Call 18003419716. Crowds raced to get on the train cars, forced to sit on suitcases and in the middle of the aisle. This is more than just an inconvenience for commuters. Tonight federal Officials Say the train conditions could be good evening. Im kristine johnson. Maurice is off tonight, and cbs 2 learned that the federal Railroad Administration called a meeting to look into the troubling safety concerns on the train. Cbs 2s meg baker has the exclusive story. Reporter does this look safe to you . Its like gladiator to get on the train. Reporter i road the Long Island Railroad where dozens of commuters jam packed into the train cars, sitting in kyles, blocking stairs, and emergency exits. Kim hall had to sit on the floor from penn station to montauk on friday. People cant pass, and in an evacuation situation. It its unsafe. Reporter shes not alone. Just trying to get through the aisle, everyone is aggressive. Reporter the friday 4 00 p. M. Cannon ball train has 12 train caw cars, three
Coverage. The protest at Civic Center Park was not the first one of the day on the uc berkeely campus. And mostly peaceful kron 4s dan kerman is there for us live tonight with more. Natsthe greatest threat to free speech, the greatest threat comes from right wing forces, they will use violence against those who wish to speak and assemble freely. A noontime rally at uc berkeley was in part nostalgic no violence this time, just students with the International Socialist organization defending the rights of immigrants and the right to free speech this in the wake of the universitys cancellation of a speech by right wing commentator ann coulter. Sot mukund rathi International Socialist organization 2938my feeling is the university should not stop speakers from coming to campus and the role we as students should play those who oppose ann coulter is that we should protest. Natslet me tell you about First Amendment rightsas with more traditional protests at cal, there were competing megaphones
Joining me is jeff okeefe and sarah clip. I am pleased to have both of them here. Let me begin with you, tell me what happened . Administration, the president and other key leaders were saying they had the votes, and in fact, they did. Was it difficult to pull this off . Absolutely. They did it today by the skin of 13. They did it today by the skin of their teeth. The magic number was to get it over to 16, which they barely did. They call the bow shortly thereafter. This crats voted for they called the vote shortly thereafter. No democrats voted for this. Article conservatives dont think the bill went far enough. But they decided they had to do it on thursday and they did it. It is a significant achievement, whether you are a fan of this president or republicans, or not. There is noted night at the house pulled off many thought they could not do. This is the first major legislative achievement for House Speaker paul ryan, who has been on the job a little over 18 months. Survey, of cour
Joining me is jeff okeefe and sarah clip. I am pleased to have both of them here. Let me begin with you, tell me what happened . Administration, the president and other key leaders were saying they had the votes, and in fact, they did. Was it difficult to pull this off . Absolutely. They did it today by the skin of 13. They did it today by the skin of their teeth. The magic number was to get it over to 16, which they barely did. They call the bow shortly thereafter. This crats voted for they called the vote shortly thereafter. No democrats voted for this. Article conservatives dont think the bill went far enough. But they decided they had to do it on thursday and they did it. It is a significant achievement, whether you are a fan of this president or republicans, or not. There is noted night at the house pulled off many thought they could not do. This is the first major legislative achievement for House Speaker paul ryan, who has been on the job a little over 18 months. Survey, of cour
Charlie welcome to the program. We begin this evening with health care. Joining me ed okeefe of the Washington Post and sarah kliff. Theres talk the senate may start its own bill from scratch. Its one victory in an ongoing fight and our focus now turns to the senate and what theyll do with the legislation the house has sent them. Charlie we continue with a conversation about the Media Company vice. We talk to shane smith and josh tyrangiel. One thing i have learned is people dont mind feeling something while theyre learning something, if you can show them a great character or move them thats ok. So a lot of our audience may not be expecting it but if theyre careful watchers theyll remember someone. Charlie and photographer tabitha soaren and its called fantasy life baseball and the american dream. Once i got very successful in television i felt like the work i was doing was getting more and more mainstream. The higher i rose the more watered down it got and the less agency i had over t