game on october 17th. just three hours later, her dog was found wandering around the 28th floor of a high-rise in downtown l.a., and no one seemed to know why the dog was there. her car is still missing. a prayer vigil is planned tomorrow night in downtown l.a. eric? eric: all right, christina, thank you. arthel: eric, we are moments away from press conference on the tragic and deadly turn of events at the travis scott concert in houston last night. we ll have that for you as soon as it gets started. and after months of negotiation, the bipartisan infrastructure bill is, okay, actually, i understand that are we going to break or it s happening now? okay. no break, we re going to go to houston for this press conference. let s listen in. mayor sylvester turner. let me start out by making, making some preliminary comments, and then i ll be
follow by josh hidalgo, and he will be followed by chief fenner and then chief pena, and then there may be a few others. i certainly want to acknowledge congressman al green from the 9th congressional district who s standing with us. you know, last night was tragic on many different levels. and this is a very, very active investigation, and we ll probably be at it for quite some time to determine what exactly happened. let me just cover a few things first. based on our latest information, you know, eight people are reported dead from the event last night. in terms of their ages, one is 14, one is 16, two are 21 years of age, two are 23, one is 27
county, with the city of houston agency and with houston county s nrg park. and so perhaps the plans were inadequate with. perhaps the plan froms were good, but they weren t followed. perhaps it was something else entirely. the families of those to who died and everybody affected deserve answers as to what took place last night, and that s why i m calling for an objective, end dependent investigation independent investigation as to what went on and how it could have been prevented or how or if this was a particular situation that was simply out of everybody s hands. and i have directed county agencies to, as soon as we get that underway, cooperate, and i expect and hope the same for everybody else involved. as you all are are aware, there was a similar incident in 2019 with astroworld.