Reporting today begins with a question. Where was secretary state mike pompeo . We dont know and his office will not say. Secretary pompeo was scheduled to travel to germany for talks with Angela Merkel and his counterpart about russia and other matters. Instead, a change in plans. The secretary caught another flight. Destination untold. The unusual move comes after the secretary talked yesterday with the Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov at an event in finland. As russia announced, pompeo would hold talks in russia with lavrov and possibly putin. The state department instructed the press pool travelling with the secretary that they wont be able to report from where his plane lands. So far we have nothing from the traveling press. In the past when theres an information blackout, its come when a high ranking official was travelling to a war zone. At the moment, we have a notice from the state department that the abrupt change is due to pressing issues. The secret trip comes as the
Cnns ed lavandera is live for us in houston. Ed, at this point, do you have any indication of how much this gas product has leaked into the channel . Reporter well, we were told in the initial hours after all this happened it was some 25,000 barrels of this gasoline blenlds stock is the way its being described, obviously toxic to marine life. Emergency crews have deployed about 1600 feet of boon to try to contain that spill inside that area around the barge. So a great deal of concern. Theyve also urged residents to stay away from the coast line where other boon has been deployed as well. There is aroundtheclock air monitoring testing that continues, and were told that that will continue and that some residents had been smelling some gas fumes smell on the coastline. But according to officials, the air monitoring testing so far have not revealed anything of great concern, but that testing continues. It is dramatic pictures, fredericka, when you look at what happened yesterday afternoon
it s now the sixth state to do so. legal challenges are expected. supporters of the law hope the challenge will go to the supreme court, where roe v. wade could face a challenge. there is a desperate search tonight for a missing 4-year-old girl in houston. volunteers are now joining houston police at this hour, looking for maleah davis, who needs special medical care. her step-father says she was abducted by three men in a pickup truck after he says they were targeted on the highway. abc s maggie rulli is in texas tonight. reporter: tonight, the search for 4-year-old maleah davis intensifying outside houston. i just want to find maleah. i just want to find maleah. reporter: she requires constant care after multiple brain surgeries. maleah s step father, darion vence, says he was driving with maleah and her 2-year-old half-brother to pick up her mother at the airport when he