bill: with the new year now is your chance to have your very own affordable robot. finally it is here. las vegas create ad pint-sized gadget that comes alive when plugged into your iphone. hot dog. essentially the turning the phone into a robot. they re calling it romo. you see everything that the robot sees. kind of like skype. if you could move around in a three dimensional space. the advantage of using a smart device as romo s brain, people already have the devices. bill: he is capable of learning behaviors and play games, words with friends. has wheels to move over rough services. the robot will set you back 150 buck. can it cook is the question. bill: that is good question for itunes. arthel: well, high winds are keeping coast guard crews from getting a closer look at an oil drilling rig that ran aground in alaska. right now the rig appears
disaster in january. new documents leaked in an italian newspaper show four days before the concordia ran aground, e-mails from the ship s technical director said the black box data recorder had broken down. it was never repaired or replaced, even though the owners of the costa cruise lines insisted that the recorders were working on the night of the disaster. then there are the water tight safety doors designed to prevent flooding. the documents say they were left open. and an assertion that costa denies. officers on board reportedly said leaving the doors open was standard practice to make it easier for those working to come and go. the documents also suggest the crew were using unauthorized, outdated maps that were found in the bridge of the ship. ever since that fateful night, the blame lay squarely with the captain who is still under house arrest facing manslaughter charges for causing the collision and abandoning ship.
years ago. tell you about global project management the scandal is now in the cross hairs of a congressal hearing today. video spoofs even bragged about the lavish spending and poked fun at president obama. the scandal already has claimed gsa administrator martha johnson who stepped down two weeks ago. republican chair of the house oversight committee darrell issa says one goal of the hearing is to, quote, make sure this doesn t happen again. the death toll from this weekend s massive tornadoes is rising. at least six people have died. all of the known fatalities right now in woodward, oklahoma. the woodward storm was just part of a massive system that spun off dozens of tornadoes across ten states in the midwest and plains. the national weather service received more than 130 reports of tornadoes. a major insurgent attack on kabul and three other areas in eastern afghanistan is over. but gunfire and rpg explosions rocked the capital until early this morning. afghan
i just love warm weather. yeah. no, i m ready for the warm weather. not ready for having one less hour of sleep. this is onset of the warm weather here. i m talking about the sleep. tonight we begin daylight saving time 2:00 a.m. push your clocks forward one hour in most parts of the country. as you mentioned spring forward, fall back. we lose an hour of sleep, right. it is probably a good idea to do it tonight before you go to bed because you don t want to show up late to church tomorrow. exactly. or anyplace else. thanks for the reminder. appreciate it. yes. a dramatic rescue effort off the coast of sicily coming up after a tanker ship ran aground in stormy seas. what made it so challenging for everyone involved. we will talk about that, wow. and despite some weak showings in recent contests, mitt romney remains the frontrunner to win the republican nomination. why some political analysts say the national mood could help him present a serious challenge to presiden
afghan officials say five taliban prisoners at guantanamo bay have agreed to be transferred. they are scheduled to move to qatar in the persian gulf. the transfer viewed as an incentive to bring the taliban to peace talks. air strikes in yemen killing 18 militants with ties to al-qaeda. the strikes in retaliation for an attack last week by al-qaeda which killed almost 200 soldiers. and an italian tanker ship ran aground. there is the video. in storm. waters off the coast of sicily. helicopters plucking the crew to safety but the ship s position makes it almost impossible to lower life boats. despite losing today in kansas, mitt romney remains the frontrunner to win the republican presidential nomination and while some in the gop fear possibly that he would be a weak challenger to