families. it turned out cathy had dated armando s younger brother, sam, off and on. and the families lived right down the street from each other. you can see one house from the other. exactly. reporter: and she s going out with sam. uh-huh. reporter: you marry his older brother. uh-huh. reporter: so that house wasn t just another house on the street. right. reporter: it was family. right. right. reporter: police spoke with members of the lopez family. sam knew cathy the best. how long have you known cathy? jeez, i ve known her for over five years. reporter: they interviewed him down at the station. yeah, i really had fun with her. like i said, that person, i m serious, would always have a smile. we would always be laughing, making jokes. reporter: given their friendship, detectives were curious about what cathy might have shared with sam about albert. since albert tried to commit suicide, she was taking it pretty hard. was she confiding in you? the only
this is a situation where they may have maybe a foot or two of water in there. if we see that man on the okay ak tryi kayak trying to go in. trying to get personal belongings or may know someone back there and try to reach them. these are folks that may have a few inches of water in their homes and maybe a foot or two. and they are really trying to get out before it gets any worse. there are some other parts of the area where the water is reaching roof tops and that is really a desperate situation. we did see a coast guard helicopter a few minutes ago. gabe, this boat coming in here this boat just pulled into the national guard vehicle doesn t look like an official rescue vehicle, right? you know, it s hard to tell from where i m standing. if i can look on the side of it. i do know the national guard is assisting with that. there have been lots of private boats here, hallie, as you know, coming and volunteers,
house wasn t flooded yet. but in like an hour, his whole house started to flood. he had his grandma, his wife, his kids and we had to get out of there, too. his grandma couldn t walk. baby kids like two or three years old. and we had to carry them, too. we had to help them. six people in this house that had to rush out in the flood waters and you see the rest of your neighborhood is under water. yes, sir. everybody from that neighborhood that their house got flooded, they left all that neighborhood. everybody left. and you guys all just started swimming in. yeah, we all started swimming in the crowd, in the group. we all went to the same place. we were all working together. we were all like, you know, we re basically like a team. we re all trying to survive together. trying to help each other out. i want you taso see his foot real quick. he hurt his foot trying to help other people out. you re getting the help you need here? yes, sir.
on the ground in texas in the positioned over here behind us middle of the most extreme rain that appears to be an area where they are setting up, ambulances, event in continental u.s. history, coming from someone first responders, fire trucks, who s been sitting in the studio right here at this intersection for the past few days, our near sixth and clay, a little bit north of clay road. journalists have been doing a and this neighborhood, like you great job, but at some point said, has just been getting when the ground is dry and the hammered by rain and by the floodwaters and the people that storm is over, those folks get are in this neighborhood are in to come home, and there are many need of help which is why so many people, the national guard, the first responders, the volunteers in all kinds of people around houston are not so personal water craft, big boats, small boats, flat boats, airboats have been coming out lucky. janet molena lives in houston, here to try to get people out
now, when the sit-in occurred, the house wasn t technically in session, so the protest wasn t even publicly broadcast, leading republicans to respond by live streaming it using their phones. this week, house republicans pushed back. they re now proposing a policy that would fine lawmakers who should video or even take photos on the house floor. that fine, it could cost up to $2,500 deducted from the lawmakers salaries. now, already, some democrats are responding, including congressman eric swoewell, who helped lead the sit-in, along with john lewis. he tweeted out, house gop wants to fine me for filming gun violent sit-in. i ll always stand with the victim, bring it on. joining mow now is eric swalwell, democrat from california. good to talk to you again. thanks for having me back, ayman. it s a pleasure. let s talk a little bit about these fines and if you think they can actually energize democrats and perhaps even trigger more sit-ins. ayman, right now, as we