kinston search and rescuer sees it from miles away. >> i heard an explosion and saw the smoke risingbove the trees. i thought it was a plane crash into the building. i thought there would be a lot of casualties. i've never been in a fire or any incident of that size before. >> the north county fire marshal is also called in that day. >> we're in rural eastern north carolina, a small town. when this happened, it took every resource within our county. for the fire service, this is our world trade center. >> a little more than a year after the 9/11 attack, has small town kinston been the target? with 130 employees on site at the time of the accident, officials quickly rule out that an airplane is to blame. >> within the first hour of being on the scene and contacting the tower at the airport, no evidence of any plane striking the building was seen. so we ruled out a plane going into the building fairly early. >> officer woody spencer of the kinston police department documents the scene on video. >> it was total chaos. flames and smoke billowing from the building. when i started the vide

shelby count any kinston, north caro carolina actually at the case of appeals. they're behind that. they have a good claim that if this photo i.d. law, which there's no evidence that it's discriminatory, if the justice department objects to it, that that's further evidence that section 5 really is not constitutional anymore. >> you know, the -- congress went to great pains to establish a record for the extension of the voting rights act in 2006, and it was signed into law by a republican president, and i don't know who was in control of the congress at the time that the law passed. it was split control, one house democratic, and one how republican, and republicans have used the voting rights act in redistricting and relied upon it for, ever since it passed in 1965. so i seriously doubt that in a split congress with a republican president, if there was an -- a record that was absent, that did not demonstrate ongoing discrimination based on race, i seriously doubt the law would have been extended the way it was in 2006. so there is a chance to make the case that we're no longer a nati

one explosion, also in 2003, at west pharmaceutical industries in kinston, north carolina, showed just the problem can be. because it was a drug company, the factory floor was immaculate. but plastic dust was hidden above the workers' heads. >> we know that as much as 2 inches of dust had accumulated in the ceiling, probably about a ton of material. that makes for a powerful explosion. >> hours after the blast, employees were still trapped inside. seven died, and scores were injured. carolyn merritt's investigation concluded that osha, the government agency created to safeguard workplaces, had no effective regulation on its books to deal with explosive dust. and she found that osha inspectors routinely overlook the hazard. did osha inspect that work site before the explosion? >> yes, osha had been in that facility. >> what did they find? >> they didn't find any dust issues. >> even when the dust was in plain sight, osha inspectors missed it. as they did at c.t.a., a plant that made soundproofing in corbin, kentucky, where the workplace had been covered in plastic dust. that factory exp

one of the things i admire the most about ron paul is his kinston -- consistency. for those of you who have been watching the debate, you see how many times canada apologize for their past vote. it seems like every debate, someone has to apologize for something new. why did they support a government-run health care? why did they support no child left behind? why did they support the debt ceiling? [cheers and applause] every time we have one of these debates, they have to apologize. ron paul has never had to apologize for his voting record. [cheers and applause] you may have recently seen that a nonpartisan group did a study of the budget proposal from the various candidates, and three of the four candidates offered the budget proposals that would increase the debt. only one of the four had a budget proposal that would decrease the debt. do you know who that is? ron paul has had a real impact on the republican party. it has brought liberty minded people into the party like me. it is really changing the fabric of the party. if you look at this, more young people supp

the cases -- two of them offend shelby county and kinston, north carolina are actually at the court of appeals and the federal district of columbia said the texas case a little behind that. they have a good claim that if the photo i.d. law, which there is no evidence that it's discriminatory to justice department objects to it, that that is further evidence of section five really is not constitutional anymore. >> the congress went to great pains to establish a record for the extension of the voting rights act in 2006 than it was signed into law by a republican president. and i do not know who is in control of the congress the times in the past. it was split control, when house democratic and one house republican. republicans have used the voting rights act and redistrict team and relied upon it ever since it passed in 1965. so i seriously doubt that any split congress with the republican president is very biased a record that was absent, that did not demonstrate ongoing discrimination based on race, i seriously doubt the law would've been extended the way it was in 2006. so there is a