so sad but important for us to all be aware what is really happening. we ve been reporting a lot on the southern border so i want to ask you about another recent incident, reports that texas troopers were told to push children into the rio grande and deny water to migrants. the houston chronicle was first to report this. what are you learning? yeah, the houston chronicle was the first to get the emails. and this was reported internally, it was a texas state trooper who went down to the border as part of texas governor greg abbott s push to try to get more of his own forces along the border. and he says that he was ordered to push migrants back into the water to deny water, he even saw a 4-year-old pass out from exhaustion. he saw a lot of injuries from people trying to get through the wire. even a case where a man had to pull his child off of a barrel in the middle of the river that was covered in that wire. a lot of the terrible conditions. and he described it as inhumane.
and these are the first false electors to face charges across the country. other states have so far declined to prosecution. and barb, we know jack smith s team has reached out to officials in a number of states with fake elector schemes including in wisconsin, pennsylvania, nevada, and of course the georgia investigation where the d.a. gave fake electors immunity in her probe. so there are obviously a lot of layers between the state level actors and the president of the united states. i have to one didder how difficult could it be to prove trump was directly involved in this is the alleged criminal activities smith is referencing. i think that he would want to see if anyone was coordinating this effort. we heard in the january 6 hearings that ronnie mcdaniel received calls from donald trump and john eastman to discuss this
18 to work in dangerous jobs like that. in fact we understand that he died because he was cleaning a machine that was still on. that is a major osha violation for anyone regardless of their age. now, how exactly he came to work at this plant, we re still trying to understand. we re going through documents now and we ll continue to report this story. so far the company not commenting on those details. but as you know, we ve reported a lot on child labor specifically from the guatemalan community and seen a lot of migrants cross the border illegally and try to get jobs to be able to support themselves and repay their smugglers often by assuming another identity that says that they are a different person of an older age with a different name and with the ability to wor in the u.s. so we re still combing through the reports and even looking at the coroner reports and police reports which found that his body was on a conveyor belt. so we ll relay these details as we learn them even though w
stranded at sea with his new dog bella was reeled in by tuna troller after he was spotted by a helicopter working with the ship. shaddock says that he and bella survived for months by drinking rainwater and eating a diet of raw fish. there was a lot of tuna, saw sushi. i m still very skinny. reporter: and just weeks within their voyage, shaddock says that storm wiped out all the electronics aboard their catamaran. holding on to each other, they survived against the odds. she is a beautiful animal. i m just grateful she s alive, you know. she is more braver than i am that is for sure. reporter: and the two drifted for months, never knowing if a lifeline would come. i would try to find the