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>> reporter: the spot on the desert track is called the rock pile. and as the super-charged sport truck was racing to make the jump, andrew therrin and his 3-year-old daughter were directly in its path. >> hey, everybody off the track! >> the truck bounced right in the air and smacked andrew right down and then went straight in the air and smacked everybody. and i just saw bodies flying. >> reporter: the single father pushed his daughter and a young boy out of the way. the children survived. the...

oprah: i sincerely want to make a difference in the number of lives that we lose in this country from people who are in their cars on the phone. i want to stop people from texting and talking on their cell phones while they drive, so yesterday i was in a producers meeting, and i heard a rumor about our dear friend lisa ling. tell me if this is true because my mouth fell open when i heard this. >> scared. oprah: ok. the rumor--somebody said, "lisa drives with her knees, and she texts wh...

Scene, california desert, 8 dead, ten injured, the driver of an off-road racing truck, lost control and flying into the air, plowing into a group of spectators, keith carty was there at the race and lost his good friend over the weekend. our sympathies to you, and brians family. what happened out there, keith? >> it was a tragic accident is the best way to put it. the truck he was driving was going a little bit too fast an there people in his way, and, unfortunately, he ran them over, so... bill...

patty lee. >> reporter: that expert who claimed to have 25 years of experience apraysing fine arts turned out to be a convicted fell on who is latest is his credentials. >> mayor january is the oakland woman who helped prove a box of negatives which were contributed by ansel adams were probably shot by her uncle early. she learned that david streets, so-called expert who valued those negatives at $200 million has almost no experience in fine arts and a criminal record for passing bad c...

saying it was probably the dumbest thing a candidate or president has said since michael dukakis said it was okay to burn the flag. good morning, everybody, on a monday, guess whos back! in the house! martha: hey there bill hemmer, how are you? bill: im terrific now that i see you! martha: good to be back, it was wonderful, good morning, everybody, good to be here. im martha maccallum. and the president is responding to this backlash over what he said about the plan to build a mosque...

will viewers open their wallets in search of happiness? will they find it? good evening. it had all the makings a terrible tragedy. a planeful of tourists landing through thunder and lightning in the dead of night crashes without warn. heres what remained. those three pieces of metal were a passenger jet carrying 131 people, including several americans. 130 of those passengers are alive tonight. the only death was caused by a heart attack. almost everyone else on that plane got up an...

real zoo out there, huh, george? >> nothing is stopping that zoo. welcome back. >> it is great to be back. rearing to go. >> and a lot of news. >> a lot of news as always. a lot of people talking about the comments that the president made over the building of a mosque just blocks away from ground zero. well have two key congressmen on opposite sides of the debate. >> the president spoke on friday night about the right of the people to build a mosque. and the next day saying im not comm...