>> roewer: well, we had a kingston spill. that's kingston, tennessee, where, in december 2008, a giant retention pool of coal ash buckled under the weight of five decades of waste. >> now, all the power lines and everything have been knocked out. >> stahl: a billion gallons of muck shot into the emory river like a black tsunami... >> one person in the house, he's alive. >> stahl: ...engulfing homes, uprooting trees... >> everything's gone. >> stahl: ... and throwing fish out of the water. >> no, don't eat the fish, please. >> stahl: residents woke up to an apocalyptic moonscape of ash- bergs everywhere. >> this stuff is just sitting there, steaming. >> stahl: the spill was 100 times larger than the "exxon valdez," and it was all coal ash. >> roewer: you'd never heard of coal ash before kingston. >> stahl: never. >> roewer: never >> stahl: never. >> roewer: wasn't a problem. >> stahl: well, it was a problem, we just didn't know. the problem is, where do you put all that stuff? here, the tennessee valley authority, t.v.a., dump

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 cleanup over 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 with throwing away the next generation's most valuable resource and that is water and one of the best sources of water anywhere in the world and maybe the best source of freshwater in proximity to one of the world's largest fastest growing populations. you know with all that but all the lawsuits and all the carrying on that goes on in the in the press and you know the vanity fair's in u.s. news and world reports and all at that where the authors are warning people to believe that that we're absolutely strip in appalachia down to nothing. in order to get the mineral is patently untrue it's patently untrue when you look around at the forest in elton's that we have a recent environme

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 cleanup job 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 with throwing away the next generation's most valuable resource.

, many years, if you think back the first writer who was read in terms of asian american was maxine kingston. i read her in high school and was greatly affected by reading about the woman warrior. before her there were few. there were some but didn't make that economic splash. they were never read in a large way. maxine was the first one we read her in school we knew of her. she was not out there like anny tan was when she wrote the joy luck club. so much of it is timing. it meant all the history and the voices before then had been silent. my generation of writers came in and we heard stories of women and men and the family of a different generation. a lot of us had been writing about that because they were silenced for so long. i am involved with the book prize. it's a pacific rim book prize in which books come from asia and all over the pacific rim. in the last 11 years it's been a prize we read so many books that have come from voices of new writers. i'm always amazed and they are writing different storers i wrote when i started. all the people have come through now. if you look at the li

kingston. the uri, you didn't go to uri, though, you went to wellesley. and then you went on from there to where? >> oxford. university. >> how many years were you there? >> one. >> what did you study? >> theology. >> then where did you go? >> i went to new jersey. >> and what did you study there? >> at princeton i studied the origins and history of ancient christianity. >> you taught in a number of institutions. would you list those for us? >> i taught at princeton briefly, i taught at u.c. berkeley, university of pittsburgh, for a year i was at the hebrew university at jerusalem and currently at boston unive >> you have? >> yes, indeed. >> i got my degree in '79. >> you're the professor of the appreciation of scripture, you've been doing that for what? >> since '90. >> for nine years. three books to your credit? >> that's true. >> i notice that you retreated from some of your statements from your first book, "jesus of nazareth, king of the jews." what changed in the 11 years between the publication oftwo b. >> my first book was "from jesus to christ." a

like i said, if we're seeing mixed rilts-- one republican congressman in georgia jack kingston said i wish she would have stayed out of this contest. sarah palin seems to be dividing our party when we need to be united. he was not pleased when she got involved. >> lehrer: connecticut the victory in the republican primary of linda mcmahon in the senate race. what-- how do you read that? money? >> no doubt it's 99. she'll be one of the most colorful characters because of her past as c.e.o. of world wrestling entertainment. this is a case of money here. she poured $22 million of her own money into this race. she's willing to spend another $30 million and in the general election contest against blumenthal, the attorney general there, on the democratic side, she was 30 points back from blumenthal in the polls, just a couple of months ago. she's now 10 points back. money is having an impact and this will be a race to watch. >> lehrer: let's go to some other things in politics. it was announced yesterday the -- i think it was the department of labor, that some of these republican governors w

kingston: thank you, madam speaker. who knew? who knew the states were running out of money? who knew when we were bailing out general motors, the big banks, fannie mae and freddie mac? apparently the speaker of the house had no idea there were some problems in the hinterland. so here we are back in washington, millions of dollars spent to bring everybody back. this is governing by reaction. pannedering to -- pandering to the political base. taking care of the excesses of governing bodies who are unable or unwilling to make the tough decisions the smaller states, small businesses, and american families are have to make every day. we hear over and over again this is paid for. i got news for you, if you have a huge debt on your american express card and transfer it to your visa card, you haven't paid for anything. 41 cents on the dollar that we spend is borrowed money. the food stamps program which the democrats are cutting, the renewable energy program which the democrats are cutting, and you can even argue the job-killing tax increases they are about to pass, that's all on bo

thinking he was a visiting tourist pastor ron kingston even gave him money to mow the church lawn. >> i talked to him about faith and god, and jesus christ, forgiving of sins, and he said he had faith in god. >> reporter: mccluskey and his alleged accomplice casslyn welch are still on the run. she is his cousin and also his fiancee. >> mccluskey and his partner, help break them out of jail, consider themselves bonnie and clyde and have taken the persona this is some type of movie but it is not. >> reporter: and as the search for those two continues, province will make his first court appearance this morning. juju? >> clayton sandell from wyoming, thanks. >>> forget cuckoo for cocoa puffs, but mad for mcnuggets. when this woman was told they were not on the morning menu, she went berserk smashing the window and that little bout of restaurant rage cost her 60 days in jail, plus $1,500 in damages. and that's the news at 7:15. is it road rage if you're at a drive-through? >> i think she really likes the mcnuggets. >> i guess so. i think she deserves the 60 days. that was crazy. >> yeah. t

host: kingston, illinois. republican line? caller: high i'm from a loving state. we love sara pail in here. i love glen beck. but i want to know why handty thinks that everybody that watches him hikes him? i agree with joeed byn. nobody is stupid. i agree with everything he said. host: come november, the house and the senate? caller: we've doubled luck with two democrats that are great and you know it's wonderful. people could take whatever they want to take. it's the stupid people that believe in sarah palin. she doesn't know what a state is. if you live in the states you know the difference if you live in alaska you don't have a clue. like her preaching about giving oil people money. she should be struck by lightning or something. host: we'll leave it there. i've been saying this is off of twitter, by the way. someone identifies them as oversight of government. senate democrats will gain a majority caucus and democrats will gain the house. share your comments. to give you more of a flavor of the vice president's thoughts come november here's more from his speech

we're joined exclusively by the church's pastor ron kingston and jim gould, a local rancher and the church treasurer. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> morning. >> ron, you're the pastor of a small church. i understand the population of the town is only about 350 people, so is it unusual for a stranger to show up for sunday services? >> not really a stranger to show up. we are outside of yellowstone park so we have a lot of tourists sometimes stop by, so it's not real strange but, yeah, we like to invite newcomers who want to come. >> when this guy, tracy province walked in this past sunday, ron, did he immediately attract your attention or did he blend in? >> he fairly blended in. there was nothing that stood out about him. i wasn't following the news so i didn't recognize him like that. i just figured he was somebody who wanted to come and worship god with us. >> and, jim, you had a chance to speak to tracy province. what was the conversation like? what was it like? what was his demeanor? >> after church i visited with him about 30 minutes, and he was -- on some things you