To house their operational staff and service their vehicles are in a marginal poor state of repair. Are these facilities a threat to the health and welfare of our transit workers . First, i think i should be clear that we believe the systems are safe. Transit is one of the safest modes of travel we have available to us in this day and age. We also believe strongly there are steps that need to be taken in order to address the safety, not just of the general public, but the employees that work for the agencies as well. Theres no question, when you are dealing with an aging infrastructure and the needs required to maintain that infrastructure, employees are going to be working in Hazardous Conditions with moving vehicles and things of that nature that can make for an unsafe situation. But there are steps that transit agencies take and do take, and i know from my own experience, we focus closely at cta on making sure the operators have appropriate training, appropriate tools, the appropria
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It is meal time in the monkey house. Welcome to cbs this morning. In a last minute surprise president obama will order the biggest cuts to the militarys budget since the reagan era. The president is about to sit down with the congressional leaders. Bill plante is at the white house. Bill, good morning. Good morning and good morning out west. Russian leaders are here getting ready to meet with the president shortly to talk about no budget cuts, but there is no sign of a lastminute deal. Things were never supposed to get to this point. The very idea was supposed to force an agreement. It didnt and now its finger pointing in another direction. We are serving the men and women of this country a great disservice. The 85 billion cut slashed across most departments takes effect later today. On thursday senators from both parties led a lastminute effort to avoid the cuts each Party Presenting its own alternative. As expected those bills were voted down. Members of congress then began heading h
We begin this hour in indonesia where rough seas are keeping the search teams from getting a closer look at two large pieces of metal now spotted in the java sea. They believe the objects are from the airasia flight that crashed. Recovery crews also found a panel, this panel with two windows. They found this on friday. And planes flying overhead have spotted oil slicks. Paula went out with the helicopter today. She joins us from indonesia. But just like many others in the search you and the helicopter crew couldnt see very much out there, paula . Reporter thats right, natalie. At the last minute the flight plan was changed so we didnt go to the site itself. We went along the coastline were at at least we intended to. Because officials are concerned that some the bodies and debris may have actually drifted those 100 nautical miles to dry land. So thats where we intended to go with this police helicopter. But just half an hour into the flight we had to turn back. The pilot said we couldn
Searchers thought they thought they had spotted the planes tail section which is where those devices are kept. But the official leading the search operation has now ruled that out. No tail section, at least not yet. Recovery crews did manage to retrieve two more bodies today, bringing the total number found to 39. The prevailing belief at this point is that most of the other victims are strapped into their seats still in the planes sunken fuselage wherever that might be. Our david molko is in surabaya in indonesia and, david, we are seeing for the first time the u. S. Effort to help find the wreckage of 8501. Talk to us about what were seeing in this video. Absolutely john. Lets bring up those pictures green the search area. The uss sampson the destroyer. This was a helicopter ride out to the destroyer. The head of Indonesias Armed forces went out to say thank you. He also visited an indonesian ship. Whats interesting from the pictures john we are getting a better sense of how challeng