extraordinary. they spanned generations. born in america, immigrated to america, but just like that, so many of them took their final breath alone in america. i know all too well, i know what it s like to not be there when it happens. i know what it s like when you are there holding their hands. there is a look in their eye and they slip away. the president tonight and to put it in perspective, he took office with fatalities having just crossed 400,000. nearly 100,000 lives have been lost since then. a quarter million in the last three months, 500,000 plus in about a year. no, there are a number of ways of expressing the awful figures, whether so many football stadiums, this many towns, this city or that ocho , these wars combined. it boils down to this, we all know someone who grieves or worse, someone who is gone. whatever scale the loss may be, whether close enough to touch or too large to grasp, it s clear by now we ve seen too much. more on this tonight along with conf
described as ordinary americans. there s no such thing. there s nothing ordinary about them. the people we lost were extraordinary. they span generations. born in america, emigrated to america. but just like that, so many of them took their final breath alone in america. i know, all too well, i know what it s like to not be there when it happens. i know what it s like when you are there, holding their hands. as they look in your eye and they slip away. the president, tonight, and to put it in perspective. he took office with fatalities having just crossed 400,000. nearly 100,000 lives have been lost, since then. a quarter million, in the last three months. 500,000-plus, in about a year. and though, there are any number of ways of expressing these awful figures. whether it s so many football stadiums, this many towns, this city or that. or these wars, combined. it boils down to this. by now, we all know someone who grieves. or worse, someone who s gone. and while, whatever s
we have more of this in number than the populations of miami, kansas city, new orleans, tampa, and it s not a secret. it is something most of you have dealt with directly or close to it. the answer is we have more of people who have died from covid than anywhere else. anywhere else. you likely know the shock of hearing that someone went from sick to gone in a flash. i have heard these stories every day for about a year. and not just on tv. this is not about tv for me. it is taking too much from people i care about. one of my close friends just lost her mother. never would have happened without covid. just as we think things are getting better, it was the worst for her and her family. one of the sweetest, most caring people i know. now left with doubts and pain that i have echoing through my head from people all over this country. how did this happen? i couldn t help. i couldn t be there. what do we say in those moments? nothing. right? but what do we do? we pay attention. we
Are just becoming more and more frequent, not less and less. that s right. and every year they re coming out with new devices that can do more for you. but all of those distractions, don t have a place when you re behind the wheel. we want to make sure that people are focused on a driving task. when you split your attention between multiple tasks, you reilly are diverting your attention away from the task at hand. bill: what is that length of time? well, it really depends. looking down, to type a text, or, dial a phone number, you may be looking down for five seconds, or the length of a football field so you re really traveling blind. but it is also having those conversations and that cognitive distraction where your brain is not engaged. we see people talking on the phone their perception narrows. they actually see 50% of what they usually see when they re not talking on the phone. bill: do you find younger people bigger violators than