America festival. It appeared the taxi was going about 50 Miles Per Hour. Aid officers stressed the actual speed of the cab has not been determined. Theyre trying to get more information from the taxi driver as he is in the hospital. Coming up in the next 30 minutes ill hear from one of the investigators who is working this case. Ill tell you why. This is different from the other fatal accidents involving pedestrians and vehicles that have been happening in philadelphia over the summer. This was different. You will hear from the investigator coming up from the next 30 minutes. Live in north philadelphia, jesse gary, nbc 10 news. Thanks, jesse. Well see you at 11 30. It was a busy morning for philadelphias Wynnefield Heights neighborhood. The driver of the pickup truck claimed a car coming in the opposite direction crossed into his lane. To avoid the car, he veered off the road and crashed into the trees and a transformer knocking down utility poles, but sources say that investigators a
48 days until the iowa caucuses. The focus is on the terror attacks. Donald trump still taking fire over his muslim exclusion plan. We have cnns athena jones in las vegas. Reporter this is where it will all go down on tuesday night. We are in the middle of rehearsals. The main stage has been set. We know the candidates who made the cut. Kasich, carly fiorina, marco rubio, ben carson, donald trump, ted cruz, Chris Christie and rand paul. Donald trumps frontrunner status is stalled by cruz in the state of iowa. Wolf blitzer and dana bash is spending a lot of time over the several days in the cone of silence finalizing questions. There will be 17 cameras and inviteonly audience of 1,400 people in the theater on tuesday night. This is the last debate of the year. The last chance for candidates to make a strong impression with voters heading into the holiday season. Millions will be watching. Will donald trump attack ted cruz . Will ben carson and jeb bush and others have break out performa
Job in the battle against terror. So important heading into the holidays. It will solidify, perhaps, this race for several weeks. We do have lineup on that stage. Donald trump once again will be front and center. Why . Leading in all the national polls. Lets take a look at where everyone else will be. Where the players will be. Athena jones with a look at the stage and behind the scenes. Reporter coming to you from the venetian theater on the las vegas strip. We are in the middle of the rehearsals but the main stage is set. The nine candidates made the cut for the prime time debate in order, kasich, carly fiorina, marco rubio, ben carson, donald trump, ted cruz, jeb bush, Chris Christie and rand paul. Trump is center stage once again. Hes still the front rupper nationally and the status is being challenged by cruz in the state of iowa. Three new polls now showing the texas senator leading there. Cnns wolf blitzer and dana bash spending time in the cone of silence finalizing questions f
To talk about today, brett, thanks for joining us on the real story. Hey, gretchen. Lets start with the Foreign Policy. Since it wrapped up a little bit it ago. We saw donald trump on the te teleprompter today. Quite a difference or how did you read it . Yeah, i think it is a difference and it is evidence that he is trying to get more policy chops out and about into the ether in this race. And you know, this is only the second i think teleprompter speech he has given. He gave one at apac here in d. C. , the israel lobby, and then youve got this one. This Foreign Policy speech, you know, a lot of people look at it, there were social media weighing in and different experts saying criticizing, others saying it was good. What it did was it talked about in a populous kind of way, Foreign Policy and the critiques and of the Obama Administration and secretary clinton and there will be more opportunities for more, to put more meat on the bone. You touch on something important here, which it wa
race for the white house. bernie sanders has leapfrogged over hillary clinton in new hampshire. there is no rest for the 2016 presidential candidates. new nbc news/marist poll shows that bernie sanders has leap frogged over hillary clinton, 41% of democratic voters, clinton gets 32% and vice president joe biden, who hasn t officially entered the race, gets 16%. in iowa, clinton is still on top but sanders is narrowing her lead from 21 points in july to just 11 points now. on the republican side, former alaskan governor sarah palin is rallying behind trump. she said that spanish speaking say you better speak american. you better be here legally. and when you re here, let s speak american. palin was trying to take a swipe at trump s 2016 rival, jeb bush, fluent in spanish. club for growth continues. overnight trump tweeted a photo of a letter from that group asking him for $1 million. trump is calling it extortion. nbc s tracie potts is live in washington for us this mornin