be careful if you signed up for free nights and weekends. some customers have been charged for those supposedly free minutes. one caught it after five years and was owed $2,000. you want to make sure that those charges are being credited back to yo bect s shfighryuro c rorteo sa always wants to do the righ thi cus but murray calls this too little, too late. so do the math. i don t think it s enough. reporter: and murray says something she s learned, eye on their bills. lisa stark, abc news, washington. there are some serious new drug allegations against tour de france winner alberto contador. this morning s the new york times reports contador had eight times the allowable amount of a certain chemical in this blod. that chemical is called plastic plasticizer. it s found in iv bags, including the ones used for endurance boosting blood transfusions. last week, contador announced he had also tested positive for a
drugmaker glaxosmithkline and some at the fda insisting avandia was safe. dr. nissen insisting it wasn t. it means a lot of people are going to be put at risk here. reporter: ultimately one fda researcher determined the drug may have caused as many as 100,000 heart attacks, strokes and deaths. nissen says the war is not won. i will sleep better tonight, but i will not sleep until i know we ve improved the way we handle these kinds of problems in the united states. we ve got to fix the fda. reporter: fixing the fda, says nissen, means a wholesale change. no longer should the same people at the agency who approve a drug be the ones to decide if it gets pulled off the market. it s a conflict of interest. we must fix those flaws or we will have further problems like avandia. reporter: which nissen calls one of the worst drug safety tragedies in our lifetime. lisa stark, abc news, washington. well, it is right next to the soda machine but it is dispensing something a whole lot
daughter heather died while driving to meet her wedding planner. we were very, very angry. we could not believe our daughter could be taken from us by somebody who was texting. reporter: they say what s needed is a change in attitude. we want you to turn the cell phone off. we re living proof that in three or four seconds, your entire life can change. and certainly we ll never be the same again. reporter: the hurds say distracted driving must become as unacceptable as drunk driving. they have also pushed for tough laws, bans on texting and cell phones while driving. but they say ultimately, they hope stories like theirs will cause drivers to think twice. lisa stark, abc news, rockville, maryland. talk about just in the nick of time. this story out of croatia. a man was stranded on his boat in a fast-flowing, rain-swollen river over the weekend. after hours of trying to save him a rescuer from a helicopter dragged him off just as the boat began to sink. just moments later the
highly controversial policy. for that to happen some gop support is needed. the transportation secretary hosts a summit today on the dangers of driving while distracted. an alarming report shows the number of deaths caused by distracted driving is down. the problem is now considered an epidemic. lisa stark reports. reporter: here s a young driver caught in the act. watch her eyes and hands. she s texting. and how about this bus driver? reading an electronic book while behind the wheel. the secretary of transportation calls it a distracted driving epidemic. everybody thinks they can use their cell phone and drive and drive safely, and you can t. reporter: new government numbers show distracted driving last year killed nearly 5,500 people. and injured nearly 500,000. the grim toll despite hard-hitting public service announcements. tough new state laws. what will it take to make a dent? russell and kimberly hurd have been asking that since their
as for the genetically altered salmon, one question still on the table, will folks eat it? and will they know what they re eating? the fda has to decide if the fish will even carry a special label. lisa stark, abc news, washington. certainly is interesting. could be the beginning of a lot of things in the supermarket. we ll be right back.