Awards. She won eight awards including one for top artist. The evening capped off by a hard to see and hard to hear performance by kanye west. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, may 18th. From abc news this is world news now. Good morning. We begin this half hour with that Severe Weather stretching some 1200 miles across the middle of the countries. As storms here dumping torrential rains and spawning dozens of tornadoes, this morning flash flooding is still a major concern. Lets start our coverage with rob marciano. Violent storms bringing rain and rescues. This man and this woman are in this home that is totally surrounded by water. Including this one in Johnson County texas. Unfolding on live tv. First responders using a drone to send a rescue line to a stranded couple. Then paddling toward them in a rescue raft. Homeowner bill talking to dallas station wffa. Theyre trying to figure out how to get the boat over here. Reporter the sound of debris waking them up. That c
After deadly floods hit texas. States of emergency in oklahoma and texas and Authorities Say a third body has been pulled from a river texas bringing the number ofpeople to 13. Phillip has more. Reporter surgeing waters from swollen rivers turning highways into canals, leaveing hundreds of cars trapped and families forced to carry children through waist high wars . We believe there may be as my as 4,000 homes with snificant damage. Damage. In houston, thousands evacuated from their homes in 24 hours they got nearly a quarter of a year rainfall. Cant see. Rescuers responding to nearly 900 emergency calls, more than half water rescues. Repter days of record rainfall in texas have lefthe ground saturated. More tha a dozen people confirm confirmed dead and dozens more missing, including laura and her two children swept away insi this house. Her husband survivedut remains hospitalized. She called me said im in a house, im floating down the river. Tell mom and dad i loveou and pray. The sear
For latino, latin america and Caribbean Studies here at cny for organizing the event today and say, you know, i think its a sign of whats happened to new york that there is an institute for mexican studies in new york city. I was born in new york city, and i at one point married somebody who was a girl in new york city here when she was very young, and she remembers that when her family wanted to buy tortillas, that you had to buy them in a can. There were so few people from mexico living in new york city, there were to to have there were no to have tortillas. Now whats the name for new york . I think well talk a little bit about whats happening and why that is, but i want to say im very happy to be speaking in connection with the institute for pension can studies here and mexican studies here and how meaningful it is for me and, also, i think for new york city as a whole that we have it. Im a photographer, so im going to show you photographs while im speaking tonight. They dont have a
Patrol, to identify observation posts where ideally we can itch wait it, okay situate it, okay, Texas Military guard personnel that just by being there theyll be able to observe in what we call interlocking field of view so they can look at and report smuggling activity. They dont have the power to detain or arrest, they have the power to detect and report. The d. Of public safety, thats why you see so many numbers in great concentration and Border Patrol as well. I dont want to leave local Law Enforcement out of the equation. They will too respond. Congressman, you penned an oped where you were critical of the deployment. Again can, west texas, el paso is a different situation now, but, obviously, you want to speak for the entire border. If you could elaborate on why this is a good idea. First of all, i question the cause and effect of deploying guard to the boarder and using that to account border and using that to account for the drop of children and families entering the United Sta
Integrity in wisdom and courage we have sought a leader who is of the people a man raised to leadership by the people a leader whos whole life has been spent for the people. A sturdy humble heir to the respect and the affection all peoples felt the lincoln such a man is general Ike Dwight D Eisenhower the man from abilene. Never in history have so Many Americans known so much about the very essence of one man a hundred million americans. Know eisenhower the way, you know a neighbor. We know him by heart and why do we cheer for him . Not because he is a general but because instinctively we believe in you we hail him as a hometown boy who is all the best about america. His roots are in the heartland main street usa. I come here first to thank you. To say the proudest thing i can claim is that i am from abilene. I want to speak first of the dreams of a barefoot boy. Frequently they are to be a streetcar conductor. Or he sees himself as the town policeman. Above all he may reach the positi