story from washington. pete, can you give us the latest on what we know, how long this pilot has been in the air, and what the danger is to the public at this point? reporter: well, sara, we know that this plane took off from the tupelo regional airport around 5:00 a.m. central time, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. we re coming up on the plane being in the air for about five hours now. the plane is a king air c-90. you can see it there, that s a small twin-engine turboprop airplane. it seats between six and eight people. it can go about 250 miles an hour. the question now is how this will end, how this story will end. will the airplane run out of fuel? we ve been talking to sources who fly king airs and they tell me it can only fly for between four and six hours if the plane is fully loaded with fuel. that is the track from flighfl flightaware. you can see the plane took off from touupelo airport, circled e airport at a relatively low altitude, then continued northbound over t
It wasnt just santa who visited this florida family. Hes a big one. What provoked this bear to do some of his own breaking and entering . Good morning. Also coming up this morning, big, new developments in that massive target data breach. The company pulling an aboutface and admitting that yes, some debit card p. I. N. Numbers were stolen. Target insists customers shouldnt be worried. But some experts weve been speaking with, not so sure. Its turning into a huge deal. The secondlargest data breach in retail history. Affecting 40 million customers. Also ahead, on a lighter note, i guess. Well introduce you to this beautiful ultimate fighting star, defending her title tonight, after appearing in not one, but two hollywood blockbuster movies. Thats all coming up ahead. We begin with more nasty weather this weekend. And all of the new years eve revelers who will be shivering in the cold around the country. We have bill evans, from wabc, right next door, here with us. Good morning, bill. We
Good evening. It is great to have you with us here on a thursday night. Diane has the evening off. On this day after christmas some Big Questions for shipping giant ups. Thousands of families across the country who ordered gifts more than a week ago still asking where are they . The delivery men and women in overdrive, their bosses at ups left explaining how this happened. Major retailers pulled into this, too. They, too, promised ups would get those gifts under the tree in time. Theyre offering ways to make it up to you. So many of you at home giving us an earful, lucky enough to have been with family on christmas but saying it would have been nice to hand them something. Abcs alex perez on what ups is now saying. Reporter its the christmas headache shoppers werent expecting, customers counting on ups to deliver packages on time but ending up with delayed notices instead of gifts. Our own viewers airing their grievances. Ironically, our items are sitting in bethlehem, pennsylvania. Up
On a second day of ferocious storms that have claimed at least 19 lives in the southern United States, a tornado tore through the Mississippi town of Tupelo on Monday causing widespread destruction to homes and businesses, according to witnesses and local emergency officials.