now, this is the annual meeting in charleston west virginia. i had the honor of being the banquet speaker, and if you can imagine the anxiety, standing at telling schwinden's all about themselves. [laughter] it was quite anxious but we had a great time. next, please. this is the house in west virginia at mountain ridge. i had to put this in here. this is jim reubin, a famous lincoln presenter who got lost and saw that i lived on lincoln trail so he followed that. it took him to my house. lincoln is the number one, she's appeared on more magazine covers than anyone in the u.s.. they have a field day with him. there are over 7500 different postcards of abraham lincoln. you can spend the rest of your life trying to collect them all. their catalog at slightly over 400 different lincoln medals stand. next. and look at that one. is that strange? what is that commemorating. that is either commemorating his assassination or his barber. [laughter] you find strange things in this field. next. postage stamps, joe manchin the and i wrote, lincoln appears a

pittsburgh and 50s to charleston.ar with the warm temperatures and the building of pollution, we have the moderate air quality. this is something they have to pay attention to, especially into the warm, muggy weather. that's the case today. high wind, clear skies, and a beautiful start to the day, extending down to the gulf coast states states where the frontal boundary off the coastline and through central florida, that's actually good news for calming down the seas across the gulf coast. for all efforts to try to contain the oil spill. we actually set our sights to the next frontal boundary to race in through here tomorrow. it should be a very very minor event. otherwise, a great day today and tonight. tomorrow's frontal boundary pushing through for the afternoon. yesterday i expected showers to push through 2:00 to 4:00, and they stayed well north of the border in pennsylvania. this one indicates there's energy across the chesapeake. it would be a brief event. don't change your plans for this one. out of here in a

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as a student at the college of charleston 40 years ago, i was very fortunate to be praised for my -- to be placed at a high school realm a corner. father kelly, the principal, offered me a position as a math teacher. he asked if there was any mass of the bout would prefer not to teach. i said geometry. over the summer, i got my teaching assignment. the only subject on it was geometry, and it was every. . needless to say, i had to study geometry books. i got help from experienced math teachers, including my mother. i tried to turn myself into a good geometry teacher by august. the next year, father kelly said in a schedule will be all geometry and one algebrai. it met at the old immaculate conception school, about eight blocks away by car. ",2ñ%ncboth buildings were on e schedule. each day, after teaching a section of geometry, durg the class exchange, i would run down three flights of stairs, to the parking lot, to my car, and drive down the seet as fast as i could without getting a ticket, into the other building, top two flights of stairs, into the classroom, pick up my chalk and

misses the and no meeting in charleston west virginia i have the honor of being the banquet speaker andan imagine anxiety standing up looking out. [laughter] telling them all about themselves. [laughter] it was quite anxious but we had a great time. of on a mountain ridge i had to put this in here. this is a famous lincoln in presenter who got lost and saw that i lived on lincoln's real and followed it to my house. weekend is the number 110 up a boy he is on more magazine covers than any other person in the united states. there are over 7500 different post cards of abram lincoln you could spend the rest of your life trying to collect them all. the catalog is slightly over 1200 think in metals metals -- metals. look at that. what does that commemorate? either his assassination or his barber. [laughter] you find it strange things in this field. postage stamps and joe mentioned and i read in the paragraph there were 64 u.s. postage stamps. but he also appears on 58 foreign postage stamps commemorating everything from the proclamation to his assassination. the penny. not much you can do wit

unusual case of the illegal resident in the united states that has been held at the military brig in charleston the past several years. he is currently the only u.s. person being held on the grounds that he was declared an enemy combatants. you may have to argue the case, so let's set aside that. i want to know a little bit of your thinking and without it being 35,000 feet above the legal principles and the legal analysis that you might bring to cases like this without getng into the area they might one day have argd. don't be so general that you take me a 35,000 feet and i don't get a sense of your thinking, and at the same time, i want to be respectful of the fact that you may one day be arguing. i just want a sense of how you think about these kinds of cases. >> rashid the question, but i have this urge to stay up at 50,000 feet. for the reasons that you say. the president has authorized to review of this case, and all the various ways of dealing with it, and that review is ongoing. i don't really know anything because i am onla nominee and i have no sense of how it is proceeding or how this

host: this is andrew on the independent line from charleston, south carolina.ler: in a big fan of yours and agree on nearly all of your positions almost all the time. i enjoy senator but house as well. i hope that he hangs around a while. -- senator whitehouse. there is another in joy, and others i could name. i agree with you nearly all the time. i have followed you for a long time. i hope that you'll find some agreement with me. i wish that something would be considered next time on the supreme court -- another issue is retired -- that she is retired -- brooksley moran. you are 100% correct about all these financial matters. the public is so uninformed. this comes at the public and it is hard to digest, especially for those without the time to put in. over the years, if you look at the sec, faa, almost everything -- the regulators are pressured heavily to promote the industries which they regulate. i think that is a mistake. i know the term hostile to business will not fly in this country anymore, but regulators cannot be in the business of promoting. that is

host: charleston, tennessee. caller: gd morning. i don't think this is rocket science. i just think it's boiling down to incompetence. the technology exists to close this we will off well off. it's used every day. farmers use it to pressure test plumbing at home. auto manufacture use it to expand. it's just steel wh compacted rubber between it and the top and bottom are threaded and when the center shaft is turned it compresses and expands. i don't understand why something like that wouldn't work to plug this. i don't know if they're just -- i don't know. i don't know what the excuse is for not having this closed. it seems simple to me. i know this is aile deep in the ocean, but why could something like that not work? i'm just -- host: robert one of many weighing in with suggestions. here's one from vian. you mention that your organizationas been tre for 15 years. do you think that there was adequate preparation before drilling in mile deep water that the procedures were well known in advance on what to do if catastrophe like this happened? guest: well, clearly you can'

. >> there's another airport in charleston, west virginia that sits on a plateau and there was a plane in january that overran after a projected take off. but there's stop material that is being put at ends of run ways. can you explain what that is and is that something that's going to be installed worldwide? >> we hope that's going to become a national standard, in india, where there might not be enough geography for safety. it stops 747 cold in less than 100 feet. so it's wonderful stuff. it's not that expensive and it really is the answer for airports like the accident airport where it terminates in a dropoff. >> paul mccarthy, we appreciate you sharing your expertise with us this morning. now here's amy. >> lester, thank you. >>> now to the gulf where thick crude is making its way to marsh lands, driving away tourists. anne thompson is in venice, louisiana, anne, good morning. >> reporter: today the white house will announce the two men who will head the investigation investigating this oil spill. they are florida senator bob braham and the man who headed the environmental protecti

at this time i'd like to yield to the gentlewoman from charleston, west virginia, who has clearly suffered greatly through this extraordinary tragedy, two minutes, mrs. capito. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. mrs. capito: thank you. i'd like to thank the gentleman for yielding me time. there is no controversy on this underlying resolution. i think we could have done it several days earlier under unanimous consent. i wish that would have been the direction we've gone. on april 5, 2010, an explosion occurred at the upper big branch mine in west virginia, killing 29 miners. our hearts are with the families and community. this mine was the worst mine disaster in west virginia and the third worst mining disaster. in 2006 in my district, 13 coal miners were trapped for nearly two hours at the sago mine, and one miner miraculously survived. i agree with my colleagues that congress has a very important oversight role to ensure that the laws are properly executed and to prevent future mining accidents. there must be a thorough investigation by congress to dete

charleston, west virginia harry on the independent line, what do you think? caller: good morning. thank you for taking the call. i'll be brief. i know there's a lot of callers on this. first point, the founding fathers on this country never envisioned political parties the way they have evolved, in fact, they have tested the parties that have contributed to the mess we're in right now. the partisanship is the result of these parties that were never -- they are not functioning, because americans have turned themselves over to the political parties. bottom line is in west virginia we had an election yesterday, one of the two states that did. the editorial in our paper this morning for the incumbent that had been there 20-plus years, towing the party line was considered a lieibility. we will clean-sweep in west virginia all our congressional delegation within the next 4-6 years, and the reason is, is that in a representative democracy called a republic, these voters are going to exercise their rights based on independent judgment. not what a party says. because in this state, as we s

so shipping for the chess champ in charleston is the same as shipping for the football phenom in phillyi win! actually, i think you deserve this. no, i deserve this. wow, got one of those with a mailman on top? priority mail flat rate box shipping starts at $4.95, only from the postal service. a simpler way to ship. >> johnny: let's check the nationals starting lineup. morgan, another catch in center field, will leading off. niger, .333 batting average the last six games, four doubles, a couple of triples and stolen bases, three driven in, six runs scored. dunn will be batting cleanup at first base. willingham in left field followed by harris today in right. he and december mobbed the shortstop adding seven. nieves the catcher and lannan on the mound. tied for the team lead with is nyjer. the number four marlins all- time home run hitter with 126 since 2006 leading all national league second basemen in that category. 3 for his last 20 on the current homestand. cameron leads off for florida. sanchez the first baseman will bat second and hanley ramirez the shortstop -- cantu, the third ba

host: charleston, tennessee. caller: good morning. i don't think this is rocket science. i just think it's boiling down to incompetence. the technology exists to close this we will off well off. it's used every day. farmers use it to pressure test plumbing at home. auto manufacturers use it to expand. it's just steel with compacted rubber between it and the top and bottom are threaded and when the center shaft is turned it compresses and expands. i don't understand why something like that wouldn't work to plug this. i don't know if they're just -- i don't know. i don't know what the excuse is for not having this closed. it seems simple to me. i know this is a mile deep in the ocean, but why could something like that not work? i'm just -- host: robert one of many weighing in with suggestions. here's one from vivian. you mentioned that your organization has been there for 15 years. do you think that there was adequate preparation before drilling in mile deep water that the procedures were well known in advance on what to do if catastrophe like this happened? guest: well, cl

unusual case of the illegal resident in the united states that has been held at the military brig in charleston for the past several years. he is currently the only u.s. person being held on the grounds that he was declared an enemy combatants. you may have to argue the case, so let's set aside that. i want to know a little bit of your thinking and without it being 35,000 feet above the legal principles and the legal analysis that you might bring to cases like this without getting into the area they might one day have argued. don't be so general that you take me a 35,000 feet and i don't get a sense of your thinking, and at the same time, i want to be respectful of the fact that you may one day be arguing. i just want a sense of how you think about these kinds of cases. >> rashid the question, but i have this urge to stay up at 50,000 feet. for the reasons that you say. the president has authorized to review of this case, and all the various ways of dealing with it, and that review is ongoing. i don't really know anything because i am only a nominee and i have no sense of how it is proceeding o

[cheers and applause] >> and now lucy beckham, at the college of charleston graduate school commencement. she is a high school principal in south carolina. she discusses the value of education. this is about 10 minutes. >> when one asks what makes a school great, the obvious answer is the commitment and hard work of the stakeholders. we of some of the best teachers, parents, -- we have a some of the best teachers, parents, and students in the untry. the funny thing for me is that, when i began my career, i had no ambitions to be the national principle of the year. i did not plan to be a principal at all. i was excited about being a teacher. i thought one of the board members sitting here to my right -- taught one of the board members sitting here to my right. she did write well back then. -- right well back then. i was pleased to have my experience here. the principal there offered me a job as a math teacher. he asked me if there was any math subject i would prefer not to teach. i said, yes, father, geometry. you can imagine my surprise when the only subject was geometry every period. i

i mean, there was a lot of damage done, bells rung in boston, charleston, south carolina had damage. it was a horrible event. but the population here was so spars that little life was lost. two questions. what about the earth quake insurance in an area like this? and secondly, it's my understanding that the cities of memphis and st. louis, because this occurred so long ago, are not really that readily earth quake prepared in their building codes. guest: very good question. and i'm glad that you brought it up. we're coming up on the 200th anniversary of the new mad rid sequence. these occurred in december, january, and february of 18 2011, 1812. they were very large, located in that tennessee, kentucky, missouri area along the bit of destruction in the area. there are quite a number of written accounts of it. and putting that, the written accounts together with jeelogic evidence which comes from sand blows, these sand volcanos caused by the severe shaking of the ground that are still visible to this day around the region, gee ologists have put together a pretty good study for those ea

be a clean energy politically correct way of saying -- and in this case it's bringing coals to charleston, west virginia, or to china. 'cause that's really at some level the heart of the story or where it starts in both countries. just going back to ken for one second, i just do want to say ken's work on this issue has really been path-breaking both in preparing for this, i read lieberthal and sandlow analysis for international and policy. and then ken's own congressional testimony last year, last fall on this area. . it has really laid out golf groundwork and showed ken's experience for a dialog of clean energy cooperation. i start my own assessment of this both looking at material interests and ideological or political interests. more broadly. and i'm going to be a little bit more down in the weeds of the -- how the countries themselves field these issues. i think he did a good job on the broad issue which i'll touch on a bit, both of which are in fast forward as ken mentioned. we have this available on amazon and on the brookings website. you know, in the united states, we start with 8

born january 27, 1989 in charleston, south carolina. jeffrey joined the marines in july, 2007. he was killed on may 11, 2010, in the helmond province in afghanistan. where we have seen some of the fiercest fighting in the war as the surge moves forward to victory. he was three weeks into his second deployment when he was killed by an i.e.d. while on patrol. corporal johnson is a graduate of waler high school and is now being touted as a son of texas. jeffrey loved ford treks and he loved the outdoors, especially hunting and fishing. corporal johnson joined the military to provide education and other options. he wanted to attend the university of texas and become either a game warden or a state trooper. . i spoke to the family the day jeffrey was brought home to his final homecoming to offer my condolences on behalf of a grateful nation and to give them flags flown over the united states capitol in his honor. to his family, his wife katey, his mother and stepmother, his mother, sisters and his brother, his grandparents, we cannot -- it's hard to put in records how you must feel

in this case, bringing coal to charleston, west virginia, or to china.that is in some ways the heart of the story. going back for one second, i do work onsay that ken's this issue has been passed breaking. -- pathbreaking. i read congressional testimony from last fall on this area, and it really has laid out judd ground work on an intellectual level -- laid out a ground work on an intellectual level. i start my own assessment of this both looking at material interest and ideological, or i am going to be a little bit more down in the week as to how the countries themselves deal with these issues. trevor did a great job of giving the broad negotiation overview, which i will touch on a bit. a book i have co-written on this topic will be out this friday on amazon. 80% of our energy comes from fossil fuels. 20% comes from nuclear and renewables. from that, we produce just under 6 billion t of carbon dioxide per year. china produces 90% of their energy from fossil fuels. that creates about six gigatons. from those two countries, you have 12 out of the world's