from the apache nation, and he was a vietnam era veteran. was in the marines in fort recon, and an intense unit, and they would spin behind enemy lines in groups of four. didn't even have a medic, incredibly intense guys. he said he joined the military during vietnam, he sad i had nothing again the vietnamese and no allegiance to the u.s. government. they killed most of my family, it just wanted to see how i'd do. amazing. >> yes, sir. this could be the last one. >> yes. speaking of national service, i did exactly that. wanted to see how i would do when i joined the thing called the peace corps, and the thing that strikes me is just to look at our values. when i joined the peace corps the fact that this kind of frightened me or is the military bands had a larger budget than the peace corps did, and in some way is would say my service was even harder. i served in this country called yemen, and i was out there by myself. and so there was no camaraderie. so in fact, my service in some ways was harder than not belonging, and even coming back. it

from the apache nation, and he was a vietnam era veteran. he was in the marines in fort recon, and an intense unit, and they would spin behind enemy lines in groups of four. didn't even have a medic, incredibly intense guys. he said he joined the military during vietnam, he sad i had nothing again the vietnamese and no allegiance to the u.s. government. they killed most of my family, it just wanted to see how i'd do. amazing. >> yes, sir. this could be the last one. >> yes. speaking of national service, i did exactly that. wanted to see how i would do when i joined the thing called the peace corps, and the thing that strikes me is just to look at our values. when i joined the peace corps the fact that this kind of frightened me or is the military bands had a larger budget than the peace corps did, and in some way is would say my service was even harder. i served in this country called yemen, and i was out there by myself. and so there was no camaraderie. so in fact, my service in some ways was harder than not belonging, and even coming back.

act as a buffer to protect ourselves against the comanches and the yutes and the apaches, these newly powerful indian nations who now have horses and guns and are beating up on us. so they attract people fromutes newly powerful indian nations who now have horses and guns and are beating up on us. so they attract people from many cases the american south, people like jim boyd, davy crockett. they are there to act as a buffer. of course, we all know the stories. these are americans, they're not going to put up with mexican dominance for long. they will declare their they'll declare their independence and the attacks for independence. part of the independence, as you know, is the independence to hold slaves. because one of the things the mexican government does is try to bound slavery in its provinces. but those people would no the have been there had it not been for fact that the mexican government is looking for some way to protect its frontiers against indian power. then you look to the mexican section, the sort of pale pink area. huge chunk of territory. and that we explain of course by the mexican war or t

apache junction is cleaning up. >> storms moved in with a vengeance around lunchtime. they have national watches -- washes or arroyos, many overflowed one street turned into what looked like a river, neighbors were nervous as the wire -- water crept higher. >> it becomes worse, it was in my driveway and on the porch. that's scary.>> we spoke with public works director andy says they've tried to come up with admits more needs to be done the cost is astronomical. >>> our neighbors down south and tucson are still recovering after all of this heavy rain and water, they got up to three inches in a very short amount of time. this downtown underpass had nine pete -- nine feet of standing water. crews are still working to clear it out. the tucson department of transportation is preparing for more rain tomorrow and since the grand -- ground is saturated they can look at flooding.>>> cbs5 news is committed to bringing you the very latest, we will send you breaking news alerts on your phone. look for complete coverage tomorrow morning on wake up arizona starting at four 30. >>> we are tracking brea

nationally. let's go to the radar and show you what is happening nowment afternoon. around the apache junction area. north mesa. around gold canyon. dump some measurable rainfall. we had a little dust roll in as well. all of that is gone and you can see the radar is very quiet not just here in the phoenix area, but across the state. a different story though as we zoom over to the opposite side of the nation right now. we have two tropical depressions, one here off of the coast of the southeast. another in the gulf of mexico. and one of them will be as we head through the next couple of days. you can see the two systems there. it is going to loop around and out into the atlantic. we have a lot of rainfall. rainfall that could potentially lead to flooding there. the yellows you see there along northern florida and the coastline in the southeast, of rain. enough to cause the major flooding problems. the southern part of the florida peninsula expecting in some areas more than one inch of rain. here in arizona, our moisture chances are going up with our monsoon moisture on the rise tomorro

the national weather service issued a flood advisory for the community and you can see why. it was issued for part of the day. roads in apache junction were flooded after they got up to 2 inches of rain in an hour. law enforcement had flooded roadways. drivers got in trouble trying to drive through the street. we talked to one man whose car broke down. >> my co-worker was like you will be good and just drive through it. he is at home and i'm stuck here. >> he's laughing about it. hopefully, he can get the truck started back up again. despite damage to cars, there were no reports of injuries out dave munsey joins us in the weather center. >> reporter: there is moisture out there. we picked up quite a bit today. there is a little storm working its way toward phoenix right now. it is on the west side. you see it there at buckeye. it falls apart a little bit but there is rain with that particular cell as it moves in closer here. let's look at what happened as far as ear look at fountain hill, 2.5 inches. an inch north of fountain hills. look at apache junction, 2.5 inches out there. you did see flooding out there as well. south

apache junction late last night. >>> a quick trip in mesa expected to be closed for a couple of hours. a woman drove into the store, the driver appears to have been drinking.>>> the national park 100th birthday. parks have long attracted mostly white visitors but minorities are expected to eclipse the country's white population before 2050. and they need help if they want to protect the sites for future generations. >>> crews are working to free trapped victims after a deadly earthquake in italy. the 6.2 magnitude earthquake rocked the country this morning. the quake appears to have been rome many buildings have been leveled, the damage is widespread, italy's civil protection agency says dozens of people have died. aftershocks being felt far away. >>> people are trying to recover from devastating flooding in baton rouge. president obama visited the area yesterday and promised support until everyone is back on their feet. damage is estimated to cost at backlash over a new university ban on hard alcohol at any on- campus parties. this comes after the brough turner rape case where turner's lawyers claimed the drunk played a role in his sexual assault of a woman. the new poli

you only knew five indian nations from your extensive watching of western movies when you were growing up which i know doesn't happen with your generation. yeah? yes, the apaches. they were on the southern plains and they've moved into areas south of new mexico into northern mexico. they are conducting extensive raid on spanish settlements. let's make peace with everybody else and go after these guys. let's attack the apaches and end these raid not just on new mexico but other spanish settlements in what is now northern mexico. what makes it so difficult to defend new mexico and the other spanish settlements? what's the strategic difficulty? sam? yeah, it's a big place. it's a large colony. it's thinly settled so it's not especially densely populated. you've got a large area with a lot of outlying ranches and small villages and so forth. what's the great danger for a spanish ranch for example in the 1750s? >> the apaches could show up to your house, burn it down, do a little dance and leave long before anybody even realized what was happening. >> exactly. the great problem is there's no way -- the spanish can't keep a military force in every ranch in new mexic

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