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>> baytown is a notch in texas's bayou belt. it's a land of pump jacks and refineries the size of cities. fortunes ebb and flow with the price of crude, and in august 2017, the price per barrel was on the rise. banks were lending. houses were being flipped. and luxury items like diamonds were in demand. baytown's oldest and biggest jewelry store, robson's. paul hargrave managed the store. >> paul hargrave managed the store and appeared frequently in commercials like this one. he was crystal's date the night before she went missing. >> seemed to be a casual dinner, just like any of us would hav...

Will be raging itch the lizards don't have a problem with pump jacks, it's a bigger political conflict. >> if you do the mandates, these are the folk who is will lose these jobs. so i want these faces to haunt you when you make the decisions over the next six months. >> ainsley earhardt is here now. first of all, i can't believe we are -- >> it's a little lizard. >> the sagebrush? >> the sagebrush lizard. like the dunes of west texas. most of the people who live in west texas, their lielihoods depend on oil production, fif% of the people who live there, their jobs depend on the oil rigs and th...

>> conservation groups argue that the lizard's habitat is so small that it is being hyped for political reasons. >> less than 2 years ago, the fish&wildlife service lifted the delta smelt in the san joaquin valley as a danger. if you watched closely, you would know that it has endangered 27,000 farmers in the san joaquin valley out of work. it shut them down cold. >> oil and gas activity was studied and we found that protecting the lizard's habitat affected less than wob% of all the oil&gas lands and efforts to protect it will not affect the oil and gas economy. >> lizards don't have a problem...