apparently a widespread power outage of unknown origin is plaguing downtown detroit right now. several city buildings are without power. the hall of justice has gone dark, apparently joe louis arena, detroit institute of arts, all of them have no power at the moment and nobody seems to know why. no explanation offered yet. fire houses are also having power problems throughout the city of detroit although a number of them have generators. there are reports of people stuck in elevators, you can imagine how frightening that must be especially if there are no lights as the helicopter hovers over the gm building in downtown detroit. major widespread power outage in downtown detroit. when we get more information of what might have caused it and how widespread it is, we will bring it to you. heather: a little chilly for folks there. the gloves, not at louisiana senate's debate. mary landrieu debating with bill cassidy to try to keep her senate seat. the last debate was last night of the runoff election focus on some controversies, among them the keystone pipeline. john roberts at the a

just after 10:30 this morning, the lights went out across downtown detroit, cutting power to 1,400 buildings. watch as the lights go out during a murder trial -- these lawyers left in the dark. traffic lights out, trains stalled, the detroit red wings arena pitch black. workers evacuating from city buildings. >> and the computer just said, boom. so, it just went out. >> reporter: some being helped out on stretchers. detroit public schools sending some children home early, as others tried to work by the light of their cell phones. wayne state university students told us they were scared. >> it went completely dark and then the lights were kind of flickering and everyone was like, what is happening? >> reporter: city officials blame outdated infrastructure for the outage. >> what you have is a power grid across this city that the city has not modernized in decades. >> reporter: just last year, detroit losing power for two days. its troubles, a sign of the growing burden on america's aging electrical infrastructure. the number of significant outages across the country quadrupling in recent year

back in this country: about 100 buildings in downtown detroit lost power for much of the day, after a major cable failure. the lights went out around 10:30 in the morning, forcing public schools to dismiss students at mid-day. the bankrupt city's mayor mike duggan said the power grid run by the public lighting department-- p.l.d. -- has not been modernized in decades. >> today is another reminder of how much work we still have to do to rebuild this city. and a bankruptcy order doesn't solve the decades of neglect in our infrastructure and that's what we saw today in the p.l.d. system. >> ifill: power was gradually being restored throughout the afternoon. 35 u.s. hospitals have been officially designated ebola treatment centers, should the need arise. the department of health and human services released the list today. most of the hospitals are in major cities, and have the best trained staff and essential equipment. the announcement came as president obama visited the national institutes of health to highlight progress toward an ebola vaccine. a federal report card out today finds u.s

the power was off, and now it's back on in downtown detroit. a widespread outage shut down schools and businesses for hours. bisi onile-ere reports. >> reporter: the city's aging electrical grid is to blame for this power outage over 900 locations primarily here in downtown detroit were effected. but the lights are slowly coming back on. as you can imagine when the outage first hit it caused a lot of confusion. a number of buildings had to be evacuated over 700 traffic signals are out. 36 fire stations were without power. electricity was cut to over 80 schools, and some people were even you stuck in elevators. detroit mayor mike duggen held a press conference and blamed the city's crumbling infrastructure. out of the bankruptcy the city is getting out of the business of running a lighting department. the mayor talked about where the city is that in that transus. >> dte is in the process of building a $200 million system to serve these customers because the dpd system was so far gone it just could not be salvaged. so we're in the early phases of

but the wide spread power outage affecting downtown detroit.sinesses, government offices, as well as as we just reported, schools closing after a half day in session. >>> more on the fallout from ferguson. president obama's series of meetings with protest leaders, activists, and law enforcement officials. the president unveiled a new plan for helping police department buy more body cameras. he promised programs to bring police and communities together. the president stopped short of criticize i criticizing ferguson. one called the plan a band aid on a larger problem. then there's this headline from the los angeles times. avoids addressing ferguson head on. joining me now mark murray. i'm curious with your analysis and looking at this. is this a situation where you'll have someone who is unhappy or did the president not take a strong enough stance here in. >> tamron, i'm not surprised people are disappointed particularly the activists. the people who are upset about the grand jury not indicting officer darren wilson here. in a lot of republic--

hold the jokes, but cash-strapped downtown detroit was suddenly thrown into a dangerous darkness, stranding people in elevators, cutting power to critical emergency services earlier today. what caused this, and did it have an impact on the motor city's major car operations? we're revving to go, so let's start the "countdown." ♪ ♪ liz: well, electrical shutdown or not, the juice was running for november auto sales. we've got to get to that first, because the last time we had numbers anywhere this good, mark zuckerberg was trying to get into harvard, and twitter had nothing to do with 140 pesky characters. chrysler had its best month ever, specifically for jeep sales. a record of all time. and look at general motors, cruising to a 6% gain. toyota saw a 3% jump. not all automakers hit it out of the ballpark though. luxury brand lincoln was up 21%, but ford sales were overall not good enough. they decreased about 2%, that's still less than what was horribly expected, so that actually is a positive for ford. nissan dropped 3%, that's narrower than expected and of all things leaf sales, so people

you're looking at live pictures right now of downtown detroit where a power outage has affected a wholeave lost their power. major buildings in that downtown area. >> we're told its pretty widespread, the outage there. they don't know the cause of it. they're declaring a half day for the students in detroit public schools because they have no power. it is affecting some 87 schools on the d.t.e. grid. major blackout hitting downtown detroit. no reason why at this point. >> it is interesting. it's hitting the public buildings, not homes. a lot of public buildings, a lot of schools, which means a whole lot of people being affected by this. we'll keep you updated as we learn information throughout the morning. >>> we want to turn to an extraordinary meeting that happened a short time ago right here at cnn. three women who had never met before but all with something in common. they each claim that bill cosby sexually assaulted them. i want to show you what happened after their interview with my colleague, allison cammer ata. >> they're three of the now 17 women who have gone public with simi

. >> reporter: a massive power outage in downtown detroit today. >> no power on this end of downtown. >> reporter: it started at about 10:30 this morning. a major cable failure at the masturski power generation plant triggered a blackout to the municipal power grid. courthouses, fire stations and schools all went dark. hospitals, forced to rely on generators, moved some critical care patients. students and staff at nearly 90 schools dismissed early. firefighters rushed to downtown high-rises to help free those trapped in elevators or too weak to climb down stairs. more than 700 stoplights went dark, snarling traffic. people used flashlights in dark buildings to get through the stairwells to safety. hundreds were evacuated from the city's municipal center. and at the local courthouse, a high-profile murder-for-hire trial was interrupted. here you can see the lights flickering while court was in session. attorney christopher quinn was one of the people who had to get out. >> i was just leaving court, jumped on an elevator and all of a sudden it just shook and stopped, and then the power

a major power failure struck downtown detroit today, darkening government to lings and forcing the evacuation of workers. the blackout affected city hall and the detroit institute of arts and other prominent buildings. schools are reportedly sending students home for the day. in the meantime the detroit manager may submit his resignation to rick snyder within days. he was appointed to handle the related to their municipal bankruptcy. in a speech to the oakland county business roundtable he says he is not interesting in repeating his act in another troubled city. last month detroit won approval of their at cutting plan to allow it to refashion itself after decades of decay and the climb. president obama has reportedly chosen ashton carter, senior pentagon official, to be his fourth secretary of defense. if confirmed he will succeed chuck hagel. years asmore than two the defense department's number two civilian leader under leon panetta and secretary hagel. had thislumenthal reaction in his interview earlier today with my colleague, peter cook. >> a very solid choice, he is a poem -- he is a pe

over 900 locations primarily here in downtown detroit were affected, but the lights are slowly comingback on. as you can imagine when the outage first hit it caused a lot of confusion. a number of buildings had to be evacuated over 700 traffic signals were out. 36 fire stations were without power. electricity was cut to over 80 schools, and some people were even stuck in elevators. the detroit mayor mike duncan held a press conference, he blamed the black out on the city's crumbling infrastructure. out of the bankruptcy the city is getting out of the business of the lighting department, and an energy department will soon take over. mayor duggen talked about where the city is at in that transition. >> dte is in the process of building a $200 million system to serve these customers because the dpd system was so far gone it just could not be salvaged. and so we're in the early phases of this four-year process. >> throughout all of this the city of detroit never lost 911 dispatch, and the mayor said that no one was seriously hurt. the power is expected to be fully restored by night's end.

right now about a hundred municipal buildings in downtown detroit remain without power.ury yields staging a rebound today. are we going to see rates climb higher? jackie at the nymex where more. >> what's interesting with the action in bonds now is initially we saw yields dropping along with oil prices as well but they are coming back today even though oil is staying weak. scott nations, do you think that bonds overreacted to the oil trade? >> that is a great question. i think they absolutely over reacted to the upside. and the question is why? well as you pointed out you would expect yields and crude to go lower. as crude falls we expect inflation to fall as well. we have to remember crude oil is not the only thing that constitutes inflation. labor is also a big part of that. we're going to get more news about labor later this week. >> we were just talk about that this morning, looking talent jobs market fried and the bonds market gauging up if that are number. what do you think the reaction will be? and what do you think yeemds do in 2015? if we get a number like they

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train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >>> want to turn now to a developing story in downtown detroito give you live pictures on the left-hand side of your screen, some taped pictures on the right-hand side of your screen. it's a bit weird what's going on there. but city officials say they really don't know yet the cause of this massive power outage. it started about 90 minutes ago. affecting city hall and other government buildings in detroit, as well as 87 public schools. school officials are dismissing the students early. the detroit mayor is expected to hold a news conference soon. perhaps he'll have more answers as to what exactly caused this outage. the detroit fire chief is confirming the fire department is fanned out across this outage area and they're having to rescue on unknown number of people apparently stuck in elevator because when the power goes out, the elevators stopped. the fire department is on rescue detail to get people out of some of those high-rises that have no power. it's an unusual kind of power outage. the detroit public lighting system has been hit, apparen

. >> detroit's aging electrical grid is to blame for a power outage, 900 locations here and downtown detroit were affected, but the lights are slowly coming back on. as you can imagine, when the outage first hit, it caused a lot of confusion. a number of buildings had to be evacuated, over 700 traffic signals were out, 36 fire stations were without power, electricity was cut to over 80 schools and some people stuck in elevators. detroit mayor mike dugan held a press conference this afternoon, blaming the blackout on the city's crumbling infrastructure. out of the bankruptcy, the city is getting out of the business of running the light department. a downtown energy company will soon take over. the mayor talked about where the city is at. >> d.t.e. is in the pros of building a $200 million system to service these customers because the system was so far gone, it could not be salvaged, so we're in the early phases of this four year process. >> throughout all of this, the city of detroit never lost 911 dispatch. no one was seriously hurt. >> that's bisi onile-ere reporting. last minute efforts un

tucked into the back room of an art gallery under an overpass in downtown detroit.ot liquor, you got cigarettes, you got coffee. >> we're going to eat well. >> charlie rudolph may have a pulitzer prize. but his appreciation of fine food and dining is, shall we say -- >> that cheese? >> lacking. simply put, he's a philistine. warm egg yolk with a generous helping of smelt roe on top? egg with eggs? yes, please. he scarves his like he's at ruby tuesday's. >> you've got all these kids. they're flooding into detroit. which is good. how is that going to play out? will there be political leadership in place to manage that fairly? >> it will be fine. everybody likes a nice, you know, thing in an egg shell with caviar on top, everybody. it's just all about keeping cool. >> it won't be fine, dude. it will not be fine. if there's not political leadership, it will not. >> well, you know, sometimes political leadership grows up out of what's happening. and we don't have any political leadership. and this is happening. >> are you an optimist? >> i'm an optimist. >> you're an opt

outage prompted schools to send stunts home early and there were evacuation throughout downtown detroit. power grid not upgraded in decades is the issue. changes are coming says the mayor. >> l many years in the process of building a 200 million dollar system to serve these customers you because the d pd system was so far gone it just could not be salvaged. >> electricity is new back on for nearly half of the customers served by detroit public lighting department. the outage is another black eye for the city which is fully emerging from the largest municipal bankruptcy in u.s. history. >> president obama is expected to nominate ashton carter as secretary of defense to replace hagel. never served in uniform but if including senator mccai mccain. previously served as deputy defense secretary under president obama but resigned a year ago. its unlikely he warm front faced strong opposition in senate confirmation hearings if nominated. >> pentagon confirms that iran fighter jet are attacking isis positions in ernie rack. this essentially means iran and u.s. are fighting against the same enem

light department business, that responsibility will be turned over to an energy company here in downtown detroit. we had an opportunity to ask the mayor a couple of questions and he talks about where the and i is at right now in that transition. take a listen. >> dte is in the process of building a $200 million system to serve these customers because the d.p.d. system was so far gone, it could not be salvaged and so we are in the early fazes of this process. >> over 700 traffic cigle thats were out, but as you can see behind me. the lights are back on and traffic is moving slowly. still throughout all of this. it never went down. the major said there was no one that was seriously hurt. >> can you imagine that 700 traffic signals out at 1 point, wow. appreciate it, thank you. they are called burn pits. areas on military bases are waste has burned. the captain of the wrecked costa concordia cruise ship. is also charged with causing the wreck and abandoned ship in january of 2012. 32 people died when the ship ran aground and ship remains partially submerged for more than two years before it was sal

general motors, one of the only big three auto makers located in downtown detroit says there has been no impact at the renaissance center headquarters. >>> now to courtney reagan with breaking news on amazon ceo jeff bezos. >> amazon ceo rarely speaks out not at quarterly earnings calls and conferences except for today. he just wrapped up at the website's ignition conference expecting topics as drones and websites to what he is like as a dad. here is what he had to say after the last disappointing report. >> you have been a shareholder for a long, long time. happy, rode it up in the bubble. very much believer in the long term, investment cycle and big bets. even i last quarter had a little bit of a gulp when i saw the fact that you were not just breaking even anymore but losing a boat load of money and way more than you said you were going to lose which i thought was sand bagging they said they are going to lose and come in with a profit and stocks are going to soar. it was worst than you said. when do you begin to say we have to rein it in a little bit? >> where is the part where you

a cable failure in downtown detroit was to blame.raffic lights were out and some government buildings were also affected. the power is slowly being restored in the city. >>> cameras caught this man intentionally setting an apartment building on fire. you can see him here. he's going to pour gasoline all over the floor of the hallway and then he'll ignite the fire. two dogs run out and away from the flames. detroit firefighters say the building was occupied, but no one was injured. and the dogs are fine. there he is, pouring that gasoline. police are still looking for the suspect. >>> now, it was a disturbing attack against a young mother walking down a street in new york when a robber kicked her in the back, knocked her to the ground and her baby was also knocked to the ground. as bryn gringis reports, the baby is fine but the mother is rattled. >> reporter: it an unexpected kick that terrified this bronx mother friday. >> describes it as she was stabbed somehow. >> repor the mother did not want to appear on camera and a translator t

several schools closing early after a massive power outage in downtown detroit. government offices, hospitals, not to mention traffic lights all dark right now. the cause? city officials reportedly cause a major cable failure. rick leventhal has the latest. how does this happen? what happened? >> well, we're still trying to figure all that out. even the airport lost power for a while. it's back on there now. the city's public lighting grid suffering, as you said, a major cable failure that caused the entire grid to lose power. the utility says that it's isolated the issue. it's working to restore electricity as soon as possible. we're waiting to a press conference now with mayor mike duggan on what may have gone wrong. this is a massive outage. the joe louis arena and numerous public schools. wayne state university canceled all of its classes on the main campus, including any courses or events scheduled for tonight. the outages knocked out traffic lights at many intersections and stranded an unknown number of people on elevators and numerous buildings prompting r

. >> officials are working right now to restore that power in downtown detroit after a massive cable failure that happened around 10:30 this morning. about 100 municipal buildings schools as well as joe lewis arena all went dark. the power outage affecting the denver people mover, elevated rail line that loops around the downtown area and cut power to traffic lights in certain parts of the city. state police have been brought in to help with traffic control. power is slowly coming back on and expected to be fully restored. dte energy which delivers energy is bringing in equipment so the public system can be moved to a temporary line. power at the courthouse was restored. students at effected schools were sent home early. detroit's mayor is scheduled to give an update later this afternoon and we will have details from that. >> thank you very much. >>> we want to talk about the single biggest take away from the north dakota trip. here is the thing. i think my biggest take away has nothing to do with oil. >> you got frost bite? that was not your biggest take away. >>> it is time for tod

there were also evacuations throughout downtown detroit. blaming this on a power grid that has not been upgraded in decades. detroit's mayor says improvements are coming. >> d.t.e. is in the process of building a $200 million system to serve these customers because the d.p.d. system was so far gone, it just could not be salvaged. >> electricity is now back on to nearly half of the customers served by detroit's public lighting department. the outage is another black eye for the city which is slowly emerging from the largest municipal bankruptcy in u.s. history. "world news tonight with david muir" will have the latest on exactly what's happening in the motor city coming up at 5:30 here on abc 7. >>> still ahead on abc 7 news at 4:00, a 3-year-old with a big heart. why a lot of people are talking about her very first haircut. >>> plus, there may be some angels after all. how members of the biker gang making a big difference in one central valley community. >>> i'm spencer christian. live doppler 7 hd shows areas of light to moderate rainfall

orr, so, what does it mean today if i live in downtown detroit and i call 911 this morning as comparedment report more quickly? what happens? >> yeah, actually, those figures in terms of reporting are approaching national averages of like 18 minutes. it means that services, two-thirds of the civil side of the city's budget are really public safety budgets. so, yes, they do come quicker. we have more ambulances on the road. we have police response times down. we have murder clearance rates up. so, you see those things, particularly in the central business district downtown, but you still have to push out reinvigoration and redevelopment in the neighborhoods. >> and what about pension benefits for retirees? were they cut back? are their pension restored or frozen or what happened there? >> yeah, we were fortunate enough to get $816 million between a state contribution and foundations to help us shore up the pensions. so, in the police and fireside of the pension house, their pensions were not cut. their cola was cut by about 40%. and on the civil side, their pensions were cut by about 4.

detroit after a massive outage. it affected buildings in the downtown area including a courthouse where a murder trial is being held. a cable fire was being blame and people were forced downstairs to evacuate building. detroit recently emerged from bankruptcy and its aging city is in need of major repair. >> it's a reminder of how much we have to do to rebuild this city. >> reporter: officials say the city's 911 system continued to operate during the blackout. >>> on "cbs moneywatch" twitter cracks down on abusive tweets and we'll tell you who is tapped to play a famous batman villain. >>> good morning, anne-marie. the recent hacking attack at sony pictures is more extensive than originally thought. last month's criply security breach is apparently relaced to the release of five sony films. yesterday internal documents that appeared to contain employee salaries and social security number and other data were released. experts warn it's not just businesses at risk. >> the malware is capable of essentially destroying the hard drive on your computer which is highly unusual for malware and makes this a first of its kind

continuing with our national lead right now, more protests already under way in downtown chicago and cleveland and detroit, setting the stage for another night of demonstrations coast to coast, part of the growing outrage over the death of eric garner and the new york city grand jury's decision to not indict the police officer who put him in a fatal chokehold. live in new york, i want to go to eric garner's daughter, erica snipes garner, and benjamin laughton, eric garner's cousin. thank you both for being here. first of all, i'm so sorry for you loss. this is such a horrific tragedy. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you for having us. >> erica, beyond the incident and beyond the grand jury decision, eric garner was your dad. what do you want people to know about him? >> i just want them to know that his family loves him dearly and he was a family man. he wasn't a violent man. we loved him. i love him. he was everything. he was a great grandfather, a great uncle, a great cousin, a great everything -- he was everything -- you know? so i just want them to know that he wouldn't have wanted to die in vain

detroit after a massive outage. the blackout affected government buildings in the downtown area including a courthouse where a murderrial was being held. a cable failure was blamed and people were forced to walk downstairs to evacuate buildings. detroit recently emerged from bankruptcy, and city officials say its aging infrastructure is in need of serious repair. >> today is another reminder of how much we have to do to rebuild this city. >> officials say the city's 911 system continued to operate during the blackout. >>> on "cbs moneywatch" twitter cracks down on abusive tweets and we'll tell you who is tapped to play a famous batman villain. jill wagner is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, jill. >>> good morning, anne-marie. the recent hacking attack at sony pictures is more extensive than originally thought. last month's crippling security breach is apparently related to the pirating of five unreleased sony films. yesterday internal documents that appeared to contain employees' salaries, social security numbersing and other personal data was released. and experts warn it's not just

center of the troy, the center downtown which is as you reported coming back as a result of bankruptcy. that is the area that is hit. not the outlying area so much. not detroitich is a larger part of the city but that downtown area. dave: we are used to these things in the summertime blues sometimes in the winter after a devastating storm. there is no snow on the ground. we are well out of the summer months. what could be causing this? i am asking you to speculate. could be hangover effect from the bankruptcy? >> the detroit public lighting system has been tasked with trying to get this the real live. they have been taking certain areas down to try to get the street lights on and get this he restored in some fashion and there have been multiple other power outages at the process has been continuing. nothing, however, so far, this big. this is a big one. 100 public customers, the big buildings, not just houses, big buildings with a lot of people in them. dave: thank you very much. first devastating cyberattack at sony and now the fbi warning u.s. businesses that hackers have used malicious software to launch very destructive attacks in the u.s.. joining us is

detroit work. >> city leaders are also seeing signs of a come back in downtown progress and a lot of people are saying they're beginning to see improvements here in the city of detroit. for example, when it comes to calling 911, last year, tony, it wouldn't guarantee a response. city leaders say it does now. >> bisi onile-ere for us in detroit. good to see you. thank you. >> as we said congress is set to vote on a government funding bill, but it could effect millions of retirees. david shuster up for ali velshi. thank you for visiting us. >> let's say you were in the construction industry, supermarkets or trucking, and you've been paid in a benefit plan, and you would have got then benefit plan because of collective bargaining. there are ten million americans who are expecting an amount in their pension each month. what congress has done is this pension is underfunded. it's due to run out in ten years. we're going to eliminate 40 years of law and allow the people who were on the hook for these pensions, to cut them by 50%. some folks are thinking i should be getting $4,000, now boom you get $2,000, an

. >>> a massive power outage in detroit today knocked out electricity to most buildings downtown. people were trapped in elevators, jails, schools. power officials say the mass outage was caused by cable failure, causing the grid to lose power. the city says it's trying to restore power as soon as possible. >>> this is a yellow alert day. now, here's wusa9's first alert weather. >> not such a great hair day. you say more rain is on the way. >> kind of miserable out there. fog, drizzle now. rain to the west rolling through in the next couple hours. the good news, there's a silver lining somewhere. temperatures above freezing pretty much across the board. let's start with a live look outside. at the airport you can see it's kind of shrouded in drizzle, a little bit of fog. it's 37. been sitting on 37, 38 all day. little bit of drizzle. winds still northeasterly at five. when they switch and become southwesterly, it will happen later tonight, we'll break the cold air wedge. here's the radar over the past couple hours. another batch of rain rolling toward winchester on i i- 81. see th

power is back at public schools in detroit after widespread outage, schools had to close early yesterday, after a major cable failure blacked out power to dozen every downtown buildings, many public buildings, including fire stations, sat in the dark, but some did have generators. >>> a sheriff's deputy carried a woman out of a building, during that power outage, in detroit, city employees had to take the stairs, since elevators were out. deputy saw a woman with multiple sclerosis, in need of help at the hall of justice. car i had that woman, as you see, all the way to her car. what happened to detroit's power? many pointing at the city crumbling infrastructure. >>> all right, 4:45 right now, headed on over to sue, checking the weather. good morning. >> yes, may have trouble seeing where you're going this morning, thanks to poor visibility, it is specially bad north and west of the city, where we have only .3 after mile visibility in mount pocono, less than mile in lancaster. now, at philly, we have some winds out there, so, visibility isn't so bad. but there is a loft moisture in the air, and there are some showers around, as well. 3 miles visibility, in w

by not only investing in the downtown area but the world areas but also proving they'll invest in the people. detroitook at the lions are 11-4. it's a reason we're highlighting our operation hope at our global forum in january. this is a great year for detroit and a model for how cities are going to be recovering in the future in detroit. >> i'm glad you're giving a shoutout to detroit. alison, what about the losers? >> we think about detroit and some of the losers. gm. gm is one of the losers on my list. it really is all about the fallout of its recalls. gm's ignition switch crisis, its recall happened 11 years after gm learned of these complaints that ignitions could switch off. you saw more than a dozen deaths because of this. you saw its new ceo mary barra taken to task in front of congress, having to explain this corporate culture that didn't change and apologize for these deaths and injuries. takata air bags part of it as well. this was really the year of the recall. 60 million recalled cars, by the way, then you're seeing recalls because of these takata air bags. this is japanese supplier of a