Have been swept away. The water in parts of texas and oklahoma swallowed up cars and roadways. Highways are littered with abandoned vehicles. Homes were knocked off their foundations. At least nine people are reported killed. More than a dozen are missing. 4,000 homes in the houston area are damaged or destroyed, and 1,200 in wimberly, texas outside austin. Omar villafranca begins our coverage. Reporter its the worst flooding this region has ever seen. This aerial video shows the remains of a bridge completely washed away by catastrophic flooding from a raging blanco river. The river rose 26 feet in just an hour, uprooting home, snapping trees, washing away cars and creating massive piles of debris up to 20 feet high along an 87mile stretch. Wimberly, a popular bed and breakfast getaway, has taken the biggest hit. A dozen still remain missing. Will conley is the county commissioner. We have over 150 personnel continuing to scope the river land, looking for any survivors. Through air, b
A sudden moment of horror captured on dash cam video. An airliner with 58 people on board falls from the sky, hits a moving taxi and a bridge railing and plunges into a river. More than half on board are dead but somehow, there are survivors and search and rescue operations are still under way. We have extraordinary images of the crash and its dramatic aftermath. The pilots urgent distress call and new clues to what may have gone wrong. Our correspondents and analysts and newsmakers are standing by with full coverage. Lets begin with cnns brian todd for the very latest. Reporter investigators are pouring over the black boxes of this airplane that crashed moments after takeoff from taipei. An unbelievable piece of video captured the flights final horrifying moments. From a cars dash camera the scene unfolds in about six seconds. The turboprop plane appears suddenly on the left side losing altitude. It makes a dramatic pitch to the left clips a taxicab and the bridge and hurtles into the
Know about the impending order. It will cover the same seven countries the original order did. It is iraq, iran, syria, libya and sudan and yemen. They were seven countries identified by the Obama Administration that were problematic. The white house will use that as the basis for the order. Couple of changes. Removing the inffrnt suspension of refugee from syria. The court had a problem with that. It will temparily ban all refugees from entering until safe guards are put in place. And explicit language that it does not apply to legal residents of this country and others. And it will lay it out in clearer language to say it targets people who dont have previous status here and currently overseas. Sean spicer indicated contrary to the declaration that the department of justice made released to the 9th court of appeals, the president will not resci understand the order. Press secretary spicer you will see the president takes steps to protect the country and making sure we evolve through
But it looks like it is falling apie cha apart and we are not seeing too much clearing. Well keep you posted on how conditions are. We do are getting some type of relief here, it is been like a roar for the past, you know, hours, two hours here. The wind is absolutely like a train coming through and there is no relief at all. Think of what it does to the trees and building and the roof. It is remarkable seeing the puddles blowing booipd you. It is important for people to understand in fort myers. The eye came over and it is beautiful and calm in some places, they can actually see sunlig sunlight. You are getting a different experience there. I dont know if the eye is deteriorating and you are still at the eye wall and you are not seeing the eye yet. Right now you are getting probably the most severe bands on the northern side of the storm now. Reporter i apologize, sometimes it is hard to talk because we have so much water coming add on and it is not giving us a break. A little way her
Its like fitness in the way you say to yourself, do i really have to be stuck with this body . Do i want to do something about it . This is the time. These elections starting 2018, 2020, what happens in 2021 when lines are redrawn, this will define the United States, i think, for the next 30, 40, 50 years. Join us as we take resistance to the ballot box. Gerrymandering is drawing district lines in a way that benefits one Political Party or another. We all know the idea of gerrymandering, going back to the original gerrymandering, has do with districts that look abusive. The stranger the shape, the more we have an intuition that somebody is trying to do something. The word comes from 1812. Its weird that we call it gerrymandering he signed into law a map in massachusetts which created a funny shaped district which to many people looked like a salamand salamander. The term gerrymandering springs from that and a cartoon that criticized him. Theres a standard rogues gallery of Congressiona