the other thing is huge rise in prostitution and eastern kentucky and women in prostitution at younger and younger. and none of these towns talk about that. and then of course you start dealing. if you want a source of cash, you do. so you need, you know, another thing you need 20 pills a day. you buy 50 and you take them to ohio and sell them there. there were a group of guys who were opioid users in boston. and they fund the entire thing by going to one county in florida bringing pills back and selling them twice the price. then when heroin enters the market, and it pops up in florida a lot cheaper, and until, like many people actually become so addicted it takes over their lives in the can no longer properly function but you can you know, a lot of people for many years to actually function. and it's why when you hear people say i don't know anyone addicted, it may not necessarily be true. in west virginia they told me a couple of years we had to -- punch them in the nose, throw them in jail, tell them to clean up their act. he discovered there were eight people on the staff who were

eastern kentucky, impending early storm came in sign of dusting of snow and school closing but in syracuse with over 40 inches from earlier in the week and still more winter still to go. >> let's turn it over to our nbc meteorologist with a look at the weekend. >> good morning. good morning everyone. this is the first major system. you will see two bulks from st. louis you haven't seen accumulation this much in five years. six to eight inches across portions of st. louis. also as we shift across the east you see higher elevations across west virginia and virginia could see up to near a foot. washington, d.c. is going to get a mix of this up to one to two inches of accumulation. we'll continue to watch this storm system. there's two sides to it, to the north the bulk of heavy snow but well south predominantly dealing with rain. sod arkansas. nine degrees out towards the northeast. so our first major system of the new year will talk about timing and track, coming up. >> sounds good. thank you. >> and more captivating horror in store for netflix viewers for the latest flick velvet buzz saw mi

there is no frontline in eastern kentucky. tonight france the united kingdom and united states to decipher bactrim district for syrian chemical weapons infrastructure. the united states will withdraw oh. from the iran nuclear deal. it's hard to imagine a topping on sickening image of the future the two over will immediately. starvation is threatening for. among the poorest in the middle east those least capable of surviving. this. year in the most brutal way that human history has ever seen. maybe baby and i did state senate has said that crown prince mohammad is responsible for the murder. really good supreme twenty one constitutional revisions including the scrapping of term limits for the president and vice president the supporters saying he's the man busy. behind many who feared the most fun out of the election to democracy. more than three million. in one of the biggest migrations in the world today. thousands of central americans skate the violence and poverty forming caravans and amassing at the mexico u.s. border. the

. >> reporter: the elementary school teacher from eastern kentucky seen in this security camera video dragging a child with special needs up and down a hallway will appear in court tomorrow. >> you want to walk? >> no. >> get up. >> no. >> get up. >> no. i'm not leaving here. >> reporter: police have charged trina abrams with assault in the fourth degree. her former student, 9-year-old alan jackson, was diagnosed with autism and doesn't speak very well. when his mother saw this, she says it broke her heart. >> i saw all of his new classmates and his friends along the wall, watching him being dragged down the hallway. >> reporter: she posted the video on her facebook page looking for justice. >> i feel like i needed to go to social media for my child to have a voice. i was horrified. when i saw it, i couldn't believe that she would drag him. >> reporter: this happened in october. and in a statement, the greenup county school district says, "the student was assessed by the school nurse." and "the teacher was removed from the school." the child was new to the school. and the parents don'

. >> we begin in aplatcha, in west virginia and eastern kentucky, so two news papers.y what we want to do, be in these places where people haven't felt heard. and it's not just the elite media on the coast that hasn't heard them, in some cases it's the lexington herald. and we're seeing that, we're seeing even within states that are in the middle of the country are not part of those postal elites, those communities themselves are not listening to themselves either. and there's a need to sort of think about local journalism as a binding agent for our communities or as will wright has done excellent work on water. so the access to clean water is a huge issue in appalachia and kentucky. >> and a month later the person who's in charge of the water district gets forced out and a month after that the state legislator mysteriously finds $5 million to help fix the problem. what's constructive to us about that is this was not a six month long investigative project. this was a second week on the job. >> he showed up at the commissioners -- >> well, to give him a little more cred

it's only 3 nationwide and ofly 17% in the coal fields eastern kentucky.o that's one subset of a larger group of people. n at the clinics are seeing are miners who have belaid off or are retired-- and there are tens of thousands more of those in the late eight years because of the downturn in mining. and those miners are going in to get tested because they're not working anymore. they're not getting paid. if they have disease, they cany apor black lung benefits. so that's the difference is the government isot looking at the great number of retired and laid off miners, and that's what we're seeing in the occurrence of disease now. >> yang: and this is also not a new discovery. you found docg uments datinck to the clinton administration that express concern over this. >> that's right. the feral mine safety d health administration back in the clinton administration had identified a cluster of advanced lung disease among coal miner in west virginia, and they were so alasmed in these memos thafoi d that they actually sent out a warning to the mining industry sa

is a little red dot in southern west virginia and then it spreads out over the years across eastern kentuckyand then the dots appear all over the country. but that's the targeting of minors and people like that who use those painkillers already. >> you point to wellness in west virginia. in 2009 in a town of 3,000 people, wilson wellness made $2.6 million off these pills. >> and that was in cash. that was people lining up at 6:00 in the morning -- they're only open until 10:00. $150 to go in and pick up a prescripti prescription, often not seeing a doctor. >> and in 2016, it was closed, doctors stripped of their licenses and put in jail. >> they were, some of them. one of them, katherine hoover, who was one of the biggest prescribers in the state, she fled to the bahamas where she remains. the others went to jail for relatively short periods of time. they were stripped of their medical licenses, but they're still out there. >> in many ways, this is the story of our time. thank you so much for taking so much time to research it in this incredible new book. it's called "american overdose: the

eastern. >>> coming up, outrage after video of a standoff between a kentucky teenager and a native americant viral. there is more to the story now. that student is now speaking out. that's next. e carvana, the company who invented car vending machines and buying a car 100% online. now we've created a brand new way for you to sell your car. whether it's a few years old or dinosaur old, we want to buy your car. so go to carvana and enter your license plate, answer a few questions, and our techno-wizardry calculates your car's value and gives you a real offer in seconds. when you're ready, we'll come to you, pay you on the spot, and pick up your car. that's it. so ditch the old way of selling your car and say hello to the new way... at carvana. seems to be staring down a native american elder friday in washington. that student is now sharing his side of the story. sara seidner has been looking into all of this. there's a lot more to that video than just that moment that most folks saw on friday. what are you learning? >> there was, kate. he was indeed staring down into the face of a native ame

eastern. >> sunday on q&a. author and journalist patricia muller and her book, bringing down the kernel on late 19th century sex scandal involving kentucky sued by former mistress. >> william campbell and the number of middle names he has should signify he was in the southern elite and bennett confederate colonel very well respected cavalrymen in the confederate cavalry and at the time of the lawsuit he's in his fifth term in congress and by contrast she was nobody. she was a poor girl from kentucky with literary aspirations very hungry for an education that she was as hungry young woman who ran into breckenridge at a time when she was desperate to make herself something in the world and get an education. >> sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. >> a discussion now on the scope of presidential emergency powers. president trump has said he's considering using emergency powers to build a border wall because congress has refused to provide funding. this is from the brennan center for justice in washington. [applause] g

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eastern, this friday and saturday, live on c-span. &a, any on q an author on a scandal involving a kentucky congressman who was sued by his former mistress. the number of middle names he has should signify that he was in the southern elite. he had been a confederate colonel, well-respected cavalryman in the confederate calvary. at the time of the lawsuit, he is in his fifth term in congress. he was -- she was, by contrast, nobody. girl frompoor kentucky who was very hungry for an education. she was a hungry young woman who ran into breckinridge at a time when she was desperate to make or sell something in the world and get an education. announcer: sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." announcer: earlier today, president trump visited the pentagon to announce the results of his administration's missile-defense review. at the start of the event, the president spoke about the ongoing government shutdown, and offered his condolences to the families of the four americans killed in syria. this is 35 minutes. >> good morning, everyone. mr. president, mr. vice president, senator sullivan, congressman turner, general silva, and military

kentucky who was hungry for an education. she ran into breckenridge at a time she was desperate to make herself something in the world and get an education. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q and a. >> thursday at the pentagon, president trump announced the results of the missile defense review and discussed the ongoing shutdown. he offered condolences to the families of four americans killed in syria did -- in syria. this is 30 minutes. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. mr. president, mr. vice president, senator sullivan, congressman turner, general silva, and military officers, all members of the military and distinguished guests. thank you for joining us as we release the 2019 missile defense review. review. today the number of new missile programs around the world is growing disproportionately to other capabilities. the rest of the world is not developing new fighter and bomber aircraft but they are developing missiles. the sheer proliferation of offense of whistle capabilities, more than 20 nationstates today in 2019 makes this review timely and essential. aligned with president trumps national equity strategy and nested within the national defense s

eastern only on american history tv on c-span3. on q&a, author and journalist patricia miller and her book, "bringing down the of the on a sex scandal kentucky congressman that was to buy his former mistress. >> the number of middle names he has should signify he was in the southern elite. he had been a confederate colonel, very well respected in the confederate calvary. at the time of the lawsuit, he is in his fifth term in congress . he washe was by contrast nobody. literally a poor girl from kentucky, very hungry for an education. she was this hungry, young woman who ran into breckenridge at a time she was really desperate to make or sell something in the world. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. jail does not859 look like a jail from the outside, but on the inside there are cells that date back to before the civil war. coming up, we will take you on a tour can talk about some of this jail's most infamous prisoners.

eastern on c-span2. >> sunday, on q & a. author and journalist patricia miller and her book "bringing down the colonel", a late 19th century sex scandal involving a kentucky congressman sued by his former mistress. >> william campbell preston breckenridge and the number of middle names he has should signify he was in the southern elite. he had been a confederate colonel, a respected cavalry man in the confederate cavalry and at the time of the lawsuit he's in his fifth term in congress. madam pollard by contrast was nobody. she was literally a poor girl from kentucky with literary aspirations, who was very hungry for an education. she was a hungry young woman who ran into breckenridge at a time when she was really desperate to make herself something in the world and get an education. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q & a. texas had nine new members to congress in the 2018 elections, including four democrats. and representing the 32nd districts, a former linebacker for the tennessee titans and left the nfl for law school. after which he worked as an earn to in the obama administration's department of housing and urban development, and then late

kentucky who was hungry for an education. she ran into breckenridge at a time she was desperate to make herself something in the world and get an education. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q and a. >> thursday at the pentagon, president trump announced the results of the missile defense review and discussed the ongoing shutdown. he offered condolences to the families of four americans killed in syria did -- in syria.

eastern on cspan. >> sunday on q&a, author and journalist patricia miller and "bringing down the colonel," on sex scandal involving a kentucky congressman sued by his former mistress. preston campbell breckenridge. in the southern elite, calva en a colonel, a ry, his fifthcalva term in congress. by contrast, she was nobody, she poor girl from kentucky hungry y aspirations, for education. she was a hungry young woman who ran into breckenridge when she was desperate to make herself get an education. >> sunday night on cspan's q&a. >> next, book t.v. exclusive, tour visits lawrence, kansas to learn more about its unique history and literary life. for eight years now we've traveled u.s. cities bringing viewers. scene to our watch more of our visits at cspan.org,/citiestour. > lawrence was founded on a principle and it was founded in conflict. there's kind of characterized -- >> while in lawrence, we took a riving tour of the city with historian john brown interpreter altenburg.z e >> john brown, thank you for joining us today, interpreter in lawrence, kansas. thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. i appreciate it. who don't know

eastern on book tv's "in-depth" on c-span2. sunday on q&a, author and journalist patricia miller and her book on the late 19th century sex scandal involving a kentucky congressman who was sued by his former mistress. prestonam campbell breckenridge, and the number of middle names he had should signify he was in the southern you lead. he had been a confederate colonel, in the confederate calvary and at the time of the lawsuit, he is in his fifat -- this term in congress. she was very hungry for an education, so she was this hungry young woman who ran into breckenridge and a time when she was desperate to make herself something in the world and get an education. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. the washington post hosted an education forum yesterday discussing gender and racial disparities. technology in the classroom. and policy issues. this portion of the form ran about one hour and 45 minutes. kris coratti. we are really excited today to be joined by some of the top minds and leading disruptors and education. neware going to examine the and innovative ideas that are really transforming our schools. we'll be talking about new approac

eastern sierra over the next 10 days. >> will flights, well flights are finally back on schedule. about 400 flights were delayed, 150 flights canceled yesterday. we talked with a man from kentuckyhe was stuck at the airport for hours. >> the high winds commit we got a text and it told us we would be 4 hours late. >> the storm did not affect flights at oakland international. they had no major delays or cancellations.>>> the final preparations for governor elect gavin newsom's inauguration are underway. crews have been working through the rain and cold to put up fencing, metal detectors and stage equipment for this morning's sermon. newsom will take the oath of office and become california's 40th governor inside a tent on the capital lawn. one mother and daughter who plan to attend today's inauguration parade the bad weather to get a look at where everything will be happening. >> i was trying to explain to her what was going on and it was a bit windy and wild so we are doing our best to stay dry and we are walking around and making the best of it. >> the state is not paying for the event. sponsor ticket packages were sold to cover the cost. >> the inaugural festivities actually s

kentucky with literary aspirations, very hungry for a n education. she ran into breckinridge at the time and she was hungry to make yourself into something in the world. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern&a."withn >> with the shut down its record onh day, here is the debate the bill from the house floor. i yield myself such time as i may consume. madam chair, while president trump continues to keep our government shut down, house democrats are committed to working for the american people. i am pleased to present legislation today that helps meet the urgent needs of our fellow americans affected by recent national disasters.

kentucky with literary aspirations, hungry for an education. she ran into breckenridge at a time when she was desperate to make yourself something in the world and get an education. at 8:00 eastern on q&a. monday, martin luther king jr. day. race00 a.m. eastern, relations in the u.s. with professor leonard stein worn and commentator armstrong williams. live on washington journal. at 4:00 p.m. on book tv on c-span2, a discussion on race in america. >> voter suppression. voter suppression is real. let's just am a couple of states. dakota --exas, north north dakota, just. we are still, dealing with this issue on dr. king's birthday. >> on american history tv on c-span3, at 8:00 p.m. eastern the 1957 film "a time for freedom" documents the civil rights rally at the lincoln memorial. >> give us the ballot and we to the longer plea federal government for passage of an anti-lynching law. we will buy the power of our --write a lotaw in the statute books of the south. >>

kentucky with a literary aspirations who was very hungry for an education. she ran into him at a time when she was really desperate to get an education. >> sunday night at 8:00 easternn c-span's q&a. >> washington journal continues. russell, editor with the washington examiner to continue our conversation this morning with all of you on the government shutdown. it's day 27. you were part of a piece that the washington examiner wrote. vote on the wall and bend the shutdown. what are you proposing? is basically a compromise that i think it's simple in my own mind and a pretty common sense compromise for democrats and republicans is to fund the border wall construction the president is asking for in exchange for a deal on daca of some sort. that gives trump what he wants and democrats a big win insuring people who came here not of their own accord and have not been criminals are able to stay here legally. so that's a pretty simple compromise and it seems like a commonsense idea. but apparently not something congressional leaders are interested in. host: why do you think republicans are not interested? why do you think democrats are not interested? what are the politics

eastern also on c-span. >>> sunday on q&a. author and journalist patricia miller and her book bringing down the colonel in the late 19th century sex scandal involving a kentucky congressman sued by in mistress . >> william campbell tristan breckenridge, the number of middle names he has should signify he was in the southern elite and had been a confederate colonel and was in the confederate cavalry. at the time of the lawsuit he was in his fifth term in congress. he was nobody, a poor girl from kentucky with literary aspirations who is hungry for an education. she was a hungry young woman who ran into breckenridge at a time when she was desperate to make herself something in the world and get an education . >>> sunday night i 8 p.m. eastern time on q&a. >>> monday, martin luther king jr. day at 8 am eastern, race relations in the u.s. with american university impress her letters died high and armstrong williams, live on c-span's washington journal at 4 p.m. on book tv on c-span two. discussion on race in america . >> voter suppression israel. let's just name a couple states, florida, georgia, texas, north dakota. today and 2019, we are still dealing with this

eastern time. after those two bills failed on the floor he was asked if the two leaders in the senate, chuck schumer of new york, mitch mcconnell of kentuckyhey could come together on some sort of agreement. [video clip] reporter: if chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell would come to an agreement would you support it? president trump: if they come to a reasonable agreement i would support it. reporter: no wall money? president trump: look. i have other alternatives if i have to. i'll use those alternatives if i have to. we want to go through the system. we have to have a wall in this country. we have criminals pouring into our country. and i'm not talking about the southern border. they don't stay there. they permeate all throughout the country including places like wisconsin. a lot of different places. and that's the problem. i say that we would cut our -- you know we're doing well on crime rate compared to past years and past administrations. but i think our crime rate would go way down and i know our drug rates -- our drug -- what's happening is that the drugs are pouring in. yes, they come through the ports of entry. but the big trucks co