Announcer live where you live, this is abc 7 news. When youre at your most vulnerable, it is nice to know somebody is actually going to come out and help you. Heroes step up tonight in texas as the sheer magnitude of the flood becomes clearer. The danger for so many people is still far from over tonight. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Im ama daetz. Tonight about a third of houston is covered in water according to the Texas Military department. At least 19 deaths are blamed on the storm. Harvey weakend as it came ashore again today hitting eastern texas an louisiana. 37 louisiana parishes have declared local emergencies. Houstons focus is now rescue and recovery. The police chief says theyve received up to 70,000 calls for help. Rescuers believe thousands are still stranded. Abc reporter Marcy Gonzales is at a shelter in houston. Reporter good evening. Shelter vibrant soundbridge been welcoming people by the bus load and are expecting more. Always the governor says, in some places the wor
Today so mass transit a great option. If that doesnt work for you, carpooling as well. 32 b. A. R. T. Trains in service, no delays. And ace one no delays. Well check on the Central Valley commute in a few minutes. I want to get you a breaking news update on the reported explosion at a Chemical Plant in crosby, texas, that hospitalized ten deputies. Authorities now say they were monitoring the situation, that it was not an explosion. And that instead, it was a planned and very controlled release of chemicals. In a press conference they held just minutes ago, officials said when the chemicals were released, they made a pop inside of the containers where they were released. The Sheriffs Department says their officers were taken to the hospital as a precaution and the chemicals are not toxic. Again, those explosions were something that they expected. So there was still a big plume in the air. They said moments ago they dont think the public is at any risk, that everything went as they want
Hey, everybody. We have a trifecta, heat, we will have poor air quality and a high fire danger. It all starts with the winds that are calm or blowing off shore from the land, and that is a warmer wind, and thats a wind that does not allow us to exhaust our pollution. Thats one of the reasons why were going to have poor air quality and were going to get worse and spread over the weekend. 12hour day planner, in the mid 50s to upper 50s, very comfortable this morning, but look at that. Nearly 20 to 50 degrees warmer by 4 00. Alexis. That is going to be a major temperature change for a lot of folks today. Right now, were doing okay for the bay bridge commute. Were encouraging you to carpool or take mass trance as it is a spare the air day. Things have definitely filled in. The metering lights on since about 5 25 this morning. So far, drive times not looking too bad. Highway 4 to the maze, 20 minutes for you. 14 the rest of the way across the bay bridge into San Francisco. And southbound 10
Chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. Than the than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from arkansas, mr. Ill, for five minutes. Mr. Hill i thank the speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise today in honor of the bravery and courage of so many men who sacrificed everything on dday. At 5 52 in the morning on june 6, 1944, in a position about 4,000 yards from omaha beach, one of the oldest ships in the u. S. Navy, a wrorled war i world war i battleship, the u. S. S. Arkansas, opened fire on german positions on omaha beach in support of more than 30,000 american soldiers tasked with securing the beachhead. The heroes that stormed the beaches of normandy on that fateful day
Thesohoforum. Org. This is an oxford style debate whether they vote for, against of the resolution and then again after the debate is over. Todays resolution is as follows americas colleges, that makes them a hostile space for africanamerican students. Defending the resolution to my right we have lawrence ross, author of blackballed the black and white politics of race on americas campuses. Lawrence will be doing book igning and sales of his book blackballed after the debate. Youll find lawrence over at that tible signing books and response to any questions you put to him after the debate. Arguing for the negative we have kmele foster, a telecommunications entrepreneur and a host and cohost of the libertarian podcast, the fifth column. [applause] fifth column fans. Commoip oh. Gene dominating. Dominating. So now well close the initial voting and the debate can begin. Lawrence ross, you have 15 minutes to defend the proposition americas colleges have fostered a racist environment that m