County will fix the problem or buy their homes. Plus smallpox and hundreds of contagious viruses uncovered and unprotected at nih. What else was in that storage room. The new option unveiled by Prince Georges County officials tonight still requires engineers to shore up and stablize this slow moving landslide behind me, but instead of buying out all 28 displaced homeowners under the new option most homeowners would be allowed to remain in their homes. The new 15 million plan unveiled for Prince Georges County homeowners would stablize piscataway drive landslide and would buy and condemn six houses in the neighborhood. On this unstable ground Prince Georges County says theyre aiming for the middle ground. For us it stinks. We still lose our house. Reporter previous county options include buying and condemning all 28 houses. That is still being considered, so is the less likely 22 million option of stablizing the ground and keeping all the residents in their homes, less likely because th
Hello, and welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. And i am anna edwards. A general election in greece. The markets already seeming to have cast their vote, sending the euro to a fresh low. The euro weakens to its weakest levels since 2006 in asian trading. That follows and Magazine Article that says german chancellor Angela Merkel is willing to accept a greek exit from the eurozone. And this makes it the European Central bank in favor of largescale sovereign bond purchases. Ecb president mario draghi said the risk of deflation in the eurozone could not be entirely excluded. Within that statement, of course, and other events, the greek election now has less than three weeks to run, and europe is facing a turbulent start to the new year. So parties in greece are campaigning, and Elliott Gotkine just got back from athens, where he was covering the election and he joins us now. Good morning. Exaggerating the risk of an exit . Good morning, and happy new year. Look it is not a bad politica
Good wednesday morning, everyone. Theres renewed hope this morning that crews are closing in on the location of flight 370. Search equipment picked up more pings that could be coming from the plane thats been missing for more than a month now. Abcs clayton sandell, just filing this report from perth, australia. Reporter officials leading the search for that missing airliner and the 239 people onboard, say their ship, the ocean shield, using an underwater device, called a pinger locater, has detected two new underwater signals they say are consistent with a locater beacon from an airplanes voice and data recorder, the socalled black boxes. The ship picked up the signals tuesday afternoon and evening australia time. The first lasted a little over five minutes. The second, about seven minutes. Caution again, what were picking up is a great lead. Im now optimistic that we will find the aircraft or what is left of the aircraft, in the nottoodistant future. Reporter now, this marks the fourt
Prison to politics. And in innovation, robots that think for themselves and behave like termites. Get psyched for that. First off, kicking it off with what everyone is talking about. Gm has company in the recall department. It is one of the biggest recalls in history, toyota recalling more than 6 million cars because of 5 million defects. The company does not actually know of any injuries or deaths linked to them, but the cars being recalled our top sellers , like the corolla, the camry, and the rav4. The company trying to avoid what gm is going through right now. And getting a recall out in the open. Toyota also wants to avoid its painful experience of 2010 when it recalled 10 million vehicles because of unintended acceleration. Back then, the president of toyota spent a lot of time in washington. Regulators had punished the company for covering up information and being too slow in making the 2010 recall. Toyota has pledged to improve the process. He has instituted a threeyear freeze
Only one day . Heres something to get it going. Our High Temperature is going to be above average. 42 degrees currently at the lake. 36 and bartlett. 36 in kankakee. On the satellite we have a cloud cover across the region. Not too much. Its all we will get. Take a look at the numbers. 62 by 5 00 p. M. Sunshine. 9 00 p. M. We are at 55. Early as 7 00 a. M. Tomorrow we are at 46. This is all winning. Tonight we go down to 46. Scattered showers thursday in the afternoon. 61 howl or going to get to the cold spell on friday . Things are looking good so far. No accident at this point. Light construction most of it just some small pockets. No big backups. We will let you know where the construction is born alive and how you could avoid it in the next few minutes. Ten children were taken to hospitals after a waitress accidentally served them alcohol at a pizza place in little village. It happened just before ten last night, at a home run inn restaurant in the 42hundred block of west 31st stre