host: morgantown, west virginia. caller: goal mouth and ears, for tonight. first, a real quick comment. a couple of callers on the democrat line -- and i come -- this is a democrat state. he said that he finds the democrats are generally smarter than republicans. i think that kind of arrogance is going to cost the democrat party dearly in november. but getting back to sports -- one of the observations, politicians have been throwing out the first ball at the world series. i remember president reagan. i think he was the first president to go to the daytona 500. i think it was just to whip up his base. i do not know how many additional votes he got from that. i noticed that president obama the other day one of the major networks, asking who he liked in the major for -- and while he did not nail it down he spoke highly of west virginia and i believe matt lauer said i find it interesting that the only state you did not carry -- thinking if they get past due, they would go all the way. host: you looked at the final eight? guest: i looked at the final eight and th

you can go to morgantown, pittsburgh.. >> well, i think i see that they have in the past and i'm an optimistic person and think they will in the future. >> the question is, should federal taxpayers keep footing the bill while we wait to see if passengers show up at these tiny airports? senator coburn says, no. >> it is interesting to see the lengths they will go through to keep it going and keep the money going, right? >> you bet. >> you focused on one airport. any idea if we are talking about a lot more like that one? >> reporter: it could be as many as 36 or more than that. the problem is, there is all these different grants and programs earmarking, et cetera. nobody knows for sure, kiran. this legislation did get through. coburn is going to get some kind of accounting for all this money to find out what we are dealing with with these airports across the country. >> dr. coburn on the case. >> and so is drew griffin this morning. >>> we are crossing the half hour. time for a look at our top stories. two more survivors pu

thousands on hand as they departed morgantown, for huggins, his first trip to the final four in 18 years he does it with his alma mater in his hometown. >> greatest resource in west virginia isn't coal, it's people. >> all season, you guys have supported us. i just want to say thank you. >> when jim took george mason to the final four in '06, many believes including me he deserved a lifetime contract from the school and he seems to be getting that. he was extended today through 2016. >>> all right, they say that great teams play their best when it mattest most. but -- matters most. but what about when it doesn't matter at all? like the capitals. now. with 110 points and the best record in hockey, the caps don't need to win another game for the rest of the regular season and they just might do that. the caps have dropped three straight and the six games they have left won't be picnics either. >> in five of the games, at least had desperate teams that have something to fight for. so i mean, it should be great tests for us with playoff hockey before playoff hockey. >>> spring baseball today

bob huggins and the squad departed morgantown for indi.t marked huggins first trip to the final four in 18 years. he does it with his alma mater in his hometown. lair nay ga extended through 2016. led mason to 12 straight winning seasons. at the yankees twins greatford game, that's span, fouls a line drive in to the seats. the reason he is concerned he just hit his own mother. who had come to town the watch him play. she was helped from the stadium. he anywhered his at bat and left the game to be with his mom. she is just fine we hear this morning. >>> local sheriff dawn as different kind of uniform for a hospital visit, details coming up. today is the deadline to mail back census forms. if you buy a car in the latter half of the decade it should be a lot more fuel efficient than most of the models we are driving now. >>> traveling the dw parkway, southbound, no problems to report from the beltway down to 123, i'm going to have more traffic. ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] irresistible crescent rolls. "hoo hoo!" [ female announcer ] only from pil

but all stop in morgantown, 35 miles away. >> how you doing? >> reporter: i took the flight myself. >> boarding, a quick ten-minute flight. 5,000 feet is the cruising altitude. >> reporter: and no sooner were we reaching altitude, we were preparing to land. >> lady and gentlemen, welcome. >> reporter: every single person who leaves clarksburg has to take that ten-minute flight. the man who runs the clarksburg airport said he's proud of what it's done to get as much money as possible. >> we had an economic benefit study analysis done, said the economic impact for this community is $300 million, so there's no question that we need this airport. >> reporter: but how can you say that when you've got three flights a day? you can go to morgantown, you can go to pittsburgh, most people do. and obviously the community is not flocking in here? >> well, i think i see that they have in the past. and i'm an optimistic person to think they will in the future. >> that's incredible. i mean, did you come across a lot of airports like this? >> do you know what,

virginia, that was the sago mine disaster and i remember being not only there but also the hospital, morgantown, west virginia. he was in a slight coma, and it took him a while to come out of it and he did eventually and physically, he was left with a lot more challenges, let's say, in this life but he did survive and he was able to see his wife again and his family, and so far as we can tell, the last check-in on randall, he's living a good life. so that gives the other families at this moment hope. martha: indeed it does. and we're watching, the door has opened here. we're inside a 2-minute warning on this. and just to mention, you know, methane gas is a naturally occurring gas on the earth. and it builds up at an extraordinary rate, in this mine alone, as our last guest said, it was known as a goody mine, there's a lot of methane, 2 million cubic feet of methane gas every 24 hours in this mine that is known as the upper big branch mine, and that is what everybody is thinking about this morning in terms of what may have caused this spark that ignited this explosion that took the lives of at l

maybe i just like visiting morgantown, west virginia, from time to time and picking up souvenirs.l. duke playing the victim card, it's like the yankees playing the victim card. relax. >> give me the pom-poms. give them right here. stop. >> we picked duke. come on. you can't call bias. by the way, this could be the last year of the 64-team tournament. you might have 96 teams in the ncaa tournament next year. we had 65 next year. the new model would have 32 teams getting a first-round bye. tournament would still finish in three weeks, start two days later than the original, different setup, but same length, championship game on the same monday every year. it would also eliminate the n.i.t. could have 96 teams in the ncaa. >> that's longer than the baseball playoffs. >> it would be like spring madness. march and april madness. >> right. now, speaking of baseball here, roger clemens, a few months after he denied using performance-enhancing drugs, he's now defending his performance in the bedroom. >> oh, wait a minute. why do we need to hear this? what's the -- this is sports? >> a cou