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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. therrin was killed. >> they wey him. he had to save their life. he's a hero in my book. >> reporter: ad...

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 while she drives." >> no, not all the time, but i have done it. i have done it before. i know. i will ...

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 brian's 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: i'm reading that -- the spectators were entirely too close to the track. is that true? or is this...

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 checks, theft and fraud in two states. >> conmen can be very slick. that's almost the definition of i...

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 who's back! in the house! martha: hey there bill hemmer, how are you? bill: i'm terrific now that i see you! martha: good to be back, it was wonderful, good morning, everybody, good to be here. i'm martha maccallum. and the president is responding to this backlash over what he said about the plan to build a mosque, an islamic center, very close to the site of the 9/11 attacks. bill: the story is growing by th...