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It made Butte wealthy, but as Luke Burbank will tell us it left behind a problem, a toxic problem. Montana is known for its big skies and big personality. In the case of the town of Butte, the biggest Superfund site in the country that is the moniker we got to get rid of. We are a model of what can be done when a citizenry is active and informed and educated. It's a Butte of a tale ahead on Sunday morning. The little engine that could do is a classic children's tale. Now there's a sequel of sorts all aboard as Lee Cowan gives us a closer read don't know the story of the little engine that could.

She thought she could and she did when we need people to believe in themselves, they can make it and I can do anything, but at the same time we also need to understand the other things that are necessary for helping people succeed. The man who put the little engine that could on a new truck coming up Sunday morning. David Martin talks with Alexander vitamin decorated veteran who fought his biggest battle right here at home we judge Jang examines the wave of hate crimes against Asian Americans and its roots in our past.

Plus MTV turns 40 and more on the Sunday morning 1 August 2021 will be back in a moment in Butte, Montana's heyday. Copper was King but when the mines closed.

The city was left with a toxic mess now as Luke Burbank shows us Butte is finding its way back at the top of the Continental divide under the watchful eye of our Lady of the Rockies. Since the town of Butte, Montana, and I love that it's a trail system.

It railing Randall grew up here riding bikes like local hero. People can even how I love it. I was once called the richest hill on earth thanks to Butte's incredibly productive copper mines. It was wonderful. It was absolute freedom. We rode our bikes everywhere. We built trails Randall's childhood was in many ways idyllic, but what she didn't know was that she and her friends were playing on piles of toxic mine waste mining and Butte started in 1800s and so these waste piles were always part of our lived experience, so dirt it out to me was this yellow orange granitic sort of staff that didn't grow anything. I didn't know that. No dirt. Naturally this stuff that drew thing these tailings is there called were the remnants of a boom and bust mining economy during the boom had Butte boasting one of the most productive copper mines in the world anaconda. At one time Butte was the largest city between Chicago and San Francisco. But then came the bust, or more accurately a series of bus. The final mail being the closing of the Berkeley Coppermine in 1982.

It was very abrupt and I was literally as a sixth-grader, I think, and I remember thinking what happens.

My friends and then it it didn't just affect the mind, of course, it affects all of the other industries in support of the mind. So everybody's jobs are in jeopardy. I remember feeling like I just sad all all all. In fact, CBS Sunday morning. Visited Butte back then and produced this cover story first union that minors had America was founded here in 1881 with the mine shut down the Berkeley pit filled with toxic water rich in heavy metals and Butte was left to try to repair the damage years of resource extraction and the town earned the dubious distinction of being one of the largest Superfund sites in the country. The Scarlet letter of being a Superfund site with Butte become the butt of jokes soon to open toxic land went well. Exciting pesticide. It didn't help that the Chamber of Commerce decided to charge admission to see the Berkeley pit which had become an eerily beautiful toxic Lake if you wanted two-week vacation package. Butte your one stop on your tour would be to see the Berkeley. John Sasso appeared in that daily show story, much to his chagrin, the citizens and all the families that grew up in this town are very proud of their heritage, being from view. Know the Superfund things. Psychologists biggest Superfund site in the United States. That is the moniker we got to get rid of because it's not true anymore. Last year SSO use Butte's former Superfund coordinator and a state senator helped negotiate a plan to clean up the final section of Butte's Superfund complex in a 900 page consent decree. The result of a whopping 30 years of negotiations between Atlantic Richfield Co. and the EPA been a very long road for our community were finally at the point where we see light at the end of the tunnel.

If you walk Butte today. You'll notice that hillsides are no longer barren and addicts in Butte's old homes are being clean for centuries worth of toxic dust. The cost of being the nation's leading copper producer recalled pennies from hell you know we paid our dues and we see no what happens if there are no environmental laws. If the almighty dollar takes precedent over take care the global taking care of your environment. It has to be in balance and and I would say our citizens are much more to to that reality that then you know others, and yet despite its complicated history. Mining is still Taking Pl. in Butte by a company called Montana resources. The claims it's found ways to extract the Earth's riches safely. It's also Montana resources job to dissuade migrating waterfowl tend to want to visit the Berkeley pit something they do with sound cannons and even high-tech drones now essentially fix the city in an ironic twist, many of Butte's mining jobs have now been replaced by jobs aimed at fixing the environmental damage railing Randall has one of those jobs running the Clark Fork watershed education program, which teaches children about the environment and conservation. When we bring students out here and we show them we point this grassy hillside that you see everywhere used to be yellow dirt just like the mining property like no way like yes like that through tireless work and dedication to this rugged piece of the Mountain West Randall and so many other beauticians as they're known or looking to prove there's still a lot of value, even all these years later, in the richest hill on earth. We are a model of what can be done when a citizenry is active and informed and educated and willing to do the work and stays with the topic took 30 years people have invested their entire careers in making that happen and that's what I think the story Butte. Although hard as Lee Cowan shares a story of perseverance, giving back Connecticut's number four is more than 100 years old still with Byron about choking her way through the countryside to business termination, my engine that training in the children's classic that for more than 90 years has been teaching us that believing ourselves can get us up and over life's rough spots back down account for sick mother mantra think I can. I think I can worked pretty well for the little blue engine. What about those who think they can't working hard and believing yourself makes achieving your dreams possible, but not always probable Bob McKinnon is an author and adjunct professor who teaches classes on social mobility and he's just written what he sees as a companion to the little engine that could cold. Three little engines. The stationmaster called the little blue engine Europe first.

Are you ready yes ma'am. She replied and she went in his telling little blue engine.

Does she always does open up a little blue engine client chugging.

I think I can.

I think I can. I think I can, but her friends, the fierce and confident yellow passenger engine and a strong and fiery red freight engine don't have it is easy, but each encounter trouble on their tracks through no fault of their own forces them to stop. In the early parts of my life. I was engine but got stuck like I literally had things that follow my truck or the ones that were blowing in the face.

I just got too tired to move on. Beginning grew up poor raised by single mom.

No one in his family never been to college. McKinnon was the first graduating from Penn State in 1990.

It was bittersweet.

I felt more guilty and more angry when I would look back I see friends or family members that were struggling. I was angry the system. I was angry like how can we as a country that affords opportunities for some kids, are some people know what to do well.

Let so many down and so I was I was frustrated that they were still struggling granted social mobility is pretty weighty issue for kids but McKinnon hopes to ease into the topic by teaching them that they each have their own rails to follow but not always equal but accepting help is a sign of strength, not weakness you at one point actually sat down and made a list of all the people that have helped you along the way and it ended up being a long list. I can't tell you how good that made me feel and how lucky, how blessed thank you very much Horatio Alger idea. The writ good moral character can improve our circumstances is as old as the transcontinental railroad itself with often overlooked, he says, is the role empathy and compassion play and success to one which I would want to really reflect on their journey. McKinnon wrote the first draft of his idea in a pretty fitting place notebook his own children used for coloring doodles is the very first iteration of you did the following 171. Finally, all three engines came rumbling down the mountain. Sorry spoiler alert. No tears here. There is a happy ending. All three made it up and over the mountain twist little blue engine went back to help her friends. The gesture that had these little critics. Two thumbs up :-) we should all blow around with it up over amount. Real success is giving others that steam day to you would be a very natural thing. Just go like this and a minimum for an what I would hope we would do do this and to look around and see Ari I'm okay how is everyone else doing simple as this past week. The passing of a man who could sell anything.

Ron Popeo infomercial, died Wednesday in Los Angeles now. Born in New York City in 1935 got his start hawking his father's invention chop just like bouncing a ball he was inventing and selling is seemingly stable supply must have gizmos. People never knew they were there at 3 o'clock in the morning or noon time on a Sunday afternoon I will be there with one of my inventions is biggest splash came with Popeo's pocket fisherman fishing invention of the century.

There's never been anything like it when she demonstrated for our bill Christ back in 2000, and the next thing I know to use one of his catch phrases but wait there's more banana chips. There was a hydrangea that the spray on bald spot. Just let that drive their cars inside the egg scrambler and it's only 1288. Popeo maybe gone.

Chances are somewhere out there someone is slicing and dicing, spraying and scrambling are perhaps trying to lock the pocket fisherman.

All thanks to Ron, he was now streaming progress and start doing crazy time returns once final point is we need people in the best way to protect people is to convict final season Millstream exclusively on trying time for Asian Americans with hate crimes against them.

Searching we asked correspondent Ouija Jang to take a closer look at the nation's long and troubled history of persecution against its fellow citizens as the United States struggles to open back up Asian Americans remain anxious, leaning in the elderly are taking self-defense classes. Others are arming them out protection parents are wondering if they should keep their children out of schools, but you do it in this country. There are 23 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the US ever since the pandemic new poll suggests. One out of every three years they will be attacked hate crimes. Overall increase last year by 2% but hate crimes against the Asian-American and Pacific Islander population rose by 146%, many blamed the previous administration's use of racist rhetoric, the rise in violent that I would like to begin some important developments in the war against the Chinese virus. What comes out of the mouth of a leader is the president matter here at the national Japanese-American Memorial in Washington DC Maisie Hirano of Hawaii points out anything history repeating itself, create this kind of discrimination and indeed hatred that I think that he called to the four kind of thinking that some people in our country we have always been deemed the other.

The perpetual foreigners. It's not just the pandemic. There is economic crisis in our country. There is a political crisis in our country.

Unfortunately, because of the high visibility of Asian Americans being associated with the virus. They become the targets associate Prof. lock Sue teaches Asian-American studies at University of California Berkeley. She says that battered economy has always been one of the real causes for scapegoating Asian Americans is happening as early as 1870s with the conclusion of the railroad construction spikes of just outraged white workers who are claiming that Chinese are taking over jobs and therefore need to be gotten rid of.

As a result, anti-Chinese rioters burned down, and even wiped out China towns across the nation and in 1882, the US government made anti-Asian racism official with the Chinese exclusion act prohibiting all immigration by Chinese laborers. It was the first federal active.

It's kind barring a specific ethnic group from entering the United States and it was legal for 61 years until it was repealed in 1943, right around the time that Japan became America's enemy, or will go on. We should be great 120,000 people of Japanese heritage were forced to give up their home and into internment camps are American original. Not even a proven after World War II Japanese-American struggled to regain stability when Sam eventually did their success stories led to an enduring stereotype.

We tend to have this misconception that Asian Americans have made it right that we are model minorities model minority keywords that may sound positive together but still explains the phrase is often used as a wedge, but it has done in the past is really pitted Asian Americans against other racial ethnic groups on the premise that somehow because they have so call the right cultural values on whatever they may be a been able to achieve the idea that Asian Americans fared better played out in the 1980s, Michigan's auto industry was heading to the scrap scapegoat for many Japanese imports as in its cars and its people, sparking a new wave of anti-Asian discrimination. If we could just imagine back in 1982, you know, a time when Japan was the enemy. Everything wrong with America was being caused by Japan, journalist and activist Helen Xia was working in a Detroit auto factory the same time, a 27-year-old Chinese-Americans name would become a rallying cry. Many people don't know whose intention is it Wesley.

He was not your model minority. He had gone to college. He was taking night classes. He worked as a draftsman and he worked part-time at a Chinese restaurant as a waiter. He was really your all-American Asian-American Chinese-American kid June 19, 1982 to the father and his stepson of four men and a laid-off autoworker event enchanted death with a baseball bat outside of McDonald's after an argument at the nearby bar worksheet was celebrating his bachelor party.

One of the bar worker said she heard with the step father said to Chan made the remark about you because he grew out of work she's daft didn't make national news. The sentencing of his assailants did the charge of second-degree murder plea-bargain to manslaughter the sentence of $3000 fine for each three years probation time in prison is because he a Chinese icing nation. They were given fines of less than what a used car would've cost that they could pay off at $120 a month and the judge said these are not the kind of man you sent to jail is nationwide calls for justice louder. Both men were indicted on federal charges for violating chin civil rights.

They were eventually acquitted. Vincent was very much the American story. The American immigrant story, and all of that was just shattered. You know, in a climate of racism in 2012. The father apologize for killing Chan but insisted it was never about race something the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community has heard again claim that it was not racially motivated and began back in March of gunmen shot up three Atlanta area spies among the eight killed six were women of Asian descent on Tuesday. The killer pleaded guilty to four of the murders and was handed four life sentences without parole. While prosecutors in one county charged him with hate crime those in another one did not. What do you say to critics who argue these are not crimes motivated by hate.

These are just crimes of opportunity. I say to them. They're not paying attention. The bill, as amended, is passed in a rare moment of bipartisanship. Congress recently passed that Cuba 19 hate crimes act introduced by Sen. Geraldo and Representative Grace mean they hope it will make reporting a hate crime easier and get federal oversight to expedite the review process.

The law is largely seen as the first step. Journalist and activist VS as the nation needs to go much further.

History shows that this is going to be more than a moment. There are renewed demands across the nation to teach Asian-American and Pacific Islander history in schools in the hopes that people will see beyond the perpetual foreigner, the model minority or the scapegoat. There really has to be a concerted, thoughtful effort to try to teach what America really is so that we can build a country that everybody feels like were part of it. Retired Lieut. Col. Alexander than men is a decorated Army Ranger wounded in combat in Iraq, but we may know him best for his most recent role in the Trump White House national security correspondent David Martin has a story. I was a drug enforcement on this whole thing shows thing about her no.

Alexander Goodman is talking about the impeachment of Pres. Trump resplendent in his army uniform.

He was the star witness against his commander-in-chief.

This is America is the country I've served and defended got all my brothers have served and here right matters that title of his memoir coming to America story, which began in 1979 when his widowed father.

Simon backed up Alexander. His identical twin Eugene and their older brother and fled Ukraine, which was then part of the Soviet Union that you know that for my children. It is no future right through to the that's what it this time. Go in the Seneca, wouldn't you expect to find when you came to this country. I expected freedom to define freedom here yes crime for them more for the blades picked up in Brooklyn speaking Russian at home while Simon made $20 a day moving furniture on immigrant family with rambunctious twins didn't learn discipline until they joined the Army.

Alexander became an infantry officer and earned a Purple Heart in Iraq was a ambush with our improvised explosive device. What were your fingers. I took shrapnel which I still have my leg my shoulder. My back using his Russian language skills.

Alexander went to work for them joint juice, German Gen. Joseph Dunford and accompanied him to meetings with Russian Chief of Staff Gen. Valerie Gresham when German Dunford introduced me as Ukrainian origin Grossmont joked that no wonder relations between the US and Russia is about.

Then on the day of Donald Trump summit meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki it's kept the separated. There was no collusion at all. Alexander reported to the White House for his dream job on the National Security Council staff the job. I've been trying to get to the heart of government the bellybutton for everything that was going on. Eugene and Army lawyer became the national Security Council chief ethics officer Lily expected the date the good book in the White House but but but will in the White House was of the students. It does unusual. One year later Alexander took notes as Trump held his now infamous phone call with the president of Ukraine Vladimir Zelinski cell he was distant. He was morose he was reluctantly conducting this phone call and only when it can run for this discussion of the Bidens that he started to kind of engage and perk up according to the transcript, Trump asked Zelinski to do us a favor open an investigation into then Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter's dealings in Ukraine. What Alexander did next to the name Lindeman a household word go straight upstairs and see legal suite and my twin brothers offices almost as soon as you walk in. I go in close the door. I told Eugene if what I'm about to tell you becomes public, the president will be impeached.

Did you want the president to be impeached. I had no thoughts about this ever becoming public, we may not have known all the consequences and that first five minute conversation, but are her mind was very quickly made up about what actions we would take what what our duty was for their father accusing the president of the United States of impropriety was unthinkable that the stuff that's what did you think would happen to you in the Soviet Union. The 4 to 7 years if she did I do this in Soviet Union he needed to go in praise of the doubt. Listen for long time in the start of the was. You may be viewed say based on and they set the prism immediate on this PA 229 the NATO 198 present is one article 2 is adopted the Democratic majority in the House voted to impeach. It is therefore ordered and adjudged that the said Donald John Trump be and is hereby acquitted of the charges in said articles, but the Republican majority in the Senate voted to acquit in the minimum twins were banished from the White House central ends.

I believe on Wednesday I was like on Friday and they fired your brother deferred my brother for good measure. We were in the middle of an enemy Of surprised that it took till Friday before were both worked out.

Would you think about that. They do not deserve to go from house. The on this people so it went to run the years few fights and there are no they were both still on active duty in the Army in the commander-in-chief tweeted that Alexander had been very insubordinate very very quickly. I discovered that the Department of Defense want wanted me out of sight out of mind. Alexander had already been selected to attend the Army war College, a plum assignment.

With her promotion to Col. look good on paper but senior officers privately warned him he had no future in the Army. The best I could expect to do is to write out a career as a Col. and do some flip-flop assignment somewhere else were so far. I could've ended up as in a radar station, Alaska.

Eugene stayed in and was promoted to Col. but Alexander hit send on his retirement papers and left the Army to become a historical footnote, how many officers in the United States Army can pinpoint exactly the moment they made the difference. That seems like a small price to pay a small sacrifice for my nation.

Remember how you ended your opening statement course guide. Do not worry I will be fine for telling the truth we find didn't look great and I was deeply concerned about 10 TB family meeting my family's needs. But I also have the confidence that ideal to start over. Like my father did. That's why I bring you here just for the content you can do what you want.

The president has indeed abused his authority is indeed obstructed justice for much of this country with the impeachment of Pres. Trump was a political circus thing runs off to the lawyer the same Lord who said in January 2017. The crew has started against Pres. Trump Lindeman family was coming to America story like no other boy like this place. Thank you for listening. Please join us when our trumpet sounds again next Sunday morning, it's me Drew Barrymore all my goodness, I want to tell you about our new shout business podcast and in each episode mean weekly gas second cover on the quirky find inspiring and informative stories that exist on the wall because well I and maybe you do too. From the newest interior design trend Barbie car to the right and wrong way to wash her arm. Also getting the things that you just kind of want to leave and were not able to do in daytime television. So watch out. Tristan is ever you get your podcast. It's a good news on the got