Maryland bureau chief brad bell is live with the plans to reduce that backlog. Brad . Brad this has been a problem for years. What happens is a woman suffers a rape. She goes to police and then is sent to the hospital where a specially trained forensic nurse looks for d. N. A. Evidence. The womans body actually becomes a crime scene. When they find evidence its put in something called a rape kit. Now, the problem is that in many cases, across the country, those rape kits sit for years so thats why today, the Vice President of the United States along with senator Barbara Mikulski toured the Maryland State Police crime lab in pikesville to see what is going on there in the way of work but also to announce that they have secured 41 million out of the federal budget that can be used by jurisdictions across the country to improve their faculty to test to eliminate that backlog. Senator mikulski says it is vital. Senator mikulski various jurisdictions have more resources than others. Thats w
As the ntsb investigates they need to get more trains moving through. Federal investigators say amtrak 188 was traveling more than 100 miles an hour before it went off the tracks. This is important. Thats more than twice the speed limit of this area where it derailed. At this point, there are seven confirmed deaths. More than 200 people hurt in the crash. More than 50 of them have fractured ribs. Joining me now, our transportation reporter adam tuss who has been on the scene since 3 30 this morning. What do you know now . Since last night really everything with this incident this investigation start pointing to the speed. Thats what were seeing. As you just. Over 100 miles an hour. The train was supposed to be going 50 to 60 miles an hour. Take a look at this video that we just got in from the ntsb. Investigators on the scene taking a look at the wreckage. The absolute damage devastation which is a word being used so much here in philadelphia about what happened. And heres what we know
Deals are offered at actual stores. R joining me now to assess consumer and moneysaving expert. R think you for coming on. The big trend is people gohe with their smart phone into the store they turn on the tv then they go home and buy them online. The you say there is a new trend . Is the exact oppositewhen where consumers would get Products Online or on theirand tablet or mobile device thato go into the store to makee the purchase we see approximately 65 of consumers that well webroom this season so retailers are doing something right to get people into the door. Gerri talk about those brick and mortar retailers who gets the edge . If we look at best buy a great example of a chain in the early 2012 they announced shutting down 50 a Stores Nationwide moving toep smaller store atmosphere. K i now getting back into the g game with exclusive products they announce the Samsung Galaxy only offered at best buys so retailers get withtu manufacturers to offer exclusive products. Also best buy
Im john terrett in times square new york. Join me and a million other people as we all count down to 2014. New years celebrations in moscow went ahead as planned while those plans in st. Petersburg were canceled. The attackserthose responsible o attacks are still at large, and we have more now from volgograd. Reporter there was not much left on the trolley car when the am against arrived. Survivors were hanging on and volgograd hospital was less than ten minutes away. One of badly injured brought here. It felt like a huge electric shock. I didnt see anyone with a bomb. I was looking out the window, and i cant remember anything after that. Reporter for the second time in less than 24 hours the victims of another bombing, some with terrible burns. Dr. Alexander popoov said that they were carrying on several operations at a same type. Outside they posted casualty lists of those brought in by ambulance and where they were being treated. The relatives of injured scarcely able to believe tha
And, sam, with all this extreme weather, the country is getting walloped. We got a huge amount of snow to get to today. And also some strong, gusty winds. The winds last night were amazing. Were also talking about a privacy breach for the first family of facebook. You see that picture right there, they didnt want that out everywhere. But guess what . It happened. Not good. And lucky in love again and again and again. Its the third times a charm for janet jackson. The private superstar, now engaged to a billionaire. Yeah. A b. Who is he . And why isnt she wearing the ring . Were going to have all the details ahead. And it is a very large ring, i might add. But first, sam, again, this weather. Coasttocoast, it has stopped this country. This is the storm weve been talking about since the weekend. And then yesterday, it delivered all the snow. Let me show you the pictures that weve been getting in. Facebook and twitter. You have been sending in pictures like this. This is in the middle of