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Jon: all right, a look now at some transportation headlines. apparently, fewer americans are driving automobiles these days. the transportation department says vehicle use peaked in 2007. it dropped sharply during the recession, and it has been flat ever since. the number of miles americans are driving also down. allstate's releasing its annual best drivers report. who rules the road? northern colorado, where i lived for a very long time -- alisyn: of course. [laughter] jon: d.c. has the worst, drivers crashing nearly twice as often as the national average. and north korea forecasting a brig...

>> hi, contessa. >> i'm assuming you would oppose an 85-mile-an-hour speed limit. >> well, if you were to go back and read the transportation headlines for the past year, you would think that texting and driving and runaway toyotas were the biggest safety problem on our roads. but in fact researchers know it is speeding. speeding accounts for -- a factor in about a third of all highway deaths. and it leads to the deaths of almost a thousand americans every month. and raising speed limits just exacerbates the problem. >> well, the author of this bill, representative lewis misinterpreted, it wou...

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