to toe. he s standing on both feet now. that s good. reporter: and spent months learning to walk again. i was supposed to be a vegetable too. i m here today. reporter: two years later he s back at work. i want to make sure that everybody knows they ll these accidents we re seeing more often now because of social media, texting and driving, distracted driving. they re all preventable. reporter: last year 40 first responders were hit and killed while working on the side of the road. already this year 21 have died. that s despite all 50 states requiring drivers to move over if crews are working roadside. even if a driver didn t know about florida s move over law, all of these emergency lights should be really hard to miss. but troopers say when people do it s almost always because they re looking at their phones. new research found 71% of drivers copped to taking photos and texting while driving by emergency workers on the side of the road. that s nearly triple than
the last best hope of earth. you are its in heritage. that s colin powell addressing add howard university back in 1994. the university was going through racial tensions and his words had such meaning now and back then as well. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s tuesday, october 19th, along with joe and willie and me, we have our columnist and editor of the washington post and our political analyst, eugene robinson and former aide to the george w. bush, elise jordan and our associate editor for the washington post, david ignaci is joining us. the suit which was expected to lock the committee from obtaining his administration records from the archives in the 26 page complaints, a lawyer argues that the record must remains a secret as a matter of executive privilege. in a joint statement, betsy thompson and vice chair liz cheney, the committee vows to fight for the former president s attempt to obstruct our investigation. the house-select committee is laying
gunshots. oh, my god, they re all shooting back and forth. patron joshua mcgill described what he saw and heard. it was like boom, boom, boom. were people screaming? people laying on the ground, taking cover. jumping the fence. i think the pension actually broke with people pushing on it to get out. there was just too many shots, bang, bang, bang, that s when you know chaos, it was just turmoil. patrons trapped inside began calling 911. four us still hiding, lights are off in club. cops are here, but haven t got us yet. thank you, i jumped out. there s people still hiding inside the closet, that the shooters don t know they re in there. the club managers managed to post this notice on their facebook page, everyone get out of pulse and keep running. if only they could. my son was in the nightclub what his boyfriend and other friends and i know that his boyfriend has been shot multiple times and is in the emergency room. reporter: the gunman armed with his rif
in grief and outrage. you will not break us. we are better people than this. good evening from orlando. i m lester holt and this is a special edition of dateline. at least 50 dead, 53 wounded, many of them in critical condition. the biggest mass shooting in american history, and says president obama. an act of terror. the gunman omar mateen, stormed a gay nightclub, armed with an assault style military nightclub, opened fire and left the dance floor covered in blood. his motive, pure rate. reporter: it was supposed to be a night of fun, letting your hair down, saturday night had become early sunday morning, the music loud and funky. this video posted on the internet from inside club pulse around 1:00 a.m. last call, last dance, latin theme night was wrapping up. a crowd of about 300 packed into orlando s popular gay nightclub. approximately 2:00 a.m., everything changed, the gunman holding an assault rifle encountered an offduty police officer and exchanged fire with
us. as americans, we are you nighted in grief and outrage. you will not break us. we are better people than this. good evening from orlab dough. i m lester holt and this is a special edition of da dateline. 50 dead and 50 wounded. president obama says an act of terror. the gunman omar mateen an american gunman with isis proclifts, opened style with an military assault rifle left the dance floor covered in blood. nightclub, opened fire and left the dance floor covered in blood. his motive, pure rate. reporter: it was supposed to be a night of fun, letting your hair down, saturday night had become early sunday morning, the music loud and funky. this video posted on the internet from inside club pulse around 1:00 a.m. last call, last dance, latin theme night was wrapping up. a crowd of about 300 packed into orlando s popular gay nightclub. approximately 2:00 a.m., everything changed, the gunman holding an assault rifle encountered an offduty police officer and exchanged