Now an amazing tale of survivor. A boater who never came back from a short thanksgiving sail. The coast guard had given up. He never did. Two weeks later hes back an dry land. Abcs ted rowlands has the story. Reporter 67yearold ron ingram went for a thanksgiving day sail off the coast of hawaii when his boat started ta eed ta water. Mayday, mayday. Im in the middle of alenuihai channel. Reporter the coast guard heard his call and launched a massive 12,000squaremile search for the experienced fisherman. After four days and 59 search and rescue flights there was no sign of ron or his boat. Gans the wishes of rons son, a decision was made to call off the search. I said, man, i dont think you should call off the search because i dont think hes gone. Then Tuesday Morning after 12 days of radio silence. Mayday, this is the malia. Anybody picking this up. Reporter the dramatic rescue. Ron found floating 65 miles off the coast of oahu. Hes doing okay. A little tired and weak. They got him some
What was once a wellintentioned Program Designed to help Small Businesses has become a play pen for Corporate Giants. The fccs recent aws3 spectrum auction is a shocking case in point. Earlier this year the fcc disclosed that two companies, each of which claimed it was a, quote, very Small Business with less than 15 million in revenues together won over 13 billion in spectrum licenses. Those very Small Businesses are now claiming over 3 billion in taxpayer funded discounts. How could this be . Dish network, which has annual revenues of approximately 14 billion and a market capitalization of over 31 billion, has an 85 ownership stake in each of those supposedly Small Businesses. To be frank, im appalled that a Corporate Giant has attempted to use Small Business discounts to rip off american taxpayers to the tune of 3. 3 billion. This is money that otherwise would have been deposited into the u. S. Treasury and it could have been used to fund over 581,000 pell graments, to pay for the Sc
Pressure from opponents, which included the states largest company, wall walmart and his own son. Heres Manuel Bojorquez. My son seth, signed the. Asking me, dad the governor to veto this bill, and he gave me permission to make that reference. No religious freedom is restored by the bill at all. Reporter governor hutchinson, just like governor mike pence of indiana, continues to face critics who believe their religious freedom laws open the door to discrimination against gays and lesbians. This is a bill that in ordinary times would not be controversial. Reporter in arkansas Corporate Giant walmart urged the governor to reconsider and religious leaders joined protesters. Ref rabid robert lowry. It is blasphemous, it is an abomination and an affront to the gospel of jesus christ. Reporter hecklers greeted the sponsor of the bill at the state capital. Shame ow reporter but representative Bob Ballinger stood strong. Theres been a lot of peoples misconsemgzs that this billed would allow fo
Pressure from opponents, which included the states largest company, wall walmart and his own son. Heres Manuel Bojorquez. My son seth, signed the. Asking me, dad the governor to veto this bill, and he gave me permission to make that reference. No religious freedom is restored by the bill at all. Reporter governor hutchinson, just like governor mike pence of indiana, continues to face critics who believe their religious freedom laws open the door to discrimination against gays and lesbians. This is a bill that in ordinary times would not be controversial. Reporter in arkansas Corporate Giant walmart urged the governor to reconsider and religious leaders joined protesters. Ref rabid robert lowry. It is blasphemous, it is an abomination and an affront to the gospel of jesus christ. Reporter hecklers greeted the sponsor of the bill at the state capital. Shame ow reporter but representative Bob Ballinger stood strong. Peoples misconsemgzs that this billed would allow for descrims descrimina
Now, here stocks plummeting today, dow fell 185 points nasdaq lost 37 points. Mark matthews mentioned a moment ago, San Francisco Congress Woman announced she wants to stay on at as House Minority leader, shell explain the role women will play in guiding american politics in the years ahead. Where does that burden fall . Governor brown looking for answers after meeting with members of the committee on finance today. That meeting at ucsf focused on budgets for next school year and for the first time, in a long time, no students protested todays meeting. Ylbm the state massive deficit is shrinking. This is according to a report out today from the legislative analyst saying california faces a 1. 9 billion deficit, smaller than in recent years and way below 13 billion projected gap. The report attributes in part to cuts and a temporary tax as proved by voters closing the gap somewhat here. The report forecasts a possibility of surpluses as early as 2014. There was intimatent power in San