How seriously does volkswagen take its commitment to the environmental responsibility . Mr. Horn this is deeply maybe it is difficult to understand in this context, but it is deeply embedded in our corporate culture. We have three values. Responsible toward our employees and the environment. Our plant in tennessee is platinum leed certification. This is the most clean and Energy Efficient plant in the world. All our plans have commitment to reduce carbon footprint. Whether these plants are india, china, they are always up to the highest volkswagen standards which go beyond so this is part of the corporate culture. Im assuming that is throughout, including your engineers and scientists. This is part of the fos the ethos. How do you explain this massive deviation . The majority of all volkswagen employees ask the same question. It is a relevant question and i hope that these investigations would definitely find out what drove those people. What drove those people into these decisions. I
With scott pelley. Pelley well start tonight with breaking news. We have learn that a u. S. Spy satellited detected a flash of heat over egypts Sinai Peninsula at the moment on saturday that a russian jetliner vanished from radar. David martin at the pentagon reports the infrared satellite recorded the flash, but it is not known whether the flash was caused by Something Like a failure in a fuel tank or perhaps a bomb. The metrojet wreckage is spread over miles, indicating that it came apart at high altitude. All aboard, more than 200 people, were killed. They were mostly vacationing russian families en route from a seaside resort in egypt to st. Petersburg. Today u. S. Intelligence director James Clapper said its unlikely that terrorism brought down the airbus a321. Investigators hope the flight recorders will tell them what did. Allen pizzey is in egypt. Teams have finished combing a eightsquaremile area of the sinai december ertd where the widen the search. Most of the bodies have be
His lead in New Hampshire. But the fastestrising candidate there is marco rubio. Hes now at 13 , a ninepoint improvement since september. Trump is at 26 , followed by ben carson at 16 . Heres Major Garrett. Thank you very much. Reporter marco rubios rise has come at jeb bushs expense. Once an understudy, rubio is now running ahead of bush and attracting his donors. Leaving bush to scramble for support today in the two candidates home state of florida. New york im not frustrated about him. Hes a great guy. Hes a good friend. Hes a gifted politician. I just have the leadership skills to solve these problems. We have a little disagreement on that. Im going to tell you truth. Heres the truth. Reporter rubios surge began with his sprong spfs during last weeks cnbc debate. The same poll that shows rubio jumping to third place in New Hampshire also shows a spike in his favorable rating up from 50 to 62 . Hes now just two points behind ben carson, the republican with the highest rating. Rubios
Reporter after being in a halfway home and under house arrest for five months 50yearold Michael Higgins became a free man. The former Public School teacher served ten years in federal prison for dealing meth and ecstasy. I was released two years early, and i am so grateful for that. Reporter hes one of some 6,000 federal inmates mates to be granted Early Release under a u. S. Sentencing commission program. In 2014 the Commission Voted to cut jail time for some nonviolent drug offenders. The average 10 1 2year prison sentence is being reduced by two years. This program is part of a bipartisan effort to reduce the federal prison population, which has grown to more than 200,000 inmates. Alsosoeing adadessed, evening out sentences for thoho cauaut with cracks as opposed to powder cocaine, and loosening socalled mandatory minimum sentences. Critics say both practicic have led to high incarceration rates and unfairly targeted blacks and the poor. Kevin ring represents families against mandat
From overseas. An International Arbitration court has decided to hear a case filed by the philippines of a territorial dispute with china. The case involves the group of islands in the south china sea. China claims sovereignty over almost the entire south china sea. The philippines, vietnam, and other parties also claim parts of it. The Philippine Government says china territorial claims violate the u. N. Convention. Theyve taken their argument to the Permanent Court of arbitration in the hague. On thursday, the court ruled it will hear part of the case. The tribunal rejected chinas argument that the issue is beyond the courts jurisdiction. Beijing claims the dispute is about sovereignty and should be settled between the parties concerned. It has boycotted the proceedings. The Philippine Government issued a statement welcoming the decision saying it gives manila a chance to air its position. The u. S. Officials also signalled their support. We dont take a position on the claims. We tak