. >> reporter: jimmy rader, a retired iraq war veteran, survived the deadly 2016 west virginia floodings later, he is still rebuilding. in the meantime, he his wife and three dogs call this camper home. >> it's really tough with my ptsd being in such tight quarters. >> reporter: look around the small west virginia town and it's still without a grocery store, bank and elementary school. yet senator joe manchin is blocking the most aggressive climate change legislation in u.s. history. this neighborhood lost safe access to their homes after the 2016 flood weakened the foundation of this bridge and rusted it out. >> if someone dialed 911, could not come across this bridge. >> they'd be afraid they wouldn't make it. the bridge might collapse. >> reporter: this bridge is connie richard's lifeline to everyday life, including medical care. >> you just keep moving along and pray you get to the other side. >> reporter: but even in the face of severe weather and its costly destruction, neither rader nor richard blame climate change. >> i'm not buying into the old climate change thing. >> if someb

for doctor rader and her colleagues, hope is in short supply.uinely, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, i do not want to leave. i can adapt, i can go through it, i'm resilient, i can bear it but once i realised i cannot be a well—equipped, efficient, giving doctor, i had to decide to leave. i realised that i am leaving people behind that are going to suffer. i am in a constant state of guilt. hello. the weather has thrown just about everything at us over the last week or so — heavy rain, squally winds, a bit of snow over higher ground in scotland — so what does the weekend have in store? well, actually, a return to milder conditions, some brisk winds and some rain at times, courtesy of this frontal system that you can see pushing in from the west. but it is moving quite slowly — it's running up against high pressure — so there will still be a fair amount of dry weather around through saturday and, where skies have been clear, a really chilly start across parts of eastern scotland and eastern england. that is, though, where we will see the b

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. >> reporter: but even in the face of severe weather and its costly destruction, neither rader nor richard blame climate change. >> i'm not buying into the whole climate change thing. >> reporter: so if somebody said in order to make sure a flood like this never hits your community again, we need to get rid of coal, what would you say? >> let it flood again. >> reporter: in the second largest coal-producing state in the nation, climate change is a complicated issue. senator joe manchin, one of the key lawmakers blocking the most aggressive parts of climate legislation that would drastically curb greenhouse emissions linked to climate change, is currently ranked the top congressional recipient of campaign donations from the coal, mining, and informational fuel industry. manchin personal event in a coal brokerage company is valued between $1 million and $5 million. will you be okay knowing that west virginia could continue to get hit by severe flooding because we as a country failed to curb greenhouse gases? >> i think the premise is filled with malarkey. i really do. now, again, we're sensi