Transcripts For KPIX CBS Evening News 20130929 : comparemela

Transcripts For KPIX CBS Evening News 20130929

It was the deadliest day for Fire Fighters since 9 11, 19 members of the Granite Mountain hotshots were killed fighting a wildfire in and around yarnell arizona in june. Today, the state released the results of its investigation, carter evans reports from arizona on the great deal of confusion and lack of communication that helped make it such a deadly day. Reporter the investigation revealed Radio Communication problems between commanders and firefighters in the field contributed to the chain of events that led to the deaths of 19 Granite Mountain hotshots, at one point they lost radio contact for 30 minutes. We do know there was, where they were not communicating, we. While out of communication, the hotshots tried to hike through dry brush to a safe zone, but they had no guidance from fire commanders. They did not know where they were. There is no reason with the technology we have today that they could not have had tracking units on those radios, that they could not have known where our loved ones where. With julians ashcrafts husband was killed in the fire, she believes commanders could have done more. Maybe this is what they have done there are not mitigating risks as there should be for this job. The 120 page report details how the hotshots were cornered by a 70foot wall of flame moving at 11 miles per hour, they had less than two minutes to clear the area and deploy their fire silt shelters. Be 2 investigation failed to explain why the hotshots chose to leave their safe location in the first place. Wilderness, that is the decisionmaking process went with those 19 men. In the final moment it is hotshot desperately radioed for a water drop but it never came because no one knew exactly where they were. What do you want to come out of all of this now. A gps on every hotshot body, period. Andrew ashcrafts mother Deborah Pfingston says the only way to move forward now is to learn from the deaths of these 19 hotshots so that others may not meet the same fate. Next fire season is in six months, and the southwest is a tinder box. What can we do in six months so that another wife and mother arent standing here. Reporter but many family members say this should never have happened in the first place, an aerial assault could have extinguished this fire when it was still small two days before the hotshots perished, but, jim, investigators say fire commanders were dealing with several incidents that day and the decision was made not to use the resources on this fire. Axelrod carter evans in prescott, arizona, carter, thank you. Now to the budget battle upon capitol hill and the possibility of a Government Shutdown midnight monday. The two sides are not getting any closer. Republicans in the house are looking on a series of amendments tonight that the white house and Senate Democrats have already vowed to reject. Jeff pegues joins us now from capitol hill, good evening, jeff. Good evening, jim House Republicans good another emergency funding bill with conditions attached, this one funds the government through mid december but seeks to delay the implementation of the president s healthcare act that is something that democrats say is a nonstarter. With a possible Government Shutdown looming, there were signs of strain today on capitol hill. How dare you, how dare you, how dare you presume a failure. In a round weekend session House Republicans rejected. The amendment is agreed to. Because it didnt make any cuts to the Affordable Care act. House Speaker John Boehner led a one hour strategy session to come up with a new way forward. The house version would fund the government until december 15th, if the Affordable Care act is delayed by one year, and the government repeals a tax on medical devices cutting 29 billion over the next ten years. They also created a separate measure to ensure u. S. Troops get paid even if the government shuts down. West virginia public kel Shelley Moore capito. This simply guys a lot of where we have been and i think it tells the government what is important to us. Majority leader harry reid said the senate would reject both proposed changes to the Affordable Care act. After weeks of few political gains for republicans he said we are still at square one. Jim, this evening the white house released a statement saying that in its current form, if this bill reaches the president s desk, he will veto it. Axelrod jeff, thank you. What is been in our political director john dickerson, john here we are two days away, is it posturing are, or are we indeed moving closer to a Government Shutdown. We are closer to a shutdown in that the clock is ticking and no negotiations between white house and House Republicans. Each side is trying to squeeze political advantage out of the impasse. The white house wont negotiate believing the republicans will buckle instead of getting blamed for a shutdown, House Republicans are pushing for a delay in the president s healthcare plan, at least to pressure Democratic Senators up for election next year. Forcing them to explain why they wont allow a delay in the healthcare law for regular people when the president has already allowed a oneyear delay for big business. The game of chicken continues and right now both sides are just holding tighter to the wheel. Axelrod so at this point, what is left is a way to avoid a shutdown . Reporter well, negotiationnegotiationor the las are the only way to avoid shutdown, house Speaker John Boehner could avoid a shutdown if he allows the house to vote on the senate that would keep the government open to december 15th but some republicans may not support him which means he would need democrats to help him pass such a measure. That might stir up even more tensions than we have seen this week within the republican conference and thats not what t they want because we have an even bigger and pier louse fight in mid october whether to raise the debt limit. Axelrod it will be an interesting next 48 hours john dickerson, thank you. There is mixed reaction in iran today as president Hassan Rouhani returned today ran, as. He was met by both cheers and protests following his historic phone call with president obama. When president Hasan Rouhani returned to iran today a crowd of hundreds greeted him, most to cheer him on. And a few dozen to shout him down, throwing eggs at the president s car. And chanting death to america. Fridays historic phone call with president obama ended a 34 year silence between iran and the u. S. , in place since the iranian revolution and hostage standoff at the u. S. Embassy in iran, the 15 minute talks centered on the Nuclear Program and rouhani gave details on the twitter feed he told president obama with political will there is a way to rapidly solve the matter and ended the call with a cheery have a good day, mr. President. Rouhani as the support of irans Supreme Leader ayatollah ali chamenei for now and for now the revolutionary guard. Many ordinary iranians are supportive and hopeful. This woman says the call was ideal starting point. Sanctions are killing irans economy, inflation and employment are up, the currency is down. In an interview with 60 minutes, secretary of state john kerry said the only way out is to open the countrys Nuclear Program to the world. The United States is not going to lift the sanctions until it is clear that a very, verifiable, accountable transparent process is in place whereby we know exactly what iran is going to be doing with its program. Rouhani says his country will put forward a plan in the next two weeks. The u. S. And its allies will be meeting with iran again october 16th in geneva and they will be looking for a concrete sign that the country is ready to stop enriching uranium yum and close a secret underground facility, jim. Axelrod kelley cobiella in london with us tonight, thank you. The second ranking officer in the Nuclear Command has been suspended the pentagon didnt provide a reason why base admiral tim giardina was suspended but insiders familiar with the investigation say it is related to gambling issues. Later what this arctic exploration reveals about global warming. And homeowners protesting massive flooding insurance hikes. Those stories when the cbs evening news continues. Axelrod nearly a year after super storm sandy made them homeless about 350 people still staying in new York City Hotels will have to start paying their own bill or move to shelters. The state Supreme Court judge has now ruled that after 70 million and with shelter beds opening up, the city no longer has to pay for hotels. Next tuesday, people who own homes in flood prone communities could see their Flood Insurance rates surge, in some cases by 1,000 percent. It is all because of a new federal law aimed at keeping fema afloat. Don dahler has more. It is a risk to somebody. This crowd of protesters at Broad Channel island new york over flowed on to a parking lot that was underwater almost exactly one year ago. We have to stop fema right now. The object of their rage . The federal Emergency Management agency. There were rallies like this in nine states today to protest new flood maps that put more homes in zones requiring expensive improvements. The bigger water Flood Insurance reform act after of 2012 says if homeowners dont raise their houses they face higher Flood Insurance premiums. What you see around here, at all houses, at all stores, all the businesses, everything has to be raised, six, eight, ten feet high. Mike oreillys family has lived here for 100 years. If you dont comply with this impossible task, the insurance premiums are going to go up 20, 30,000 a year. No one can afford that here. Where was your moms house . Right on that sort of platform on top of the pilings there. Sandy destroyed it and severely damaged his own. It is right up to here, basically. Reporter oreilly has started to rebuild, even though he is concerned about the Flood Insurance law that takes effect october 1st. The law was originally intended to restore fema fund that were deflected from Hurricane Katrina but one of the acts authors a teen waters max seen waters has regrets. I didnt intend for these type of outrageous premiums to occur to homeowners. She is asking for changes to law makers fix the problem. It is not just on the water. There is flood areas in every state and this act is, you know, this is coming to a theatre by you, you know, and it is going to be it is going to be devastating. Oreilly says if the law stands, it wont be rising waters that finally chases his family from this island. It will be rising insurance rates. Don dahler, cbs news, Broad Channel island, new york. Axelrod up next, how an American Family survived the kenyan mall massacre. Axelrod kenya is criticizing the United States for reissuing a travel advisory to americans after last saturdays terrorist attack on a Shopping Mall in nairobi, 67 people died, but the members of one American Family have a brave kenyan to thank for their survival. Reporter as the chaos unfolded at the westgate mall, abdul haji got a text message from his brother inside, the mall was under attack. Haji, the son of kenyas form her security minister, who had taught him how to use a gun, raced to the building to help. The number of dead people we saw, the number of injured people we saw, the number of people who were just lying down bleeding, you know, helplessness, this whole thing, it can not just be my mother. Haji searched for survivors while crossing crossfire, he noticed an American Family taking cover under a mall kiosk and motioned them toward him. They kept asking just started running and id said it was very, very brave of the little girl. This photo captured the moment when a little girl from North Carolina ran to the kenyan man hoping to lead her to safety. Portias mother and four siblings made it out alive soon after, haji said the whole event was a blur. W we had no concept of time when we were there. All the time you are just looking out, you know, looking for shooter, getting people out of the danger, so there was no time to think of these things. Reporter still ahead, northern exposure, a group of adventurers take on weather extremes and grizzly bears to send a message on global warming. The cbs evening news, celebrating 50 years of the very best. Original reporting. Axelrod a new report due out monday offers more evidence that humans are the main cause of climate change. Terrell brown introduces us to a group of adventurers who saw for themselves the effects of global warming. Trying to row across canadas usually frozen arctic. The four men launched this fiberglass and woodrow boat from canadas Northwest Territory in july heading east toward greenland. Their route was part of the so called Northwest Passage, the arctic waters between europe and asia, for centuries frozen ice made it impassable. Countless explorers have died in the Northwest Passage just because it is chockfull of ice over hundreds of years. Kevin vallely was one of the rowers, there is still ice up there but not as much as before and we really wanted to bring awareness to that by traversing it solely under human power in a 25foot rowboat. No engine and no safe, just two men at a time rowing changing shifts every three hours. You know we did go for 50, 60, 70 hours at a time and we got in the groove of doing that, we got a limit sleep deprived but you got your naps, we needed to keep moving, well, we have to get somewhere. Moving on average 21 miles a day, rower frank wolf documented the voyage and shared this footage with cbs news. All four of us can squeeze in there like sardines, you imagine four dudes in a boat about a month in, having eaten just freezedried food what that must have smelled like. No bath unless they swam in to the frozen water. A desal fair let them drink seawater, it gathered data for canadian data, wildlife was another indicator of climate change. They expected to sees heard of muskox and caribou but it was a surprise to see grizzly bears roaming in polar bear countries. You see all of these species up there that were never up there from the south and now living in the arctic. In case grizzlies set their sites on them, they had shot guts but never had to use it. Wind was their worst enemy sometimes making it impossible to end. In the end it was the journey that mattered the most, we learned a lot out there and where we got to the end we had to stop where we had to stop. They ended the journey at Victoria Island at 1,063 miles making it halfway to greenland. Terrell brown, cbs news, new york. Axelrod a meteor lit up the score over indiana and much of the rest of the midwest last might. The second fireball in as many nights. September has been an unusually busy months for meteors with 14 major sightings reported. And coming up, auto history on auction. Axelrod we end tonight with a classic, actually hundreds of them. Classic cars from the 1950s, sixties and seventies, virtually untouched, some with fewer than 20 miles on them and plastic stilton seats. As Barry Petersen reports they hit the Auction Block today in nebraska. Reporter every row is a memory lane, and by the thousands they came to this tiny corner of nebraska to buy or just to look. At a sight and a sale never seen before. Almost 500 cars from days gone by. A time that had its own theme song. The usa in your chevrolet. An era where cars were restyled every year. Now meet the 1957 chevrolet hardtop with four doors. Ray lamprecht started selling chevrolets in 1946 in this small town of 1,400. He had an unusual ethic, he wouldnt sell used cars he took in on trade, he just parked them in a field. And 50 brandnew cars that didnt sell in the model year, he stored in a dusty warehouse and talk about low mileage. Zero 123 miles. Yes, it is unheard of, that many cars that would be held that long. The cars were to collectors like tony, toby shine whose hobby became an old Car Restoration business. It was an era you could tell which car was driving down the street, today they all look the same. 140,000 Yvette Vanderbrink is the auctioneer with just the right touch of auto romance. Everybody likes to remember the car they got married in, the car that they rode home with the new baby, and people arent just buying cars, they are buying memories. Reporter with help from restorers or backyard mechanics, a lot of them will be back. So keep your eyes in the rearview mirror. In the usa. For a glimpse of a time when America First heard the call of the open road. Barry petersen, cbs news, denver. Axelrod the talk shun runs through the weekend, estimates are that some 10,000 people will descend on the small nebraska town before it is all over. Auction totals so far, more than half a million dollars. And that is the cbs evening news for tonight. Later on cbs, 48 hours. For now i am

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