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While driving be even worse. behind the wheel of a driving simulator i discovered hor distracting it could be. >> the number i'm calling -- >> reporter: it's even worse for newly licensed drivers. >> we found that for novice drivers, texting increased your risk for a crash three times that of an alert teen driver and dialing and reaching for objects increased it by eight times. >> reporter: researchers put devices on cars belonging to 40 drivers, more than 100 inexperienced ones. dialing, reaching for an object, even eat behind the wheel greatly increases the chances of an accident, but accord...

Reactions, which can include hallucinations, paranoia, and confusion, sent 19,000 people to ers in 2010, a 220% increase from 2005, and two-thirds of them were women. why more women than men? >> i think we know that women clear the drug from their system more slowly than men. and in fact the fda recommended we use a lower dose in women. >> reporter: this sleeping pill has been in the news for a very dangerous side effect. >> i hit something with your car. >> reporter: sleep driving. i tried a driving simulator on ambien and found out how scary this is. 30 minutes after taking the drug. am i on...

Kennedy crashed her car taking ambien hours earlier. is it ever safe to pop an ambien and drive? abc's lisa stark found out. >> reporter: you are looking at the first test of its kind ever done in the u.s. i'm in a driving simulator swerving all over the road nearly hitting a pedestrian, barely keeping my eyes open. i am not drunk. i'm testing another type of impairment, driving on the nation's most popular sleeping pill, ambien, and its generic version. there are cases all over the country those who pop the pill on the way home or try to drive too soon. perhaps the most terrifying of all -- t...

and wants to get rid of it. our question of the morning coming your way. goats on a roof. need i say more? news room begins right now. good morning to you. thanks for joining us. this morning we begin with a question both chilling and deadly serious. is someone putting politics ahead of your safety? the fbi is investigating the leaks of classified information and whether the white house is behind them. even leaders of the president's own party are voicing grave concerns about the amount of secret information now being made public. >> avalanche och leaks and it is very, very disturb...

economy overall. don't even get us started on europe or the tax cuts set to expire and spending cuts due to kick in a few short months from now watching it all is fed chairman ben bernanke who is trying to explain to congress -- live pictures right now -- what if anything he plans to do about it without saying too much. felicia taylor is watching from the new york city. felicia, what have we heard and learned so far? >> reporter: it's a careful dance because obviously the federal reserve chairman can't come out right and say anything ahead of the federal reserve meeting which takes p...