Appreciate your time. Weve been showing you images this morning from the powhatan center ons loading the ohio river, just across the river, you can just across the river is the mitchell powerplant owned by America Electric power. Is the Senior Vice President of commercial operations at American Electric power, which owns those plants. He joins us now from Powhatan Point. Guest good morning. You how money plants do operate a many customers do you provide electricity for . Guest we serve 5. 4 million customers across our 11 state area. Going tor of plants is be a little more difficult to nail down with the technology change, now that we are investing in Wind Turbines and the generatingut capacity is about 3. 1 gigawatt hours. Thats approximately 175 units. Host in terms of the plants, how many are coalfired . Of ourabout 47 generating capacity is cold. Al. Host and the smokestacks we are seeing behind you stationed at the power plant, are those coal power plants . Guest yes, they are. Th
Mines are for that etal how much countries are developing how much steel we need to make buildings. Host Manuel Quinones is our first guest this morning. Special phone lines today. We want to hear your comments coal miners and family members of coal miners, 2027488001. Otherwise, lines are split up regionally. ,entral and eastern time zones 2027488000. Mountain pacific time zones, 2027488002. Lets talk about the power plants themselves. Where will you find coal power plants in the United States . Guest they are all over the country. You have a lot of coalfired power plants in ohio and indiana and missouri. Western states, youve got Southern States it really runs the gamut. If you look at the ohio valley area, an area that has been historically coal heavy because it is easy to transport, you have rivers and rail and a lot of mines nearby, but really, it is distributed across the country. Theres a lot of states that have tried to move away from coal. A lot of states have been moving away
With a long history. How far back to that history go . Guest it goes back to my second greatgrandfather in the 1920s who worked in areas of virginia for the iron, coal, ane coke company. Host what you write about . Guest im speaking to some of the rhetoric that comes to both the industry and environmentalists to find Common Ground between the two. Speaking specifically to minor issues try and help give a voice and keep the bias out. At the same time working to get the truth out. What you do these sick days . How long did you serve in thet i minds . I worked in the Mining Industry for about four years. Spent three years underground. Decided to do that because there were not a lot of decent jobs in the area. My family had been through generations including my friends. I wanted to find something with a living wage. So i ended up in the coal mine. It was a good job and provided a lot of money to my family. I have to admit that. I it came with issues includingho health issues. Anybody who i
Differences with the white house are political, not personal as he prepares to address the u. S. Congress. And no where to go thousands left homeless as fire ravages one of the post districts. Thousands of mourners are paying respects to russian Opposition Leader boris shot dead near the kremlin friday and cues that Moscow Center where people filed past his coffin and looking at a live picture coming from there now and several european politicians and one of Vladimir Putins critics have been barred from attending the funeral. And rory has the latest from the russian capitol. Reporter long long lines of people waiting outside the center here in moscow and bringing flowers and candles waiting to get in the building where they can leave their offerings at the coffin of boris and not just every one but high level delegation coming from all countries of eu and i saw john major the british Prime Minister arrive a short while ago and heard the polish leader was barred entry to russia because
Tonights americas newest midsized suvs are put to the test. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crashed seven of the newest models on the market, the results, well it may make you think twice before stepping inside. The institutes Vice President joins us with the results. Russ, great to have you on the show. Little us a tell us a little bit about the test because it is different than the government uses. This is a different kind of test. This is called a small overlap front crash test. It is done at 40 miles per hour. It replicates what happens when a vehicle may drift over the center line of the highway and just clip other vehicle, headlight to headlight or go off the road of the highway and hit a tree or a telephone poll on the drivers side. It is based on research that shows 25 of the serious injuries and deaths that occur in frondal crashes are in these small overlap impacts. They have to be very common. How often do you hit dead on the front . I think it is pretty rare. Tha