good morning, everyone, i m barbara harrison. news 4 s megan mcgrath is in rockville with more. reporter: good morning, barba. in less than a week, we ve had several high-profile pedestrian accidents, two of them happened in montgomery county, the most recent occurred early sunday moing and left two men dead. investigators say the driver of that striking vehicle had been drinking. now with all the that s happened in the last few days, police wa to remind both pedestrians and drivers of their shared responsibility out there on the roadways. a deadly weekend in montgomery county. two men struck and killed early sunday morning as they tried to cross rockville pike. it was 3:20 in th morning. police say ada and rory had left the metro stag and stepped into the stres when they were hit by a passing car. police belve the driver, a-year-old alejandro roman, had been drinking. investigators say roman initially stopped and then left the scene but did rurn a short time later. it s
independent television news has the latest from chile on the imminent rescue attempt of those trapped miners. reyou can never describe this as a risk-free operation. everyone is on tender hooks, tense, nervous, and i m sure very stressed. woodruff: paul solman talks to political scientist robert putnam about religion in america, the subject of his new book, american grace. brown: and we speak to catherine rampell of the new york times about the winners of this year s nobel prize for economics. woodruff: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. brown: talk of a nationwide moratorium on selling foreclosed homes ran into new opposition today, as the securities industry warned against serious damage to the housing market. the warning came from a securities industry
reyou can never describe this as a risk-free operation. everyone is on tender hooks, tense, nervous, and i m sure very stressed. woodruff: paul solman talks to political scientist robert putnam about religion in america, the subject of his new book, american grace. brown: and we speak to catherine rampell of the new york times about the winners of this year s nobel prize for economics. woodruff: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. brown: talk of a nationwide moratorium on selling foreclosed homes ran into new opposition today, as the securities industry warned against serious damage to the housing market. the warning came from a securities industry and financial markets association. it said imposing a moratorium would be, quote, catastrophic. last week ban
direction steady, 14 minutes to foster city. we ll have more on your bay area commute. back to you. thank you. 6 years and dozens of penalties avoided. pg&e once again in the hot seat this morning. anne makovec is in san bruno reporting the utility had plenty of pipeline problems during that time. good morning to you, anne. reporter: good morning. it is the california public utilities commission that regulates all the gas lines in california including here in the san bruno neighborhood. and new concerns this morning after a new report shows the cpuc might not have been doing a very stringent job. there is a panel forming to review the pipeline blast here. but after the explosion on september 9 the chronicle began looking into the history of the agency s dealings with pg&e and it reports a hands off approach. it said even though pg&e had even more pipeline infractions than the rest of the state s major pipelines combined over six years, no fines were handed out. meanti
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt jeff: good evening everyone. state attorneys general in most of the country are joining forces to investigate foreclosure processing. a formal announcement could come tomorrow. suzanne, several banks have already voluntarily stopped foreclosures and pressure is building on others like citigroup and wells fargo to follow suit. suzanne: jeff, the obama administration seems to have ruled out a nationwide moratorium on foreclosures. and a major securities lobbying group said such drastic action would be catastrophic and mean big losses for investors in the housing market. jeff: as stephanie dhue reports, experts say there s a better solution. reporter: banks will take over 1.2 million homes this year, up from 100,00 before the housing bust. that huge number of foreclosures has exposed a flawed system never designed to handle that kind of volume. micha