a japanese airliner burst into flames at tokyo's haneda airport, streaking down the runway on fire. authorities say passengers had just 90 seconds to escape after the jet collided with an earthquake relief plane. how did this happen? we are going to talk with a retired pilot.

new details on a new year's day crash which killed two people in upstate new york. police say the driver packed his car with gas canisters before he plowed into a crowd. what we are learning about him straight ahead. bracing for battle, former president trump is expected to file appeals today as he fights to keep his name on ballots in colorado and maine. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. hi there, i'm brianna keilar with boris sanchez right here in washington. we have a second tragedy iraq in japan in as many days, just one day after the 7.5 magnitude quake on its west coast. the country is mourning five members of its coast guard in this fiery plane crash at tokyo's haneda international airport. this was around 5:45 pm local

time today. a camera caught the moment of contact. you can see it there. japan airlines flight 516 hit a smaller coast guard plane which was actually headed to help with quake recovery. japan's public broadcaster reported the coast guard captain is now in critical condition. >> perhaps the most remarkable part of the story is that there were no fatalities, only injuries reported on the airliner. we are learning all 379 passengers and crew escaped with just 90 seconds to get off the massive airbus. eight babies were among those evacuated. it really is an unbelievable escape. video shows smoke entering the cabin. one passenger told cnn they did not actually feel a shock or anything as he was not scared. he said, quote, we could smell a smoke but passengers were not panicking a lot. you can hear the fear in their voices despite the quote. let's get to richard quest. he is an aviation expert. richard, it's astounding.

369 passengers, 12 crew, a huge flight, and they all made it out. >> yes, that is because this is what is supposed to happen in what is known as a survivable accident. you obviously have those cases where the plane hits a mountain and no one is going to live, but you have these cases. you have the plane and landing on the runway, hitting the coast guard aircraft, and then setting on fire. the plane with its composite materials, it's fire retardant fabrics, the entire structure of the aircraft is designed to withstand those flames to allow those on board to get off. if you are in one of those fairly rare scenarios, survivable accidents, you have 90 seconds. the regulations say the plane needs to be evacuated within 90 seconds of all passengers where half the doors are in operable. that seems to have been what happened here because of the way the flames were coming

through. they were told they could only open those doors at the front of the aircraft. we have seen it before. flights land in toronto some years ago, it was a very similar situation. the plane caught on fire. everyone got off. the issue here will be why the a 350 and coast guard dash were both on the runway at the same time. that is the cause. that's what's going to be investigated. >> richard quest, thank you so much for the update. we want to bring in less ab and, a retired boeing triple seven captain who flew for american airlines. >> we have all seen in this video. it's really amazing. we've heard from authorities. which questions do you still have, though? >> well, brianna, this accident is very reminiscent of something which happened about 32 years ago in l.a.. a u.s. air 737 actually just

about landed on top of a much smaller metro liner aircraft, turbo propeller aircraft. it just sort of, my gut feel, and we are all speculating now at this point, but my gut feel is that the controller may have lost track of the fact that they had an aircraft, the dash eight that the coast guard aircraft that was on the runway, they may have lost track of the fact that they were on the same runway where the air bus which was evacuated and did up having a collision on the ground with that airplane. they may have to airplanes on the runway. at the same time, it just doesn't work. >> on that note, there were preliminary reports indicating that the pilots of the japan airlines flight did not see any aircraft on the runway before they were landing. how does that happen? >> yeah, this is once again a

similar to that 1991 accident at l.a.x.. it has a smaller profile and we were talking with darkness around. a lot of the lights are not that visible. the dash eight against a background of that runway may not have been visual to the crew. i am not going to start pointing fingers at this point because it could have been either the controller or the pilot who may not have known that they were clear to land or did not get clearance to land, which is standard procedure, but it seems to me that this collision somehow may have been avoidable. it's tough to see an airplane at night sitting on a runway. it blends in. >> it's such a tragedy. that is increasingly so because they were on their way to help in another tragedy, but what is really amazing about this, of course, is the evacuation of

the large commercial liner here. what do you make of how quickly people were able to get off of that plane? >> well, i am glad you bring that up. what richard brought up as far as evacuation tests that are performed to make sure that that can happen just the way that it did, there is a lot of accommodation that should go to that group, especially the cabin crew. their hair trigger to get people off the airplane in an unusual circumstance like this, they did their jobs. they got them out of the exits that could be utilized due to a fire situation. the cockpit crew had an evacuation checklist to go through. part of that was to shut those engines down and shut down fuel to those engines so it does not continue to burn with fuel in the wingtips. >>, as for the five fatalities they were in the coast guard aircraft which was on the runway. why did that happen on that craft versus the larger japan

airlines flight? >> i would think that this collision probably rendered that airplane completely, it may have just obliterated that airplane as it did in that accident that i pointed out back in 1991 where procedures were changed, by the way, boris. i am just thinking that it was just a limited amount of exits available on that dash eight. it is a much smaller aircraft compared to the airbus 350. >> all right, les, we appreciate your expertise on this. it's unbelievable to watch this. thank you. >> thank you. now to the aftermath of japan's deadly quake. >> new images are coming in from the worst-hit areas on the country's western coast. look at that. you can see building after building after building turned into giant piles of debris. this is what rescuers now have to sift through as they race to find any survivors who may still be trapped.

surveys from the air reveal that the fires are still burning. the earthquake toppled private homes, damaged roadways, and more than a day later, there is still limited access to many of the hardest hit areas. one concern, though, has been removed. the weather service has lifted tsunami warnings from the area. >> police have released new details about a fiery crash which killed two people and injured nine others outside of a concert just about an hour into the new year. days earlier, investigators say the suspect here, michael avery, rented an suv and bought gasoline and several gas containers. >> police believe avery later drove a rented vehicle to the concert and sped up before slamming into another car and plowing into the crowd. listen to this. >> so far, we have uncovered no evidence of an ideology and no terrorism, international or domestic. our joint task force will see this investigation through to

its and with our law enforcement partners. that's not abnormal that someone would do that in some cases like this one. >> brynn gingras has been following the latest developments. we are learning the suspect later died. where does the investigation stand right now? >> yeah, there are still a lot of questions to be answered, boris. why did this person, michael avery, target this particular concert venue, particularly when he is not even from rochester. he came from syracuse. why at this time? why this method? those are all still the questions that are being asked by both federal authorities like you just saw. they are members from the joint terrorism task force. the local authorities in rochester, in that news conference that we had earlier this morning, we did learn a lot about michael avery, a 35-year-old from syracuse, new york. investigators say he traveled from syracuse on december 27th, checked into a hotel. you can see it on december 27th

in rochester. he rented an suv from a nearby airport car rental place. on the day of the attack, he actually went around to several different locations by himself. you can see that picture right there. he purchased gas canisters and the gasoline. what authorities say happened really just an hour into the new year's day when these concert goers, about 1000 of them, were leaving the venue, authorities say he plowed into that crowd, hitting a rideshare car carrying two people who were killed immediately on impact. with all of those gas can in canisters, there was a huge explosion. a lot of questions still here. we know search warrants have been executed on the hotel room, on the vehicles involved, and nothing is really pointing to a motive here. i want you to hear from what police are saying at this point. >> although the motive behind the crime remains unknown, the conversations we have had with

the family so far lead us to believe that avery may have been a suffering from a possible undiagnosed mental health issues. at this time, we have not been able to identify that there was anyone else involved in the crime or that it was part of a larger plot. >> yeah, it does seem like they are trying to figure out all of the pieces and put that together as far as a motive is concerned. all the indications point at the fact that this was not a larger plot, but a lot of questions need to be answered. at the end of the day, two people were killed here just as they were starting out on their new year's. one person was actually injured pretty badly as well. >> brynn gingras, thank you so much for the update. keep us posted on what we learned. let's dig deeper with former fbi executive assistant director for intelligence joshua school. he's also the president of -- thank you so much for being with us. police have not identified a link to terrorism. what questions do you think investigators are working through to establish any kind

of connection to terrorism right now? >> so, i think the investigators are looking at any motive for this attack. it's very logical for the joint terrorism task force to be involved when you look at what we know right now. 12 canisters, he used the vehicle as a weapon to conduct an attack on a mass gathering. we have unfortunately seen attacks like that across the world. here in the united states, multiple times over the last several years. >> we see the fbi saying it is still investigating this as possible domestic terrorism. do you see this is as similar to other acts of domestic terrorism? do you see this similar to other mass casualty events like mass shootings? >> initially, my gut tells me this would be looked at as a terrorism event. i want to be careful as to whether it was domestic or international. they are looking at the ideology and what drove this individual to target this

method. he clearly went into some planning multiple days, if not weeks, before. additionally, they have his journal. they're going to look at what triggered him to go and do this. >> josh, in the days before the crash, police say the suspect travel to rochester from syracuse. he bought the gas and gas canisters. what does that tell you? was there anything to you that stood out about him targeting this specific venue? >> well, the only thing that stands out to me was probably because it was a soft target, boris. while there is law enforcement there, there is a mass gathering of people, easy access for vehicles. he clearly has done some pre-planning which is driving investigators to what drove him to do this, not just target that venue, but also why conduct this attack, which goes back to the ideology. >> there was no suicide note despite initial reports here, no journal that was found. the suspect later died at the hospital. what are the challenges for

investigators? how can they find a motive? >> so, they will be interviewing family as they have already done. he came out and said he had suffered from mental health issues. friends, colleagues, coworkers, they will also look at his phone records, social media, they will undoubtedly be doing a search warrant in every place that he had access to to include his home. is there anything they can link together to see what drove him to do this heinous act? >> joshua skule, thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. still to come on cnn newsroom, fighting the bans -- donald trump's lawyers are expected to appear al rulings which scrubbed him from the main primary ballots. some legal challenges for the former president ahead. >> plus, a new axios report says israel rejected a deal by hamas to free the remaining hostages. where do the two sides stand? we will talk to the journalist who is behind that report.

this is cnn breaking news. >> we have breaking news just into cnn. harvard president clogging gate is set to resign today. that's according to the harvard crimson. >> let's go straight to cnn's matt egan. that, what can you tell us about this? >> reporter: well, the harvard crimson is reporting that claudine gay it is set to resign today, marking the shortest tenure of a presidency in the universities nearly 400 year history. we have not independently confirmed that. we reached out to harvard. we have yet to hear back, but we know that claudine gay is under enormous pressure here. there has been so many things that have gone wrong in just a few last months. the initial response to the october 7th attack was criticized, even by harvard officials. we also know the testimony before congress last month was widely criticized last --

as well. gay did apologize, but the criticism continued. lawmakers have looked into the issue. and at the same time we also have these plagiarism allegations that have swirled around claudine gay. you add that all up and it has proven to be, apparently according to the harvard crimson, too much for claudine gay's presidency to survive. according to the paper, she does plan to step down today. >> matt, it does stand up at the announcement is coming just three weeks after the harvard corporation, which is the university's highest governing body, announced they would unanimously supported her after they had extensive deliberations following her testimony before congress. it drew a lot of criticism, but is it fair to say that combining that with the plagiarism allegations was simply too much for her to overcome? it seems like they were in a different position three weeks ago.

>> boris, you are right, it was three weeks ago that the harvard corporation, the university's top governing board, announced its unanimous support for claudine gay. this news makes you wonder just how unanimous that support really was. how much depth there was to that support. as you mentioned, this is really a combination of multiple factors. right? it was the fact that the university's response to -- -- it just came down to a precious few minutes where claudine gay and the leaders of university pennsylvania and m.i.t. struggled to answer a question that a lot of people thought would be simple to answer. it's calling for the genocide of jews against the school's code of conduct and they all

fumbled the response. then on top of, that you layered the plagiarism allegations where claudine has had to issue corrections of multiple corrections. we should note that claudine gay has not been accused of stealing anyone's ideas in any of her writings. she has been accused more like copying other peoples writings without attribution. so it's more sloppy writing than stealing ideas, but you put that together and had the political pressure? the last two days, we've heard from another powerful donor threatening, actually promising to hold off donations to the school. so when you add all of that up, it seems as though it's been more than claudine gay's presidency could survive. this is a tough moment for one of the most prestigious universities in america. its brand has clearly taken a very big hit in just the past

few months. >> yes. there had been a reduction in early application. right? we had seen that, and that had raised some questions about whether this was affecting the brand, and how people who are, you know, who want to go to what is the best college in america, whether they were seeing it differently. there was also the political overtones here, matt, which is that congress, the house of representatives, republican oversight, had decided to join in investigating this, which was rather unusual, and adding a sort of other tension to this discussion over her tenure. >> reporter: absolutely, brianna. it's worth noting that this has all become so politicized, like a lot of things in society. this has been caught up in politics. even the plagiarism allegations. some of those initial allegations around plagiarism, they really came from activists.

not activists who were fired up about academic citation, it was really right activists who feel that a lot of these ivy league presidents aren't too liberal. and so that is where some of this initial concern about her academic writing came from. and to your point about the brand, the harvard brand, we did see early applications to harvard fall by 17% year over year. a lot of the other schools, including the university of pennsylvania even, did not see that kind of a drop. we should note that the cutoff date for early application to harvard was november 1st. so that would pre date the hearing that has gotten so much attention as well as the plagiarism issues, but it still does sort of raise this concern about what all of this attention and controversy has done to the harvard brand. at some point, you have to imagine that the officials who run the school, the harvard

corporation, the members of that board, they have to -- decide whether or not they want it to stand by cloudy day. according to the harvard crimson, they have decided they don't want to. it did not predict that controversy for joining backlash for signing on to a statement which is anti israel. i'm glad you pointed out the timeline on that, matt. it's incredibly important to see what may and may not have affected this. so many things are going on as harvard has become politicized here. >> matt egan, we're going to stay on top of the story. we look forward to what claudine herself has to say in the statement that we anticipate coming later today following her resignation. matt egan, thank you so much for the latest details on that breaking news. >> thank you. today, donald trump's lawyers are expected to file a pair of appeals to keep his name on the 2024 primary ballot into states. that major legal filing could be in front of the court at any moment. the former president is hoping to reverse to statement

decisions, won by the colorado supreme court, one by the main secretary of state both disqualify and his candidacy under the 14th amendments insurrectionist banned. we have with us one of the people who brought that successful challenge in maine, former republican state senator tom-savvy ella. we are glad to have you. i am glad to point out that you are a republican. you voted for donald trump twice. you now say that he is, quote, threatening the country that you love. i am wondering what changed and why you are pursuing this. polling indicates that he is the candidate that most republicans want. >> january 6th. when i sat and watched that take place, it literally made me sick to my stomach. i felt i had to take some action. i wasn't sure what that was going to be. i did a lot of studying on what the 14th amendment section, amendment 14 section three has to say. i did some work on trying to

understand how that came into being and found out there were a lot of mainers in the u.s. senate at the time who helped develop it. colorado ruled by saying, yes, he did cause an insurrection. i also read senator collins's comments when they tried to impeach mr. trump or president trump right after the insurrection. she even called it an insurrection. not knowing exactly what my path could be, i was given the opportunity. under main law, we actually have to have the secretary of state determine how the election is going to run. she made the determination, obviously, in the hearing that mr. trump wasn't qualified which is our secretary of state's job to do based on causing the insurrection in washington on january 6th. >> well, trump's team is upset about the fact that secretary of state made this decision unilaterally despite you are pointing out that it is part of maine law. they say that the will of

voters should not be decided by one person. what is your response? >> maine as a law! we have to follow what our laws say on the books. unless -- there are two ways you can do this. you can change the law or you cannot change what is required by the state of maine. one must not remember that the congress delegated the responsibility of elections to the states. in the state of maine, we delegated the election responsibilities to our secretary of state and then we crafted laws which told her or him or whoever what they had to do when there was an example of someone replying or running for a certain political office. in this case, mr. trump came in to run for president and certified his application because he had enough petition signatures, but when we complained, which we are allowed to do under our constitutional rights and under maine state law, she had a hearing, which was very fair, of which, interestingly enough, they brought no witnesses in.

they had no pieces of information. they objected to her participating after the hearing record was closed. i sometimes think they took us for granted. at the end of the day, she is simply following along. what is going to happen in maine is because of title 21 a it will be referred to the superior court which captures what has to be done. the superior court will take arguments from a both sides. i was told today that by january 17th the superior court will make a decision one way or the other. depending on what that decision is, it would be an appeal to the main supreme court and then -- i am not sure, but i've talked to a lot of my friends who are judges and lawyers. we are not sure how it goes up to the u.s. supreme court. i believe eventually it will get there. >> i was going to ask you about that. you said that you believe strongly that congress has given the right over elections to states to handle, but the supreme court obviously could weigh heavily on whether trump

appears on the primary ballot not only in maine but also in colorado and potentially in other states. what do you think is going to happen with your measure to remove trump once it reaches the highest court in the united states? >> well, that is a great question. i have asked a lot of people, could they sweep it out of our jurisdiction and take it on? the answer i was told was no. they could do a couple of things. one, they could actually not take it up. they could turn around and say, you know what? the u.s. congress has to change this law. they delegated that responsibility to the states. they could find a small piece of it that they want to address as you may recall. the judge basically said that he was not in an office. the president's position is not an office. therefore, this law does not apply to them. they could take it head on as a particular issue that they want to try to define, amendment 14, section three, incompleteness.

>> tom saviello, we have to leave the conversation there. we very much appreciate you changing your perspective. >> thanks for asking! sia. still to come, hamas says that one of its senior officials has been killed in beirut. >> that's right. he was considered one of the founding members of the group's military wing. wewe will haveve more detatails ahead.

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and it's a worrying escalation after weeks of mounting tensions between israel and lebanon. as you mentioned, a senior hamas official, the deputy of the political bureau had considered one of the founding members of the al-qassam brigades, hamas's military wing. we've heard from hamas that they have accused israel of carrying out a strike in the suburbs of southern lebanon, southern beirut rather, which they say killed this senior hamas official. at this stage cnn has reached out to the israeli ministry, but they have declined to comment. it's important to note right underscore that prime minister benjamin netanyahu has previously vowed to target senior hamas officials. not just in gaza or the occupied west bank, but whatever -- wherever they might be located. in the last hour or so, we've just heard from u.s. ambassador -- taking to twitter to congratulate the military services for killing al-arouri. this has created concern for the potential for the conflict

to escalate more broadly. the lebanese prime minister has condemned the incident and accused the israeli military of trying to escalate and draw lebanon into a conflict more broadly. >> all right, nada bashir live for us in beirut. thank you for the report. let's talk now with cnn political and global affairs analyst barack ravine. he's also a politics and foreign policy reporter for axios. all right, barack. you heard danny de known their congratulating israeli forces. has the idf commented on this at all yet? >> reporter: hi. the idf did not comment on it yet. i think in five or ten minutes there will be a press conference with an idf spokesperson, but i do not expect them to take responsibility for this attack. it seems the israeli policy right now is to keep silent, at

least in public, at least on the record. off the record and in that crowd conversations the israelis basically confirmed that it was them who assassinated al-arouri. and israeli officials tell me that now they are preparing for a pretty harsh hezbollah retaliation for this assassination. they think that hezbollah might even launch long-range missiles targets inside israel, even as far as tel aviv. >> how significant is this or was this hamas leader, and how much does the location of the attack matter? >> first i think it's very significant, but because if you just look at the statement hamas put out just an hour ago confirming his death, they called him one of the engineers of the october 7th attack. so if you want to see how significant it was, hamas's own

statement tells you everything you need to know. however, he was even more significant than that because al-arouri had two roles. one role was a political leader inside hamas, number two in hamas's political bureau, but his more important role was the commander of hamas's military wing in the west bank. from beirut, he orchestrated attacks in the west bank against israel in the last year. those attacks have dramatically increased in the last year. i think the most important thing to know about the attack is that it happened in the heart of beirut, very close to hezbollah's headquarters, and this would lead i think -- it's very likely this would lead to an escalation in the situation on the border between israel and lebanon. it could become a very extreme scenario or even lead to a war on the northern front. >> so israel would have

measured that, which is interesting. they certainly would know that. what does that tell you? >> reporter: of course. i think, you know, it means that they knew or that they know this could lead to a war with lebanon, and they still did it because they thought that he's one of the masterminds of the october 7th attack. and i think they wanted to send a message not only to hamas, but others in the region that they are ready to act against anybody who's trying to attack is rule, or who was involved in the october 7th attack, regardless what the retaliation might be. and i think it's very interesting, hezbollah leader is scheduled to give a major speech tomorrow. and i think all eyes should be on him and what he says and what he does because this will determine how the -- will look like in the next weeks and months. >> you also had more --

new reporting for axios on a new hostage deal for hamas. they rejected the deal. prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying there was a ultimatum from hamas on the release of hostages today, but he softened slightly. and israel is currently in contact with hamas. what are you learning here? >> reporter: i think after what happened in beirut today, the hostage talks will go into the deep freeze. i don't know how long it's going to take, but i cannot see any possibility of renewed hostage talks anytime soon. this is a major blow for hamas and i don't think they are going to, that this would make hamas soft in their position, and agree to what they have not agreed to so far. if anything, it will cause hamas to death in their position and refused to negotiate. >> all right, barak ravid thank you for that. we appreciate your reporting. we are standing by for dozens of documents the naming jeffrey

epstein's associates and victims. it could be made public as soon as today. what we could learn ahead.

right now, we are watching for the court ordered release of the names of jeffrey epstein 's associates, some of whom are expected to be high-profile figures who were friends with the late sex offender. >> this release could shed new light on the exact ties to epstein and his convicted accomplice, ghislaine maxwell. we have cnn's kara scannell following this for us. kara, tell us why the information is being released now and who's expected to be on the list, and if there might be some surprises. >> reporter: good afternoon, rihanna and boris. this is part of a long running lawsuit brought by the outspoken jeffrey epstein accuser, virginia roberts giuffre. she is suing ghislaine maxwell who was convicted of helping epstein in his sex trafficking operations. this has been a long running

lawsuits, numerous media organizations have asked for materials to be unsealed since it was settled several years ago. the judge saying that a lot of this information and identities have already entered public domain, either because people have spoken up publicly, or through maxwell trial that she said she was going to unseal all these documents that could have references to about 150 different people. some of them may be some accusers who have gone public and been outspoken about this. there are others from giuffre's lawsuits, she has made accusations of prominent men. she has accused prince andrew of sexually abusing her. they reached a settlement after she filed a lawsuit against him. she's also said epstein made her a sex slave and she was forced to have sex with the former new mexico governor, bill richardson. former u.s. senator, george mitchell. representatives for both of those men have denied they ever knew her, let alone had any sexual relations with her. she also has talked about in depositions and other public

domains, other famous men including former president bill clinton, who she says had traveled to jeffrey epstein's private island. clinton's spokespeople in the past have said that he was on epstein's private planes, but he never went to this island, which was the source of a lot of this alleged assault. she also has mentioned publicly former president donald trump, who publicly said he thought epstein was a drip guy into thousand two, but later said he kicked epstein out of his club mar-a-lago. it's unlikely we will hear more information about the names, but the question is what will we actually learn from what they allegedly did or did not do that has not become public? so we are looking closely at all these documents when they are unsealed to see which blanks that might fill in on jeffrey epstein's sorted life, boris and rihanna. >> kara scannell, thank you for that. we will be awaiting to see what comes out of it. to some of the other headlines we are watching this hour now. the shortstop for the tampa bay rays, wander franco, under

arrest in the dominican republic. he's accused of having in an appropriate relationship with a minor. he is a dominican native was arrested monday after appearing before prosecutors to respond to the allegations. franco has been on administrative leave for major league baseball since the accusations came to light last summer. and a surprising discovery on a california beach. yes, that is a risky old bomb that washed up on shore just days after the heavy surf pounded the coast. look at that. that is an ordinance disposal technician there. the bomb squad with the santa cruz sheriff's office responding, determining that it actually was safe. then personnel from nearby travis air force base traveled the weather device. the beach where the explosive was found was among the areas evacuated last week because of those 25 to 30-foot waves. and someone is starting the new year a whole lot richer. winning a ticket for the

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is starting to catch up with employers. or at least workers are hoping it catches on. >> that's right. a police department in colorado among those trying out a four day work week, with all employees on the clock for just 32 hours a week, but still getting paid for 40. that sounds federalists doesn't it? okay. as cnn's erica hill tells us, it's an effort to provide employees with greater flexibility and promote better work life balance. >> reporter: sometimes it's hard to adjust to a new schedule, but this one is actually really easy to adjust to. >> reporter: until july, this sergeant worked for ten hours days every week. now it's 48-hour days, 32 hours of work, but she is still paid for a full 40. >> i just get to be the best version of myself every single day, and part of that is that i'm filling my cup at home. >> it's not just sergeant signs, every employee at the golden colorado police department is

also working fewer hours. >> let me get your transport. hold on a moment. >> reporter: those compressed work weeks are part of a six-month pilot program for the department. if it goes well, it could expand all city employees. >> i know a lot of people out there are rooting for us. >> reporter: they have such a diversity of types of jobs. they've got folks out in the field covering to went -- 24/7 365. they have office personnel. so it was a good microcosm of the city as a whole i will say. >> reporter: was there any resistance initially? >> yeah. we really talked through that to explain that we are not expecting people to work less. we are asking them to work fewer hours, but asking them to get the same or more than. >> reporter: to achieve that goal, overlap between shifts has been reduced. meetings are shorter and more focused, but staffing levels have not changed. while squeezing everything into just four days though daunting at first, crime scene investigator --

quickly found her stride. >> professionally, i feel like i am driven more. personally, i've got four kids and a husband and two dogs. now i'm able to go to my kids recitals. i've got cheerleaders. it has benefited me all the way around. >> reporter: the idea of a better work life balance prompted officer madison cough to join the apartment last month. >> reporter: i think more people will catch on eventually and not get burned out by coming here. let's enjoy life. >> reporter: each week during the pilot, employees are asked how they are feeling about the reduced hours on the scale of zero to 100. three months in, those numbers have consistently been in the 90s. why is that such an important metric and this pilot? >> it goes back to some of the concerns we had when we sort of first launched this. it's that they are feeling so much pressure on a day-to-day basis trying to get everything done in a compressed schedule that they are not getting the

benefit we are looking for which is happier, healthier, better balanced life. all of those things. >> reporter: happier employees, but what about the community? serving the city of more than 20,000 is still the departments top priority. so far those findings are also -- including a boost in called response times. >> we just had a three month check in with the community and there was essentially no negative feedback. no concerns. >> reporter: productivity and efficiency basically up. overtime is down, which helps with budgeting. were you surprised at all by some of the initial data? >> yeah. i have been very surprised. it has been remarkably effective from the beginning. we are really optimistic with the initial data. >> reporter: what made you want to try to the entire country? >> we have seen it in the data and research in other areas and industries.

so why not try it? >> reporter: erica hill, cnn, golden, colorado. what do you think? [laughter] >> i enjoyed working here five days a week with you. >> four days a week. >> yeah, let's go for days. >> we both worked six days this week. we can go for five maybe. [laughter] coming up, this is a story we have paid a lot of attention to. we have learned the harvard presidident t said she w will r. we will hahave more onon the breaking n news ahead.d.

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