Coleman family advocates for states to pass 'Dalilah's Law' after tragic accident

Dalilah Coleman was five years old when she was tragically injured during a multi-car pileup in Bakersfield, California. Authorities said an illegal immigrant driving an 18-wheeler truck caused the pileup. As a result of the accident, she suffered life-altering injuries. Now, seven years old, Dalilah relearned how to eat and speak. President Donald Trump invited Delilah and her father, Marcus Coleman, to his State of the Union address earlier this year. Trump encouraged lawmakers to pass Dalilah's Law, which cracks down on CDL requirements. Marcus and Dalilah joined The National News Desk to discuss the status of that law, their family's advocacy and their daughter's recovery. We received a lot of positive feedback, to be honest with you. There's there's some hurdles that we're running through. There are some things that they're trying to incorporate into Dalilah's law, which are kind of putting a standstill to it at the moment. But we haven't received a lot of negative feedback from, the Republican Party right now," Coleman said. Outside of codifying Delilah's law at the national level, the family is setting up a meeting with the governor of Florida, where they plan to introduce the Dalilah standard, "which will give each state their opportunity to have a version of the Dalilah law as a state bill, which will give them the capacity to revoke and suspend." Marcus said the family is meeting with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after California Gov. Gavin Newsom "never acknowledged" his family. I haven't received anything from him. The only thing that I received from him was, I wanna say about a year and a half ago, and it was basically just blaming the federal government for the driver's license that was there," Marcus said. Marcus, who is a truck driver himself, said he was glad the Trump administration is ramping up CDL regulations. The Trump administration revoked 20,000 illegal CDLs and 20,000 truckers were put out of service for not meeting English proficiency rules. I'm also upset that there's that many of them out there. I mean, we've already taken that many off. That means that there's a lot more that are still out there to go. I'm not too sure if we're ever going to get to the point where where we reached the end, or we get to the point where it makes a difference," Marcus said. As for Dalilah's recovery, Marcus said she is on the come-up. She is currently starting a new program to meet her needs. "t's a little bit more on the expensive side, but it's definitely the care that she needs. So they're going to do a six-month program for her and see how that turns out," Marcus said.