you see it in the mountain area here, appalachia in west virginia on down into georgia.u also saw it in the ozark mountains in this area, missouri to arkansas, and then it was really prevalent and concentrated here on the frontier, missouri, kansas, where it had existed even before the war obviously. again, that was just -- if you research the topic, it is just an absolute mess and it really was a free-for-all. some of those ways that they fought continued on until after the war, but before you can understand what it morphed into after the war you have to understand that this mindset actually existed even before the war. when the british army and the revolutionary war landed in south carolina and started marching north to virginia, they encountered guerilla warfare and guerilla fighter after guerilla fighter. most well-known would be the swamp fox, frances marion. he was not the only one they encountered. they dealt with guerilla warriors up into virginia. on the frontier you had bleeding kansas, you've got the whole fight over the settlements, of making the states betwe

clean energy group, he claims thousands of jobs could be created cleaning up these sites across appalachiaey want to work and live not dislocating them to places they don't want to be. >> now president biden's bipartisan infrastructure framework sets aside $16 billion to help. >> federal government is talking about pumping monies into states to plug oil and gas wells. what would it mean for pennsylvania? >> it would be huge. they have the public safety aspect, the stock and pollution, the jobs for contractors and citizens who come out and do this work, it will be huge. >> but progress is slow. with no end in sight to the danger. jeff berardelli, cbs news, bradford, pennsylvania. >> and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you the news continues, for others check back a bit later for cbs this morning or follow us online any time at i' catheer >>> it's wednesday, june 30th, 2021. this is the "cbs morning news." investigating the collapse. the search continues for survivors of a florida condo disaster, but severe storms could be on the way hampering rescuers. >>> buckled

she investigated housing in appalachia and then work to get experimental communities homesteads open. she wrote a column, of course. nobody no first lady ever had a my day column. she testified before congress congressional committees. she was invited more than once and but she testified twice. that was the first time anybody had done that so she really broke the most she showed the possibility in the job. really? i think that's what we can say. she showed what a president's wife could do add to his legacy. it also on her own. when did the practice of a first lady having a public initiative begin? and which of those initiatives have been the most successful and which ones have received some pushback? well, i think from the beginning president's wives have often taken on some sort of charity or goodwill work, you know visiting an orphanage in washington or later being a sponsor of girl scouts or something like that ellen wilson, for example the first wife of woodrow wilson was very active in getting housing reform in washington dc, but i think you can say that the real the public initi

so i know about appalachia fire. i started actually as an undergrad working for the daniel boone national forest and learned technical skills. as a first generation student, that was really important for me as a pipeline into graduate school at the university of maryland to have that applied workforce working on fire risk modeling because of the southern pine beetle infestation and that's one of the reasons why i was able to get a graduate assistanceship from a small school in appalachia because i had worked on these types of on-the-ground management, stem skills in computing and data science. and so i didn't come from a -- very prestigious undergraduate institution, though it is great. and so that helped me in that pipeline. so i do think that throughout holistically the wildfire science community, this is a good way to get anyone from anywhere, you know, whether they're a woman or a man, nonbinary, to get involved. because we are welcomed. this is a problem, you know, across all 50 states. i would just say that and

whether it's an old industrial city or a college town, whether it's indian country or appalachia, local leaders understand how proud people are of their hometowns. they want their town to be successful, they want their communities to grow and attract jobs. they don't want families to behe told to pick up and leave to find better opportunities. they don't want to lose workers forced out by rising housing costs. and mayors also know the many opportunities we can unleash, if we make a once-in-a-generation investment to rebuild our country's infrastructure. they know what their communities need. they know the transit project that would revitalize a neglected neighborhood and bring new residents and customers to main street. they know where there arect shovel-ready projects that would build new houses workers can actually afford. they know where lead pipes andnd lead paint are still poisoning kids today, in america in the year 2021, and they know the building trades workers that are ready to get to work replacing those water lines and retrofitting those homes. and mayors understand how all o

so why did she do, she investigated housing in appalachia, and work to get experimental communities homestead open. she wrote a column, no first lady ever had in my day column. she testified before congress, the congressional committees and she was invited more than once, and that was the first time anybody had done that. she showed the possibility in the job. i think that's what we can say. she showed why presidents white could do, and to his legacy but also on their own. >> when did the practice of a first lady, having a public initiative begin? which of those initiatives have been the most successful, and which ones have received some for some pushback? >> i think from the beginning, the president wives have often taken on some kind of charity or goodwill work, looking at you not going to orphanage in washington, leader being a sponsor of girl scouts or something like that. the first wife of woodrow wilson, was active in getting housing reform in washington d.c.. but i think you can say the public initiative, as you call it started with ladybird johnson. with her beautification project. wh

if any of you viewers have read agee's work, there is a brick in the 1930s, a detailed life in appalachiapoor part of the united states, that's what i thought northern alabama was like. my mindset was this is a really poor area still meant i got to permit alabama and i landed on a modern international airport in huntington -- huntsville, i'm sorry. northern alabama, i was taken to a city, a small and alabama, up the tennessee river and it was a delightful place, people were wonderful. it was a four star international hotel on the health and i was blown away so this is a part of a country that came as a complete surprise to me and i got interested in the fact that it was actually very prosperous, up to date. there are more square mile in northern alabama than any other part of the rest, at least at that time. space research and international air culture research and all of this stuff going on. anyway, i was fascinated. i gave my talk and on the way out of town, i'm getting ready to go back to the airport to fly back home and a local fellow from my driver picked me up and we were heading to

in particular , but others, disproportionately huge amounts of opioids into several zip codes in appalachiah? widespread addiction per you could say that's because the coal business is dying, probabl there is truth and that, but th deeper truth is if you push addictive chemicals into the face of people, some percentage will take them and become addicted. it's a supply and demand question, but supply is a big part of it, why wouldn't it be? >> kennedy. i respectfully disagree. >> how about without respect disagreeing. how many junkies are there in kuwait. >> the rate in prohibition. to get the murder rate doubled in prohibition and went down when prohibition ended. i want to ask you an economics question because obviously that part of the world, most of the transactions in this el salvado are cash because people don't have bank accounts and they don't have. he wants to make bitcoin the legal tender of el salvador, what could they do to revitaliz that economy and make it competitive and in nontraditional way. >> that is a great question tha i don't know the answer because there's no precedent

get anything done before they lose the house and senate in the midterm, is biden's agenda lost in appalachiath you. some people are saying joe mansion just loves that he has so much power and he's just going to abuse it, but what's really going on here? >> many people are saying that here. i think what's going on here is relatively simple. virginia voted overwhelmingly for trump. he is listening to the people of west virginia more than chuck schumer and that's the bottom line. i wouldn't even hold him up to somebody who is a grand principle moderate although in some things he is. he's been consistent in his support of the filibuster over the years, but this is just a simple exercise of democracy. he represents a state that is in many ways opposed to a lot of the more radical pieces of the democratic agenda. he's sort of a dinosaur, you might put jim webb on the binary stage back primary stage back in 2016 that said the enemy he would make is that communists who threw a grenade at him in vietnam. i find these things very charming but i realized i am not the typical democrat, i'm not a democra

read james work let us now praise famous men it was the book in the 1930s that detailed life in appalachia in this course part of the united states and that was what ithought northern alabama was aslike . my mindset was this is a really poor area still. and then i got to northern alabama, branded as a modern international airport in the town of huntington. i'm sorry, huntsville northern alabama. i was taken to a city of all cities called florencealabama . and florence was a delightful place. the people were wonderful. it was a four-star international hotel up on the hill and i was blown away. so this was part of the country came as a complete surprise to me and i got interested in the fact that it was actually very prosperous. it was up-to-date. there are more views per square mile innorthern alabama than any part of the united states . it's the site of space research and international agricultural research. and there's all this stuff going on so anyway i was fascinated . i did my talk from the way out of town. i'm like getting ready to go back to the airport. and fly back home to oregon.

what we're doing is harming individuals, societies, whole regions like appalachia have suffered froms. we're breaking up families. there is no good coming from our drug laws. they protect no one, they hurt many. therefore, i propose entire decriminalization, complete overhaul of the drug laws everywhere. >> okay. >> it has to start with the feds, of course. look at nbc's reporting, house reintroduces bill to decriminalize cannabis and create social equity programs. they write that after voting overwhelming last year to decriminalize cannabis at the federal level, leaders reintroduced a bill friday to strike marijuana from the list of controlled substances and invest in communities affected by the so called drug war, the act of 2021, known as the moore act would eliminate criminal penalties, clear criminal records and create social equity programs focused on repairing damages to individuals and communities impacted by legislation. the bill failed to advance last year in the senate where a companion bill also died. a second senate bill is expected, they write, the second senate bill is

cross-section of this country whether it's industrial city or college town are india and country or appalachia local leaders understand how proud people are of their hometowns. they want their town to be successful and they want them to grow and attract jobs. they don't want families to be told to pick up and leave. they don't want to lose workers forced out by rising housing costs. mayors know the opportunistic and then we simply make a once in a lifetime investment in her of the structure but they note that communities need in the transit projects would revitalize the neglected neighborhood and bring new customers to main street. they know where their a shovel-ready project where you can build houses that workers can afford and they no led point -- lead paint still is poisoning children in the year 2021 and building trades are ready to to get to work replacing wire lines to homes. mayors understand how jobs and infrastructure are inseparable. you can't create the former without the latter. we know for business decides where to build a look at the destruction they want to know if there is bro

tester's book i read that in the '40s they were still electrifying parts of montana from the plains to appalachia to the deep south we didn't ask each mayor to come up with their own grid or build their own dam. when we built the highway system we didn't ask every county to foot the pill for its stretch of road. we became the world's large he is economy with the strongest middle class because we came together to inves in great national projects that joined us all together as one country. we didn't ask workers and their families to foot the bill. stock buy backs climb, corporate profits soar, yet america's states and cities from akron to boseman to tempe, america's states and cities and towns scrape by each year making hard choices about their budget. they don't want to short change public safety so wait another year to replace aging buses. they don't want to cut teacher's salary so there is no tune to rehabilitate homes in my slavic village. i hear over and over to attract good jobs we need more resources, moments workers can afford and ways for them to get to work. today we will hear from mayor

i represent one of the most rural parts of the country, appalachia.hether it is broadband services or legitimate infrastructure, i see a region right for investment. but we are spending over 22 times more money on children in these emergency facilities than our own children's education here in america. it looks to me we are putting the children of other countries above the children in places like steubenville, pomeroy, and candace, ohio. if those numbers are true, if that is 775 dollars per child versus $35 per child is true, that is a 22 times difference. would you agree we have our priorities in the wrong place? ms. chang: i apologize -- i have this elevator music. rep. johnson: let me ask again because i want you to hear the question. we are spending 20 times more money on these children and emergency facilities that our own children in america. would you agree that is a disparity? ms. chang: what i would emphasize is that hhs is following the law. rep. johnson: that's an opinion. i understand what the biden rules are and that is what has gotten us

in the heart of appalachia, practicing public health in virginia might look different from public health and other parts of the country but what all local health departments have in common is the shared goal of protecting and promoting the health of the community. the response to the pandemic has been the epitome of what the public health does for the community. we know the community as well including the barriers to care, distinct local culture, the living situations that might pose challenges as well as the community level partners and organizations that must be included to be successful. we live in our community and serve our neighbors. in the fall of 2020 prior to the authorization of the vaccines the region experienced a surge of hospitalizations and deaths. our area experiences disproportionately poor health outcomes due to chronic disease and elderly populations and limited healthcare access. in the winter, this strict caseload spiked [inaudible] contact tracing we advised schools to go virtual and local hospital capacity teetered on the brink of being overrun. at the peak of the

what we're doing is harming individuals, societies, whole regions like appalachia have suffered fromhis. we are breaking up families. there is no point to our drug laws. they protect no one, and they hurt many. therefore, i propose entire decriminalization, a complete overhaul of the drug laws everywhere. it has to start with the feds. host: all right. look at nbc's reporting. house introduces bill to decriminalize cannabis and create social equity programs. they write that after voting overwhelmingly last year to decriminalize cannabis at the federal level, congressional leaders reintroduced a bill friday to strike marijuana from the list of controlled substances and invest in communities disproportionately affected by the so-called drug war. the marijuana opportunity reinvestment and expungement act of 2021 would also eliminate criminal penalties, clear criminal records and create social equity programs focused on repairing damage to individuals and communities impacted by decades of prohibition. the bill was introduced by judiciary committee chair jerry natalie -- jerry nadler, de

inner-city community that has been left behind as well as rural coal-mining towns and parts of appalachia. can you tell us what the rationale was that these types of communities are identified for investment? >> congressmen the president has put forward an executive order that calls on the government to look through all of its lenders as we implement programs to make sure we don't leave any communities behind. we have huge investments in the discretionary request to make sure as we put coal communities in those jobs and we want to make sure we don't leave anyone behind in this budget. >> thank you so much for testimony. statement the gentleman's time has expired and i now recognized the gentleman from missouri the ranking member mr. smith for 10 minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman k.. given china's negligence for covid-19 america's gdp dropped by 2 million in the first half of 2020. the unemployment rate skyrocketed to 3.5% to 14.7% in two months. 21 million jobs were lost from every and april of 2020 and more than 600,000 americans died. given the detrimental economic effect of covid-19 w

i see a form of disparity in fairfield county where you used to live go into appalachia, ruby red districtsrica. >> rural america, represented by republicans. we're going to say folks this is a problem everywhere. and in the spirit of what we were talking about, no subject is going to create such an argument. i'm going to work hard to find even if it's a small overlap i'm going to find the area to address the problem. it's an american problem. >> congressman jim himes thank you very much for coming in this morning. coming up a look at where infrastructure negotiations stand on capitol hill. republican senator todd young joins us next and will weigh in on that. "morning joe" will be right back. as your business changes, the united states postal service is changing with it. with e-commerce that runs at the speed of now. next day and two-day shipping nationwide, and returns right from the doorstep. it's a whole new world out there. let's not keep it waiting. ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ oh! are you using liberty mutual's it's a whole new world out there. coverage customizer tool? sorry? well, since you

i represent kentucky, appalachia. i understand, i know people personally. i have relatives, i know lots of people who have lost their lives and families have been torn apart because of opioid. and i'm -- no one is more interested in holding people accountable than i am. but this committee hearing is just show. this is just show. if you want to bring the bill up, bring it up. but it's not this committee. so if the democrats are trying to create a narrative here, that's fake news, because the republicans support holding the sackler family accountable. what we have stated in this committee hearing that you tried to take out of context is that we have a crisis on the southern border. we are talking about the drug problem today when, as we speak, people are crossing that border with illegal drugs and the biden administration is doing nothing about it. even worse, the democrats on the oversight committee are doing nothing about it. we have had so many committee hearings since this border crisis has escalated. we've heard from so many across america in law enforce

i represent appalachia. understand i know people personally.i have relatives and i know a lot of people have been torn apart because of opioids. i know once more interested in holding people accountable than i am. butthis committee hearing is just show . this is just show you if you want to bring the bill up bring it up . but it's not the committee. so if the democrats aretrying to create a narrative here . let's huge because the republicans support holding the family accountable. what we have seated in this committee hearing that you tried to take out of context is that we have a crisis on the southern border. we are talking about the drug problem today when as we speak, keep crossing that her illegal drugs. the biden administration is doingnothing about a horse , the democrats on the oversight committee for doing nothing about it . so many committee hearings. this is as has. we've some from so many law enforcement that leading because the cross-border p every day. if anything pertaining to a committee hearing. we've asked read times and reque