together to produce an historic winter storm through the end of the day. as far as today is concerned, seeing ice, watching the corridor through atlanta, up towards raleigh, we are talking in some cases over an inch of ice that will bring down trees. power lines widespread power outages expected from a crippling ice storm expected here. from there, the storm strengthens, moves up the coast and taking the classic nor easter snow all the way north into new england. john and marci, back to you. thanks, jim. federal investigators in tennessee are trying to figure out who mailed a deadly package bomb to a retired lawyer. the 70-year-old was killed in the blast and injured his wife. i had a long life as a bankruptcy attorney. of course neighbors are stunned. just the perfect neighbors. we felt like that this was a place that nothing would ever happen. authorities believe this was an isolated incident and that the retired lawyer was targeted. closing arg utilities are
the people that protected their city, the firemen that put out the fires. so i m upset. i m very upset, yeah. joining us now is a partner at chapman and cutler, bankruptcy attorney. thanks for joining us today. i want to start with the idea of good faith negotiations. the unions are saying they didn t take place. what would have been better? what could have ameliorated the situation? well, generally what happens and what happened in new york city in 75, cleveland in 78 and philadelphia in 1991, they all had financial problems. one of the issues is obviously what do you do with your workers and retirees? people come together and reach a resolution. good faith negotiations don t have to be perfect. they just have to be an opportunity for reasonable dialogue trying to find a solution. katrina, we talk a lot about public workers, the american worker in general. the question of pensions is a
you know, reveals very clearly. jim, katrina brings up the point about sort of what s happened to detroit. this is not necessarily a story of bloated pensions, although pensions and the problem with finding enough money to fund these pensions, however small they may be, is an issue across the country. the other part of this is the declining work force in detroit. if you look at the city employment in 1951, there were 30,000 employees. in 2013, there were 10,500. the unemployment rate in the city is 18.8%. you re a bankruptcy attorney. what happens next here, if, in fact, detroit is able to file for chapter 9? how rosy or what is the picture of this city in the years to come? well, the real success of this, chapter 9 is just a process. it s a way of reducing debt to what is sustainable and affordable. what we really need to do, especially with the workers, is to have buy-in because you re going to need the workers and the citizens and retirees going
forward. you need a recovery plan. you don t want to crowd out essential governmental services or infrastructure, police, fire, public safety, education. you want to foster the growth of jobs and economy. what has happened in the past is unfortunately for decades there has not been the investment in detroit. obviously, jobs have gone down. manufacturing jobs in detroit are less than one-tenth of what they were in 1950. so we need to help detroit recover. we need to pay the workers everything that can be paid reasonably without crowding out essential governmental services and not do what we ve done in the past, which is basically not pay what should have been paid on an annual basis. we ve crowded out essential governmental services. we ve used that to balance the budget. we need to change that, reinvest, and hopefully find a recovery plan that works. it is a story with many chapters. bankruptcy attorney, thanks for
criminal investigations. without probable cause of crimes or anything else. so i mean, there s a question of what you use it for. now, there s a different standard in getting information and what you use it for. there is a supreme court case just a few days ago on dna. if you re charged with sexual assault and they properly take your dna, they found out it s not you. okay. they can still keep your dna and run it through the database if they re curious as to whether or not you have committed a crime. now, they couldn t approach you and take your dna to see if you ve committed a crime without probable cause. but once they ve got it, apparently there is a different standard. so let s see let s get a little more precise on what they can use it for, because in those records, there s a lot of information, even though they they re saying they don t listen into the conversation, the fact that you have called a bankruptcy attorney or aids doctor or marriage counselor or they have all of the