And apparently, this is a big political secret that has no political consequences whatsoever and it must not be discussed, but those insurance plans that you can get now through Obamacare in California turns out they are way more reasonably priced and comprehensive than everybody expected. These are the insurance plans, private insurance plans that you can get through the exchange that has now been set up in the state of California. So, in a very quiet but important policy news today, the most populous state in the Union, California, today released details on the insurance plans you can sign up for now in California - thanks to Obamacare. It is nicer to win the bear yourself, but sometimes has to be your friend who wins you the bear. On the boardwalk at the shore, the two men played "throw the football at the thing" kind of game, which the governor turns out was much better at than the president. They were highlighting the recovery efforts post-hurricane Sandy. In presidential politics today, President Obama spent the afternoon on the Jersey shore, with his old pal, Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. At this point, they`re just working on trying to put out that fire in Rosedale, Maryland. That said, the Baltimore County fire chief is saying if it had been a significant toxic chemical release situation, then that evacuation area would`ve had to be much larger than 20 blocks. But we do know that a 20-block radius around the crash was evacuated once it happened this afternoon and that hazmat teams were on-site, in part because the train was to be known to be carrying chemicals of some kind. We will keep you posted as we learn more. Route 40 and it caused that huge explosion that could be felt miles away. A freight train crashed into a trailer and derailed into an industrial park outside of Baltimore. Then, today, just outside Baltimore and visible from downtown Baltimore, there was this huge explosion which was caused by yet another train derailment. That one happened in Chafee, Missouri, in the southeastern part of the state over the weekend.
Again, nobody was killed, but there were injuries. A train derailment sent a bunch of speeding railroad cars slamming into the support pillars of an overpass, a highway overpass bridge, and that then collapsed the overpass and sent, again, cars crashing down, in this case under the highway below. This one caused by a chain reaction of sorts. Then, this weekend, there was another highway overpass collapse. Miraculously, nobody was killed in that collapse, but there were some injuries.
On Friday night, we opened the show with the news of that very dramatic and very scary bridge collapse on Interstate 5 in Washington state, that highway bridge collapsing into the Skagit River, bringing down a few cars with it. RACHEL MADDOW, HOST: And thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour.