this bridge became part of the new interstate 5 which is marked in red there along the left side of your screen. interstate 5 stretches from the canadian border in the north to the mexican border in the south. this particular bridge about 60 miles north of seattle is what's called a steel truss bridge. in the 1950s when we were building up our interstate highway system steel truss bridges were a basically ubiquitous design. practical and unglam otherous, stur ki and dependable, cost competitive and highly versatile. they were everywhere. and one of the distinguishing features of bridges built like this is the specific way in which they distribute their weight. the principle upon which all trusses rely is the triangle is the strongest and most rigid geometric figure. when you look at steel truss bridges like this one north of seattle, you can see that it is, see all of the triangles, made of these different triangles. interconnected triangle forms a helps steel truss bridges carry a really heavy load. it's kind of neat, right? i always thought these were sort of cool looking. also some br

the tornado is moving due east directly toward the oklahoma city area, right on interstate 40. the picture on the left that you are seeing looks like a tornado on the ground and we have been getting reports of a tornado on the ground, this is where it is on i-40 and it's going to the oklahoma city area. moore, was just to the south. ten miles to the south of the oklahoma city area. this entire suburban area getting hit potentially. we are also looking a a dangerous situation because there's a ton of moisture with the cell. this tornado will be rain wrapped, you will not have a visual cue of this tornado coming. the pictures we are going to be seeing here, it's going to be hard to get any direct visible on the tornado and that means a lot of rain and people not getting that kind of important cue, to know it's on its way right now. >> these pictures are in and out, that's the situation with the bad weather, i know viewers understand that and stay with us as it comes and goes. there it is again, let's leave it up please. let's put it up. there's one on the ground there, drop the ba

the sckagit river bridge collapsed yesterday near mt. vernon on interstate 5. katie joins us live with new information on the possible cause of collapse. >> a team should arrive on scene later today to start its own invei investigation. the washington patrol state chief said it was an oversize truck that hit the overhead span of the bridge. he said the truck made it off the bridge. this was the scene last night. twisted steal emerged in the icy skagit river. two cars and three people were plunged into the river. zpl should you are was dislocated at that point. my truck top was caved in. couldn't see my wife in the passenger's seat. asked her if she was okay, she wasn't responding. popped my shoulder back in so i could unbuckle and get to her. unbuckled her, pulled her over on to my side because it was filling up, about belly deep. >> and we have live pictures we can show you. dan has that dislocated shoulder, also some cuts. his wife did suffer from internal bleeding, but everyone is expected to be okay. washington's governor says they are already designing deto

susan mcginnis has more. >>> a bridge collapsed on the interstate 5 about halfway between seattle and vancouver. a handful of people and their vehicles plunged into the river. >> rough day. i'm glad to be here breathing. >> he and his wife had to be rescued from the river along with another man. he said the semi trailer in front of him hit the bridge causing the collapse. >> there was a big puff of dust and i hit the brakes. the weight of the trailer and everything else, we went right off with the bridge as it collapsed into the skaj it river. >> interstate 5 is a heavily traveled highway connecting canada to seattle and the rest of the west coast. >> seattle transportation and commerce and industry and western washington, and we have already started the process tonight of designing a system and detours to accommodate the time period it will take to replace this bridge. >> with the bridge down, traffic is backed up and is being rerouted. the bridge was built in 1955 and state officials say it has passed every inspection. >> the bridge has an efficiency rate of 47 and was tested last y

. >> brown: we take a closer look at the interstate 5 bridge collapse in washington state and what it says about problems plagug the nation's irastructure. >> ifill: and margaret warner talks to richard haas about why he believes american foreign policy should start at home. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by:

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it was hard but finally in 195 of he signed in aid the federal highway law. that lead to interstate. it was sort after grand vision that eisenhower had in behind when he signed that bill. in order to create the grand vision to interlinked interstate highways it meant building big new road that didn't exist at all but also meant existing smaller roads. building them out and making them inner connected. and that interconnecting of roads and bridges, is how this bridge in 1955 became part of eisenhower's grand plan. this became new a new interstate 5 marked in red along the west of your screen. it goes from the canadian border in the north and mexican border of the south. this bridge north of seattle is a steel truss bridge. in the 19 as when we were builting up our highway system, this was basic lay ubiquitous design. sturdy and dependable. cost competitive and highly versatile. they were everywhere. one of the distinguishing features of bridges built like this is the specific way in which they distribute their weight. the principle upon which all trusses rely is the triangle is the s

other than that we're looking pretty good on the interstate. let's go back over to the maps.me we're heading to the south side of town. northbound 95 has been incident free coming up from triangle right into springfield and on to 395. we'll go there live right now on the northbound side here at the landmark area. no problems at duke street heading for the 14th street bridge. all lanes are open this morning. jess, back to you. >> thank you, monika. >>> technology invades everything in our lives so it probably won't surprise you to know that technology can have a big impact on wall street but would you believe only a quarter of stock trades every day actually involve a human being? mathematical equations actually execute up to 75% of stock trades in the u.s. today. and high frequency trading can get way, way out of control. joining us now with more is camilla sullivan, the force behind a new documentary called "ghost exchange." thank you for coming in this morning. it's a a fascinating topic. millions of dollars changing hands. a lot of people don't realize how few human beings

. >> this is one of the most dangerous areas of interstate 40. >> firefighters face death in the line of duty. >> as close as i ever want to come to near death experience. >> a day of celebration into chaos. >> at one point the fireworks were going 40 to 50 feet up in the air. >> not my time to go. that's all i can think of. >> caught on camera. up in flames. each year fire kills more than americans than all natural disasters combined and yet we may not think of the things around us as potential threats. gas lines and tanker trucks and even the electrical wiring in your car. when you least expect it, a fire can happen. and when it happens on a large scale, whole neighborhoods can go up in flames. a massive explosion turns a california town into hell on earth. >> what is that? >> september 9th, 2010. it's just another quiet summer evening in the san francisco suburb of san brew know, but then at 6:11 p.m., disasters strikes. this gas station surveillance camera records the edge of a massive explosion, a quarter mile away that rips through the neighborhood. startled drivers abandon the

than a mile wide has flattened neighborhoods, cut through a school, and destroyed vehicles on the interstateutside oklahoma city. there are many casualties. we have correspondents on the scene. we will go to them live just ahead on the "cbs evening news" at 5:30 right after kpix 5 news. benjaminmoore.com/bayarea. get $7 off select paints starting may 20th at participating bay area stores. the talk of silicon valley. yahoo just paid big buck gging site. plus: >>> new at 6:00 tonight, it's the billion-dollar deal that is the talk of silicon valley. why yahoo just paid big bucks for a social blogging site. plus -- >> i seen on the internet people doing things they shouldn't be doing. >> how your neighbors can spy on you even in your own house and it's perfectly legal. those stories and much more tonight at 6:00. >>> the "cbs evening news with scott pelley" is coming up next with the very latest from oklahoma. >> and remember, the latest news and weather are always on our website, kpix.com. see you in 30 minutes. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >> pelley: tonight, a to

reporter: he says this was the same thing that happened in minnesota almost 6 years ago when the interstate 35 west bridge collapsed into the mississippi river killing 13 people. he says in washington's case, he has a theory of what happened. >> this truck, i can feel that they may have done something illegal by passing very tall load to a bridge that cannot handle it. >> reporter: the professor says a cheap solution for these types of bridges is to have a height restriction bar about a mile before the bridge like the ones in parking structures. >> so if trucks violate the regulation, carry a load that's too high for a bridge, they cannot hit the bridge. they will hit that bar before they hit the bridge. so the bridge will be always protected. >> reporter: he says the good news is the majority of bridges are designed to structurally withstand an impact from a car or truck. and in the case of the golden gate and western span of the bay bridge, they are redundancies. for example, if one strand breaks, the bridge still holds. in berkeley, cate caugiran, kpix 5. >>> we are expecting a new respo

our roads and our waterways so with this long history of tragedy was there any way to predict the interstate five bridge collapse well let's look at the facts the bridge was built back in one thousand fifty five when it was inspected last year it had a sufficiency rating of just forty seven out of one hundred but that low rating isn't out of the ordinary for american infrastructure and that's because we're being alap by the rest of the world in fact the american society of civil engineers has given the u.s. a d. plus rating when it comes to overall infrastructure for twenty thirteen and the group predicts that. it takes some three point six trillion dollars by two thousand and twenty to fix this growing problem now a new bill was introduced in congress today called the partnership to build america act but that bill could take months to pass and the fact is that america's infrastructure has a long road ahead of it before it can go into cruise control in washington meghan lopez r.t. president obama gave his reasons for the u.s. deployment of drones a broad yesterday in a major speech regarding

like this guy tagging the letters k a m on eight oakland ours can. if you ride on interstate that even drivers have started recordingandalism. if there was a prize given to the group that sends me the most hate mail, i would have a place taggers near the top. i guess out as a glutton for punishment. san francisco spends an average $20 million a year on the celebrity removal and oakland is a very close and. i wanted a segment i name of the politics of graffiti removal because it is only one to clean up what is on city property. many did not have the resources to clean up everyone else is less settled, so before you blame city leaders for not keeping areas graffiti clean and i wanted the are who owns the property and contact them. i know i do every chance i get. >> when the stars do the job gets, the satellite interviews on the morning show, they're sitting there all morning long. fuhr morgan freeman is nodding off. >> he is not used to getting up that early. >> it could be a michael caine talking ad nauseam. morgan freeman is nodding off in his leg okay yet go on. it was a goo

this is in a rural area of washington when the interstate 5 bridge collapsed. no one was killed in the accident. >> at palo alto man wanted over a quadruple murder in the czech republic has been detained by police as he flew into washington d.c.. 20 year-old kevin dahlgren, arrested last night. >> bart board members have voted in favor of allowing bike's on bart trains during all hours. this will be a five month trial. the trial will start on july 1st. >> take a look get this video out of central texas, a fire toppled a road bridge like dominoes. fire crews only had enough water to enough to take on the bridge which was made of age, dried wood. this is a 900 ft. bridge and it was built back in 1910. the flames were so hot, you could not get close to it. all people could do was watch as the bridge crumbled. the damage is estimated to be as much as $10 million. the good news is no one was injured. >> there will be cooler weather by sunday. as of right now we're taking a live look outside at the mount tam cam. we have low 40's and santa rosa. futurecast 4 is tracki

as the officers head north up interstate 75, they're almost immediately dispatched to the scene of anaccident. >> northbound 75 at the 184.4 mile marker for report of a collision with injuries. >> officer allen's dash cam is recording as they approach the accident site. >> there was one vehicle that had struck the wall on the left-hand side of the road. >> the officers pull over to check on the car and its occupants. they know they're in a risky position because of the slick roads. >> are you all right? are you all right? >> i don't know how i made it through all this. >> the vehicles were having a tough time maneuvering around on the interstate. >> but they're still taken by surprise at what happens next. >> my vehicle, our police cruiser, was struck by another vehicle. it spun around and was facing in the opposite direction. >> they've been rear-ended. the crash shakes the dash cam which briefly shuts off, but then restarts. >> our police car was facing oncoming traffic in the middle lane of the interstate. >> then the officers realize something much worse is on the way. >> here com

and also fairfield on the interstate 80 corridor. continue to keep your eyes to the sky there in that location. besides that we are not seeing too much other heavy activity in the bay area. look at this interstate 80 and highway 50. we haven't had the radar detecting snowfall like this in probably over a month across elevations at about 6,000 feet. do be prepared for slick roadways this evening. let's take you to video from my facebook viewer. he took this this morning. he is in the passenger seat. a rare site here across lake tahoe. some totals put the rangers at 3 to 5 inches quickly melting with our forecast coming our way. let's get a look here as we head throughout the next 24 hours. temperatures in the upper 60s and also low 70s today will warm up just a little bit for tomorrow. but here is the good news. even with temperatures warming up we had the rainfall and cooler temperatures generally compared to last week so the allergy forecast is a little bit better. otherwise for the daytime highs on tuesday what we find is by the noo

when we crossed 35 there were people stopped on the interstate ahead of us to the north.of what was there. let's play what storm chasers were facing yesterday. take a look and listen at this. >> houses are completely leveled. it's unrecognizable. >> it doesn't look like a development. >> oh no. >> my god, guys. >> now, we've been hearing the word it looks like the tsunami for those of who had to cover that. what is it that happens as this passes over a home, cars, what is the ability to do to things? >> it's like a bomb went off. the field we came up to rerewe realized was a subdivision and there were people crawling out of the mud. we were first on the scene and to the west there was a day care center and first they thought three children were missing but thankfully they were reported found. they were crawling out of boards. the day care did not exist anymore. there was a horse from a nearby pasture actually in the day care still alive bleeding and trying to get people out of there as quickly as possible. we noticed a huge rushing sound and we thought it was water and we

. >> can google map -- google maps is already reflecting the maps on their mapping surface of interstate 5, with a gap on left, there, of the orange line that much of could down where the bridge normally crossed the river. this appears to be the first major bridge collapse since minneapolis six years ago on august 2, 2007, the interstate 35 mississippi river bridge collapsed more than 100 cars plunged into the water dug the height of the evening rush hour in might be an police and 13 were killed and 145 others were injured. it was found that design error led to the failure. >>the washington state come collapse raised new questions of the safety of bay area bridges, both in terms of how they are built and how they used. our reporter talked with experts and joins us live from emeryville. katie? >> i talked with two bay area experts this morning, one an engineer and professor at uc berkeley, and he says that this accident was 100 percent the truck driver's fault but infrastructure analysts says that the bridge well should be able to handle something like this. >> drivers crossing the curren

the bridge was built in 1955 and as we said, interstate 5. goes from canada to mexico and the traffic issue right now is hindering in some cases, the efforts of first responders. choppers are going as well and we are awaiting a live chopper shot of that area. we will bring you bring that to you and any new information as soon as it comes to our news from. >>erica: it's a cool night but we have clear skies out there. friday, is looking to be a little bit milder and also breezy at times. memorial weekend, this is where we see some changes. saturday will be warm and dry also said it looks good. monday ago, possibly some showers. we will talk more about that and just a minute. the highs today, 71 in pleasanton and livermore, 67 and oakland. san jose, you have 67 degrees. so, a lot of us below normal. to deliver more 61, fairfield 65, hayward you have cooled down to 57, and half moon bay year at 50 degrees. our satellite radar picture showing clear skies for tonight through tomorrow but some changes coming this way and the form of clouds and shower

they are tieing up the interstate. if you could ask your viewers to get off i-35, south of the dallas junction, which would be the i-40 and i-35, we have standstill traffic. we have people out taking pictures in the moore area. the debris field that we have, just the debris filed itself pose as health hazard to you and your vehicle. stay off the roadway. don't be taking pictures of people that are injured. we've got a lot of people just taking pictures and these folks are getting in the way of our first responders. >> betsy, can you close i-35 north of moore and prevent people from entering that area? >> yes, we are trying to do that. but to shut the interstate down, while we're doing that, we're depriving people who have trapped in rubble. >> i-35 is closed between i-240 and south highway 9. that should help a little bit. >> that is correct. we have that shut down. we've got a lot of debris out on the road so we're not going to want people to drive on that anyway right now. be patient. send your prayers to those that a

that's the interstate. and you can see the traffic in that area is really backed up and has been for the last 48 hours. not because there's so much damage there or because the road is damaged in any way, but really because people are stopping and slowing down to take a look at it. they can't really control that. they've had the oklahoma highway patrol down there throughout the whole area trying to get the traffic to move along, but frankly there's really just not a lot that they can do. scott, pan back down. i want to show the rest of this path now. it's crossed over the interstate. and that was a heck of a thing to watch. you've seen some videos from that area. and it just continues to churn along. but if you look closely, you'll realize here that the path of the storm, the width of the tornado in this area is not as wide. so what happened was after it crossed over by chance that bowling alley and the rest of it there, it lifted. the clouds themselves lifted. so the area of the funnel that was on the ground

we have light traffic in the east bay including interstate 580 and highway 4. some of the bay peninsula and the north the ride is still looking up. >> three people and their cars were tossed into the skagit river north of seattle when the interstate 5 bridge collapsed. no one was killed in the incident yesterday. this is video of the rescue team taking people out of the cessna of order. a team from the national transportation safety board is being sent to the scene to help determine what happened. stay patrols are focusing their investigation on an 18 wheeler that hit the bridge. here is one survivor describing the scary moment. >> when i saw the war approached it was just one of those things where you hold on a scottish japan. it was a lot of cold water. >> authorities say that the bridge was inspected twice last year and they say it was in need of repair. this bridge is a major link between burlington and mount vernon counties. the washington state and dot says about 77,000 people traveled this bridge at daily. here in the bay are >> in the bay area, we are fo

new information of the den fie of two men that died on the interstate 880. an angry nurses launched a week long strike at the five bay area. >>> good evening, it is friday, may 17 i am gasia mikaelian, this is bay area news at 7:00. . we just learned a man killed at the port. when it somehow mrun ch into the water near seven street at about 1:30 this afternoon. divers found the pick up upside down at about 50 feet of water with simpson inside. simpson had worked at the port for nearly 50 years. >> he's like a dad to all of us. it is a very sad thing that should not happen. >> we ask that you can all add a black suv after a gunman open fire in free way traffic shortly after the game ended. >> reporter: police say the victims were in a white car in a slow lane and near on the jackson street low lanes. >> probably a dark colored suv rolled up alongside the vehicle and began firing rounds into the left side of the vehicle. >> as the car going through lanes of traffic somehow the passenger ended up on the road way when he was hit of what's being described as a box

they were blocking the interstate. >> the school is about to be let out. it's the middle of a monday afternoon. people are busy going every which direction about their lives. >> reporter: and the tornado was heading right for them. >> put the hazards on. >> put the hazards on. >> put the hazards on. >> at this point, we first stop here, the tornado was very large. roar was just intense. >> reporter: near the high school, the storm hunters caught it all on camera. >> yeah, this is where we were sitting at south moore high school when the tornado was just moving into the west side of moore. >> very large tornado moving into moore, oklahoma. this is not good. >> you could just feel it. this is going to be bad. this is going to be terrible. >> it's coming about right at us. oh my gosh. that's violent. listen to it. you can hear it. listen. >> you knew people were going to die. >> such an empty feeling. >> you knew it was going to destroy houses and there was nothing you could do but watch it. >> debris. lots of debris. dear, god, please keep these people safe.

we are on the onramp to interstate 880. this is jackson street and originally thought the shooting may have been happening here because there were shell casings on this onramp. now police tell me the shooting did happen on the freeway. they believe someone in another car opened fire on this as it was driving up the interstate. it was about 10:30 last night. the warriors game was just getting out, so there was a lot of traffic on the freeway. that's when the first calls came in to the chp about some kind of collision with an ambulance coming. then a few minutes later oakland police, their dispatch got a call about an argument and shots fired. both agencies responded to the scene, and that's where they found two people in and near a white porsche that had been shot. the driver found dead in the car, the passenger found dead on the freeway. police now tell me both were wearing warriors gear. they do believe both likely came from the warriors game which was just getting out. what they don't know is who's responsible. >> this is

high volume of vehicle trips since the 50s when the broadway connector was between lombardy and the interstate 405. at this time after embarcadero became the blvd, i this i we need to rebalance the flows and economic plan. in addition to the safety and economy measure along broadway, the left turn capacity at van ness onto broadway and the development of alternative routines or modes to accommodate travel demand. i also hope there will be coordination with golden gate transit and adding additional service. my staff and i are very interested in seeing this moving forward to test some pilots of these ideas. i know supervisor ferrel has interest in looking also at some of the impacts of what we are talking about on lombardy street and i have hope that my office can work with the ta staff to get this moving forward. >> you have inspired me with your comments about going to oakland earlier. i think going forward my suggestion let's recess every ta meeting to see steven curry as much as possible. i think a lot of men and women would appreciate that. >> thank you for your comments. >> can we go on to

high volume of vehicle trips since the 50s when the broadway connector was between lombardy and the interstate 405. at this time after embarcadero became the blvd, i this i we need to rebalance the flows and economic plan. in addition to the safety and economy measure along broadway, the left turn capacity at van ness onto broadway and the development of alternative routines or modes to accommodate travel demand. i also hope there will be coordination with golden gate transit and

. >> this the interstate 5, skagget river bridge, no word yet on possible injuries. >> we'll have more information as we get it. >>> deadly garage collapse caves in on top of construction workers at the montgomery mall. >> reporter: one man is dead and a second construction worker was trapped for hours after concrete and steal came raining down on top of them. >> from sky high chopper 13, a clear view of the massive slap of fallen concrete. >> you can see in the middle of the parking garage there was a collapse. >> 50,000 pounds of debris fell on to two construction workers below. >> that's pretty terrible. >> that can completely change your life. >> more than 150 rescue workers. >> one was pronounced dead in. >> it took four hours to rescue the other worker. >> we had to shore it and remove materials around the patient in order to free him. >> the collapse happened in part of the garage that's under construction. >> you never thought a parking gran would have hurt families -- garage would have hurt families. the er was flown to him to assist in the rescue. >> they bring out surgeons,.

the driver of the car lost control and slammed into workers on the side of interstate 80. the workers were hurt, the driver of the car was killed. right now westbound traffic is being diverted and officials say it will remain closed while the chp investigates. >>> occupy the farm protesters are regrouping as bulldozers raised their farm on university of california at berkeley land. ktvu's jade hernandez is live with more. >> reporter: interesting developments. this started as a quiet meeting with 70 protesters. you can see they have just in the past few minutes crossed over into the university of california at berkeley land. 4 arrests were made today when they refused to leave and now they made a statement for the university of california at berkeley police that are out here tonight. i want to show you, risdicates are not -- residents are not happy with the activists. you are a resident, why are you upset? >> because of the lack of democracy in the city. our residents voted to have this property developed and these people keep coming on to the land and they are not law- abi

a number of rivers out of their streams, especially along the interstate 410 that is officially the perimeter of san antonio. two reported fatalities. one person missing, and, poppy, i'll be here throughout morning, and we'll continue to update as san antonio braces for another round of rainfall. >> yeah, please do let us know what you hear. thanks so much, karen. appreciate it. >>> well, president obama heading to oklahoma this afternoon nearly a week after that deadly tornado claimed 24 lives and left the city of moore in ruins. the president is expected to speak this afternoon there just around 2:15 eastern time, and then he'll tour the damaged areas. after that he'll head back to washington just as the residents of moore prepare to hold a memorial service to honor the victims and reflect on the community's tragedy. i'm joined now from moore, oklahoma, but our nick valencia there reporting through all of this. nick, thanks for being with us this morning, and i know that you attended some of those graduation ceremonies that happened in the convention center in oklahoma city yesterday. what

john: in the '70s there was something called the interstate commerce commissi which did what? >> deregulated shipping by trucking and railroad. >> or you will be overcharged pervasive they protect consumer but when you look at what happens shipng rates were high under the icc and once it was removed of power initially then abolhed what happened to shipping rates? they went down. >> the politician said you cannot regulate. the final example is one of the re to regulatory? >> the politians have the administrativeearing that meant one bureaucrat said you get it and this went on for decades and the federal government move to a lottery and they got the license and so then it's a little old lady went to the auction and sells it to at&t and makes millions. john: the academics said auction them off. >> a professor goes o to win th nobel prize for opposes the idea a was ignored for officials at the sec actually mocked him. john: but yet it happened and took long and was supported carter and reagan and president bush but finally could only happen under president clinton. >> he needed the

. >> it is crossing the interstate right now! we're in it right now. >> drop down!pping down, dropping down! drop down! drop down! >> put it down, put it down. >> are you guys seeing this? >> that's where it crossed i-35. cars there, emts there, police -- oh my gosh. i don't know if people lived in that one. i honestly do not know if people lived in that. >> reporter: hundreds of homes and buildings obliterated. frantic groups of rescuers digging through debris within minutes. >> we were pulling walls off people. there were people controlling out from everywhere. basically just a war zone. >> storm chasing in. we heard everyone needed help. we came in and pulled up over here and everyone was at the 7-eleven trying to pull cooler doors off and everything. and they got a wrecker truck in and sadly they found a man and then a woman and a small baby. >> reporter: more than 50 people are reported dead, among them children from the plaza towers elementary school, one of two schools filled with students that lay directly in the tornado's path. >> there have been confirmed

john: in the '70s there was something called the interstate commerce commission which did what? >> derulated shipping by trucking and railroad. >> or you will be overcharged pervasive they protect consumers but when you look at what happens shipping rates were high under the icc and once it was removed of power initially then abolished what happened to shipping rates? they went down. >> the politician said you cannot regulate. the final example is one of the rare to regulatory? >> the politicians have the administrative hearing that meant one bureaucrat said you get it and this went on for decades and the federal government move to a lottery and they got the license and so then it's a little old lady went to the auction and sells it to at&t and makes millions. john: the academics said auction them off. >> a professor goes on to win e nobel prize for opposes the idea and was ignored for officials at the sec actually mocked him. john: but yet it happened and took long and was supported by carter and reagan and president bush but finally could only happen under president clinton. >>

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is a estimate of how much rain fell because while not ere a few spots lected rain here along the interstate 81 corridor where it rained so hard that we had flash-flood warnings and our doppler is estimating northwest of winchester 3 1/2 inches of rain. >> why we're showing you this you need to be aware where you had this heavy rain that if you get more rounds tomorrow, your saturated and there could be flash flooding. you'll also probably see fog later tonight as a result of that heavy rain that you had. lets put it in motion. we had one boundary come through tonight but the frontal system that has the really cool air is way back in indiana. so we're going to have to get through more of this during the day tomorrow. one round may be over night but i think that will be light stuff and then perhaps another round tomorrow afternoon. maybe lingering showers friday morning as well. and then you get the pay off because the weekend is looking really nice. let's check out the futurecast. it is tracking a couple showers and again only spotty activity overnight. a lot of clouds in the morning. probab

the attack happened just east of the interstate 680. both teen, students at independence high school. >>> jury selection is set to begin in the retrifle an elderly psychiatrist accused of molesting young boys. dr. william ayers is since charged with molesting boys back in the 1990. the first trial ended in a hung jury. the doctor is in a napa state hospital treated for dementia, but he's been ruled competent to stand trial. that happened last year. >>> several employees of the san jose unified school district are facing embezzlement and fraud charges. district attorneys say the employees misused an estimated $15 million in grant are funding. he said that money is supposed to provide students with services, nutritional programs and was redirected into unwarranted pay increases. in one instance, he had $250,000 of the $15 million went to personal use. some of the employees including one who faces 94 felony counts could spend up to 20 years in prison if convicted. >>> palo alto pushing forward a new law making it illegal for people to live

the interstate system, that's part of the problem.ublicans in washington said, let the states do this. it's up to them to do highways. know, the interstate system happened because of federal involvement, coordination with local and state officials, and businesses and labor unions. you need the same kind of commitment. you need pressure on republicans that never want to spend money on anything, you need that pressure from the business community to say, this kind of investment is what really matters for our children and grandchildren. and it is. as you point out, ed, it really is a public safety issue. >> getting money shouldn't be a problem. there's plenty of money floating around. you're one of the leading voices against the too big to fail banks. you know, why do we bail out banks, but we don't do it for infrastructure? >> well, the banks are probably better organized than some of the people that are building these bridges and people driving across them. that's part of the problem. after dodd/frank passed the senate, the banking refo

we created the interstate highway system and invested in the infrastructure. we built the middle class and helped poor people get into the middle class. it is what we are not doing now. tavis: i am frustrated consistently by this pseudo debate in washington. words make a difference and words have meaning, and you keep using the word investment. i agree with the that in these kinds of outlays, these kinds of budget priorities would in fact be read by me and many other fellow citizens as investments, but you have folks on the right who don't read it as an investment, they read it as trying to spend your way out of the mesh or in, and you don't dig deeper hole by spending money that you don't have. you have to live within your means. you have heard this rationale time and time again. talk to me about the difference between what you see as an investment and what others on capitol hill see as throwing money down a black hole. >> is entirely different. families understand the difference. a family faced with the choice of borrowing money for a family vacation or barr

national transportation safety board is calling for transportation officials to carefully study the interstate bridge and learn from it. the span collapsed without warning thursday sending two cars and a travel trailer into the water. no one died, but three people were hurt. hersman says her team will spend a week to ten days in the area looking at the bridge, talking to the truck driver whose vehicle triggered the collapse, and examining maintenance documents and accident reports. >>> nearly 3,000 runners joined boston marathon bombing victims today to finish the last mile of the race. the explosions near the finish line on april 15 killed three people and wounded more than 260. today's tribute event called "the one run" was a chance for survivors to cross the finish line together and to show the world that boston as a city stand strong. the one-mile ruin began with the national anthem and speeches. organizers say it was their opportunity to run the final mile they say was stolen from them. >> from physical injury or mental injury, from seeing thing that they should never have seen, this is a

last thursday a truck with an oversized load clipped part of the interstate 5 bridge causing it to collapseidge links one of the major travel corridors across the coast. a new permanent bridge is expected to be completed by autumn. >>> a 17-year-old high school student will be arraigned tomorrow. he'll be charged in an alleged plot to carry out a deadly columbine-like attack at his high school in albany, oregon. when police searched grant acord's home, they discovers detailed plans. terrell brown has more. >> reporter: police say they found six bombs hidden in the floorboards of grant acord's bedroom. the district attorney said the 17-year-old had a plot to blow up his school. >> which includes a plan, diagrams, maps of the school, weapons, explosives, check lists. >> reporter: an explosives team recovered pipe bombs, a napalm bomb, molotov cocktails, and a bomb made with drain cleaner that they say was modeled after the columbine high school shooting. >> this is a case where a person possessed several types of bombs as part of a larger plan to carry out assault on the occupants of west alb

. >> once again, on july 1st, the interstate on subsidized student loans is expected to double. if you're one of the 7 million students who borrow money through the subsidized loan program, sometimes called the stafford loan program, this affects you. >> reporter: and thomas, education officials say it's great that washington is focused on this issue of student loan rates, but they say the real issue is the rising cost of tuition and they want lrps to focus more of their attention on that as well. thomas? >> nbc's kristen welker reporting from the white house. kristen, thanks so much. appreciate it. >> reporter: thanks. >> i would like to bring in jared bernstein now, the former chief economist for vice president biden and an msnbc contributor. jared, you've heard all of this. and is kristen is reporting there, this house plan allows the student loan rates to go up and down with the market and resets every year. the president wants to lock them in. so is the ownnus now on the sene to figure this out? what can they do to figure this out and make it to the president's desk with app