Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Today winter made history. The storm that dumped 20 inches of snow on the midwest over the weekend moved into the northeast, and in parts of new england, this is now the snowiest tenday period on record with accumulations totalling five feet. We have team of correspondents covering this latest storm. First well go to Michelle Milner miller in boston. Michelle . Reporter bostonians were still trying to dig out from the two feet of snow from last weeks storm when this one started delivering on average an inch every hour. Tonight were nearly one foot and counting. As soon as the snow started to fall, boston deployed an army of 600 cleanup crews to city streets, clearing 6,000 truckloads of snow. Some might see it as bad but weve seen a lot worse here. Reporter plow truck operator Billie Mcdonald is on his 16th straight hour of overtime. What makes your job so difficult right now . Its like a t
And which commute will be affected. A Christmas Tree turns out to be the big contributing factor to that deadly mansion fire. Good evening. Im derek mcginty. Im jan jeffcoat. A tragic accident that happened at the worst possible time, those words tonight from an atf agent on the cause of the fire that claimed the life of an annapolis couple and their four grandchildren. Our mola lenghi spoke with experts about how such a Christmas Tree could do such damage. Reporter oh, yeah. It can be difficult to imagine that the fire that torched a sex teen thousand square foot house and 16,000 square foot house and killed six people began with a Christmas Tree, but experts we spoke with tonight say they arent surprised, that Christmas Trees can be extremely combustible. This was an accidental fire thats very tragic. Reporter accidental, tragic and fast. Fire need two things, an ignition source and fuel. There was an electrical spark and a Christmas Tree to fuel the fire. Doesnt take much ignition s
An offer to membership. Its the middle of october. General managers saying unfair left is the final offer so we can reach an agreement. Lets be clear. The strike notice for this year is disruption in service with f. We dont reach a deal by midnight tonight. And again, all that said work to sides have been meeting today to discuss this offer which is 12 raise over four years. The unions have to pay more for benefits, they say negates that raise. Bart says they will not increase the package but are willing to talk about the terms within it. The union says if talks continue and seem to be progressing there, or there is decent progress they may consider moving the strike deadline back again. Theyre telling riders they should be prepared for the real possibility of a strike tomorrow moshing. Making matters worse ac transit has given a 72 hour strike notice that. Decision cups after workers for Transit Union local 192 rejected two contract proposals last week. Latest included a 9. 5 pay rais
Snowden telling the Washington Post that his mission is accomplished. What are your thoughts on what mr. Snowden had to say . Republicans, 202 5853881. Emocrats, 202 5853880 independence and all others, 202 5853882. Ord us a tweet cspanwj email us. The front page of the Washington Post has the conducted by a reporter who went to moscow for the interview. Edward snowden says i already won. Mission is accomplished. Sitting down with Edward Snowden for 14 hours over two days, nonstop interviewing. Edward snowden called himself a Russian House cat. Never leaving his place in asylum from seeks the u. S. And stays in russia. Tweetedhington post several quotes. Snowden saying i wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself. He tweeted the Washington Post tweeted this. I wanted the public to have a say. Post, i defected from the government to the public. Also, Edward Snowden saying this. He is working to improve bnsf. The nsa. I am still working for the nsa right now.
Under the settlement will be required to launch specific projects. Like making portions of trails accessible. Providing beach wheelchairs at certain beaches so people who use wheelchairs can get onto the sand. Some improvements have been completed. Like this access trail are planned. At least where it is readily achievable we want to access and its important. Volunteers will be trained to explain exhibits to people with disabilities that cant see or cant hear. This calls to complete 50 projects first regardless of cost. Ggnra will finish the second list over a sevenyear span. A San Joaquin County man has been arrested before, Authorities Say he can travel to syria and join al qaeda. In court he was charged with attempting to provide support to a foreign terrorism organization. In our web forum he made statements about wanting to fight in syria to quote bring america to its knees on a computer sold owe an informant his web Search History included how to build a bomb. He told an agent he