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Toughest ban to date on using cell phones or smart phones behind the wheel is set to take effect. chapel hill, north carolina, making it illegal for drivers to use just about any electronic device. as of the 1st of june, no talking on your cell phone even if you have a hands free. and you can forget about downloading music on your ipod. jonathan sierry live in chapel hill tonight. even the police chief says this law will be mighty hard to enforce. for one thing, police can only ticket you for talking on the cell phone. if they ve already pulled you over for some other traffic offense such as speeding or running a red light. but town officials say their primary intent is to generate awareness about the dangers of cell phone use while driving. this is not really an ordinance to write tickets for people. it s an education campaign that we re putting forth. but some residents who work out of their vehicles fear the new ordinance will hurt business. ....
Hopefully it will be a safe one. in the meantime, an extreme weather alert. record crest expected in greenville, mississippi as it continues to flood the south. jonathan sierry is live for us at a levee that s holding back the water at least for now. at least for now. the river is expected to crest a foot below the record set in 1927, to give you an idea of this levee system, take a look at the old levee. this road that they paved leading up to the casino over here, where it goes up to the top of the hill will show you the height of this levee back in 19 little problem with our audio with jonathan serre live from mississippi. try to get that back shortly. breaking news, a huge story while you were sleeping. shocking confession from former ....
Capacity and dedication of the entire team, both the intelligence community, the c.i.a., the seals, it just was extraordinary. what s the big deal? joe biden has had some really great gaffes, this isn t one of them. we all knew it was the seals. when they rolled out their names and home addresses. no, i m only kidding. listen, he was he was in that room. he saw it unfold. i was fascinated to find out that at first we heard that they saw it all with the helmet cam. and now we heard that for 25 minutes, we didn t see anything. we only saw the beginning and the very end. so the maybe it wasn t the same technology as jack bower has got on 24 . right. although that helicopter looked pretty space age. no kidding. meanwhile, the road to the white house starts in south carolina. tonight, the republican party holds its first 2012 presidential debate. and jonathan sierry is live for us in south carolina. thanks for getting up bright and ....
Happy. congratulations. fantastic. congratulations. but meanwhile, let me tell you what s happening in the news, a visible military presence in the streets in yemen this morning after the president enacted a 30-day emergency law. it suspends the constitution allowing media censorship and bans on protests. support is crumbling after 40 protesters were killed by security proceforces on friday. he says he s staying put until the end of the year. in light of the ongoing nuclear meltdown in japan, officials in the united states are taking a closer look at our own nuclear facilities here. jonathan sierry got an inside look at a facility in a nuclear station in seneca, south carolina and joins us live from seneca with more. welcome. good morning to you. in fact, you can see the nuclear station right behind me here. you know, the crisis in japan comes at a time that american ....
In the town of seneca. that s where he grew up, just a short distance from here and he says he has no qualms living close to a nuclear power plant. take a listen. this nuclear plant, i live five miles away. i ve lived in this area all of my life. a lot of the people i ve grown up with and went to high school with work here. i have faith in the american nuclear power industry. senator graham says there will be lessons to learn from japan but he hopes that those lessons lead to logical steps and not knee jerk reactions. back to you guys. all right. jonathan, thank you. very much. and then we have wildfires in my home state of colorado. high winds are reaching 75 miles per hour. they ve grounded firefighting air crews trying to battle the massive fires. more than two square miles of land has been destroyed near golden, colorado, so far. no one has been injured and no buildings have been destroyed. police believe that the fire was started by someone unintentionally. ....