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True, true, true test. >> okay. so were all agreed. >> it was that important to me that i could deal with whatever it was down the trail. there was a lot of internal monologue. i was thinking about the fact that maybe their first response was going to be to open fire. robert suggested that we speak louder. >> louder. say anything. >> so they would have ample opportunity before they shot at anyone. i was kind of reaching a bit of a breaking point. >> i said mark, what kind of movies do you like? ...

>> reporter: yeah. really is unbelievable brooke. you hear the numbers, we hear how -- how many inches it rained and how fast the water rose. were occupy a bluff about 30, 35 feet above the river. to see a home like this that was actually built a little bit elevated completely washed away, it kind of gives you a little perspective. whether it comes to weather, more people die in flooding than anything else. this is just another example of why the floodwaters rise very quickly when it comes to fl...

And about 1,000 heavily damaged. were up on a bluff. so to put some perspective in this were up on a bluff so the water was well above my head at the worst of it on sunday. so you can see as we pan around and you look down there at the river, the river has gone down considerably. you can see the trees that are went over. it gives you an idea of how high the water was and it went higher than that. and now as the water is going down the volume of watt thaer is still moving along that river is incr...

Monologue. i was thinking about the fact that maybe their first response was going to be to open fire. robert suggested that we speak louder. >> louder. say anything. >> so they would have ample opportunity before they shot at anyone. i was kind of reaching a bit of a breaking point. >> i said mark, what kind of movies do you like? >> keep talking, louder. >> after maybe just 15 or 20 minutes, we made our way up to a bluff, and robert i think actually said -- >> this would be a really good place...

The proponents of this can show nothing. >> we want people we want people of all races to be able to get access to the best quality education and this gives them that. otherwise, they wouldnt have it. i want to play devils advocate. >> so since high school in america so that they have the tools to qualify for some of these school as soon as the supreme court has said that race can be used as a factor in admissions. it said it cant be the factor. >> right. so the frustration of the supreme court ...

Robert suggested that we speak loudly. >> louder. say anything. >> so they would have ample warning before we encountered anyone who may have been shooting. >> where are we going, victor? >> i was kind of reaching a bit of a breaking point. >> i said mark, what kind of movies do you like? >> keep talking, louder. >> after maybe just 15 or 20 minutes, we made our way up to a bluff, and robert i think actually said -- >> this would be a really good place for an ambush. >> and four soldiers just ma...

So all i could do was try and kind of bluff my way through, um, like let me just slide by them, almost be invisible, just slide by. i got past the first guy. and as i approached the second guy -- and i had my shoulder bag. in it was my frisbee. i took my frisbee out of my bag. and i just kind of moved past him as if im putting stuff back in the bag. i had my foot in the air. ive told the story and people say, well, you are being a little dramatic. not at all. literally, i had my foot -- i was ab...

Robert suggested that we speak loudly. >> louder. say anything. >> so they would have ample opportunity before we encounted whoever it was that had been shooting. i was kind of reaching a bit of a breaking point. >> i said mark, what kind of movies do you like? >> keep talking, louder. >> after maybe just 15 or 20 minutes, we made our way up to a bluff, and robert i think actually said -- >> this would be a really good place for an ambush. >> and four soldiers materialized. they just stood up. s...

>> i said oh, you know, thanks. i wanted to run. i couldnt get back to the airport to the terminal. i couldnt take all the [ bleep ] off. ive got it all taped to my body. the only way to go was, theres the airplane. if i can just get on that plane. and there was a line of men. and im watching this process. when this guy finishes, this man goes and gets on the plane. so all i could do was try and kind of bluff my way through, um, like let me just slide by them, almost be invisible, just slide by.

Wandered into a drug war and were mistaken as the enemy. >> reporter: zapata county sheriff siggy gonzalez believes the hartleys not only wandered into a war but had arrived on the mexican side of falcon lake at the exact moment a cartel was about to move a large amount of marijuana. up on a bluff, the spotters, his sources told him, caught the first glimpse of a possible glitch in the drug deal. >> that area is an area thats notorious for crossing or storing of thousands of pounds of marijuana....