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Moscows trains or around moscows trains since terrorism really became an issue in russia a decade 1/2 ago but generally moscow subway is considered very safe and reliable. one of the points of pride in the old soviet union and very deep and during the cold war it doubled as potential nuclear bomb shelter. recently there are many complaints from the unions that something bad was bound to happen. that maintenance work was sorely mead needed and people would die. that happened during rush hour. the...

Theres been minimal damage and no fatalities. meanwhile, folks in the northeast are bracing for a wet fourth of july as arthur moves north toward cape cod, bringing with it heavy rain and dangerous rip tides. joining us from long beach, new york, nbc news correspondent ron allen. sounds and looks like that rain is coming down, ron. >> reporter: it is. the party is over here. you can see these red flags on the beach here. empty lifeguard stand. theyve essentially closed the waters down. theres no...

>> theres a tremendous amount of pressure to get the road open. but you have to do it and do it safely. >> steve jones, tdots county supervisor, knows commuters want him to work fast. >> we got people that get mad at us when we stop for five minutes doing maintenance work. you can imagine what was like stopping for hours. >> according to jones, the area gets two to three rockslides a year and when they happen, a tdot geologist is always called to the scene. >> as it her call to view the situatio...

>> so before that particular night, you satisfied that there was enough alarm systems and sensors outside that if somebody were to come up to your premises, you would pick it up? >> thats not what i said, my lady. i said that they were bolting at the house. its possible for them to take alarm beak an off the outside wall, sensor off the wall, but theyre not -- theyre not bolted on to the wall. you can take them off. when they painted the house the previous time, when they were doing maintenance ...

Open. but you have to do it and do it safely, though. >> steve jones, tdots county supervisor, knows commuters want him to work fast. >> we got people that get mad at us when we stop for five minutes doing maintenance work. you can imagine what it was like for hours. >> according to jones, the area gets two to three rock slides a year, and when they happen, a tdot geologist is always called to the scene. >> its her call to view the situation, to see whether we can get it safely done, get everyth...

Off all this maintenance work. so this parcel mealiament parli today, the amount of the backlog for work on the palace is at $50 million. money they simply dont have at the moment, and they are talking about buckets being used in the palace, and this old boiler that hasnt been updated for 60 years, buckingham palace, costing a million dollars a year to run, to keep the electricity going. >> so is the government going to pitch in and help? and also, how did those in london feel about this? do the...

Was october a bad month, you bet. we are getting better. >> meanwhile, more maintenance work on the obamacare website. the irs will be working on part of the website that allows enrollees to figure out if they are eligible for government subsidees. thats one of the ways the obama administration has said that obamacare will reduce costs for people. some will be able to get taxpayer dollars to help pay for their plans. but that part of the website will be down until tuesday morning. greg? >> molly...

You bet. was october a bad month, you bet. we are getting better. >> meanwhile more maintenance work on the obama care website, from today until tuesday morning. the irs will be working on the part of the website that helps enrollees figure out if theyre eligible for sub ssidyubsidies. theyll be able, some of them, to get tax dollars for their health care plan. that site will be down until tuesday morning. >> molly, thank you very much for that report. and last night on the kelly file, conserv...

Full week before it reported to have come back online. really? similarly, chevrons richmond refinery was reported down for maintenance for two weeks in may, but a missions data suggests the refinery never ceased operation. shells refinery in martinez, they were supposedly offline not making anything. gas prices had to go up, but at least one report concludes actually they were up and running. what, they just didnt want to say so? everybody knows how supply and demand works. but in this case, if ...

The area were told to stay inside their homes. drivers were told to close their windows. four train stations were shut down. and gas prices went up. you notice a trend here? that one refinery in richmond that has spent the last 25 years catching on fire over and over and over again, thats one of the refineries we were told in may with that mysterious price spike that that it refinery was offline. thats why we had the spike. the other one was this one. the royal dutch shell refinery in martinez, ...