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Of the engineering effort and probably providing these areas where you can pull over and text but theres also stronger legislation that is in place where you get five points on your license and a $230 fine for a first offense for distracted driving, particularly texting while driving. there are penalties for new and probationary drivers with license suspension. that component is in place and theres an extra component to hopefully dissuade this activity. >> they are at existing rest stops and oth...

John, great to see you. >> i get john about principle. i get that point. i dont see the principle in shutting down the government when you punish people. thats a calculation they have to get. >> its a struggle. im not pretending i have a solution for it. i dont have to answer to constituents. it seems there has to be a better solution to what theyre doing right now. >> i see you as an answer person. if you have one, you should not keep it because youre a journalist. think about that. tweet us, s...

President obama speaks to the u.n. tuesday morning. president rouhani speaks to the the general assembly tuesday afternoon. the second general well have luncheon for heads of state opening general assembly. it will be in the delegates lounge. he easy as you and i talking now to arrange for hand sheikh for two presidents that every photographer on the planet will get a shot of. bill: that will make news. like a nixon china moment. >> absolutely. it will be the beginning of the end of any effect t...

>> all right. were going into our second hour now. hello again, everyone. a look at our top stories that a look at our top stories that were following for you. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com president obama is weighing a critical decision today, what dood in syria and a briefing is expect expected this hour after evidence was gathered to determine if there was a chemical weapons attack. we have reporters in new york, washington and of course, around the world. and texting while drivin...

States appeal court saying those who send text messages are civilly liable if they are aware the recipient is driving and causes a crash. quote, if the sender knows the recipient is driving and will read the text immediately the sender has taken a foreseeable risk in sending the text at that time. 39 states have bans on texting while driving including new jersey. can you believe that? >> so you would be held accountable if that person youre texting is read it and gets in a crash. >> wow. katty. ...

This. these two teens, they send each other 62 texts that day. i guess this disproves your theory that teens dont like texting. >> that and the teens are against twerking. if you give them the option to twerk and not to twerk they will take not twerking jie. is it a right to twerk state? >> i support minimum ages. it is at 18 and above. secondly, welcome to chris christies new jersey. secondly it is almost as if they are begging the supreme court to rule on this and the fact that it is a civil c...

Cache with either russia or china to work more closely with them to push them in some way to get involved because of course they are the strongest allies that the u.s. at least has relationship with to syria? >> they may prove to be routes where we can at least get communication through, but u.s. relationships with russia is of course quite fraught right now and any attempt to negotiate with russia or to negotiate with syria through russia are obviously going to be pretty complicated. >> all rig...

Punishment today only if be they enter a plea. they had indicated two weeks ago they wanted to enter no contest, but its still unclear whether the judge will allow that to be their plea. well have the latest at the top of the hour. alisyn: yeah. you can only imagine how traumatic it must be for him to even see a school bus, much less get on it. watching that tape is hard to stomach. >> reporter: hes still scared. alisyn: yeah, i bet. jon: you can understand why. unequal unemployment as a small g...

>> right. david kay, thank you very much. dr. k., always good to hear from you. general marks, great to hear from you, as well. thank you for your insight. at the top of the hour, senior citizens "around the world" will -- senior citizcnns "arou" will have more on syria and possibility of an attack. we have all the angles covered here on cnn. and still to come on "legal view," one state cracking down on revenge porn. thats when your ex posts inappropriate pictures of you on the worldwide web wit...

What happened to the demand for medicaid births and the costs of medicaid births in the state of texas? none of it makes sense with what purportedly is the agenda of this republican majority. particularly when it comes to matters of liberty. last session, governor perry vetoed a bill that would have prohibited people from texting while driving. and he said that he vetoed it, in his statement, because it was an unacceptable intrusion of government into a persons liberty. if that is an intrusion t...