lawmakers will go against the president s will. reena and t.j.? mary bruce for us there. thank you so much. the president has turned to domestic issues now during a visit to oklahoma. last night the president spoke at a high school, urging the expansion of high-speed internet to rural communities. today he ll become the first sitting president to ever visit a federal prison. the president will speak with inmates and prison officials as part of his effort to reform the prison system. and back in washington, the president s health care plan faces new criticism today on capitol hill. an undercover investigation has revealed that the federal health care exchange approved 11 phony applications. republican orrin hatch called it gross mismanagement at the expense of hard-working taxpayers. a health and human services spokeswoman says they re working to improve the system. nearly 50 people are under arrest in texas, accused of smuggling drugs across the u.s. from the dallas-ft. worth a
some democrats also not convinced. vice president biden was on capitol hill yesterday trying to sell the deal to house democrats. he plans to return today to make the pitch to democrats in the senate. republicans in congress meanwhile, promising a full investigation into a video secretly recorded by an antiabortion activist. the video purportedly shows a planned parenthood employee talking about how her group provides fetal tissue from abortions to researchers. the anti-abortion activist says that amounts to selling fetal tissue, which is illegal. planned parenthood said the tissue is donated for medical research. well the fbi says it s broken up a drug ring responsible for smuggling drugs across the u.s. from the dallas-ft. worth airport. their undercover operation revealed nearly 50 people involved in getting drugs on to flights in exchange for thousands of dollars in payment. investigators say some of those indicted either worked at the airport or used inside information to by
the last five years around the dallas-ft. worth area happened last night. including sam hawn he was inside his brand new bmw when it got swept away by the water. i just rolled down the window and get up on top of my car and the water keep rising up. it hit above my knee and i decided to take off my suit and swim across and go out. wow. just one rescue story that happened last night amongest lots of rescue stories, including tamron a police officer who actually got swept away in the water about an hour away from here. he was trying to rescue people and he became the rescuee. dave thank you very much. tough times there for that part of the country. now to breaking news we just received in. the state department just announced cuba has been formally
71 tornado reports over the weekend and a lot of rainfall as well. look at corsicana airport south of dallas. 11 inches in just three days. look at what happens when you get that kind of rainfall in any area across the country. you get rescue helicopters picking people out of flooded waters. so many areas in texas i lived in oklahoma for a really long time and love visiting texas. have these things called dry washes. you literally drive down and up the other side. you don t have a bridge to go over the creek. you actually drive through the creek and back up the other side because 361 days out of the year the creek is dry. those four days when it floods you need to stay out of the way of when those raging waters come through along the red river here gainesville, there s dallas-ft. worth, that s 10 inches of rainfall in the entire white area there in white now down near corsicana as well. a couple areas of severe weather today from dayton all of the way back up to detroit and all of th
we were at an event and our co-workers come up and ask us when we re going to jail. when are the cops coming for you? the joke becomes dead serious when the filmmakers are contacted by the representative of the dallas-ft. worth airport, where the video was shot. we were both really scared. i was like, oh, man, i m going to go to jail. i m like, oh, this is bad. so, i just take it off of youtube right away. i was just really nervous of the outcome of what they wanted from us and what we were going to do about it. but when the renegade travelers call the airport, they get a surprising response. our conversation was really good. they seemed to really like the video. the airport s like, hey, we know what you guys did, and we re okay with it, so just don t worry about it. it was kind of relieving, because i could actually talk to the people who were in charge of it to sort of straighten things out, let them know that we meant no harm. there wasn t much fallout because no