Page 486 - Human Error News Today

For when thats a civil or a criminal case, whats out there? you must act responsible, if you make a statement, whether innocent or intended the consequence you could be held responsible for. thats what we have to take away from this. >> all right. thank you so much for being mere. well keep a close eye on this story as it develops. thank you. >> thank you, laura. >> happy new year guys. >> you too. well you know, laura not really a happy new year for those in the boston area, because a school ...

Different labs that are different levels of security and something like ebola is supposed to be in a lab with the highest security. its sort of someone who took this technician, took a sample and moved it to one lab and theres no excuse for it, because all of these samples are color coded. its almost like putting something yellow next to other things that are red. how does that happen? >> it happens because of human error. scientists make mistakes, but thats why its so important to have these pr...

Errors that have put so men in harms way. how did it happen? >> thats true. this is going to be a long slog with ebola and human error is always going to be a factor. were being told this is a very limited case. no risk to the general public. we dont know how serious this is because we dont know if anybody has gotten sick as a result of this accident. cdc says one of its technicians is going have to be monitored for three weeks after possibly being exposed to ebola at one of the agencys atlanta ...

Those cases, the numbers are raging still. there are 20,000 cases almost, about 8,000 deaths or approaching that amount. in terms of the danger of ebola or general risk or our concern, our level of concern should be high, but maybe not the level of fear that we had a few months ago. >> is there any way to eliminate this human error or is it really just inevitable in this world. >> human error is inevitable. everybody is going to make mistakes burks we know about it. we know people make mistakes....

>> fortunately, the train explodes just outside of town and no one is injured by the blast. >> another mile down the road, it had been right here in the middle of our town. it could have been a really messy deal. >> after the explosion, the fire eventually burns itself out. >> all 26 years of flying and all the news that ive covered, it will be one of the things that will stick in my mind just from the fact it was such a large ball of fire and it came so high. >> oh, it just blew up. my god! my ...

As japan tries to get answers about the string of unsolved kidnappings dating back decades. we are learning more about the breach and the steps sony tried to take to protect itself. in 2011, a major hack that shutdown the playstation gaming system. 77 million people had passwords and user names exposed. one says they may have had no way to protect against this because of the way they infiltrated the system. they got the log in from the administrator. >> security experts tell you often time it is...

Last year, 46,000. i spoke to some experts and they say that this cyberspying is up. what are people going after? the army corps of engineer was hacked and what was taken was the sensitive information about 85,000 dam as across the countr and how many fatalities could happen if they were breached. so i asked, are we not spending enough money? what is going on? we spent $10 billion last year on information security and the experts tell me thats not really the problem. the problem seems to be in a...

Getting a rejection letter by a prestigio prestigious, university? getting an acceptance letter by mistake. embrace the yes, welcoming them to the class of 2019. that e-mail was a mistake. of the 294 recipients, 285 had been rejected and nine had been put on a waiting list. the university has apologized telling "the washington post" it was human error. our top story at the bottom of the hour, president obama says the u.s. will end what he calls his outdated approach to cuba that has failed to ...

Shattered nearly 300 students dreams last week. they sent rejected e-mails e-mails saying they had been accepted. they realized the error and said they were actually rejected. they blame it on human error. your kids have a reason to complain about homework. a study for american school children spend an average of 6 hours a week hitting the books. thats employeer than the average of 5 hours. u.s. students were below average on worldwide student assessment tests especially in matt and re -- math a...

Folks. >> oh, my gosh, this is crazy. they kept on going and going. after two minutes, they went to a commercial break. >> the out of control graphics are the result of a computer malfunction. >> i was the weather anchor and also the news anchor. right before the show started the weather computer completely crashed. i had to run back and reload everything. thats when the graphics started popping up on the screen. >> and the laughing? well, thats an understandable human error. they swear its noth...