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>> reporter: some residences youll see in a minute. first, i want to show you the bayou in houston right off the interstate. usually a small creek. you can see what it looks like today. this is really what is fueling concerns of flooding, and off in the distance youre able to see a coast guard helicopter weve seen circling the area and hovering above this bayou for the last 15, 20 minutes or so. a little while ago lowering a cable with a hook and came right back attached to nothing. so were not ...

52 years ago tuesday this was the scene in selma, alabama, as police turned on a peaceful crowd marching for voting rights. the day now known as bloody sunday. msnbcs tremane lee is in selma for the an verniversary. why does this year hold particular significance? >> reporter: every year since that year, 1965, theres been special significance here in selma. they kicked off the voting rights and i am here at brown chapel which really was the staging ground where much of the planning for the selma...

Laws that need to be changed, they need to run it through the federal government. with attorney general jeff sessions, who supported the kind of overturning, gutting of section 5, many folks feel theyre fighting the same fight that they fought 52 years ago, again. right behind me at brown chapel, much of the planning and preparations for that march from selma to montgomery happened right here. many of the early architects and foot soldiers who marched across the bridge that day, who were met by ...