gerhart has the troubling details for us. gerhart: a meeting in washington at the federal environmental protection agency took about an hour and he left without making any comment. earlier he said regaining customer trust was volkswagen's priority. the initial proposal was rejected, calling it inadequate. the proposal by vw is said to be under consideration. it's all been hush-hush but richard walker, our man in washington, with keeping a close eye on the talks. what can you tell us? richard: hush hush was definitely the word. a lot of interest from the media and elsewhere, but it was very closely kept under wraps. it certainly has happened, mueller spent about an hour at the epa building this morning in washington and left the building without saying a word to the press. but we do have a statement from the epa now, and it's quite interesting to read. there is not an awful lot to it. they say we appreciated the conversation with volkswagen and we will continue to work towards a solution. i'm struggling to find the right descr

we turn to business news and gerhart joins us. dw has yet another pickup when it comes to getting its house in order. -- vw has yet another hiccup when it comes to getting its house in order. >> yes, you could say that. the california air resources board said that proposals did not adequately address issues with safety. the environmental protection agency agreed, saying volkswagen did not have a plan to bring the vehicles into compliance. some 600,000 vehicles are equipped with these devices to cheat on emissions test. crude oil prices have been sliding and there's so low that opec -- they are so low that opec will be talking about them at their meeting in march. only last month, around the time when opec ministers have their last meeting in vienna, a barrel of brent crude was going for $43 per barrel. among concerns of a slowdown in china growing, prices continue to slide, and now they are very near the already dollar per barrel mark. more details in this report. -- the $30 per barrel mark. more details in this report. reporter:

pretty much deserted here, there are still people out and she wants them off the streets, and guess gerhart, the head of security here, he says we can't begin to consider how we will clear the streets and get rid of the snow until it stops. so at the moment, fingers crossed, tomorrow is supposed to be quite a nice day. the sun is supposed to come out tomorrow, as always happens after a big snow storm. i think they're hoping to get some flights out of the airports by late afternoon. i think the underground rail service here is hoping to get back on course by monday morning, but really no guarantees at this stage. these are all ambitions >>> absolutely. that's about all it is. thank you for that. in other news, 8100 people in ohio were told they had excessive levels of led in their drinking water. many are affected by the result which show led levels at 21 parts per billion. the epa do not xeft 15 parts per billion. >> it means it's slightly acidic and as it goes into the older residential service lines and into residential pluming and it's not being used, it's not being being poured out of t

congestion people drive further and that more than offsets the effects related to the point doctor gerhart was just making. i have one question, who calculated the number. if you are telling me the auto industry did not do it i want to know who did it. where did the number come from? >> this is a draft document, but it was an extraordinarily modest number in the context of what started for tesla and the overall target. >> i appreciate you think it is a small number. >> we are not talking about tesla. i think that what is clear, and i asked whether you have any evidence and said no, neither the idea nor the number is based upon concrete research. this is just trying to roll back part of the epa rules without having to tell the american people. in 2014 within 32,000 people were killed in motor vehicle crashes. 32,000 reasons right there to encourage the adoption of promising safety technologies like automatic emergency braking. car companies should make our safer and also meet the fuel economy obligations. if they don't want to do that they should face the american people and explain how the