Died, and they cant even begin to put a number on the damage done by an estimated 11 trillion gallons of water. Today as the sun came out and the water slowly began to recede, we heard Amazing Stories of survival. And David Begnaud is in south carolina. Reporter for angela cole, coming home was hard. Oh, god. I cant even breathe right now. Oh, my god. This is just. Reporter but she does appreciate that her family is alive. She snapped photos on her phone as the water was rising, and her family kept climbing higher trying to escape. Craig smith is her partner. And by that time, the refrigerator was floating in this direction. Reporter they dialed 911 but two hours later still no help. Did you think that you and your family were going to die . When i saw the water coming up, yeah. There was nowhere to go. Reporter cole decided post a plea for help on facebook. Smith feared help would not get there before his family drowned. From the attic looking down, angela took photos of the water ris
Texas. Were also going to be joined tonight by a congressman whos now running for senate in texas who represents a Border Community and who has been leading the political response to whats been happening on the border including an incredible march that happened yesterday on that tent city, that tent encampment that they have put up near the border to house kids. So we have a lot to get to. Lots going on. In april President Trump issued a proclamation calling for National Guard troops to be sent to the u. S. Mexico border. He did not order National Guard troops to the border. He didnt direct them to go under his own authority. He didnt federalize them. National guard troops are still under the control of the governors of all 50 states. But trump issued this proclamation, telling the governor to send their guardsmen. And lots of governors did. And National Guard troops from states all over the country have gone on these domestic deployments down to the border region because the president
Flint mother Ariana Hawk struggled to find words. Bittersweet came to mind, as did frustrated.
âI literally could have cried,â said Hawk, sitting in her car after learning that former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and others in his administration would be criminally charged in a water crisis blamed with causing learning disabilities in scores of children and other medical problems among adults in the majority Black city about 60 miles (95 kilometers) northwest of Detroit.
Snyder  and eight others were criminally charged last week with various crimes, including willful neglect, for a plan that contaminated the community with lead and contributed to a fatal outbreak of Legionnairesâ disease, authorities said Thursday.