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Detroit. that city school district is scheduled to announce next week that they will be closing 40 schools. in washington, im samantha hayes. back to you. >> all right, samantha, thanks so much. appreciate it. finally a settlement could be approved today for those emergency workers who became sick working at new yorks ground zero. anthony johnson of affiliate wabc has details on the proposed $657 million settlement plus the turmoil over rebuilding on the site. >> reporter: the settlement cover...

Them crumbling around them. >> reporter: yeah, desperate people do desperate things, tamron. there was even incidents in the last couple days where people would call a phony fire alarm. the pumper showed up. they overwhelmed the crew so they could take the water from the pumper. that was happening, too. and the president said dont do that. theres no need. were getting water distribution. theres enough for everybody. just be patient. in fact, the supplies are going down by c-17 and then delivered...

Search for survivors continues in chile. the emergency workers are digging to reach folks trapped by collapsed apartment buildings. its been more than two days since the 8.8 magnitude wake. one of the largest on record in centuries. the quake was 500 times more powerful than the one in haiti in january. according to the chilean government half a million homes have been damaged or destroyed. at the same time were told looting in the quake zone is getting worse. people are stealing gasoline. a sup...

Prospering with emergency workers well trained and equipped, the chilean president michele bachelet only has about another week in office. she was on television giving up to the minute details on what happened. in haiti, people didnt even know if their president was alive or dead for the first 24 hours after the presidential palace collapsed. while the chilean quake was more powerful than the one that decimated haiti, it was miles from the biggest town. when we come back, we willle talk to a rep...

Prospering with emergency workers well trained and equipped, the chilean president michele bachelet only has about another week in office. she was on television giving up to the minute details on what happened. in haiti, people didnt even know if their president was alive or dead for the first 24 hours after the presidential palace collapsed. while the chilean quake was more powerful than the one that decimated haiti, it was miles from the biggest town. when we come back, we willle talk to a rep...

Prospering with emergency workers well trained and equipped, the chilean president michele bachelet only has about another week in office. she was on television giving up to the minute details on what happened. in haiti, people didnt even know if their president was alive or dead for the first 24 hours after the presidential palace collapsed. while the chilean quake was more powerful than the one that decimated haiti, it was miles from the biggest town. when we come back, we willle talk to a rep...

Prospering with emergency workers well trained and equipped, the chilean president michele bachelet only has about another week in office. she was on television giving up to the minute details on what happened. in haiti, people didnt even know if their president was alive or dead for the first 24 hours after the presidential palace collapsed. while the chilean quake was more powerful than the one that decimated haiti, it was miles from the biggest town. when we come back, we willle talk to repre...

Especially people that live along the coastlines. we were at oahu at 10:00 this morning. the city and state did close the main roads along the low lying areas on the winward side of the island and the leeward side of the island. so hopefully most of those people did take heed and leave. right there it looks like an emergency vehicle. >> yes. some type of emergency workers. >> were going to continue to watch the live pictures streaming in from our affiliate there. kitv and kohn. were seeing image...

Harrowing for emergency workers who have been on the job now since the early hours of the morning. >> and is it clear that emergency workers have been able to get to those areas that are most devastated? we were talking with a gentleman earlier who was talking about sort of the geography of chile which is a long and narrow country, with a road system that really has very few main arteries that allow rescue workers and the kind of emergency relief workers to get down south with all the destructio...

A colleague said it felt like a giant had grabbed him and shaken him. we also have the report of a survivor that said it was like a major turbulence on an airplane, emphasis major. we have reports that people are being pulled from the rubble by emergency workers in different areas. the victims were and are disoriented when they come out. they are asking reporters on the scene for information. they have no clue what happened to them. we have information coming from santiago the capital that bridg...