and at the busiest station in all of vermont, 11 people got off. no one got on. >> i'm coming here to visit friends. >> how many did you have? >> onboard today? >> yeah. >> about 95. >> 95? >> yeah. >> reporter: on average, the train from one end of vermont to the other carries less than 250 people a day. the next morning the same train traveling south saw 13 people get onboard, including andrew menke who is making the trip to new york. how long will it take you? >> nine hours. probably five and a half to drive, and seven on the bus. and nine on the train. >> so the train is not your fastest route? >> not at all, no. but you have the most room. i think it's the most comfortable. >> do you wish it was more high-speed? >> i wish it was faster, definitely. high-speed rail. >> reporter: that's the other part of this story, the high-speed part. so what do you get for your $52 million share of the $70 million project? just 28 minutes. that's right, the new train is less than half an hour faster than the old train. in some areas the train gets up to 79 mi

but the real problem is hardly anybody is riding the rails in vermont.nd here almost all day long, not ever worry about getting hit by a train. you can jog on the tracks, go to lunch without looking. >> ever worry about getting hit by a train? >> no. >> it's now 3:00, still no train. 4:00. the sun would set before we would see our first train. >> 8:44 and here it is. the first train that we have seen all day. and at the busiest station in all of vermont, 11 people got off, and no one got on. >> i'm coming here to visit friends and go snowboreding. >> how many did you have? >> on board? >> 95. >> 95? >> yeah. >> on average from the train from one end of vermont to the other carries 250 people a day on average. the next morning, the same train traveling south saw 13 people get on board, including andrew menke who is making the trip to new york. >> how long will it take you? >> nine hours. >> that is kind of a long time. >> probably five and a half to drive and seven on the bus and on the train. >> so the train is not your fastest route. >> not at all. no.

vermont has a virtually no gun laws. we do limit the amount of rounds again have during deer season for a semi-automatic. we have to be as protective of our citizens generally as that. i've never known a gun owner or hunter in vermont who says i have 30 rounds. >> we have about eight minutes. >> i am interested in your feelings about an assault weapons ban. >> i voted for the last assault weapon ban just as i voted to outlaw the [inaudible] i feel strongly about having served eight years in law enforcement. one of the questions i told my staff is i would like to get a definitive answer. did the assault weapon ban work? everybody understands the ban that you cannot have any fully automatic weapons. not since the 80's. i do not want anything symbolic. i want something to make people safer. they do not mind following the law as long as it applies to everybody. it is hard to say one size fits all. we have different gun laws in vermont than new york city. >> based on some of the ads and statements from nra officials, can you

you compare the state of vermont with the state of new hampshire. new hampshire has no sales tax or personal income tax and does better over time than the neighboring state of vermont that is a so-called progressive state. on a national level change the constitution or we will end up with a income and a consumption tax. >> unfortunately the constitution was changed in order to bring in the income tax. >> you have to change or we would get the both. >> you are against the idea of bobby gindale. >> i don't like sales tax. we saw the experiment in europe with that. they are onerous often than income tax . they are sneaky, too. it is vast and they are put in every element of sales and you don't know what the true tax rate and the cost. gin dale's program is to replace one source of government to do with another. it doesn't reduce what john and i would like to reduce the flow of money to the government. >> milton freeman didn't like national sales tax because it is too easy for governments to raise money and yet you are in favor of this idea why? >> i am

vermont has virtually no gun laws. you can carry loaded concealed weapon in vermont this afternoon if you were there with no permit. we also have one of the lowest crime rates in the country but not because of that. we are as a society we are very law-abiding, but would that stop somebody who is mentally unhinged from going out and using a gun, knife, or anything else to kill people? no. the president's right when he says there are a whole lot -- i'm anxious to be at this meeting this morning to hear their proposals. and they will be considered in the judiciary committee. but i also, i'm open to anybody else's. can we pass a law that will stop all gun violence? no. we can't pass a law that will stop all drunk driving accidents. we can't pass a law that's going to stop cancer. but the fact that we can't do something with perfection doesn't mean we shouldn't do anything. there are things we should do. these large magazines, assault weapons, gun show loopholes, of course those have to be addressed. we again in vermont, we

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we begin with an amazing explosion of metal and debris in vermont.urveillance video camera captured a freight train barrelling through a tractor-trailer at a rail crossing. the truck driver was distracted and failed to notice the plane. >>> now to the windy city of chicago. freezing conditions have frozen the remains of a torched warehouse. about 200 firefighters braved bitter cold and raging flames before dousing the fire. officials say the ice encrusted structure will have to be demolished. >>> anarctic blast packing wind and snow ripped the roof of michigan's pontiac silver dome. the weather conditions shredded the inflatable covering reducing the structure to a battered shell. they plan to install a hard roof later this year. >>> finally, a naked burglar produced a bizarre chain of events inside a florida home. >> i don't know who the hell he is. he is naked. he ran in my house. >> the homeowners held him at gun point until police got there. >>> in sports, a huge upset in college basketball. number one duke was blown out by 25th ranked miami. the

i know this is true in vermont. people get sick, i think it's going to get better. they wait months and months, a year to walk into a doctrine of dr. says violence years six months ago? guerrilla element got to get you to the hospital. how much money and human suffering is taking place in this country because people are unable to walk into a doctors office when they need to? who wants to respond to that? dr. fegan. >> i can just tell you about the faces of the patients who line up to be seen at our walk-in clinic on a daily basis and i don't know how you measure the cost of human suffering, but we see always people come to county because he'll say things shall never see anywhere else in the world. such advanced stages of disease in people with everything from brain tumors to solutions eroding from the skin. you say why did you stay home? i was taught you, these people are working folks. is there taxidrivers, college professors, countess, attorneys. the first thing they say to me is i never thought i'd be here. i'd never thought i'd be a county. i would say it has to

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i'm the executive director in vermont. on behalf of the entire health center community, including more than 22 million patients nationwide, i want to thank you for the opportunity to testify on the role of community health care centers. as the committee is aware two important events have significantly altered the financing and delivery systems of our nation. the support's decision and the affordable care act, as a result, these estimate that almost 30 million americans will gain coverage through medicare or the health insurance exchange. yet, another 30 million will still remain uninsuranced. we support these expanses that open the door for more reform. coverage alone does not equate to access. it is access to regular care that makes coverage meaningful. to and chief a reformed system our nation needs sustainable solutions, low and manage our health care costs and ensure quality oh. in efforts to increase access must grow and expand our primary care infrastructure. community health care offers a unique and proven solutions

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burlington, vermont, had a high temperature of 1 degree. what's amazing, lake champlain isn't frozen yet. it's actually been a very mild winter. this is what happens when you have 1 degree temperatures over the water. amazing footage here. this is what i call steam fog. it's extremely cold air going over the unfrozen relatively mild lake. pretty cool video there, lake champlain. let's show you what we're dealing with this morning. windchills are brutal in northern new england. these are actual temperatures. minus 10 and minus 9 in caribou. when we factor in the windchills, we're at minus 21 in minneapolis. minus 21 in burlington. boston is even minus 14. there's one area of travel trouble. one area of snow from washington, d.c. to the coast, southern maryland, about a fluffy one to two inches. could make it slippery this morning. the next storm is on its way. this is going to bring light snow to many areas of the east. details on that, and also tomorrow. that's a look at your national forecast. now, here's a look at weather outside your win

funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to know your business, offering specialized solutions and capital to help you meet your growth objectives. we offer expertise and tailored solutions for small businesses and major corporations. what can we do for you? >> and now, "bbc world news." >> this is bbc world news america. reporting from washington, i'm laura trevelyan couldn't benjamin netanyahu is expected to hold onto power. -- i'm laura trevelyan. benjamin netanyahu is expected to hold onto power. >> right now, the battle here is over. but in many places it is just beginning. >> the new exhibit put this portrait in the spotlight. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and elsewhere around the globe. israelis went to the polls in general elections today. prime minister jet -- prime minister benjamin netanyahu claimed victory after exit polls showed he would likely lead, the government with a narrow m

funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to know your business, offering specialized solutions and capital to help you meet your growth objectives. we offer expertise and tailored solutions for small businesses and major corporations. what can we do for you? >> and now, "bbc world news." >> and this is bbc world news america reporting from washington. a mixed picture in algeria as many hostages celebrate their escape or rescue. uncertainty remains about how many have been killed. uncovering evidence of a massacre, the bbc is inside a syrian town. and 50 years after martin luther king's speech, they look at why that dream might still be on fulfill. >> make sense of international -- unfulfilled. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and also throughout the globe. three days after islamist militants stormed a gas line in algeria, there is confusion about the face of those taken hostage. hundreds of forei

funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to know your business, offering specialized solutions and capital to help you meet your growth objectives. we offer expertise and tailored solutions for small businesses and major corporations. what can we do for you? >> and now, "bbc world news america." >> this is "bbc world news america." conflict, not celebration in tahrir square. protesters in egypt say nothing has changed in the two years since the revolution. we travelled to homs, a city divided. those who are with assad live a normal life. those who oppose him have been devastated. opposition fighters glide downey's lanes. so do civilians contract in the middle. >> record profits for one stock while apple takes a plunge. what is shaking the world of tech? welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. in cities across egypt today, thousands clashed violently with police. protesting the lack

in vermont we suffered, and now in new jersey and new york people are suffering. but as you know, we passed an emergency relief program, disaster relief program, for sandy. we passed it in the senate. >> i know you did. >> our republican friends in the house chose not to do with it -- to deal with that issue, and i think that is a real tragedy. >> senator, thanks for joining us today. again, happier 2013 to you. >> happy new year to you as well. >> thanks. >>> stocks are soaring, first trading day of the new year, the market is buoyed by a better than expected report. joining me, ruth marcus, also greg yip. welcome both. the markets just reacting to this last-minute deal? other fundamentals that you are looking at? >> mostly it is the deal. the deal does three things that the markets are happy about, number one, taxes in the new year, number two, removes some of the uncertainty about fiscal policy that's been plaguing the markets and business for a number of years now. these tax rates are now permanent, also a small but permanent capital gains and dividends tax in

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funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. zte. and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to know your business, offering specialized solutions and capital to help you meet your growth objectives. we offer expertise and tailored solutions for small businesses and major corporations. what can we do for you? >> and now, bbc world news america. >> this is bbc world news america. a triple murder in the heart of paris, three female rebels shot to death. the french government calls it an execution. a series of bomb blasts in pakistan claimed the lives of more than 100 people, many more injured. the nominations are out with lincoln leading the oscar pack. silver lining playbook has racked up an accomplishment not seen in 30 years. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and also around the globe. three kurdish women have been shot dead in paris in what police described as execution- style killings. one is being identified as the co-founder of the kurdis

funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont,nd honolulu, newman's own foundation, and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to know your business, offering specialized solutions and capital to help you meet your growth objectives. we offer expertise and tailored solutions for small businesses and major corporations. what can we do for you? >> and now, "bbc world news." >> the u.s. senate approves the deal to stop tax rises in spending cuts, which many feared would send the economy off of a fiscal cliff. leader of north korea makes a rare news." broadcast a reunified korea. >> the gift of peace, the pope celebrates a new year's mass in rome. welcome to "bbc world news." also in this program, top concerns as one in three women in south africa try to lighten their skin. and an amazing escape by helicopter after it crashes into the sea in brazil. ♪ >> hello, happy new year to you. the deal is done now, the u.s. is counting on the and calls fof wrapped -- house of representatives to approve a bill that wou

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funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to know your business, offering specialized solutions and capital to help you meet your growth objectives. we offer expertise and tailored solutions for small businesses and major corporations. what can we do for you? >> and now, "bbc world news america." >> this is "bbc world news america." the war and syria spills over after israeli jets strike syrian territory. damascus that threatens to retaliate. playing defense, president obama's choice to lead the pentagon gets a grilling from his former colleagues. >> to my reference to the surge -- >> were you right or wrong? lts out america's national anthem to prove she has the pipes to do it live. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. tonight, syria and iran are threatening to retaliate for an israeli air strike inside of syrian territory. the attack took place in the early hours of wednesday m

funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> at union bank, our to know your business, offering specialized solutions and capital to help you meet your growth objectives. we offer expertise and tailored solutions for small businesses what can we do for you? >> and now, "bbc world news." >> this is bbc world news america, reporting from washington. islam militants in algeria raid a gas plant, taking dozens hostage. americans are among them. president obama proposes the toughest gun laws in decades. getting them passed will be difficult. >> this is our first task as a society, keeping our children safe. this is how we will be judged. >> answering the detractors. kathryn bigelow filed by two critics of the torture scenes. -- kathryn bigelow talks by two critics of the torture -- talks back to critics of the torture scenes. dozens of hostages, including several americans, are reported to have been conducted by islamist militants in algeria. the raid took place saigon -- i've

funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to know your business, offering specialized solutions and capital to help you meet your growth objectives. we offer expertise and tailored solutions for small businesses and major corporations. what can we do for you? >> and now, "bbc world news." >> anger over the case of the del he rape victim -- delhi victim. five suspects to be charged. a key commander is reported to have been killed in a u.s. drone attacks. a swiss gunmen killed three women before being wounded by police. he is now in custody in hospital. welcome. this is "bbc world news." the shell oil rig is said to be stable. quirky or just quackers? welcome. a special court in delhi is expected to charge five men with the gang rape and murder of a woman whose case sparked anger and outrage across india. police are presenting 1000 pages of evidence to the court over the attack that took place on a bus last month. if con

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funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to know your business, offering specialized solutions in capital to help you meet your growth objectives. we offer expertise and tailored solutions for small businesses and major corporations. what can we do for you? >> and now, "bbc world news. >> funerals are held for some of the 120 victims of a series of deadly bombings across pakistan. british police say the child abuse by the late bbc presenter jimmy expands six decades. he could have been prosecuted if the allegations were taken more seriously. and cybercops warn of the growing threats from online crime. welcome to "bbc world news." also in this program, the first official portrait of the duchess of cambridge. we'll find out what kate makes of it. and they whistle while they work, the can anywherey island children learning an ancient language that sounds like bird songs. hello, more than 120 people are now learned to hav

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funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to know your business, offering specialized solutions and capital to help you meet your growth objectives. we offer expertise and tailored solutions for small businesses and major corporations. what can we do for you? >> and now, "bbc world news." >> hello, your watching "gmt." our top stories, in a few hour'' time, barack obama will be sworn in for his second term as u.s. president. he made history last time around. will he live up to the promise of change? we will be asking what he will do differently over the next four years. >> live in washington, in the middle of tight security the stage is set for the president to set out his priorities and vision for the next four years. >> the trial five men accused of gang raping a student begins in delhi. her father tells the bbc that even in death his daughter has left a clear message. >> you should stand up for yourself. do not suff

funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to know your business, offering specialized solutions and capital to help you meet your growth objectives. we offer expertise and tailored solutions for small businesses and major corporations. what can we do for you? >> and now a.er newic america." >> this is "bbc world news america." a violent scene in this area, dozens of young man bound and shot in the head were found in the city of aleppo. they are celebrating in timbuktu. sharia laws goes as french forces liberated the city from rebels. we speak with secretary of state clinton just days before she steps down as america's top diplomat. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and also around the globe. syria is breaking up before everyone's eyes, that was the warning issued by the u.n. media specialist as he briefed the security council. on the ground, there is fresh evidence of the terror is taking place. th

funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to know your business, offering specialized solutions and capital to help you meet your growth objectives. we offer expertise and tailored solutions for small businesses and major corporations. what can we do for you? >> and now, "bbc world news." >> hello, you are watching "gmt ," on bbc world news. our top stories, french and molly soldiers are -- sorry, that is not the top story. the top story is more evidence of the violence in syria that has reached unprecedented levels according to the u.n. envoy. our correspondent has more on this. >> how can you guarantee that innocent men, women, and children will not get killed? >> there were bombs on the edge of rebel control. >> shell says they're happy after being cleared in a dutch court of massive oil spills in nigeria. campaigners say that they will fight on. shot by the taliban, she is recovering well after another operation on