there you go. bob marley said it best. stolen from africa, gentrified in harlem. american black folks keep losing our connection to the places we come from. so i m headed to central appalachia, a place many folks don t realize black folks still live, to hunt, eat, farm, and harmonize on the harmonica with the folks that fight to keep this place known as one of the homes of black folks. this is black appalachia. again! yes! nice! when i say appalachia, you probably picture something like this, or this. harmful stereotypes of poor white folks. we ll have to take those on another day, because what you probably don t picture is this. but the history of black folks here runs as deep as any other nonindigenous people. they are a critical part of appalachia, and i m here to help tell their stories because it is in danger of disappearing forever. so i m actually walking the appalachian trail right now? you are. you are. those mountains there, those are some of the old
facing a lot of similar challenges. it really motivated me. so a lot of what we ve done here in west virginia is a mirror of what s taken place in ghana. my ancestors grandparents, they were planting fruit trees on these hillsides, raising hogs, chickens, sustaining themselves for years. so bringing back that sense of pride and, you know, being a producer, a creator yourself. ultimately, to leave a legacy of you see awai running around, loving what he is doing. he understands value at his age and how to get the dollars. he tried to sell me honey. yeah. look at the pretty thing. watch at it. do you like doing this work, awai? yes. why do you like it? because it s fun. and what we do
bankruptcies were up almost 20% in 2018. the highest level in more than ten years. it is something midwest farmers have been forced to consider. it is always a possibility with everybody. you might sell everything you own to pay off what you owe and then you have nothing. reporter: key to their survival is aid. president trump approved funds for nebl anybody and sheldon is hoping they ll do the same in iowa. i don t think they ll forget us. i think he knows how important that agriculture and grain farming, cattle farming, raising hogs, it is to our country. let s give him a chance to do it and go from there. if it works, it works. if it doesn t, i guess we ll have to see about making a change. cnn, percival, iowa. back to our top story. the u.s. attorney general spent hours, nine hours today, pouring over the mueller report.
it s definitely a deep concern. the thing about this flood is it s affecting two years. a lot of these bins are holding our 2018 crop. we haven t got delivered to town yesterday or sold. reporter: according to the american farm bureau, farm bankruptcies were up almost 20% in 2018. the highest level in more than ten years. it s something midwest farmers have been forced to consider. it s always a possibility with everybody. sell everything you own to pay what you owe and you have nothing. reporter: key to their survival is aid. president trump approved disaster relief for nebraska. he is hoping he will do the same for iowa. i don t think they will forget us. i think he knows how important that agriculture and grain farming, cattle farmer, raising hogs, it is to our country.
basically total obliteration. tornado came in from the southwest. there in the near foreground you see the tree, core gate aluminum wrapped around that. there was a paraplegic in there and i talked to his brother and he was able to get out and get to the storm shelter. he s okay. beyond that you don t see it because it is gone. a house. that s where a lady in her 60s was with her husband. she, unfortunately, perished. we have about two dozen tornadoes. preliminary count. missouri and arkansas. and four people entered here, still in the hospital. other six treat order the scene. 23 injury statewide. another round of severe weather expected today. a lighter moment this morning. we found out these hogs out here in this hog pen, they have all survived. however, the big one here, by the way, named bacon, he is loose. we are keeping an eye on him. a little lighter moment out here amongst all of the destruction and the fatality and injuries, that the hogs you know, these how he ma