west virginia. >> these are food scraps. rather than putting them in the trash, i'd rather put them in my compost area. >> reporter: barbara hartman is a registered dietician who lives in rural west virginia. she grew up appreciating the value of food. >> i don't like to waste food. it's been ingrained in me since i was a child. my grandfather lived through the depression and he would always bug us about cleaning our plates. my parents would echo that. >> reporter: hartman is part of a growing number of people trying different methods to reduce food waste at home. >> a lot of people throw the greens on the beets away but they're delicious. so i save them, put them in the pan. there's less waste that way. i like to freeze things instead of throwing them out. this is a piece of turkey pot pie from the holiday meal that i stuck in the freezer. otherwise, it would have gone in the compost. >> reporter: hartman's not only trying to reduce waste at home, she's taken her philosophy to work. she's a chief of nutrition and food service at the veterans affairs medical center in martins burg, west virginia, where she's in charge of serving 1,500 meals a day. what was the food situation

so where did you -- >> i grew up in rural west virginia. my grandparents had a garden. they did not have a telephone that unremembered. there were half an hour away from any sort of police response they also needed end use guns in terms of sort of daily life. there was talk of killing, keeping the pass out of the garden. but there were also sort of a clear recognition to my take, and the community that on matters of personal security the government, the state was really deepen the back rent and almost irrelevant. >> in your book you really, i feel, try to recover this tradition and put it in a long-term historical context. so i wanted to hear the when you talk about the black tradition alarms, what exactly is the black traditional arms? >> it is almost a repeat of what i suggested. it is church people and scribers and merchants embracing gun ownership, gun used, carrying guns, armed self-defense as a sort of practical necessity. as an important response to that time of state failure, that place in any sort of a violent encounter with the state just is not able to respon

. >> i grew up in rural west virginia. my grandparents had a garden. they did not have a telephone. they were half an hour away from any sort of police response. and they also use guns in terms of daily life. there was how killing and keeping the tests out of the garden. and a clear recognition in the community for matters of personal security that the state was deep in the background and almost irrelevant. >> so in your book you say you tried to recover this tradition and put it in a long historical content. so i wanted to hear when you talk about the black tradition of arms, what exactly is this black tradition of arms? >> guest: it is almost a repeat of what i suggested. it is those increasing gun ownership and carrying guns and armed self-defense as a sort of practical necessity and an important response to that period of state failure. it is a place in any sort of encounter where the state is just not able to respond. and so you find is occurring very early on. so as he set the book actually, after the introduction which focuses on the case, it talks in the chapter about the ea

>> guest: i grew up in rural west virginia. so my grandparents had a garden. they didn't have a telephone. i remember at 7 years old they still did not have a telephone. they were half an hour away from any sort of police response, and they also needed and used guns in terms of sort of daily life. so, you know, there was hog killing, there was keeping the pests out of the garden. but there were also sort of a clear recognition, i think, in the community that on matters of personal security the government, the state was really sort of deep in the background and almost irrelevant. >> host: so in your book you really, i feel, try to recover this tradition and put it this a long historical context. so let's -- i wanted to hear, you know, when you talk about the black tradition of arms, what exactly is the black tradition of arms? >> guest: sure. so it is almost a repeat of what i suggested. it is, it is church people and strivers and merchants embracing gun ownership, gun use, carrying guns, armed self-defense as a sort of practical necessity and as an important r

you are trying to start a business in rural west virginia and you don't have any bandwidth, you don't have any markets, you don't have any opportunity. though you are absolutely right. thathis is not something the marketplace by itself can resolve. we have never built infrastructure in this country that way. it has always been to a public-private partnership with a national vision, goals set by the government, incentives provided by the government to get infrastructure built. whether it is roads, highways, interstate highways, electricity, you name it. going back to the founding of the country. why should we expect business to go into an area where there is no business plan for it to go? it has to have some incentives and it has to have encouragement from the government. au put your finger on just tremendous problem for this country, if we are denying our kids access to the kind of tools they need. we are denying the future of the country. it's good jay rockefeller is currently chairman of the commerce committee in the senate. here -- host: jay rockefeller is currently the chairman of

you are trying to start a business in rural west virginia and you don't have any bandwidth, you don't have any markets, you don't have any opportunity. though you are absolutely right. thathis is not something the marketplace by itself can resolve. we have never built infrastructure in this country that way. it has always been to a public-private partnership with a national vision, goals set by the government, incentives provided by the government to get infrastructure built. whether it is roads, highways, interstate highways, electricity, you name it. going back to the founding of the country. why should we expect business to go into an area where there is no business plan for it to go? it has to have some incentives and it has to have encouragement from the government. au put your finger on just tremendous problem for this country, if we are denying our kids access to the kind of tools they need. we are denying the future of the country. it's good jay rockefeller is currently chairman of the commerce committee in the senate. here -- host: jay rockefeller is currently the chairman of

ofome from a rural state west virginia, and we rely on mass transit and bus transportation, and alsorain transportation, with the eastern panhandle. hopefully, you will all be attentive to that. with that being said, recently are heard from a number of transit authorities in my state, that the distribution of grant dollars from the fta has slowed down significantly. can you identify any specific causes for the increase of delay , on the verge of our first budget, may that help some? >> it would help to know which pots of money they are referring to. i am not familiar with the dynamic other than that which you decided. cited. we have to await the final appropriation before we look at the budget. >> this is in the past. that all ofld me them have been having long delays in any grant money whatsoever. we will get with you, sir, after this. >> there have been years when we have gotten a cr for a longer period of time. some of them stretch into march and april, in the most recent year. therefore, we did a partial apportionment of funds. indid not do that this year the hopes and expectatio

i, too, come from a very rural state of west virginia we depend a lot on mass transit, especially bus transportation. we have some training transportation innovation in which we are very much concerned about. hopefully you all will be attentive to that. with that being said, recently i've heard from a number of the transit authorities in my state that addition vision of grant dollars from the fta have slowed down significantly. what you to take a couple of months is taking more than a year now. can you again about any specific causes for the increase of delay? and mad maybe with us on the vee of us having our first budget might help? >> i'd like to work with your office and understand which money they're referring to because it is a little perplexing to me. i am not simply with that dynamic other than the fact, other than what you decided. we are waiting -- we have to await 2004 final appropriation before we look at the 2014 budget. >> this is in the past. they been telling me, we check with everybody before then and all of them have been having long delays in getting any grant money

i come from rural state of west virginia and we depend as transit and bus transportation. we do have some train transportation, or eastern panhandle, which we are very much concerned about. hopefully you all would be attended to that. with that being said, the distribution and grant dollars has slowed down significantly. it's taking more than a year now. can you identify any specific causes for the increase of delay and may be on the verge of having our first budget might help relieve that? >> senator, i'd like to understand which parts of money they are referring to because it is perplexing to me. i am not familiar with that dynamic other than the fact you just decided. >> we have to obviously a weight 82,004 final appropriation. >> in the past they've been telling me, we chat with everybody before it came to a hearing and getting any grant monies whatsoever. >> we would get with you, sir after this. >> the issue here may be there've been years when we've gotten acr for a longer period of time. some of it stretched into march and april in the most recent year. therefore t

that's what we do in west virginia, and craft a mortgage that is highly tailored to the borrower's needs and risk profile. this type of relation is especially crucial in the rural areas as my district of west virginia is. no two borrowers have the same credit profile and i fear that the one size fits all approach to the cfpb mortgage rule will severely hamper the ability of community lenders to tailor products to their borrowers. i also fear that the very population that this rule seeks to protects the low to moderate income borrower, is the population that will be most affected by these rules. this morning we will learn about the difficulties that habitat for humanity face in complying with this rule. the ability of charitable programs like habitat and other entities who provide mortgages to underserved populations is critical. is critical, to helping these borrowers realize their dreams of home ownership. this is another example of the consequences of removing underwriting discretion from the hands of lenders, and borrowers, and placing it in the hands of the bureaucracies in washington. it is my hope we can work together to find commonsense solutions to prov

provide all sorts of information to doctors and in a rural area of this country that doesn't have immediate access, 45 minutes away like southern west virginiaor these data would be remarkable and game changing. stuart: it would. >> apple test lot of these things. my sources have been telling me this is a high priority for apple for a while. key players coming in, big players, people being brought in from outside companies targeting and working on this so this will be a big finger from apple and i can't imagine a not coming to market. stuart: as described by you it would be a breakthrough product. >> if you look at samsung and the galaxy and your watch which doesn't do anything and you have to pair it with the specific smart phone with certain messages, that is just one step in this direction. stuart: if it works out as you suggest and a got a pat on it to monitor this stuff can i plug back into and apple computer or my smart phone and transmit the information directly to a doctor who may be in another country? >> you wouldn't even need to plug it in because low-power bluetooth would send that information to that server somewhere so no more

west virginia, not an ocean around or in sight. we had other senators step up that do not have coasts but that have states and subdivisions and communities and cities and rural areas that are in desperate need of a strong, good, solid, affordable and sustainable flood insurance package for this country, a flood insurance program. some people thought that's what we were getting in biggert-waters, but it soon became clear, literally before the ink was dry, that it wasn't going to work. and sometimes mistakes are made, and when they are, we have to step up and fix them as quickly as possible. it's taken us longer than it should have because some senators have not had an open mind or an open heart. they have not really dealt in the best of faith. but despite all that, we're here today because a number of senators stood up. and i want to read their names into the record. senator thad cochran from mississippi, senator jeff merkley from oregon, senator john hoeven from north dakota, senator tim scott from south carolina, senator heidi heitkamp from north dakota, roger wicker from mississippi, senator vitter from louisiana, senator chuck schumer was particularly str