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Of the freeway, office by, helping two drivers who had been involved in a minor accident. Thats when Authorities Say a speeding suv veered off the freeway and slammed into a ford f1 50 pickup truck. The impact launched the pickup onto officer lendways lower body, crushing his legs. From the damage and the way the collision have occurred, he should probably be dead. Reporter the officer got himself out from under the pickup truck and called for help. Thankfully people were there that you were helping minutes prior to that are now in a situation where they have to help him and thankfully they did. Reporter the driver, accused of triggering this crash, was arrested on suspicion of dui. 52yearold tammy walker from pittsburg is now facing charges of felony dui causing great bodily harm and assault on a peace officer. Authorities also say walker was driving on a suspended license after a prior dui conviction. When its a dui when will the dui end up here driving going to stop. 100 unacceptabl
National Governors Association take dct pattison and calls from viewers. Host good morning. It is thursday, september 14. Cspan is unveiling a brandnew bus to coincide with our capitals tour, a 14 month long tour taking the bus to each state capital in the lead up to the 25th anniversary november. As the bus journey some place to place, it will be featured on washington journal. First up, dover, delaware, tomorrow, where the governor joins us at 9 30 a. M. We will give you a tour of the new bus and talk more about the 50 state tour later on in the program. Houseile at the white last night, democrat leader Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi said the president agreed to quickly pass a deal to protect undocumented youth. But this morning the present tweeting out, there is no deal. We will give you more deals coming up on washington journal. But we want to spend the first hour getting your reaction to the idea of singlepayer health care. Senator sanders along with democrats yesterday unveiled
Cspan3. You can watch online at cspan. Org or listen on the free span radio app. During thursdays washington journal were live in austin, texas, as part of the cspan bus 50 capitals tour. Former texas state senator wendy davis will be our guest on the bust starting at 9 30 a. M. Eastern. Its time for our your money segment, were focused on 401k and Retirement Programs. Our guest, dough misher of fisher of the American Retirement association, retirement policy director. You have heard as much as we about what could happen. Potentw that affects people and retirement savings. To be yes, pedro, great with you this morning, very timely topic. Debate and what is going on here. Right now, a lot of rumors and about the white house and house and senate using cans using the private retirement system to fund other tax cuts, for example. We have not ution seen a firm proposal from the house or the senate as of yet. Think that will come out this week, wednesday, well have a irmer gras ve upon what
The Affordable Care act. We want to hear from those in the medical field about how this has impacted your job and patience. For the first 45 minutes we will have a special line for doctors 202 7488000. Nurses, special line for you, 202 7488001. All other medical professionals can call in 202 7488002. You can catch up with us on social media, on twitter. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. You, we areng to talking about the Affordable Care the current state and future of that law. We want to hear from doctors, nurses, other medical professionals this morning. We heard from the speaker of the house over the weekend about obamacare as he refers to it. Here are a series of tweets from paul ryan. Obamacare is giving americans another doubledigit premium increase, and fewer choices. Obamacare, millions of americans only have one choice for Health Insurance, which is really not a choice. It is a monopoly. Mitch mcconnell, the republican leader in the senate on twitter last week. Americans