appeared to be under the influence. he is now being tested in police custody. kristen dahlgren, thank you very much. eugene o donnell is professor of law and police studies at the john j. college of criminal justice and he joins me now. also former nypd officer. thank you very much for joining us. certainly is scare write situation. immediately people s minds jumped to terrorism, but dwi, lot of folks kill people because they are driving under the influence. and this looks purposeful. so the idea that this is an accident, we have to wait with and see. three blocks because he drove for so long? for so long. interesting toee what e witnesses have to say, but seems that he trove until he could t dri anymore, he hit a barrier. and give us a sense of the area. this is highly populated. the area that he was driving down, is is that one of the pedestrian walkways? they expanded the walkways in times square a few years ago to
dana: one thing that the department of transportation had today, distraction.gov website and encourage people to be away, the problem with text messaging not that you are listening to the radio when you listen to radio, that is one thing. you have to, it s visual, manual and cognitive distraction while you are supposed to be doing something else. that s why texting is so dangerous. greg: i do this on my big wheel. we are overlooking. yeah, this is bad, but what is worse in my mind is death from physical attraction. many, many, men die in pedestrian walkways checking out women. i say half of all pedestrian deaths are based on guys going like this. eric: in the traffic. greg: then they get hit by a truck. they go to talk, but the guy is dead. dead. i get institute from the gutfeld institute. a sober guy is dead on the street it s because he was looking at am two. it happens in the summertime. like this.
from the road. dana: one thing that the department of transportation had today, distraction.gov website and encourage people to be away, the problem with text messaging not that you are listening to the radio when you listen to radio, that is one thing. you have to, it s visual, manual and cognitive distraction while you are supposed to be doing something else. that s why texting is so dangerous. greg: i do this on my big wheel. we are overlooking. yeah, this is bad, but what is worse in my mind is death from physical attraction. many, many, men die in pedestrian walkways checking out women. i say half of all pedestrian deaths are based on guys going like this. eric: in the traffic. greg: then they get hit by a truck. they go to talk, but the guy is dead. dead. i get institute from the gutfeld institute. a sober guy is dead on the street it s because he was looking at am two. it happens in the summertime.
he s written at least four letters seeking funding of varying quantities for different pet projects. pedestrian walkways, solar energy funding and grants from the department of energy to benefit his constituents. his office says that he is not for the stimulus or pork barrel spending, but he s for local projects that benefit his district. what has his defense been? his defense has very much been we can t afford these massive projects like the stimulus. but i m going to take each spending measure individually and judge it and weigh how much it affects my constituents. the theme in this thesis, it s pork spending if it s in someone else s district, but not in my district. let s bring 2012 into this now. ricker perry is trying to be the conservative figure in the presidential race. he also was okay with accepting $2 billion in fstimulus. absolutely. he s one of several president l candidates. in 2008 and 09 we remember rick
jonathan serris in tunica. jonathan? we looked at the casinos off in the distance. take a look at this video, the casinos themselves are intact, because they re on barges and they float up and down with the floodwaters, but they re connected to these land-based hotels often by these pedestrian walkways, and in some cases the walkways were at extreme angles, giving you an idea how high the floodwaters are. this is the situation on the west side of the levees. the levees themselves held. so once you re on the east side, the rest of tunica county is untouched. golf resorts and other businesses there are open for business, shep. shepard: the river crested in memphis. i guess it s now crested in tunica. the crest is moving farther down river. this is not to suggest that the water s about to go down rickety split in taken calleesplit in t? the portions close to the