with automatic braking by 15%. the fact they have got this advanced front crash prevention system, this is a very safe choice for people. reporter: other recommendations, look for adaptive headlights that swivel as you turn the corner, reducing accidents by 10%. electronic stability control that manages wheel slippage and if you drive a convertible make sure it has a pop up roll bar in case of rollover. cars are getting safer. we are seeing a reduction in crashes. a reduction in fatalities over the last five years as cars have been strengthened corner to corner to pass the widest range of crash tests ever, including the new one that requires more strength at the front corner of the vehicle. jim avila, abc news, washington. good to know. yep. going to be driving us one of these days. oh, yeah. very soon, too. coming up, you can hear it 24 hours a day. if you like christmas music, it is catchy and contagious. coming up next, a look at the
biographies. and nancy gibbs first woman to lead time magazine and my boss. she co-wrote a great book about the american presidency. john has written about andrew jackson, franklin roosevelt and winston churchill and he was my boss when he was editor and david is professor at the graduate center of the city university of new york and the author of books on joseph kennedy, the new one, andrew carnegie among others. we ll start with you. i ve been struck by the reaction to president obama s geneva agreement with iran. furious reaction from the right. i was thinking back to your book on kissinger when nixon and kissinger made the opening to china. they were selling out taiwan a d
stimulus is doing. $85 billion a month. that can t go on forever. every time the economy shows a little bit more strength, a little bit more stability, the questions arise, will ben bernanke and crew slow down the trickle of money coming into the economy and what will happen? so what they will be doing today is weighing things that are going right in the economy. housing is recovering, the job market, we re adding about 190,000 jobs a month on average this year, inflation is under control, consumer spending is rising, but we still have high long-term unemployment, still have slow economic growth, we still have a stock market that many people say has been push, push, push by all this money that ben bernanke and crew have been flooding into the market. they have to weigh all of these things and decide when they re going to start to taper back on that stimulus and that s why you get people so nervous. now they re calling it the taper. the it word on wall street is the taper. what will h
season. most of the west doesn t get any kind of rainfall until the middle of october. very dry year as we know across the west two wet years. firefighters are extremely fires continue to burn in so many different areas, shepard, including the new one in southern california and a the two burning here and one just north of sacramento. shepard? shepard: adam housley live in saint helena, california. thanks. judge set to rule tomorrow on a mistrial request from that excop accused of killing his wife. defense attorneys for one drew peterson filed for mistrial saying prosecutors tainted the jury with prejudicial and illegal evidence. drew peterson is accused of murdering his third wife in the year 2004. officials first ruled it an accidental drowning until peterson s fourth wife went missing a few years ago. he denies any connection to either the death of wife number three or the disappearance of wife number four.
for you. good morning to you, welcome to early start on this monday morning. i m zoraida sambolin. and i m ashlee. it s the kind of heat that makes it hard to breathe and it is still threatening millions of americans all the way from the midwest to the northeast this morning. about 16 people have now died from this heat since thursday when triple-digit temperatures unleashed killer storms that have now left millions of people without power this morning. it s incredible, but look how many states are now dealing with miserable conditions in ohio, 425,000 people are now without power. that s as of 10:00 p.m. last night. it s the same story in virginia and maryland, where hundreds of thousands of people are just waiting for the power to come back on. just a whiff of ac in these extraordinary temperatures. the problem there doesn t seem to be much of a let-up in sight. 20 states are under heat advisory warnings. and now a state of emergency has been declared by the gove