state s appeal court saying those who send text messages are civilly liable if they are aware the recipient is driving and causes a crash. quote, if the sender knows the recipient is driving and will read the text immediately the sender has taken a foreseeable risk in sending the text at that time. 39 states have bans on texting while driving including new jersey. can you believe that? so you would be held accountable if that person you re texting is read it and gets in a crash. wow. katty. disease control says 9 million americans, that s one in 25 people, take sleeping pills to help them fall asleep. the study says people over the age of 50 mostly white females were more inclined to use a sleeping aid. this number does not include the estimated 1 million people who use over-the-counter remedies to combat sleep problems. roughly 10% of americans suffer from insomnia.
i m with you. when you can t find a position in bed because you re so uncomfortable, a little sleeping aid in the third trimester will not hurt anybody. i m stunned you can get by on a third of a pill. i needed help falling asleep. that s not going to hurt you. the third trimester most of the fetal development is done and then this baby is just growing. and growing and growing. but it s worth noting that actually because of that one of the things you see is smoking in the third trimester is harmful for birth weight. no good sig gret at any time. the only thing we disagree with, i m not comfortable with women eating unpasturized cheeses. i agree. because not pregnant increasing the artisanal cheeses and go to farmers market. you can get listeria and that can cause a still birth. so there are a couple myths here that we wanted to debunk. one i ve never heard of before.
highway and have no memory until i was stopped at a traffic light and a police officer was at my car door. a series of other factors led my doctors to believe this accident was caused not by a sleeping aid, but by a complex partial seizure. reporter: as police await toxicology reports, the truck driver is talking. and i said to myself either this person s fallen asleep or intoxicated or on something. reporter: she was lucky no one was hurt. i was worried about someone else. she almost did. she almost hit about five cars. she had no control of the car. she didn t even make an attempt to slow down or even try to stop. she had no regard for herself or anybody else on the road. that s when i got scared. i want to apologize to the driver of the truck who i apparently hit and to all those i endangered while driving my car last friday morning. i have never had any history of drug or alcohol abuse. reporter: kerry kennedy
i was stopped at a traffic light and a police officer was at my car door. a series of other factors led my doctors to believe this accident was caused not by a sleeping aid, but by a complex partial seizure. reporter: as police await toxicology reports, the truck driver is talking. and i said to myself either this person s fallen asleep or intoxicated or on something. reporter: she was lucky no one was hurt. i was worried about someone else. she almost did. she almost hit about five cars. she had no control of the car. she didn t even make an attempt to slow down or even try to stop. she had no regard for herself or anybody else on the road. that s when i got scared. i want to apologize to the driver of the truck who i apparently hit and to all those i endangered while driving my car last friday morning. i have never had any history of drug or alcohol abuse.
that. that is very bold. very bold. can t wait to share the ending with you. good morning. welcome to early start. i m zoraida sambolin. i m john berman. this morning mitt romney is in ohio. so is bobby jindal and jeb bush. parade? coincidence? it is sort of a parade. all about the veepstakes. also the key state of ohio. more coming up. also nelson mandela s 94th birthday. we ll hear from former president clinton who just visited with the icon in a cnn exclusive. that s coming up. first, zoraidzoraida, the b story affecting so much of the country, the weather and the devastating drought conditions that have turned half of the u.s. into a disaster zone. the department of agriculture is declaring natural disasters in 1,000 counties across 26 states. blistering temperatures are making conditions even worse. across the midwest temperatures have topped more than 100 degrees. and heat advisories are reaching up into the mid-atlantic regions. the bone dry conditions