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makovec. michelle is off this noon. hi, everyone. i m frank mallicoat. and one of the crashes along 680 in walnut creek, the gridlock stretched for miles as crews spent hours cleaning up debris on the highway. lisa chan is live at walnut creek where all lanes are finally back open on 680. reporter: good afternoon. about an hour ago, traffic finally started moving again along 680 here in walnut creek. this is a huge relief for commuters who spent a lot of their morning battling grueling traffic. it was a mess. i have never seen anything like it. it s the worst traffic i have ever seen on that road. reporter: he was one of the many people stuck in gridlock traffic this morning on 680 in walnut creek. his usual ten-minute drive to his son s school took 45 minutes. i called the school and they said there would be no tardy s today because everybody would be late. reporter: the driver of a big rig with dual trailers filled with 60,000 pounds of gravel had a tire blow ou
United-statesNew-yorkNevadaOaklandCaliforniaPhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaRedwood-cityColoradoBostonMassachusettsDanville coming days. allen, back to you. chris, in your story where you showed the worker poking the rod down into the mud trying to see if there are any cars, are they sure yet that they have gotten all the people out or they have found all the cars? reporter: well, they certainly are very hopeful that they have. but there are some areas where the mud and debris was as high as the driver s side window of semi trucks. it s very deep back there. they have been searching it throughout the day though so they are confident they found all the cars but they still have quite a bit of digging to do. what a clean-up. chris martinez, thank you. new at 5:00, hundreds of seniors in burlingame need a new place to stay tonight after a fire broke out in their care facility. chopper 5 was over the senior home on troutsdale drive this afternoon. a malfunctioning electrical box triggered a small fire around 9:30 a.m. no one was hurt but the fire knocked out power to the building. all 269 patie
FremontCaliforniaUnited-statesNevadaSolano-countyNew-hampshireFresnoMissouriOaklandTexasOregonWest-point and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: today s announcement at the white house sets up a pair of potential confirmation fights. president obama s choices to oversee the pentagon and the c.i.a. will now be called to answer questions about everything from israel to iran to interrogations. there has been much speculation about both nominations, but the president made them official this afternoon in the east room of the white house. my choice for two key members of my national security team. chuck hagel, former secretary of defense and john brennan for director of the central intelligence agency. woodruff: hagel is a vietnam veteran who would replace the retiring leon panetta. he would be the first defense secretary who saw combat as an enlisted soldier. in chuck hagel our troo
VietnamRepublic-ofAustraliaTexasUnited-statesAfghanistanIranNew-delhiDelhiIndiaChinaHonolulu and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: today s announcement at the white house sets up a pair of potential confirmation fights. president obama s choices to oversee the pentagon and the c.i.a. will now be called to answer questions about everything from israel to iran to interrogations. there has been much speculation about both nominations, but the president made them official this afternoon in the east room of the white house. my choice for two key members of my national security team. chuck hagel, former secretary of defense and john brennan for director of the central intelligence agency. woodruff: hagel is a vietnam veteran who would replace the retiring leon panetta. he would be the first defense secretary who saw combat as an enlisted soldier. in chuck hagel our troo
VietnamRepublic-ofAustraliaTexasUnited-statesAfghanistanIranNew-delhiDelhiIndiaChinaVirginia guantanamo prisoners to u.s. soil. 166 prisoners remain in guantanamo, which opened 11 years ago this week. 86 of them have been cleared for release. today we look at the case of one man, al jazeera s sami al-hajj, the only journalist held at guantanamo. held by the u.s. military for more than six years without charge, sami al-hajj was reportedly tortured repeatedly tortured, attack by dogs, hung from the ceiling. in january 2007, he began a hunger strike that lasted 438 days until his release. i go on hunger strike for many reasons. we are held in guantanamo without charge, without cause. they did not give us a chance to go to court about our case. today, a democracy now! exclusive, an extended broadcast interview with sami al-hajj from the headquarters of al jazeera in doha. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. a u.s. drone attack has killedki eight people in the pakistani region of nort
New-yorkUnited-statesQatarDohaAd-daw-ahNorth-waziristanFederally-administered-tribal-areasPakistanIranAfghanistanWisconsinMichigan guantanamo prisoners to u.s. soil. 166 prisoners remain in guantanamo, which opened 11 years ago this week. 86 of them have been cleared for release. today we look at the case of one man, al jazeera s sami al-hajj, the only journalist held at guantanamo. held by the u.s. military for more than six years without charge, sami al-hajj was reportedly tortured repeatedly tortured, attack by dogs, hung from the ceiling. in january 2007, he began a hunger strike that lasted 438 days until his release. i go on hunger strike for many reasons. we are held in guantanamo without charge, without cause. they did not give us a chance to go to court about our case. today, a democracy now! exclusive, an extended broadcast interview with sami al-hajj from the headquarters of al jazeera in doha. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. a u.s. drone attack has killed eight people in the pakistani region of north
New-yorkUnited-statesQatarDohaAd-daw-ahNorth-waziristanFederally-administered-tribal-areasPakistanIranAfghanistanWisconsinMichigan