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House correspondent mike viquiera. a very good day to you, mike. just just roll out of bed? yeah, huh, look at you. here in washington, huh? coming on the air at noon. nice work if you can get it. all right. so tell us about the whole big event. well you were there so i mean you say one part politics, one part power. you know, you add a dash of glitz and glamour. throw in perhaps liberal amounts of wine sitting out on the table and you get the sometimes odd, but always entertaining evening the white house correspondents dinner. it s great to be here this evening in the vast magnificent hilton ball room. or what mitt romney would call, a little fixer-upper. it promises to be a tough campaign. but before the battle officially begins, president obama got in a few light-hearted shots against mitt romney. we also both have degrees from harvard. i have one. he has two. ....
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 ....
the left side of the driver s car hit a concrete barrier in the median strip, and then according to an eyewitness the driver appeared to overcompensa overcompensate, make a sharp right turn, hit a curb on the far side of the road, and then went over that railing and over an overpass. she sailed about 60 feet into the air, and then about the same distance down before coming to rest upside down. all the passengers inside were dead on arrival. police do say all of them were wearing seat belts. but obviously that was not enough to save them in this horrific accident. i know you said that the vehicle hit that concrete barrier, and so that leaves the impression that that sort of caused the car to sort of go into that spin. any sign, any witnesses saying that the vehicle was acting sort of an erratic fashion, driving in an erratic fashion before that? reporter: there doesn t seem to be any indication of that so far. what police are hearing is that the car appeared to be sp ....