he worked with the united mine workers of america from 1974 to 2002, including 22 years as the administrator of umwas occupational and health and safety department. he worked as a mine safety consult stapt welcome back mr. main. before i ask you for your testimony, let me remind you of our quaint but nevertheless lighting system that is green, yellow, red. pretty self-evident. we want to hear what you have to say. you're free to summarize as you wish. when we get into questions, i'll be asking my colleagues to stick to the five-minute rule so we can all engage in the questions. with that, sir, you're recognized it. >> thank you, chairman kline appreciate the opportunity to report on the april #th, 2010 disaster. cause of death, 29 miners before the explosion and still needed to pro investigate the nation's miners. the tragedy which occurred a few months following my confirmation was the deadliest coal mining disaster in 40 years, has caused unimaginable grief and extends beyond that. we're doing all that we can. on december 6th, 2011, the investigation teen issued a report. when fueled by ex

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he worked for the united mine workers of america from 1974 through 2004, including 22 years as the administration of the health and safety department. he worked as a mine safety consultant. welcome back. before i recognize you to provide your testimony, let me remind you of our quaint but nevertheless effective lighting system there. we want to share with you have to say. all of your testimony will be included in the record. you are free to summarize as you wish. when we get into questions, i will be asking my colleagues to stick to the five minute rule so we can all have a chance to engage in discussion and have time for the second panel. with that, sir, you are recognized. >> thank you, chairman klein and members of the committee. i appreciate the opportunity to report on the disaster in the upper bay bridge mind that caused the death of 29 miners. -- the upper big branch mine that caused the death of 29 miners. the tragedy which occurred a few months following my confirmation was the deadliest coal mining disaster in 40 years and has caused unimaginable grief for the families and loved ones fo

seeing one of his unit's mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles bearing down on the girl, dennis reacted swiftly and selflessly, lifting the girl to safety and placing himself in the path of the 16-ton m-rap. i'm sure this was a parent's instinct and that dennis had in mind his own children, nicholas, age 8, hope, age 6, and baby madison. dennis was evacuated to the jalalabad medical treatment facility and there he succumbed to his injuries. dennis leaves behind his fiancee ashley, the mother of their 8 month old baby girl madison. he leaves behind his former wife amanda who is mother to his son nicholas and to his daughter hope. he leaves behind his mother and father, linda reynolds and dennis whitechell sr. my deepest and heartfelt sorrows and prayers go out to all of dennis' family and to his friends. senator reed and i will join them this weekend to pay our respects when dennis comes home for the last time to rhode island. dennis acted with instinctive bravery on that road in logman province. his action reflected the selfless dedication of an american soldier and the heart of a fathe

united states. jeff green represents companies that want to mine for rare earth minerals in the united states. he says today's trade complaint may result in lower prices for manufacturers, but it won't break china's lock on the market. green says the trend to china is one reason molycorp, a large u.s. producer of rare earths, is now expanding overseas. >> the largest producer of rare earths, just last week, announced the intention to buy a company with operations in china, which will actually exacerbate the export of rare earth materials from the u.s. into china, further feeding their supply chain. that's a capability we need to develop here at home. >> reporter: the chinese say they are trying to conserve a scarce natural resource and protect their environment. but the obama administration dismisses those arguments, and seems determined to broaden the pressure on what it calls "unfair chinese trade practices." >> until now, the battleground used to be currency issues and the fact that china was restricting imports of goods from the u.s. and other economies, but now, the battleground has shift

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the ports along the great barrier reef are being modernized for the country's booming mining exports. now the united nations has come to see if the reef is being sacrificed for profit. >> it could be a case of death by 1000 cuts. these types of massive industrial development, and they literally are monsters, and you can see him from space. tens of millions of cubic meters of dredging. it will cut across critical habitats and nursery grounds. it could literally spell the end for many of these much-loved creatures and put at risk the values for which the world heritage area is one of our global icons. >> those building and using the port city are not a threat, including the main site at gladstone. >> this is somewhere that has an alimony and smelter and this is the other side of a busy industrial port. >> they say they are developing the port in a response away and creating thousands of jobs. elsewhere in australia and in the rest of the world, this is all a balancing act between getting the mining industry what it needs and protecting the environment. u.n.'s team final report could embarrass the aust

the ports along the great barrier reef are being modernized for the country's booming mining exports. now the united nations has come to see if the reef is being sacrificed for profit. >> it could be a case of death by 1000 cuts. these types of massive industrial development, and they literally are monsters, and you can see him from space. tens of millions of cubic meters of dredging. it will cut across critical habitats and nursery grounds. it could literally spell the end for many of these much-loved creatures and put at risk the values for which the world heritage area is one of our global icons. >> those building and using the port city are not a threat, including the main site at gladstone. >> this is somewhere that has an alimony and smelter and this is the other side of a busy industrial port. >> they say they are developing the port in a response away and creating thousands of jobs. elsewhere in australia and in the rest of the world, this is all a balancing act between getting the mining industry what it needs and protecting the environment. u.n.'s team final report could embarrass the aust

the ports along the great barrier reef are being modernized for the booming mining exports. now, the united nations has come to see if the reef is being sacrificed for profit. >> it could be a case of a huge impact on the area. these are massive industrial developments. they are monsters. you can see them from space. they are going to cut across those critical habitat. they will cut into the critics -- critical nursery grounds. it could spell the end for many of these creatures and put at risk of those buried values -- those very values. >> working harder in gladstone, this is the other side of a busy industrial port. >> the mining industry and the government of queensland say they are developing the port in a responsible way, and they are creating thousands of jobs. as elsewhere in australia and the world, this is about the balancing act between getting a benefit for the mining industry and protecting the environment. it is said that dredging is contaminated fish. the un's team final report could embarrass the australian government. duncan kennedy, bbc news in sydney. >> more than 10 years

invest in the debt of pore chew good morning gree gal or greece, some might say the united states, apple, inintel, mining crow soft companies like that a great thesis to be made that the financial fortresses of today are the tech companies whose business prospects are very strong also, maria. >> ask you about valuations in this group, these names are done very well so far in 2012. when do you start looking at valuations and hold that thought a second, i got to get bob in here. isn't it interesting that all these technologies have so much cash and yet very few of them have dividend she is in >> very few do. i like the dividend story, not sure i like it with the technology companies. think when a company has to pay that first dividend, the toughest decision a board makes, i think the better strategy for investors instead of chasing that first dividend, stay with the companies already paying the div depends the last five to ten years, they basically have set the trend there, especially when you think a lot of corporations, they compensate their boards of directors with company stock, so this is sort of a wa

dollars in one mine in the car for mining the indians into new units coming in and visiting anywhere between ten to fifteen billion dollars in the next three to five years in another mineral deposit in iron ore and of course other. investors as well picking intell for the first time and i want another does also did exist ten years ago twenty years ago twenty five years ago but today we have much more interested in this and our all in gas with little thought of things i think there are what are the support of the international community and without the achievements of the. present as those governments in the past ten years or not have happened to do things that happen in addition to that of course there are particularly what we call it the transformation ticket is to focus on some other transformational foundational investment that will put us on a path to fill three lines in self-sufficiency and that is again infrastructure of the it will focus on what it becomes a circle of warthe into food security as well as a commercial or transport sector which is good for expanding or on. trade

i would like to introduce a dear friend of mine and one of the strong proponents of reform in the united states. anu bhagwati, the executive director of swan. >> thank you, susan. good morning, my name is anu bhagwati and i'm the executive director of servicewomens action network, also known as swan. a nonprofit organization founded and led by women veterans to send sex discrimination and sexual violence is in the united states military. as a former marine company commander, i am intimately familiar with the lengths they'll go to cover up sexual harassment in the units. in fact, i and many of the peers left the marine corps precisely because of command negligence on these issues. today i'll be sharing a bit about legislative efforts to bring more justice to survivors of military sexual assault and harassment. for several years swan has been advocating for reform within the department of defense and veterans affair, culminating in president obama signing the victims rights protections into law. the concerted bipartisan effort this law included basic protections as the guarantee of privile

coal mine disaster in four decades in the united states. massy energy owned the mind at the time of the explosion. >>> no funeral plans have been announced for singer davy jones. he died suddenly yesterday at the age of 66. >> he became a household name as the lead singer for the monkees. we have more on the music of the 1960's teen idol. >> reporter: they were america's answer to the beatles, a made for tv sitcom band put together in 1966 to capitalize on the popularity of the fab four. ♪ >> reporter: jones born in england became a teen idol which led to this tv moment playing himself on the brady bunch. >> are you going to come to the prom? >> there is one little problem. >> what? >> well, i don't have a date. do you know a girl who would like to go with me? >> do i. >> reporter: the monkees lasted just two seasons on tv but they paved the way for today's music videos and sold 65 million records along the way. davy jones was 66. >> i've seen more of my yorchgees shows back in the day and reruns. it's kind of sad -- monkees shows back in t

world those struggles the greeks are beside themselves and the i have students of mine who are professors in greek unit universities they've had their wages cut as a teacher because all but universities are public they're forty nine hundred forty two thirty three percent since may of two thousand and ten they can't function as human beings they can't take care of their families they can't maintain their homes good driving people who really had nothing to do with this crisis weren't part of the banking system didn't negotiate the loans didn't demand any of this you're now saying you're going to have to pay in and in the two minutes or so we have left who did precipitate this crisis who created this crisis. and what's your suggestion of how greece should get out of it and we should avoid any up in greece a situation many people participated in producing this crisis i'm not going to say it's this one or that one it's a system that doesn't work and i don't want to blame the bankers either they're caught up in this they're caught up in a system that makes it reasonable to do things for example to give loans

subscribe to napoleonic legend believe the polling was one of the greatest reformers who has the mine create a unit by europe based on liberal ideas, on one currency, wednesday, something akin to european union that exist today in europe. but the story is certainly much more complex in that napoleon was of course the champion of revolutionary ideas but on the other hand, is also in many respects a traditional ruler who pursued power, pursuit conquests to pitch either. and so he is a very complex individual. there are many aspects against his career that are fascinating, but there are some aspects that are quite troubling. so his legacy is still being debated as he is often cited. after jesus christ he is the only human that there are more books written about anyone else. so he is the issue of who he was is still quite debated. napoleon is first and foremost known for his military, but in all of his campaigns, there was one that was part of his legend, or part of this mythology around his name. and about is called -- it took place in 1812. most people know, that innovation went catastrophically bad.

last week, dennis and his unit were traveling in a mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicle.ast afghanistan. and along the way they saw a group of children and children were in the road. dennis was worried about the children's safety so he got out and wanted to move the kids out of the way. so he moved them aside but one little girl ran back to pick up some of the brash shell casings. he saw the little girl about to get hit so he dived in front to grab her out of the way. well, what happened was, the vehicle hit him instead. the little girl's life was saved. she was fine. specialist dennis weichel died, though, from the injuries sustained while saving her life. it's a story so moving and really worth sharing because we've all been so focused on the shooting of 17 afghan civilians, the murders of u.s. troops in response to the accidental koran burnings. there have been so many horrific stories out of afghanistan that make people wonder why we are even there to realize a soldier even like that may not have realized why he was there but he sacrificed his life to save a child. he

unit. he's an expert in data mining and something that's called predictive analytics. what is that? really figuring out specifically in his case, voter behavior and being able to predict how voters will respond. over the last several months, his team has hired a number of specialists who are specialists in things like social media and digital markets. >> that picture looked like some kind of a scary mug shot. there is a little bit of a creepy factor this this, isn't there? >> there's something about this, especially when looking at someone and a lot of people have an experience in data mining, it sort of evokes some of the concerns people have about online privacy or some things they learned about marketing in recent years, but the campaign is insisting they're not doing anything sketchy, they're walking on the straight and narrow. they're trying to predict voter behavior so they can figure out whether voters are persuadable an figures out how many voters they can register or get to the polls in battleground states to get 270 electoral votes. >> john avlon is coming on in a second.

by then i had talked to others whose stories was eerily similar to mine and a cover-up has played itself out in the united states military thousands of times. the rape trial came and went, a farce. the marine corps gave one immunity so he would testify. escorted my husband into the same waiting room with him. i endured another 12 hours of degrading interrogation that culminated with the rapists' two lawyers acting it out in front of me. after that it was indecent language with 45 days in the brig. 2 1/2 years of assault and my dignity pushed me into constant questioning and endlessly reliving the assaults. i tried to make sense of everything. often spin into despondency and understanding how i had exhausted every check only to see that each check not only failed but attacked me that's why i'm part of the lawsuit. i faced a military justice system unchecked. and unaccountable hierarchy seeking not just outcomes but the desired outcomes of commanders in charge of it, who have no legal training and a conflict of interest against a process that discovers that the leadership failed. so i'm here to help this la

hurricane is for providing for tourism then you should buy mine also that the commissioning of the russian newest fourth generation submarine unit will go to be that before was planned to be commissioned in the. in the pacific fleet is now going to be commissioned in the north so what may be the reaction to that what of course will be a great contribution to terrorism but what will be the reaction of nato countries about the european can it could be a great contribution interesting if they open up for that to david cameron. would be an interim threats or did you think there may be a reaction because this is a move you indeed indeed i mean it's nations are dealing with this in a fairly different way. and it's all about some arrangements here but also we should remember that all the nations around the arctic have declared in the declaration in greenland that they are all committed to the international order of his media international law of the sea and all their actions show that they're going to comply with it but of course it's a lot about. securing the borders not necessarily against your neighbor but there is a lot more shippi

united states called chronic fatigue syndrome. >> this is something that i do because a friend of mine, from the 1970's, a colleague, was made out by this disease. >> a subject of the president's election. >> desperately ill for 23 years. i wrote a column about her. i got hundreds of letters. so, i wrote more columns and i got hundreds more letters. then i started a youtube channel, under the old name, my object encephalitis -- mecfs alert, where i interview people. 1 million people in the united states are affected. hat 7 -- 17 million worldwide, but we do not know, that is a calculation. it is painful, awful. you lose your life. you stay alive, but you cannot enjoy anything. sleep does not help. pain, headaches, a ghastly this day's the ghastly disease that is under the radar. there are no treatments. insurance companies do not want to know about it. >> insurance companies will not cover it? >> i do not know. it varies from insurance plan to influent -- insurance plan. if they do not like it, they want to treat it as psychosomatic, when it is not. it is a vast physical problem for people that hurt. >> it is one of those proble

. >> i'm not a political guy, but as among you, you have therma-coal mining and latin american operations and canadian, united states. which is the best place to operate? i put it that way because of this 30% tax on iron ore that the australians are putting on. >> well, we really like canada. as you know, we did our large $5 billion investment up there when we purchased consolidated thompson. we like the pro activeness of the government. we work very hard and very closely in the relationship. they like mining where they work. they're very responsible in their environmental care and community care just as we are. it's a good partnership, but canada certainly is the right place for us right now. >> all right. i want to circle back to china because it's so in the news. in your terrific conference call from -- not the one -- you -- people should go read the conference call for the dividend boost because people usually don't do conference calls for dividend boostz. this one did. you say that you believe the world's emerging economies will continue to urbanize, specifically in china. household formation and labor g

tantd united states, this has sort of happened under our noses. >> canada is mining like crazy. >> byof the mines will be up and running in australia, canada, the united states because thelyi inwriting on the wall. they need to secure these resources. >> to catch up with the demand. >> to catch up. it has to do with the prices of rare earths. rare earth mineral prices have declined a little bit lately. but what is the -- we are free market, right? china is not. we are a free market. so market forces decide whether or not we're going to, you know, start a mining operation. china, the government says this is a priority. we're going to do it, and they did. >> fiber optics. me thinks that will change. christine, thank you. >> thank you. >>> 27 minutes past 6:00 on the east coast. mitt romney has a warning to sgop voters. you don't decide soon and you're going to get obama. that's that. he's hoping the wrap things up in the south tonight. we've got big coverage on it. >>> also, it was adele's year at the grammys but taylor swift has topped her and topped everyone else, gaga included, as mu

agency of the united nations has arrived in northeast australia to see damage to the great barrier reef, from coal exports and oil and gas exploration. it may be jeopardized by shipping and mining. doctor from to gilley -- how much damage has been done to the rief? eef? >> this signals alarm bells when we heard about the approval of liquefied natural gas processes within the great barrier reef area. this is the tip of the iceberg for a whole series of developments that we can see slated in the government development plans. unfortunately, the great barrier reef, in a 2009 report, the risk management authority put this together -- they signaled that the reef was in a crossroads. the position they take in the next few years will be critical. last year we had major flooding, and a cyclone across the reef. we have seen the impact on marine life, with more than 1000 turtles washing up dead. there is a lot of stress on the reef. we need to put the pause numbers on the developments that will put pressure on the reef. >> doctor, what is your view of how to protect the reef by lobbying businesses and goverm ents. >> we want them to have a please explain mission, sending a strong signal t

. >> reporter: today, it under mines the attempts to do what former florida governor jeb bush called for nift now is the time for republicans to unite behind governor romney, he said. senator john mccain agrees and argues that the continuing primary race only helps president obama. but he has been on the other side when he lost the nomination to george bush in 2000. why is it difficult to look at the math and drop out? >> because this drives more than that does. you invested so much, you worked so hard. you have a loyal cadre of people saying don't drop out. >> reporter: hope springs eternal. jake tapper, abc news, washington. >>> next, we want to the show you the stunning new video of the harrowing helicopter crash. two u.s. soldiers on board. amazingly, no one injured. it comes in close and bounces and look again, it bounces over and over and over. people on the ground scrambling for safety. the crew was wearing safety harnesses. they are all right. and officials tell abc news no one else on the ground was injured. it happened last mthd but was just released. they are investigated but the aircraft was totaled. >>> here at home, ho