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As a subpar 911 call routing system run by verizon. Now he is the one making the call to the fcc and he wants some change. I guess i would give it a d. Reporter virginia congressman Gerry Connolly is slamming verizon wireless. The company is contracted to route 911 calls throughout most of the washington area. According to him they have fallen short. The whole purpose of having 911 is when you need it, it works. Reporter he cites recent weather events that have knocked out the system as examples of where theyve failed. During the 201011 winter several storms like snowmageddon interrupted service. More recently this summers deer re summers derecho did the same thing. Now he and others are behind a push to verizon to improve their service or face scrutiny. If verizon cant be counted on to do that voluntarily then we need the fcc to step in and promulgate new regulations and to make sure theyre enforced. Reporter verizon fired back. They said theyve learned to improve themselves. A spokes
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State and has one of the busiest shipping channels shut down and president obama spoke at the hague and International Summit happening there but ukraine is topping the agree do for commander and chief and leaders around the world. A crew of Malaysia Flight 270 and what they think they spotted. Welcome to Al Jazeera America, live from new york im stephanie sy and its 3 00 a. M. In Washington State where crews have been searching through the night for people missing the after a massive landslide, on saturday a wall of debris went through the town of oso, 50 miles north of seattle and a state of emergency has been declared in the area and covers a square mile. At least 8 people are known dead and more than a dozen unaccounted for after the rainsoaked Mountain Side came sliding down blanketing the town and destroying 30 homes and we have more on the rescue effort. Nothing like they have ever seen is what many here in the Community North of seattle are saying about the mudslide that devasta
Remedied before these deaths occurred. I want to thank the families of the victims of these directive cars for coming forward and being at that hearing yesterday and sharing their stories with and sharing their stories with and being at that hearing yesterday. To share their story with me and others they are doing a great Public Service with their courage ian strength. Also want to thank ms. Barra the ceo of gm as i said to her and will repeat now, wiedmaier on dash admire her fortitude to and her service to face the question of our committee with General Motors and the issues of car safety. And engineer that has risen through the ranks, a secondgeneration employee at an iconic crete American Manufacturing company. The products that have enriched the lives of so Many Americans over the years. But this is a turning point with these car safety challenges some of them have contacted me hell they are reaching a proactively to the drivers of these brad defective vehicles asking them to brin