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Economy and society what hes envisaging to renationalisation of certain industries for example telecom a huge social housing program 100000 houses here this is something to he hopes will appeal to people and this is really what the labor party under jeremy corbin is really envisaging it different society in britain and youre in northern england today why. i mean all that england because we are trying to assess the mood in the country not just in london but also here where we are for example in b...

Points. so thats why you see the president coming in not once, but twice. the vice president coming in as well, all in an attempt to remind voters here why they supported trump, and the hopes that some of that energy will transfer over to rick saccone and defeat the man who just wrapped up here a short time ago, connor lamm. connor lamm getting the endorsement of the miners. really a feather in his cap in terms of this part of the county. youll recall this part of the county is very rural, there...

Out about something thats going to help millions of people. i dont understand. what was wrong with a bill that marino offered? what was wrong with that? >> jesse: i think they said it made it harder to crack down on these shipments to small towns of opioids. you have the town population 400 in a mining community that get sent a million pills. that seems like a lot. >> kimberly: it removes restrictions. there was no meter to do it. it was like all go. >> greg: i dont think it was all go. >> kimbe...

That said during the obama administration the number of trains once every 25 minutes. now under trump once every 11 minutes. they are expecting that number to drop. these are coal trains. coming back to west virginia. i dont know the last time maxine waters visited the mountain state coal is back there. ainsley: remember during the campaign trail when hillary clinton said she was going to take down the mining community and all those miners were so mad and they voted for president trump. steve: a...

Away from a historic mining community where a mandatory evacuation order is in effect. the gladiator fire is one of several burning across the state. alexis vance is back with us from our fox affiliate ksav. live in mayer, arizona, with more. alexis? i would say. >> reporter: i would say this is the biggest fire in our state. four homes have burned and tripled in size. it is over 5000 acres in size and firefighters have been working on this for five days. behind me you can see were at the high s...

we always thought they were now theres proof positive which means the gun used in one shooting was the same gun used in the second shooting. that is key for the investigation. the other thing now, we understand mississippi authorities are reaching out to both the fbi and atf asking to use profilers. that would mean they dont have a lot but looking into the mind-set of the person carrying this out. remember, the theory is, and its only a theory at this point, its someone acting as a pol...

Six miners have been buried but so much more emotion to come. >> reporter: funeral after funeral, members of this community have lost so much but they still have each other. those who have lost are helping others who have lost. today another one of those funerals and there will be many more. today its a funeral for william roosevelt lynch. he just turned 59 a couple weeks ago, a churchgoing man, a family man, and at the end of the day, he was a miner. his friends were miners. his family miners. ...

The mining disaster with rescue crews back on their way. at the same time, the mining community is really getting together to support the family members of the miners who perished in monday afternoons blast. last night, there was a prayer vigil about an hour away from here. so many, many people attended. one of the people who they were really rallying around is pam napper. she was extraordinarily touched by this disaster. three members of her family, her son, her brother, and her nephew, were al...

It comes to this mining community. one side is the side youve heard from. youve heard from the family members who have loved ones in this mine here, this upper big branch mild. holed up in a mining office building three miles away from where we are. theyre furious, frustrated, fuming. and i talked to someone in a meeting with a family members the night before last saying chairs were thrown, ceo don blankenship of massey was there and the only word they havent heard is sorry. thats one side of th...

Hoping that their loved one is among the four who are unaccounted for who may still be alive as the governor of west virginia put it yesterday, there still is a shred of hope and the families are clinging to that shred. meantime, a huge outpouring of support here in the mining community of west virginia. theyve seen this happen before. its always painful. always very difficult for the families. theyre all bringing support to each other. the red cross is helping. the local churches are helping. t...