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Martha: a really cool story, a mystery under the sea. scientists discovering not one, not two, but three sunken ships loaded with treasures of historic interest right off the coast of texas. these wrecks are believed to be some 200 years old dating back to when texas was fighting for its independence from mexico. joining me now on the phone is jim delgado, director of noaas maritime program, good to have you here, whatd you find? >> thank you. the three shipwrecks date to the first part of the 1...

Texas, right? why do they think that? >> well, what the supreme court decision in june did was to remove texas from the preapproval process whenever we have any kind of changes in our voting laws. and thats not what the obama administration wants. they want to keep their thumb on the texas election system so they are now asking a court to give the obama administration the authority to be able to preapprove whatever election changes we may have, especially our voter id law that were trying to put...

Whats your next move as attorney general of texas? >> ill be defending in court in san antonio. i think the facts and law are clearly on our side. if we do not prevail, well go right back to the united states supreme court where we have won the last three voting rights cases against the obama administration over the past couple of years. martha: all right. fascinating plight ahead on both sides. attorney general greg abbott, thank you very much for being with us today, sir. well keep watching it...

Hes asking a court to force the state to get federal permission before they can make any changes to voting or election laws in their state. now, the move is seen by create ings as a way to get around a recent supreme court ruling that wiped out part of the voting rights act. watch this. >> today i am announcing that the justice department will ask a federal court in texas to subject the state of texas to a preclearance regime similar to the one required by section 5 of the voting rights act. [ap...

Were caught in the same storm, that they sank quickly and violently, that they had trade goods in them that came from all over the world, but particularly we could see that one of the ships at least had called in yucatan, mexico, because there were very distinctive jars that came from only one town in the yucatan. martha: fascinating. and what role do you -- what does it tell you in terms of shedding light on what was happening in texas and the fight for independence and, you know, i know that t...

Those are on your left. the muslim brotherhood has been camped out protesting the coup that happened. on the right is a pro-military rally in tahrir square, the same place people swelled to over the past couple of weeks when they wanted the military to come in. thats when they kicked out morsi, although by a very slim margin. he moved egypt much more towards a hard line, people werent happy with that. the military has now come in. what were waiting for is to see if this erupts in violence. alrea...

Find on a plane with telemetry inside. this should explain what happened but focus is on the excessive speed of that train. account from the driver, admitting he was going 50 miles an hour. he was going at 120. he is now today under detention, under guard by the authorities. he is yet to be questioned, kelly. >> youre talking about that driver. there was even a report that he, while he was admitting that something was going on, that he was traveling too fast, he thought he might derail but heae ...