indiscernible ] >> reporter: with order soon restored, the senator interrupted, the low-key charles grassily, provided one of the afternoon's few lighter moments. >> people always say i have the ability to turn people on. [ laughter ] >> reporter: this tough questioning the continue tomorrow and later on this week, brian, we expt to hear from some of those involved in the controversial cases the judge ruled on, including one of those new haven firefighters. >> tom fitzgerald live in the newsroom. >>> new developments in the case of the only man tried for the terror attacks on 9/11. a federal appealsourt ordered new arguments in the case against zacarias moussaoui. however, one of the judges on the appeals court is diagnosed with alzheimer's disease n. january, the lawyers for moussaoui failed to turn over evidence -- no word when the new arguments will be heard. >>> metro's deadliest disaster ever, the focus of a hearing on capitol hill today. lawmakers searching for answers in last month's deadly crash that killed 9 people and what has changed since then. john henrehan has more. >> reporter

. >> grassily doesn't think this legislation will move very quickly through the senate. but when it does he expects a lot from the senate. you -- which do you think is going to affect the consumers the most. >> i think both will. that regulatory measure is going to have a huge hit. also that it's going to be structured under the fda not the usda. climate change, which is going to be a lot of changes in the climate change bill before we know. >> we are all going to be affected. a lot. >> thank you bill. >> all right. >>> i know a lot of you that live in kansas, oklahoma and texas have seen a very hot summer. let me tell you, from the great lakes in the northeast. this has not been much of a summer at all. any time it tries to warm up. more cool air comes in. you can see the trough there and the stream. i would call it very pleasant in the jágcñsouthern parts of t northeast. the heat continues into north texas. this front stalls out. there'll be areas of showers and thunderstorms out in the western states as well. the hit and miss storms that don't give the area much rain.

senator grassily is joining me on the phone. good to have you with us. >> thank you very much. glad to be here. >> i'm curious how optimistic you are at this attempted bipartisanship on an issue so important to every american. >> i'm very optimistic from this standpoint. senator and i either i as chairman or six years or he's been chairman the last four years, almost every bill that's come out of committee has been a bipartisan bill. we've been negotiating on this issue for weeks. we're still at the table. we run into some stumbleing blocks from time to time, but we seem to get over them and i'm optimistic n every day we learn about a new way we might be taxed or charged in order to make this plan possible. do you think that you can come up with something together that we can actually afford? >> i believe that if you look ahead a few years and when we change the standings in health care that tend to run up the cost of health care, the answer is yes. if you're looking at the very near term, to be perfectly candid, there is some up front cost. but over the long-term, we figure th