phone is doug griffith, vice president of the houston police officers union. thank you so much, sir, for joining us. how do you plan to honor the loss of this officer? yes, ma am. we are gonna have services, hopefully within the next two weeks, to honor him and his sacrifice. sandra: of course, obviously, that will be an emotional day. it already is for all of the first responders down there, as many of them are still working tirelessly to help people out of harm s way. this is one instance of heroism that we are learning has happened on the ground there. could you share with us any other stories? yes, ma am. we have just literally hundreds of stories of rescue, of officers putting their lives in harms way to try to rescue these folks who had no idea how bad this was going to be. we had estimates of what the rainfall was going to be like,
they just got wetter and wetter. water. a little on the street but this there s definitely a current isn t flooded in 40 years. going back to the back of the i talked to somebody who lived lake area where it drains out here for 40 years and i never into lake houston. flooded. now it has. it was really something. you think it s going to stop rising eventually, but you can shepard: they ve got a destination. do they even know whether going? see it looking at the front door we are going to a park around glass, you can see still a the corner here. couple of of water above that and it seeping through the door ways get to you. this is where we started yesterday curiously enough. i m glad you re safe. this is the street that we were the best to you and your family. going up and down yesterday, kent is 1 of hundreds of stories here. we ve got hundreds of people called briar hills parkway and come out being rescue today and we show you somebody staying in there still people in there. our
somebody nearby is making this, corn soup. split pea broth, dumplings and of course corn. kim johnson is a local journalist and historian who knows about this stuff. it s far more complex than you think. anthony: wow i ve got to tell you that was incredible. i heard a lot of little steel drum bands around the caribbean but nothing like that. all percussion right? 100 percent. boogsie: yes. anthony: how did your interest in this develop? kim: i grew up here, later i became a writer. i discovered there were hundreds of stories. because in the early days up until the 60 s the steel bands were partly like street gangs they would fight one another. the west side story kind of thing the steel bands doubled as that.
anthony: how did your interest in this develop? kim: i grew up here, later i became a writer. i discovered there were hundreds of stories. because in the early days up until the 60 s the steel bands were partly like street gangs they would fight one another. the west side story kind of thing the steel bands doubled as that. i just got fascinated by tracking down all of these pioneers and getting their stories of how they got involved. boogsie: i ll be 64 years this year. i playing music since i was a little kid.
or donald trump goes to the african-american history museum and he talks about countering bigotry and we cover that as well. you did cover that. that s one or two of hundreds of stories, most of which are extremely negative. and god bless you for doing the positive stuff, but look at the way they slammed him for not covering immediately the desecration of the jewish cemetery outside st. louis. i mean, this is a guy, and look at the way the media is endlessly playing him as an anti semitic. his own daughter went and converted to judaism, and he s never slammed them. there s no evidence of it at all. i think with the greatest respect, and i appreciate you pointing things out where i was mistaken, but with the greatest respect, this is a guy they are just smearing, smearing, smearing all the time. i don t blame him for wanting to