00:00:00.800,00:00:02.170 Since 1896 00:00:09.380,00:00:11.780 In the Know with Clifford Banes 00:00:12.010,00:00:16.010 I'm Juliana McKannis, filling in for Clifford Banes with way layed by bandits. 00:00:16.220,00:00:19.690 The nation is still reeling from yesterday's tragic accident at the Grand Canyon, 00:00:20.020,00:00:23.630 where an oil truck spun out of control, hit a rock wall and exploded, 00:00:23.860,00:00:26.370 sending flaming wreckage falling into the Colorado river below, 00:00:26.790,00:00:28.730 killing a raft full of tourists. 00:00:29.020,00:00:30.920 Who is responsible for this tragedy? 00:00:31.020,00:00:32.430 Somebody's got to be held responsible. 00:00:32.670,00:00:36.310 That road was just an exploding truck falling rafting accident waiting to happen. 00:00:36.690,00:00:40.260 The government let those rafters get killed by those truck pieces. 00:00:40.450,00:00:42.210 No, I think that it's too easy to blame the government. 00:00:42.580,00:00:46.740 Wild Canyon river tours should have provided safety equipment for their customers. 00:00:46.980,00:00:52.120 Helmets, body shells, that would protect them from flaming projectile trucks. 00:00:52.350,00:00:53.920 They just let the trucks rain down. 00:00:54.340,00:00:56.660 What we need is a tougher certification test that would insure 00:00:56.820,00:00:58.920 that the truck driver would have known what to do, 00:00:59.350,00:01:02.100 when his truck began to plummet towards the raft. 00:01:02.300,00:01:04.300 -Yes, he should have screamed "truck coming!" -That's right. 00:01:04.530,00:01:07.300 Now, since this incident, Onion News Network polls show, 00:01:07.710,00:01:10.600 that 98% of Americans are concerned or very concerned, 00:01:10.870,00:01:15.180 about trucking, rafting, debris, rivers being near roads or being in Canyons. 00:01:15.470,00:01:18.430 Can you blame them? My staff informs me that the republican governor 00:01:18.530,00:01:22.050 Thomas Campbell who in 1916 authorized the funding for this road, 00:01:22.250,00:01:27.530 did not even consider the report on the effect of this road on rafter's safety. 00:01:27.720,00:01:30.970 I say, hang the man, if he hadn't already died from German measles. 00:01:31.120,00:01:33.160 You know, exactly, and when it comes to educating truckers 00:01:33.530,00:01:34.630 our nation is asleep at the wheel. 00:01:34.860,00:01:38.720 Yes, today in your column Lauralee, you call for the Arizona government 00:01:38.830,00:01:41.670 to create some sort of 'truck falling into canyons' early warning detection system. 00:01:41.940,00:01:43.810 -That's right! -Lauralee, I think that the real question is, 00:01:44.120,00:01:47.510 why haven't columnist been drawing attention to this issue for years. 00:01:47.740,00:01:49.980 Now I've been trying to do that, ever since I published my book, 00:01:50.140,00:01:52.080 Southwestern Escapes in 1998. 00:01:52.310,00:01:55.910 But it's not just oil trucks that could be deadly when they run into a rock face, 00:01:56.150,00:01:59.950 I mean we also have to consider rocket cars, bikes carrying gasoline, 00:02:00.190,00:02:04.130 and tractor-trailers carrying one tank of nytrogen and one tank of glycerine. 00:02:04.320,00:02:05.240 And tonight at 8pm, 00:02:05.460,00:02:08.930 don't miss the Onion News Network's 3 hour special investigative report, 00:02:09.160,00:02:11.860 "Falling trucks- the hidden dangers of America's Canyons". 00:02:12.130,00:02:12.930 Here's a preview. 00:02:13.230,00:02:16.340 America's Canyons- the perfect places to go rafting, 00:02:16.440,00:02:19.500 or the perfect places to have your body severed to pieces, 00:02:19.600,00:02:22.880 by exploding vehicles raining down on you from interstates above? 00:02:23.140,00:02:27.140 Tonight at 8 eastern in a 3 hour Onion News Network special report. 00:02:27.380,00:02:31.010 Falling Trucks- the hidden dangers of America's Canyons. 00:02:34.120,00:02:35.050 Still ahead this hour... 00:02:35.390,00:02:39.190 Sarah Palin's latest book to focus on hardships of being useless.