two incidents in two days at boston s international airport started this. according to a spokesman for the airport. a japan airline streamliner spilled about 40 gallons of fuel just before taking off. japan air reports the flight has since taken off. the spokesman says the feds will not be investigating the incident because it was a maintenance issue. federal investigators are looking no another incident from yesterday. that s when a fire broke out from the belly of a different japan airlines dream liner. smoke filled the plane, no passengers were on it at the time. dan springer is live at our seattle newsroom tonight. that home to boeing. how worried are company officials? well, shep, they were worried enough yesterday to have a big conference call all of their 787 customers. and then they got more bad news today, of course, first in a wall street journal report about a wiring problem and then that fuel leak by far the most serious incident though is the fire. a company source tel
three other americans. the libyan government then sent an investigator to look into that murder. we re told that that investigator was kidnapped just this past sunday. in those circumstances, it s hard to seat libyan government as any sort of effective partner in this investigation. shep? shepard: jonathan hunt in new york city tonight. jonathan, thanks. a republican senator is threatening to block president obama s choice for the cia director this time in the white house hands over more information about that attack in benghazi. the president nominated his counter terrorism advisor john brennan. did so yesterday to take over the agency where he spent 25 years. the south carolina republican senator lindsey graham tells fox news he will not vote to confirm anybody for the job until he gets answers to more than 100 questions about benghazi. this administration stone walling to congress. they are trying to get benghazi behind them politically in their rear view mirror. i m going to st
shepard: seems millions of americans are downing too much alcohol and putting their health at serious risk. that s the word from the feds who say the numbers are particularly alarming for young women. according to the centers for disease control and prevention, nearly 14 million american women report binge drinking about three times a month. for women, officials define that as having four or more drinks in one setting. but these women report having an average of six drinks at a time. and it s not just the ladies. 20% of high school girls say they binge. health experts claim many people just don t recognize the problem and that drinking such amounts is extremely dangerous and potentially deadly. john roberts in our atlanta newsroom tonight. home of the cdc. hey, john. geographic to you, shep. those numbers particularly among high school girls are very troubling. believe it or not it gets worse as the get older. one in five figure for high school girls. by the time they get into coll
pressure on congress, aren t they? the pressure in congress as well as the national rifle association, shep. the reason that gabriel giffords and mark kelly came up with that political action committee was to raise enough money so they could fight the gun lobby on capitol hill. in their op ed in u.s.a. today giffords and kelly right in part quoting here wise policy has conquered disease, protected from us dangerous products and substances and made transportation safer. but when it comes to protecting our communities from gun violence. we re not even trying. and for the worst of reasons. here they where abc news anchor diane sawyer. gun. gabby and i are both gun owners, we have to do something to keep the guns from getting in the wrong hands. when it can happen to children in a classroom, it s time to say. enough. gun rights advocates are well away that gabriel giffords is a sympathetic figure and could be a force for gun control. we reached out to the nra
don t buy that drones are used decisions against combatants. the use of drones may be more precise than bombardment, but that isn t the right question that we should be asking. the question is, is the use of drones lawful in the places in which we are using them and against the people who are being killed? and the answer to that is, no. also controversial, double tap drone strikes in which we sometimes fire on the same area twice in a row. sometimes allegedly killing first responders, shep? shepard: james rosen at the state department tonight. thanks. iran is weighing in on president obama s choice for defense a second. today one iranian official says he hopes chuck hagel will help make practical changes in american foreign policy. some of his fellow republicans say they cannot and will not support hagel because of his record on israel and iran. he once made a comment about the quote jewish lobby and