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Items, food to people in need. we also talked to some of the kitchen workers and volunteer chefs, keeping these people going out in the field. one woman telling me she prepared 1,200 lunches for these hard-working volunteers. they're about to get a break from the weather the next few days. expected to be clear, just scattered thunderstorms across texas. giving them a chance to play catchup with the recovery efforts. back to you. >> thank you for that. we are following breaking news out of new york right now where a crane has crashed into a building in midtown manhattan. now according to witn...

Cooking is my hobby. on the streets, i love to cook. i like to make people happy. i'll make something at work and i'll go to the jobsite and give to him, hey, bro, try this. that's what i like to do. >> by purchasing food from the canteen and occasionally hustling vegetables or meat from kitchen workers, ray slagle gets to practice his hobby right in his cell. but the only time he shed a tear from something other than onions is when he and his twin brother, roy, were briefly in the same prison and were allowed to see each other for the first time in years. >> i hugged him and i couldn't hold b...

That's just the kind of thing that they would do. they treated everyone like they were their grant parents basically. >> they live like a family in there in a lot of ways, i guess. >> president nixon bowling with members of the kitchen staff. >> that's a funny story too. shows the human side of all these presidents, i think. one night after dinner he went into the kitchen and went to one of the kitchen workers named frankie blare, a belove member of the staff and asked him to bowl with him and they bowled until 2:00 in the morning. another staff told me there may have been a bottle of scotch i...

Complaining the kitchen workers who served staff got to eat better than those like him who serve inmates. >> so we got to eat with the slop. and they get to eat the gourmet. so i was raising hell about that. that's why -- it was more than just me giving away the rice. it was political in that sense because i was raising concerns about why -- why we're not having the same right as these other inmates. what's the difference in us and them? we're all inmates. and so it got kind of political, and it was like we got to get rid of this [ mute ] because he's going to be a problem. >> staff say abdull...

Suicide, muhammad abdullah deals with a considerably less dire situation. but nonetheless, it has made him unhappy. >> i was fired for giving an inmate rice. the inmate lied and said that a staff member said that he, have the rice. and so i gave him the rice, but he wasn't authorized. he was supposed to get potatoes. >> he was fixing a diet tray, and he decided to put what he wanted to put on it because he said the inmate asked for it. but you know what you're supposed to make. he decided to put what the inmate wanted instead of what the protocol calls for. >> according to officer austin, this...