and in eastern kentucky. we've also backed, you know, companies in tulsa, oklahoma, wichita, des moines, iowa. so it's fairly, fairly broad. and we've also backed a lot of companies and what some people think of is these the second tier cities that are doing remarkable things, including things that most people would assume happening. and in silicon valley, when i recently visited a company in, atlanta, called hermia, it's kind of spun out of georgia tech, which is one of the great universities in the country and they're focused on mach five engines. so you can get from atlanta to europe in 90 minutes. and the air force is a big there. atlanta is now emerging as an aerospace hub and that wasn't, you know, you know, looking like it was going to be possible even ten or 20 years ago. and georgia tech, because they have expertise in that particular sector are advantage. so you're seeing companies like, hermes, emerge in places like that. so there's just dozens and dozens of stories. hardest part about writing the

music] in 1965, i worked for [indistinct] sturgill coal company, the first big strippers here in eastern kentuckyutting some trees and got our tools and this young guy comes up, about my age, maybe a little younger, and he says, "my grandmother doesn't want you cutting her trees." i start to say something back, "well, you know the company sent, i mean, they've sent us up here to do this, what do you mean?" and that was the widow combs' property. [light music] that year at thanksgiving, she was arrested by the kentucky state police for stopping them from strip-mining her land and as i've always heard it was land that she was leaving to her grandson. it's just mind boggling, but i was one of the first three people run off of the widow combs' land [chuckling]. - [reporter] for 20 years mining has destroyed this country on the borders of tennessee and kentucky, but in the mountains the people have begun to fight. - every time i'd complain about the blasting, the superintendent said to me one day, he said, "do you realize that you're bitin' the hand that feeds ya?" and i said, "yeah, but i also realiz

eastern kentucky. we have ore around lake michigan. we have led in copper and zinc out in the southwest arizona, new mexico. you know, there are some nations in the world that have to purchase these from other countries in order to become an industrial power. the united states, we have those already here. we just have to locate them and get them out of the soil. and we are blessed in that regard. having an abundance of mineral resources is the second thing that you need to become an industrial power is an abundance of workers. and after the civil war is over, we have that as well. we have hundreds of thousands of union soldiers who are returning from their job of the last four years to defeat the confederacy. and now they're ready to look for a new vocation. we're going to have many southerners who are going to leave their homeland. that has been absolutely destroyed by the civil war, heading north to look for a job. we're going to have millions of immigrants flooding into the united states once the civil war is over. looking for a. so

guest: i grew up in eastern kentucky, my father was a preacher. so i grew up in a coal mining town. the coal mining town was very poor. the farm town was a farm town, i worked on farms. it was nice. i grew up in the 1950's, it might as well have been the 1750's, compared to now. you have all of the jobs, i worked on farms, i would cut tobacco for one dollar an hour during the season in august and september. i found after those jobs -- i knew what i wanted when i grew up, which was to have an office job. it was so hard. it was healthy growing up, then i got scholarships to good schools and got lucky, got this job at the national lab with very smart people. i have had a lot of luck in life , my father was very influential in guiding me in terms of my values and where i went to school and such. being the son of a minister does somewhat deter you from being too religious, because you see the dark side of it as well as the good side of it. host: what does a vice chair of covington in berlin do? caller: i had started a business law firm in new york city that merged with covington 20 some

i was working as a reporter in eastern, kentucky and this was a time. that was the height of battles against highly destructive mountaintop removal coal mining. and on one side and also intense industry organizing against regulations being proposed by the obama administration as alan has detailed and so, you know from an bird's eye perspective. this was seen as an extremely polarized time between those casts as protocol versus anticole. and of course leading up to the 2016 election when the unemployed white male coal miner became the archetype of endangered white working class, which was then effectively mobilized in 2016 and the regions became monolithically labeled as trump country. um, but as a reporter on the ground things were far more complex. in the pool fields the conundrum for many was understanding how the deep history of radical labor politics and union organizing an appalachia once a stronghold of the communist national miners union the nmu and of course then the umwa how did these allegiances and antagonism change so dramatically from milit

eastern indiana. more bad weather from colorado to kentucky and heading east.lso today, new york city with the worst air quality for a major city in the world. alerts in at least 19 states. and the excessive heat in the south spreading east and now to the west. abc's senior meteorologist rob marciano tracking it all. >> reporter: tonight, millions facing extreme weather from coast to coast. midwestern storms reloading after a violent 24 hours. and new york city covered in haze for a second day. >> the aqi, that is 155. still very hazy. and that is unhealthy for everyone. >> reporter: the big apple taking the top spot for the world's worst air for a major city. and across the south, record-breaking temperatures again. and even higher heat indexes. west of dallas in colorado city, texas, residents there have been without water for nearly a week. our mireya villareal in fort worth where first responders are strained and worried. >> with this happeninger in the season and the response volume being crazy, we're prepared for the worst the rest of the summer. >> repor

eastern half of the country tonight more than 300,000 are without power. after whipping winds flipped planes in tennessee, ping-pong ball-size hail pounded alabama. and since friday dozens of reported tornadoes tore through minnesota, kentucky and indiana, where one person died. watch as an ominous funnel forms outside of indianapolis. >> my husband came running down the stairs saying "everyone in the basement." >> reporter: today a tangled mess of trees and power lines blankets nearby neighborhoods. and in the northeast flight disruptions soaring, with thunderstorms prompting ground stops and delays at major airports severe weather sweeping from charleston to new york as the threat could worsen overnight emilie ikeda, nbc news, new york >>> let's go to the deadly implosion of that submersible near the titanic. canadian and u.s. investigators are interviewing the crew of the ship that launched the sub tom costello joins us now. tom, the mother of the 19-year-old who died is also speaking out >> reporter: yeah, that's right christine dawood lost her husband, shahzada, and her 19-year-old son, suleman she says the teen wanted to go, so she gave up her seat on the sub. meanwhile, salvage crews are now working to recover the re

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eastern time and you can watch our coverage on c-span two c-span.org, or our free mobile app, c-span now. minority leader mitch mcconnell republican in kentuckyis agreement between the speaker and president. >> as you may recall, i said in february the way forward on the debt ceiling was for the speaker and president to sit down and discuss the matter. it took the president months to accept the reality of a divided government and debt ceiling situation is a time for negotiations. seven out of the last 10 debt ceiling's have included other items. now the drama is in the house, we anticipate the bill passing and coming over to us as soon as tomorrow. we had a healthy discussion at lunch about the pros and cons. i would say most of my members who have objections would like to do more of the things already in the bill. i think speaker mccarthy should be congratulated on capturing a number of priorities. the best way to look at the difference, two years ago, we were in the process of spending $1.9 trillion. last year, another $750 billion. so we have gone from one party spending 2.7 chilean dollars in two years to a disgusting amount about reducin