but it's southwest virginia. it was mary ann hovi's father, a congressman from rural virginia was the last congressman i would suggest that took heroic votes to make a difference in this country. now, he paid for it. pat jennings, is his name. [applause] >> in addition to the problem of patients being denied care in the first place, what tough to say about hospitals discharging patients with a serious mental illness when they still need care? >> you know, that, that's a big issue, you know? my son was hospitalized twice, and both times when he was first hospitalized, i visited him, and he was under the 48-hour order, and he said, dad, this is where i need to be. and i realize it now. they're getting my medicines straight, this is where i need to be. well, about six weeks later we were back in the very same situation. he was released within the 48 hours, and we had a problem. and we took, by the time we'd gone to the next hospital, you know, gus was one of the smartest people i've ever met, maybe the smartest. and

it's five counties in southwest virginia. they are hard-hit counties. they have -- coal is a big part of their economy, and traditionally it has been. now, we mine as much coal today in virginia as we did 50 years ago with 1/10 of the workers because it's a heavily mechanized industry but there are jobs in the state. and it's not just jobs. coal has been traditionally low priced, and so the issue that is important and even states that don't have any coal often use a lot of coal to produce power, and the low price has been helpful to consumers who rely on cheap and abundant electricity made possible by coal. coal has been hit hard in some recent years. but i disagree, i disagree fundamentally with the kin cal argument that's made by some, mostly in the coal industry, who blame coal's woes on a regulatory -- quote -- war on coal. when i talk to folks in the industry, they are always talking about that there is a federal -- quote -- war on coal. i'm going to tell you what's hurting coal. what's hurting coal is innovation, innovation and natural gas. innova

there is a natural anxiety in a coal-producing region like southwest virginia. that's where my wife's family is --and entered tim kaine senator tim kaine, several hours into an online discussion on climate change. this is the 35th all-night session in senate history and you can see it all live on c-span 2. pressay's white house briefing, secretary jay carney was asked about the session. climate change, senate democrats are having an all nighter to talk about the issue. does the white house support this? folks talking about an important issue you want on the radar. is there some expectation by the president that end of the talk hot there will be some sort of a vote? -- talk, it will be some sort of a vote? >> we support the action taken to focus attention on the change andby climate the impacts of climate change is having on our environment and our emergency -- ability to respond to emergencies. we can and that we commend those who are participating because it is a very important subject. the president is concerned about it and has a climate action plan dedicatin

it is southwest virginia. was the congressman was the last congressman -- i would suggest that it took heroic votes to make a difference in this country. he paid for it. pat jennings was his name. [applause] >> in addition to the problem of patients being denied care in the first place, what you have to say about hospitals dragging patients with a serious mental illness when they still need care? that -- that is a big issue. my son was hospitalized twice and both times -- when he was first hospitalized, i visited him and he was under the 48 hour order. he said this is where he needed to be in i realize it now. about six weeks later, we were back in the same situation. he was released within the 48 hours and we had a problem. we took -- by the time we went to the next hospital. he was one of the smartest people i met him he could figure things out. there was no psychiatrist or psychologist he couldn't talk out of or into what other -- whatever he wanted to do. answers to give -- he knew what answers to give. th

we have plenty of rain up in pennsylvania and ohio, coming into kentucky and west virginia. southwest of charlottesville, we have some showers. locally we're looking at some showers. this is all ground clutter in frederick county down to blue ridge toward us. when you go to hagerstown back in toward east and west virginia just north of cross junction, now we've got these showers which are all moving to the northeast. martinsburg north and west, hancock, berkley springs, a little wet for the next couple of hours. temps range from the 40s north to the low 50s already in fredricksburg and culpeper. we're on our way at least into the 60s. that's the good news about your friday and here's jess with timesaver traffic. >> really good news on the roadways. let's take a look here. we'll start at 395 north of duke street. as you can see really good road conditions. this is what we've seen throughout the morning so far. let's keep it going, shall we? i'm going to step out of the shot. we're going to go to 95, 495 at maryland 5. this is the southeast portion of the beltway. as you can see, lookin

very light rain, hagerstown west, over toward cumberland and southwest of there from near martinsburg and into the panhandle of west virginiater. a bigger area of rain just in to the southern shenandoah valley that's tracking north and east until about 3.5 hours away of getting into the metro area. so by mid morning, we'll get a few scattered sprinkles. some other sprinkles in west virginia, kentucky, down to tennessee. this is the line of strong storms that produced severe weather in missouri and the tornadoes there. that's weakened as it moved into western kentucky. a cool front, that's going to begin to sweep in here. not until tonight. and ahead of that, we'll have mild temperatures. right now off to a milder start, big change from yesterday morning. we were subfreezing. no it is in the mid to upper 40s prince george's, montgomery, and fairfax county and points west, hovering near 50 degrees now. and around the bay, eastern shore, in the 40s. look at your hour-by-hour friday forecast coming up in about ten minutes. maynard edwards, good morning. how's traffic? >>> good morning, tom. that rain that you mentioned isn't ca

frederick, washington counties in maryland, panhandle of west virginia, loudoun, northern fauquier, rappahannock, points west and southwest. that is for higher elevations where there could be slick spots from light icing due to light freezing rain and a little bit of light freezing drizzle. temperatures by mid to late morning should be above freezing in the shenandoah valley and most locations. in the lower part of the valley and east of there. the red zones is where we could get up to .1 of an inch of icing right in catoctin, then west of culpeper to south of front royal down to west of charlottesville. mainly along the blue ridge. elsewhere, we'll have temperatures well into the upper 30s by noontime. and during the afternoon, we'll have our temperatures hovering right around the generally mid to upper 30s to low to mid 40s. your hour-by-hour forecast for this wednesday, next weather & traffic on the 1s at 5:41. danella, good morning. any delays yet? >>> good morning, tom. still pretty quiet. i guess yesterday folks that were driving around this time said, hey, you know what, let's try to drive better tomorrow. today's

southwest area? >> i don't count the original work as a waste of time. >> reporter: the new focus -- an area the size of virginia. why the change? boeing, rolls royce and u.s. and uk investigators re-analyzed military radar readings and concluded flight 370 was flying faster than previously thought, burning through fuel more quickly, and they concluded, when that fuel ran out, the plane would have plummeted into the ocean far north of the earlier estimates. >> one piece of data, one piece of new analysis can change things greatly. here, by a thousand miles of where the aircraft may have come down. >> reporter: officials are now more optimistic than ever they're finally on the right track to get answers. a few hours from now, china's largest rescue ship already in the search area is expected to pick up the debris and determine conclusively if it's from flight 370. this new search area is cold and remote. but it's quite farther north, which means the weather is better. better visibility for the planes. the seas less choppy. if they have found the debris field, they should be able to move much more quickly now. >>>