Thats right. 18 wheels on the road, and nobody in the drivers seat. Dont be surprised to see this on american highways soon. How close are we to a day when these trucks have no driver . Well be operating on the public highways with real cargo, with a real fleet, in 2021. ticking holy moley, look at this. This is it. This is the best. The best. Whoa youve known adam sandler for longer than you remember. 30 years ago, he was hired as a writer, and then cast member, of saturday night live. Operaman bye bye we wanted to know why he left s. N. L. , about all those movies. 1,000 a point. And why he chose this one, a drama. I dont care. It needs to be changed. Do it. But first. Thats called a perfect pass . The sandman wanted to play some pickup hoops. Right on, baby. ticking im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im sharyn alfonsi. Im jon wertheim. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking over. Hey, want to try it . Ok here you go. Over. Under. Hey whoa
This doctor is a bit of a super hero herself here because she was the first to link the water to high levels of lead in the children of flint. The word lead when youre a physician or pediatrician signals what in your brain . There is no safe level of lead. It impacts cognition. How children think actually drops by two levels. It impacts behavior leading to things like developmental delays and has lifealtdering consequences. Youve heard a lot about the future of driverless cars. But what about this . Thats right, 18 wheels on the road and nobody in the drivers seat. Dont be surprised to see this on american highways soon. How close are we to a day when these trucks have no driver . Well be operating on the public highways with real cargo with a real fleet in 2021. ticking im lesley stahl. Im Bill Whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im sharyn alfonsi. Im jon wertheim. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking cbs money watch sponsored by lincoln financial, helping you cre
On wall street, its been another dark day, with trading again halted to stop a freefall. At the capitol, theres a frantic push to pass a 1 trillion rescue package. And in florida, a crackdown on spring breakers as officials plead with younger americans to avoid big crowds. Now wider testing is revealing a clearer picture of the pandemics toll, and with a jump in the number of confirmed infections over the last week and u. S. Death tolls still rising. And all this as workers, medical professionals, and the sick all ask, when will help arrive . We have a team of correspondents reporting on the pandemic. We are going to begin tonight with ben tracy at the white house. Ben, these are dramatic moves that most americans have never seen. Reporter thats right, and the president now says he considers the country on a wartime footing, comparing this to world war ii and saying americans are going to need to make sacrifices. President trump is invoking the full power of the federal government to c
Sonoran desert outside tucson, chuck price is chief product officer at too simple, a privately held global autonomous trucking outfit valued at more than a billion dollars, with operations in the u. S. And china. At this depot, 12 million worth of gleaming selfdriving semis are on the move. Right now weve got safety operators in the cab. How far way are we from runs without drivers . We believe well be able to do our first driver out demonstration runs on public highways in 2021. Reporter thats the when. As for the how our primary sensor system is our array of cameras that you see along the top of the vehicle. Reporter i heard about suping up vehicles. Its a little bit different, yeah. Reporter the competition is fierce, so much so that the technology is akin to a state secret, but points us to a network of sensors, cameras and Radar Networks strapped to the outside of the rig, all of it hard wired to an internal ai supercomputer that drives the truck. Its selfcontain so a bad wifi sig
A massive storm system rolls across the middle of the country bringing strong winds, rain, hail and even some tornados in the south. Homes damaged, debris in its wake and dangerous conditions on the road. With nearly 50 Million People at risk today, what you need to know. All that plus scare in the sky. Unruly passenger in the back. A passenger tries to rush the cockpit on a flight bound for Newark Airport. Royal drama. President trump and Oprah Winfrey now weighing in on that bombshell announcement from prince harry and Meghan Markell this week, that they are quitting as senior royals. And welcome kristen. My white house colleague Kristen Welker officially joins my weekend family as coanchor this morning. Well take a look how she got here, some fun and some surprises too. Today saturday january 11th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news this is today with Peter Alexander, Kristen Welker and dylan drier live from studio 1a. We thank you for joining us this saturday morning. I could not be mor