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Of the engineering effort and probably providing these areas where you can pull over and text but there's 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 there's an extra component to hopefully dissuade this activity. >> they are at existing rest stops and other places that you can pull off. so can't people just do that anyway? >> well, yeah, there are par...

John, great to see you. >> i get john about principle. i get that point. i don't see the principle in shutting down the government when you punish people. that's a calculation they have to get. >> it's a struggle. i'm not pretending i have a solution for it. i don't have to answer to constituents. it seems there has to be a better solution to what they're doing right now. >> i see you as an answer person. if you have one, you should not keep it because you're a journalist. think about that. tweet us, should kate give us the answer to the government shutdown and not hold out? what is that about...

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 taif way to contain the iranian nuclear weapons program. bill: wow. thank you, mr. ambassador. we'll ...

>> all right. we're going into our second hour now. hello again, everyone. a look at our top stories that a look at our top stories that we're 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 driving. it's against the law in a lot of place, but what if you just send the text message and your rec...

State's 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 you're texting is read it and gets in a crash. >> wow. katty. >> disease control says 9 million americans, that's one in 25 people, take sleeping pills to help ...