2014. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Well it is reporting this morning that the japanese air bag manufacturer takata knew its air bags were dangerous ten years ago but covered up the results of secret tests. Two former takata employees told the New York Times the testing was stopped after two months and the evidence destroyed. D we have more. Good morning. That was four years after they said they first tested the air bags. The faulty air bags have been tied to four deaths and recalled more than 14 million cars worldwide. The secret tests were conducted atta ka tas facility in michigan on weekends and holidays. The defects can force the air bags to deploy with too much shards caution pieces of metal to go into passengers. Last night it responded to the report saying it raised additional concerns about takatas handling of the air bag issues and its one of the reasons its compelling them to produce documents. The vehicle ace affect were manufactured between 2003 an
Because you just have yourself to think about and when youre a teacher you have so many concerns for your students. Woodruff those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill republicans who will run the next congress talked up their todo list today. House Speaker John Boehner also issued a warning to president obama especially on immigration. There is a bipartisan majority in the house and senate to take some of these issues out of obamacare. We need to put them on the president s desk and let him choose. Ifill well have more on todays eve
And a little bit of blue sky and sunshine. Sunshine it looks much better than it did this morning. The only bit of rain we are seeing is farther toward the southwest in our viewing area. That will include spots like front royal. To the east. G heads up and marshall and warrenton. We may see a few showers pushing toward the east. A cloudy view from the National Harbor where it is 61 degrees. Kind of damp out there. I think temperatures will remain in the lower 60s. A few showers possible, hit or miss for the most part. The heaviest rain is out of here. Otherwise, tomorrow breezy and cool. It is going to stay cool this weekend. I will let you know how cool in a few minutes. We will see you then. We are following new developments in that philadelphia kidnapping case. The suspect is inspected expected in court. He and the victim were found in jessup, maryland last night. Police say it was just in the neck of time nick of time. An objection called so vividly on surveillance video. Kidnappin
Well, good friday morning. Im reena ninan. Im t. J. Holmes. We begin with the navy s. E. A. L. Who claims he was the one who put three bullets in osama bin laden. Hes rob oneal. He says he killed the terror leader and hes opening up about that night. Reporter good morning. That former navy s. E. A. L. Claims he decided to come forward after meeting with familiies of 9 11 victims. We assumed it would be leaked anyway anyway. We saw the images from inside the compound after the daring raid that killed osama bin laden. Three years later, this man is claiming he shot the terror leader to death. Robert oneill is a decorated veteran and now a motivational speaker. Getting paid to talk about his hundreds of missions as a navy s. E. A. L. Last night in tennessee, oneill did not talk about his most famous mission, but he told the Washington Post about it. The same story he told esquire magazine anonymously two years agency. Saying he moved up the stairs to confront him in the bedroom, firing tw
With that giant storm brewing, first churning up monstrous waves and quickly sending temperatures plummeting across the country right down to the south. That storm, nuri, as seen from space tonight, triggering 50foot waives near alaska. Just look at the wall this evening. Millions are about to feet it across the country. Temperatures 20, 30 degrees below normal. How soon will it hit . We lead off here tonight with abcs senior meteorologist rob marciano. Reporter this storm is a beast. At its peak, typhoon nuri backed 1 180mileperhour winds. Now, nuri has turned into a nasty North Pacific storm that will alter the jet stream and release arctic air into the u. S. Alaska in the cross hairs, a 50foot monster wave and Hurricane Force winds. What could be the strongest storm ever to hit this part of the u. S. It will enter the bering sea, the Stomping Ground of the crew of deadliest catch. Our ginger zee, recently right there with him. The waves are unbelievable. Reporter tonight, theyre on