Everybody thinks we need to learn the lessons from the Grenfell Tower fire. And responsibility for drawing up the right lessons rests primarily on the shoulders of one man sir Martin Moore Bick, a 70 year old former commercial lawyer and appeal courtjudge. He went to the site of the fire today and met residents, which sounds fine. But and its a big one he then downplayed expectations of what his inquiry might cover and how quickly it could report. Now, im well aware that the residents and the local people want a much broader investigation and i can fully understand why they would want that. Whether my inquiry is the right way in which to achieve that im more doubtful, and ill give that some thought and in due course make a recommendation, but there may be other ways in which that desire for an investigation can be satisfied otherwise than through the work im going to do. Well, after the inadequacy of the early response to the fire, and the problems in the child abuse inquiry, it is goi
women and children. even that couldn t be accomplished this week in geneva. so, it really has been a disappointment and fraught with a lot of frustration. now we ll see what happens in munich. secretary kerry is going to be there. he s going to be talking with lakhdar brahimi, the arab league envoy to syria, with his counterpart, sergey lavrov from russia, but whether or not anything be achieved, and even though syria is expected to take up a lot of talking room there, well, at this point, there s not a lot of hopes. john? they leave these talks in geneva with nothing tangible, except for the fact that they spoke at all, and maybe, just maybe going forward that will count for something. mohammed jamjoom, thank you so much for being with us this morning. appreciate it. the death penalty is now on the table in the case against dzhokhar tsarnaev, the surviving boston marathon bombing suspect. he faces 30 charges in the case, and prosecutors are saying they plan to pursue the death pen
that left three dead and injured 260 others. this morning changes are coming to new york city s controversial stop-and-frisk program. the new mayor, bill de blasio, announcing that the city has given up its appeal of a judge s ruling and will accept reforms, including an independent federal monitor. now, this is a major change from the last mayor, michael bloomberg, who insisted the program was legal and did not unfairly target minority groups. this morning in washington, d.c., a firefighter and a fire lieutenant are on administrative leave as authorities investigate whether a man died outside a fire house because firefighters refused to help. it happened on saturday when 77-year-old cecil mills collapsed across the street from a fire station. those with him called 911 and ran to the door, begging for help, but they were told fire crews couldn t do anything unless they were dispatched. it s hard, and that s how i felt, because the person stood there and watched the entire thing a
mostly just frustration. to give you some example of just how difficult it s been to come to any kind of agreement, despite the fact there s been so much pressure in these talks put on both sides to come to an agreement about getting aid to the city of homs, where people there have been under siege for 600 days and are starving to death in some cases, even an agreement on that couldn t be reached, about how to deliver aid. we ve seen so many amateur videos come out of homs this past week and spoken to so many residents, and they tell us the same kind of thing. we hear about men that are foraging through shelled-out buildings looking for fire wood that they can provide their family with. we ve spoken to women who have talked about how they are trying to get their children to drink any kind of water they can find. most of the time, it s dirty and it has bugs in it. and we see pictures that are so dramatic that show neighborhoods that are laying there in ruins. there are injured people th
house begging for help. but they say they were told fire crews couldn t do anything unless they were dispatched. that s how i felt, because the person stood there and watched the entire thing and did nothing to help. i even ran to the curb and said are you going to help me or are you going to let my dad die? firefighters routinely go in to danger. they don t wait to be called, they respond. and so, that s what s troubling about this. this goes against what firefighting is all about. and that s one of the reasons that it s so troubling. a police officer eventually flagged down an ambulance for the man who later died. washington officials are calling it unacceptable. coming up, microsoft close to finding a new leader. only the third ceo of microsoft since 1975. we re about to find out who! the details in money time, next.