if i think it's an important text i pull over to the side of the road and look at the text. so, eric, i want to show you my website. you can take the pledge by icking on this button here. you are ledgering as you can read here, it says i pledge not to drive distracted because it endangers myself and those around me. i will never text and drive, i will always speak out when i see a driver being distracted. and i will urge my community and encourage my peers to not text and drive. >> i think i can take that pledge. the. ô> thank you for pledging, eric. >> all right. >> so that was the easy part. for jon, the hard part is ahead. >> it's just really hard to break people out of a bad lab and it's break people from such an easy habit of peeking up their phone and reading something. the ultimate goal of lead is to have no more deaths in the u.s. by distracted driving. doing all of this has taught me that perseverance and dedication really are the greatest qualities that you can have. and without those qualities, i don't think that i would have been able to start this because it tak

and i will just text somebody into the ground. i will text the relationship into the ground.even know what happened. [laughter] and there is very little treatment for me, and it's very insensitive to make something that i suffer from -- >> oh, there's a treatment. >> also a reason to be sued? >> yeah. >> how dare you! >> yeah. leave your ass atbe the movie theater. >>ing >>ing the aye got to do with all these feelings inside me, and sometimes this helps. let me have it. greg: all right. mcdonald? hero or jerk? >> how about a little bit of both. half hero, half jerk. greg: who played manimal? [laughter] >> turned into a jaguar. >> no, you know what they say, never meet their heroes. doesn't seem like somebody i'd want to meet. [laughter] greg: never meet your jerks either. rob? >> i think they're both jerks. you don't text in a movie theater, that's the one thing. and this guy for getting on tv saying he's suing a woman when you know he's using a lot more money on internet porn too. i would love to see this guy on the cover of punchable face magazine. he got on t. he's a hero

bam, bam, bam, three texts. i hollered at the officer, come here, beverly texted me. >> it gave everyone hope. >> i was like her phone it died, she got it charged, it's good. >> brenda and stacy got texts of their own. >> our phones started beeping at the same time with texts. >> it was such an eerie feeling. >> what was he saying to you two? >> she said, i'm sorry, my phone has been dead and it's back on. >> concerned brenda used that safety technique the office came up with and texted beverly with the special code. i said "can you tell me if you left the red folder on my desk?" there was no response. >> the one i got was, "i'm out having drinks with friends." i was like, well, we're just here. >> the ones on her husband's phone were just as deflating. carl jr. knew his mom would never go out and not tell anyone. >> i can't even tell you, to go from she's okay, this is all over, till the second we saw the screen and saw what the texts said, we knew someone had her phone. >> totally flipped me out. she'd been to

david: a breathalyzer for texting?cago new jerseys tennessee could soon be allowed to use texting lieser technology, to ininspect your phone after accident to see if your technicalitying caused the crash, some say it could help keep us safe on roads john says -- >> complete invasion of he prefers explain. >> yes a bad idea that kneeled lesley grand diesees government why not leave this to sure, that can do the same thing, and they could adjust your rates, assuming you are stupid enough to test while driving. >> there in a sobering think a in 20 15, 442 crashes. >> some laws on books are not working so we have to you know, at least look at something else, and listen, to home for me, i am actually helping train a teenager how to drive, right now, tough. >> whatever that takes. >> no more finishing nasal the end of that joyner, mike flying with breathalyzers i think we have come to appreciate, the work that they do in keeping drugs off road why not textlize. >> how about a hot coffee an lieser driving down road, sipping o

the attorney said the texts are all not what they seem. >> if any of you are foolish enough to use text messaging that i could go back to your text messages and make something out of them that doesn't exist, they do have to be explained and they will be and they aren't a conspiracy to do anything. >> reporter: all three defendants could face life in prison if convicted. live in san jose i'm mark sayre, kpix5. >>> there's been an arrest tonight in a gruesome murder last year in castro valley. investigators say this man, 36- year-old lucky decanney confessed to the crime. they say surveillance video shows him walking around the grove way neighborhood looking for a home to burglarize. when 59-year-old widow andrea st. john confronted him, he stabbed her and set fire to her house. >> the district attorney determined that the fire was, in fact, related to torture. it is very disturbing to the entire neighborhood, the family, our detectives. >> the confession came while he was locked up in san joaquin county on unrelated charges of child molestation and vehicle theft. >>> two men are dead aft

>> then he got another text asking him to hang out. >> reporter: a text from hernandez. >> a text, let'save another great night. >> reporter: hours later, it's already the wee hours of monday morning. lloyd is picked up by a grey t altima. his sister shequila sees him go, afterwards, lloyd sends messages asking who he left with. the last one tells her. nfl. just so you know. hours later, with police now at her home, she thinks maybe it's a clue. >> she says, ma, the only nfl person he knows is any hernanaan hernandez. >> over the next several day, versions search his home and cars, they remove bags of possible everyday. then on june 26ing, 2013, nine days after the murder of odon lloyd, hernandez is arrested and charged with first degree murder. his plea. >> not guilty. >> reporter: the patriot's release him be i the time he reaches the courthouse. >> i and other members of the organization were shocked and disappointed. >> reporter: on that very same day, police are searching the house of hernandez' cousin. they believe the football player may have left behind clothing he wore the night

. >> she's texting. the answer so far -- >> no. i was texting lebron.elling him to back off. >> their playoff dominance with a 44-point victory over the boston celtics last night, dan, in boston, setting several scoring records. >> thank you for that. >> the cavs, that is, handing the number one seeded team their worst loss in nba history. >> what? >> the final score, 130-86. the playoffs now shift to cleveland. the cavaliers gunning for the 11th straight playoff win. maybe the celtics have some better luck, dan. >> oh, my -- >> ron is singling me out because i'm the one person here from boston but i'm confident in the celtics. >> in the comeback. >> what were you doing texting in the middle of ron's -- >> i was actually texting our executive producer. is that okay? >> okay. >> i was actually texting rob marciano. rob, did you get my text? rob is in dallas tracking all the severe weather and flooding moving through the south. did you get my text message yet, rob? >> i haven't. if you sent it this morning, no, i haven't, but, you know, keep it quiet when

most texts sent by the so-called queen of texting practically required a translator. new facebook message, all the words were spelled correctly. and, some of the facts were clearly misstated. >> had a lovely night? i mean, she'd been gone for like a week at that point, so she'd had seven or eight lovely nights in which she hadn't contacted anyone. >> right, so of course at that time i have my cell phone with me. i take pictures, i sent it to craig overby with the fbi and i said, you know i get this message craig, this isn't right. >> it sounds to me like you thought she'd sent that message, but that something was wrong with her? >> yeah, maybe she's got too much pressure built up or she's had a head injury and that's why it sounds so odd. >> reporter: as the fbi went to work trying to trace the message, frustration led nicole's friend cami back to facebook. to get the word out about her friend's disappearance. with the case of missing, and subsequently murdered, schoolteacher sherry arnold still fresh in mind, cami started the "find nicole waller" facebook page. >> wh

i was actually texting rob marciano. rob, did you get my text?ob is in dallas tracking all the severe weather and flooding moving through the south. did you get my text message yet, rob? >> i haven't if you sent it this morning but keep it quiet when it comes to what's going on with the cavaliers. i know the spurs are still in it. down here because it's been hectic across the plains with tornadoes, 100 reported in the last five days and at one point dallas in a tornado watch last night. that has since moved through and a pretty decent morning here in the big "d." want to show you this tornado that touched down in lodge, kansas, 1 of 20. not doing a lot of damage but damage done in indiana, sulfur, indiana, but in salem, indiana, this is the blue river rising about 14 feet in just a couple of hours, trailers being thrown downstream bashing into the bridges, a number of water evacuations and rescues and that river still high. here's where the storms are. east of dallas but into memphis and st. louis. that will be the hot spot and pretty much where

turns out the last text nicole sent, was on that valentine's day, when she texted her caregiver a littles leaving. >> could you tell what time it was when her car passed that camera? >> it was around 10 o'clock. >> so she left at 7:30, and in two and a half hours, she only goes 35 miles? >> something's not right. >> not right. but agent overby didn't stop there. he wondered what else might be on that tape. >> and right there, not far behind nicole's expedition, was a pickup. >> it's a large f-350 pick up truck with an amber light. >> not exactly unusual out here in rural montana to see a pickup on any road. but? >> i was really interested in that pickup truck. and it was distinguishing because it had an amber warning light on its top. >> you can't see the license plate? >> no. >> you can't tell from the tape who's at the wheel of either vehicle. but now overby and hilyard had a hot lead, who owned a ck up with an amber light? pretty soon they heard a name they never heard before, bill sorteberg. >> bill's farm is out in the middle of nowhere. and it's dark. and we go down a long dirt roa

be the first to know, by signing up for our text alerts at wjla dot com slash text. now to breaking new developments about another major white house concern - north korea. overnight.. south korean media reported the nation's new president will visit washington next month to discuss worries over pyongyang's nuclear capabilities. the announcement comes days after north korea successfully tested a powerful new missile that analysts believe could reach alaska when perfected. another game 7 and another heatbreaking loss for washington sports fans. this time it's the wizards falling in the nba playoffs. last night in boston the wizards and celtics battled with a ticket to the eastern conference finals on the line. bradley beal poured in a playoff career-high 38 points but it wasnt' enough. the celtics would pull away late to win 115-105 ending the wizards season. and wizards losses, the d-c sports championship continues. the last time a d-c sports team in one of the four major pro sports made it to their leagues "final four" was 1998. the worst of washington weather - just

i'm reading texts. ba's t what's the difference? >> uh-huh. >> without devices there's nothing to do. >> look at the scenery, read a book. >> read a book! it's summer vacation. >> estimated time on road, 47 hours and 1 minute. ♪ >> critics are about as excited for the movie as the kids were. to take the trip to mema's house they're giving it a 25% splat on rotten tomatoes. says the adult's acting is crude and clownish. the kids actors are insufficient rabble. dennis harvey call also it an amiable, fast paced that should win over fans. >> i gave the clip a 25% rating. it was all right. ♪ >>> this morning on "world news now" chaos in times square. >> a man rams his car into crowds of people, mowing down pedestrians, killing a young woman. we have new details about the driver and new video in. hours ago, police taking a new step to protect one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world. >> the president is calling the investigation into russian meddling and the campaign a witch hunt and he says the special counsel hurts our c

then after piazza dies, there's is text quoting just tell them what i told you guys. next morning around 10:00 a.m. and he was freezing cold but we decided to call 911 instantly because the kid health was paramount. the grand jury noted the greek system at penn state is a danger to human life. martha. >> martha: thank you, trace. here now, penn state university student and editor in chief of the daily collegiate. thank you. you have done very strong reporting on the story and i would imagine that it is not easy for you to cover this and to read these text messages and the callousness that is in them. >> thank you for having me martha. it's unbelievable reading through these messages and the court documents. there was no. for these boys with the text messages and trying to cover up what happened that night. >> there is unlike previous cases, there is videotape that is very high-quality that was taken from cameras all over the inside of his fraternity house, correct? they have an enormous amount of evidence over this entire time frame. so these guys are likely in big tr

then just a few months back, he sent her a flirty text message. >> the text just said, "did you cast like, i looked down at my phone, i'm like, what? he says, i was in a party last night and this woman was chatting me up and all i could think about was you. >> deanna, who was in the throes of a traumatic romantic breakup, agreed to start seeing him again for dinners and she says he seemed excited to show off the new post-surgery keith. >> he goes, you're not going to recognize me. he goes, i lost over 100 pounds. i said, you have? >> did he look okay? >> he looked fine. he felt -- i think he was more confident as well. >> deanna says keith now began aggressively courting her. showering her with gifts, flowers, notes of affection. it was all, she said, a bit much. >> kept pushing for me. and i kept telling him, you need to back off, you need to slow down because i'm just not there. >> deanna says she couldn't put her finger on it but there was something about keith that was holding her back. maybe it was the fact that he still seemed unusually bound to a woman he called his ex-wife. f

according to nevin, when bob saw texts between nevin and his wife, he didn't like it and texted nevinyou?" you know, and "what -- what are you guys talking about?" i just responded very simply. i was like, "we're having lunches. she's my friend." >> did he get hostile at all? >> he only got hostile at the end. "my wife and i are having, like, marital issues i'm glad you're, like, you're her friend. but, you know, please stay out of the -- our -- our marriage stuff." so obviously he knows that she's talking to me about their marriage stuff. >> maybe she's telling you her deepest, darkest secrets that he doesn't want out. >> that response was one thing, one thing only, control. this is my life. he doesn't want that information spread. >> reporter: nevin knew about the discord in the marriage. leslie had also confided in him that bob had been unfaithful to her for years. >> he had been cheating on her throughout the marriage. my thing is, well, if someone's doing you wrong then -- then change it. but, you know, her reasonings were kind of like, you know, we have kids. so it wasn't until

you did not sign something sayingfy text i have to pay you back. that's silly. that's why you have to stay nats played a double header sunday which stretched f stretched rotation. jacob turner moved from bull phone starting. a nice start-off. getting nrep friend. no score in foushling. trea turner sliding in the hole. pops up just in time to get the runner at first. turner and nats no runs allowed through five innings and things started to unravel. unravel wild pitch hits david freeze putting two runners on and bell rings wack. josh bell three-run homer run. bat koz not dig out of. it nationals manage on three hits. last place pirates 6-1. >> three homeers in the last two weeks right here. let's make that trumba wait a second, twait hits the yellow line. normally home run. umpires don't call it home run. orioles set for one run that comes back to haunts them down 5-4. many called out and said he went around. he respectfully disagrees. yes that's end of game. o's lose 5-4. >> brews eric soguard is a big fan. despite the home run they lost to the padres. >> why di

david: what about texting. obviously it has a been a problem, some people are texting and driving.there not an option where you can keep people from driving if they are texting? mary: you are right. distracted driving is now surpassing as the most common cause of injuries. actually, very disturbingly in the last year we have been -- fatalities in the u.s. have been going down, and now they are starting to go up. i personally have not reviewed all the data, but distracted driving is a big piece of it. there are interlocks we can do, but we need to educate the public. that message can wait. there are things we have done to integrate it. so it can -- a voice can come over and read your text. it can be on the main screen, on the console of the vehicle. because when you are holding your phone looking down, that is one of the worst things you can do. so we are trying to put technology in a place to make it better, but distracted driving is a real issue and we have to take responsibility. david: you are a member of the presidentbusiness -- 'ss advisory council. when you have the first mee

you did not sign something sayingfy text i have to pay you back. that's silly.t's why you have to stay single. >> i knew you were going to say that. we'll be right back. in my future, i'm twice as likely to have a stroke. i'm at higher risk for depression. i'm 26% more likely to develop an irregular heartbeat. i have a 65% higher chance of developing diabetes. no matter who we are, these diseases can be managed or prevented when caught early on. because with better research, the right medicine, and with doctors who help keep me healthy to begin with, we will thrive. ♪♪ ralph northam: being a pediatrician has taught me to listen carefully. i'm ralph northam, and when survivors of the virginia tech shooting asked me to support an assault weapons ban and close the gun show loophole, i took on the fight. i saw what those weapons can do as an army doctor during the gulf war. now, i'm listening carefully to donald trump, and i think he's a narcissistic maniac. whatever you call him, we're not letting him bring his hate into virginia. nats played a double header sunday

"sorry to the family and you" he texted. "nothing will ever fix or undo what i did.r. in court, clayton's sister took the stand and supported her brother's story. their father, scott whittemore, did not respond to dateline's calls. there's no record of complaints against him. but a defense expert, a psychiatrist, testified scott admitted that as a former marine he may have been rough. because of that abuse, the expert concluded that clayton was suffering that extreme emotional disturbance and snapped in the dorm room. the prosecution begged to differ. >> it's just sad and tragic. and you know what, we never discounted or denied his past. but that doesn't excuse what he did. >> reporter: three weeks after the trial began, the case went to the jury. the verdict was swift. guilty of second-degree murder. >> i just felt this overwhelming sense of relief, that the truth came out, and that there was, there was finally a verdict. it was the right verdict. >> reporter: alex's mom did not attend the trial but followed it closely and tweeted. >> becky kogut, after the verdict,

via x-rated text messages.he jury. >> we also found that she downloaded a book, how to get your man back or something to that effect. >> reporter: just how badly did she want him back? these are from notes cara wrote to herself on her phone. "i would do anything to make it work. i love you i want to start over." "how can you just abandon a 20 year relationship?" >> stuff that we found in her cell phone -- that -- that showed this -- this shock and this dismay that, you know, "how could he do this." >> reporter: but remember, cara accused jj of raping her. so the prosecutor told the jury that dna tests didn't even show clear evidence that they'd had sex. and those bruises on cara's hip? were judging from texts with the new boyfriend not from jj. >> the rough sex a couple of days prior to the shooting is what led to whatever injuries she may have had. >> reporter: the red marks on her wrists? could have been from sex play said the state could have been from struggling with her handcuffs here in the police car. >>

>> but she and keith never text each other. >> not texting, we don't text. >> it's more facetime?facetime and call. >> calling. >> last week in cannes, nicole seemed to tear up when keith whispered in her ear. and these two just might be hollywood's most affectionate couple. >> do you get to enjoy these events on a date level? >> sure. >> yeah. >> yeah. oh, yeah. we just love being together. >> can you believe that keith almost never asked nicole out on a date? >> have you ever met anyone who was completely out of your league? kevin, you haven't. >> they're just adorable. nicole is in sydney, australia, to visit with her mom. then she's off to london to talk to james corden. she's part of star-studded cast as "the late late show" broadcasts from corden's home country next week. james is already in the spirit. there he is, as mary poppin. >> james corden, you always surprise us. >>> the property brothers surprise is one of the crown jewels in the universe, they like renovating homes and changing lives. besides their show drew is also busy planning a wedding. our carly steel found o

stay informed by signing up for text alerts at wjla.com slash text. we are following some breaking news. a plane catches fire overnight at a new jersey airport. sam sweeney is at the live desk with more. autria some scary moments for passengers on a flight from newark to san francisco. as the plane taxied to the runway last night around 11 oclock.... the the tower noticed flames in one of the planes engines. the pilot made an annoucement to prepare for evacuation... then all 124 passengers escaped using the emergency inflatable escape slides. a few passengers had minor injuries. the airpot but has since reopened. breaking overnight, president trump arrives at the vatican, for a face to face meeting with pope francis. this comes, as the probe into alleged links between his presidential campaign, and russia is intensifying here at home. abc's kenneth moton has more. coming up. dancing with the to the wire on the season's big finale. we'll tell you who is waking up with the mirror ball trophy. so we got our new he washing machine but it took forever turn

stop texting. they advise not overtexting and using other fingers or use the voice text on the smart phone. there is all kind of complications. it's not just this. other people have complained about the eye issues, too. the vision is earlier. they can't see distances. they c alison: neck issues, too, looking down all the time. nancy: technology. alison: you could have a conversation with someone. jonathan: wait a minute! revolutionary. nancy: texting is more fun. jonathan: in a moment we will open up the phone lines for the "7 on your side" phone bank. nancy: the topic is strokes. how to prevent them, how they are diagnosed and what you need to know to keep your family healthy. alison: that is right. kimberly suiters is in the phone bank. kimberly: it's american stroke month. the doctors and the nurses from med star washington hospital center joined us. they volunteered the time to answer your questions. questions like what is a strike? and signs and symptoms of a stroke. the latest treatments for

so i texted at 10:28pm, and she texted me back, and i'd left that scene within 12 minutes.ad literally sped off. as soon as they got in the car, i got my way through everyone and made it through, really fortu nately. really fortu nate. did you imagine that there were casualties inside, from what you heard and saw? no, no. i didn't until — wejust got near the motorway, we heard on the news that there had been fatalities, and my daughter obviously heard it on the radio, my partner heard it on the radio, and they both just burst out in tears, both of them. for a 12—year—old girl at her first concert, this must be very traumatic indeed. 0h, she's in bits. she just wanted to get home. she's absolutely in bits, she really, really is. you know, i mean, we've been home since i think about 12:30am when we got through the door, 12:1i5am. we have gone to sleep. we are not even tired, just going around in our head what could have happened, what has happened to the people. i've just read on the news about the kids in the hotel, where they can't find the parents and their guardians, it's

just text the word the live desk following this. autria, as we come on the air... rome police responding to an explosion outside a post office. early reports indicate this may have been a homemade device placed between 2 cars. at this hour it appears no one has been injured. this is a developing story. we are working to get new information and video from the scene. we will update you later in the hour. good morning washington. toss to eileen - cloudy & cool today (stray shower) - heaviest rain tonight & through 2pm tomorrow - warmer & breezy sunday - hot & humid coming today: cloudy and cool. isolated shower/drizzle. highs: 52-56 winds: e 5-10 mph tonight: rain likely. lows: 48-52 winds: e 5 mph saturday: rain through

and i put the video on and watched him text in his lap. >> the driver was texting for at least one minute in which he recorded 34 seconds, timons says he has his commercial drivers license for '02 years and works with the metro system in washington, d.c. and learned his lesson when he was caught driving on talking on the telephone. >> at that time i got a warning and now it's strict. a zero tolerance clause when it comes to the phone. >> and it's now with social media, a team of managers immediately contacted their corporate office in texas when we showed them our copy and the still of the bus's number. >> cdl you can't use your phones, he has 50 people in his hands and he is on the phone texting. >> greyhound issued the following statement we are surprised to learn about this and taking it seriously. we don't condone drivers using their mobile devices while driving for any reason and we are are investigating the situation and the driver will be removed from service until the investigation is complete. >> reporter: rick that greyhound investigation continues tonight and no firm word yet t

there hasn't been a lot of time to review the text of the latest changes to the bill. the reality is this, they believe they have the votes and they're going to vote on it. i think that's always been the case. leaders have made clear, whenever they get to that point, whenever they feel like they've reached that requisite number of 216 votes, they're going to put it on the floor because they don't want to give this an opportunity to hang out there too long, members get nervous and members start moving away as those attacks that are almost certainly going to commence right about the time the vote happens from democrats and outside interest groups. i will note, i've been texting back and forth with a couple members who were just inside that closed-door conference meeting. the point they tell me speaker ryan was trying to make very clear, the time is now to do this. the time is now to move this along in the process. is the bill the house is considering today perfect, fully fleshed out? no, but getting it to the senate, letting the senate do its work on it and send it back

the boy found the text messages. the text messages clearly proved is innocent. he took the text messages to amherst and they said to late, you've been kicked out, it's over. the saga continues in federal court but that's the gist of the case. >> host: thank you for going through that. let's back up a little bit. i want you to talk about what was the university required to do? let's get away from just the specifics of this case, but clearly they were under a mandate, a federal mandate having to do with title x. i mean title ix, and tell us a little bit about the office of civil rights, the letter, the memo from 2011, correct? >> guest: it started april 4, 2011. more than two years after the obama administration took office which is an interesting timetable because there had been no hints anything like this is coming. he had not campaigned on campus sexual assault but bama, out of the blue the office of civil rights and i was a generally democratic administrations to some extent republican administrations put their extreme ideologues in the civil rights agency. th

the string of secret texts proved to prosecutors the two friends did not rape a 14-year- old girl. but now, the charges are for child porn. >> not just pictures, video. very graphic videos, very vile pictures. and 2340u they want to turn this around and charge our client with something that she created and sent. >> andrew is the lawyer for sanchez. a video was discovered on the 18-year-old's phone. state law says it is illegal to have sexual photos or videos of children under 16. >> the statute was not intended for children who do this every day in high schools around the country. >> here's where this gets interesting. maryland does not have a law against sexting. it's a big deal to experts. th with the times. >> i definitely think that the law needs to catch up. >> jeff is a psychologist. he did this study for the university of texas. it says 15 to 30 percent of teens teens sext. maryland has not softened penalties. >> we are using outdated laws and applying them to a modern day form of sexual behavior and really to be honest, flirtation. >> whether this was the right charge, is n

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