Beamed. The good new eastbound. The good news, everyone evacuated safely. Heather, any news on what caused the fire . Reporter b. A. R. T. Technicians have determined it was an electrical shortage. Weve been watching them for hours now. You can still see some yellow tape blocking off the area in question. But again, a b. A. R. T. Spokeswoman telling me they have identified the cause of this fire. The commute home came to an abrupt end for weary b. A. R. T. Riders just days after a strike shut down service for four days. An equipment malfunction led to smoke and flames. They told us to get out and yeah, we smelled the smoke but seemed to get progressively worse. Reporter passing motorists captured the scene. Take a look as heavy smoke billows from the train. At one point, you can see flames. We had 23 firefighters respond. Reporter the fire chief says it was a challenge putting out the fire. There is a small fire that is proven difficult to get to. Were going to have to cut through with
Weekend he effectively did. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is monday, august 10th, along with joe and me, we have nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kc d. C. On nbc, kasie hunt. Political analyst and former chairman of the Republican National committee Michael Steele is with us. White house reported for the associated press, Jonathan Lemire. And former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst steve ratner is with us. And joe, a lot happening over the weekend. And weve got major covid19 news as well. Yeah a lot happening over the weekend. Of course, a lot of chaos, of course, coming from the white house. Jonathan lemire, we have economists, we have people on the hill, we have business owners, we have ceos. We even have well, we have white house officials that are sort of scratching their heads and asking what exactly happened on friday. The president tried to look like he was in control by pushing unconstitutional president ial directives which seem t
Good monday morning, everybody. It is august 10th, and im yasmin vossoughian. Weve investigate a lot to cover this morning. We want to begin with the u. S. Surpassing 5 million covid cases. The alarming tally has doubled since late june. Right now the country holds about a quarter of the worlds cases while topping the list for most reported coronavirus deaths globally. So far five states account for more than 40 of infections nationwide. Hot spots are continuing grapple with rising cases like florida, which just yesterday reported nearly 6,200 cases and set a new weekly record for covid hospitalizations. Over the weekend, california confirmed more than 10,000 deaths since the beginning of the crisis, and texas, more than half a million. Meanwhile Governor Cuomo announced new york wants t ed n epicenter, reported an outbreak. Over the weekend, Coronavirus Relief upending congress after they failed to make a deal with the white house. Announced from his new Jersey Golf Club included defe
About a possible blackout months before the super bowl. On cbs this morning. Zbles that he how hard the city of new orleans parties, even their football stadiums blackout. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs this morning. We are learning new details about the end of an alabama hostage drama. Fbi agents raided an underground bunker yesterday shooting and killing the kidnaper. The captive a fiveyearold boy ethan is said to be okay. They had to move in because the kidnaper was growing desperate. Mark strassmann good morning. Reporter good morning norah and charlie. Ethan is waking up with his mother for a first time in the week but bomb technicians spent time in the bunker processing the crime scene and looking for improvised explosives. It began asended as violently as it began with a gunshot. Hes a special child. By the grace of god hes okay. Reporter ethan spent seven days underground, the prisoner of jimmy lee dykes, just the two of them inside a bunker four feet wide six feet lon
Hold on tight. Before we get the latest from our team of reporters on the ground, let me get you caught up on the latest changes we know of to the gop bill. This is important. People who make more than 200,000 a year will still have to pay a medicare tax. Its being extended for the next six years instead of eliminated. The money the government makes on that, about 15 billion, goes to the states and could be iced to pay for maternity and newborn care, Mental Health and substance abuse. Those are changes aimed at pleasing moderates in the house. Finally, obamacare requires Insurance Companies to provide Certain Health benefits. Now that requirement goes away and its up to individual states to make those rules starting in 2018. That was a change meant to help conservatives come on board. This vote, lets not waste a minute and get to where the action is. My colleague Chris Jansing has us covered from the white house, kely odonnell has a very tough job today keeping track of all this on cap