[applause] id like significance, steven, what you just said in all the things you just laid out weve got to have a president to do it, but also, you cant you can finish watching on our website, cspan. Org, we leave it to take to you a discussion on civil rights at the National Empowerment summit in washington d. C. Youre watching live coverage on cspan2. 2024 empowerment summit and the release of this years state of black america report. Before we begin our program, i would like to open with a short prayer. Will you bow your heads . Father, we thank you for that day and as together, god, we humbly seek your presence. Grant us clarity of mind and vision that we may see beyond challenges and Seek Solutions to empower, to uplift, and to root outjustice everywhere. Bless us with insight and inspiration to tip the work ahead. We offer thanks f■ or the opportunities before us, and trust in your divine guidance and its in your name we play and let everyone say, amen. Amen. Doesnt that feel
Most of them High School Students from the l. A. Area. The bus was heading to Humboldt State university for a campus visit but the bus collided headon with a fedex delivery truck that crossed the median. More information on the students and the Tour Bus Company but we begin with nbcs Richard Sharp reporting from the scene tonight. Reporter the accident scene here stretches on for quite a distance. The wreckage left behind you can see behind me. A fedex big rig was headed southbound, came over the median, side swiped a small see dan and went head on into the tour bus carrying students. There was a huge explosion right after that. Everything caught on fire according to the chp. Resources here was a wae challe. This is right next to a neighborhood. Lots of people were out here immediately watching what happened. In all will, nine people died of this. Were told the driver of the bus, the driver of the fedex truck and seven students who were from the l. A. Unified School District headed to
Traffic. Investigators will use sophisticated surveying and mapping equipment and 3d diagramming to reconstruct the sequence of events that caused the collision. Were going to be investigating the human, the machine and the environment. Reporter survivors were taken to four hospitals. Reporter there were 30 injuries in all. Some of the other casualties include an admissions counselor at Humboldt State where the bus was heading and a couple who were chaperones that had recently been engaged in december in paris. Liz, Authorities Say they admit they are probably going to have to use dental records if not dna to identify some of the other victims. Unbelievable. Those pictures are just incredible. Brian, what do we know, though, there are reports there may have been a third vehicle involved in the crash. What do we know about that . Reporter yes. Some of the eyewitnesses thought they saw that the fedex truck sideswiped a car before hitting the bus. That is something the ntsb you said theyr
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