robert ray is in charleston west virginia, robert give us the details of the bill. >> reporter: del,et me give you breaking news real quick. we are told because the judiciary committee and the financial committee cannot agree on some of the information and -- and amendments inside this bill, that they will be 14 new amendments that will be discussed later in the day before the vote even occurs. those being brought to the table by the judiciary committee, when the bill got into the finance committees hands earlier this week, a lot of things as you said were watered down. one recovering long term-medical monitoring. that was proposed and pushed by the health department and many health officials here in the state because they wanted to find out exactly what the long-term consequences were of this chemical on people, because as we remember very little research has been done on people. and they removed the early warning sign system for chemicals that make their way into the water supply, but the lob lob lob lobbyists pushed really hard and got that removed. so if the vote comes into play

robert ray is in charleston, the capitol of west virginia. what is in this legislation. >> they've been debating it. there should an vote earlier today. they're convening right now. the started off at 6:00 p.m. 24 new amendments to the bill. here is the issue. over the weekend the judiciary committee worked very hard of this bill, the final touches together, and the folks who approve the money and the lobbyists who push those people and the lawmakers. so what's in the bill is yearly inspections for above ground tanks. all across the state of west virginia. 150 water companies will be held to some of those standards. what's not in the bill is this: ,and it's supposed to be in the bill according to the judiciary committee. they removed long-term medical monitoring. the secretary of state called for that. the health department. the health commissioner, the county here said he's totally disappointed the fact that they removed that. they don't know the effects on people because there has not been the data or studies. also taken out new early warni

robert ray has the story. >> reporter: on country roads in north carolina a yellow sign readi readingtands in front of many farms, noting that the virus has hit the population. >> the nursing pigs, new barn pigs, most die. >> reporter: nearly 3,000 have died since june. but on a snowy march mourning there is no sign of the virus on this farm. michael jones and his family own this operation. they raise over 200 free-range hogs and sell to local stores and restaurants. >> my pigs have a morrow -- more robust immune systems. most park produced in the united states is in confinement facilities and those pigs are very vulnerable to ped. >> reporter: the virus cannot spread from annals to humans, and the older sows somehow develop a natural resistance. and has thousands of pig lets continue to die from ped virus, environmental groups are warning the department of agriculture and states like here in north carolina of the potential health risks that could occur with the disposal of infected hog carcasses. >> we have a large number that are being left in dead boxes for a long time. if they are

robert ray reports. >> on the yakin river dean works to keep the waters wealthy. the nonprofit yakin river keeper eyes the environment in a place where coal ash sits upstream. >> we have coal ash ponds all over the country. it is just - it's contaminating, it's toxic material. >> on february 2nd, a coal-ash field highlights a complex problem - how to clean up ash, a dirty by-product. goal is the dominant source. coal ash resides in a slushy regulatory landscape. >> the levels of toxins, carcinogens, chromium, leg, arsenic and, you know the list, it's like a quarter of the periodic table. they are all extremely toxic to humans. so the accumulative effect in the environment is, i think, understudied. >> the environmental protection agency has no federal standard requiring that ponds be lined or no pit for structures or monitoring. >> if you look at the history of disposal for a long time the cheapest way to dispose of the material was to slews it into the ash ponds. >> up this hill is duke energy's buck stephen station. there are three coal ash ponds making up some

tonight, robert duvall, rachael ray, and music from damon albarn with cleto and the cletones. presented by captain morgan white rum. and now, i reckon, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you. that's very nice. welcome from austin. i'm jimmy kimmel. your enthusiasm is very nice. [ applause ] >> jimmy: fantastic. we're here from austin, texas. very nice. this could go on forever. i hope everyone -- are everyone's horns hooked in what not tonight? i stand before you half man, half brisket. you know you've been in austin too long when you start randomly finding rib bones in your pockets, which i did tonight. i can't button my suit. look at this. i can't fit in my clothes anymore because of this place. i'm going to leave it open. everyone has been so welcoming. a giant sign on the outside in advance of our arrival here, unfortunately it was very windy last night. when we got here this morning, our beautiful sign looked like this. our sign looks like what is about to happen to my pants right now. maybe this is god's way of telling me we have to go home. d

robert ray, al jazeera, north carolina. >> and appearance of a c pac pac with the first looking of runningor the white house. we'll have a look at the highs caves that are a hot tourism spot in the midwest. >> presidential candidates are firing up the base this week taking their red meat message to conservative activists. libby casey is live at the conference for us just outside of washington, d.c. libby, chris christie, the governor of new jersey, who wasn't even invited to this event last year got a standing ovation yesterday. who is getting the loudest aplus today? >> reporter: there are some speakers that they watch to see how they perform, and to see what they bring to the table. among them chris christie and mitch m mcdonnell. they were watched to see how they performed but the focus, senator rand paul, and there was no doubt that the crowd was in full support of senator paul. no other speakers had gotten as much attention. no other speakers as a many attendees. i want to share the message that he was sharing. he talked about personal freedom and government intrusion. >> yet, as our

to robert ray who has raised this a lot sooner than i did.is a failure of accountability. >> it is, and we seem to tolerate it until the public is -- unless you hold people accountable. unless you demand responsibility baby steps in the direction that the company is going to take responsibility for what was done. the truth is that the government has far too many situations because it easy to do with huge financial settlement with a substance of this. >> it's always easy to accept for the government a financial settlement because and hard but at times it hits the bottom line after all. for a company, letting go of a billion dollars if you were toyota may not be a drop in the bucket but reads the alternative, which is prosecution of senior executives to hold them to account. neil: but the prosecution, it's about being fair with the criticism of everyone and holding those who might have been ordered accountable. but it's gotten to the point now where and the legal fiction that can be held accountable under a theory of corporate collective knowle

i want to go to robert ray. 7425 at twitter. if the satellite track that plane for six to seven hours why don't they know where it went down? something does not make sense. david, do you think that the plane could have been tracked by satellite? why? >> it is possible that the plane would be registering with the satellite but the communication with the satellite is 23,000 miles up in space. it's geostationary and it really can't find direction or position of anything -- say it's there, but it would not be able to give a position. >> richard quest, pakistan, indian, myanmar, thailand, indonesia all say they did not detect the airliner on their radar. how reliable is their radar? >> we don't understand fully the capabilities of those individual companies. some will say it's evil metal and not accurate. but if you are talk about india and pakistan and their borders and coastline, then there are certain areas if those countries are saying they did not see anything that is a fairly high degree of certainty. kazakhstan has said there

. >> robert ray in atlanta. a new report details a fatal police shooting linked to the boston marathon bombers. maria has more on that and other stories from across america. >> reporter: in florida prosecutors released a report, they requested a man about hi mr uniteman, who saidthat the shoof protection. >>> more than 100 ships had been waiting on either side of the channel to pass through as much as 170,000 gallons of oil spilled into the water way after a barge collided with a ship on saturday. >>> no. new york a jury has ended deliberations for the day in the case of sulaiman abu ghaith. he is charged with conspiring to kill americans in closing arguments yesterday prosecutors urged jurors to find him guilty of supporting al-qaeda. defense attorney said he only acted as a spokesman and religious instructor. if convicted gaith faces life in president. >>> a commuter train was traveling at normal 25 mph speeds when it crashed yesterday. an automatic emergency braking system was activated but failed to stop the

the state says this went far beyond what duke needed and cited 8 times in the past few weeks and robert ray report. >> reporter: on the river he works to keep the waters healthy and nonprofit river keeper eyes the environment in a place where toxic coal ash sits up stream. >> coal ash on rivers everywhere and it's contaminating and toxic material. >> reporter: on february second a toxic coal ash spill from duke energy plant in north carolina highlighted a complex problem, how to cleanup tons of coal ash, a dirty byproduct of coal power production and coal is the nation's dominant energy source and coal ash is in a slush, regulatory landscape. >> carcinogens and you know the list and a quarter of the periodic table are all extremely toxic to humans and so the cumulative effect in the environment is i think under studied. >> reporter: the environmental protection agency has no single federal standard requiring that ponds be lined and no common standard for pit or pond structures in monitoring. >> if you go back and look at the history of disposal for a long time, the cheapest way frankly to d

tonight, robert duvall, rachael ray, and music from damon albarn with cleto and the cletones.ed by captain morgan white rum. and now, i reckon, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪

. >> robert ray, aljazeera, louisiana. >> in business news, visa is getting slapped with a $5 billion over swipe fees. wal-mart is suing visa for rigging rates that retailers pay on card transactions. the retailer said the fee cost merchants and consumers more than $350 billion between november 4 and november 12. wal-mart and other retailers opted out of class action settlements. visa declined to comment. >> do you futures up 33 points after two straight days of losses, the dow starting the day at 16264, the s&p at 1849, the nasdaq at 4151. overseas, asia ending the week mostly higher, make key add to go thursday's gains closing at a new two week high and european markets higher at this hour. >> toyota recalling 119,000 avalon as he denies, affecting the 2003 and 2004 model years. seatbelts could tighten because of technical problems. there has been one minor injury linked to the defect, but no accidents. >> ukraine's former prime minister officially throwing her hat in the ring to run for that country's presidency, whether tymoshenko has what it takes to stabilize the divided country

and later this week -- lady gaga, robert duvall, rachael ray, lil wayne, from darby stanchfield, andures, johnny winter, and the incredible willie nelson will be here to cap off the week. [ cheers and applause ] our first guest on tonight's slaute to criminalized agriculture is a very funny man, who costars alongside zac efron in the movie "neighbors," which opens in theaters may 9th. please say hello to seth rogen. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ hi, seth. >> how are you? >> jimmy: how are you? >> i'm wonderful. look at this. >> jimmy: i have to say, i'm surprised and flattered that you dressed up in suit and tie for me. >> i did. i was -- i was going to try to steal one of the uniforms from the big drum dudes but i'm significantly fatter than all those gentlemen are. >> jimmy: you're from texas, right? >> i am from texas, yes. obviously. [ cheers and applause ] as most -- yeah. as most canadian jewish comedy writers are, i am a texan at heart. >> jimmy: when i see you, though, i think cowboy. >> i have a leather cup. so come on. what's more texas than that? >> jimmy: have you ever ridden

irony that many pictures with them with maybe one day i hope to fill look back at these pictures of robert ray i'm very good. with alex and t.j. owning and shooting guns from the young ages of twelve and seven the woods will continue to consider shooting a family activity go rather than spending size days playing football they go to the shooting range. why do you like shooting so much. stress. shooting helps the roof stress you know. and i'm sure afraid something happens a children every day and us die because of chatrooms aren't you afraid it happens to you why not because what it would be made to shoot so. and someone else who is trying to or. when you think it's innocent when you with kids involved you think there's not a bullet in there you think it's just like you think everything is safe with this not guns or never say. and because of that there's a family that's very sad always mr daughter and i'm very blessed that we have you see with us. after some kids were there never taught the difference between i am in a real gun i think that's where some of the accidents come into play i mean yo

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robert durvall, rosario dawson, rachel ray, governor rick perry, darby stanchfield, and we'll have lotsusic from los lonely boys, jimmy vaughn, johnny winter, white denim, aloe blacc, the preatures, damon albarn, and the great willie nelson. you can get info on all those shows at kimmelinaustion.com. also while we're gone, will one of you feed hollywood blvd spongebob? because he doesn't eat otherwise. thank you. when we last saw our first guest tonight on the incredible series finale of "breaking bad," he was zooming into the new mexico night and he is still driving. his new movie "need for speed" opens in theatres march 14. please welcome aaron paul. >> jimmy: you look very handsome in your three piece suit. >> thank you. so does you. >> jimmy: where is jesse pinkman now? is he okay? does he have a condo in boca raton? >> i think so. i hope he's okay. >> jimmy: are people asking you about the show even though it was six months ago? >> yeah. i think the audience is still growing. still people say please call me bitch. it's ridiculous. >> jimmy: that's going to go on for the rest of you

tomorrow night, robert duvall will be here, rachael ray will be with us, and we'll have music from damonweek, lady gaga, lil wayne, from "scandal," darby stanchfield with her music, and we will hear music from johnny winter, los lonely boys, the preatures, and the one and only willie nelson. [ applause ] our first guest tonight is making the most of her week here in austin. she's been appearing on panels. she's been exhibiting artwork. she has a movie premiering. i hear she's been smoking meat on the balcony of her hotel room. she's doing everything. her latest film is called "cesar chavez." >> people are starting to lose hope, and i don't blame them. they know the growers have broken the strike with the illegal workers. and the sweetheart deal with the teamsters. we can't ask them to keep going when they see people working in the fields. we have to take the next step. >> we're too weak. >> we have no laws to protect us here. with the boycott there are no laws to stop us. this is the moment, cesar. this is what we came here to do. >> jimmy: "cesar chavez" opens in theaters march 28th. pl

robert rodriguez opted to go to cable for his new network el ray.ting latinos and millenials. the real goal is to unleash the renegade in everyone. >> there were about 110 english networks, 10 of which were african-american. there were none like this for general entertainment, hispanic english language. they are the largest minority. i thought this would be a great cause. i have five kids who did not see themselves represented in television as much. also a way to have really cool programming. it has to be exciting and entertaining for everybody. our first show is "from dusk till dawn" as a series. to fill out the programming, we have to license a lot of things because there has not been a back catalog of hispanic programming, so we have to create everything. until then, we are running a lot of classic television shows i was a fan of. "kung fu," "x-files." >> "from dusk till dawn" was a fantastic movie. everyone remembers george clooney and harvey keitel. how do you make that into a series? >> quentin tarantino and i have never done television. el re

roberts. >> hello. >> yes. one day they will realize what an unbelievable blessing that was. >> i hope so. >> probably not yet. >> thank you. >> all righty, so "little rascals" is coming up soon? available on dvd and blu-ray >> what's next? >> who knows? in this business, who knows? >> send this woman a script. she's anxious to work. we love you. >> thank you so much. thanks for coming to see us. coming up, advice for single parents who are starting to date again. >> plus two ladies show off their hot new looks. "ambush makeovers" after your local news. you know what, doris? >> what? >> i luia papi. >> she likes the song. she likes j. lo's song. >> she hates it. ♪ everybody have fun tonight >>> we're back with more of "today" on this thirsty thursday. time to do what we always do right about now. >> "ambush makeovers." >> two lucky ladies got whisked off the frigid plaza and treated to hot new looks. >> and doing the plucking as always, our talented makeover team. i luh ya, louis. our talented makeover team, >> "today" contributor and stylist to the stars, louis licari -- >> let's sing it that way. ♪ louis licari >> it's going to be a hit. >> and "today" contributor and editor for "people style watch" --

robert costa, interesting assessment, and love to come back to you as this unfolds. >> thank you. >> we have sad political news as well. we just received word this morning dallas attorney and former legislator, ray hutchison passed away at the age of 81. our thoughts are staying with the snort and her family at this time. >>> all right, just ahead on rf daily, we're going to bring you the latest on new challenges that rescuers are up against after that tragic mud slide in washington state. don't go away. i don't just make things for a living i take pride in them. so when my moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis was also on display, i'd had it. i finally had a serious talk with my dermatologist. this time, he prescribed humira-adalimumab. humira helps to clear the surface of my skin by actually working inside my body. in clinical trials, most adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis saw 75% skin clearance. and the majority of people were clear or almost clear in just 4 months. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal events, such as infections, lymphoma, or other types of cancer have happened. blood, liver and nervous system

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