December 31th News Today

No more delays on positive train control. investigation gators say there should be no more extensions for regard operators to installing the new technology. koortd according to the ntsb, it could have saved 303 lives and prevented some 6800 injuries over the last 50 years. congress passed a law requiring operators to installing the radio and satellite based technology by the end of the year in 2015, but the rail industry has repeatedly requested and received waivers because of the expense and co...

Something else on december 31th, 1999, they had something else totally crazy happen to them at the turn of the millennium. new years eve is a huge holiday in russia. its a huge party there. everybody that day was gearing up for the celebration even bigger than usual because it was 99, but then shock and surprise, with no warning, at noon on new years eve, 1999 in russia, their president got on tv, it was a surprise broadcast, and he said good-bye. he said good-bye. im quitting effective immediat...

How many people are we talking about in the pool here? >> we dont know how many people will actually file. the recall involved 2.6 million recalled vehicles but most of those vehicles werent involved in accidents so we will have to see. when you build one of these programs, you guys know from bp, build it and they will come. i predict we will get claims from people driving mercedes and jaguars and people claiming it was an ignition switch failure. its human nature. it was an ignition switch fail...

Freaked out about y2k. that was kind of the experience of december 31st, 1999. but its interesting. one very large country where they didnt end up freaking out all that much about y2k on december 31st, 99 while america and the rest of the world was worried about that problem, one place this they ended up not all distracted by that problem, they ended up not freaking out about that as the clock ticked toward midnight, was russia. because russia was distracted by something else on december 31th, 1...

Ended up not freaking out about that as the clock ticked toward midnight, was russia. because russia was distracted by something else on december 31th, 1999, they had something else totally crazy happen to them at the turn of the millennium. new years eve is a huge holiday in russia. its a huge party there. everybody that day was gearing up for the celebration even bigger than usual because it was 99, but then shock and surprise, with no warning, at noon on new years eve, 1999 in russia, their p...