Consider oreilly. I will see you january 26th. Ashley next is mony with france france. Melissa im Melissa Francis and here is what is mony tonight. The dropdead date for. Taxpayers are wondering are you kidding aig . It is thanking america for the massive bailout but now it might join a multibilliondollar lawsuit against the u. S. Government. We have the bizarre details on this one coming up. I think i found my next vacation. People across the country are storming florida for a python hunting contest. Sounds great. This might be the most insane competition in america. We have the star of gnat geowilds python hunters, joins us to explain. Even when ey say its not it is always about money. Melissa first lets take a look at the days market headlines. Stocks fell for their second straight session. Investors looked cautious preparing for the start of earnings season the dow shed 55 points. Speaking of earnings, alcoa kicked off the Fourth Quarter earnings season after the bell. It beat expe
Imus in the morning yes, the world is in love with smart phones. New developments. Good morning, everyone, theres a published report that apple will produce a cheaper iphone for the china market, redesigned, big screen. Apple not happy with its alsorun status in the biggest market in the world and then theres the samsung galaxy, it leads the iphone in sales and shows on its bottom line. In a threemonth period, samsung forecast record profits of more than 8 billion dollars. Meanwhile, a new cliff approaches faster than we thought. The government runs out of money on february 15th according to one think tank. So here we go again. A new countdown to disaster. Deja vu all over again. Varney company is about to begin. What are you doing . Nothing. Are you stealing our Daughters School supplies and taking them to work . No, i was just looking for my stapr and my. This thing. I save money by using fedex ground and buy my own supplies. Thats a great idea. Im going to go. We got clnts in today.
male announcer this is bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. Pam the coast guard checking out an oil tanker. After it strikes the bay bridge. The 750 foot ship. Sideswiped one of the bridge towers. Tonight, investigators looking at the possible causes no injuries were reported. The busy span remained open to traffic after the tanker called overseas reymar struck a tower of the west span of the bridge. This is video from our helicopter partnership with abc news. Tonight at 11 well start our team covearge with kron4s dan kerman. With details on what happened. Reporter the oil tanker is anchored off of the coast of Treasure Island. Investigators are trying to figure out why it crashed into the bridge on 11 20 as it was figuring and heading out towards the sea. We are trying to figure out if it was a human error. With onequarter mile visibility even if the visibility is limited there are still plenty of ways to avoid the bridge. The radar and the vessel traffic services. The Pilot
Has ordered the vessel and not to go anywhere. And it digging into the investigation of why it swiped the tower 6 of the bay bridge and the National Transportation safety board has announced that it is investigating the crash is is that it is a major marine casualty with one half a Million Dollars in damage, so far. Kron4s Maureen Kelly attended a coast guard briefing where they outlined their next steps in the investigation. Reporter tuesday investitgators interviewed the bar pilot. The local person tasked with helping to manuever the 752 foot vessel thru these waters. The captain and key members of the crew will also be interviewed. Drug and Alcohol Testing is already underway. The coast guard says human error is one of the possibilities they are looking at. That is something that we will always look at is. Pilot error, can lend her. Reporter inspectors and investigators plan to go thru every inch of the ship. Including testing the navigation equiptment meant to help guide the tanker
Covered this morning. Everybodys somewhere. We all heard of the dreamliner. Its the hightech, new plane thats supposed to revolutionize air travel. Well, a fire on board one of them right after landing at boston airport is raising new alarms this morning. The good news is, the fire happened after landing. Yes, big deal there. And milliondollar murder. The mystery surrounding a Lottery Winners death, just one day after he scored that winning ticket. Very strange. Were going to get to that. We begin with breaking news from Gabby Giffords. Two years ago today, she was shot with so many others in a tucson parking lot. Since then, there have been 11 Mass Shootings in america, including the tragedy in newtown, so fresh in our minds. After visiting the families in newtown, gabby and her husband, mark kelly, sat down in an exclusive interview to announce a new National Initiative to prevent gun violence. We saw you in newtown. How was newtown . Tough. It brought back a lot of memories of what