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A community of refugee farmers puts down deep roots in Texas.
Storm surge that turned one the streets in the financial district into a raging river. like you mentioned, miami did not see the destruction of the eye of the storm, but that doesn't mean that the city was spared. hurricane irma wall lopping the sunshine state from coast to coast making landfall in floo as a category 4. the 400-mile wide storm leaving the low lying florida keys under water. powerful 130 miles per hour winds whipping through southwest florida sunday, downing powerlines and leaving a trail of debris behind. more than 4 million customers without power aid cross the state. irma pu...
Out 24 seconds and people don't know that of. where did it go? >> i don't know. >> that's the great mystery. i was impressed she could do the reverse -- she shot the chillery clinton and then obviously reversed the camera. do you think that was on her own or one of her aids? >> i think she should dump that. that's the worst thing i have seen in my life. a vine is supposed to be funny. they missed it. >> maybe she wasn't trying to be funny. she was chilling. >> chilling. >> what do you think? she was hanging out. she wants to share her moments. >> i thought it was remarkable the beverage of c...
>> hey, thank you so much for having me. >> so i've seen the video of you from power aid. you are, you know, itty bitty playing soccer, ice skating, sinking some hoops, playing basketball. did anyone ever tell you, you know, the words "no" or "can't" growing up? >> most of the time people were pretty supportive, i would say. but when moving to massachusetts and playing with -- playing soccer there, the refereeses originally said that i was not a -- the crutches weren't safe to play with. but other than that, it's been nothing but positive. >> so at what point did this whole soccer thing happen...
And eventually, power aid heard about my story, and gave me the opportunity to kind of share with the world. >> and here you are. i don't know if you're, you know, pinching yourself each and every day you get to be in beautiful rio for the world cup. what are you doing down there? >> definitely pinching myself. but so far i've just been spending some time with my dad. i played a lot of volleyball yesterday. going to go do some sight-seeing and tomorrow i'll be at the france-germany quarterfinal. so pretty unreal, especially because i've been watching every game on the tv. and now that i'm actu...