putin, macho style brand of deal w-g the problem! bill: next time they ll do it without their shirts on, be perfect for putin! martha: while wrestling a bear! this is part of the ongoing series of america s third war, nearly one year ago, tiffany hartley says a day of fun and jet skiing on a texas lake turned to horror for her and honor husband who was allegedly shot to death by drug cartel members right in front of her. today, she will testify before lawmakers at a congressional forum on border security and kris gutierrez joins us live from brownsville with more on this. you spoke exclusively to tiffany last night. what did she say about this? martha, we should point out, this is tiffany s first trip back to this region since her husband was presumably murdered last year, she now lives with her parents in colorado. we should point out her husband s body was never recovered on falcon lake, nearly a year later, as i pointed out, coming up,
judiciary committee today took a road trip heading down to the tech as border with mexico to hold a forum on border security. among those offering testimony, tiffany hartley. her husband david hartley was believed to have been gunned down by mexican drug pirates as the couple was yet skiing on falcon lake, a popular tourist area. kris gutierrez was at the forum. he joins us from brownsville, texas. reporter: tiffany hartley, this is her first trip back to the region since they are husband was shot. it was a big deal for her to be out here. she testified in a building behind me for about ten or 15 minutes. a short time ago she said this. listen. the men who murdered david live right across the right across the river. they aren t over in afghanistan, they are not in iraq, they are in our backyard, and the cartel members are taking over mexico, and they are killing anyone in their way.
the drug cartels. not all of them but just enough to make a difference. south is very difficult to work with the mexican side because not only corruption in law enforcement but corruption in government as well. reporter: now tiffany hartley will share her story at forum this afternoon. she was riding jet-skis with her husband david on falcon lake last year he was shot and presumably killed by cartel members. his body was never recovered but mexican authorities tell tiffany the investigation is ongoing. listen here. i really don t feel like there is an investigation over there. i think they just say it s open and it s ongoing but, it is hard to believe that they re really doing anything. reporter: hartley has filed lawsuits against the fbi, the state department, and the department of justice to try and figure out what exactly our government has done and can be doing to try to recover her husband s body. jenna, back to you. more on that story as we get it. chris, thank you very m
casey stegall in reno, nevada. reporter: it doesn t matter how many times you see the video, it still gives you chills. it is estimated that the plane was flying at speeds of more than 400 miles an hour when it plummeted into the ground. you talk about that crater, it is three feet deep on a concrete tarmac and about eight feet wide. you can see from that video that there was really no fire, no real explosion, the plane literally disintegrating into thousands of pieces upon impact. it looks like a bomb went off in the airfield here in reno. debris scattered over an area about the size of a football field. finding clues and evidence, as you can imagine amid that wreckage can be like hunting for a needle in a haystack. investigators say in addition to the video camera they believe was on board with the memory cards, a makeshift recording system was also discovered, something very rare on air planes like this. similar to a commercial airliner s black box. it has multiple var