Thanks for joining us im bill wadell. Right now search crews are chasing leads trying to find a missing teen who is in desperate need of medication. This is a live look at Blacksburg Police headquarters where that search is being organized. Hundreds of people are involved including local police and cadets from Virginia Tech. Police say 13yearold Nichole Madison lovell hasnt been seen since wednesday night. The girl is on medication for a liver transplant. Police fear there will be serious medical complications if she goes any longer without the medication. If you have seen nichole youre urged to call police. We have an anonymous tipline posted on virginia first dot com. New at ten. A scare tonight in a Shopping Plaza in roanoke. Several people called 911 reporting gunshots fired just before 6 thirty outside kmart along hershberger road. Witnesses arguing inside kmart and the confrontation continued outside. Despite the sounds of Gunshots Police say they have not yet found any phyiscal
I would note that, in recent the raw number of crashes and deaths nationwide has decreased and that is a good thing. There is anyeve evidence based on the best the problemta that is increasing or decreasing as a share of all crashes. If we look or use conservative estimates that we have across of of the more solid studies the proportion of crashes that involved drowsy drivers and wely that to 2012 data, estimate over 5000 were killed in crashes that involved a drowsy driver. You mentioned multiple you look atnd alcoholimpaired driving. I am wondering if you can use the same technique on that data to look at fatiguerelated crashes. If so, or if not, what would your opinion be . I believe it could be done. I would only do that with a couple of the data from studies that i referred to in my presentation. The National Motor vehicle Crash Causation survey and automotive sampling system. Researchers,ies, independent of the police, make the determination of whether a driver is drowsy. They di
We continue right now. From cnn world headquarters, this is cnn saturday morning. Still waiting. Three days to go and no noon avert the fiscal cliff. What will lawmaker do to save you from more taxes and fewer benefits . The littlest pawns in a political fight. Well talk to one woman whose hopes for adopting a russian son may have just been shattered. And theyre back. Kathy griffin and Anderson Cooper ringing in new years eve. But why was kathys make itted on a. C. s naked on a. C. s couch . Well explain. Good morning, its 10 00 on the east coast, 7 00 on the west coast. Im alison kosik. Randi kaye is off today. Were just three days away from possibly crossing over the fiscal cliff. For the first time in weeks, theres some hope coming from washington. Senate leaders are negotiating a deal they hope can go to a vote, go to a vote soon. Cnn radio capitol hill correspondent Lisa Desjardins is in washington. You were on thrill yesterday for the Political Action between president obama, bet
Were still trying to sort out exactly why he was here, but he wasnt here for very long, it seems. He left in the last hour. Also, we were able to see some of senator mcconnells staffers. I was able to speak to one of them coming in and out of these kind of closeddoor planning meetings. He said theyve been here since 9 00 a. M. They plan to work all day and we may see his boss, senator mcconnell, later today. That shows us kind of where things stand. I wanted to break this down simply because theres so much that complicates the story. Lets look really quickly at a graphic of the basics, whats happening right now. Heres where we stand with the fiscal cliff. First of all, whos doing the negotiating . Ice the top two senators, senator reid for the democrats, senator mcconnell for the republican, and it is their staff who are working out details right now. What are they talking about . Mainly trying to find a way to avoid those tax hikes for most americans. That could also include an extens
John boehner and House Democratic leader nancy pelosi met at the white house yesterday afternoon with the president and Vice President. Heres where things stand right now. The Senate Leaders are meeting aiming to avoid tax hikes. And they may vote on a deal sunday or perhaps on monday. Jessica yellin is our chief white house correspondent. Lisa day jar dayne is on capitol hill. The president used his bully pulpit to reinforce the idea that senators need to get busy. So lets listen. The American People are watching what we do here. Obviously, their patience is already thin. This is deja vu all over again. America wonders why it is that in this town for some reason, you cant get stuff done in an organized timetable, why everything always has to wait till the last minute. Were now at the last minute. And the American People are not going to have any patience for a politically selfinflicted wound to our economy. Not right now. So jessica, you were in the room for the president s remarks. O