one such place is ashland, oregon. >> you're walking? >> yeah, well, what am i going to do with a baby... scooter? this is our neighborhood and we love it because we can walk everywhere. ashland is a very safe town compared to almost every place else in america. >> narrator: it's a college town, the home of an annual shakespeare festival, where a well-off, educated population has easy access to alternative medicines, an organic food co-op, and yoga centers. >> go get him! >> narrator: jennifer margulis, a writer with a ph.d. in english, is the mother of four children. >> when my daughter was born in 1999, the nurse bustled in with her tray and said, "okay, it's time for your hepatitis b vaccine." and i looked at my daughter and i looked at the nurse and i said, "isn't hepatitis b a sexually transmitted disease?" and i said, "why am i supposed to vaccinate my newborn baby against a sexually transmitted disease?" and the nurse got really mad. >> narrator: margulis went on to research and write about vaccines, and in 2009 published a long a

here's what was published in today's paper here in ashland, kentucky. we've been having trouble with water main breaks. i'm disabled and not able to carry water. we all need to call our congressman and push for infrastructure. i feel like i'm living in a third world country. i have to catch water off my house. call your congressman because the congressmen do listen. i called mitch mcconnell and rand paul all the time. get your family members and other states -- in other states to call their congressmen, too. democrat or republican, it doesn't matter when your house is being flooded and property damaged by flooding because of an efficient block printed systems. -- inefficient, blocked drainage systems. host: you say you are catching water off your house. the you get rain water and boil it for drinking and cooking and bathing? caller: i don't go that far. i'm a gardener. we have dry spells. . i did have to use water i caught off the house to push my toilet -- flush my toilet with because we had a water outage this week. i'm really arthritic. i had to carr

three girls were hurt and 14 year-old ashland cook died. >> i missed her dearly. debut day process still. >> i go through day and wonder what would it be like if she was here with us. >> reporter: about to be a starter as a freshman mainland retired number four soccer jersey. she would have been a senior next month. >> it is sad but she's here, looking down on us. >> reporter: authorities say he was driving under influence of the commonly known drug known as xanax. he crossed yellow line hit a box truck and slammed in the car full of girls driving to a charity soccer tournament. a doctor for him testified even low levels of the drug can impair a person's driving. >> full instruction, and can be drugged. >> reporter: his attorney pointed out effects can vary significantly from person to person. >> the defendant made a terrible choice that day and we suffered the consequences of that choice and these girls are living with that every single day. >> reporter: both of the doubt ers were in the car with cook and something they struggle with every day. >> they have not o

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and whether or not rex tillerson may be on his way out. , mary hasinutes left been waiting in ashland, kentucky. republican. go ahead. caller: hi. i wanted to bring a couple things up. do you think it , to limitny good cu people building in these low lands so they don't have the flooding they have? that has been one of the , i did feel like the guy from texas said, you have too many people moving to low-lying areas. do you think improvements in infrastructure and engineering would make those places more livable? billionink the $430 that they wanted us to give paris should be spent on fixing things like the coastal areas and things like that. host: can i ask you, do you think some of these areas that have been destroyed, should they rebuild and some of these areas? caller: i think they should move to higher ground. i am a yankee. like my great great grandfather in the civil war, we were yankees and we lived on high ground. myike to joke about that to people in kentucky. you take the high ground for several reasons. one of them is, it can't be flooded. the air is denser in a low-lying a

about 10 minutes left and mary is waiting from ashland, kentucky, republican. caller: hi, i wanted to bring up a couple of things. thing, i don't know if the epa or who does it, how can we limit people building in these low lands so that they don't have the flooding they have? that's been one of my arguments. i am in kentucky. like the guy from denison, texas said, too many people are moving to low-lying areas. i often feel like maybe improvements in infrastructure and better engineering would ?ake those places more level i think the $430 billion they want us to give terrorists should be spent on fixing things like the coastal areas and things like that. host: before you go, do you think some of these areas that have been flooding should be rebuilt? caller: i think they should leave the higher ground. i am a yankee. like my great great grand other was in the civil war and we were yankees. we were on high ground and i like to joke about that with my ex-husband. you take to the high ground for several reasons. can't beem is it flooded. the air is denser in a low-

here's a look at your ride if you can see it. 238 heavy through ashland avenue.eck of your traffic. back to you guys. >>> president trump's approval rating hits a new low. 38%. that's according to the 538 tracker of major national polls. environmentalists are up in arms over the latest developments in president trump's push to build a wall along the mexico border. the department of homeland security says it will bypass environmental laws and other regulations to make sure the project moves forward quickly. the decision deals specifically with the 15-mile stretch of land running east from the pacific ocean. >>> dozens of former service members who once held high posts in the military are calling out president trump over the transgender ban. kpix 5's neda iranpour is live in san francisco on the bay area nonprofit giving them a voice. neda. >> reporter: yeah. there's a long list of retired generals and admirals who have all signed a statement, 56 of them in fact, all saying they disagree with the president. the statement was released from the palm center right here

west deptford, ashland and new jersey, a couple of light showers but heavy rain is possible, especially further south you go as we look at futurecast and on and off throughout the rest of the day, maybe just before sunset we'll see the sun come back. of looks like things will clear out at the latest, 8:00 or 9:00 tonight. then we get a warm and humid day tomorrow and roll into thursday, see the possibility some showers probably late in the day, here's 7:00 p.m. when the eagles game starts to at the linc, and we have a chance of showers during the game into the overnight hours as well. so that's about as far out as we'll go for now for the futurecast. let's go back to now with hurricane gert. it was a tropical storm yesterday strengthened into a hurricane, but it continues that path toward the northeast. away from the coast but you probably will have to watch the delaware beaches and the jersey shore over the next few days for rough surf, and maybe some increased risk of rip currents, 72 philadelphia. 74 wildwood. 62 up in mount pocono. and you'll feel when you walk out the door, even if

i would imagine that goes all the way down to ashland, all the way down in to california. you got them up here that will be fine tonight, i wouldn't count on it. i got good friend who said i think we're going to hang in oregon for a couple days. i don't blame them. >> frank malicoat with the coolest assignment. rosemary, i didn't get to see it because of the marine layer out there, i don't think i'm alone. >> yeah, you're not alone. in fact, most of us had mostly cloudy skies here in oakland and around the bay. and take a look at that. starting out with well, gray skies. in and around san francisco, plenty of cloud cover and a lot of folks having a hard time with what was going on this morning. in fact, today was one of the days where we saw the slowest amount of clearing in some time. as we get in the days ahead, we are going to have a bit of a warm up come our way, there's a look at the blue skies over mount diablo it at this time. we will have the clouds roll back as we get in to tomorrow, tonight, and in to tomorrow. as we get in the days ahead, again we're looking at

so, this guy back here, tyler, from ashland, works in your office in wichita and does veterans work to read i will make sure that you two connect, and it will be the my information as well. >> senator, i am here on behalf of the boys and girls who live in our community. i ask you to give your support to the dream act, of 2017. bill 1615, a bipartisan bill sponsored by senator lindsey graham, and senator richard president trump has in the past given support to this program. the reason that this bill is so important now, is because the current program, also known as the dream act, which began in 2012, is under attack and may end. ofm talking about hundreds boys and girls who live in our community and a 10 hours old. -- attend our schools. parentse with their mostly from mexico, and they came as infants, some as young as two months old. whatever we may think of the parents's decision to come to this country, these children had no say in the matter. saying that the sins of the parents should not be visited on the children. >> where did you get that code, robert? [laughter] >> i think it is

. >> the next call from krisanne hall comes in from hugh, ashland, virginia. please go ahead. >> thank you so much. god bless you krisanne hall and sees for having this form. i would say thank you to krisanne hall for military service and ongoing service to the country to keep our freedoms. i'm a vietnam veteran myself. i would like krisanne hall to comment on two things briefly. american indigenous people and how the constitution can help them. treaties keep being broken and you so what happened in standing rock sioux. related to going to their own visitation. and the other thing would be how she got her ministry started for haiti. i will add to help with something in that regard which would be very powerful all the way around. thank you so much again. >> thank you very much for your service as well. you know, but we have to recognize, and i think these are the kind where these are the results of the blurred lines of the operation of our federal government as well. american people do not constrain, generally, do not constrain the federal government to its pow