the national transportation safety board will hold a public hearing on last june's metro crash that killed nine people. it will begin february 23. witnesses will be questions. the hearing will be webcast. >>> we turn back towards storm watch the coverage. a snow emergency goes into effect in the district at 9:30 this morning. they already got a head start on clearing the roads. mike conneen will tell us about the situation there. good morning. >> the snow emergency means if you're parked along a snow emergency routes, you want to move your vehicle so plows can get in and out of the city. we're joined now by a spokesperson from ddot. >> right now we're getting ready. our crews will come in at about 8:00 this morning and they will hit the streets. it is not supposed to snow before 10:00. there will be ready. >> businesses, schools, people seeing this morning, what advice would you say to thtem? >> these schools are going to let out early at noon today. if people can get home before the heavy snow starts falling and before the roads are in bad shape, that would be good. that is good advice fo

this revelation came at the national transportation safety board hearings underway. the warning against using unapproved parts was issued by one manufacture nearly five years before june's red line collision that killed nine people. metro used those parts despite the compatibility concern. families hearing this testimony were stunned. >> the stuff that i heard today, i know i don't want to get on metro anymore. my grandkids cannot get on metro anymore. >> these are people's lives that were lost. >> the hearings continue tomorrow. >>> all right, we are checking the traffic around town. patranya, how are things looking now? >> taking a live look on 395 in virginia. we are seeing those brake lights, the headlights coming on. some separate stretches of slow downs, beyond the mixing bowl, a 30 minute ride between dale city and triangle. let's head out to montgomery county on the capital beltway. bethesda into silver spring, no accidents, just a lot of volume on this wednesday night. an earlier accident that has been cleared. all lanes are going by. and checking out the wor

the first time this week by safety regulators and the families of train crash victims were not impressed with the answers. the safety board is investigate k the deadly metro crash of last year. >> reporter: the national transportation safety board scrutinizes metro management about safety. >> is there a safety culture within the system? >> reporter: the brother of crash victim dennis hawkins said. >> no evidence of safety culture in that organization. >> reporter: and look at oversight of safety. >> the hearings launched today are the first in the wake of june 22 redline collision. the investigators homed in on switches that may not have detected a stopped train ahead. since then two workers were killed on the tracks and trains collided in a maintenance yard. and here was the answer, when the system's new safety chief was asked if there is a database that tracks system-wide safety issues. >> that database does not exist currently. >> reporter: earlier mike taber admitted said he wasn't sure who on the operations side gets safety and analysis reports. >> i don't know who that person is. >> if there is a safety issue, spend the dollars and we'll figure out how to pay for it later. >> reporter: john cado said he only

the national transportation safety board wrapped up a three-day hearing on last june's metro crash todayne people were killed when two trains collided near the ft. totten station. signs point to a faulty track sensor. testimony today suggested a deeper issue at metro, an atmosphere of distrust between employees and managers. >> there is not a lot of looking into the root cause of the problem. punishment instead of trying to find out what the problem is. >> the way i feel right now that everybody was at work, was nobody doing their job, okay? now i have a bigger job. i have to tell my grandkids that their mother died because nobody was doing their job. >> ntsb is expected to have a final report the one-year anniversary of the accident. >>> a man deliver potato chips is recovering after being shot during a roery. a security camera captured part of the robbery that happened this morning. it happened outside a drug store. dlifrty man was unloaded boxes when another man climbed into the back of the truck and shot him in the leg. the victim limped off the truck as the suspect ran away. police

. >> i'm scott broome at the national transportation safety board, where we learn today metro officials apparently ignored a written warning about the electronic system, it uses to keep trains from hitting each other. the focus is on electronic signalers. metro had been warned in writing in 2004. do not mix electronic components or they might not work. >> i'm not familiar with that c c correspondence. now to fort totten, where the new components were installed five days before the crash that killed nine. on june 22, disaster struck. families of victims said they were stunned by what they were hearing. veronica was one of nine people killed. >> i know i don't want to get on metro anymore. my grandkids cannot get on metro anymore. >> and a reminder about tonight's engineer drill on metro. just after midnight, the system will start going through a scenario, involving two gunman. don't be surprised if you hear what sounds like gun shots or you see a lot of emergency vehicles in that part of town. the drill is expected to wrap up before the system opens tomorrow morning. >>> we just grew too

. >>> the national transportation safety board says it will use new information from a public hearing as it determines what caused last year's fatal metro train crash. the three-day hearing exposed glaring shortcomings including a warning not to reconfigure electronic components on the system that is supposed to keep trains from hitting each other. the mother were on the crash victims says there is still no closure. >> i have a bigger job to go and tell my grand kids that their mother died because nobody is doing their job. it's sad. it's really sad. >> reporter: official findings on the cause of the crash are not expected for several months. >>> a trip on metro will cost you more this weekend. fares will increase by a dime starting on sunday. the transit agency is trying to make up for $189 million budget short fall because of declining ridership and it's not the only one. the fairfax connector increases fares by 10 cents on sunday. montgomery county ride-on will charge 10 cents already and dash will start 25 cents more starting july 1st. >>> akio toyoda met with people in georgetown

now, today word the national transportation safety board wants to monitor pilots in the cockpit. according to u.s.a. today, the feds need to begin listening to voice recorders to make sure they're focusing on their jobs. pilot unions are saying the idea goes too far and vitals privacy. the ntsb saying they're not interested in spying but it comes on the heels much the northwest delta flight in october, which overshot the airport by 150 miles because something -- we don't know what and may never, but pilots were distracted. i don't know what by. we're not going to know. that's something you're not going to know. that's something they know. they know why they flew past and were out of touch. they know why. we don't know why. we can't find out why. maybe they'll write a book. until then, we won't know. the department of homeland security announcing it will begin rolling out 150 full body scanners. news from the future. pictures of anatomically correct superstars walking through airports. it's going to be awesome. boston's logan airport will get the first three followed by chicago o'

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. >>> later this month, the national transportation safety board will hold a three-day public hearing in to last june's fatal metro crash. the february 23rd hearing is expected to focus on the accident. you'll recall nine people were killed on june 22nd when track safety signals failed to work leading to the crash. the fairfax county school board has approved a spending plan for the upcoming fiscal years. board members increased the funding request by jack dale by $24 million but dale had asked the county for $58 million in additional funding. the board hopes the additional money will avoid an increase in class sizes. the total budget of $2.3 billion must be approved by the county board of supervisors. >>> the other quarterback in the super bowl talks about being the underdog. and the caps give up five goals, but could their offense keep the win streak alive? sports is next. but first let's see who has a birthday this friday, february 5th -- we'll be right back. >>> good morning. i'm brett haber with the wakeup sports. if we told you the caps would give up five goals last night you wo

. >>> the national transportation safety board ss it was complacency and confusion among the pilots that to a deadly plane crash last year near buffalo, new york. nearly a year ago, a continental flight crashed on approach to the buffalo airport. 50 people were killed. today the ntsb says the behavior of the pilot and the lack of experience played a part in the crash. >> unfortunately, it's taken 50 more lives for us to focus additional attention on these issues that have not been addressed. >> both pilots, the pilot and the co-pilot, failed a number of federal aviation administration test check rides. they have commuted long distances to get to work. the first officer was text messaging from the cockpit at the time, and the pilots were talking about personal matters below 10,000 feet. that is a violation of airline regulations. the ntsb says it will hold a safety symposium on how the major airlines should examine their pilot qualifications and other safety issues with their smaller carriers. >>> today, a trail got under way for the people accused of manslaughter in connection with a cra

. >>> later this month, the national transportation safety board will hold a hearing in to last june'setro crash. the february 23rd hearing is expected to focus on the accident as well as federal oversight of all of the nation's rail systems. you'll recall nine people were killed june 22nd when track safety signals failed to work, leading to the crash. >>> while you slept, little butter stick, big boy now, touched down in china. more than 14 hours after the fed, plane left dulles airport it landed in his new home. this is video from the airport in china. tai shan now has a two hour ride to his truck in his new home. the caretakers here at the national zoo have been preparing him for this his whole life. >> with tai shan , we always relied heavily on hand signals and less on verbal cues because we knew at some stage of his life he wouldn't understand what the verbal cues were. >> reporter: tai shan will now live in a place called a wulan panda base and hopefully have a few cubs of his own to restore the species. >>> the temperature 34 degrees here in northwest washington. in three minut

over the next several days, investigators from the national transportation safety board, or ntsb, scourede site and briefed family members on their findings. >> i could sense in the briefing a certain amount of anger. you know, they were looking at icing. they were looking at a lot of things, but there was, like, a buzz in the room of all the families. we're all grief-stricken and we're listening, and i got the sense that something wasn't right. >> i think we were getting some signs that there was a bigger story here than, than just... i don't want to say just a crash, but a plane crash. it wasn't a mechanical defect. >> o'brien: as a pilot myself, and having reported on aviation for more than 20 years, i knew that accidents most always involve a chain of events, a series of underlying causes. i also knew that the downing of 3407 would dz growing sector of the airline it turned out this continental flight was operated not by continental itself, but by a smaller carrier called colgan air. >> she had sent me her... her itinerary. you know, and you pull it up from orbitz and, you know, conti

the national transportation safety board panel released the findings today. the continental flight was operated by colgan air. it went into a stall and dove into a house, killing all 49 people aboard and one man in the house. investigators found the pilot should have been able to recover, but did the opposite of what he should have done. the president of iran said today his government is now willing to send uranium abroad for enrichment. mahmoud ahmadinejad said iran has no problem meeting the u.n. demand. he also said iran may be willing to trade three jailed american hikers for 11 iranians held in u.s. prisons. relatives of the americans-- shane bauer, sarah shourd and josh fattal-- have said they were hiking last july when they strayed across the border from iraq. iranian officials have indicated they might be charged with spying. those are some of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the newshour's web site. but for now, back to jim. >> lehrer: and still to come on the newshour: haiti

tonight, the national transportation safety board is telling fox news it's asking for permission to listenn on pilots' conversations. the ntsb reports it wants to use black box voice recordings to make sure pilots are focusing on their jobs. the feds can only access those recordings if there is some sort of accident. this comes after a number of recent incidents involving pilot distraction including that one weird one when a plane overshot destination while pilots were reportedly using their laptop computers. the federal aviation administration would have to approve this request. pilots' unions as you might expect say they oppose the move. the former vice president dick cheney is out of the hospital as fox reports tonight after aides say he suffered a mild heart attack earlier this week. the fifth in his lifetime. former vice president cheney was rushed to george george washington hospital when complaining of chest pains, he reportedly underwent procedures to check heart's condition and said to be feeling good. >> we're told the former vice president will not be attending this friday's reu

so while we are waiting for the final conclusions of the national transportation safety board, the membersoard spoke about crew training, pilot fatigue, and pilot error as reasons for the crash. and these are the issues that i've been holding some hearings on in this past year. the ntsb is going to make recommendations to the f.a.a. we already know that when they make recommendations, the appropriate agencies don't always pay attention to those recommendations. for example, pilot fatigue has continually been on the national transportaion safety board's most-wanted list -- that is, most-wanted list of safety recommendations for 19 years. let me say that again. for 19 straight years, the national transportaion safety board had said -- quote -- "pilot fatigue" is on the most-wanted safety recommendations, and yet no one's been listening. no one seemed to ring the bell on those issues. i've held seven hearings on safety in the aviation subcommittee that i chair in this congress. we've heard from the f.a.a., the ntsb, pilots, regional airlines, major carriers, safety experts, and we've heard es

the national transportation safety board says yesterday -- said yesterday, rather, they'd also look intosurprise toyota dealers are scrambling to make the repairs that will fix the problem. the company hasn't even sent out ofcial recall notices to customers yet. >> lots of toyota owners are confused about what to do and whether to trust their car is safe. here's kate snow. >> reporter: across the country, toyota drivers were lining up for repairs. in chicago, grossinger toyota hired 20 extra mechanics to handle the 15-minute fix on the accelerator pedal. outside boston, bach toyota reached out to customers and asked them to come in. >> there's two recalls regarding your car. >> i think they're doing a fabulous job. >> reporter: the majority of drivers we talked to said they were satisfied with toyota's response. >> handling as well as can be done. >> i think the company's a good company, they had a tough one to deal with. >> reporter: what about prius owners? they're a different breed. it's not just a car to them, it's a lifestyle. one of our correspondents once did a whole essay about h

the national transportation safety board today transferred control of the investigation to the fbi, given the apparent criminal nature of the event. one question being asked, could another event like this be prevented? a small piper cherokee did all this, renewing questions about whether there should be tighter security regulation of small aircraft. >> it's an issue that congress needs to look at in terms of protecting in a moment federal building -- not only federal buildings, but the american people. >> reporter: -- like charter jets were already in the works. small planes like the one that flew into the irs offices in austin will not be included. the people who own and fly them say they shouldn't be. >> i don't believe tighter regulation will preclude these incidents. >> reporter: pilot ease names are continually run against watch lists. 85% of aviation airports have programs similar to neighborhood watch, and many have perimeter security like fencing, but none of it stopped joseph andrew stack from slamming into a building thursday morning. pilots have argued for years that an suv pac

the national transportation safety board is meeting today and preparing to release the probable b causef the crash, it will likely make safety recommendations. let's talk about it with john golia, a former ntsb board member. a lot of people complain that despite what has already been learned about this accident, there hasn't been much done this the way of safety improvements. do you agree? >> well, i think in the past it's been a lot of resistance from the faa and from the industry to make some improvements, but i think with the new faa administrator he's already demonstrated a willingness to push these issues quickly. so i think that maybe this time we'll see something a little different. jon: you're talking about randy babbitt, he has gone to the airlines and suggested they make voluntary changes? >> he has done that, and he's been pretty force theful in pushing the fatigue issues to a rule, not just voluntarily, so he's a breath of fresh air in the faa. jon: well, there is always that butt l of heads between the board that investigates these accidents where you used to work and the f

. >>> the national transportation safety board set to report on what led to last year's crash of a flightbuffalo, new york. 50 people died in that crash and it highlighted concerns of pilot training and fatigue. >>> the stage set in miami for super bowl xliv. both teams arriving in south florida yesterday. the saints, the five-point underdog according to the odds makers. and it's the franchise' first ever super bowl bout. security at a premium around the stadium. they have not identified any credible terror threats surrounding that game. >>> and the shoe bandit they have been tracking for decades. he is blamed for thousands of missing pairs of footwear. so much so when they found his alleged stash, it took an entire flatbed to carry it all off. >>> freezing foreclosures. some guys have an eye for exterior decorating in detroit. >>> police out of uniform for a good cause. they did have to take off shirts in the freezing temperatures, but that's all right. you will call the event a cop sicle, i guess. it's unknown how many called in sick the next day, though. we will update you tomorrow. >>

the nation all day long while you are at work go to wusa9.com. click on the weather tab. >>> the three-day national transportation safety board haring in to last year'sdly metro collision is over. the hearings exposed glaring shortcomings including a warning not to reconfigure electronic components on the system that is supposed to keep trains from hitting each other. there was no closure for the mother of one crash victim. >> everyone was at work. nobody was doing their job. okay. so now i have a bigger job. i have to go and tell my grand kids that their mother died because nobody did their job. and it's sad. it's really sad. >> reporter: the ntsb will now pour over the evidence it's collected. official findings are not expected for several months. >>> a commuter alert involving metro. get ready to pay more for your commute. metro will enact a 10 cents surcharge on all fares that means another diem dime to ride trains and buses. senior and riders with disabilities will pay an extra nickel. metro needs the money to ease the budget crisis. it will stay in affect through june two local bus systems are enacting a 10 cents surcharge. a ride on the connec

. >>> nearly a year after 50 people died in an air crash outside buffalo, the national transportation safety boardt to reveal the cause this morning. inadequate pilot training and fatigue are being looked into. key safety issues have been raised by the accident. >>> ten american missionaries arrested in haiti are expected to get a hearing today at 10:00 a.m. eastern. they were put in jail on charges of illegally trying to take 33 children out of country. the missionaries say they were just trying to help children leave the tragedy behind and start a new life. >> so who are we to believe, and how are the children now? joining me now is international adoption expert dr. jane aronson and in port-au-prince, the spokesperson for sos childrens village. are you caring for these children at your facility there. what do you make of what happened? the haitian government is calling this child trafficking, the people involved say that's not the case. are they traffickers? were they misguided in what they were doing? what do you think? >> i don't -- i don't really know. i can't judge about the intentions. i kn

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last week the national transportation safety board held a hearing on the september 2008 metro link collisionnear los angeles in which 25 people were killed. at that hearing, the board adopted recommendations that asked the federal railroad administration to require the installation of cameras inside all controlling locomotive cabs in order to verify that train crews are operating in compliance with safety rules and operating procedures. in responseÑiçóÑi to the recommendation, what are the it plans to promulgate these new u%i ;ors inside locomotives? Ñiwhat resources do you expect they will need inÑi order toÑi y out these recommendations, and how will you ensure the safety and protect employees' privacy? >> we are looking at the ntsb Ñirecommendations, and this goes to our number one goal at the department that safety is uppermost in our minds in all forms of transportation. we will take very seriously the recommendations. i hope congress will take very seriously the idea that we are pushing a transit safety billçó Ñith@v wexdÑi think is criticalr our agency. the law prohibits us from getti

safety. >> general scovell, we've been wrestling with the area of the sterile cockpit rules here. the violation of those rules have been in both lexington and buffalo accident and have prompted the national transportation safety boardake actions to prevent further violations of those rules. what specific steps might be taken to step up the enforcement of the still cockpit conditions. >> you raise a good point because while it's also said that professionals and can't be mandated. i agree with that. it's a concept we take apart that concept and recognize that there are discrete behaviors whether they relate or fitness for duty, training, the obligation to behave professionally in the cot that some of those discrete behaviors can be regulated, not to say that they always should be. sometimes the voluntary or consent this method is the way to go and those should always be impressed and enforced using that eerie but sometimes enforcement methods should be in place. i'm not in a position now because i don't have a body of work frankly on which to speak near it but i would say that we have instances that are common knowledge where we can say that those enforcement methods have been put in place. for instance, if a profess

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safety. >> general scovell, we've been wrestling with the area of the sterile cockpit rules here. the violation of those rules have been in both lexington and buffalo accident and have prompted the national transportation safety boarda take actions to prevent further violations of those rules. what specific steps might be taken to step up the enforcement of the still cockpit conditions. >> you raise a good point because while it's also said that professionals and can't be mandated. i agree with that. it's a concept we take apart that concept and recognize that there are discrete behaviors whether they relate or fitness for duty, training, the obligation to behave professionally in the cot that some of those discrete behaviors can be regulated, not to say that they always should be. sometimes the voluntary or consent this method is the way to go and those should always be impressed and enforced using that eerie but sometimes enforcement methods should be in place. i'm not in a position now because i don't have a body of work frankly on which to speak near it but i would say that we have instances that are common knowledge where we can say that those enforcement methods have been put in place. for instance, if a prof

the transit system will get new trains but are better able to with stand crashes. metro officials continue their testimony today at a national transportation safety board hearing in response to the june crash that killed nine people when a train slammed into another that stopped on the tracks. some of the cars involved in the crash dated back to the 1970's. >>> mothers against drunk drivers and state lawmakers introduced the eliminate drunk driving act today in annapolis. if passed it will expand maryland's program to convicted drunk drivers. supporter hope it will lead to a drop in drunk driving crashes and fataliti . >> this is real life and people are being killed in our state's. it is a very tiny percentage of people engaged in the criminal behavior. we know who they are. we can stop this problem by putting devices in their cars. >> you don't have to be the mother and someone who has been killed to understand what m.a.d.d. stands for. >> m.a.d.d. says interlocks are used in new mexico for alcohol-related injuries decreased by 39% and fatalities have gone down 35%. >>> maryland's attorney general says he believes that the state's highiest court will likely rule that ga

the phone >> my pleasure. >> all right. some other news to have day. national transportation safety board says pilot error not poor weather conditions caused the plane crash near buffalo new york nearly a year ago. this ruling came out yesterday in the board's final hearing on this crash. flight 3407 went down killing all 50 passengers onboard and one on the ground. the pilot failed test rides but did not tell his employer. the federal aviation administration is demanding better performance from airlines reviewing pilot training and plans proposals to address pilot fatigue later this year. >> bond between these brothers is very strong 7-year-old tristan is being hailed a hero for saving the life of his 10- year-old brother sage. they were trying to boogie board on the ice of a frozen canal when sage fell through. he grabbed on to his brother and didn't let go until help got there. >>ment agoing to die or survive >> i thought he was going to drown >> my little brother just grabbed on to me and held on >> i never let go. so i would never let go of him. >> oh,. >> luckily a neighbor saw the

last week the national transportation safety board held a hearing on the september 2008 metro link collision in which 25 people were killed. at that hearing, the board adopted recommendations that asked the federal railroad administration to require the installation of cameras inside all controlling locomotive cabs in order to verify that train crews are operating in compliance with safety rules and operating procedures. in responseÑiçóÑi to the recommendation, what are the it plans to promulgate these new u%i ;ors inside locomotives? Ñiwhat resources do you expect they will need inÑi order toÑi y out these recommendations, and how will you ensure the safety and protect employees' privacy? >> we are looking at the ntsb Ñirecommendations, and this goes to our number one goal at the department that safety is uppermost in our minds in all forms of transportation. we will take very seriously the recommendations. i hope congress will take very seriously the idea that we are pushing a transit safety billçó Ñith@v wexdÑi think is criticalr our agency. the law prohibits us from getting involved in t

many questions about that flight and the circumstances that led to the crash and the national transportation safety board will be testifying tomorrow at my subcommittee. i won't go into all of the issues, but the issues of pilot fatigue, the issues of training, so many different issues, the icing issues that occurred that evening, it will be a very important hearing tomorrow. but the reason i raise it is a safety issue. the safety issue is so important. yes, we have a system in which we fly people all over this country and the world, you know, we have not had fatal accidents by and large in commercial aviation. it's been enormously safe. the most recent accidents have been accidents that have been very substantially investigated. the colgan crash in buffalo, new york, has been investigated now at great length and we will have the results of that and the discussion of that at our subcommittee tomorrow, and that will also give us a road map of what we might need to address in the f.a.a. re-authorization bill on the safety issues. mr. president, i make a -- i yield the floor and i make a poinof oer that a q