hundred forty billion gallons of coal slurry contained in more than one hundred pound ments in west virginia alone the total quantity of coal slurry in the rest of southern appalachian. on december twenty second two thousand and eight call ashen pound mint at the tennessee valley authority east kingston fossil plant failed when an earthen dike broke spilling over one point one billion gallons of coal ash sludge over three hundred acres. coal ash sludge has waste created from the burning of coal at the kingston coal plant it is believed to contain toxic compounds including arsenic and mercury. the tennessee valley authority estimates the cost of the clean up i dove or eight hundred twenty five million dollars this spill is ten times larger than the exxon valdez spill in alaska and is believed to be america's largest environmental disaster to date but throwing away the next generation's most valuable resource and that is water one of the best sources of water anywhere in the world and maybe the best source of fresh water and proximity to one of the world's largest fastest growing populations.

we want to mine coal in the two thousand election and west virginia was widely credited with giving. president bush the margin he needed to take the oval office was the first time the west virginia had gone republican in something like seventy years and guess what's going to happen come november we're going to carry the state of west virginia thank you calls he was widely credited for giving bush west virginia so it's no secret that he had a large debt to pay to the coal industry and they made sure he paid it through out and safety throughout the rollback of regulations on dirty power plants through a variety of places he essentially stocked all the regulatory agencies with with former coal industry lobbyists or executives by two thousand and one bush administration made a slight wording changing the clean water act as a meeting waste as you will this wording change here the way expansion of mountain talk removal mining throughout southern appalachians. on january twenty second of two thousand and two president bush returned to west virginia it is such a wonderful day for us and for

we're going last week charleston west virginia the worst to do you see you all know this is the rise awareness and raise money for new school it also opens a lot of doors of mine to chapman in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing to those kids in the mining industry to archimedes with the probate the giant hole what what it's actually doing to our children the governor made a statement our kids are our future my argument he said i are most open for our kids up north fork don't have them are. burning of coal for over a century has been one of the most deadly things there and humans have done through the air around them even after one hundred years of burning coal and after one hundred years of so-called improvement of air quality according to the american lung association twenty four thousand people a year still die prematurely from air pollution from coal plants in the united states almost forty percent of the carbon dioxide emissions come from coal one of the things that has to happen is that the politicians the leaders of the administration as well as congr

thank you calls he was widely credited for giving bush west virginia so it's no secret that he had a a large debt to pay to the coal industry and they made sure he paid it through out mine safety through out the rollback of regulations on dirty power plants through a variety of places he essentially stocked all the regulatory agencies with with former coal industry lobbyists or executives by two thousand and one the bush administration made a flight wording changing the clean water act as igniting waste as will this wording change here the way the expansion of mountain talk removal mining throughout southern appalachians. on january twenty second of two thousand and two president bush returned to west virginia it is such a wonderful day for us and for west virginia to host a special me with those with a special bond to our state ladies and gentlemen the president of the united states thank you. we can do a better job in america one of these days we're going to be driving automobiles that are fuel differently and that's going to exciting times for america urges new technologies coming

go county west virginia within sight of massey energy c.e.o. don blankenship home carmelita brown has been battling for clean want to. twenty some years ago. and water turned black and gray and asked are the harness has been got up and asked and asked me what was wrong take a man and he said when he looked at it he said my god he said that's close laurie. we went and looked at fifteen wells. sent samples off to the laboratory got the testing results back and did some analysis on those results and it was pretty compelling that we needed to do more research down there i've never seen water quality that poor. pretty good compared to what it was this morning these documents from the west virginia department of natural resources researched by mountain just to some are volunteers are permits for coal slurry injections that took place in the early one nine hundred eighty s. at the slurry impoundment located approximately two miles above carmelita brown's home this permit shows that over two hundred eight million gallons of slurry was injected in one t

there is no more west virginia it don't grow back. it's not going come back i mean you know we had a politician get up on tavi not long ago he said well the reason that jan saying it's been extinct the deer are in. order bought this thousand acres. that's nothing. now the process mountaintop removal coal mine is an awesome display of coal extraction engineering it is also quite simple once the site is a benefit clear cutting begins next explosives are used to blast away the earth material holes and. then machinery completing massive shovels called dragon lines remove the overburden which is then deposited in adjacent valleys called valley fills mountaintop removal coal mining can bring down the elevation of a peak hundreds of feet sites are often thousands of acres in size but i would say these are like actually rather early in blacksburg and really. in the spring of two thousand and five a group of activists college students and local citizen conservation groups joined together to oppose the widespread increase in mountaintop removal

west virginia. i'm on his own by massey energy america's fourth largest coal producer marsh fork elementary is a very very scary situation they have two point eight billion gallons of koestler which is why it's talks and it's toxic material it has arsenic lead line marjorie chromium there's a lot of really really bad chemicals in this sludge there is a lake at the two point eight billion gallons of coast guard sitting behind this elementary school four hundred yards on top of a mine. there's two hundred twenty eight kids in the school. the sophistication of engine nearing it goes into the construction of the ins as i suspect not duplicated in any other physical structure anywhere in in the world in one hundred seventy two buffalo creek there was this disaster where one of these impoundments basically blew out millions of gallons of this nasty sludge water went barreling down a small holler and killed one hundred twenty five people just with four thousand houses a thousand cars and you know hundreds

capito of west virginia. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 347, the gentlewoman from west virginia, mrs. capito, and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from west virginia. mrs. capito: thank you, mr. chairman. i'd like to thank the chairman on my subcommittee, mr. gibbs, for his leadership on this issue. my amendment is a simple reaction to conversations that i've had with the administrator and others at the e.p.a. and also the president of the united states. in questioning the president i said, mr. president, when you're going forth on your rules and regulations at the e.p.a. do you consider a job and economic impact? and he said, we should. and i say we should and that's the purpose of my amendment. this requires the e.p.a. to analyze the impact on jobs and economic impact prior to issuing a regulation, policy statement, guidance or implementing any new or substantially altered program under the clean water act. earlier this year the e.p.a. retroactiv

the gentleman from west virginia vote -- the gentlelady from west virginia voted against this. now she's for it. i'm glad my republican colleagues, having opposed a consumer agency, now are all for it. now i yield two minutes to the gentleman from new jersey. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. pallone: i want to thank the -- >> i want to thank the gentleman. today, my friends on the other side, the stock market hit its highest point since 2008. isn't that wonderful? and yet we are at 9.2% unemployment. mr. pascrell: i looked at the treasuries, they're doing well. but main street isn't. that's what consumer protection is all about. main street. no question about it. we don't want to go back. we don't want to go back to 2007 and 2008. why? because the conditions that led to the mess we have now, we don't want those conditions to exist now and that's what we've been trying to correct particularly over the last two years. and here's the consensus, whether our european financial person or someone in the united states. here's the c

the gentleman from west virginia vote -- the gentlelady from west virginia voted against this. now she's for it. i'm glad my republican colleagues, having opposed a consumer agency, now are all for it. now i yield two minutes to the gentleman from new jersey. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. thank you, mr. chairman. mr. pallone: i want to thank the -- >> i want to thank the gentleman. today, my friends on the other side, the stock market hit its highest point since 2008. isn't that wonderful? and yet we are at 9.2% unemployment. mr. pascrell: i looked at the treasuries, they're doing well. but main street isn't. that's what consumer protection is all about. main street. no question about it. we don't want to go back. we don't want to go back to 2007 and 2008. why? because thconditions that led to the mess we have now, we don't want those conditions to exist now and that's what we've been trying to correct particularly over the last two years. and here's the consensus, whether our european financial person or someone in the united states. here's the consen

prices in maryland, virginia, west virginia, as well as the national average, are all up from a week o. what is causing this latest increase? news 4's megan mcgrath is live in crystal city, virginia, with the answer. good morning, megan. >> good morning, joe. there are a couple of different reasons, but if you're watching the prices go up and down, it can make you down right sea sick, they're changing so often. in the latest fluctuation, the price of crude oil is again on the rise. looks like it's heading toward the $100 a barrel mark. crude is rising despite the fact the u.s. and other nations agreed to release millions of barrels of crude from their emergency reserves. the u.s. has agreed to release about 30 million barrels. that may seem like a lot, though, but actually, if you put it into context, 30 million barrels is less than two days worth of domestic consumption in this country. really only a drop in the bucket. why are the prices going up? of course, it's summertime. that means that demand goes up, just historically that happens every year. also, the economies around the wor

actually closest to west virginia. you will see the sinkhole not going to be fixed rather easily. in fact they do have to do major work. caltrans said they are expecting to be out here until noon fixing this sinkhole so some of the lanes will be closed and we are expecting rather large backup. some people in the other direction may also be affected as they slow to take a look at, well, all of the commotion here on highway 87 near west virginia. let's go out -- there it is. you can see that. this is a look at 237, the traffic is going to be light here as you cross 880. and also this morning we are looking at san francisco along northbound 101, that traffic looks good. this is the first time in a few days we have been able to see this picture because the fog is not quite as thick as it was yesterday. 5:48, let's go to steve. >> that is true, sal. also a lot less drizzle than we had the past couple days, or light rain. still temperatures will struggle to get into the upper 70s to low 80s for some. low overcast, still plen

panhandle of west virginia, parts of the shenandoah valley, western maryland, and much of west virginia. south and east, lower part of the eastern shore, southeast virginia, low and mid-70s. overnight, we did have showers and storms passing across northern maryland. those are now dissipating. farther to our west, a line of heavy downpours now along the ohio river valley moving into kentucky. that's heading off to the east. looks like that will be moving our way here by later this morning and into the afternoon. right now we've got generally dry pavement throughout much of the region. there's the jefferson memorial under a partly cloudy sky. sunrise in about an hour. might have a little sun. overall, a little bit of cloudiness. noontime, might have a passing downpour. later in the afternoon, perhaps mid to late afternoon, we could have some downpours with thunder and lightning and heavier downpours may cause localized flooding this afternoon and overnight tonight. high temperatures in the mid-80s before that. yes, all the way through this much of tonight we have this potential for heavy

a shower developing by loon noon in the mountains of west virginia. scattered showers in virginia more so than maryland. the 6:00 temperature, 89 degrees. i will be back with the 7-day in a few but right now kris sneed with traffic. >> 50 in maryland, westbound through annapolis through bowie. no problems there, everything is wide open. green, everyone is moving up to speed as well. more of a look around the area coming up at 5:01. jessica and andrea over to you. >> the duke and dutchess of cambridge visiting prince edward island today. the couple greeted hundreds of supporters to the delight of cheering fans. this is prince williams and kate's first official overseas trip as husband and wife. that i will head to california july 8th. >>> the celebrations continue marking the marriage of prince marco roger moore was among the guests. in a prewedding interview, the bride said children are in the plans. >> i love children. i have always wanted to have children of my own some day. we will see in the next couple of months or years. >> the palace is denying

at the greenbrier resort in west virginia, chris gordon, news4. >>> most of the bunker's equipment andere removed from the shelter and reassigned around the country. >> final check, doug. >>> still looking at shower activity out there, most to the west and down to the south. let's take a look and show you what's happening on live digital doppler radar right now. we'll take a couple zooms here. fredricksburg, dale city, la plata, waldorf, light rain right now. not a lot of rain, but just enough to make the grass on the wet side. as we look to the west, right around the winchester area, showers and even thunderstorms. there is some thunder and lightning with a couple of those storms. most continue to die off. but i am expecting some of this to make its way in towards northern virginia into portions of maryland, including frederick county, maybe western montgomery county, loudoun county, i think you'll see showers in the next hour or so. hopefully they'll be through here, though, by the time the fireworks are to go off around 9:00. as far as the rain goes or rather the temperatures go the

the gentleman from west virginia vote -- the gentlelady from west virginia voted against this. now she's for it. i'm glad my republican colleagues, having opposed a consumer agency, now are all for it. now i yield two minutes to the gentleman from new jersey. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. pallone: i want to thank the -- >> i want to thank the gentleman. today, my friends on the other side, the stock market hit its highest point since 2008. isn't that wonderful? and yet we are at 9.2% unemployment. mr. pascrell: i looked at the treasuries, they're doing well. but main street isn't. that's what consumer protection is all about. main street. no question about it. we don't want to go back. we don't want to go back to 2007 and 2008. why? because the conditions that led to the mess we have now, we don't want those conditions to exist now and that's what we've been trying to correct particularly over the last two years. and here's the consensus, whether our european financial person or someone in the united states. here's the c

right now, getting some heavy rain moving into western west virginia. that's advancing to the east-northeast. that should be moving in to garrett county, allegheny county, western maryland over the next hour or so. expect some heavy downpours there. we've had some around the northern neck of virginia and the virginia tide water region, but that's beginning to dissipate now. but we do have a large area under a flash flood watch. all these counties in green across much of virginia, it includes the district and much of maryland and the eastern shore as well, for thunderstorms likely developing later this afternoon. there's a slight risk they would be severe with damaging winds, but the main threat, i think, is heavy rain that may cause flooding. highs into the mid- and upper 80s. a look at tonight, we'll look at the weekend as well, and into next week in a couple of minutes, eun. >> we'll see you then, tom. thank you. >>> the final countdown is underway for nasa's 30-year-old space shuttle program. here's a live look at shuttle "atlantis" on the launch pad

the gentlelady from west virginia. mrs. capito: yes, mr. chairman, i claim time in opposition. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized for five minutes. mrs. capito: thank you, mr. chairman. and i think i understand the gentleman's amendment, the gentleman from north carolina's amendment. but i would like to just start in the five minutes that i have to remind everybody who is on the council that is going to be able to allow sleazey financial products to go forward to save the safety and soundness of an institution. that's what the gentleman said. so we've got the secretary of the treasury, we have the chairman of the federal reserve, the director of the cfpb who is the person who is making the regulations, chairman of the fdic, comptroller of the currency, chairman of the ncua, chairman of the s.e.c., chairman of the cftc, director of the fhsa and an insurance representative. that's 10 people. professional regulators that are working in certain areas of the financial markets and are overseeing our financial stability. . it

the gentlelady from west virginia. mrs. capito: i would like to recognize mr. garrett, chairman of the capital markets subcommittee for two minutes. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. garrett: i congratulate the good work done by the chairman of the full committee and the chairman of the subcommittee and the gentleman from wisconsin for a common zhrep sense piece of legislation. and he said something like we didn't make this partisan, they did it. i remind the chairman that his underlying piece of legislation, the dodd-frank legislation had more democrats vote against it than it had republicans for it and he pushed through a bill in extremely partisan manner and that's why we are here today. i believe that the agency we're talking about is really a one-stop-shop to allocate credit and give the government the power to control the economy and at the same time they are talking about consumer protection, what are they doing? they are separating safety and soundness from it. how can you have consumer protection when separating safety and sou

around the blue ridge, shenandoah valley around the mountains of west virginia. right now in the mid-60s near the beach. water temperatures around 70. should be a great weekend at the beach. over the last two hours high pressure holding in over the northeast. we will have this beautiful weather pattern hang in today and tonight and part of tomorrow. here's how we're looking this morning. there's the first light of day already showing up on the eastern horizon. there's the washington monument under this mostly clear sky. sunrise at 5:47. and by 9:00 we'll be in the upper 70s. lots of sun, low humidity, and with stagnant air we could have air pollution building this afternoon. as a result, we have a code orange for unhealthy air quality this afternoon. anyone with a heart or respiratory ailment should stay inside. high temperatures climbing to the upper 80s to near 90. overnight tonight, sunset at 8:37. after that clear. we'll be down into the 70s and then the 60s starting off saturday morning. here is a look at the fourth of july weekend. saturday looking terrific

and hampshire county and west virginia moving into frederick county, virginia.s to continue to linger. there is some lightning associated with those storms in west virginia, but most of the storms as they move to the east are continuing to die out. and that's good news. so if you're thinking about heading out to fireworks activities, how about annapolis at 80 degrees, mostly cloudy, looking good. i think we'll be good in annapolis tonight. what about reston towards herndon? same deal. this is around lake fairfax area, 79 degrees, mostly cloudy, looking dry. i do think you'll see a shower or two between now and 9:00. but i think by the time those fireworks go off, we are going to be a-okay. and the national mall, well, we've got storms possible, but i think they will stay to the south. temperatures around that 80 degree mark. so i think we're going to be looking good all across the area. only biggest area of concern maybe toward fredricksburg. i think you have the best chance of seeing storms. 90 degrees tomorrow. 90 on your wednesday. 90 on thursday. and tempera

more shower activity toward west virginia. but this is really the only big storm we're watching in our area, it's the only one that's really formed. it's moving just to the south of 70, there was a severe thunderstorm warning associated with that for hampshire county. but now it's beginning to move into the panhandle of west virginia and western maryland. you'll see that storm coming across. and as i mentioned, light shower activity in frederick county, maryland. that's going to be about it. the bulk of the rain has been just up to our north, right along the maryland/pennsylvania border. that's where some strong storms have been, a couple of severe storms, too. but they're not making their ware toward our region. tomorrow i think they will as the frontal boundaries converge, a good chance for rain, that's why a flash flood watch is in effect for the day tomorrow. some locations could pick up, and some of the stronger storms, 1 to 2-inch rainfall rates an hour. so it could come down pretty fast. if you get one or two storms, th

western maryland, much of west virginia in the low and mid-60s on this fourth of july morning. the big storms came through, did their damage in mostly virginia, and now they're way out to sea and dissipating. still have the cloudiness around. there are the showers in the southwest, drifting to the east/southeast. we'll get breaks in the clouds and ought to get sunshine breaking out here as we start off the day. right now it's partly cloudy over the mall. there's a live picture from the city camera. sunrise around 5:45. and we'll have temperatures by 9:00 in the upper 70s to around 80 degrees. some sunshine in and out all the way to much of the afternoon. however, it's late afternoon. especially areas off to our west, could have some storms in the shenandoah valley and the mountains late afternoon. right around washington, we will probably not have any storms arriving perhaps until around 7:00 or 8:00. that's right at the time people will be gathering on the mall. that's the time, unfortunately, of the big concert on the mall, the capitol, as well as the big fireworks display. th

this is near west virginia street. now, the chp says drivers obviously avoid this area. engineers are expected to get there within the next 30 minutes from now. we are going to be out there, we are checking with ktvu's tara moriarty and find out how long the repairs are expected to take place. >>> rocks to act as shrapnel. we are not talking about iraq or afghanistan. that's how investigates are describing a soda bomb found at a marin city bus stop. jade hernandez joins us now to tell us this is not the first case in the area. >> reporter: no, pam, you're right and it seems innocent enough but someone is filling soda bottles like these with a concoction which explodes when anyone picks them up. one of these bottle bombs was found right here at the marin city bus stop yesterday afternoon. we just watched a sheriff's deputy pull up to this bus stop, get out of the car and then speed off. it appears he didn't want to comment on camera but fellow deputies found a bottle bomb just before 2:00 yesterday afternoon and no one was hurt but what could have happened is what worries

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