truck was killed. lawmakers ending the bill after a pileup in the state. the timing is unfortunate but still moving ahead to revoke the seat belt law. the requirement to buckle up infringes on people s freedoms. the appeal will lead to more highway deaths. unconscious free fall. a sky diver cheating death after having a seizure mid air. check it out. unbelievable. 22-year-old christopher jones started seizing seconds after jumping out of a plane over western australia. his instructor was able to fly to him and pull the rip cord. he made an amazing landing after
you look at the big board, the words canceled, and delayed, to dot appear. only the words on time. that s your situation in the sky. sunny keys. now adam housely in los angeles. here at the capital of the car culture in california, no delays. this is the 405 freeway. the busiest urban freeway in the country, right now moving along at a good crip. aaa says it will be much busier today. gas prices are down but still more than 4.25 on average per gallon. mean something people are staying home. have to pay a little extra for the gas. have to absorb this year. it is expensive to goo anywhere. i usually drive to palm springs or go to san diego, and then by the time you go back and forth it s $200. a little bad news. the national safety council predicts 380 highway deaths this year of the three-day period.
kelly blue book. eddie, we have a tremendous amount of auto fatties in this country. there s about 32,000 highway deaths every year. compare that to rail, 759. aviation, which is 494. and zero commuter airline deaths. it s always amazing to me our risk tolerance for driving is so much higher. if you had subway fatalities that were anything like what cars are, even proportion or per capita, no one would go on the subway. the same is true of planes. yet we tolerate it from cars. one possible revolutionary technology would be removing human drivers and having computer-driven cars so that people can t get drunk behind the wheel, can t text behind the wheel, can t fall asleep. how close is that to a reality? that technology s already front loaded into the cars right now. i think the difference between rail and cars is in cars you have this feeling of control. that you re in command of this thing. you re not just on a plane, you re actually in charge of the
recommendation. the feds tell us about 10,000 people die each year in drunk driving crashes. that s roughly 1/3 of all highway deaths. the new limits would mean that 120-pound woman could be legally drunk after one drink. but the new recommendations could face stiff resistance from the alcohol and restaurant industries as well as from states that only recently lowered their limit from the old .01. i m shepard smith. this is the fox report. it s the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. and there is no siege mentality at the white house. that s the word from the embattled press secretary jay carney. he insists president obama is not distracted by questions about the attack on the u.s. outpost in benghazi or the justice department secretly going through phone records from the associated press. or the irs targeting conservative groups. and just in to fox news. the irs reports it agrees with the inspector
almost half the country. 10% will be at least 100 pounds overweight. and a new government report shows highway deaths in the united states reaching an all time low compared to the number of miles driven. safety experts say that is because people are driving less and using seat belts more. president obama quick to congratulate france s president-elect francois hollande. he invited him to the white house ahead of the g8 economic summit at camp david later this month. already some economists and political commentators are pointing out these two men have similar approaches to the economy. for example, both leaders favor massive stimulus programs. they both oppose austerity programs and aggressive budget cutting. both leaders want to inch grease the top tax rates on their citizens, and one more thing that may be making some investors squirm, the leaders of france and the united states are