host: on your screen is deborah hersman, the chairman of the national transportation safety board. we will be looking at the safety of older drivers. we actually divided our phone lines for people under 70, and 70 or older. it is a very common dividing line when you start talking about older drivers. if you are under 70, you might have parents or other relatives that you face this issue with. the numbers are on the screen. for those 70 and older, those having questions about driving safety, they have a line as well. let's start with some statistics. first of all, the number of drivers that is the baby boomers age sadistically will go up exponentially over the next 20 years -- statistically will go up exponentially over the next 20 years. by 2013, the no. 6 -- by 2030, the number is expected to be 57 million. and the other no. i wanted to show is how they crashes that people are involved in. if there crash numbers are coming down, why are you concerned about this population group? guest: that is a great question. the good news is that we know that older drivers are the most experien

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i want to say thank you to deborah hersman, the chairman of the ntsb. guest: happy to be here. copies and can read it soon enough. we have richard armitage on my far left, who was the former deputy secretary of state, now president of our litigious national, and daniel markey, who is the council's senior fellow and was the project director for this report. we hopto have sandy berger with us, t he was not able to be with us this morning. my hope is that in the first half hour, we can give you an idea of the report and then ask you to pose your own questions to mr. armitage and mr. markey. let me begin with the usual injunction that you turn off your cell phones. the isi has been asked to pay attention to this. journalists in the audience and others, feel free to take notes and report. let me begin by asking mr. arm attached a baseline question. what is that read like -- mr. armitage the baseline question. what is the big thing you would like us to start with? >>president obama got a bad lie from the bush administration regarding ghanistan. we do salute his attempt to rectify the

i want to say thank you to deborah hersman, the chairman of the ntsb. guest: happy to be here. >> we are going to show you now and portion of the meeting that the national transportation safety board chair talked about. on the final day, the focus has been on how to screen and assess the physical and mental abilities of the gene drivers. this is just over two hours. >> good morning, and welcome back. today, our panel's discussed the safety risks of eating drivers, and we decided that with the exception of the very old, there was not really a disproportionate crash risk, but when the elderly are involved in a crash, they are more likely to be fatally injured because of their frailty and low tolerance for injuries. we look at what vehicle occupancy protection systems could do to improve outcomes, and we look at what technology and highway design could do to improve the performance of each in drivers -- aging drivers and drivers in general. our first panel looks at enhancing driver performance. the panel will be discussing the ways that we assess driver ca

i want to say thank you to deborah hersman, the chairman of the ntsb. guest: happy to be here. thanksgiving is a great time to talk about driving with your family. in the coming weeks i hope many listeners and watchers will do that. host: thanks for being with us. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> a look at the future of health care this afternoon. the alliance for health reform at the american enterprise institute. like every -- live coverage starts up to about 15 eastern. >> in an ideal world, there are all these smart investors who think these things are going to crash and burn. you could not see that the way you can see it in the stock market. because of the way the instruments work you were not betting on a real mortgages, but you were betting on the casino version of a mortgage. > in 2003, bethany mclean wrote about the mortgage crisis. >> george w. bush discusses the critical decisions of his administration and his personal life, live, sunday, 4:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. president obama h

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> deborah, hersman, who you just saw the chairman of the ntsb will be on "washington journal" tomorrow morning at 9:15 15. she will talk about aging drivers and other transportation issues and we'll take your calls as usual. that is tomorrow morning, "washington journal" on our companion network, c-span. today is veterans day and there are several events making the, marking the occasion. one of them is from the vietnam veterans memorial. scheduled speakers include interior secretary ken salazar. that is at 12:50 p.m. eastern on our companion network, c-span. congress is not in session these days but will return to work november 15th when members return, work is expected on the bush-era tax cuts as well as federal spending for the next budget year. watch the senate live here on c-span and the house on, watch the senate live on c-span2 and the house on c-span. and january will bring the opening of the 112th congress with republicans in charge of the house following last week's midterm elections. but before that, it will be party leader