This is fox 5 local news at 10 00. Right now at 10 00,s a 911 system meltdown in the district. For more than an hour, callers were unable to reach the emergency dispatch center. And tonight, fox 5 has learned officer radios went down too. Leaving those officers on the streets cut off from communication. Could it happen again . And disturbing threatening emails into students at virginia tech. How the school is reacting. More cases of hepatitis are surfacing in our area after a popular smoothie chain was linked to the illness, fox 5 news at 10 00 starts now. Welcome, apparently from what were being tolding all it took was the flip of a switch and the entire 911 system shutdown in the district. Im tony perkins. Im shawn yancy. Early saturday, a Maintenance Worker the system. He was trying to turn off an alarm indicating a water leak in the building but flip to do the wrong switch we begin with sarah simmons, we understand that the 911 backup plan also did not work. Reporter startling when
Down. Michael jacksons concert promoter was found not negligent in the case of the stars death. At least eight people are dead after a bus crash on a tennessee highway. The crash happened about 20 miles northeast of knoxville. Three vehicles were involved including a church bus. And those are the headlines at this hour. Real money with ali velshi is next on al jazeera america. Shut out by the shut down. Parents who depend on federal funding are feeling the pain. Whos on track to be the worlds biggest gin producer. Its not saudi arabia. A case involving the f word but not one youre thinking of. Im ali velshi. This is real money. This is real money youre the most important part of the show so join our live conversation for the next half hour by using the hash tag aj real money on twitter. Its day two of the government shut down. Congress has bigger fish to fry in the coming days. It needs to pass legislation before october 17th after which the treasury says it cant pay the governments bi
Real money on twitter. Its day two of the government shut down. Congress has bigger fish to fry in the coming days. It needs to pass legislation before october 17th after which the treasury says it cant pay the governments bill. The legal debt limit is 16. 7 trillions. The treasury already hit that money in may but has been using extraordinary measures to keep paying the bill. October 17th is really, according to trerb try secretary, the end of the line. Democrat want to raise the limit. Republicans in the house propose year. That is a very interesting proposal. A lot of strings which taken list. I will give it to you. Heres what the republicans want. Delay implementing obama care for one year. Sign off on the excel pipeline to bring more oil in from canada. Allow more offshore the oil drilling. Allow more on travelly protected land. Reform the federal Employee Retirement program. Overhaul reform and reign in the Consumer Protection bureau was createed in the wake of the financial cris
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