now, to show you how this is challenged here in appalachia.here's pipelines that have been canceled or opposed in last five years. almost 10 paterson of u.s. gas supply and taking one of the biggest resources that we have and it's been challenged to get that to market right now as we speak there are still pipelines challenged mountain valley pipeline taking gas down out of the basin to the southeast challenged as we speak and build to the north, east, south or west and challenged unfortunately that means that we are selling the gas for discount here in appalachia and americans pay unnecessarily high prices across the country. >> to be clear, the challenge to those pipelines is coming from >> it's coming from a number of sources. particularly the -- there's a lot of environmental pressure on these pipelines. and quite simply because these environmentalists are concerned about the carbon footprint that comes with natural gas but unfortunately these people need to understand that natural gas is actually the biggest green initiative on the planet

for more than 10 years, the train conductor served passengers betweens, appalachia, in the southeast elevator, in the west, a 15 hour journey. but on february 24, life changed forever. as dawn broke news of the invasion broke to you comma blanca, a woman started to cry and said, have you heard anything? i said, no. she said that bombing me pro. i didn't believe it. i started to check facebook to check the news rollers, and it turned out that there was bombing old around ukraine. we arrived late to separation and we were told the evacuations would start. 11th, cavellas will, will the reports since then they haven't stopped. and neither has yvonne has worked every day and every night. now he lives on the train to russian troops have occupied his town. those 1st days with the hottest bo is fools of bodies over the train was already full in slippery jer. when we arrived in april, the platform was packed so many people. and cale started women children, there was so many in the carriage, william, at least a $100.00 to $150.00 people. voiceless voice spoke of his of louise with train's get

i visited some long covid patients in appalachia in virginia. there are other symptoms as well. what they tell us is that covid is a multisystem attacker, and long covid can manifest itself in very, very different ways among different people. frances: so you pinpointed a huge problem here. we have a vast range of symptoms that affect people differently. when i have seen it from the gao, the government accountability office, matches with ears. they say somewhere between 7.7 million people and 23 million people could have already been diagnosed. do you expect those numbers to go up? sen. kaine: i do. there are still people getting covid. even after vaccinations, people are getting new variants of covid. we don't know yet -- if you are already vaccinated, if you get covid, your symptoms are likely to be milder. that is great. but what we don't necessarily know is the correlation between mild covid symptoms and whether you get long covid or not. i had a very mild case of covid in late march of 2020 and into the early part of april. then, i gave covid to my wife. she had a very mild

that people, hundreds of civilians still trapped in mar, you, paul, could lead to city or for as appalachia. oh, so in ukraine, but it is all but decided yet. and a mayor of mario paul has said that nothing was certain as of now this is just a preliminary agreement. so it's very much still up in the air. over 6 and a half 1000000 people are displaced with in ukraine. irma, you spoke to some who come to live beef where you are, what are their main challenges that they're facing right now? well terry, yesterday i was at the station and i saw some people coming from the darnedest region and they had waited up until now because well, mostly down elderly people, i talked to a few elderly people who thought they could hold down to their houses and just now, with the new rush and no fancy, that just realised that there's simply no hope to stay safe in their own home. so de, come here in the western part of the country where did think there can be as safe for some of them have family there for the lucky ones. are but others have no prospects there, do not know what comes next and they are just very

i visited some long covid patients in appalachia in virginia. there are other symptoms as well. what they tell us is that covid is a multisystem attacker, and long covid can manifest itself in very, very different ways among different people. frances: so you pinpointed a huge problem here. we have a vast range of symptoms that affect people differently. when i have seen it from the gao, the government accountability office, matches with ears. they say somewhere between 7.7 million people and 23 million people could have already been diagnosed. do you expect those numbers to go up? sen. kaine: i do. there are still people getting covid. even after vaccinations, people are getting new variants of covid. we don't know yet -- if you are already vaccinated, if you get covid, your symptoms are likely to be milder. that is great. but what we don't necessarily know is the correlation between mild covid symptoms and whether you get long covid or not. i had a very mild case of covid in late march of 2020 and into the early part of april. then, i gave covid to my wife. she had a very mild

protesting against russians forces in the city of n gorda, the city is in little western part of appalachia or blossom. people took to the streets to protest against the presence of russian soldiers and the war in ukraine . soldiers, you smoke bombs and flesh grenades to disperse. little the city of a pin may kill if has been hit hard by russian strikes. i'll just hear him. ron con isn't far from a pin and tells us more about the scale of the devastation, the i mean, a village just outside of out of pain about kilometer or so away. but even here, the russian shelling has completely destroyed many buildings that used to be a petrol station and a cafe. ah, now residents are being allowed back in to the village just outside of at a pin. but even in that village, the houses have been destroyed, lives have been ruined. but once you get inside at a pin, this kind of damage becomes completely normal. we see so much of this heavy artillery selling also rockets and missiles of landed there. now the ukrainian force is on allowing residents to go back into abilene. they're still in the city trying to

have promised it, but my administration is actually delivering and revitalizing communities across appalachia. look, folks, i come from scranton, pennsylvania, where i was raised. the reason i got to delaware is coal died. my dad was not in the coal mines; he was in sales -- but the whole economy died. and, you know, you can understand why, in places like west virginia and southeastern pennsylvania, why people were worried about doing away with coal. you know, but it's their jobs; they wonder what they're going to do. but guess what. in the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the law is going to help us cap and seal abandoned mines -- there's thousands of abandoned mines -- cap and seal them. they're no longer going to see pollution in the air or the water. the law's putting abandoned mine workers to work at the same salary they were working digging the mines in the first place. there are several thousand of these wells that have to be capped. and they have to harvest the energy. and they're going to get paid. so, we've provided alternatives. they are manufacturing and installing solar panels whe

could make up some of the difference and that is boosting prices here central appalachia coal is at thence 2008 illinois basin coal topping 100 for the time according to s&p global market intelligence these two regions are seeing most increase in price since they have easier access to nt international marks and they are up 30% compared to the prior year according to bray mart now those numbers are expected to be even higher this month large u.s. producers including peabody energy, console and arch resources and alliance resources. but contracts are often long-term meaning these players might not capitalize on high spot prices right now. also important to know, that this is within the broader context of declining coal consumption. >> and does -- again looking at shares of btu, still down from where they were maybe four years ago. is that because of the secular story still looks troubled even with these latest price hikes. >> coal is on the outs and no one disagrees and some say this is a double-edged sword because the high prices will fuel transition to other fuel sources because nobody

there is clean water in every single community and every single community urban, rural, small town, appalachiaas access to high-speed internet. both the access and making sure it is affordable is what the infrastructure agreement does so people will have the tools to succeed in the 21st century economy. that is a significant accomplishment and that was led by president biden. by the way, in washington, for the last several decades, it was infrastructure week every other week and did ever happened until joe biden came to town in the context of his leadership at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. that in itself is a tremendous accomplishment. there is work to be done and i know house democrats led by speaker pelosi and democrats led by senator schumer are led by that work. with respect to the different component parts of the build back better acts, with a focus on lowering childcare costs, the high price of lifesaving prescription drugs, investing in the creation of affordable housing, continuing the transformative child tax credit payments that led to a more than 40% reduction in child poverty during th

he became a white male from appalachia who became angry and prone to throwing out conspiracy theories endorsed him. they are kindred spirits. at heart, they don't believe in anything. >> you make an interesting case. it's interesting when you put it that way that the book was saying, look how those people are and here's their problems, so at some level of observation or analysis, he had some familiarity with that, and then when that became the winning -- rather the losing ineloquent group, now he's cost playing them and acting as them in that way. then you have his link with the power structure. he won over trump. very telling that trump wanted to bring up the fact he had the recant everything and eat his words and as i said, prepare the finest linen for the naked dethroned emperor, which is the better lie. that's better than ji venn chi. a big lie robe can cover anything. then you have the tucker relationship. take a look. >> this is not false flattery. i don't think i ever met anybody who understands both worlds as well as you do. >> you have elites in the ruling class that plundere

folks have promised it but my administration has actually delivered revitalizing communities across appalachiaok, folks, i come from scranton, pennsylvania and i got to delaware, my dad was not in the coal mines, but he was in sales and the whole economy died. an you could understand why in places like west virginia and southeastern pennsylvania and why people were worried about doing away with coal. you know, but it is their jobs whax are they going to do. but guess, what, in the bipartisan infrastructure bill, they will help us cap abandoned mines, cap and seal then. no longer pollution in the air or the water. the law is putting a band of mine workers to work at the same salary they were working digging in the mines in the first place. there are several thousand of these wells that have to be capped. and they have to harvest the energy. and they're going to bet paid. so we've providing an alternative. the manufacturing installing solar panels where they once dug for coal. out here in the west, we're retiring power plants and clean hydrogen and making them economic hubs again and in the hear

appalachia, when your teeth fall out.re worse things. >> the discussion lit up the airwaves on the nationally syndicated radio show "the breakfast club" this week. >> that man had enough. how long do he have to be humble? >> reporter: the incident also spurred conversation about whether this was the appropriate way for smith to defend his wife, particularly over natural hair, a sensitive topic for many black women. >> black women were appreciative of the fact that someone stood up for their wife in a very big way on a global stage because you don't get to see that very often. you know, it really has been about feeling vulnerable in american society for a lot of these women and, again, particularly those with natural black hair. >> reporter: oscars producer will packer telling our t.j. holmes that this is a conversation that's long overdue while still calling out smith's behavior. >> it's a very valid conversation because black women as a whole don't feel protected and they haven't been protected, but you can't use it to j

of folks have promised it, but my administration's delivering revitalizesing communities across appalachianton, pennsylvania, where i was raised. the reason i got to delaware is coal died. my dad was in sales, but the economy died. you can understand why in places like west virginia and southeastern pennsylvania and why people were worried about doing away with coal. it's their jobs. they don't know what they're going to do. guess what -- the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the law's going to help us cap and seal abandoned mines. there's thousands of abandoned mines. cap and seal them. no longer going to see pollution in the air or the water. the law's putting abandoned mine workers to work at the same salary they were working digging the mines in the first place. there are several thousand of these wells that have to be capped. and they have to harvest the energy. and they're going to get paid. so we've provided alternatives. they're manufacturing and installing solar panels where they once dug for coal. look, out here in the west we're repowering retired power plants and clean hydrogen a

heartbreaking issue and i can tell you whether it is an indigenous community, or white family and appalachia, we need to address that. justice and equity. we need to look at the disproportionate impact that pollution is caused many of these communities, whether it is some of these superfund sites, whether it is pollution from a neighboring refinery or a power utility. when you look at our budget and look at what we are requesting in all seriousness. we are looking at requesting resources to combat these issues to those who have been impacted in the ways -- >> i am out of time, i appreciate your comments and your focus. i believe you are sincere in this. i just hope your budget and the biden administration's budget prioritizes the things you mention, roads, water, sewer, over no offense but programs to educate people on the importance of more trees in the city. but does not seem to fit well. i would welcome the chance to have a hearing in this committee about the 22 executive orders and actions my state has been singled out with. they are not doing that to delaware or anywhere. you wake up in

it's midwestern farmland, industrial northeast, it's appalachia.how you get your message to the wide swath of people without ignoring the folks, you know, you dance with the one who bring you. >> yeah. well, no. people are busy and don't have a lot of time to plug in. that's why these ads are especially dangerous. the ones that we're seeing from j.d. vance that you showed from josh mandel, but even from my opponent, congressman ryan, who put out an ad that says china 20 times. what they have in common is adopting the trump playbook, but lacking any ideas and substance for solving the problems that everyday ohioans are facing. and that's been a challenge of this entire campaign. we need to get out there with substance, with debates. my opponent has not been willing to talk about that. he has not been willing -- because of his record, flip-flopping on gun rights, abortion, but we as democrats are going to win by focusing on the ideas and substance, not out republican. >> i want to find out that critics of the ad by congressman ryan have called it --