let's go over to annie mccormack live outside cooper university hospital.hat's where the officer is being treated. good morning, annie. >> reporter: good morning, tam. well, the accident happened last night. he was taken here. the trooper rather was taken here to cooper hospital. now aches want to show you some video that we took just within the past half hour. now, these are cruisers from new jersey state police and also camden county leaving the emergency room parking lot here at cooper hospital. now, those cruisers have been here since last night, since that trooper did arrive. but at this hour we are still not getting any updates from new jersey state police. the last update that we have gotten several hours ago was that the trooper is in serious condition. >> we have reports of a trooper that was struck by a vehicle. >> reporter: the emergency calls began flooding dispatch after a new jersey state trooper was hit by a vehicle while responding to a car fire. >> trooper is down. we got a trooper down. >> reporter: monday night this all unfolded around 8:

. >> it the has been a long week for everyone, probably longer for cullen and mccormack's. >> ♪ amazinger: funeral at saint charles borromeo church was full of police and ceremony as well as touching work, from family. cullen leaves behind a pregnant fiance and nine month-old son. >> unaudible. >> in the pouring rain outside the church, hundreds of officers from throughout the country stood the at attention. >> line of duty death is a time we all know just how close that we all come to that type of thing. i have seen people as far as california, indiana, texas. >> reporter: leaving church for cemetery cullen's family passed every single one of them. >> cullen and mccormack may have lost sean but they gained a very large family with the the state police report report lieutenant patrick gel gar is station commander at bellmawr barracks where sean cullen was assign. >> he was one of of those people that touched everyone's life. as we saw today, how many people was here. i was honored to know him. >> reporter: state police say today was all about honoring trooper sean cullen and supporting

"action news" reporter annie mccormack is live outside cooper university hospital, katherine scott isthe bellmawr barracks where cullen worked. annie, we'll start with you. >> reporter: and matt new jersey state police just confirmed the news, a 31-year-old state trooper sean cullen did die. they say that he was rushed here to cooper hospital after that accident last night. they released a few more details about that crash last night saying he was responding to a vehicle fire on 295 when a passing vehicle struck him and that's what sent him to the hospital. >> we've got reports of a trooper that was struck by a vehicle. >> reporter: the emergency calls began flooding dispatch after a new jersey state trooper was hit by a vehicle while responding to a car fire. >> trooper is down. got a trooper down. >> reporter: chopper 6hd was over the scene monday night. this all unfolded around 8:00 p.m. at 295 southbound between exit 24a and route 130 in west deptford. trooper sean cullen was so seriously injured a medical helicopter had to be dispatched to transporter him to cooper medical center

. >> mike mccormack, wyff4 live tonight in spartanburg. >> as the search continues for an accused killer who escaped home incarceration, the sister of an alleged victim is seeing out. >> in raleigh, police say a man was shot an killed by a police officer while running away. >> showing some showers moving county. notice the thunderstorms in east tennessee that moved through knoxville. they were quite strong but they have fallen apart dramatically over the last few minutes. i'll be right back. midday numbers from thehappening now in raleigh. >>happening in raleigh, police say an officer shot and reportedly killed a suspect on the run yesterday. right now police are releasing very few details. they say a gun was found near the area where the man was shot but they have not confirmed whether it was his gun. he was wanted by police on a today the naacp asked for a fair trial. >> some reports say there was a warrant. i've had warrants, too. but a warrant nor an arrest record is a licensed to there was a kill. >> the woman claiming to be the mother says authorities have not confirmed to her that

another idiosyncratic counterpart money into world changing research was catherine mccormack. by the way, i only noticed as i put this in my that it is she's very eager others, which means that ruling a link to pics here. anyway, a lot of you probably know that philanthropy has been important and medical breakthroughs. a lot of you know the polio vaccine, for instance was a philanthropic projects. how many of you know the birth control pill was the creation of a sole public funder and you are looking at her. catherine mccormack was a reaper of the fortune and she was an early women's rights act to this. i'd say she was more than a little bit crazy, but very determined to make a difference in the world and very talented. i one point she made it her quiet to find a means of preventing pregnancy and celia is taking a daily aspirin. that was the assignment. they put the equivalent of $20 million of money into this and she was -- she was the entire funder of this project. by 1957, she and her scientific partners had an fda approved pill. she absolutely troubled in this accomplishme

. >> now let's get rider on over to "action news" reporter annie mccormack who has been staying on topf this breaking story. >> reporter: abc news has confirmed 13 are dead and many injured. they say that this is a result of at least two explosions at brussels airport. they also are reporting that there were additional explosions at several brussels subway stations. now here are images just coming in from the airport explosions. according to abc news, around 8:00 a.m., there were two blasts in the departures area of the airport. all departures from brussels airport have been canceled and incoming flights have since been diverted. now, brussels is five hours ahead of eastern standard time. we are checking with american airlines about flights that left philadelphia for brussels. american airlines flight 750 left philadelphia last night and landed in brussels just before 7:00 a.m. american airlines flight 751 was scheduled to leave brussels at 9:40 a.m. their time bound for philadelphia. money airlines has confirmed through twitter that that flight has been canceled. now, these explosions

joining us now is john mccormack, senior writer for "the weekly standard.e five are races to watch. what are you looking out for tuesday? >> the four key states to watch, like you said, are ohio, florida, as well as missouri and illinois. missouri and illinois, you add them together, they have almost as many delegates as ohio and florida. they haven't gotten quite as much attention, because there isn't all the drama there with the home state governor, senator, as there is in ohio with governor kasich. or florida with senator rubio. but a lot of delegates up for grabs in those states. they're done by congressional district. so you still can rack up a lot of delegates. in south carolina, that is how they're awarded and donald trump wound up winning 100%, and is 33% of the vote. donald trump could get a lot of delegates there. the things to watch right now are to see whether or not the candidates with make a break and coalesce. there are three different candidates in three states who are the only realistic challengers. and that would be in florida, the only ca

another very idiosyncratic donor who poured money into world changing research was catherine mccormack. i think she is wearing egret feathers. philanthropy has been important in medical breakthroughs. the birth control pill was the creation of a sole public funder. and you are looking at her. she got her money from the international harvester fortune. she was a women's rights activist. ae's very determined to make difference in the world. she made her quest to find some means of preventing pregnancy easy as takings a daily aspirin. she put up about $20 million into this project. sole funder of the entire project. she hovered over the lab constantly. by 1957 she and her scientific partners had created an fda approved pill. she reveled in this competition. filled a prescription even though she was in her 80's. she wanted to feel that pride. ford foundation was based in california for a while. right mcdonald called it a pile of money surrounded by people who want some. donorsf these wealthy and you think that is american philanthropy. philanthropy is not just a story of moguls. more than

. >> so, it's go on over to annie mccormack with the latest it on wha on what is com. >> reporter: that of people that have died from various explosions in brussels has now climbed to 15. there are more that are injured. we're told that that number, though could rise. now, they are confirming that there were two explosions at the brussels airport and there were several more explosions at several subway stations around brussels. now, this just in, a photo of one of the victim tipples. some of his injuries have been blurred because they're so extensive. around 8:00 a.m. there were two blasts in the departures area of the airport. you heard alex talking about it's not clear exactly which airline that was at. wasn't sure if it was from the dealt air area or american airlines area. passengers have been evacuated from the airport many onto the tarmac. we have been in contact with american airlines. they're saying flight 750 left philadelphia last night and landed in brussells just before 7:00 a.m. their flight 751 scheduled to leigh brussells bound for philadelphia, that flight has been cance

stuart: go into the supermarket, and surely you have seen the spice rack run by mccormack.t outlook for their products x that is one of the best performers in the s&p 500. new high for the spice people. >>> now this, last hour we broke news from the supreme court. deadlocked on a union dues issue. this has to do with dues being paid by non-union members. at least that's the way i see it, but i think the judge is going to straighten me out. where have i gone wrong? >> it's a california case involving schoolteachers who were forced to join -- stuart: to join the union. >> with to join a public sector labor union and be bound by the negotiations on their behalf. teachers said we don't want to join, we don't want to pay dues, we don't want to be bound by what this union has negotiated on our behalf. we want to be hired and fired on merit and on our own. one issue is freedom of speech. you are forcing us to accept the speech of others as if it was ours, and freedom of association. the state of california is forcing people to associate with people they don't want to associate wit

joining us now on set, senior writer at "the weekly standard," john mccormack. ryan and donald trump co-exist within the republican party? and dan, your piece references the speech that speaker ryan gave last week, about the state of american politics. we're going to play a part of that speech and then read from your article. take a listen. >> our political discourse both the kind that we see on tv and the kind that we experience among each other, it did not used to be this bad. and it does not have to be this way. instead of playing to your anxieties, we can appeal to your aspirations. instead of playing the identity politics of our base versus their base, we unite people around ideas and principles. and instead of being timid, we go bold. >> and so, dan, you write in part, this. house speaker paul ryan attempted to lift the horizons of his party with a speech last week in which he called for a competition of ideas, rather than insults and constructive political debate, rather than the politics of demonization. his effort to rescue the party from a coming crisi

. >> my time is limited, sue mccormack of detroit water wrote to you offering to continue supplying water to flint michigan until the water authority project was complete. you wrote back, there will be no need for flint it to continue purchasing water to serve its residents and businesses after april 17, 2014. thousand 14. why did you reject this offer? and continue using detroit water is a source? >> it just to be clear, the letter you refer to went to the city clerk, at the time. >> you had no knowledge of this letter? >> i was not the emergency manager at the time the letter came inches by the time we got there we had already been notified the contract have been terminated. >> but you were the emergency manager before the switch was implemented, on your watch you could say wait a minute, i am in charge now. wasn't this your job to look at what should be done now? now that you are in charge, sir? >> we did look at that. again, we followed the guidelines with the information we were given. importantly in that letter -- >> what about the warning that came, imagine receiving a warning from