care a van -- karen johnson lives mere vancouver, washington, often listens to police scanners. yesterday she tweeted about a deadly car crash on i-205 in vancouver. she updated followers that she realized that her husband was actually late coming home. she tweeted a trooper on scene who realized something horrible happened. >> you started to realize she may know someone in the crash. >> yes. at that point i went and started reading what she was posting. can't find my husband. he's not answering his phone. that's when i realized this might be something we want to deal with now. >> the trooper rushed investigators to her house to tell her in person and at 3:50 she tweeted it's him, he died. she says her husband has epilepsy and troopers say his car collided head on with a pickup. the driver survived but was seriously injured. last night she was still updating followers tweeting my boys are finally asleep, i feel like a block of cement fell on me. then both my mom and mother-in-law left. tomorrow i'll have family over, tomorrow will be hard. i'll hear from the medical examiner, th

karen johnson lives near vancouver, washington. she often listens to police scanners and tweets out information to help others avoid accidents and hazards on the road. well, yesterday she tweeted about a deadly car crash on i-205 and vancouver. as she updated her followers, she soon realized her husband was late coming home. she urgently tweet aid trooper on the scene who realized something horrible had happened. >> she started to realize she may know someone in that crash. >> i went to her and stwartd reading what she was focussing. can't find my husband. he is not answering his phone. at that point that's when i realized that this might be something that we want to deal with right now. >> the trooper rushed investigators to her house to tell her in person. at 3:50 p.m. karen tweeted it's him. he died. she says her husband has epilepsy. troopers say his car crashed the median and collided head-on with a pickup truck. the truck driver survived but was seriously injured. >>> he is best known for his action-packed films, and many are

karen johnson lives near vancouver, washington, she often listens to police scanners and tweets informationto help others avoid accidents and hazards. she tweeted yesterday about a deadly car crash in vancouver and updated her followers, she soon realized her husband was late coming home. she urgently tweeted a trooper on the scene who realized something horrible happened. >> you started the realize she may know someone in the crash. >> yes. i started reading what she was posting. can't find my husband, not answering his phone, at that point i realized that this might be something that we want to deal with now. >> the trooper wushed investigators to her house to tell her in person. in fact, she had tweeted as well it's him, he died. she says her husband has epilepsy. his car collided with a pickup truck. the truck driver survived. >> rescue crews found the body of a mill worker buried under corn. they had been looking for the body since a silo collapsed in washington on monday. that's east of olympia. since then t the two crews have vacuumed up more than 400 tons of corn, that's when they f

car wreck on wednesday when listening to her police scanner and as the details were revealed, karen johnsonrealize this fatal accident may have involved her husband. she tweeted, i'm trying not to panic but my husband left work early. driving the 205 to get home he is not answering his home. after calling his office and he was feeling faint when he left, what do i do now. he might have pulled over feeling faint or had aziz sure. he had epilepsy. very sadly her worst fierce were confirmed. she wrote this. it is him. he died. the police are investigating this crash. and an online fund has now been created to support the 41-year-old mother of two children. what a sad story. bill: new details now on the american teacher gunned down in benghazi yesterday. ronnie smith, shown here, getting ready to spend christmas back in austin, texas, with his wife and young son, sending them home ahead of him while staying back to help his students with their exams. a man of faith. he saw what he was doing in libya as part of god's mission for him. no one claiming responsibility for smith's murder but just day

karen travers, abc news, washington. >> the nsa spying issue is one of the challenges faced by the new director of homeland security. the senate approved jeh johnson'sion yesterday. he's the first african-american to hold that job. johnson was a top pentagon lawyer and he replaces janet napolitano. >>> the senate could approve a new budget by the end of the week. a test vote is set for today. the bill would restore about $63 billion in across-the-board cuts scheduled to take effect in the current budget year and the next one. the house approved a similar spending plan last week. >>> the hunt continues this morning for two carjackers who targeted a couple at a new jersey mall in the height of the holiday season. the husband was shot and killed in front of his terrified wife. the suv was stolen and abandoned hours later. we get more from abc's rina ninan. >> reporter: he was a young, promising attorney, a few years out of law school, but dustin freedland's life ended in a matter of moments in what many find an unlikely place. the parking lots of an upscale new jersey mall. he was 30 years old. the short hills mall was open late to accommodate holiday

karen, a democratic caller. caller: i set -- i think senator johnson needs to go back to where the problem began. that is when president bush was has -- as hasand been said, they put the wars on the credit card, the medicare part d on the credit card, and them getting their increase in revenue, no, they finally let the bush tax credits expire. so i think he needs a reality check and instead of them having their dog and pony shows, which i watched c-span all the time, they need to legislate. guest: i was not here then. i was back in wisconsin running a factory land providing jobs. i understand numbers. we have increased our debt by six joy in dollars in just the last five years. the wars in total cost $1.5 trillion. are they a part of that? again, that is over 12 or 13 years. are they part of that increase deck for it -- deficit? i am taking a look at, here is the situation today and it is utterly unsustainable. our projections, and we have gone to budget experts and outside think tanks, they said we are still too low, what we are shown $170 in deficit spending. 28 chili dollars the second decade

karen. caller: i had two questions. one was about how she felt about her daughter lucy getting married at such a young age and the second question about her involvement in the johnson school of education after his death. >> her work at texas was very much part of the work at the library, it was all of a piece. she was very interested in that work. that is a great place. it is a wonderful school. she was private about her views about her daughter getting married young, but obviously it was something worrisome. but then once lucy had made up her mind her parents embraced it and embraced her husband. >> in her post-white house years, her work for conservation and beautification was recognized with the presidential medal of freedom in 1977 and a congressional gold medal in 1980. -- in 1988. also, the national wildflower center was created as a result of her work. >> it was on her 70th birthday and it has since moved, but it is still in austin and it is really quite an operation. answering questions from all over the world about what species will grow where and showing people model gardens. she continued to visit that right up until she was in a wheelchair with an oxyge