Makes things easy. That was easy. John but government makes everything so hard and thats our show tonight. John a friend of mine asked me to buy a savings bond for her granddaughter. I thought that should be easy. After all billions of these have been sold. They helped pay for world war ii. Freedom thats what im selling anyone today. Bonds are bigger than ever. John more recently the government announced it would go digit. That will save taxpayers millions they said in make buying bonds even more convenient. Buying digit u. S. Saving bonds can help your family save for a new home, a retirement or other dream. Sounds good but how much does it dost set up an account . Nothing its free. Free is good. And it only takes a few minutes to set up an act. Congratulations hundred hun, youre now a treasury account holder. John but the government lies, it is too hard. I had to fill out an account authorization form that requires a seal of approval by an authorized certified officer from an insured
Makes things easy. That was easy. John but government makes everything so hard and thats our show tonight. John a friend of mine asked me to buy a savings bond for her granddaughter. I thought that should be easy. After all billions of these have been sold. They helped pay for world war ii. Freedom thats what im selling anyone today. Bonds are bigger than ever. John more recently the government announced it would go digit. That will save taxpayers millions they said in make buying bonds even more convenient. Buying digit u. S. Saving bonds can help your family save for a new home, a retirement or other dream. Sounds good but how much does it dost set up an account . Nothing its free. Free is good. And it only takes a few minutes to set up an act. Congratulations hundred hun, youre now a treasury account holder. John but the government lies, it is too hard. I had to fill out an account authorization form that requires a seal of approval by an authorized certified officer from an insured
Today under a mostly sunny sky, but it will be breezy and cold with highs in the low 20s, and a brisk wind to 15 mph. Tonight is mostly cloudy and cold with lows in the the misery is mounting. Snow and ice triggering deadly accidents, across the country. But if you think its cold now. Just wait nbcs Kristen Dahlgren is in pulaski, new york. dahlgren intro on camera hi there. Well, the snow is still coming down in parts of upstate new york. Some places have already received a foot of snow. And it is bitterly cold causing a lot for a lot of people. From coast to wintry mess icy cold temperatures and lots of snow making driving dangerousin erie county pennsylvania more than a dozen cars piling up along interstate ninety. At least ten people were taken to the hospital. While in michigan a massive crash turning deadly three killed when almost 40 cars slammed into each other in white out conditionsi was lucky enough i could see the taillights in front of a semi you just couldnt see. Lake eff
Uninjured. Reporter the driver told chp officers that he could see the massive tree as it was falling on to the freeway and didnt know if he should speed past it or slam on the brakes. He close to stop, and his camaro skidded under the tree as it fell and snapped across the northbound lanes. The car didnt get much damage, and the driver escaped unharmed, thanking his lucky stars that the trunk broke instead of falling on top of his car. Weve seen crews work quickly. They managed to cut apart the huge portion of the tree that was laying across the southbound lanes. So were expecting them to be able to open up both directions of highway 13 pretty quickly. Reporting live in oakland, abc7 news. Thank you very much for that. A warning for bart riders. Theres a major delay at San Francisco and the peninsula stations. Bart is blaming power issues. The bay areas rain is expected to ease up at some point tonight, but not just yet. On stanfords campus, it poured today. That didnt stop the diving
Working to clear a giant tree that fell across both lanes. Sergio, whats the status . Reporter last time we talked, that tree was laying across both lanes of southbound highway 13. I want to show what crews are doing. Theyve managed to clear it out of both southbound lanes. The massive tractor, theyre going to attach a couple of chambers chains to it and physically pull whats left of whats laying on the northbound lanes across the barrier. Then theyre going to cut it apart and sweep the rest of it off of the freeway. Now, when chp officers came through, they found that there was a huge tree that had come across the freeway, and they found something else. My partner gets out of his vehicle. Immediately hops over the Center Divide and sees that theres a driver still trapped inside his vehicle. My partner along with other motorists go to extract the driver out of his vehicle. They break branches out, get the driver out. And he the driver was uninjured. Reporter the driver told chp officer