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Focused on turning out a group of voters who want to see the trump agenda come to an end. thats what democrats are continuing to try to message to their voters going into election day. and looking at the turnout here in texas yesterday, it looks as though we are succeeding. we had record turnout in our urban areas here in texas. dallas county seeing over 300% increase from 2014. dallas is a blue county, bear county, harris county, travis county, every one of these deeply blue counties are counti...

15 minutes. we check on him. just keep a pretty watchful eye on him. >> that day what were you feeling, what were you going through? [ speaking spanish ] >> he says that the reason why he did it is bah he was lonely. he was in lockdown. he sees that everybody gets visits. he doesnt. he sees that everybody gets letters. he doesnt. he doesnt have any body to talk with. he just felt lonely. and thats why he did what he did. >> with four prior stays at bear county, guerra is well then to staff here....

>> the dude that was with me did it. he stabbed him. and slit his throat. i was in the truck. there was nothing i could do. i was 50 yards away. by the time i got back over to the spot, it was -- i couldnt do anything. >> when hunters discover the body weeks later, it was not only decomposed, it was decapitated. >> from what i was told they found the head in a field away from the body. the only way i could figure, animals got to it. because it was out there for two months in the summer heat. the...

>> thats the effects. five seconds. >> we want the guys to be able to function under any circumstance. you dont want anybody going home any other way than from the way they came. >> i just finished being sprayed with o.c. in the eye. o.c. in the mouth. and getting washed off. then getting tased. all in a days work. i love my job. cert training is put into action on a nearly daily basis at bear county. a code two. a major disturbance. requires the team to rush to the special observation unit. a...

Comprehend. 51.88, thats the number of inches that fell in cedar bayou outside of houston, the greatest rain event ever in the continental united states. 436,000, the number of households seeking help from fema. 7.85 billion dollars, the amount of money president trump has initially requested in federal funds for first-round of harvey relief. 250,000, the number of harris county homes with flood insurance policies. there are 1.75 million housing units in the county including apartments. 9%, the ...

Areas. notably, one part of houstons population influx came from new orleans residents displaced by hurricane katrina in 2005. roughly 250,000 residents took refuge in houston following that storm and an estimated 25,000 to 40,000 of those folks still remain in houston today. houston is also a very diverse city. since 2000, its white, non-hispanic population has declined from 42% to 30% while at the same time the hispanic population has risen from 33 to 42% and this could present another set of ...

Explosion. houston has had to pave the way for those residents. >> harris county and bear county is similar in size and geographically to harris county but less than the amount of half of the amount of land. all of this development is led to the paving wetland. the area is less able to absorb the huge amount of rain that we absorb of harvey. >> when we come back, what we learned this week of the russia investigation, well have the latest on what was a litany of new developments. n what was a lit...

Life threatening situation to doubt about it. not just on the coastline but further inland. way up towards places like san antonio and bear county. travis county. austin texas. the beautiful hill country. the big story will be the green on the radar. heavy rain from that part. clear down to the plains of texas. what a dangerous situation were going to have. youll remember not long ago the blan koe river swelling its banks. remember what a life threatening situation we had. live ts lost there. un...

Go down the list of everyone you can possibly imagine. we have 700 troops on standby. our military is prepared. again each county has their own system, and their own emergency system. some of these are small rural counties, like bear county where san antonio is or houston will have bigger teams, of course, but it is a coordinated effort, it starts at the governors level and the state level, the county judges do a magnificent job, the mayors ever the cities, theyve been through this before, and w...

Scheduled but her office canceled on us earlier this week. >> the reason im disappointed is because it is not an option, obamacare is not working. we have dozens of counties across america who have zero insurance left, doing nothing is not an option. >> jon: the lawmaker cites the lack of coverage in some counties as a reason to repeal and replace the affordable care act. but as of yesterday, an ohio insurer stepped in to cover the last so-called of bear county. the last county in the country th...