protracted conversation or argument about health insurance and health care. we want to put the health care back in health care which means improving health outcomes and curing disease. that's why we're here today. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> clerk will call the roll. >> mr. cohen. >> aye. >> there are 23 ayes and 17 noes. >> the article is agreed to. >> article 1 is adopted. >> afforded more rights to jesus that the democrats have afforded this president. >> the presid

snow for the northeast and rounds of snow, three to six across parts of the interior northeast and appalachia> good morning. starting out with fog and mild temperatures and a few scattered showers as a weak cold front works through the bay area this morning and partly cloudy this afternoon. freezing temperatures by sunday morning. highs today 59 in oakland, 60 in concord. it's a cold night tonight. several sunny days and the next chance of rain tuesday. better chance of rain by friday. >>> hello, 2020. we'll talk about the first two weeks of the year. it's looking awfully warm. >> ooh, i like that. >> i do like that. >> perk you up there. >> it's a little perk. >> make him pay attention. >> come on, harris. >> yeah, somebody give me some coffee. >>> janai is here with the story of some firefighters right here in new york city coming to the rescue but not in their usual way. >> no, so this is different. this story starts with a new year's proposal. we've seen a couple of those, of course. danny tate popping the question at the stroke of midnight in prospect park. she said yes. check out the vi

but a large part of that was a rate down they already pre-announced due to their gas prices in appalachiahave been horrible. they did wind up producing 3 million barrels a day of oil equivalent. that was the good part. great permian production, but their downstream earnings were week, down 22% year on year. we will chat about that in just a second. caterpillar also adding to that gloom. we look at the outlook and what it says about the global economy in today's bottom line. bloomberg users, all of the charts we use are on gtv on your terminal. this is bloomberg. ♪ viviana: this is "bloomberg daybreak." i'm viviana hurtado with your bloomberg business flash. british with struggling luxury carmaker ashton martin. it received a $600 million lifeline. the company agreed to sell its stakes to a canadian billionaire. his consortium will contribute to a rights issue major shareholders support. aston martin will use the money to shore up its balance sheet and build a new suv. the maker of rental trapped raising 1.2 billion dollars in ipo. --nolds consumer products the offered value of the co

or a kid and i want to get that, or a kid in compton, for a kid and appalachia. if they succeed, the country is better off, everyone is better off every time a kid succeeds. it helps us all. iere is something else that really care about in terms of education. k-12 by localfor property taxes. what that means is, if you are from a rich neighborhood, you have high property taxes, more money for school. if you are from a low income and neighborhood, there is less money for school. doesn'tral government something, title i, to equilibrate at that, give money to school districts in low income neighborhoods, but it is $500 a kid. ideaal is to restore the that every kid is going to get a real chance. we spend $70 billion at the federal level on education. we should be spending more. in my heart of hearts, i think every kids needs, universal pre-k, kindergarten, you cannot start early enough on kids. that is the best investment we will ever make any young americans. in my heart of hearts, especially given the racial disparities in our country, i want to give kids a chance

history of this paid we all were excited that there was an opportunity and by the way i come from appalachiaand from blue-collar world and my brother is a smoker and i understand. it is a very addictive behavior and it was exciting at the beginning to think look there's an opportunity for people to get off tobacco and at that point we were winning when he came with kids but the people who are buying the product was 18 outs. they do not have a generation coming up and then the truth is they pocketed kids and paid influencers on social media to make it look cool and then we have a problem again. many of the same people are in cahoots with the marijuana industry in the tobacco industry. we get -- [inaudible] >> i like your original solution but i think we ban all flavors and take the age two to 200 your point earlier was correct. when you make it illegal there's always the black market but we can say that about anything red you could say that about heroin. we can make it legal and say that about opioids and sell it and there's always going to be so i don't know if that works. >> mr. president,

we all were excited that there was an opportunity -- either way, i come from appalachia. a blue-collar world, my brother is a smoker. i understand it is a very addictive behavior. it was exciting at the beginning to think there is an opportunity for people to get off of tobacco. at that point, we were winning when it came to kids. the people who were buying their products were aging out. generationt have a coming up behind them until they came up with e-cigarettes and the truth is, they targeted kids. they paid influencers on social media to make it look cool and suddenly we had a huge problem again. by the way, many of these same people are in cahoots with the tobacco industry. we get money from nobody. trump: so what is your suggestion? >> i like your original solution. we ban all flavors, we make it 21. and even your point earlier was correct. when you make something illegal, there is always a black market. we could say that about anything. we could say that about heroin. we could make it legal. we could say that about opioids. there's always going to be something ille

behalf of the association of counties in the appalachian region, i want to welcome you to opiates in appalachiant. i am boone county kentucky judge executive perry more. i am also the co-chair of the

behalf of the association of counties in the appalachian region, i want to welcome you to opiates in appalachiaapstone event. i am boone county kentucky judge executive perry more. i ls