this? who is doing this? who is the person in charge that can make this stop? thank you for having me, chris. first of all, we should know that the buck stops in one place and that is at governor rick snyder s desk. he is the one who is in charge of the city of detroit. he sent an emergency manager, which effectively wiped out of mayor and our city council. they can do nothing but rubber stamp what the manager or governor snyder says. so the reality is, governor snyder is the only one who can put a moratorium on shutoffs. governor snyder is the only one who can put together a plan or lower3yñ?ñ?ñ?ñ?ñ? the rates thae lowered for residents in the!wñ? city of detroit. the water company at issue is a public entity that is part of the city which neeñ?ñ?ñ?ñ?ñ?ow g to the governor because of the emergency manager law. correct. so $çñ?ñ?ñ?ñ?ñ? please. i was just going to say, this was what we were fighting÷vñ?ñ??
the cutoffs have disproportionately affected the city s poor and at-risk families. it is meant to help recoup funds for the cash-strapped city. it s not clear what, if anything, the u.n. could even do, but experts have responded saying the shutoffs could constitution a violation of the human right to water. we ll keep you updated on that story as it develops.
joining us tonight. my pleasure. joining me now, barbara pearson who has covered the aviation for 20 years and jim hall, former ntsb chairman. jim hall, new information is indicating that it looks like there were separate shutoffs of different monitors in the plane, meaning there wasn t just one big colossal event that stopped all of the electronics working. yes. and i think the only thing, lawrence, that we probably do know is that there are probably many, many more days left before we re going to hopefully find where this aircraft is located. and as you know, it s a race against time now because of the life of the emergency location transmitter s battery. and so there s going to be a lot of resources expended and i hope
very good friday morning to you. welcome to early start. i m ashleigh banfield. i m zoraida sambolin. we are bringing you the news from a to z. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. let s get started here. some developments overnight be want to tell you about, very unusual. a shoot-out? a federal building and ice agent killing another and another ice agent injured. how and why this happened. new details on whitney houston s funeral. we know who will sing, who will speak and who will simply witness it all. your car may be getting smarter as you get a little dumber. you see these images all the time, don t you? distracted drivers endangering you and me. the d.o.t. department of transportation is going to crack down on this. no facebook until you park, folks. it s a huge mystery. have you been following this, it s all over twitter. the stephen colbert show mysteriously canceled some shows. we re going to try to dig deep and figure out what happened for you. we want to b
rooftops, about how people are too afraid to venture outside because anybody could be shot. we hear stories of how bodies in the streets are now bloating because people have been unable to collect them. they re that afraid of being shot by snipers. and we continue to hear even the bodies that have been collected, people aren t able to bury them in the cemetery because that, according to eyewitnesses, is also occupied by security forces. there is a severe shortage in this area, according to eye witnesses, of water and electricity shutoffs since the military crackdown began on monday, and they re now telling us a severe food shortage, necessities like baby milk. we re hearing an ongoing plea for international help. if somebody could intervene to prevent what they say is going to be a massacre. we were on the border between jordan and syria, and there we saw just one example of what