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It is saturday, november 24th. Im randi kaye. Im Victor Blackwell. Thank you for starting your morning with us. We begin in Tahrir Square this morning where hundreds of protesters have been arrested during antigovernment dmem k. Demonstrations angry with their president over his new power grab. Opposition leaders say he is now more powerful than former president Hosni Mubarak ever was. This week, leaders around the world praised him for brokering a cease fire between israel and hamas. More now o...

Engineers in the 1950s discovered rust on the tunnels valves. There were concerns that if they closed the valves for tunnel inspections, they may never open again, leaving new york city without water. So they chose to keep them open. As a result, there has not been significant inspection, maintenance, or repair of the tunnels in decades. No one knows their current condition. Hurwitz currently, city tunnel 1 and city Tunnel Number 2 would be feeding each half of the city. So youd lose half the ci...

That making any accommodation to shut it down, to do something to it, is very difficult. Narrator two Massive Underground tunnels, called simply tunnel 1 and tunnel 2, provide most of the citys water supply. They run hundreds of feet below manhattan, far deeper than the subways. Built at the beginning of the 20th century, they are concretelined and bored through solid rock. They could last centuries. But the mechanical equipment within them will not. Engineers in the 1950s discovered rust on the...

Them. And clevelands ariel castro has been dead in his ohio jail cell. First out of cleveland, the man accused of holding three women captive can, is dead. Stephanie sy is here. Ariel castro had not been on suicide watch until june. His attorneys tried unsuccessfully to have him examined for issues. Ohio department of corrections issued a statement saying he was housed in protective custody which means he was in a cell by himself. Rounds were required every 30 minutes, after finding castro, pris...

But the mechanical equipment within them will not. Engineers in the 1950s discovered rust on the tunnels valves. There were concerns that if they closed the valves for tunnel inspections, they may never open again, leaving new york city without water. So they chose to keep them open. As a result, there has not been significant inspection, maintenance, or repair of the tunnels in decades. No one knows their current condition. Hurwitz currently, city tunnel 1 and city Tunnel Number 2 would be feed...

Provide most of the citys water supply. They run hundreds of feet below manhattan, far deeper than the subways. Built at the beginning of the 20th century, they are concretelined and bored through solid rock. They could last centuries. But the mechanical equipment within them will not. Engineers in the 1950s discovered rust on the tunnels valves. There were concerns that if they closed the valves for tunnel inspections, they may never open again, leaving new york city without water. So they chos...

And to expand existing systems. Narrator because original Infrastructure Investments were frequently subsidized by the federal government, Water Pricing was often calculated without accounting for the initial cost to build the systems. We made Major Investments in assets in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. And for the first 40 years of that pipe, there really may not have been many maintenance requirements. Were past that period now. Narrator Water Pricing based only on daytoday operation, and not on plan...

Which acts to protect rivers and lakes, and sources of Drinking Water. The second was the Safe Drinking Water act, that provides federal standards to assure the safety of the water that we drink. Both acts have been amended since they were first adopted, and theyre both cornerstones for the water issues that we face in america today. Allbee the clean water act set a floor and basically said, everybodys whos discharging is going to have to have a permit, and to achieve this defined performance le...

They could last centuries. But the mechanical equipment within them will not. Engineers in the 1950s discovered rust on the tunnels valves. There were concerns that if they closed the valves for tunnel inspections, they may never open again, leaving new york city without water. So they chose to keep them open. As a result, there has not been significant inspection, maintenance, or repair of the tunnels in decades. No one knows their current condition. Hurwitz currently, city tunnel 1 and city Tu...

They could last centuries. But the mechanical equipment within them will not. Engineers in the 1950s discovered rust on the tunnels valves. There were concerns that if they closed the valves for tunnel inspections, they may never open again, leaving new york city without water. So they chose to keep them open. As a result, there has not been significant inspection, maintenance, or repair of the tunnels in decades. No one knows their current condition. Hurwitz currently, city tunnel 1 and city Tu...