i am brent goff. first they fear the waters, now it is fire. in houston, a city already paralyzed by tropical storm harvey, a blast and blaze of a chemical plant have prompted more it i can wish and's. the you -- have prompted more evacuations. the death toll in the region affected by the storm is estimated at 35. authorities warn that the figure may rise as floodwaters receded antibodies are revealed -- and bodies are revealed. our coverarage begins back at te chemicicals palalant. fifires and explosions rocked te chemical plant northeast of houston. residents were evacuated from the nearbyby town of c crosby. some authorities have warned that the public could be exposed to hazardous fumeses. the plant operator isis urging cautution. >> what we have is a fire. when you havave a fire, sometets you haveve incomplete combustnn and smoke. any smoke is going to be an irritant to your eyes, lungs or potentially your skin. ifif you are expxposed to to th, we are encouraging anyone to call their doctor or to seek medical advice. >> one local resident

. ♪ brent: i am brent goff, it is good to have you with us.onight in central italy, people are remembering the moment the ground beneath them turned against them. a year ago today a powerful earthquake struck the town of only three j -- amatrice. the earthquake reduced several villages to rubble. survivors gathered to pay tribute to those who died. amatrice remains heavily destroyed even as residents try to rebuild their lives. a reporter who covered the quick last year has returned to cover ththe community strugglgling to rebuild. reporter: this used to be one of the most beautiful historic towns of italy. now debris is all that is left of amatrice, one year after the devastating earthquake. it still lies in ruins. trucks and diggers arrived a few days ago, the anniversary of the catastrophe. they are supposed to give the impression things are moving forward. this man's memories are buried under the rubble. he lost many friends and can't believe things still look like they did one year ago. >> we don't ask money. we don't want help. we had a

. ♪ brent: i am brent goff. it is good to have you with us.s the dust settles after last weweek's terror attacks in catalonia, investigators in spain and other european cities are beginning to connect the dots in an investigation that has broader implications across europe. some of the catalonian cell visited paris before the attacks leading authorities to investigate whetether they are papart of a larger islamist network. reporter: these are the remains of the bomb making facility on the coast south of barcelona. it is unclear how the group was able to transport large group of quantities -- large chemicals undetected. had an accidental explosion nott destroy thee facacility the atts likely would have been much more deadly.. most of the members of the terrorist cell lived in the spanish town of report -- the men believed to have radicalized the assailants, the imam, had lived for a short time in belgium. links have also been revealed in switzerland and france. a car used in the attttacks had been i in paris justst easy ford that two to three o

. ♪ brent: i am brent goff. it is good to have you with us. tonight u.s.retary of state rex tillerson is warning pakistan to get tough on terrorists who operate along its border with afghanistan. this comes after u.s. president donald trump sketched out a new strategy for u.s. forces in the region. he pledged more military resources to support kabul but put no figure of the increase in troops. reporter: in an address to the nation monday evening, trump announced his new fight to win strategy. >> we are not nationbuilding again. we are killing terrorists. reporter: with insurgent attacks on the rise in afghanistan, trump was light on details on how he planned to stop them and increase u.s. forces. but he said pulling out the remaining 8400 u.s. troops from afghanistan is too big a risk. >> a hasty withdrawal would create a vacuum that terrorists including isis and al qaeda would instantly fill, just as happened before september 11. and as we know, in 2011, america hastily and mistakenly with drew -- withdrew from iraq. as a result, our hard won gains slippe

brent: i am brent goff. it is good to have you with us.onight, tropical storm harvey is turning on louisiana. after the apocalyptic flooding in texas, the people in the neighboring state are battening down the hatches. in houston, water levels have started to recede slightly, but authorities are pressing ahead with around-the-clock operations to rescue people who are still trapped by the flood. >> with huge areas underwater, rescuers are racing to save lives. a mother and baby are hoisted to the safety of a coast guard helicopter. in houston, a local church has become an impromptu aid center as residents collected donations for those who have lost everything. but at thousands of emergency shelters, there are reports of looting and armed robbery. the mayor has issued a curfew. a police officer died when he was trapped in a flooded patrol car under an overpass. >> it was too treacherous to go under and look for him. we made a decision to leave officers they are waiting until morning, because as much as we wanted to recover him last night, we

. ♪ brent: i am brent goff. it is good to have you with us.re are new revelations tonight about a possible german serial killer, so disturbing, the shock was visible on the faces of police today as they announced the news. investigators believe that niels hogel, a former male nurse re: convicted of killing two patients, may have murdered as many as 84 more. he acted not to heal, only to kill. we will talk to a criminal psychologist in a moment about this case, but first, this report. reporter: niels hogel injected patients with drugs which could cause arrest, then was on hand to reanimate them. >> they knew about these irregularities, they knew about the rising numbers of reanimation's and ecotality's connected with them. instead of this being reported to the police, hogel was allowed to leave with good references. reporter: he was able to continue his serial killing. here, too, colleagues reported there were frequent deaths while hogel was on duty. those who stood by and did nothing actually enabled these terrible events to happen. the prosec

. ♪ brent: i'm brent goff. it is good to have you with us. we begin in the u.s.tate of texas where president donald trump has arrived to assess the damage caused by hurricane, now tropical storm harvey. he has been meeting with local and state emergency officials. he promised federal assistance to parts of the state. large parts of the state now underwater. it is the biggest natural disaster of president trump's tenure. and more rain is in the forecast. officials believe that harvey has set a new rainfall record for the continental united states. over 125 centimeters have fallen on the region so far. the city of houston has borne the brunt of the deluge. correspondent: houston looking like a city fc. -- at sea. the depth now must be measured in meters in some places. the numbers of those stranded are increasing. these children, the latest be taken on the back of a dumb search check. -- dumpster truck. >> the kids, there was no light, it was too dark. it is not getting better. so time to go. correspondent: rescue workers are overwhelmed. emergency teams say even t

. ♪ brent: i am brent goff. it is good to have you with us.ight, spanish police say they have killed the main suspect in last week's barcelona attacks. police shot and killed a man wearing what appeared to be an explosives belt just west of barcelona. they confirmed his identity as younes abouyaaqoub, a 22-year-old moroccan who allegedly rammed a van into crowds on barcelona's main boulevard. authorities now say the imam who radicalized him died in a gas explosion last week. with me here at the big table now is pablo, he has been following the investigation. the suspect who was shot dead, with we know about how the shooting occurred today? pablo: it's a fascinating story in many respects. police were related -- aol lerted by a women where this took place because he looked suspicious he was wearing too much clothes, it's a hot day in spain. and she recognized him eventually from all these images that have been in the media. so she called the police and then the operation began and they found him apparently sort of crouching down. he was then sh