But now president obama is telling the companies and their customers the plans can stick around for one more year. Delia goncalves is live on capitol hill with details on this aboutface, good morning delia. Reporter good morning jessica, mike. First we heard an apology now a fix by president obama to repair the damage. Meanwhile Congress Members are coming up with their own solutions to the Affordable Care act. President barack obama took the blame for the botched rollout but theres a catch to his plan. You see, folks can keep their canceled policies until 2015. But that is entirely up to the Insurance Company. However, democrat senator of louisiana has introduced legislation that would permanently reinstate the canceled policies. Meanwhile House Republicans say the only fix . Is repeal. Thats on me. I mean we fumbled the rollout on this health care law. I completely get how upsetting this can be for a lot of americans particularly after assurances they heard from me that if they had a
Pat collins, news4. They are there to protect you if you get into an accident. But thousands of guard rails across virginia may hold a h hidden that could make a crash worse, even deadly. Transportation reporter, adam tuss, joins us live from fairfax tonight with more on the danger and what vdot plans to do about it. Adam . Reporter hey, jim. Virginia is now the first state in the entire country to say that it will replace detective guard rails. Take a look here on route 50 in fairfax. Of course, we drive past these kinds of guard rails on a daily basis. Dont think twice about them. But there could be a real danger with the design. When you hit a guardrail, the head of the rail is supposed to absorb the impact and push all the metal away from the vehicle. But Transportation Leaders say a company that manufacturers rail heads, as theyre known, made a costcutting Design Change in 2005, without telling federal officials. And that Design Change could turn rail heads into weapons. In essenc
But quite literally, they could be anywhere. A guardrail that could do more harm than good. What does that make you think of when youre out driving around . I dont want to hit a guardrail. Reporter you sigh, when you hit a guardrail, the head of the rail is supposed to absorb the impact and push all the metal behind it away from the vehicle. But Transportation Leaders say a company that manufactures rail heads, as theyre known, made a costcutting Design Change in 2005 without telling federal officials. And that Design Change could turn rail heads into weapons. In essence, the metal could act like a spear, piercing through cars. More than a dozen states now ban new purchases of this product from texasbased Trinity Industries. The rail heads are in use in maryland and virginia. And virginia is now the first state to say it will remove the guard rails. Drivers agree. I think its time to replace them. Reporter Trinity Industries has told federal and state officials, it will cooperate with
Into summer. Theyre digging out. Parts of the northeast digging under a foot of snow slowing down air travel a second straight day. Good evening. Im jim. Im norene with the sun setting danger on the rise. Everything you need to know about the cold conditions. Well start with Doug Kammerer and the flash freeze hes talking about. Numerous accidents on the road and seeing it on my facebook. Temperatures in the teens all day long. High temperature, 19 in d. C. , sitting at 18 degrees, 12 in gaithersburg and 12 in manassas and 16 in culpeper. We are way below freezing and been below freezing all day. With the sunshine up, sunshine was able to get some melting and we had some water on the roadways. With the sun making its way down setting at 5 18, we are freezing fast. Roads becoming very very slick and that continues to happen the next few hours. If you happen to be on the roads, please be careful, especially secondary roads. Most are good but secondary roads out there. Many schools taking