And caught fire. The handrails line the steps at stations. Underunderneath the handrails lights are built in to light the steps in the dark. A couple of those handrail lights overheated and caught fire. No one was hurt. The root cause of the fires has still not been identified. So now all of the lights in these handrails are off and riders are left shaking their heads. I mean it does surprise me its starting on fire but this being a new station you kind of surprised when stuff is breaking already. But a handrail starting on fire was not really in the things you thought would occur. Reporter now, this is an important point to remember here. Metro didnt build the silver line. The metropolitan Washington Airports Authority did. Metro says its going to hold them and their contractors responsible for this work. Coming up at 6 00 why metro is now calling this problem with the handrails a systemic problem. Back to you, jim. Firefighters are still searching for the cause of an Early Morning fi
Leararn a lot about the bottom of the worlrld by racacing to the southth polele on foot. Thaul and mucuch cbs this morning saturday, november 30th, 2013. Captioning funded by cbs and welcome to the weekend. We also have some great guesting for you here in studio 57 including a rising star. Singer songwriter diane burch whos here with music from her new album. And hes not italian but chef keith coming up. We begin with president obama and his struggling health care plan. Today is the day he promised to have the website running smoothly for americans seeking Affordable Health care insurance. Two months after its launch, how is it going . Jeff pegues is at the white house. Good morning, jeff. Reporter good morning, vinita and anthony. They say its all part of a planned maintenance session. The administration reached their selfimposed deadline overnight after announcing late friday that there would be what they call performance maintenance throughout the weekend. For extended periods of ti
Right now all we mayybe clocking in some losses for the third day in a row for the dow and the s p and we havent seen that since september. Dow jones industrials down 66 points at 15,932 and nasdaq down sitting at 1797, friday is jobs friday, watching for that. Also a close eye on dow chemical which jumped to little bit yesterday on this news, pulling back now, trying to spin off part of their business so we have seen this moving back and forth, gains going back today. Connell breaking news in a detroit courtroom where a federal judge is ruling whether or not the city can continue with its bankruptcy filing. Dagen a win for the city . Jeff flock live from detroit with the latest. Jeff it is accused ruling. For the First Time Ever a federal judge has ruled in detroit std may cut, diminish the pensions of Municipal Workers in bankruptcy, first time there has ever been a ruling like this and it may have huge implications across the country. We are seeing out here on the street protests ag
Sometime it is creates tension. Its not always a bad thing. I think you want to see behind the curtain. I think we want transparency as far as what the federal government is doing. And ed certainly has an opinion on it. But its, in fact, there are things going on in your city then your mayor and your police chief or Police Commissioner should know about from the federal government. There should be a regular change. I agree completely. But ed, what commissioner kl kelly has done is expand more than most of the plaid counterterrorism unit of your own. Even do interview say in new jersey, famously enough. Have you learned from that . Do you think you ought to expand your counterterrorism in boston so you doing things normally given to the fbi do . I think as it relates to home grown violent extremists, yes . I think there are people in the community we should be working with and, you know, sort of keeping an eye on. If they pose a threat. That is part of our responsibility is to keep our
Charles dickens began his tale of two cities with these now familiar phrases. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom. It was the age of foolishness. In the United States widespread foolishness in the Housing Market plunged banks, economies and millions of American Families into the worst of times. Some cities that never had a bubble never had to watch it burst while gogo markets like las vegas and phoenix saw crisis and catastrophic loss. Every week statistics pour out of banks and governments that show a Housing Market that limps in some places and runs ahead in others. With cities on the mend they will now be a change at the top of the federal department assigned to help them prosper, housing and urban development. House secretary sean donovan who came in 2009 is set to head to the office of management and budget. And the mayor of americas seventh largest citywidely talked up as a democratic star has been invited to washington to become the next