out that this is powder plastic, apparently, spilling from at least two containers. apparently, there might be some smoke, also, on the scene but at this point, it doesn t appear that it s a danger to those in the general area. but obviously a. very dramatic scene there, and that is in houston, just north of downtown. we ve got firefighters on the scene, trying to take care of that situation, and we re working on getting you more information at the same time going on in houston on that dramatic rescue from a cargo ship, and we ll get back to you when we have that jon. jon: good news, any time you see that white powder spilled out of a train car, good to know it s plastic and not something worse. back live to the pictures from kriv, they are loading one of the two workers who was injured in a fall through a cargo hatch into the cargo bay of a large ship there. they are loading that person into the ambulance. we will try and update you on the conditions of those two, as soon as we can. j
come out of that bank in the last 15 or 20 minutes and both of those people are being interviewed by police. but they don t know they can t get a good look inside as to how many are left in the bank. this is live from kriv. this is near a walmart. you can see there are other buildings in the area. that entire main street has been shot down. you can see a very heavy police presence there trying to get these gunmen to come out, surrender their weapons before any more shots are fired. we ll keep our eyes on this as this thing breaks down south of houston near the johnson space center. arthel: thank you very much for the update. rick: it may not be a happy new year for attorney general eric holder with republicans taking control of the house of representatives. he could be an irresistible target with hearings on terror
university of connecticut s women s basketball team. he was golfing. cinco de mayo. the mexican president was here enjoying the celebration. mean while, oil is spilling everywhere and there were no skimmers. a moment ago i mentioned how hot it was here in northeast. it was so hot, he had to cancel a golf game. he was going to golf. meanwhile, the oil from that deepwater horizon spill is now hitting the texas coast for the first time. tar balls have been found on beaches in the galveston area and joining us with the latest from galveston is kriv reporter andrea watkins. what are you seeing on the beach there? well, we re seeing a pretty clean beach, i have to say that because the coast guard has told us that when the tar balls were reported, they picked them up but yeah, i mean, with knew it was a matter of time before it happened and now the question is how much of a hit is this? the coast guard and the city of galveston will say this is a
galveston area. kriv reporter andrea watkins is in galveston so tell us how this news is being treated in texas. well, galveston s mayor says that it is troublesome, absolutely. there is no reason to panic. he says this is a very small amount of tar balls right now and they are staying on top of the cleanup. but they do confirm by testing these tar balls that they did come from the deep water horizon spill. now, how it got here, whether it was pushed by the recent storm that we had in the gulf or if it came in on the hull of a ship, they just don t know, the coast guard who is in command here says they recognize the residents actually don t care where it came from, the fact that it s here is still a bother. but they are responding. they want people to know they set up a command post here in galveston. they have also set up a hotline, if you will for people to report tar balls.
this parts of texas and florida. major storms also headed for the midwest this holiday weekend but it won t be so bad everywhere. chief meteorologist rick rikmy is live in the fox weather center. you said some places are going to have an actually really, really nice weekend. we have trouble across parts of texas where we saw all the rain from alex, kind of that same energy bringing in that heavy rain across the houston area right now. live pictures out of houston right now. i ll tell you what, they have seen anywhere from 8 to 12 inches of rain just in the last couple of days as courtesy of kriv making all kinds of problem jams and problems and those beaches out across the area, a lot of people want to get to galveston island and down towards south padre, we have big time problems. this energy that we see across texas will continue with us all weekend long. we ll continue to see that rain, unfortunately. we re watching a couple other things. a front that moved on through will stall o