norah: president biden issues an executive order requiring more gun background checks. it is just common sense. check whether someone is a felon, domestic abuser, before they buy a gun. norah: a safety warning for drivers of midsize suvs. the majority of the midsize suvs we evaluated have a lot of work to do to improve safety for the rear seat position. norah: and remembering women s rights pioneer, former congresswoman pat schroeder. i will never apologize for my tears. i say no tears, no heart. norah: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this tuesday night. tonight, a story making international headlines, the first known physical confrontations between u.s. and russian military forces since the war in ukraine began. a russian fighter jet rammed a $57 million u.s. drone, forcing it down. plus, a new study shows how much a good night s sleep could add to your life span. but first, an intensifying nor easter is slam
inflation is up 6%. norah: president biden issues an executive order requiring more gun background checks. it is just common sense. check whether someone is a felon, domestic abuse or, before they buy a gun. norah: a safety warning for drivers of midsize suvs. the majority of midsize suvs we evaluated have a lot of work to do to improve safety for the rear seat position. nornd: pioneer, former congresswoman pat schroeder. i will never apologize for my tears. i say no tears, no heart. norah: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this tuesday night. tonight, a story making international headlines, the first known physical confrontations between u.s. and russian military forces since the war in ukraine began. a russian fighter jet round a $57 million u.s. drone, forcing it down. plus, a new harvard medical study shows how much a good night s sleep could add to your life span. but first, and intensifying nor easter is slamming new england ton
suvs that we evaluated have a lot of work to do to improve safety for the rear seat position. reporter: do these suvs become less safe in years past, or is this moving the goal post on safety? i wouldn t say that any of these vehicles became less safe. we continue to move the goalposts, and create more challenging tests that we feel give consumers information about which vehicles are the safest. reporter: the test simulates a 40-mile per our front end crash. now, they have added a test dummy about the size of a 12-year-old to the back seat, where the risk of a fatal injury is 46% higher compared to the front, where improve restraint technology is more commonly found. all 13 suvs earned good marks for driver protection, but in the back, it was a different story only four received top marks when backseat protection was factored in. three others scored marginal, while six rated poor. we just saw injuries, injury
ostrich syndrome. in the meantime, the safest new vehicles on the highway. 22 cars receiving the top safety standards top safety pick plus. honda civic four-door, midsize ford fusion, luxury, acura rl. and minivan, honda odyssey. why are there fewer cars? there are a lot fewer cars. last year, they made the tests a whole lot harder. you have to have top crash scores and a system to warn you when you re about to be in a front end crash. honda got the top scores and also acura, and overall, they have eight cars that got the top scores. they re doing something right there. who are the surprise newcomers? toyota that made the krad and the chevrolet spark mini car which is surprising. mazda 3, the infinity, q50,
badly on the town? well, everybody s entitled to their opinion and i would hope everybody would express their opinion under the constitution, the first amendment just like i have in my videos. you [ bleep ] liptards out there, [ bleep ] private. reporter: mark kesslor is also on the county school board, at a meeting just night no one uttered a word of criticism about him or the videos. kate? all right, joe, a lot of people are muttering words about the videos and what he s saying across the country. thank you so much. do you ever wonder how safe is your car? a new report is raising questions about some small vehicles when it comes to a certain kind of front end crash and according to the safety group that conducted the tests it s a problem not all that easy to fix. cnn s rene marsh is in washington with more on this. what are we learning? good morning, kate.