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It was Christmas Eve 2016, and Candice Miller was just days away from taking office after winning the race for Macomb County s public works commissioner, when a section of the interceptor sewer pipe collapsed on 15 Mile Road – causing a sinkhole the size of a football field.
The interceptor is a massive sewer line that that carries the waste flushed by more than 500,000 people from nearly a dozen communities in Macomb County to Detroit s wastewater treatment plant.
First responders and construction crews rushed to the scene, evacuating people from three homes, two of which had to later be demolished. Engineers quickly jury-rigged a sewer line bypass to ensure that sewage did not flow into the Clinton River, or back up into the basements of countless homes in the county.
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Three reporters and their editor recall the residents they spoke with and the stories they told throughout an unprecedented year in news.
The pandemic created a year unlike any other, and in Detroit, life amid COVID-19 was both turbulently heartbreaking and sometimes inspiring, often at the same time. In this hour, Stephen Henderson looks at the ways that residents, businesses and City of Detroit officials responded to all the twists and turns of 2020. He’s joined by the BridgeDetroit team for a look back at their work and the moments that stand out most to them as the year comes to a close.
a queen as everybody knows. i m being asked to do this and kick off the jubilee tour was an honor. first as we do every morning, a look at today s eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. anger boils over in afghanistan following the civilian massacre. policemen have gunfire in the village where some of the 16 afghans were killed. as new details emerge about the accused american shooter. staff sergeant who was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury after a vehicle rollover accident in 2010. the suspect s family has been moved on to his home base for their protection. people in mississippi and alabama want to elect a conservative nominee. his record doesn t suggest he has the physical chops that i have. republicans dut it out as voters head to the polls. i believe this race is the most important in our lifetime and i will not leave the field. how can i resist a georgia peach like newt gingrich? he s a southerner born and raised except where he was born and
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# all that. controversial way to get online access. more than a dozen homeless people are earning money by walking around wearing mobile wi-fi devices. a seea lion is getting much attention. i had this for snooki. watch this. it s a tanning bed. on cbs this morning. sometimes it s nice to get recognition from the opposite sex that you ve still got it a little bit. i wouldn t have know what you re talking about. right. right. captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. u.s. officials expected outrage after the killing of 16 civilians by an american soldier and they re seeing it this morning. officials were attacked at the scene of the massacre and there are other protests as well. mandy clark is in kabul, the capital of afghanistan. good morning. reporter: good morning. dozens of people in kandahar held a religious service in memory of the shooting victims, and around a thousand students in east afghanistan gathered to voice their anger over