still massey. and other companies are made up of properties, and how that would look, i don't know. but we are the larst producer in central appalachia and one of the most difficult areas. i know that we spend tens of millions of dollars on safety improvements. i know that personally look at every accident and attempt to figure out what would avoid it. again the tragedy is something we have our views about, what caused it and so forth. but when you have mining in central appalachia, you have a risky business. we know that we do it better than others have done in the last 10-20 years, fatalities are way down. but let me give you a comparable statistic, there are 42,000 people killed on the highways in the united states. and the safety aspects that could be introduced into industrynd life, if they tried as hard as the coal industry, they would clearly save thousands of lives. >> this spring 29 people who worked for you died on the job, how did that experience affect you? and what you are doing now to

still massey. and other companies are made up of properties, and how that would look, i don't know. but we are the largest producer in central appalachia and one of the most difficult areas. i know that we spend tens of millions of dollars on safety improvements. i know that i personally look at every accident and attempt to figure out what would avoid it. again the tragedy is something we have our views about, what caused it and so forth. but when you have mining in central appalachia, you have a risky business. we know that we do it better than others have done in the last 10-20 years, fatalities are way down. but let me give you a comparable statistic, there are 42,000 people killed on the highways in the united states. and the safety aspects that could be introduced into industry and life, if they tried as hard as the coal industry, they would clearly save thousands of lives. >> this spring 29 people who worked for you died on the job, how did that experience affect you? and what you are doing

still massey. of properties, and how that would look, i don't know. but we are the largest producer in central appalachia and one of the most difficult areas. i know that we spend tens of millions of dollars on safety improvements. i know that i personally look at every accident and attempt to figure out what would avoid it. again the tragedy is something we have our views about, what caused it and so forth. but when you have mining in central appalachia, you have a riskybusiness. we know that we do it better than others have done in the last 10-20 years, fatalities are way down. but let me give you a comparable statistic, there are 42,000 people killed on the highways in the united states. and the safety aspects that could be introduced into indury and life, if they tried as hard as the coal industry, they would clearly save thousands of lives. >> this spring 29 people who worked for youied on the job, how did that experience affect you? and what you are doing now to prevent is from others dying?

quarterly results from aetna, dupont, massey energy and office depot. we'll see the s&p/case-shiller home price index for may, and the conference board issues its consumer confidence index for july. also, our "word on the street" looks at three under the radar stocks. each one is tied to apple. >> gharib: an arbitrage panel raymond james must buy back $2.5 million from an investor who bought them just as the credit market was collapsing. now, the investor claims he wasn't warned of the -- that the bottom was falling out and ended up stuck with worthless investments. raymond james says that the investor was aware of the risk. it has been a source of complaints. >> hudson: thousands of charities are getting a break from the tax man. the i.r.s. says there are more than 300,000 nonprofits that could have lost tax-exempt status because they missed a paperwork filing deadline in may. that deadline has now been extended to mid-october. a list of charities that could be affected is on the i.r.s. website. losing tax exempt status means those charities would no l

. >> reporter: the mine operator, massey energy, says it was an isolated incident, but tells nbc news the methane monitor was bypassed in order to move the miner, the machine, from the area. not so says kmp bell. >> we kept cutting coal. >> yes. >> reporter: if true, such actions would clearly violate the law and jeopardize the safety of the miners. the question, was there a general disregard for safety before the explosion? npr reporter has heard from multiple witnesses that disabling the monitors was common. he broke the story. >> people are extremely concerned about being identified as snitches. one miner said to me that the rule is what goes on underground stays underground. >> reporter: that miner's code of silence runs deep in much of west virginia where mining, quite literally, puts food on the table. few jobs are as lucrative or as dangerous. the man in charge of west virginia's independent investigation says some miners have admitted they're afraid to talk. >> they have expressed some concerns about intimidation, about conditions at the mine. and we've taken note of that. >>

a massey official says readings show twice as much methane as usual was present on the day of that blasthe company suggested that a crack in the mine's floor could have been the source of that gas. >>> those popular mail-in dna tests are getting disturbing results of their own. a federal sting found consumers who take the test are receiving information that can be misleading or just wrong. here's abc's dr. richard besser. >> reporter: the tests that promise to predict your future. your risk for cancer, for other diseases, for less than $1,000. but the investigation found the results consumers get back to these tests are often misleading, and in certain cases downright wrong. investigators swabbed the cheeks of volunteers and sent the dna samples to four different companies. 68% of the time, the results from the companies didn't line up. different results from different companies. >> for prostate cancer i had different companies tell me i was below average, average, and above average risk. >> reporter: the report also raises concerns about how these companies market. listen as this underc

of massey energy talks about his company's coal mining operations in virginia. democrats put forward their ideas for an energy bill, then it's "washington journal." >> at 11:15 a.m., steny hoyer talks about the economy at the center for american congress. and at 12:30, a look at the effect of the economic stimulus package. you can watch both events live here on c-span and at c-span.org. >> as the senate prepares to debate the energy bill, find out about previous bills with c-span video library. look up a bill and watch congressional hearings and watch previous debate on the house and senate familiar. -- floor. >> c-span library. it's washington, your way. >> the c.e.o. of pasky energy, faced reportersers at the national press club in washington. mr. blankenship's -- this is about an hour. >> good afternoon, and welcome to the national press club. we are committed to our profession's future through programming and through fostering a free press worldwide. for more information, please visit. to donate to our scholarship programs, visit www.press club worldwide. >>