Are living in a different environment completely and you have reported on World Affairs from all different kinds of directions in the worst tragedies on the planet but you focus on a class and oregon. Why . My mom still on a family farm in the fac place of a humanitarn crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids ar that we on my old number six schoolbus are now drawn from this and weve tried to process that. [inaudible] in from hepatitis he survived because he was in the Oregon State Penitentiary and we wondered for a while is this something and then we realized it is a National Problem we have depths of despair. It was kind of a microcosm to which to see that across america. You solve this through the lens of returning home and it could have been titled School Bus Number six. So many are from the friends you had growing up there and expanding from there. And you grew up in manhattan upper middle east and that is a whole different world early in the relationship you saw it on the fol
Affairs from all Different Directions into some of the worst tragedies on the planet, but you chose to focus on a small town in oregon. Why lex guest we were running around covering humanitarian crises and we would go back to my beloved hometown and we saw a humanitarian crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids who were on my Old School Bus were gone from drugs, alcohol and suicide. I tried to process back. The kids that got on the bus right after me [inaudible] and then nathan and their sister virginia, smart talented kids. One died of drug and alcohol abuse, one in a house fire when he was passed out drunk and one blew himself up cooking meth and died of hepatitis from drug use. Hunter biden the Oregon State Penitentiary for 13 years. So, for a while, we wondered is it something that this is a National Problem that we have depths of despair and Life Expectancy is falling for three years in a row in america and god my old loves this kind of a microcosm to see that opinion across
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