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To this studio. i live l.a. we have the worst traffic in south america. we have soccer moms high on prescription meds that are tweeting and they dont know its legal to turn right on red. i honk and they turn right on a red. we spend our money with all the awareness campaigns in this horrible state we live in like california like click it or ticket. okay. report drunk drivers. no one here knows outs legal to turn right uh on a red. the honk is a useful tool. we need it. it will move traffic along...

Reason to be afraid of black men because they commit the bulk of the crime and joe madison says we should be afraid of white men because they blow things up. >> we only use racial profiling or the rationalization of it when it applies to the other. when white folks do things disproportionately whether serial killing, mass murder, drunk driving, school shootings, we dont hear people saying lets set up road blocks in white suburbs to catch white drunk drivers. in other words, we only apply this lo...

Felonies. >> previous history, so i am leave your bond at no bond. >> reporter: houston and phoenix, they believe immigrant drunk drivers kill cops. they say jesus molina killed an officer an hit and run, despite two previous arrests for dui and burglary, he was not deported. >> that was a death that should have been prevented, it did not have to happen. >> reporter: similar story in houston. accused drunk driver killed harris county sheriff, dwayne polk. >> youre here illegally and immigration ...

Sentenced to one year in prison. charges are dismissed for passenger carl hankerson. but to trooper albright, the most shocking part of that night is not that the suspects make it out alive or even the gaping hole in the wall. its the fact that through all of the damage, the banks alarm doesnt go off. >> to me it should have set some sort of alarm off with a big hole in the wall, but it didnt. next day, i closed my accounts and i went to a new bank. a little more than one year later, officer a...

Who served in the senate, he was the last. senator frank lautenberg of new jersey set to retire next year at the end of his fifth term died yesterday of complications from pneumonia. called one of the most productive members of the senate, his colleagues held a moment of silence on the floor where he served more than three decades. his chamber desk was adorned with a vase of flowers. lautenberg helped pass landmark legislation banning smoking on airplanes. he also helps out the national drinking...

The national transportation safety board, proposing lower the limit at which a driver can be considered legally drunk. but some critics say, its the wrong approach. the president of m.a.d.d., jan, you are against this approach. and on the surface, one would say, why mothers against drunk driving would be against it. why? >> well, its not a matter of being for or against low caitlin lowering the blood-alcohol concentration. m.a.d.d. has a plan, based on solid research that maximizes the amount of...

This targetses moderate social drinkers instead of targeting the hard-core drunk drivers. the reason we still have a problem is too often were focusing on the moderate social drinkers and not enough on the hard-core drunk drivers that cause the -- fewer than 1% of the deaths out in the highway happened in that range. the vast majority of them happen at really high levels. the average bac of somebody is 0.16% nearly twice the legal limit. if we dont start focusing on thousands people, we will not...

Percent of gas in cities is spent looking for parking. there could be an app that would navigate you to a parking spot so you would not spend that time or gas because there would be no accidents, the weight of cars would go from 4,000 pounds to 750 pounds. that would save fuel. >>heather: we showed some video of google and there are companies that are putting this in play. there are some driverless vehicles, sort, on the road all right but on the flip side there could be more demand in energy be...

Done that you could have found $600 to keep these level one violators from being released and dont act like you could not have. here now uma. number of drunk drivers who have killed americans. very troubling. what was this hearing. >> house judiciary committee hearing looking at the fallout from the release of those 2,000 plus detainees who were released because of sequestration concerns. budget cuts. >> bill: investigative judicial committee trying to find out who they released and why? >> righ...

>> bill: back of the book segment tonight. did you see that? we begin with a very controversial situation. the obama administration releasing illegal aliens from prison who have been convicted of crimes in this country. >> did you release any resittist drunk drivers? >> yes. >> how many? >> i dont have the exact number, but we have released many individuals who had dui offenses. >> repeat offender dui. >> repeat offender dui. congress has not provided that dui is a ground of removal. in fact mos...