Jay korff is live at the scene. What can you tell us at this point . Metro Officials Say they got a disconcerting telephone call into their operations center, a man on the tracks in the tunnel here at the potomac avenue metro station. A female metro transit officer pursued. For reasons unclear, a shot was fired. That man is dead. I saw all of this and i am like, oh my god. I am thinking, what in the world . It is chaos. They had all the tape and everything. Metro officers say the tunnel was a scene of a fatal shooting. In the tunnel on the westbound track, between potomac avenue and the armory. A man got onto the tracks went into the tunnel, and was pursued by Transit Police. One officer fired a shot and killed the individual. His body was found 400 feet east of the platform. Her train was the last to pull into the station. This is my worst fear, to be on a train and Something Like this happens. An investigation has been launched. This writer rider remains shaken. I might have to start
President asked for hisn his initial offer last week. Other details in this offer being reported by nbc. Health savings of 600 billion. Other mandatory savings of 300 billion. A revision to cpi of 200 billion. And further discretionary savings of 300 billion. Guys, it looks like the horse trading is alive and well here in washington. Now this offer being extended from the republicans. You can assume that the white house will not think this is enough tax revenue to go forward, but, of course, offers are being exchanged here so thats a sign negotiations are under way, guys. Lets get into the details here. 600 billion in health savings. What does that mean for medicare . Break it down in terms of where these savings come from. I wish i could. What we dont have here is a lot of detail hanging off this Christmas Tree at this point. Were looking at a couple of bullet points being released now in terms of the scale of the deal. It gives us overall broad numbers. Presumably negotiators would h
Sides. Its like we have one foot over the cliff already. Did you give thought to the fiscal cliff when doing your Christmas Shopping . Many americans did because cbs 5 reporter Mike Sugerman tells us retail numbers werent good. Reporter im at union square which is mobbed. Its swinging. I spent the day here and it didnt get active until a couple of hours ago and as i look around, i dont see a lot of people with bags. Im not sure theyre shopping. But the retailers really hope they will because because they are in a lot of hurt. Susan wanted to buy toys for her grandchildren but couldnt manage to go to a toy store. Visions of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre were in her head. I couldnt take the shopping and seeing all the little kids 5yearolds, 6yearolds, particularly saddens me. Reporter she bought gift cards instead and none of the extra stuff she might have been found being in stores. December retail is a bummer in the news and stores. This is not at all a good Holiday Season