BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC)- The Birmingham City Council today unanimously approved a new set of safety rules for nightclubs inside city limits.

These new rules will requires every club to have a safety and security plan and trained security staff in place.

The new rules require every nightclub to have security staff that have gone through a training program approved by the police department and there has to be at least one trained security guard for every 150 people in the club.

Clubs must also have security cameras watching every entrance and those cameras have to be good enough to pick out individual faces if police need the footage.

The clubs also have to have someone on duty at all times who knows how to pull images off the cameras if need be, and clubs have to submit written incident reports for anything violent that happens in their club to police.

If they don't, they could lose their license.

BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC)- Jefferson County is taking another step to get out of the largest municipal bankruptcy in the country's history.

On Thursday Jefferson County Commissioners will vote on an agreement with creditors. These creditors hold about $105-million in general obligations warrants that were sold to fund road and other capital improvement projects.

On Tuesday, Commissioners announced the agreement. It calls for renewing payments on the debt, paying off the debt, establishing an interest rate of 4.9% and changing to a fixed rate rather than a variable rate.

The negotiations involved JP Morgan and German bank. The deal is seen as significant because JP Morgan holds a large portion of Jefferson County's massive sewer debt.

BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC)- In a new survey, half of teen drivers admit to texting while behind the wheel.

The study was commissioned by the Center for Disease Control and surveyed teens from around the nation. It found that approximately 45% of teenagers admit to texting while driving.

AAA spokesperson Clay Ingram says that amount of distraction on the roadways should be cause for alarm to everyone, especially parents.

"Alabama has the second highest teen fatality rate of any teen driving state in the country and so many of those deaths are needless and pointless and can be prevented," said Ingram.

Ingram says that AAA offers several courses to educate young drivers about driving dangers. He also says parents need to be proactive when talking with their teens.

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