miller: of west virginia. miller of west virginia. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 431, the gentlewoman from west virginia and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from west virginia. mrs. miller: thank you, mr. chair much i rise today to offer my amendment -- mr. chair. i rise today to offer my amendment. my amendment would increase the funding for neonatal abc nance syndrome research by 2ds million at the centers of disease control to ensure adequate funding for this terrible condition. the opioid epidemic plaguing our nation is heartbreaking and especially in my home state of west virginia. too many members of our communities know of its devastating effects far too well. whether it be a family member, a friend, the person in line behind you at the grocery store, or even someone praying beside new church, we all have seen the pain that it causes. sadly, many of our youngest citizens are suffering from the second generation impacts of this crisis as well. west virginia has one

why we've always been looked at as being backwards. >> it was always too easy to come gawk at west virginias to be pitied and made objects of laughter and derision. >> you're going to see dirty faced kids barefoot on a front porch shaking linden b. johnson's hand. there's a lot more to appalachia than that. >> the accompanying press portraying the year as an incapable and bewildered helpless mass missed the basic character, the pride and self-relying core of the people here. that damage is lasting. >> when you come in and keep tell s us how poor, fat, how all these things are, i think we've all felt at some point shame. >> what should people know about this area that they don't know they're not getting? >> it's just how much that people in this area have been exploited. >> nick: the land agents who came in and bought up all the mineral rights. the coal and timber companies that started extracting and taking everybody's labor rights. >> man: i can't fight a big coal company, they got too much money. >> elaine: politicians from dc that can make a quick day trip down here and get a good sound

where we moneake them spend their >> reporter: for "nightly business report", i'm kayla taoshin west virginiay the way, there's a current legal battle to make the document pun so that the pesple of virginia can see what exactly china had planned and when a state judge hasuled against that, but the decision is being appealed right now. so we reached out to the washington players involved. the white house declined to comment. the commerce department, which arranged the deal andts announcement, said that work does continue but it cannot guarantee success. yo can read more about this nbr.coon our website at >>> here is a look at the final day's numbers on wall street. the dow down 34. nasdaq, down 19. s&p slidhr. for the week the major averages were all up more than 2%. that does it for us tonight. i'm sue herera, thanksor joining us. >> i'm bill griffeth. have a great weekend. >> he is. >> see you monday. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ woman: this is "bbc world news americ" is made poible by... the freeman foundation; by-kudy and peter bller foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs; and by contribu

any company in the world can invest in the state of west virginia. >> you signed this deal. >> correctin support of that investment, it is not enforceable document where we can make them spend their money. >> kayla tausche joins me. will we ever see this deal >> kelly, there's a legal battle to make the deal public so the people of west virginia can see exactly what china planned and when a state judge ruled against that, the decision is being appealed we reached out to the white house, they declined to comment. department of commerce that arranged these deals for the president to announce when he was in beijing in 2017, they said work on the specific deal continues but cannot guarantee it will be successful >> what does it mean for trade talks? >> i think the question is can the u.s. actually enforce a deal i think this makes it very clear that china is willing to make a lot of promises, but it is hard to get them to deliver on that >> and what do the lawmakers say? >> depends who you ask, what side of the aisle lawmakers stand on categorically, everyone said there are major issues wi

rare enough the only thing that's frightening and west virginia's bill is that it's one of the biggest thing that's frightening is that it could be a precedent for for all the other states to pass anti strike laws i mean this isn't the 1st time protests have been criminalized though as you know we've seen more than die. as in the states either pass or try to pass laws banning protesting oil pipelines strikes should make the people at the top uncomfortable for a good reason this is what it showed a ok well since you're so pro strike let's find out how comfortable you are if they happen on your show. was the right. thing. to say i knew you do that that's why i have this one way to. thank god. thank. god. medicare for all and more popular in this country than it ever has been before but opposition to it is coming from someone usual places for more on this raging controversy we sent her dad correspondent on the care of an l to the middle of a field why because she said something about you had to get her 2000 steps in her day out to support. hundreds of nurses doctors and medical students m

one example is west virginia. there was a time when you certainly could make a decent living working at the coal industry. those jobs really are not so much there anymore. people are leaving west virginia and when they grow up there, they go to college somewhere else. and then they do not come back. because they do not come back, you could start a business in west virginia. you could put a major company there. but people are not doing that. if you are a major company, even if you were told for example that you got a good tax break or by moving there, if you do not have the educated population working there, you will not locate there. it is continuous spiral downward. host: that is the economic problem. guest: right. host: how does this brain drain affect clinical polarization in the country? guest: that is interesting. and this is correlation, not causation. in general, non-college-educated whites tend to vote republican. they went for donald trump by an overwhelming percentage in 2016 versus college-educated vote

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much less of a gamble to go to charlestown than the given to these teachers west virginia created the frightening domino effect of teacher strikes in arizona kentucky california even colorado for a state that legalized none of those teachers were chill. but denver public school officials must have been high to give striking teachers an additional $23000000.00 in pay you don't just pass an agreement like that you puff puff passing. rare enough but the only thing that's frightening and west virginia's bill is that it's one of the biggest thing that's frightening is that it could be a precedent for for all the other states to pass anti strike laws i mean this isn't the 1st time protests have been criminalized though as you know we've seen more than a dozen states either try to pass laws banning protesting oil pipelines strikes should make the people at the top uncomfortable for a good reason this is what. well since you're so pro strike let's find out how comfortable you are if they happen on your show. what are you doing. ok. ok see i knew you do that that's why i have this one landing.

and west virginia is an energy state.al and natural gas and the politics of that is not as black and white as it may sound. but, certainly, over the years most of west virginia's political class has been on the side of the employment and the revenue that energy brings to the stage. there are certainly communities in west virginia that feel like the coal and the gas have had adverse effects on their landscapes and their water, but on the whole, the overriding political sentiment here has been support for these energy industries. >> mary ann, not just governor justice blasting bloomberg's plan. look what joe mantichin said th morning. >> why do you want to punish the people of my state of west virginia and answer the qual for this great country so many times and providing the energy and defending our country and mining the coal that built the steel that built the guns and ships. we've done everything and now all of a sudden, punishment. it's not going to change. >> help me out here. i know in the carbon plan one of the goal

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we have had overnight thunderstorms in west virginia. so with thunder and lightning already going on across partsf o the mountains of west virginia chances increase a little earlier than normal today. those storms not severe at this point in time. likely to be moving into the winchester area. around the city have to wait until 1:00 in the afternoon. teperatures, is it muggy outside? 60s to low and mid-70s to get your monday started. gre than warm enou upper 80s to near 9 today. t sohat will help increase our chances forhunderstorms this . afternoon obviously, doug will be here in u ahead rnoon to keep of anything and you c use our nbc washgton app. mo of the ek's high and lows are coming up. how about another high with melissa mollet? >> oh, chuck, thank you.ut soound is nice and clear. you don't have to worry about anything southbound. college park. right lane is getting by that work ea. 6 95, no big complaints. the bottom of the beltway, prince george's county everything is nice and green. morning a ing th graduation party in philadelp

overnight thunderstorms here in parts of west virginia.they are moving toward the northern part of the shenandoah valley. so our friends out there you have a chance for ran. maybe thunder here during the middle and later part of the morng. humidity is in the afternoon. mid-70s this morning. a sticky started. this is lady, available for rescue at the humane rcue alliance and nice small and petite girl so go on their website and find out how to add a little lady to your family and get the miles in this morning.es rain chanc increase later today. melissa, 70% chance for storms! >> does not bode well for summer camp this afternoon. thank you, chuck. >>> green belt we had traffic only getting by innt those ce lanes. now everything has been moved to the shoulder and has pretty much reopened. we lookgood there. inner loop near route 1 theri ht lane is getting by that work zone. new issue here in triangle here. 66 looking into and out of town and 95 southbound from 32 down to the beltway 69 miles per hour and that will get you there in about t min

of morgantown, elkins, west virginia, they're going to stay west of the mountains until tomorrow. after that, thingswill start to change. as we're talking about scattered understorms, sunday will be the day, monday and tuesday canadian air rolls through, and we really dry out. future weather in motion for ur.orrow around the noon we'll start to see a little bit of tse clouds and showers and thunderstorms. as i said, 4:30, 5, 6:00 p.m. la they'll be isod and clear out at 8:00 p.m. sunday about a 60 perc rt chance,n and some thunderstorms. then we'll cool down, really nice. 72, 77 degrees respectively. kind of buunsettled not terribly hot over the next several days. isolated chances of any derstorms don't stop outdoor activities, but temperatures will be in the 80s, lows in the 70s, even next ekend really not too bad as we'll show you. we continue to show some really nice weather across the region. so for us, we can get through tomorrow evening, so 24 hours from now, we'll art to clear up, and it will be pretty nice for our monday and tuesday. >> you can say that again. >> almost aj

high country in west virginia.s the second coldest juno temperaturen record in the canaan valley. 25 degrees. even i, eun, even i would n complai at 25 degrees. even me. even i've got my limits, like the old moviean a m's got it know his limitions. outside on a wednesday morning, winds have turned back to the south and southwest and theynu contie to increase as well. it will be b aezy day. it will be a lot warmer than yesterday. it'll be a lot more humid than so as a result, likelihood of showers and thunderstorms later on this afternoon. once it gets pastg today rain chances are going down for tomorrow and rain chances are near zero for friday and the weekend. so we'll pay for that, no problem at all. there are a lot of clouds. novere weather yet. that will play a part in our forecast as we rt longe into the day. skies will become more and more cloudy with time. the thinger those clouds are, the mo they hold temperatures down, the more it limits our instability. that also lps to limit any potential for severe weat

host: clarksburg, west virginia. frank. what happened in west virginia? 2016.: this goes back to the southern part of the state, it was really, really bad. fema, fromart is, what i understand, there was $3.5 million sent down there. this is richwood, west virginia. they only spent $400,000 to help the people. if you go onto the site for the state auditor here, they had where under indictment $3.5 million was stolen. it's just crazy. there's other towns in west getinia still fighting to their homes built after they were tore down. shouldn'ton is people steal money for disasters. look that up. have a good day. host: phyllis in fort lauderdale. caller: hi. say the united states government needs to make sure this money is being spent properly on the things that it should be spent on. there's a lot of corruption in puerto rico. it is taxpayer money. i want to make sure there's someone looking out for this money. host: jennifer shutt talked about the guardrails put into this $19 billion disaster aid package to oversee those funds going to artery go -- put a rec

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i'm very proud of the history of my home state of west virginia. in 1951 elizabeth key took the place of her husband, the honorable congressman john key, to be the first woman to represent west virginia in congress. and we have another woman on the other side, carol miller, representing our state. elizabeth key had been her h.u.s. longtime -- her husband's longtime secretary, which by the way is not allowed today, and actually stood up against party leaders and said she should retain her position as secretary for the incoming appointee. she didn't listen to that. thank goodness. when the 26th amendment to the constitution was ratified in 1971, changing the voting age from 21 to 18, this was done at the dogged insistence of my predecessor, senator jennings randolph. but a proud west virginian, ella may thompson had dox, was the first person in the united states of america, a young woman from west virginia, to register to vote as an 18-year-old. i'm very honored to be the first woman to represent my state, and many of us are that in our states. with

i was in west virginia earlier this last month. did a community meeting and took a lot of questions and stayed after to answer more questions from the people who live in that community. >> and what is worrying them? >> they're worried about the state of their community and what may or may not be causing the health impacts that they see. we're moving forward to screen the people who live there. i was up in new york visiting a super fund site, new jersey. and i'm also going out to a lot of the water bodies. we need to make sure we're protecting our large water bodies. i was up in michigan with some of the local environmental groups to see what they do to help with the wetlands restoration. i've done that with the chesapeake bay here as well in the d.c. area and down in louisiana to make sure that our coast is being restored following the oil spill in the gulf. i've been down there twice now. i think it's important to get out in the field to see what we are doing to clean up the environment. >> there's a question here about ocean masp

monday but that's the way the ballbounces. 57 in mountains of west virginia. 63 manassas. your forecast for today, plan on temperatures back u to around 90 degrees. there is an increasing chance for storms later on in the the day today. could bes early as about 1:00or :00 in the shenandoah valley and could hang around at lace at 9:00 or 10:00 in and arnd the city but may be it for rain chances. car washing teforecast, af afternoon storms today most of the rest of the week is looking dry but very hot. hotfor tuesdayand wednesday and thursday. that ten-day forecast has a lot of 90s on it, melissa. i'll give ito youoming up. >> thank you, chuck. >>> in sterling, south sterling boulevard near davis drive a accident hanging around 66 and 95 loaying ok right now. arlington northbound gw parkway work zone. 270 southbound nothing in your way. 70 to the spur take you 27 minutes going 66 miles per hour as you'rert heading nohbound, road work ther >>> a video of a man tasering by metro transit police is barking outrage online. >> he was encountered by the metro station over the weeke

companies and foreign powers that's what china wanted when it reached a deal in 2017 with west virginiable than everything the state produces in a given year an $84 billion promise endorsed by president trump and president xi jinping billed as a game changer to the mountain state >> imagine the magnitude of what we're talking about. >> this is the best thing that could possibly happen. >> really and truly, it's coming >> reporter: 18 months later, west virginia's governor jim justice acknowledges the reality is much different. >> has there been any money that china energy directly invested in west virginia >> no, don't think so. >> reporter: it was supposed to fund the state's new gas burning power plants a so-called steam cracker that turns gas into a byproduct for plastics and fibers, and an underground reservoir to hold the region's excess energy until it gets processed. the goal, according to those involved, invest in the state's infrastructure and send its natural resources back to china. but china is nowhere to be found. >> the stumbling block is our country's in the trade issue t

joining us now is chris hamilton, vice president of the west virginia coal association.ow do you respond to this >> well, david, we're very, extremely disappointed in hearing that today. you know, we've been through -- perhaps we thought the darkest days were behind us given the previous administration's attack and war on our business. frankly, we're real disappointed in the mayor that he would select to come after our coal miners and our coal mining families in the states like west virginia that rely so heavily on coal-fired electric generation and coal mining and all the support jobs that really drives our economy here. and we're not alone. there's 14 or 15 states like the state of west virginia where coal and coal mining and coal-fired electrical generation plays just an enormous role within our local and statewide economies. >> chris, as an ex pennsylvania boy, i can feel your pain for sure. but, you know, one of the attacks on coal is that it's a climate disruptor, if you will, but on the flip side, all these, you know, solar and water have been supported by the gov

west virginia, you're okay right now. but if you look at that map, that red in the southwest is something to pay attention to as well. excuse me. last week the national interagency fire center released its monthly wildland fire potential outlook for june through september, and despite relief from the oppressive drought conditions this past winter, analysts predict elevated wildfire activity in california, oregon and washington among other areas in the country. some of the stage is set for fire activity similar to indescribable damage and the staggering loss of life that we saw last year in northern california. we watched in horror as the camp fire engulfed the town of paradise, killing 85 individuals, some of whom were trapped in vehicles on rural roads trying to escape the blaze. so we're back again. over the past week, we've seen an uptick in wildfires nationally. the oregon lake fires back in alaska continues to burn in the donnelly training area. this is a u.s. army range, and in addition to the hazards of fighting th

. >> the senator from west virginia. i would like to thank my colleagues, particularly my colleagues -- colleague from maine for her leadership in this issue. it is great to be here with their him a cusk he who taught me how to be tough on the appropriations committee. if i could only be that tough. i am on it to join my colleagues to commemorate and celebrate the centennial and perverse -- anniversary of the 19th amendment. andave heard the names documentaries and read about them in history books. elizabeth stanton, susan b anthony and so many others. these leaders take the way for women to exercise the right to vote. changing history and the fabric of our nation in the process. it goes without saying this was no small defeat. it was a tough fight. it was not one overnight. years for the amendment to reach the senate forr and in 1887, the votes suffrage was defeated. in experiencing legislative defeats, we have all experienced. that was not the end. .t took too much time things started to heat up around 1916. that year,

mckinley of west virginia. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 431, the gentleman from west virginia, mr. mckinley, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from west virginia. mr. mckinley: thank you. madam chair, i rise in support of this bipartisan amendment to h.r. 2740. last fall, president trump signed into law comprehensive opioid package. included in that package was a power act which provides competitive grants to hospitals in high overdose or rural areas. sadly, congress has not yet funded that program. the grants included in the power act -- the grants in the power act will help provide emergency rooms the resources they need to offer overdose patients, not only for short-term care, but long-term treatment that is proven to help prevent repeat overdoses. this bipartisan amendment intro deuced by my colleague mr. doyle, of pennsylvania, would fund the grant program with the $10 million congress has already previously authorized. madam chair, if you -

." >> in the gentle rolling hills of northern west virginia, in a sweet college town in the heart of coal country lived three teenage girls. their photos capture a moment in time. they were smart, talented, lovely. everything a parent could hope for in a daughter. and so who could have guessed just by looking that some of them carried a dark secret about a friend. >> 911. do you have an emergency? >> i have a 16-year-old daughter. she has not been home, hasn't went to work. i'm scared to death. >> these teens played a strange and haunting game. >> would you rather suffocate or get shot? >> get shot. >> a game of betrayal that went way beyond typical teenage drama. >> she's calling out help me. you know, why, why, why. >> at the center of it all was a girl named skylar. david and mary neese welcomed their only daughter skylar to the world in 1996. tell me about the day she was born. was that the greatest moment of your life? >> i wouldn't go that far. >> first time you saw her. >> first time i saw her, yes, i can say that was the greatest moment of my life. yeah. it was instant love.

they're moving on, texas a&m, west virginia going home.el for that pitcher. >> thank you, thanks for joining us tonight. we'll be back tonight at 10:00 and 11:00. good night. i was unstoppable. i mean, i was... i was on fire. it was like my mind and my body were totally connected, like-like athletes must feel when they're in the zone. again, it was miniature golf. admit it, you're a little turned on. you can't be this proud. why not? because i beat you. hey. hi. oh, good. you're back. we have some exciting news. and a lot of things i never thought possible now seem possible. okay... after a careful evaluation of our relationship, we decided that the time was right to take a step forward.

they encouraged the parents to report to the west virginia police and confirmed the report.

like i said she went to vest west virginia to ohio.leaning and going after black women to really talking about inequality in a real way we haven't heard before. >> i take your point that she has gone to west virginia and places other democrats won't go. the reality is west virginia is lost. ohio is a long shot. this is going to be won in pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, and that's a lot of the suburban voters that threw you out. well, you retired. would have thrown you out of office shall we say if you were on the ballot if 2018. what is your view on where they fall on warren? >> boy, that the a great question. i think if biden is the nom fee, he presumptively gets those voters, frankly, most did vote for hillary clinton. do i think if yelz yelsz is the nominee or bernie sanders is the nominee, some of those suburban voters, that used to be the swing voters, direction ally move towards the democratic party. at least for the time being are back if play. i do believe that. so i think the tension within the democratic primary right now

a few showers just to the wt ght now stopping in west virginia. we think that we'll be dry for the remainder o the morn and the remainder of the day for us. so currently that t perature here in d.c. is in the mid t0s upper 5. 58 right now. going to be breezy at times today. we'll drop a little bit as we go through about the 7:00our and then start moving the temperature right back up. in fact, temperatures once again in the 70se to n 80 today. let's talk about the weekend in detail. we'll go hour by hour specifically for that father's day foleecast. you know if you can expect any rain, that's coming up in about 15 minutes. first, let's talk traffic with good morning. >>> good morning. right now in the district, west virginia avenue northeast between florida and m olivet, all lanes blocked because of police activity from overnight. outer loop between annapolis road 450 and kenilworth, we have the left lanei g by the work zone. inner loop between eisenhower avenue and van dorn street.a right l is getting by. doesn't seem to be slowing things at all r

showers near romney, west virginia and heading towards hagerstown. a quick warm-up near 90. 1:30 storms possible. winchester moving towards the leesburg area. i think our chances for severe weather around the city peak somewhere between 3:00 and 5:00 this afternoon. earlier this normal. then severe storm possibilities mover down into parts of southern maryland and fredericksburg about:00 and things dry out 8:00 or 9:00 this evening and relatively quiet weather thereafter. tomorrow another big rain chance. i think we can take the rain out of the alert for your friday plans, melissa. >> i like that. that is good. >>> first 4 traffic. chopper 4 over this ieroop near new hampshire avenue. a big delay because of this earlierfitractor-trailer . right now, only two left lanes are getting by. the bilkup has b quickly. another look different vantage point showing you what is happening. chopper 4 above that showing us what is going on as well. rest of the beltway inner lote and ouloop looking okay. here are a couple more. remembersto li to not all water is cre

overnight rumbles in the mountains of west virginia. what's left is mving into the northern shenandoah valley. grays, leesburg, poolesville, could make it to northwest washington in the next hour or two. noing heavy. just a quick passing rain shower. temperatures, warm and humidre aly now. temperatures are in the upper 60s and low 70s. your commute, about a 30% chance you'll get a tray shower this morning. again, dry mid-afternoon, and about a 30% chance of a thundershower later onn the day. upn-day forecast coming n about 20 minutes. melissa, anything going on in traffic? >>> we have a couple of things going on. eastbnd 66 nearnutley, police activity. a lane blocked there. not seeing too much o delay. as you fly in, the tiniest slowdown. if you're headed westbound, you don't have any issues at this point at least. as we're taking a look at the beltway, outer loop, inner loop, everything is looking quite good. earlier wrong is gone. new closu in the district. 9th street there near pennsylvania avenue, we have police activity, so avoid t

host: moving on to west virginia, david on the independent line. caller: we have hundreds of thousands of american citizens, adults and children living in cities inonditionons in west virginia, virginia, and throughout the nation. can they declare asylum and get funding to get out of the horrible conditions they are in and ththese people are leaving their countries which have no sewage, no plumbing and living in horrible conditions and like i said, citizens in our country, hundreds of thousands are living in worse conditions than they left their countries and they cannot get any funding to get out of the horrible conditions they are in. the media is not covering that, congress is not doing funding for that, but they are covering all of this. are these people going to move into the samame situations, the horrible conditions our citizens are living in and nobody is paying any interest to? wh is going on here? they keep complaining for political reasons. those people are being taken care of a whole lot better than they are in their own countries. go b

already some thunder showers in wesrn west virginia.hat's indicative of how really moist the atmosphere is. so 'll have a 60 to an 80% chance for rain later on in the daea future wer dry for the first part of the day but notice the blossoms of showers and thunderl showerser in the day today. tomorrow will be am another stor team 4 weather alert day. severe storms likely tomorrow before we get that lower humidity friday and saturday. melissa? >> thank you, chuck. looking forward to that lower humidity.ea tbound 66 after 123 left side blocked by an accident there. not quite seeing any slow downs he map quite yet, but they could be coming if it hangs around too long. nd in virginia northbound southbound clear. everybody is looking good southbound andd.northboun gw parkway opped at me nor wral bridge. that has now reopened as well. as you take a look at the beltway, no complaints. 270 looking good, too. aaron? >> melissa, thank you. 5:21. up next highchair where your little one eats eakfast may not meet government standards. >> this afterno

one example is west virginia. a time when you certainly could make a decent living working at the coal industry. those jobs really are not so much there anymore. people are leaving west virginia and when they grow up there, they go to college somewhere else. and then they do not come back. because they do not come back, you could start a business in west virginia. you could put a major company there. but people are not doing that. if you are a major company, even if you were told for example that you got a good tax break or by moving there, if you do not have the educated population working there, you will not locate there. it is continuous spiral downward. host: that is the economic problem. guest: right. host: how does this brain drain affect clinical polarization in the country? guest: that is interesting. and this is correlation, not causation. in general, non-college-educated whites tend to vote republican. they went for donald trump by an overwhelming percentage in 2016 versus college-educated voters who wen

cosponsor because of how important the bill is to my state of west virginia. each year, when forest service ran short of funds, it would read the accounts of the eastern national forest. firefighting.or we understood that. the practice was disruptive to proper management of these forests, like the monongahela. it directly harmed the surrounding communities that depend on the forest. there is more work to be done. we need to be looking at new solutions because these are complex problems, without simple answers. i look forward to hearing from the witnesses about the approach we are taking this year, so our country does not have to repeat the devastation we experienced last year. thank you human chairman. >> thank you to our witnesses. i look forward to this hearing. >> thank you. i appreciate your raising the issue surrounding our trip to the arctic. i have been attending the arctic council meeting for a dozen years or so. hardemanready been terrien, we all had an opportunity to visit with other parliamentarians when we were in ottawa. for the first time on the

i'm talking about the people in places like west virginia a state that i was actually born and raised in where the coal industry is pretty much dead these people have believed president trumps lies that he will bring back coal jobs frankly you know he would do better if he went there and he said i have a plan to bring renewables here and to talk about how we can create jobs that rely on renewable energy and let's talk about all of the above approach instead he chooses to peddle false hoods and tell these people in coal country like i said west virginia that he will bring back their jobs so this is really about what president trump wants to do and he wants to be reelected and he's trying to do it in places where jobs that relied on traditional sources of energy like coal are dead well as you say coal is dead and other countries are charging ahead with clean energy leaving america behind like china germany even saudi arabia so let me ask you this as a republican strategist yourself and you're saying the president trump is lying how does the rest of the republican policy feel about the c

now i'm standing here on west virginia avenue. the shooting itself happened here onn corcoran street i northeast. the 1600 block. you see that we still have olice on the scene. they have thissection closed off. just to give you an idea of where we are, if you look at this fence here and these builngs, the brick buildings, that is theck side of gallaudet universit this unfolded at 1:00 this morning. the report came in as the sound of shots fired. this is video that was shot early this rning. so police arrived, shots red. that's when they found the victim, a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. -wasaken to -- he was taken to an area hospital and later died. upon -- not a lot of information. still an active innostigation. dy has been arrested. but no information about a lookout either. certainly police are looking for witnesses to come forwards with information. back to you. >> megan mcgrath, live in northeast. tha l you. >>> acal sports star is calling out d.c. leaders of the amount of gun violence in southeast d.c. >> her ou

one of them was a small town in west virginia. they have about 250 people from a high of 1200.hat committee has been hit really hard because of the pcbs. and the area. if you have this in the news every year for the last 20 or 30 years, who wants to move to the city? the people who live there now, who will they sell their houses to if they want to leave? we went to the community communities like that around the country to get their sites cleaned up and give them the focus and attention they need. there's a lot of forgotten communities across the country. we are trying to do at the agency to the program and focus on the zip codes with the most economic degradation around, is to try to give some help and support to those amenities. i think it's very important. >> you discussed that 40% of the grants were going to rural small towns or communities. the counter point be, shouldn't be the money be ducted to the areas that have more impact, more people living there? >> we did that in a previous program. we're still doing that. i think their 20% are going to large areas those of the ar

in west virginia? >> yeah. so whenever possible, i wanted to go not only where he went, but by the means of transport he used. i didn't want to make a fetish of it. i checked out whether you can find a stagecoach anymore. [laughter] i found one in kentucky, and he would take me to, like, a bourbon distillery, you know? [laughter] it didn't fit. >> right. >> but, when possible. but often i had to improvise. and he went down the ohio river from wheeling, which in those days was virginia, west virginia didn't yet exist, to kentucky on a, you know, lavish steam boat of that day. they called them floating white palaces. well, there are no longer steam boats on that part of the ohio, but he also wrote about all the barges full of coal that were floating down from pittsburgh. and they're still there. and i thought, okay, can one hitch a ride on a coal barge? [laughter] and long story short, i talked my way onto technically not the barge, because it's the boat pushing the barges that has the people in it. >> okay. >> s

developing rain showers through parts of west virginia.e low 70s now. afternoon highs in the low- to mid-80s. rain likely later today. tomorrow will be a storm team4 weather alert day. a risk of some severe weather thursday afternoon, turning breen friday, turning less humid and cooler for fry and saturday. >> and thais your latest weather. craig. >>roker, thank you so much. muc. >>> up next, are you an early bird but your partner may be a night owl? dr. michael bruce is here. he's going to test our sleep compatibility. we're going to play a game with these dry erase boards and also get tips to get more rest. first, ts is "today" on nbhi >> announcer: this portion of "today" is brought to you by biktarvy. >>> we're back with our summer sleeurvival guide. according to the national sleep foundation, nearly one in four married couples actually sleep in separate beds. lucy and rickie. many are calling it a sleep divorce. here to help us solve the bedtime conflicts, dr. bruce. wow. >> lirickie and lucy. do youhink it is bad, if you sleep in a d

we do have a couple back to the west in this area, so if you life towards the panhandle of west virginiarts of frederick or washington counties in maryland, you're now seeing the storms. let's zoom in one moree. tim amelia draper is driving the radar. zoom into that storm one more time, a little bitloser to the torm around the martinsburg area to see where the storm is heading in towards jefferson cohtty of the rig there making its way into jefferson county and down towards the south and east. heads up if you live south and east of martinsburg area and sasth and et of there. cloud cover making its way in here. widening out, not showing a lot around the nation. we have a couple of showers and storms in our area but really no huge storms anywhere. what we do have some heat. take a look at the temperatures around the nation. ateast the eastern part of the nation. you notice there quite a bit in the way of upper 80s to around 90 degrees and that's the kind oft that will continue to build and build over the next couple of days. richmond right now at 95, and that's where wehink we'll be tomorr

but it is almost a single worst abuescher of everybody they have gotten coal from west virginia makes me happy i love west virginia i love the coal miners. >> a huge service to coal companies industry for sure. >> you mentioned. >> -- six months -- if "crooked hillary" got elected would not have lasted six months it was gone, now, it is a vibrant industry again doing well, we sell a lot of, west virginia, states we have great coal sell a cot of coal to vietnam vietnam is abuescher almost all nations are abusers. maria: you cautioned it piggy bank playing out. >> we are the piggy bank we won't be the piggy bank forever because frankly you ne you can only give so much, i can't believe how several of these deals were made they were so bad, and nato is no different i am not saying nato is a bad thing i am saying it is unfair, that europe when kills us with europe we lose approximately 180 billion 181 billion dollars. >> not giving up the chicken tax. >> no chicken tax is a great tax it is a 25% tax on small trucks, south korea was expiring south korea was so happy i renegotiated the deal

>> new jersey, new york, california, west virginia, texas.hese together, you know, based on people like the americorps volunteers who voted in the 2016 election -- >> i thought it was based on how much beef you eat, how many guns you have here in america, how many acres of land. >> how many flags you have around your house, how many -- >> how many fireworks on the fourth of july. >> new york, new jersey, california, i'm not surprised that we're not so patriotic. >> yeah, that's true. >> west virginia and texas, i'm surprised they're on the least list. >> all right, my biggest issue with this is the great state of south carolina is not in the top for most patriotic. corona set to test out a stackable beer. >> so you can carry multiple ones. sounds like a plan to me. >> there's n >>> this morning on "world news now," the crisis with iran escalates. >> president trump has slapped the country with new sanctions and iran responds with a new threat. >>> still developing, an excursion emergency. a bus in the bahamas flipping over, leaving americans