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♪ >> sarah slone: the people here are very good. they'd give you the shirt off their back. come together in times of tragedy or anything. >> anthony: christian values means something here. they are practiced on the street and in the home. >> linda: most of you've all got your potatoes, right? >> anthony: linda runs "5 loaves & 2 fishes", a food bank that holds many of the lives here together during tough times. 16,000 people walk through these doors annually, in a county of 20,000. >> bob: gracious god, we just thank you for this day that we're able to give food out again, this is not a regu...

Local folks saying the ryder trucks have more votes. >> there's no competence in the system, no respect for the law. the courts have found in this instance that they've been flagrantly violating the law, not reporting on time, not giving out information and allowing campaigns to have overnighoversight or the media. this is the same thing that happened to us. we had to go to court. this battle is fought on three fronts. one is obviously the county itself, two is in the courts and three in the streets. we're seeing people come and do exactly what they did in 2000, voters arement cooing in mass t...

>> joel: in the county itself, as of the last census, so. >> anthony: those are some grim statistics. >> linda: yes. >> anthony: the coal that came out of this area built america, right? >> linda: yes. >> bob: mcdowell county alone was called the "billion-dollar coal field." and the people that were in charge at the time didn't take advantage of all that money in case something did happen to the coal mine. >> justin: the cool thing is that west virginia is developing a strong entrepreneur movement that a lot of people don't know about. like with joey, he started a hydroponic growing. i mean, n...

Tampa all the way up over to pensacola. you can see it is raining in pensacola. the rains are coming in tampa. i want to zoom in and show you what the storm has been doing prayed here as grand-based radar. here is florida, apalachicola. these are where the oyster beds are that are so famous. panama city, the miracle mile resort in panama city, but 180,000 year-round residents. i think that's right. 180,000 or so. in the county itself, 185,000. about 36,000 live in panama city itself. i want to show you what this i wall has been doing. i will zoom all the way in. this is ground-based radar that...

How large? >> linda: no. we've gone from what, 100,000 down to about 10,000. >> bob: down to about 10,000-12,000. >> joel: in the county itself, as of the last census, so. >> anthony: those are some grim statistics. >> linda: yes. >> anthony: the coal that came out of this area built america, right? >> linda: yes. >> bob: mcdowell county alone was called the "billion-dollar coal field." and the people that were in charge at the time didn't take advantage of all that money in case something did happen to the coal mine. >> justin: the cool thing is that west virginia is developing a strong entre...