we're going last week charleston west virginia the worst to do you see you all know this is the rise awareness and raise money for new school it also opens a lot of doors of mine to chapman in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing to those kids in the mining industry to archimedes with the probate the giant hole what what it's actually doing to our children the governor made a statement our kids are our future my argument he said i are most open for our kids up north fork don't have them are. burning of coal for over a century has been one of the most deadly things there and humans have done 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 of the administration as well as congr

ford mountain called side charleston west virginia i when i met with the coal company to 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 on top of that mountain all we care about is profit we are making and it was the dollar i would have bought and the powerful i know we were playing there and that is why i spread of cultural production and using kids from magic zero nine hundred ninety three tell me this gibson created to steel ears foundation be fusing to sell his family's fifty plus acres to coal companies before mountaintop removal began his family cemetery was surrounded by mountain regions 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 three months i missed him and three and if one thousand nine hundred ninety to now and it's very restful in a team owner florida this couldn't get to people who listen now even own family. now you know about turned on or how pressed the knob on they were th

were told last week charleston west virginia the worst do you see you all know this is the rise awareness and raise money for new school it also opens a lot of doors of applying to chapman in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing so it's good in the mining industry to archimedes with the probably get going and pull what we wanted to actually doing to our children the governor made a statement our kids are our future by our tomorrow he should die almost open for our kids of march fourth don't have them all. at least some of. these. burning of coal is or over a century has been one of the most deadly things that humans have gone 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 and 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 of th

his family have been fighting to preserve their ancestral home place on kafer down outside charleston west virginia and when i met with the coal company to file 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 a mountain all we care about is profit we are making and it was the dollar it was our body and the. know we were playing there and this is the vice president cultural production a new gene kids from mexico 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 four years of to my family cemetery and in ninety nine to now own the crater restful and eighteen and all when i started this i couldn't get to people to listen not even my own family. now you know have i turned a cor

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i used to make chili dogs at my uncle's diner in charleston, west virginia. >> now i'm a little nervousalled haute dog. we'll start on our grill, all right. and back here, of course, we have our kosher shot dogs. anything we do -- it's better in herbs and garlic and a lot of spices. i call this the butter jacuzzi. the jacuzzi of flavor. if you grill sometimes things can dry out. taking our dog and hanging out in that bath of flavor. there's our dog -- basil and thyme but, honestly, it can be anything you want. you need a bun s so up here a n england-style hot dog bun. it's the best type of bun. honestly we can sear the sides of it. grilled chchse tastes better than a cheese sandwich. getting that reaction, the flavor of the browning of meat or the protein and flour so we'll use that bun, a hot dog hanging out in our flavored jacuzzi and, of course, we need our chili. here we have our chili. the thing about the chili, throw it together in a couple of minutes like a 20-minute recipe. ground beef, a little bit of chopped brisket and ketchup, mustard, molasses, gives a savory touch. >> i'm

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. >> last monday, i held a full committee hearing, bipartisan, in charleston, west virginia, about manufacturing and exporting. the message was basically best -- this -- we have lost the third of our manufacturing jobs in the last number of years, but exports from west virginia to other parts of the world have gone up by 50% in a couple of years. the audience was riveted. and galvanized. and subcommittees were formed. business people out there, labor toople, public citizen's, start working on these problems. how can we increase exports from west virginia, which is not a rich state? we talked about the fact that if you have -- if you do not have a trade agreements, they maintain 50% tariff on any product that you decide to sell in europe -- and their country. if you do have a trade agreement with them, those tariffs disappear. not all of them immediately, but shortly. that makes our products more competitive. those folks in west for daniel to attended that hearing were galvanized by that, they were enthused by that, they expect us to be doing that. i am not disturbed that we are being held here f

. >> last monday, i held for the first time a full committee hearing, bipartisan, in charleston, west virginia about manufacturing and exporting. the message was basically this. they knew the message. we have lost a third of our manufacturing jobs in the last number of years. but guess what. exports from west virginia to other parts of the world have gone up by 50% in a couple of years. the audience was riveted and galvanized. some companies were formed. business people out there, labor people, and public citizens, government officials, started working on these problems. how can we increase exports from west virginia, which is not a rich state? we've talked about the fact that in the case of some of these countries if you do not have a trade agreement with them and they maintain anywhere up to a 50% tariff you might try to sell in their country. if you do have a trade agreement with them, those tariffs disappear. not all of them immediately, but all of them shortly. that makes our products more competitive. those folks in west virginia who attended that hearing were galvanized by that. they we

host: molly, independent caller in charleston, west virginia. caller: hello.ave been listening to certain things that have been going on. i think that, for one, we need to shut down nafta, period because, that is where all of our money is going to -- overseas. if you lower the taxes and have businesses come back to america, that is going to help as well. maybe give them a tax break instead of sending all of our companies to china or wherever else, and get some of that back. reagan had as out of debt in the 1980's -- had us out of debt in the 1980's. why raise the debt ceiling? we are going to have to cut out some of these laboratories that are expecting -- inspecting insects and things like that. host: different earmarks. guest: she was talking about jobs going overseas. as someone who opposed nafta it originally, i agree with her on some of these trade agreements or originally, i agree with her on some of these trade agreements. you are not one to benefit from sending our jobs overseas. that would be one sacred cow of the republican party. they say, no, we do

first time as chairman of the commerce committee, a full committee hearing, bipartisan in charleston, west virginia about manufacturing and exporting. the message was basically this, and they knew the message. we lost a third of our manufacturing jobs in the last number of years, but guess what, west virginia? exports from west virginia to other parts of the world have gone up by 50% in a couple of years. the audience was riveted and gay that newsed and -- galvanized and committees were formed and business people and governor officials, state and local, to start working on these problems. how can we increase exports from west virginia which is not a rich state, and we talked about the fact that, you know, if you have, let's say in the case of some of these countries, if you don't have a trade agreement with them, they maintain anywhere between 15%-50% tariff if you try to sell in their country. if you have a trade agreement with them, those tariffs disappear. not all of them immediately, but all of them shortly, and so that makes our products more competitive, and those folks in west virginia who a

west virginia. showers the ground overnight, part of the cold front of to the north and west. will bring thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon. 76 pittsburgh, 74 charlestonpoint increasing. tomorrow morning will feel a lot different than right now, lots more sticky outside because the level continues to increase. the frontal system dropping severe weather across ohio, lower michigan during the early evening. the frontal system stalls to the south and east tomorrow into the fourth of july. fairly confident it will remain y for the fireworks monday night. forecast, not so bad, chance of thunderstorms. clearing for the day monday. future-cast, the next 48 hours, showers move through, another line of storms to more. once this balz to the south, the skies clear, should be relatively quiet for the fourth of july. mostly cloudy tonight, isolated showers, some and that it thunderstorms. tomorrow, afternoon storms, 88- 93, and temperatures near 90 egrees for the rest of the week.ng rebecca cooper? >>> the fourth of july weekend always big for a box office. "transformers 3," part shot in ashington, and i was in it. arch say?oes >> pull out the stops for story numb

in america never occurred to me so i went out to west virginia and i didn't know what to expect remember 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 out through the woods to the top of this hill and i got this view down into this group 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 by 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 grounds quickly please. i. didn't love disco with you but you still like. if you start now to manners you had to have those tools but they let you get them out of