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college crowd? >> reporter: yeah, mostly college. mixed crowd, fredricka, still not full but they have an hour to go. the message you'll hear is effectively the president preempting a tax on the economic conditions in the u.s. he expects the romney campaign is going to attack the unemployment rate and the president's stewardship on the economy, so you'll hear him talk about how hard the economy was hit before he got in office, what he inherited, and how he made things better, how much worse they could have been, in the president's view, and what he could do going forward. he'll also,...

the left side of the driver's car hit a concrete barrier in the median strip, and then according to an eyewitness the driver appeared to overcompensa overcompensate, make a sharp right turn, hit a curb on the far side of the road, and then went over that railing and over an overpass. she sailed about 60 feet into the air, and then about the same distance down before coming to rest upside down. all the passengers inside were dead on arrival. police do say all of them were wearing seat belts. but obviously that was not enough to save them in this horrific accident. >> i know you said t...

off an overpass on to a transit facility near the bronx zoo. three of the dead are children. cnn's susan candiotti joins me now by the phone. susan, what's the latest on this? >> reporter: well, it's a terrible, terrible accident, certainly, alison, but we're hearing from the police that it's either a car or a van with four adults and three children inside, all dead. they were on an expressway called the bronx river parkway, and the car crossed over the median into the opposing lanes of traffic, flipped over the bridge, and fell a sizable number of feet. we don't know how far, but it...

took the stand and apologized to trayvon martin's family. cnn martin savidge examining evidence from florida. when is he expected to be released and where is he likely to go? >> yeah, two very good questions right now we're trying to find answers to. we're standing outside the corrections facility where george zimmerman is being held. this the receiving point. this the way he went in. we're believing this the way he will come out. security is in the minds of the security conscious. if he comes out this door we'll have to wait and see. as to when, his attorney said it would take a cou...

prostitute in colombia. the post was tipped off to the allegations by former post reporter ronald kesler. kesler and on cnn this morning and he says a dozen agents were involved. >> all 12 agents involved in this situation involving prostitutes. one of the agents did not pay one of the prostitutes and she complained to local police and that's how this all started. police went to the state department. state department told secret service. secret service recalled all the agents. it is really the biggest scandal in secret service history. >> lothian traveling with the president. dan, i ...