cnn's atia abawi joins us live from afghanistan on both these items. atia, what's the latest? >> reporter: right now, richard, no one is talking officially about who this man was, how he got onto the base. right now, the only claim we're getting is from the taliban who state that he was an afghan soldier, a soldier that they were able to convince to switch allegiances, a man that used to fight on the side of the u.s. forces, they say, and then decided to fight on the side of the taliban. the taliban in that same statement say it's not going to be a one time thing, that it's happened in the past and they'll make sure it happens in the future. a day before this attack, another afghan soldier shot and killed an american soldier in western afghanistan, a completely different part of the country, and they say right now they're trying to infiltrate the afghan security forces. and right now the security forces of afghanistan with a push from president barack obama, a push from president hamid karzai and all the na nato-led countries is to increase security forces so eventually they c

let me highlight howie atia tr addressing this problem. first for presidential action. through executive order on september 30th president obama directed federal employees not to engage in texting while driving a government owned vehicles when using government supplied electronic equipment or while driving privately owned vehicles on official government business. the department transportation and other federal agencies have taken the leadership roles as well. the department transportation secretary lahood sponsor the first national distracted driving summit on september 30 of which brought together federal state and local government policymakers, researchers, at the kids in private industry. the secretary has also issued an order complying with the president corner banning any and all text messaging by employees. that basically says we may not use government issued phones or blackberries while driving, even off duty. also i held a conference call last week at the 50 state d.o.t. secretaries highway representatives of law enforcement representatives encouraging them to d