saying about that? amazon is saying they re hopeful the federal aviation administration will have laws in place by as early as 2015. the reality is i really don t think that will be the case. they re currently working on ways to integrate these small drones into the air space, but they re only working with drones that have a remote pilot. the ones that bezos are proposing are completely autonomous. for the safety reasons we just described, that is sort of a recipe for disaster. yeah, okay. well, abby, thank you for bringing this to our attention. good story. with the holiday season here, many folks are in good cheer, particularly people working at toys r us. a careerblitz.com survey finds the toy store is the happiest retailer of the year. they got the highest happiness score. jcpenney coming in second. rounding out the top five, fry s, game stop, and best buy. it was 80 years ago last thursday that the u.s. ended prohibition with that in mind, time magazine is listing the best
joining me now, abby hagledge from the daily beast. first of all, we talk about the program as amazon has described it. how do they intend for it to work? thanks for having me, alex. so basically what amazon ceo jeff bezos is proposing here, small octocopter that will essentially deliver whatever you want to your home in less than 30 minutes. you have to be within a ten-mile radius of one of amazon s 96 distribution centers. the product has to be below five pounds, which makes up 86% of amazon s merchandise. so that s their plan. let s go through a couple things. safety. don t these things have sharp blades on them? i mean, come on. an accident. that could be lethal. that s a really great point. these have eight spinning propellers that are spinning at a rapid speed and are absolutely sharp enough to slice off