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good morning live from new york city i m randall pinkston. after months of waiting a mixed ruling in the killing by police of a mentally ill black man. one officer involved did vital policy the other did not. they don t even get discipline, they can just murder people. protestors interrupted that announcement just the latest in months of demonstrations demanding action in the death of 25-year-old ezel ford. police confronted him just two days after michael brown was shoot in missouri, saying ford was acting suspiciously and reached for a gun. that s when they shot and killed him. the final decision on discipline for the two officers will be left in the hands of l.a. police chief charlie beck. now that the citizenry view is completely with that the district attorney will look into criminal charges and that can t come soon enough for those seeking justice in the shooting death of the 25-year-old a man who s mother said had the mental capacity of someone less than ha ....
this is aljazeera america. good morning live from new york city i m randall pinkston. at least 12 are missing this morning as flooding pounds the south central u.s. five have been killed. the governor of texas declared a 37 county disaster area. flash floods and tornado watches are in effect in texas arkansas oklahoma, louisiana and missouri. in austin, texas rescue teams evacuated people overnight because of rapidly rising water. 12 people are missing from two families between austin and san antonio, vacationing when their house was swept away. houston was under a flood emergency for the first time. the city got an unprecedented downpour of six to 10 inches of rain. people waking up for work and school in the houston area have been advised not to leave their homes. officials want people off the roads, because many are impassable and dangerous. harris county officials say conditions are even potentially life threatening. more than 80,000 people are without power. ma ....
this really tells the story. you can see the difference in the shade of the brick. you can also see along here the debris the line of the debris. it goes all the around this house. here s the deal. the owner tells me that water started seeping everywhere. so they jumped on those on the kitchen counters. now it s the cleanup. they re bringing everything outside. i want to show you one more thing. her car, completely totalled. take a look inside. you see debris lots of debris. the owner tells me, you know rosa i m not going to be able to do anything with this because it s completely destroyed. but of course in the immediate aftermath, before she left her house and slept with another family for the night, she tells me i tried to roll up the windows. of course power windows wouldn t work rosa she tells me. but of course people here just trying to figure things out. the good thing, brooke these people tell me that their friends, their family everybody coming together to he ....
brace for the very real possibility of more. at least 18 people are dead. more than a dozen are still missing. and in houston, where the storms killed at least five people crews continue to rescue those trapped in their homes. at least 2500 waterlogged cars line houston s roads and highways. look at that. they were just abandoned by people caught in the deluge despite the warnings. listen to texas governor greg abbott. don t drive in the rising water. you know the common phrase turn around don t drown. it has a sense of reality to it right now that we need everyone in the state of texas to heed. well, the water rose so quickly, though some people were completely caught off guard. the governor called the flooding the worst texas has ever seen. he declared a diaster emergency in at least 40 counties. now, in houston, some officials say the areas were badly damaged by the flooding while others were largely unaffected. key to understanding the structure of many bayous t ....
carter says iraqi troops were not outnumbered or outgunned, they just did not put up a fight. hear much more from the defense secretary his sell full comments to cnn in a moment. there is some resist taps to isis iran around ramadi now. we are told some tribal fighters and shiite militia are joining iraqi troops in trying to slow down the terror group s march toward baghdad. the capital is only 65 miles from ramadi. also today, a shocking look at what isis fighters are doing in the cities that they conquer. the reuters news agency is reporting isis killed 400 people all n civilians in the ancient city of palmyra, a city of 50,000 people that isis took over on wednesday that number of executed people comes from the syrian state news agency who heard it they say from survivors. u.s. defense secretary ash carter says he is very concerned about iraq and clearly not happy with the iraqi military which the u.s. government has trained, equipped and left in charge of the c ....