were going to watch the charleston west virginia the worse we do you see you all know this is the rise awareness and raise money for a new school and it also opens a lot of doors of the blank to chapman in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing to those in in in the mining industry to our community this is a perfectly viable what what it's actually doing to our children the governor made us tighten our kids our future by our tomorrow he should die almost up and more are just marched for don't have them all. live at least. burning of coal those for over a century has been one of the most deadly things that and humans have done that through the air around them even after one hundred years of burning coal and 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

his family have been fighting to preserve their ancestral home place on kafer down outside charleston west virginia and when i met with the call come into my property here me and my family members and they tell me that we don't give a damn about people in her car and we don't give a damn about the people and how that mountain are we care about is profit we're making and it was the dollar i would have bought and that's how dry no in between there and if there's a vice president called it would auction and using kids from magical 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's symmetry and in one thousand nine hundred now i'm a third arrest and eighteen year old when i started this i couldn't get to people through this and now even my own family. now you know have i turned

some showers in the ohio valley down to nashville, charleston, west virginia, raleigh and atlanta. >> 45 degrees in boston. 51 in baltimore. 66 in new orleans. chicago gets up to 45. omaha, 56. and fargo, 37 degrees. 50s from seattle to boise and billings. and sacramento gets up to 65. phoenix, coming in near 90. >>> we'll have the other morning's top -- this morning's other news coming up next, including a dolphin nearly crushes a woman in florida. bizarre story there. >> you have to see that. >>> also, death on the launch pad. how a worker died while preparing "endeavour" for liftoff. >>> and we'll return to the quake zone, as misplaced family members find each other, five days into this tragedy. ererererr >>> and welcome back, everybody. we do have other news to report on this tuesday morning. there's been a second, fatal tour bus accident in the new york area. the driver and a male passenger were killed in a crash on the new jersey turnpike near east brunswick last night. >>> this, of course, following 15 passengers that died in saturday's bus crash near new york city. the driver

severe storms move east now, ripping through cincinnati, nashville and charleston, west virginia.ylvania, to boston. blizzard-like conditions in the upper midwest. some rain along the pacific coast. snow in the cascades and sierras. >> 50s from seattle to salt lake. just 22 degrees in fargo. 36 in detroit. 40s in the northeast. mostly 80s from dallas to miami. >>> well, a truly extraordinary person to introduce you to now. a happy belated birthday to mrs. rebecca lanier of warrensville heights, ohio. >> get this. she turned 119 years old yesterday. for those counting at home, that means she was born in 1892. her parents were slaves in mississippi and she grew up there as well. >> unbelievable. she has outlived both of her children. she lives with her 61-year-old grandson who says she still makes her own bed every morning. >> my goodness. by the way, she takes just a few supplements and no medicines for any illness. she likes the cake, though. that's good. hope she had champagne, too. she deserves it. >> she earned it. 119 years. you go, girl. we'll be right back with more "world n

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charleston, west virginia, go ahead. olivewood like to know what democrats keep saying -- i would like to know what the democrats keep saying about president bush. 550 billion to of that -- $550 billion of that has been repaid. guest: you can look it up under the congressional budget office or anybody's scorekeeping. when president obama was sworn in, he inherited a $1.30 trillion deficit as a result of a combination of factors, including the fact that we have the tax cuts for the folks at the very top. it also was a result of the economic slowdown. there is no doubt about that. that is one of the reasons the deficits president obama is having to deal with our high. he has had to deal with an economy in free fall and the actions that he has had to take. the tarp legislation was initiated under president bush. it was a very difficult decision that republicans and democrats made together to try to prevent the economy from going into a second depression. president obama has had to take actions adding to the deficit includin

charleston, west virginia. they have flood watch in effect. heavy rain today. 55 degrees.r 1300 miles from the louisiana area all the way up into new england where we've got flood watches and advisories, a risk of strong storms to the south. tornado watches in effect until later this morning into the early afternoon. more rain into the midatlantic states today. heavy rain and win in the pacific northwest. plenty of sunshine through the southwest with temperatures up into the 80s. chilly in the northeast. >>> we have mostly sunny conditions and temperatures in the 70s. 72 in santa cruise. in the north bay, upper 60s for you. 68 degrees today in fairfield. as we look at the remainder of the week and towards the weekend, we expect showers as of tomorrow. we will get a break on friday, then more rain for next week. don't forget, daylight savings time starts sunday. >>> one of our warriors back from afghanistan. what's your name? >> cody. >> and chelsea. >> let's head back to mr. matt lauer. >> thank you very much. when we come back an update. how is ted williams, the man with

america it never occurred to me so i went down to 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 lines 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 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 it's 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 these are. all the tools there is not in love just go with you bottom yourself. and if you start now to madness you had to have thos