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tonight, deadline day. monday is the enrollment deadline for obamacare. mark albert on what that means if you don't sign up. a meeting between joh john kerrd his russian counterpart end today on a stand off. margaret brennan on what's next for ukraine. house investigators release new information on the gm always, what the company knew and when saty regular later decided not to investigate. >investigate. the frontier in recycling using the food scraps you use at home to heat your home. >> when you hear the words anaerobic digestion, i get excited. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news."
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>> glor: i'm jeff glor with the western e desire of broadcast. etcetera six months since enrollment started. important both supporters and distracters it felt more like six years but tomorrow is the deadline. if you don't have health insurance coverage by tomorrow the penalty could be a tax of 1% of your income or $95, whichever is higher. the healthcare website is reporting two million visits record volume this weekend. in some cases callers can't get through. that even though one study says only 39% of uninsured americans realize tomorrow is the deadline. with more, we begin with mark albert in washington. >> reporter: it's a long sprint to the finish line. people pack health fairs in california's bay area. in miami mall, eight hours wait. and in silver spring, maryland, lines began before dawn. >> we've given out about a hundred numbers and the billing doesn't open for another hour. >> reporter: health official mary anderson brought in extra
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navigators this weekend to help people like kate kodock to get in line. >> i wanted to get in line. >> reporter: the administration is providing a period of unspecified length for those applying or on phone. but the person must attest they did sign up before the deadline. the government will take your word for it, it's on the honor silsystem to reach the deadline have preached from the pews and the pubs where people have been pushed and prodded toí&dq sign . they will subsidize the care of older americans. 18 to 34 advocates found it's a steep learning curve, many not knowing basic healthcare terms. before you started this process you know what a premium was. >> i remember. >> reporter: 121 year old muhammed munim situated to sign up. far short of initial
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projections. dan mendelson of avalere health believes health plans privately prepared for this and any higher premiums next year will be blamed just as much on rising costs and taxes as a lack of young people. >> we expect to see double digits in premiums on an ongoing basis as a result of these factors. i don't think that the demographic mix is going to be a major driver of premium increases on a going forward basis. >> reporter: the key test how many signed up actually pay for their first month's premium to keep the coverage. jeff. >> glor: albert, thank you very much. the chairman of the house energy and subcommittee said today that thousands of internal gm documents quotes paint an undetling picture. gm new spotters were not up to spec in 2001 but still used them. federal safety regulators with the national highway safety
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administration noticed a dangerous trend in 2007 but declined to investigate further. congressional hearings start tuesday. how are the recalls affecting car buyers. vinita fire foun fire nair foun. >> reporter: his sales are up. she has driven a gm car most of her life and today she wants to buy another. and it make you any less interested in buying that car. >> no, not at all. >> reporter: since early february, general motors has recalled 4.8 million vehicles. the problems range from transmission leaks to weak axle shafts that could fracture but the biggest recall has been for faulty ignition switches that could shut off the engine while the car is still running. debbie and mark bailer are worried about their daughter rachel who drives a chevy cobalt. >> we had bought the car because
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we thought it was a safe car for her. >> it seems like they are unprepared for this recall. they've known about this issue with the car for years. they should have the parts stalked and ostocked and on the. >> reporter: they will be getting lertsdz that parts are available so they can schedule a rare. richard bleu blumenthal says ths not enough. >> i wouldn't let my children behind the wheel of one of these cars. i urge everyone and anyone who owns it to have the ignition switch replaced or whatever is necessary but not to drive it in the meantime. >> reporter: new report on auto sales is due out this tuesday. it might be the best indicator of how consumers really feel about the brand. vinita nair, cbs news new york. >> glor: the search for flight 370 in the new area spotted more debris today but none that can de finnively be linked to the boeing 777. holly williams in perth, australia has the latest on the search and anguish of families
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who traveled from china to malaysia awe shoul to be heard. >> reporter: they are racing to find the black boxes or flight recorders. they could help explain what went wrong but they only have eight days of battery life left. the u.s. navy has flown in an under water black box locator and it should arrive in the search area in the next 48 hours. mark mathews in charge in such says it could take years. >> right now the area is basically the size of the indian ocean which would take an untenable amount of time to search. >> reporter: the long wait for news is frustrating for the families of the 239 people who were on board. and today some of their families traveled to cool la kua blvmentp
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per. we want to know what happened to her families. holly williams, cbs news, perth, australia. >> glor: in ukraine between secretary of state john kerry and sergey lavrov ended in paris today without an agreement. a press conference followed that meeting and margaret brennan is in washington tonight. marg, any progress. >> well jeff, both sides agree to continue talking. so the four our long meeting included what kerry said was a source discussion of the nearly 50,000 russian troops thawr long the ukrainian border and proposal to change ukraine's expootion tconstitution to gives of the countryathon me. you can speak with them and allow them to determine maybe some of their own policies. the hope is that it would stop
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the russian military from moving more forces in. but western diplomats are concerned that the kremlin might use this opportunity to undermine the new prowest government in kiev. in fact the russians have asked for assurances that ukraine won't become part of nato because that would put it under western military protection. so later this week, kerry will head to a meeting of nato ministers where they'll discuss how to build all the western military presence in the region to protect from further russian insurgence. so as you can see, both sides are pretty cautious here and western diplomats very much so because they have seen no sign that vladimir putin has backed down militarily. >> glor: margaret brennan, thank you. the governor of washington state inspected the site of last weekend deadly metho dead deadl. still missing from 90 to 30. john blackstone has the latest
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from the town of darrington tonight. >> reporter: in churches on both sides of the slide area, they prayed for those who were lost and offered support to those who survived. they also shared stories of rescues and close calls. at the baptist church in darrington, isaac hall was there with his wife and three young children. a week ago saturday, the land slide blocked the road just in front of him. how deep was the mud. >> if you step out, you would go right in. >> reporter: he was warned it was too dangerous to help. >> if you got somebody hurt, that's it right there. >> reporter: he worked his way across the mud and debris to a four year old boy who was all alone. what was the boy experiencing. >> he was freaked out, in tears and freezing cold. i went up to him and comforted him and started digging him out. >> reporter: a helicopter came up above them.
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isaac lifted jacob spillers to safety. >> i was calling for his mom. come to find out his mom made it, i guess. so not good. >> reporter: the boy's father, two brothers and a sister were lost. at the oso community church, pastor bob reith says he extended the tragedy here is sinking. >> we're beginning to see grief and that's a long term thing. working together because there's so much to be done. this whole year will be a year of recovery. >> reporter: to try to help the bad recovery volunteers are now searching through the debris for family mow men toes, things like photographs so some memories may be returned to those who have lost their hoamgz anhoamgz -- homes and perhaps their family. jeff. >> glor: mark blackstone, thank you very much. when a music festival goes back in miami when the cbs evening news continues. yowsh continues.
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>> glor: electronic music festivals are a multimillion dollar business, they're also becoming a dangerous one. this he can wend's ultra fess in miami was a crowd got out of control after a security guard was critically injured. here's vicente aw awe analysis. >> reporter: a dozen people were stampeding. erica mack was overpowered and sent to the er with a fractured skull. >> a lot of people who pushed the fence down. pushing her back. >> reporter: cities leaders want to ban the electronic music festival for miami saying it's too dangerous. commissioner mark sarnoff had warned the city about this event before it even started. >> there's no way of putting 70,000 people together with one way in and one way out. >> reporter: in the last few years festivals like ultra fest have been criticized for drug use and security concerns. last september, two people died
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of drug overdoses at a fess full in new york. in 2010, a 15 year old girl died from a overdose in a festival in california. ultra fest denied responsibility for the incident this weekend. we spoke with one of the organizers, adam russakoff before the event began on friday and he wasn't worried. >> the police, the fire department. we have our own security team, experts in here to really help us. >> reporter: but sarnoff says police pointed out a weak link in the fence less than three years before mack was trampled. >> they were told to reinforce the fence and they don't so. >> reporter: the concert continue without safety issues but lots of questions about whether it should ever come back. very seen tee arenas news miami. >> glor: kate o'mara died
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schlesinger more on this. we're talking about student loan debts. how much. >> 1.2 trillion. how about that. that's a big number. the average kid who has debt now is graduating school with $27,000 in debt. that's a mortgage payment right there. so obviously with that burden, it's very difficult for kids to afford buying a home. it's even hard for them to rent. they're going home living with their parents and these boomerang kids are staying there for a while. >> glor: that's a house down payment does. this group still think of homeownership as the american dream. >> i don't think so. i think when you graduate in the midst of a terrible recession, that it really does impact you and impacts your decision-making. these kids suffer from what economists call resent see bias. what happened in the past informs our decision-making going forward. the good news is hopefully as time goes by it isn't seem severe and will feel homeownership is a good idea for them. >> glor: for these kids, what does it do to the housing market overall moving forward.
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>> in the last 18 months, the big push in homes and sales and prices has been from the large investors who came in with cash, swooped up and bought stuff at a bargain. we need to see these first time home buyers fill the gap. hopefully as the kids get out of debt, as the economy improves slowly they too will be able to buy a home. because in many areas, in most areas of the country, buying and owning a home is cheaper than renting right now. >> glor: jill, thank you very much. >> great to be with you. >> glor: still ahead, garbage in, power out. blanks tplans to recycle your f. >> glor: the white house
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friday announced a plan to cut emissions of methane a greenhouse gas produced by oil and gas drilling, cattle and landfills. some places including the country's biggest city are now tackling the landfill issue with an unusual approach. the residents of new york city generate more than three million tons of garbage every year. that's more than boston, philadelphia, washington d.c., baltimore, miami and charlotte combined. one third of that garbage is food scraps and other organic material. and the city launched a program to conquer what some call the final frontier in recycling. ron gonen runs the city's recycling program. >> there's no reason why we should be spending taxpayer money, spending something to sit in a hole some place. it's completely absurd and we need to move away from that as a society. >> glor: it starts here. people separate out their organic material. sanitation workers pick it up, take it to a facility where any
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remaining non-organics are calculateseparated out and turna thinking sludge. pounpumped into these silver eaz normally used to therese waste waters. micro organisms from the city's sugen, break down the sludge, turn it into fertilizer and methane gas that will be used to power homes. it's a process called anaerobic digestion. when you here the words anaerobic digestion. >> i get excited. i get excited. >> glor: for the city it's win/win. more shipping, less renewable energy for homeowners. >> people looked at recycling as the right thing to do for the environment which it is but they're now start to go recognize it's also the right thing to do for the local economy. >> glor: gonen believes new york will be recycling all of its organic waste in three to five years. he says the program disease signed to be copied anywhere. coming up on opening night, new opening for managers to challenge calls. instant replay comes to
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for baseball in america. the padres are hosting the dodgers in zapped ay san diego. they played against the arizona diamond backs in australia last week. starting this sanes, managers can ask umpires to go to the video tape. instant replay during the game. don dahler reports. >> reporter: most of the time when umpires make a wrong call the impact on the game is inconsequential. not so when a bad call alters a championship series or robs a pitcher of a perfect game. which is why major league baseball invested $50 million in an instant replay system. even though joe torre was one wd it. >> it's a way to avoid the big
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historic bad call. >> yes, there's no question. we want to eliminate those ones that you shake your head at or as managers go home, as i did on a number of nights saying i wish i had a chance to change one thing. >> reporter: now every major league ballpark is connected by fiber optic cable to the replay command center in downtown manhattan where a rotating team of umpires monitors every game. a manager gets one challenge per game. when he choose to use it the player is reviewed from new york in multiple angles. 9 umpires can hold up the call, overturn it or say that it wasn't clear enough to overturn. bo porter successfully challenged a call during the spring training a game. his team came from behind and won. >> when you have an opportunity to rectify a call one way or another, i think it's good for the game. >> reporter: the main concern managers and players have
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expressed is whether this opens the door for more technology trumping human judgment. like what is used in the other major sports. >> i'm an old school guy and i said baseball is not supposed to be perfect. life's not perfect. >> reporter: managers still can't challenge balls and strikes which means there will be plenty of opportunities to yell at the umpires. one of baseball's most cherished traditions. don dahler, cbs news, florida. >> glor: that is the cbs evening news. later on cbs "60 minutes." i'm jeff glor in new york. scott pelley will be here tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org
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