we're going watch week charleston west virginia the worst what do you see you all know this is the rise awareness and raise money for no school and also opens a lot of doors of the plank to chapman in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing to those in in in the mining industry to our communities this is a perfectly viable one what it's actually doing to our children the governor made us tightening our kids our future by our tomorrow he should die almost up and for our kids of march fourth don't have them all. live at least for. burning of coal those for over a century has been one of the most deadly things that and humans have done it through the air around them even after one hundred years of burning coal after one hundred years of so-called improvement of air quality according to the american lung association twenty four thousand people a year still die prematurely from air pollution from coal plants in the united states almost forty percent of the carbon dioxide emissions come from coal one of the things that has to happen. is that the politicians the leaders o

for down outside charleston west virginia and when i met with the coal company defied all my property here me and my family members and they tell me that we don't give a damn about people who carry cholera we don't give a damn about the people on top of that mountain all we care about is profit we're making and it was the dollar i would have bought and the. know we were playing there and it is the vice president cultural production in eugene kids from massey coal one thousand nine hundred three told me this gibson created the stanley heirs foundation refusing to sell his family's fifty plus acres to coal companies before mountaintop removal began his family cemetery was surrounded by mountain ridges today the family cemetery looks out on reclaimed mountaintop removal sites eighteen years ago when i came back and it took me for you to clear my family's cemetery and in ninety nine to now own the crater restful and eighteen goal when i started this i couldn't get to people to listen now even my own family. and i don't know about turned a corner how press the knob on a or that was there w

and his family have been fighting to preserve their ancestral home place on kafer down outside charleston west virginia and when i met with a call come in to file my property here me i'm not family members and they tell me that we don't give a damn about people and carry cholera we don't give a damn about what they want to have them now and all we care about is property we will make and and that was the dollar i would have been and that's how i know we were playing there and that this is a widespread and cultural reduction in using kids from massey coal ninety nine three told me this gibson created the stanley heirs foundation refusing to sell his family's fifty plus acres to coal companies before mountaintop removal began his family cemetery was surrounded by mountain ridges today the family cemetery looks out on reclaimed mountaintop removal sites. eighteen years ago when i came back and it took me for you to clear my family cemetery and if one thousand nine hundred ninety eight and now on the trade arrests in eighteen years ago when i started this i couldn't get to people to listen not

charleston just this week reported that home sales there down 37% compared to last month. so there's a lot of inventory out there and it's a great time to buy but there's a lot of people not willing to get out there and write that check just yet. >> brown: gene grant, land prices, home prices, what's happening there? >> it's all a big jumble. for us out here, going from last year, july '09 to july now, we've got a 14% decrease in pending sales and a 24% decrease in close sales in what's tied to that, what's stitched to that is our average home prices are actually dropping. july of last year it was $196,000, it's gone down to $186,000. also for the average sale price, a $10,000 drop as well. and i think all those factors those other folks just spoke about are very much in play here. we have a lot of government and federal employment and all that kind of thing. but we're downsizing in that... in those areas. we've got a big, big budget crunch here. we're shedding employees at state, city, and all levels of government, county government. and so for a lot of home buyers out th

and he said he began to read i regretfully inform you that your daughter private living only in charleston. is due. of a self-inflicted wound. and i just began screamin it holly and i just moved past her couldn't believe. after the initial shock the family began to question the army's rush to judgment that living a died of a self-inflicted injury. that's the one with the rifle. dr johnson is a veteran himself who went on to work for the army as a civilian specialist in psychology for nearly three decades but for the past three years he has studied every aspect of his daughter's did. but i'm looking for the sketch that the criminal investigators may. have just to showcase in. their closeup of it. some of the blood patterns with his brother joe a former prisons officer with forensics training they've spent countless hours analyzing and cross referencing photos reports and the testimony of those in the camp and i will miss a car if they stay there from the time he heard what he deemed to be out the back for r. or a gun shot he looked in the direction he saw flames coming from the tip no live

west virginia and i didn't know what to expect their memory i first knew i was driving outside of charleston and i saw the boom on one of the big drag line swinging above the hills and i pulled off the road and i hiked up through the woods to the top of this hill and i got this view down into this strip mine and it was just like hell had opened up before me. the money and the coal mining has always gone to the top and been siphoned out by the owners essentially whether their corporations are called barons like don blankenship it's a commodity business every penny they have to spend for safety for wages for health care or anything like that is money that they see coming directly out of their pocket and you know the history of coal mining is very clear on this there's no it's not a subtle thing you know this is an industry that views workers as disposable and views the landscape as disposable and it's all about getting the coal out of the ground as quickly. tolls and everything mounted love disco with you bottom yourself. and if you start out into madness you had to have those tools they don't

took me to the south of carolina, and they put me on trial in strom thurmond federal courthouse in charleston, south carolina. across the street was the confederate cemetery. from the courthouse, they flew two flags -- the u.s. flag and the confederate battle flag, which was the state flag of south carolina. from the court room, i could look out the window and seaport sumter in the distance -- see fort sumter. they put me on a case with no marijuana. they invented imaginary marijuana. they said i was charged with conspiring to contribute 10 tons of colombian marijuana. i pled not guilty. i had a jury trial. i was found guilty on one account, acquitted on nine. i had an appellate case and the supreme court case. i was then facing 15 years. since may to nine. when i went to federal prison, i did time in eight different states in nine different federal prisons, including four penitentiaries -- that is a maximum security. including the united states penitentiary at marion, the first super federal max. that is on a marijuana convention. -- conviction. i spent most of my time in solitary confinemen

it happened monday near orangeburg, about 70 miles northwest of charleston. terrell brown has the story. >> reporter: rescue crews in orangeburg, south carolina, found two young boys still strapped in their car seats as they pulled their mother's car from the edisto river monday morning. the toddlers are identified as 18 month old ja'van duley and 2-year-old brother devean. the boy's mother, shaquan duley, is being held on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident. her car was found underwater near a rural boat landing. >> she left the location, she walked away from the vehicle, maybe three-quarters of a mile away. >> reporter: that's when police say she flagged down a highway trooper for help because she didn't have a cell phone. investigators want to know what caused the car to veer into the river in the first place and whether this was an accident. police say the mother showed some emotion, but was not overly distraught. they also believe there are holes in her story. monday's incident is eerily reminiscent to another south carolina case. back in 1994,

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