Late friday night as a category four hurricane and has lingered off of the coast bringing heavy rain as a tropical storm. Rob roth has been following the latest and joins us from the newsroom with more. Reporter the houston area is getting a years worth of rain in less than a week. Hurricane harvey has caused massive flooding and the worst is far from over. The flooding of her houston is widespread, looking like a river dotted with land. For those on the ground, its much, much worse. Boats rule the roads in houston there are rivers where streets once were. Our first floor is flooded and is crazy its crazy. Its never been this high for 40 years. Reporter rescues are numbering in the thousands, the coast guard has been bringing up residence in buckets and people who could no longer risk thing home. Some are volunteer. We are here to help. Reporter the rescue effort included text, dogs and cats. There could be more water coming, i decided i needed to leave. Reporter some water was release
Testify about technologies theyre using to secure the nations borders, including efforts to combat drug smuggling. The committee on Homeland Security subcommittee on border and Maritime Security will come to order. The subcommittee is meeting today to examine the role of technology in the nations Border Security efforts. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Border security is a complicated endeavor, because theres no one size fits all solution. Thinking through what it will take to secure the border is the primary responsibility of the three agencies represented by our witnesses today. Border patrol is our Operational Force between the ports of industry, cbps office of Field Operations job is to facilitate legitimate trade and travel while keeping illicit drugs from entering, air and marine is the supporting element. All three of these critical Border Security components rely heavily on technology to accomplish their mission. Indeed, technology is a Crucial Force multiplier
Were seeing 180 to 150 lightning strikes in the last 15 minutes. When you hear thunder, move indoors. Dont stay outside if you can help it. Things calm down after midnight, but more tomorrow of the same. On days like today, people who work in an Airconditioned Office are much happier than the folks working outside. Many new yorkers, particularly people in Public Housing, dont news 4 investigates just found out how hot the unairconditioned apartment can get in weather like this. Reporter natalie, airconditioning a savior on days like today. For those who cant afford it, it is just a luxury. Here in harlem five stories up no ac. Harlem apartment, Victor Sanchez says it gets unbearable. I wouldnt be surprised if it hit 97, 98 degrees. Reporter he can only dream of cooling off inside. Airconditioning is expensive to buy and expensive to run. Reporter he is among 10 of new yorkers that dont have airconditioning. Now he is part of a Ground Breaking study to find out just how bad that is. You
System. In june 1973, during testimony before the watergate committee, mr. Dean implicated mr. Nexen and officials in the watergate coverup. Mr. Dean later pleaded guilty for obstruction of justice in his role in watergate and spend four months in prison. This class is one hour caret john was it lucky or inevitable . The story of the next and tapes Richard Nixon tapes has been partially told. Has taken me years to be it is taken me years to gather it. It is important to get the history straight. We are going to try to do it in a summary fashion. Before i start, i would liked to remind you that other president s did tape, starting with method firstelt, when they went to talking movies and they had a soundtrack, he had a recorder put in the oval office. Sample of a quick roosevelts taping. Let me go back. [indiscernible] all right, you get a sample there. When you haveg someone today when we have cell phones, talking about the breakthrough in that presidency of a walkietalkie that was so
And to show you an example of the problem we are faced with what like to talk to you a little bad about a problem that we have in chesterfield county. The last six months of so we have been fighting the import of fly ash that would be used to build burns, to augment our soil for products that we use on ground and over 250 people came to our county to complain about this, to complain about water being polluted by the toxic chemicals and nothing has been done about it. The apartment of Energy Quality decided that fly ash is not toxic and will not hurt us and will allow the company to continue to import this. The reason we have to ask ourselves, airways are flooded, newspapers are flooded with articles and commercials basically talking about the nonsense about Global Warming. If we had regulations where going to affect jobs, benefits. And there really isnt a way for a foundation, educating people about the dangers of the environment. The here these repeated over and over again. So i am he