millinocket maine once a booming mill town now. almost a ghost town. the paper mill once a symbol of pride and prosperity in the region now a reminder of a time that has come and gone and international trade is what basically took the people industry of the united states down it's not just here in the in the town of millinocket it's worldwide the chinese there are more clever than we are. you know and we when we do a deal with them we usually. get the sour end of it. today millinocket is a small town of five thousand and the closest mall or movie theater is an hour's drive away many of the once bustling businesses in town now stand empty and abandoned it's been very depressing for a lot of people they've had their hopes and hopes that they would something would come along that would change everything but it hasn't. dr kind of smith is the superintendent of millinocket public schools after watching his town fall apart around him he decided it was time to take matters into his own hands. myths idea is to boost the school's population by charging chinese

took their jobs from them is now the one they're looking to for help preassure either party millinocket maine. coming your way at six thirty pm g.m.t. join us as we travel across american soil to a part that was once very much a piece of rushing. into the country. it's the invasion by means of. tradition language. this is the first to compete could be. in culture. to think. that the have the dems are still unaware of what's going on in their mind you still asking me what it's like. i don't know anything about. the great. israeli government is up rooting nomadic arab tribes from a desert they've lived in for more than a century the jewish state says the bedouins built their homes without permission but there is deep suspicion that the crackdown on arab villages is to replace them with jewish settlements more from artie's paulus leader of the negev desert. in the middle of nowhere the remains of all i'm a keep village. for the third time in two weeks israeli police came with the photos of and in a little more than an hour with demolished sixty houses. from a flood no this is my land i have a pa

americans almost every making people do funny things and yesterday on the program we had a story in millinocket maine talon which essentially has lost all of their jobs thanks to globalization to china so now they're doing is they're asking chinese students to pay twenty seven thousand dollars a year into wishing just to attend their high school so they can you know make another buck again but i want to return to the bankers for a second because i feel like in this culture where you're so focused only on your bonuses and on the next check that's coming in that's the culture that essentially got us into a crisis because nobody was really paying attention to what's going on so i mean does that tell you the you know we could be building up to the same thing well sure the focus on short term gains is definitely something that got wall street into a lot of trouble you know they didn't have the broad perspective to see that housing prices couldn't rise forever and actually you know the white house itself is i think trying to change the way that we that we deliver these bonus packages to to wall street exec

economy and we'll tell you about a very creative way the one town is fighting the economic crisis millinocket maine is facing a serious unemployment thanks to globalization and we're going to tell you how the local school system is thinking of bringing bringing the money back in by turning to china for help but discuss that at the end of the show but now let's move on to our top story. the new start treaty passed a key procedural vote today with a sixty seven to twenty eight vote to pass a closure motion and enter into the final voting stage tomorrow eleven republicans joined in with fifty six democrats on the motion so it looks like we're almost there now you hear us talking about the start treaty on a regular basis but let us quickly remind you of what exactly is involved now the entire goal of the treaty is to create a bilateral effort between the u.s. and russia to reduce the amount of nuclear weapons in the world and there was a previous start treaty between the two countries signed in one thousand nine hundred one limiting both signatories to a mere five thousand strategic weapons not includi