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Call this toll-free number on your screen now... for this free information kit, including this... medicare guide and customized rate quote. heather: some fallout to tell you about. massive power outages caused by last month's monster snowstorm forcing a ceo out of a job. the head of connecticut light and power is stepping down after coming under fire for how the company handled this widespread power failures. jeffrey butler said remaining on the job would be a distraction. about 77% of the company's customers were without power, some left in the dark for as long as 11 days. bill: not cool, huh...

>> am trarks unlike our commuter rail, unlike our subway the, does have a manifold of everybody that rides amtrak, they check your name as you walk down, so it doesn't seem to me that difficult to do and i've discussed it with secretary la hood and others in amtrak and we're going to work as hard as we can to get this done as quickly as possible. >> reporter: meanwhile, at a news conference here at penn station this morning, transportation secretary ray la hood announcing a huge new investment in high-speed rail. some $2 billion that florida turned down to improve the rail system in that state...

Americans concerned about earthquake and nuclear safety. after seeing this explosive footage from fukushima, the reaction is there's no way i'd live near a nuclear power plant. hold onto that thought. look at this. there are 104 nuclear plants in the u.s., 23 of which are mark 1 boiling water reactors. that is the same reactor design found in the plants affected by the earthquake and tsunami in japan. a large concentration of the reactors are in the northeast, and they include the oyster creek nuclear plant in thames river, new jersey, the indian point nuclear power plant in westchester, new y...

Containment vessel and that as a consequence, you get a full melt down, not a partial melt down, the molten uranium metal and the fuel rods goes down and hits the water and explodes and are distributed into the atmosphere. that is what people are trying to avoid. there is this last layer of defense here. the containment vessel and the international atomic energy agency, the iaea, so far reported they believe the containment vessels are intact and have maintained their integrity but this is an experiment no one wants to run, the first line of business is to do everything they can to cool down t...

Continues to blast the east coast, triggering power failures in washington. now the administration's plan to encourage loans for people greening their homes is running out of juice apparently. fannie mae and freddie mac regulators saying the loans are too risky. the same lenders that helped create the crisis. if these are too risky for them, do we need to look out? mortgage agencies buck owe obama. >> this is a niche active they're excited but. they want to encourage people to take out loans to receipt retror homes but fannie mae and freddie mac don't like the programs because if the homeowner...