U.S Safety Board Proposes Tougher Drunk-Driving Threshold

A decade-old benchmark determining when a driver is legally drunk should be lowered in an effect to reduce alcohol- related car crashes that claimed 10,000 lives each year. The National Transportation Safety Board recommended that all 50 states lower the threshold from 0.08 blood- alcohol content to 0.05. The idea is part of a safety  board initiative outline in a staff report and approve by the panel to eliminate drunk driving which accounts for a third of all road deaths."This is critical because impaired drivers remains one of the biggest killers in the united states", NTSB Chairman Debbie Hersmen said  ahead of a vote by the panel on a staff report.





http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/14/us/ntsb-blood-alcohol/index.html?hpt=us_c1

North Korea Removes Missiles

North Korea has withdrawn two mobile missiles from a launch site in the eastern part of the country. According to U.S officials, the latest hint of an easing in tensions on Korean peninsula. The day before President Barack Obama was due to meet with his South Korean counterpart. Periods last month there was daily North Korean threats of war , U.S and North Korean officials said they believed Kim Jong Un's could carry out a test launch of at least one of the missiles at a time. The United States and Japan responded by steeping up missile defense in the reign.



http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/07/world/asia/koreas-tensions/index.html?hpt=wo_c2