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Finally tonight here, kenny rogers, dolly parton, and one last duet. theyve been performing together for more than 30 years. that famous duet. ♪ ♪ hold me closer ♪ and i feel no pain >> reporter: last night -- >> kenneth rogers, everybody. >> reporter: they were back on stage again. >> i tell you what, we have been so excited about this, because kenny, of course, says hes retiring. >> reporter: will this be their last duet after so many? "islands in the stream" is an american favorite, not...

A big rig >> the accident happened near marsh creek road and byron highway where a big rig crashed into a power pole around 10:30 this morning, down power lines and shearing the pole in half. >> reporter: the big rig is gone. the driver did not sustain any major industries but take a look at the pole here. it is still here. the top half of it. leaning sideways. the larger issue is there are high voltage wires at the top. 60,000 volts. once it came into contact with the lower voltage lines below

Welfare for unrepresented animals. thanks for watching tonight at 5:00. >> al and veronica right back here in 30 minutes. captioning sponsored by cbs >> mason: somethings fishy. thats what congressional critics are saying about the no- bid contract awarded the whitefish energy company to rebuild puerto ricos electrical grid. also tonight... >> we have great unity. >> mason: the president denies his party is divided. >> i called it a lovefest. >> mason: the postman always rings twice, but the ama...

The house committee that oversees puerto rico. the government power company known as prepa signed the contract with whitefish energy, a two-person, two-year-old company whose largest previous federal contract had been for $1.3 million to upgrade lines in arizona. prepa filed for bankruptcy in july amid the islands ongoing debt crisis. it bypassed a network of utilities and a mutual aid system that is usually activated for storm recovery. the $300 million contract is the biggest yet for puerto ri...

The company has more than 300 workers in puerto rico. experience in mountainous regions. >> others not willing to take the risk and get an plane to ask for business. >> reporter: bankrupt in july after a long history of maintenance and corruption allegations. recently appointed ceo says whitefish could mobilize the fastest. today slammed the army corps of engineers response so far. army corps insists its working hard to meet the governors goal to restoring power to 95% of the island by mid-decem...

Awarded the largest government contract to rebuild the power grid there but congress has questions as residents continue to struggle. gabe gutierrez with the latest. >> we can do tuna. >> reporter: juan ruiz is struggling to prepare meals for a neighborhood desperate for power. >> we have many cases they told us this is the first food im having today. i dont know what im doing tomorrow. >> reporter: the largest contract awarded to rebuild the power grid is under scrutiny, up to $300 million for ...

Employees and no one knows how that contract came about? >> so when we spoke to the company about this, they were spinning up dozens of people if not a week or a month. you mentioned, they have almost 300 people there. the prices are particularly -- could be high, too, at least on paper. for $300 an hour for a supervisor, a few hundred dollars an hour for a lineman, the company also says in fairness, these arent exactly a guy in a bucket truck on the street in manhattan or in washington. these a...

You mentioned, they have almost 300 people there. the prices are particularly -- could be high, too, at least on paper. for $300 an hour for a supervisor, a few hundred dollars an hour for a lineman, the company also says in fairness, these arent exactly a guy in a bucket truck on the street in manhattan or in washington. these are very dangerous high power lines, accessible sometimes by helicopter and really a lot of work ahead. but it is, indeed, a very large contract. the last one you mention...

And we know the pentagon has said that when the original mission was planned, contact with the enemy was, quote, unlikely. we are now hearing that this mission changed to a kill or capture mission, so, the question, were these american soldiers adequately prepared for that change in mission? >> reporter: david, thats the key question. investigators have been told, there was a second green beret team that was supposed to chopper in and meet up with the first team, but they never made it. now the ...

You bring in guys like troy and nick, guys who are not afraid of heights and you send them up to heel the lines. >> they are lineman contacted by whitefish energy, a small 2-year-old company out of montana, and they raised a lot of eyebrows when they were given a contract. >> and the headline was how did you get the contract? you are a brand-new company, right? >> we have been around for a few years. we specialize in difficult and mountainous terrain, and all i can say and we took the call and w...