in 2008, kentucky did not fall for hope and change. kentucky's knew better. this year, we will know better once again. we know better than to send jack conway to washington to understand the obama-policy agenda. i say if ed whitfield, mitch mcconnell, and rand paul are on one side and on the other is a jack conway, barack obama, and nancy pelosi, our side is the kentucky side. what did this out of control trillion dollar deficits, we need rand paul to rein in government spending and keep us from burning in a sea of debt. now, look. rand paul has spent his entire professional career helping people out. jack conway spent his entire professional career chasing ambulances. jack conway will not stop out of control spending. he will not vote for a balanced budget amendment. rand paul will vote for a balanced budget amendment. what barack obama in aids policies says is we need to spend more, -- what barack obama and nancy pelosi says is we need to stand more. rand paul will stand up and say, "no." if you're like most americans, you are appalled at to much spending,

the number one energy source -- kentucky coal.lionaires with lives allocated in these following cities -- home of the governor, steve beshear -- oil was drilled for, our uniforms made in mayfield. fort campbell expanded. just south of here there were 1500 jobs that are now in china. different resources were mined around here. the servant barkley zemeckis began his final words were "i would rather be a servant in the house of the lord, the end to be in the house of the might y." those of kentucky found favor under their good service. today we still live in the gods could raise because of that love for constituents. he was born and raised in the western kentucky. he bought his home here and was buried here. he was pro chooses kress, pro- israel, perlite, and pro the people in his district. what a man and survive. time has passed, and now the seven has given the king's jobs to severance pay in china. corporate entities have been given contrasting flavors that have taken the wealth, and our homeland is in mortgage to foreign lands. th

. >> jimmy: you are originally from kentucky, and your dad lives in kentucky?k home for the fourth of july and we have this giant kentucky-style fourth of july party with lots of fireworks and me and my friends and mom drove across the country, up through yellowstone and all the way down through pismo beach. it was pretty -- >> jimmy: nice, nice. a lot of fun if mom wasn't with you. >> here's the thing. i wanted to camp. i wanted to rough it, but my mom wanted to stay in hotels. some nights she did decide to camp, she had to have an air mattress in the tent. not only an air mattress, but it had to have ipod speakers built into it, with wifi. so it was like -- >> jimmy: wifi? >> all camping sites across the u.s. have wifi now. very frustrating. i want to rough it. i have to check my facebook status. >> jimmy: you are forced to, once there's wifi. >> you have no excuse. >> jimmy: you're not going to check it? >> exactly, exactly, yeah. >> reporter: so, yeah, so you can actually, instead of looking at a real rainbow, you can look at the double rainbow -- >> no way

he made gestures and whispered under his breath as the kentucky senator spoke. it was distracting enough that he went up to the former comedian and said this isn't "saturday night live," al. >> anti-nuclear demonstrators here in the bay area will rally to mark the 65th anniversary of the u.s. atomic bombing of hiroshima. demonstrators use the occasion to call for an end to nuclear weapons. organizers say the lab is one of two sites of that developed every nuclear weapon in the u.s. arsenal. (bell ringing) >>> and hiroshima today bells rang to mark the world's first atomic bombing. this was the biggest memorial to date and the first attended by representatives from the u.s. britain and france. officials from 74 nations were

if you look at a state like kentucky, kentucky's a republican state. a mainstream competent republican candidate would probably win the senate election there. well, they -- the republicans nominated rand paul who is not in the mainstream. but does that mean he can't get elected? i don't think that's at all clear. gwen: tea parties aren't necessarily the automatic key to the kingdom either. in colorado, as you pointed out, the nominee was a tea party candidate and in georgia some of the incumbent republicans are telling sarah palin and the tea party to stay out. >> that's right. the tea party -- we've all had difficulty really getting our arms around what the tea party really is. it varies from state to state. in a place like kentucky it's quite strong, obviously, in what it did in that primary. i was in ohio recently and asked some of the republicans there, what's the tea party movement like here? they basically said it's a movement with a small capital. so we don't know how it's going to work. the democrats have been, i would say, very aggressive in t

. >> in kentucky, the democrats recalling ran paul an extremist.in the end, voters will be more scared of a democrat. >> in kentucky? >> in kentucky. >>> the high unemployment numbers are going to put pressure on the service members in america and get their pensions reduced and the long- term costs of those people off the books of this. >> prediction, rod blagojevich will walk. bye bye.

the kentucky. days. of the subway here slowly we're improving the condition of the soldiers and this is just right but we haven't come here to take part in the soldiers delight over the variety of fast food we want to know what's really going on here. here we are at the gates to camp delta where the prisoners are kept. the person in front is sergeant johnson the man behind the scenes who has the authority over our guides as the second man is colonel mcqueen responsible for security. as much as you can. leaving. we are american so and being american soldiers we come up with a way of life a democracy that provides the rights to people to be treated humanely fair for. how do you do that because i'm a military professional as military professional i've been given a mission and that mission says that i will safely secure the detainees within camp delta and by humane treatment people that i didn't. question. the family for example the family of the swedish detainees you know they don't know why he's here they

enough for thirty eight military police company from early kentucky. and to get this. i feel that they're like this. i'm making this case law enforcement from slade ohio. and then specialist michael from. you know the swedish guy he's there he's. my personally actually i can tell you we don't comment on specific details or specific nationalities so that question to him he would be ok and. the. money even the names just don't do my job they finished one of them still in the. don't talk and neither do the prisoners. maybe it has something to do with this man. his name is general miller and he's the commanding officer at guantanamo has agreed to a short interview he is in an unusually good mood. mission to detain enemy combatants and then to gain intelligence from there to be able to win the global war on terrorism and so we are detaining these combatants in a humane manner in a matter. that is appropriate today in accordance as much as we can with the geneva convention. we do we work very hard to ensure that the detainees are maintained. in this manner. but what's wrong

. >>> in kentucky, a blue ribbon winning 16 pound ham from this year's state fair was auctioned for a record $1.6 million. that's right. the kentucky farm bureau organized the annual fund-raiser which dates back to 1964. 100% of the winning bid will go to charity. no word on who gets to eat the million dollar ham. if they want to. >>> now for a look at the weather, let's check in with nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, i don't know if you eat that or stuff that and put it on your mantle and say, yup, that's a billion dollar ham. >> they could have donated the money. i guess it's fun. >> it's a tradition from back in the '60s. every year it's gone up and up and up. >> i like my green eggs and ham. let's talk about the hurricane season. this is in full swing in hurricane atlantic. hurricane danielle 135 miles per hour category four hurricane, u.s. east coast is just off the screen here. this storm is going to harmlessly go out to sea, the one behind it that could cause problems for the eastern seaboard middle of next week. tropical storm earl, another off the coast of africa behind it

million at an annual auction at the kentucky state fair.orker weighed about 16 pounds. that amounts to about, $100,000 per pound. >> it was for a good cause. the money will go to local charities, chosen by the winning bidders. >>> up next, the stories we'll be following today, including an update about a missing youngster from oregon. >>> and the miners in chile, keeping their spirits up, while living half a mile down. ???????? >>> and now, a look ahead to the stories we'll be watching on this friday. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke, addresses the nation's economic outlook at a conference in wyoming. he's expected to talk about concerns over a possible double-dip recession and what the fed can do about it. >>> new video of the trapped chilean miners shows them in surprisingly good spirits. but the company that owns the mine says they cannot pay the salaries and will likely go bankrupt. >>> danielle is now a major cat 4 hurricane, headed toward bermuda with 120-mile-per-hour winds. tropical storm earl is expected to become a hurricane

tavis: not kentucky. >> no one would go for it. i talked to everyone i could. went all the way the ladder. tavis: you stick to the acting. you stay with the acting. >> they were going call it "lawman" then steven segal came out with a show called "lawman" and row and it for everyone. -- and row and it for tavis: you have been acting how long now? >> over 10 years. tavis: that's not a really long time. is this something that you saw -- i know you didn't see the character coming but is this something you saw fitting into the kind of role that you would like to take on one day? >> no, i actually -- i think when i started this line of work, i thought maybe one day if i worked at this i could play characters like this one. tavis: yeah. acting for just over 10 years now, which means you didn't do this as a child overbly. how did you figure out this is what you were supposed to be doing, 10 years ago? >> it was a bit of a hunch really. i was out here in los angeles. i was a fine art major at u.s.c. and needed -- i owed some electives. it was four years, i was already

we were like hey this is you know now we're dealing with this issue too it's not just an issue in kentucky and west virginia like hey let's put something together and kind of up the level of opposition to this issue and let's help make this issue a national issue that everybody has to dealing with. say what they're doing one. since some why is there a divide in our community. i've got nothing against free speech but when you come in here demanded people's jobs and clothes or schools they own and i and all that you lucky don't get hurt. if somebody is in california or north carolina or new york city they're connected to mountaintop removal because they're turning on the lights. their opening strategy was to draw attention to a school situated close to a mountaintop removal site in marsh fork west virginia. the mine is owned by massey energy america's fourth largest coal producer marsh fork elementary is a very very scary situation they have two point eight billion gallons of co slurry which is why it's toxic it's toxic material it has arsenic. chromium there's a lot of really really bad che

the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. rogers: madam speaker, it's been now 47 days, almost six weeks, since our subcommittee marked up the fiscal 2011 appropriations bill that would fund the department of homeland security. 47 days. normally after you mark up a bill in subcommittee it immediately goes to the full committee and then immediately to the floor of the u.s. house for us to act on the entire appropriations for the entire department of homeland security. for some reason the democrat leadership in the house chose to delay the markup of the funding bill for the department of homeland security now six weeks. and instead they're bringing up this piecemeal supplemental bill that would make a nice amendment to the appropriations bill for the department of homeland security, if we could get that bill to us. and this supplemental, if passed, has to go back to the senate who's gone for the summer before it can

kentucky, a normal of the republican-led. caller: good morning. host: go ahead, norma. you are on the air. caller: good morning. host: you are on the air. we can hear you. caller: i vote for republican because republicans -- because i think the republican would be the best thing to vote for because obama is not doing a good job, he is listening to nancy pelosi, whatever her name is, and harry reid. and here he is supposed to be getting the boys out over their in afghanistan and everything else -- no, he is not a good democrat. he is not a good president. host: all right. the president is going to be talking about iraq today at a speech in georgia. that will be laid on this morning. go to c-span.org for our coverage. philadelphia, james, on independent line. good morning. caller: how are you doing this one? host: go ahead. caller: i will definitely be focusing on the economic whole thing. i just want to say that we are all very powerful beings and we can change this. we just need to have faith and we need to stand up and take action to get our country back. host: john bo

. >> well a championship pig really brought home the bacon in kentucky.this is miss kentucky carrying the blue ribbon ham from this year state fair in louisville. ready for this. ham auctioned off every year at breakfast this year it fetched 1.6 million dollars. for charity. it is a 16 pound ham so that works out to about 100,000 dollars a pound. previous record was 1.3 million dollars. that its some pricey pork. >> no kidding. all right let's check in now. >> speaking of ham. >> yes. >> coming up in sports. a's try to complete 3 game sweep in cleveland. >> with the divorce now [ female announcer ] jcp cash is on the spot savings. earn ten dollars off on the spot when you spend twenty five! wow! unlike other stores... ...we don't make you come back to save. earn jcp cash -- ten dollars off when you spend twenty five, who knew shopping could be so rewarding? jcpenney. woman: did you bring the camera phone? man: i did. do you wanna go first? i've been waiting for this all day. ok, this is from... aunt stacey. introducing chase quickdeposit. just photograph

. >>> kentucky fried fight. kfc franchise owners have a bone to pick. they are suing the fried chicken giant for trying to go healthy with grilling. >>> and, remembering bobby thomson. the baseball legend who launched that shot heard around the world. >> and it's going to be, i believe -- the giants win the pennant! the giants win the pennant! the giants win the pennant! >>> good evening. >>> good evening. for two weeks, the fate of former illinois governor rod blagojevich has been in the hands of six men and six women in a chicago courthouse. late today, the divided jury returned its verdict. guilty on only one count. deadlocked on 23 others. blagojevich could still face up to five years in prison and prosecutors quickly said they'll try the case again. but those prosecutors have been dealt a big blow. chris bury is in chicago tonight. hey, chris. >> reporter: george, this is a stunning verdict, a major victory for blagojevich. a stunning upset for federal prosecutors. they failed to convince a jury to convict unanimously on extortion, bribery or racke

win kentucky. kentucky is very safely in republican category. that's something they say because they don't have a lot to say when it comes to the central issue of the race, which is economy, jobs, and the poor shape we're in. it's the type of political distraction that gets thrown out there, but there's no evidence that supports it. if it was, democrats would be winning in a lot more of the polls. and that's just not the case. >> larry: congresswoman schultz, how do you respond? >> larry, what ari is saying is just absolutely not born out by the facts. look at the very fact that harry reid, until sharron angle was nominated by the republican party, a hard right-wing, harry reid was struggling in the polls. now he's up in the polls in every major poll. you have candidates across the country, democratic candidates, democratic incumbents who are up in the polls overwhelmingly, and about eight or nine of the nrcc, hand-picked moderates, young guns have gotten beat in republican primaries and now those

we met with the kentucky national guard, for example. their colonel is a vet in kentucky and they are focusing on agriculture. so when they send out a combat patrol, as soon as the area is secure, they'll send out their civilian groups with what we call ag extension agents and they're teaching them how to do chicken farms, raise pigs and irrigate and things like this. so we are trying to kind of bring afghanistan into the 21st century in terms of economic issues and teach them also how to work together in a democratic fashion. and that, in my opinion, the key question of whether we win or lose in afghanistan. i do not think that we'll have a military situation that we can pull all the troops out next july. that we are sending in the last combat troops just getting there. but i think the military situation is going to improve significantly. and if we can improve the civilian side of things, then, i think the future is hopeful. and i'm optimistic about a positive outcome in afghanistan. do we have our recorder to record the questions? the

a friend of mine, when i was in kentucky in the rand paul versus rand ball paul, when rand paul says something stupid, when he's quiet he rises. >> if there's a back coe aspect to the republican party, it could help barack obama. >> i think it is the energy factor on the part of the republican party. one that worries the democrat candidates is their base is not energized about the mid term elections. if you have a energetic right to the elections that will shake up the democrats and get them to the polls to vote. >> talk about social security and ideological stuff, will that encourage older people to show up? >> they're reliable. from the democratic point of view, if you can't beat them use them fp if you make them part of the establishment, by making them office holders, it is easier to do the juxtaposition and if as the president shows, moderate some, that's helpful. >> you're hailey barber. you're a conservative middle of the roader. do you feel you have a chance to be barack obama in 2012, the back coe wing will be the best. >> if you're hailey barber or dozens of others that got

the bitterness at kentucky fried chicken. august 18th. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> you know, it's happening at kfc, it's kind of interesting. in the sense people are basically saying, kfc, you are kentucky fried chicken. some of the franchise owners are saying, we want to stay as fried chicken, quit marketing that healthy stuff. it's not helping sales. >> we want a heart attack, let us have our way. i mean, come on. >> i think what they're saying is if you include it in a regular, balanced diet you should be allowed to have it. you'll hear all about the controversy. >> juicy details in a second. >> good morning and thanks for being with us. i'm vinita nair. >> i'm rob nelson. >>> federal prosecutors are promising a quick retrial for former illinois governor rod blagojevich. >> the jury agreed on just one charge in the high-profile case. diana alvear has the latest from chicago. diana? >> reporter: vinita and rob, good morning. it really did seem deliberations were going to continue to drag on until jurors p

now, the -- no, that's miss kentucky. she's beautiful carrying the blue ribbon from the state fair in louisville. the ham is auctioned off every year at a breakfast and this year it fetched $1.6 million for charity. that's a 16 pound ham. you do the math, that's $100,000 a pound. the previous record was $1.3 million. >> wow! i think it should come with a picture of the actual pig. >> the late pig? something to remember him by? >> exactly. >> yeah. 5:36. >> still ahead, the child porn investigation that's led to the arrest of an east bay soccer coach. >> i'm terry mcsweeney live in oakland where police are asking for your help to solve the killing of a 13-year-old boy. a controversy that has rekindled the issue of cops versus crime. those stories coming up after the break. >> and the furniture giant tries to streamline its shopping experience in the east bay. coming up why some of its neighbors say the surprise is just too high. >> as we look at the high temperatures across the lower 48, a couple areas stick out. denver at

delmarva peninsula, looking into tennessee, kentucky, down to new orleans. that will be heavy rain that continues. the remnants of td number 5 in the southeast. big heat today, denver, 101. look at oklahoma city. back up to tomorrow, triple-digit heat. dallas, san antonio, all big heat today. >> and, george, only one thing scared me. i was nervous about the word crisps, going into the commercial break. i wasn't sure if i could get it out. >> you did it perfect. >> thank you. >> okay, sam, thanks. >>> president obama is in the final day of a campaign swing, helping democratic candidates facing tough contests in november, before heading off on a vacation where he says he will recharge his batteries. in seattle, tuesday, the president charged up the crowd. >> you remember our slogan during the campaign, yes, we can? their slogan is, no, we can't. no, we can't. hmm. it's really inspiring. >> the crowd loved the sarcasm. but will that argument work for democrats? is the president the right person to be delivering it right now? is there anything he can do to beat

in the republicans who have decided to allow themselves with the kentucky coal and oklahoma oil agendaill find themselves with a big surprise on election day this fall 2010. >> the conventional wisdom is there will be more republicans, not fewer, and the house and senate next year. if democrats retain the house, would you do differently to engage them on this issue? >> henry waxman, nancy pelosi, and i worked hard to pass legislation in the house of representatives. you are asking a senate question. it is not the congress. it is the senate. that will be something we will have to determine based upon what the composition of the senate is next year. we are very proud of what we did. we were able to build a consensus around that approach. it was now 14 months ago it occurred. that is how slow the sun and has been to take up the legislation, not because of harry reid, but because of republican obstructionism. time is our ally. in the same with bob dole blocked passage of the telecommunications act of 1994 so that he could win a majority of the house and senate -- it did become the telecomm

in kentucky, customs officials came across an elaborate tombstone that arrived from jamaica hollowed out and stuffed with more than 50 pounds of marijuana. a red flag was raised when they noticed the concrete slab for the late delroy senior was hand-painted to look like granite. investigators are at a dead end, unable to find the sender or intended recipient. >>> in california, a seven-year-old and his parents are dead after a big rig loaded with gravel lost its brakes and slammed in their home. the driver escaped with minor injuries. officials are investigating what caused the brakes to fail. >>> the famed air force thunderbirds kicked off air force week in new york city. smoke billowed from the f-16 fighters as they flew over the aircraft carrier "intrepid" in tight formation. air force weeks are held all over the country, celebrating the men and women serving in the united states air force. >>> and back in california, a high-flying event of a less coordinated style. it's a competition to launch human-powered flight craft off a 30-foot-high ramp and into the water. an all-female te

. >> lehrer: kentucky, nevada and... . >> and now colorado. and you know, so i think there's a real problem there. the republicans because of this, because of these candidate issues could fall short on the senate this could prevent them from taking over the senate. >> lehrer: what do you see, from the election? >> i will quote a friend who said i think it is a jett blue. >> lehrer: democratic "the wall street journal" nbc poll,. >> i think it is a jetblue election. everyone is frustrated. everyone is heading to the emergency exit. >> lehrer: which is a reference to the jetblue flight attendant. >> meltdown, that took the emergency chute down. and i think that's where the electorate is. i think i agree with michael that the republicans would be more competitive and better shape if they had nominated the establishment candidates, if you would, tray grayson in kentucky and norton in colorado in the case of jane norton in colorado. and i would add to that rob simmons in connecticut who would be a far better matchup against dick blumenthal. >> lehr

in kentucky, another study showed very interesting results. a school district changed its start time from 7:30 to 8:30. students averaged up to 15 minutes -- almost a whole hour -- extra sleep per night. -- students average up to the 50 minutes. students measure the rate of the rest of the state. they find the crash rate for 16 chr 17-18 year-old rose and the rest of the state. it is a safety factor as well. in the bay area, california. the board of education decided in march of this year that high- school would start at 8:00. 25 minutes later than they currently start now. in recent weeks, their board decided that they did not want to move forward because they learned that a change to the high school schedule would force the transportation department to add more routes. the board will not consider the issue until there is money to operate additional bus routes. it is a budgetary issue. they have the will, but they don't have the money. how about san francisco? some of our board members have expressed interest in right -- in changing the high

. >> reporter: in lexington, kentucky, bedbugs forced people out of their apartments. in ft.h, texas, the city housing authority spent $500,000 to rid this apartment building of the pests. it didn't work. in seattle, bedbug calls to exterminators have spiked. contrary to their name, bedbugs aren't limited to beds. this times square movie theater is back open after shutting its doors tuesday night to deal with the paranoia and panic-inducing parasite. bedbugs tend to be nocturnal. they're visible to the eye. they're bite humans. and it's painful. the pests for eradicated from the u.s. at the end of world war ii. but in the last decade, they've been making a comeback. >> it has to do with the pesticides not being as effective as they were in the '50s, '6s and '70s. >>> nearly 200 criminal cases in north carolina are going to be reviewed. now that an investigation has found they were decided using tainted evidence.stigatio the investigation was sparked by the case of greg taylor, who spent 17 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit. it found agents at the state's crime lab