woman s terrifying experience with online dating. could bring changes for everyone looking for love on the internet. her ordeal and her lawsuit could make a big difference. yeah let s face it, that s how a lot of people meet these days. yeah we re not advertising these. these. later on i ll be saying good-bye to my favorite foods if just 17 days, all right? i committed for 17 days. i m giving up these cookies, these are my favorites and i m starting the hot, new hollywood diet to try to lose somewhere those postbaby pounds. it s called the 17 diet. coming up. and i don t start it until after 6:00 a.m. when we re off the air and i may indulge in one of those as a final farewell. by me. that s mean. first, another air traffic controller is being blamed for another midair mishap after a plane carrying the first lady came to close to a military cargo plane. that s right, the incident, once again, puts passengers safety in the spotlight just as the faa is trying to make some chan
after the cargo plane land the controllers were reportedly still worried it would not clear the runway in time for mrs. obama s jet. they ordered the first lady s plane to abort its landing and loop back around. it did. the pilot s landed safely. we re told no one on that jet was even aware of the delay or the high sky maneuvers. now go rounds like this are not necessarily unusual and clearly it was not an abrupt maneuver since no one on board was aware anything was wrong, still, as you can imagine, there will be a complete investigation. lisa stark, abc news, washington. investigators in texas trying to figure out how a kindergartner managed to bring a gun to his houston school undetected. the boy and two other students were wounded when the gun accidentally went off in the cafeteria. the injuries were not life-threatening. the kindergartner could be sent to an alternative school for the rest of the year. one man is dead and after a
dysfunctional in the sense that it is almost guaranteed to disrupt sleep, to cause people to be less than fully alert. reporter: the administration insists there will be more changes to come. but one idea that appears to be off the table, scheduled naps. i m opposed to that. we re not going to pay controllers to take naps. reporter: on monday, the head of the faa and the head of the controllers union will start visiting a number of air traffic control centers around the country. they ll essentially be telling controllers that they have a personal responsibility to come to work well rested. lisa stark, abc news, reagan national airport. well, it was a sea of blue and white as the ncaa champions did their final victory lap run. exactly, right. i know this is painful for you. it is. the streets of downtown hartford were shutdown as huskies star kemba walker and company celebrated uconn s big win with the raucous parade. thousands of die-hard fans of
it and they told the president on wednesday in the white house. i sat there with him and they said, we recognize that we have to do this. and not play around it because we realized that the risk was catastrophic. i don t see how productive to get into a partisan bickering match with the president. i will not do that. because we ve got things to do. the government is projected to go over the $14 trillion debt ceiling next month. gas prices, they have gone up for the past 26 days across the country and now there are half dozen states where drivers are paying at least $4 a gallon. aaa says that drivers in alaska, california, connecticut, hawaii, new york, and washington, d.c. are now paying at least $4 per gallon. the national average is about $3.83. and it s going up just before the busy summer travel season. the government is taking action after as many as seven air traffic controllers dozed off on the job over the past few months. those in charge of manning the skies will now w
now it s recalling 1.2 million of those f-150 pickups. the most popular american vehicle. abc s lisa stark reports the defect is caused by an electrical short. reporter: the recall involves the model years 2004 through 2006, and the problem is the driver s side air bag. now here s what s happening in some cases. the drivers are getting into the vehicle. they re simply turning on the car. and then the air bag is suddenly popping out unexpectedly. ford says the issue is a wire right inside of the steering column that can chafe and cause that air bag to deploy. there have been more than 300 complaints. 122 injuries. everything from burns to sprains, eye injuries and loss of consciousness. now ford has been resisting this massive recall. it has argued that the air bag warning light, you can see it when the car comes on that the air bag warning light comes on very, very early. weeks before the air bag would actually deploy giving consumers plenty of notice.