fly down to colombia to investigate this personally. [ applause ] i ll till you what, i know the administration has been cracking down. but if this happened on president clinton s watch, you can bet those secret service agents would have been disciplined with a very serious high-five. palms would be beat red. quick announcement, if any one has tickets to the gsa afterparty, the plane is leaving for the four seasons at dubai, at midnight on the dot. don t be late, you will miss out on your complimentary white tiger cub. i want to thank the washington hilton for hosting us tonight. you know, president obama wanted to move the dinner to the kennedy center this year. but the republicans wanted to keep it at the hilton. they compromised and here we are at the hilton. [ applause ] i am staying at the hotel and i
people dead here. four adults, three children, including an infant. and an elderly couple. we don t know what the relation is. but two of them in their 80s. a law enforcement official tells me that the driver of the suv appears to be one of the women who was inside the car. we know that one was aged 45, and the other was 30. they said that the suv was traveling at a very high rate of speed on the bronx river expressway, parkway, and for some reason, they don t know why at this point, it hit a barrier and went flying over the overpass, about 50 to 60 feet into the air. and the same distance down before it came crashing down in the very heavily brush area of the southeast perimeter of the bronx zoo. we re standing at the one of the side entrances right now. not near any of the animal exhibits or any of the investigate tors, totally out of the public view. this suv was crushed. it landed upside down. and all the people inside were pronounced dead at the scene. because it lande
it s only about three feet high. witnesses say she overcompensated and made a sharp right, crossing over three lanes of traffic going in the very same direction, hit a curb that went over a fence, only again about two to three feet high, and went sailing about 50 to 60 feet. control of the suv. it could have been, authorities say, any number of things. maybe something physically went wrong with her. perhaps there was a mechanical failure, a distraction of some kind. these are all the things that they ll be looking at as some of the possibilities, don. all right. susan candiotti in new york. susan, thank you very much. this stretch of road is no stranger to bad wrecks. back in 2006, six people were killed in almost the exact same spot. i spoke to steve casamo about the safety of this particular roadway. back in 2010, this bridge was one of several in new york state that were determined to be functionally y functionally inoperable. what that definition means, it doesn t mea