By theent, hosted historical office, is about an hour. Good afternoon. It is 12 00. We begin with two very distinguished guests, veteran reporters who covered the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I way of introduction, we are in one of the most historic rooms at the capitol complex. Now known as the kennedy caucus room, it was the room where the hearings were held, the watergate hearings were held. This is the room where john f. Kennedy announced his candidacy for president. The room where a lot of nominees have been grilled by committees. There have been a lot of inquisitions here. Today, we are not doing an inquisition. We are doing a conversation. We are very pleased to have andy glass and roger mudd as our guests today. Andy glass was born in warsaw, poland, and arrived in the United States during world war ii. He became a citizen in 1948. He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of science and yale university. In 1960, after he completed his military service, he became a reporter for th
Good monday morning to you all. Thanks for being here. Im t. J. Homes. Im sara haines. The work week is beginning with extreme weather, a second wave of heavy rain hitting from california to washington. Flash flooding, mud slides and damaging winds possible. Right now another big winter storm bearing down on the northeast. Its bringing once again ice and snow for a number of states. Reporter overnight a familiar scene, snow falling in boston and the schools are closed until wednesday as the city braces for up to two more feet. We have never seen this type of snow here in the city of boston in the history of our city. Boston is at the breaking point. The city has spent 18 million to remove the snow busting the budget and the snow is so deep parking is banned on many streets. Were running out of space. We had to put all the snow in the city of boston. Special machines to melt the snow being brought in. They can melt 350 tons of snow an hour. On the west coast, flooding drenching drought
Good morning, good to be with you. Breaking news unfolding as we speak. Russian president Vladimir Putin announced a ceasefire in the ukrainian conflict. It will begin saturday at might need. Ukrainian president poroshenko said both sides will start moving out weapons in the next two weeks. Angle, a merkel and Francois Hollande were part of the talks. The agreement includes release of hostages. It comes one day after intense fighting with prorussian separatists claimed the lives of 19 ukrainian soldiers. Also breaking legendary 60 minutes correspondent bob simon died. He was killed in an accident on wednesday. He was a passenger in a car sitting in the back seat. Police say the driver lost control, slammed into another car and the median of the highway. By the time Police Arrived the 73yearold was unconscious and unresponsive. He later died at a hospital. His career spanned 47 years and won him 27 emmys and four peabody awards. He started as reporter and assignment editor in 1967. It w
All. Thanks for being here. Im t. J. Homes. Im sara haines. The work week is beginning with extreme weather, a second wave of heavy rain hitting from california to washington. Flash flooding mud slides and damaging winds possible. Right now another big winter storm bearing down on the northeast. Its bringing once again ice and snow for a number of states. Reporter overnight a familiar scene, snow falling in boston and the city bracing for up to two more feet. We have never seen this type of snow here in the city of boston in the history of our city. Boston is at the breaking point. The city has spent 18 million to remove the snow busting the budget and the snow is so deep parking is banned on many streets. Were running out of space. Special machines to melt the snow being brought in. They can melt 350 tons of snow an hour. On the west coast, flooding drenchingny vaf da and wind gusts up to 70 miles an hour in the forecast. Storms are knocking down trees and Power Outages. The rain and
Tractor trailer was traveling southbound, right there you see the mess, the tractor trailer separated, the trailer, went up, and over the guardrail. Do you see skidmark there our photographer zooming in. Tractor went up and over and into on coming traffic into the northbound lanes. Thank goodness at 2 00 in the morning volume was light enough that there wasnt any traffic, otherwise we could be talking about a wholetive rent outcome here. What we are looking a at is the mess that was left, fuel spill, oil trailer portion stayed in the southbound lanes, the tractor went up and over in the north bound lanes and you are looking at there they hauled them out of there. They put down kiddy litter oil dry to kind of pick up the gasoline. Most important part right now is that traffic is moving again up and down 495, and i know we were is shut down for a couple hours. We will go out to steve, who is live on the scene. Steve, when you showed up there they were pushing everybody off at 12th street