The utility said it made changes to address the findings.
U.S. Navy names ship for Giffords
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy has named a ship for Gabrielle Giffords, the recently retired congresswoman from Arizona who is recovering from a gunshot wound to the head received in January 2011.
In a ceremony at the Pentagon, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus unveiled an artist’s rendering of the USS Gabrielle Giffords.
The littoral combat ship is among the Navy’s most versatile and can operate in shallower coastal waters than larger ships.
Mabus said: “God bless the USS Gabrielle Giffords and all who sail in her.”
Mabus also announced that the ship’s “sponsor” is Roxanna Green. She’s the mother of Christina-Taylor Green, the 9-year-old who was among six people killed in the shooting. Thirteen, including Giffords, were wounded. The sponsor’s initials will be welded into the keel of the ship.
Stocks fall on Greek turmoil
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks had their worst day of the year Friday after Greece hit a roadblock on its way to a critical bailout.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 89.23 points, or 0.7 percent, at 12,801.23. The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 finished down 9.31 points to 1,342.64. It was the first losing week for S&P this year.
Just a day earlier, investors had bought stocks after Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos and the heads of the three parties backing his government agreed to slash wages, lay off civil service workers and cut government spending.
That was seen as a step toward Greece’s securing a (euro) 130 billion international bailout that it must have to avoid defaulting on its debt next month and sending a shock through the world financial system.
On Friday, European finance ministers insisted Greece agree to deeper cuts in wages and spending. More than 15,000 people swarmed the streets of Athens, some hurling paving stones at police. Four cabinet ministers have resigned over the cuts.
Netflix, Hulu unveil new shows
NEW YORK (AP) — Within just over a week, Netflix and Hulu are both debuting their first stabs at original scripted programming.
The shows amount to a milestone in Internet television, an early sign of the leveling between broadcasting and streaming. Programming options between TV and the Web are increasingly separated by little more than the “video source” button on your remote.
But the most salient thing about the new offerings from Netflix and Hulu are just how “TV” they are.
Earlier this week, Netflix released all eight episodes of “Lilyhammer,” a fish-out-of-water drama starring Steve Van Zandt (“The Sopranos”) as a New York mobster relocated to Norway. On Tuesday, Hulu will premiere “Battleground,” a faux-documentary sitcom about the young operatives of a middling political campaign in Wisconsin.
Feds slap utility for chemical leak
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An ammonia leak that caused an emergency alert at the San Onofre nuclear plant in November was caused by employees who failed to recognize degraded equipment and fix it, federal regulators said Friday.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission report concluded the problem had “very low safety significance,” and faulted plant operator Southern California Edison for failing to follow its own procedures at the twin-reactor site, about 45 miles from San Diego.
The company conducted a parallel investigation and found the same contributing factors as the NRC, according to a statement.
The utility said it made changes to address the findings.