Page 59 - Test Positive News Today

Drugs and 40% test positive for alcohol. thats 80% of all fatalities, the drivers are stoned out of their minds. and drugs have now -- i got the chart here. come up dramatically and this is because of societys leniency about consuming drugs, is it not? >> well, two reasons they seem to think are behind this. first of all the number of prescriptions that are on, that is up since 2009. painkillers on that list in a lot of cases. a lot of states have legalized marijuana, most of them for medical --...

Drugs and 40% test positive for alcohol. that is 80% of all fatalities, the drivers are stoned out of their minds. and drugs have now -- i got the chart here. come up dramatically and this is because of societys leniency about consuming drugs, is it not? >> well, two reasons they seem to think are behind this. first of all the number of prescriptions that are on, that is up since 2009. painkillers on that list in a lot of cases. a lot of states have legalized marijuana, most of them for medical ...

Release, elizabeth, it says that these are people who worked alongside an american volunteer health care worker in sierra leone who did test positive for ebola. so i know its important to remind our viewers that it is very hard to contract ebola. its not contagious through the air, et cetera. but theyre just being extremely cautious because this one person did test positive in sierra leone, an aid worker? >> reporter: right. and so what ive been told is that these ten folks had exposure to this ...

Department says a team of disease detectives immediately began to actively trace all of the patients contacts to identify anyone who may be at potential risk. >> the patient is now in isolation. the health department has a team of disease detectives who have been at work tracing all of the patients contacts and we are prepared to quarantine contacts as necessary. >> reporter: in recent days, bellevue hospital has been holding drills in case a possible ebola patient comes through their door. thos...

The line. turns out, colorados new rocky mountain high comes with a catch. test positive for thc at work, you could hear the words "youre fired." >> im not going get bitter anytime soon. i need the marijuana and i dont want to go the whole rest of my life without having a job. >> reporter: it happened to brandon, a quadriplegic fired in 2010 working as a telephone customer service representative, good annual reviews and using medical marijuana off duty to control muscle spasms when a company dru...

Tow, about no danger of it hitting our planet. three hours from now it will still be 3.5 million miles a way. nasa says it will be more than 200 years before the asteroid gets this close to earth again. also today, a possible break here in the investigation into the series of threatening letters to president obama, new york mayor michael bloomberg and a gun control group. authorities are questioning a person of interest in texas. we have this new video here of that persons home. preliminary te...

Bloomberg had to say. >> the letter was, obviously, referred to our anti-gun efforts, but theres 12,000 people that are going to get killed this year with guns and 19,000 that are going to commit suicide with guns and were not going to walk away from those efforts. >> now, police say the two letters appear to be written by the same person and sent to shreveport, louisiana, the third letter sent to the president came from the same postmark. they were intercepted at off-site sorting facilities, bu...

Messages that mentions libya or benghazi from september the 11th, the day of the attack, until november the 7th, the day after the election. rnc officials say they want to know whether campaign staffers helped edit the so-called talking points about the attack. the once u.n. ambassador susan rice used on sunday shows five days later. political detractors say is little more than a fishing expedition. waiting for confirmation on fbi threatening letter somebody went to the contained the poison rici...

Sleep number. comfort.individualized. to find your store, visit sleepnumber.com. welcome back for live continuing coverage from boston. we have more breaking news tonight. a letter that tested positive for poisoned ricin was reviewed in the capitols mail facility in washington. they said the letter did test positive for ricin and it was addressed to the office of republican senator roger wicker of mississippi. the letter is undergoing further testing. senator wicker now has a protective detail...

Those tests usually take 24 to 48 hours. those tests will happen at an army research lab in maryland. the boston marathon bombing was on monday. this potentially poison letter to senator wicker was on tuesday. its reasonable to wonder are they somehow linked? the chairman of the house homeland security committee at this point said no. >> it did test positive for ricin. we have no evidence whatsoever connecting the two between the ricin incident and the boston bombing incident. since 9/11, since ...