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Hard with hundreds of thousands without power. we begin with molly hunter. >> reporter: winds topping 100 miles per hour tore through texas thursday. hitting 106 miles per hour in irving, trees were don across dallas-ft. worth. nearly 280,000 people reported without power. in arlington, transformers were blowing out. nearby, a roof torn off at arlington baptist college. this street filled with debris. hail everywhere and here lightning struck this clinic. with thunderstorms comes rain and lots o...

Have a fast and low-cost solution to this mess. what is it, doctor? >> well, its good to be if you you, neil. the solution is to outsource the care to the private community, where care is given on a regular basis, and quite well. i brought statistics with me. i feel like mr. rove with his white board. im glad were talking about numbers because the va budget for this year was $152 billion. and there are about 6.3 million veterans that get their care through the va hospital. and they employ 280,00...

And now for the good news. in october, oklahoma farmer kevin whitney dropped his iphone into his grain silo and disappeared into 280,000 grounds of grain. of course, kevin never expected to see it again, but he got it back nine months later after the iphone traveled with the grain from oklahoma down the arkansas and mississippi rivers to louisiana, and then went by ship to japan where a worker found the phone inside the grain shipment. thats when kevin got a phone call asking, did you lose a cel...

In october, oklahoma farmer kevin whitney dropped his iphone into his grain silo and disappeared into 280,000 grounds of grain. of course, kevin never expected to see it again, but he got it back nine months later after the iphone traveled with the grain from oklahoma down the arkansas and mississippi rivers to louisiana, and then went by ship to japan where a worker found the phone inside the grain shipment. thats when kevin got a phone call asking, did you lose a cell phone? the iphone was shi...

Yellen also defends the feds policy in the one up to the financial crises saying that rates were too low and too long and blames crisis. she says higher interest rates would have slowed economic growth and done little to avoid the financial crisis. investors look for any indication when the fed may raise its historically low rates. the fed says depends on economy. positive news that payroll processor adp that businesses added more than 280,000 jobs last month, better than forecasters had expecte...

Neighborhoods in manhattan. out of that 280,000 plus registered democrats. the last time about 39,000 voted. and the difference was that 1100. so, yes, congressman rangel feeling very confident that hell get his 23rd term. but senator espaillat not ready to concede at this point. and we still, wolf, again, have not called this race. >> you can hear them applauding. they sound to be pretty excited. 99% of the vote, as you can see, is now in. 47% for charlie rangel. 44% for adriano espaillat. near...

Well ago. he felt that this race was going his way. he decided to come out here. he said look, were not going to wait for the numbers. were going to come out here. were going to enjoy the night. he told them he sought here killing time. the confidence is very clear. again, we have not quiet called this race. but certainly charlie rangel and his supporters feeling good about these numbers with 99% reporting. on to the flip side, further north of here, senator espaillat is telling his supporters t...

Get built, youve got a migrant labor workforce with no rights and 120 degrees daytime temperatures. >> yeah, there are rules in place, about the temperature when laborers are allowed to be working on these sites, rules about how many days a week they can work. we know that these rules are often flouted, however. and you have coffins coming home every day, more than a worker per day on average is dieing in this tiny, tiny country. were talking about 280,000 citizens, 1.4 million foreign workers. ...

>> yeah, there are rules in place, about the temperature when laborers are allowed to be working on these sites, rules about how many days a week they can work. we know that these rules are often flouted, however. and you have coffins coming home every day, more than a worker per day on average is dieing in this tiny, tiny country. were talking about 280,000 citizens, 1.4 million foreign workers. and thats -- those are the construction laborers. there are a lot of domestic workers as well from s...

Get built, youve got a migrant labor workforce with no rights and 120 degrees daytime temperatures. >> yeah, there are rules in place, about the temperature when laborers are allowed to be working on these sites, rules about how many days a week they can work. we know that these rules are often flouted, however. and you have coffins coming home every day, more than a worker per day on average is dieing in this tiny, tiny country. were talking about 280,000 citizens, 1.4 million foreign workers. ...