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Employment law project. say what? >> those fees are astonishing. i actually hadn't seen fees quite that high listed. it's not a good deal for the workers almost ever. they're typically not given a choice if they'd rather have a paper paycheck, they're not, which means they're not getting any pay stub information. >> right. >> they don't know what the basis for the pay is. they don't know what was i paid on behalf of? did i get overtime when i worked overtime? were there any other deductions taken out of my pay? it's potentially -- it's hiding some more wage theft that we're seeing in the econo...

Speaker, and perhaps a better name for byrd would have been the bard of the senate. >> all freshly steeped in morning dews. so wrote the poet robert burns. >> reporter: in the political arena, the source of his influence in the capitol was his long tenure on the senate appropriate operations committee. he came from modest roots. >> i loved in a house without electricity, no running water, no telephone, a little wooden outhouse. i started out in life without any rungs in the bottom of the ladder. i married a koal miner's daughter. >> reporter: he was born in 1917 and raised in west virginia's m...

Disaster in this country since 1970. >> they have been spending time with the families, you can tell it is a difficult time. they are strong and loving and good people and very, very hard times. >> many mining communities gathering at this time and holding candle light vigils for the victims. investigation is expected to take a year. >> 14 people hurt after a rare bomb explosion in iran. it happened in ilam. a bomb went off in a visitization president. this as iran said they fully mastered their nuclear technology. president ahmadinejad unveiled the center fuges on national nuclear day. the u....

So it's all along this river valley area. it's a huge mine complex under the mountains just to my left here. bill: and the roads wind their way through the southern hills of west virginia there. steve centanni, thank you. he's 30 miles southeast of charleston, west virginia and we see again in the mining communities, everybody is attached to this and you're going to see that story play out throughout the rest of the day here. martha: these people are so long and they have a life-long connection to this work. what do we know about this particular mine? the massey energy company started operatio...