. >> reporter: the president backs rail investment with the former transportation secretary are a lahood- ray lahood touting it in maryland. >> we need to be sure high speed rail comes to america. >> reporter: japan promised to share technology and part of the cost but congress would have to pay the rest making it far from a done deal. in baltimore, mike hellgren, wjz eyewitness news. >> they use magnets to produce a powerful electric current and the cushion it rides on. the company that is pushing it here says it could create thousands of jobs. >>> next up -- right here on wjz -- >> a white house memo shows the administration gave the go-ahead for the health care web site launch despite a high security risk. i'm susan mcginnis in washington, coming up, what a new hearing on capitol hill could uncover. >> 73,000 people in maryland are having their substandard insurance cancelled. now they are having challenges signing up for the new insurance. >> who is guarding the security? i'm derek valcourt at bwi with new calls for armed officers at airport security checkpoints. that story coming up

kitchen appliances, the lahood needs to have the screen and filter cleaned probably if you cook a lot once a month. take it out and put it in the dishwasher. that is what i recommend. take that out. all of these goods have a screen and filter that filters out the papers, and you stick it in the dishwasher. every couple of years, take up your support thanks. every fireplace? >> you want to make sure the damper is working in the shut position and you do not have the fire on so you're not losing energy for the outside and it is easy to open when you're going to use a fire. you want to lubricate that and make sure it works properly, you want to make sure the door is sealed so if it is a gas unit, there is no gas leaking into your room, and if you have a wood burning fireplace you should have every summer or once a year, you should have your chimney cleaned out because chimney fires are a huge cost of residential fires and that is when the chimneys are not cleaned out, they are fire starters there. so it is critical that if you are going to use a wood burning fireplace, you ain't it out on

here's ray lahood, former transportation secretary. >> did you ever tell rahm to go to hell?ek. when he told me to go -- i told him to go to hell. in plit company, we don't say what rahm actually said. >>> better late than never. the gettysburg address. by ath the time, the patriots news in harrisburg, pennsylvania, published a review of the speech calling it, silly. this week, they printed a retraction. >>> this sunday, on "meet the press" david gregory has an exclusive with nancy pelosi. don't miss it. >>> if it's friday, it's kevin cirilli. kevin, good morning. >> good morning, happy friday. >> you the. i want to start with obama care. some democrats in congress are now seeking political solutions that could lead to policy problems later. is there a risk that the problems will undermine things? >> absolutely. president obama said yesterday he fumbled the ball when it comes to the obama care rollout. now, we could see him lose everyone more ground because of this one-year delay. think about the time all of the time the special interest groups and lobbyists now have, a year

kitchen appliances, the lahood needs to have the screen and filter cleaned probably if you cook a lot once a month. take it out and put it in the dishwasher. that is what i recommend. take that out. all of these goods have a screen and filter that filters out the papers, and you stick it in the dishwasher. every couple of years, take up your support thanks. every

lahood. >> it is a lack of time insurance companies are preparing for a couple of years for january 1st, 20 with the new mandated coverage is and obamacare provisions to be included and has been preparing to get out of the individual market with lower-cost and the more bare bones policies so now as they have their rates approved and then for the president to come i yesterday to say by the way now you can sell the policies from a regulatory and business perspective it will be nearly impossible if not impossible for some insurance companies to turn around on a dime. it has taken them three years to build a web site that doesn't work now the one to the companies to come back in a matter of weeks? >> they can ensure plans that would be canceled americans to cancel plans they must inform consumers about loss protection and about other options in the marketplace. what they did was to class is of consumers what is the impact with insurers? they understand risk controls those are changing with the assumption are put back into question. to look get health care reform but it brings increases of p

and fortune lahood gerrnot c i want you to commentn the president and the town and the tenant.de gerri: it ended up not being accurate. not i was wrong, i did not tell you the truth, it ended up not being accurate. what does that mean? >> a little bit better than last apology which is sorry that this did not turn out so well for you. i think the president still has not come entirely clean. the other analogy made was talking about seatbelt laws. we require people to have seat belts. that is what this plan is doing, requiring people to get insurance. here's the problem. the president said that this was going to cost less money for people and save money for the budget. now we're finding just the opposite. not saving money for individuals , and the only way out of this is to blow a bigger role in the budget and to subsidize these people. so, again, i don't see any easy out. i don't think we are any closer to a solution today than we were yesterday despite all of these plans moving forward. gerri: wow. okay. the industry is in full rebellion. regulators are in full rebellion. the wa

secretary lahood was great to louisiana, great to new orleans, great to jefferson parish. i have every confidence that are new secretary of transportation will be even better to us. the secretaryfrom who comes from being a mayor, so he understands the impact on growing communities. if you look at the development along the streetcar line, you will see how it can transform a neighborhood and community and make it easier to get to work. once again, i want to think the president and his entire administration for their dedication to louisiana, dedication to new orleans. louisiana mayn not be singing our president praises, he is always singing hours. here's always committed -- singing ours. he's always committed. every time i have seen the president since he was elected his question is always, how is everybody doing in louisiana? house the recovery going? overd a chance on the way to talk about flood insurance because i know that's a very big issue. number one priority and we are working on fixing it through congress and we will continue to do that. the prospects are good. we un

and i'm going use a quote from former secretary transportation ray lahood.ransportation is always about the future. there are no republican roads or democratic bridges. is there a bipartisan solution moving forward. >> i wish there was a solution that made sense for everybody. i think back 50 years ago when the u.s. was investing tremendously in the national highway system it did seem like there was bipartisan consensus about what transportation was right for the country. today we have a situation where democrats are primarily concentrated in our cities and republicans are concentrated in the suburbs. the cities and suburbs need different needs different types of transportation systems. >> hey don, a lot of tweets that was just read show a lack of trust in the american public in terms of where their tax money is actually going to go. is there an argument to be made if you're going to include government in transportation, and infrastructure building, that maybe it be done at the state or local level where there is more control? >> absolutely. we're big propon