Im sara marie and washington whitfield with this breaking news, was millions in the southeastern part of the state are under Flood Watches after five Straight Days of heavy rain. Entire neighborhoods are inundated with water more than a third of texas counties had been declared Disaster Areas and Texas Governor greg abbott could expand it to include more counties as the flooding spreads, the highwater rescues have searched as well so far in Harris County, which includes houston, more than 200 people have been rescued from homes and vehicles, and more than 150 pets have been pulled from the floodwaters in north houston. An officer was able to save a man and three dogs from rising water using a jet ski. Watch this im trying to get them out of the water. He is trying to make it black dog over there are yes dogs circle all right its like Attention Judge all right. Lets catch your breath a little okay. You can have a seat up here im officer scott norton, our pretty incredible. I mean, we ha
Available to stream on and max good morning, everyone. Welcome to cnn this morning it is sunday, may 5th. Im amara walker. Im victor blackwell. It is always a pleasure to be with you. Thank you for being with us. Heres what were watching for you. Two feet of rain in parts of texas have flooded home stranded people on rooves and 30 entire neighborhoods into rivers and there is more rain on the way. The warnings from officials as more wet weather moves in, police and protesters clashed during a propalestinian demonstration at the University Of Virginia, the school is now responding to that altercation. What were hearing from minister later, there are reports of progress, but no breakthrough as Ceasefire Talks continue between israel and hamas, where Negotiation Stay in as israels Government Faces increasing pressure to bring those hostages home. And the cicadas are here and theres a good chance you will hear them before you see them, well explain later on cnn this morning, well, millions
Then i think youve hello again and welcome. Its time to today were asking with. Campus protests. Getting more violent our College President s, right or wrong to call on the cops. Then judging the judge will discuss, have donald trump should get jail time if he keeps violating his gag order and telling too much the story of a rising star and possible trump running mate. And a dog named cricket. The panel is here and ready to go. So sit back, relax, and lets talk about it up first, the universitys strike back after weeks of protests, College Administrators decided enough is enough. Calling in police to clear out a propalestinian demonstrators. Just as republican lawmakers doubled down, making the protests and even bigger issue at ucla, police in Riot Gear Firing Flashbangs and Rubber Bullets at columbia nypd officers storming buildings occupied by demonstrator they got at the university of Wisconsin Police Wrestling Protesters to the ground across the us more than 2000 people arrested on
Smerconish is up next is it, 1968 . The sequel Michael Smerconish in philadelphia this week in a deja vu of the vietnam era, Police Officers in riot gear across the country were called in to disperse antiwar protesters from College Campuses when they cleared out columbia universitys hamilton hall, it was on the 56th Anniversary of police arrests, ending a Student Takeover about the Vietnam Conflict in the exact same building and this august even more deja vu, the Democratic National convention will take place in chicago the same city which hosted the 1968 dnc, which was famously disrupted by both chaotic radical antiwar protests and the violent response of the police a bit of history, 1968 included lbj deciding not to seek reelection because of vietnam. Four days later, the assassination of Martin Luther king junior race riots, then the assassination of democratic frontrunner robert f. Kennedy, the republican challenger, Richard Nixon, who had lost to jfk in 1960, was promising to end
Exciting. All right. Andy shovels. Thank you so much. Texas that could get some downpours have damaged homes swept away cars, and forced people to evacuate some areas got hit with almost two feet of rain causing widespread flooding and more rain is on the way lets bring in cnn meteorologist Allison Chinchar so theres more youre tracking yeah. Unfortunately, the last thing this this place needs is more ran, but texas is about to get a bunch of it. Take a look at the video behind me. This is from livingston, texas again, you can just see all of that widespread water flowing into homes and businesses and covering the roadways. But its not just the rain that fell onto the roads. You also have to worry about the rivers, creeks, and streams because those swell after that much rain. Take a look. Youve got 39 river gauges at Minor Flood Stage 16 at modern and about a dozen river gauges at major flood stage. And these take time. In fact, some of these have yet to even peak and likely wont for a