this happened on herschel street in the brownsville section of brooklyn. michael george joins us with more tonight. michael? >> reporter: he tells us he was brutally beaten on the front steps of his own home, and he might not be here to tell his story tonight if it wasn't for francis ellis says his son is his hero after he saved him from a vicious assault. >> if my son didn't come me. >> reporter: francis was coming home late at night. he said a man he's never seen before, police think it's this guy on surveillance video, ran up out of nowhere and attacked. >> he came up and pushed the gate open like that, so i pushed it back. so he did it again, and when he came in, he went to my mouth like this and hit me in the neck with something. >> reporter: but the assault didn't stop there. >> i came back in and he hit me. >> reporter: did he say anything? >> he didn't say nothing. >> reporter: just attacked you out of nowhere? >> out of nowhere. >> reporter: he screamed to his son for help. his son jared came running out of the house. what did you do? >> i did wha

kathy in brownsville, california, with her questions. road, -- ronald, from new york. what's it like for you in the middle class? caller: hello. i myself consider myself a middle class. i make a -- host: now, ronald, you got to turn down your tv. don't look a. your tv. just talk on the phone. we'll listen to you. just go ahead and talk. caller: i think myself as middle class. i make around $48,000 in retirement. so i do pretty good. but i want to make a comment about in the housing era where we're at. i'm in a 1250-foot house in texas. here it's around $5,000 a year. it's for coal and local taxes where it used to be $150 for each one. but that's changed since they taxed for the roads and stuff here. she made my mother, minimum wage and my dad was blind but he was lucky enough to have a job for $20 a week but they got killed in 1947. but anyway, we were in the depression until my mother died which was only 2012. she was over 100. we lived good and was happy and all that. but now, with all the taxes that you pay and the demands on us, i think it drives you into a sense o

. >> we've been doing air fiesta here in brownsville since 1991. we have never had an incident of this nature before. >> he's going to crash! >> on march 12th, 2011, crowds gather at the brownsville south padre airport for the high-flying event. >> it's a fair-type atmosphere. and there's music and there's people talking and there's just all sorts of sound and activity going on. >> the day's featured attraction is the pirated skies act performed by the husband-and-wife team of kyle and amanda franklin. >> they're two of the finest air show performers in the country. >> as the franklins begin their routine, crowds are amazed by kyle's skillful piloting and amanda's daring wing walking. >> there aren't that many wing walkers in the air show business. it's a really thrilling thing to see. >> the routine is going exactly as they rehearse it. amanda's jaw-dropping stunts and kyle's aerial acrobatics wow the crowd. >> kyle franklin's one of the finest performers i've ever seen. his airplane is a unique biplane. it's big, it's loud. he makes it do things

you see 4% infection rate in brownsville, texas and 32% infection rate across the border in mexico. here are the factors are 85% of the homes in brownsville are air-conditioned and only 29% across the border. there is a lot in texas, you are not crowded together. that is part of what we are seeing in puerto rico, infection rates that are close to what you would expect in that kind of an environment. this is the map of air travel. this is where i come back to the global health security agenda. the cdc is a part of the cdc is a part of governmentwide effort to improve health around the world because of the connection that we have with the rest of the world, that we are all connected by the air we breathe, the environment that we live in and by the human connections through all of the travel and trade that goes on across the world. the effort that underlies the outbreaks that we see is to bring other countries capacity to respond and prevent diseases around the world. to strengthen that globally. that will help us -- ebola was a stunning example of how an outbreak in one part of the wo

so you see a 4% infection rate in brownsville, texas, and a 32% infection rate just across the border in mexico. and hear some of these factors on that 85% of the homes in brownsville are air-conditioned, and only 29% across the border. they are are bigger lots in texas, so you are not as crowded together. and that's part of what we are seeing in puerto rico we are seeing infection rates that are close to what you would expect in that kind of an environment. so this is a map of air travel anand this is why comeback tour global security agenda. cdc is part of a governmentwide effort to include global health security across the world because of the connection that we have with the rest of the world, that we are all connected by the air we breathe, by the environment that we live in and by our human connections through all of the travel and trade that goes on across the world. so the effort that sort of underlies these outbreaks that we see is to bring other countries capacity to have two respond and prevent diseases around the world, to strengthen that globally. and that will help us, t

charlie leduff journeyed to brownsville, texas to check out the fence between our country and mexico.all isn't on the border at all. because of treaties and flooding they had to build the wall off the rio grande. the americans on the wrong side of the fence live with drug smugglers and drug trafficking. >> the louisiana time we went down they had their boats lined up to bring people across. day or night, it make no difference here. >> if you think the trump wall is the work of the tea party, think again. >> i know who voted. bernie and hillary and obama voted for it. >> we have the same problem we had two years ago when it was all over the news. they have done nothing except talk about a wall. >> talk about a wall, talk about sending them home, talk about enforcing the law, unfortunately none of it has been done. kennedy: should we leave the picket fence and move on or build a bigger barrier. so what did you find there? were there even if gaps? >> there is -- they have some of them are metal poles in cement bases and some are cement walls. there are gaps because people live on the fen

warnings in place for corpus christi and brownsville.see the area in orange in new orleans and southern louisiana. that is 4 to 6 inches of rain. the flood threat is high across the region. we are talking midway. the severe weather threat is not going anywhere. particularly around the panhandle in enid, oklahoma. large hail and damaging winds. how about april like temperatures with 11 million people dealing with the freeze watches and warnings. temperatures in cleveland in the upper 30s. that is in line with an april 13th temperature. it warms up to 60s. 81 in dallas. new york city, 66. raleigh up to 72. atlanta in the upper 70s. a warming trend the next couple days. >>> thank you, pedram. we are getting word that a series of water rescues in corpus christi. we will keep you updated on what happens there as soon as we can. >>> donald trump with a surprising interview about what the united states should do overseas dealing with a key european ally. is this businessman shaking up the business of the united states? that's next. you won't se

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we went to brownsville texas where the federal government started building one a few years ago until the government ran out of money. >> part of our efforts to reform immigration system we have more to do. >> reporter: the first thing you notice is the border wall isn't on the border at all. not in texas because the treaties and flooding they had to build a wall miles off the natural border the rio grand river which stretches 1200 miles. and the americans on the wrong side of the fence, they live in a no man's land of human smugglers. >> take a look at this. two suspected drug smugglers from mexico showing just how easy it is to hop the border into the u.s. when they didn't someone spots them they climb back out. >> we don't go down the river anymore because it's quite dangerous but last time they have their boats along the river to meet people across. any time. day and night makes no difference here. >> are you afraid? >> no. we've had every duke poisoned. they poisoned the dogs so they won't bark. it makes no difference. >> it's all new now because of this. >> gaps in the fence, it

storms more damaging winds, more large hail and tornadoes possible in cities like this christie, brownsville and even farther west into el paso and there even is a tornado threat in place here so we will be watching this area will sleep through the day today. we have this rental boundary here that's going to be enhancing a lot of that thunderstorm activity across portions of texas. in addition to the severe weather threat you are also looking at the potential for flooding. a lot of rains pushing eastward through texas and eventually into louisiana as we head into tomorrow night so that will be something else to watch and you can see that for tomorrow. of your weather possible in places like houston and even extending across parts of louisiana with more of the same damaging winds and tornadoes possible and it continues even as we head into friday through portions of the south east and west. staying very active down here from the southern plains into parts of the southeast. melissa: keep a close eye on it for us, thank you so much. jon: the top commander in the middle east weighing in on a wav

. >> i laughed when you said you are going to build a wall from san diego to brownsville and the mexicansng to pay for it. the mexicans -- >> the mexicans are the new china. >> you are not going to get them to pay -- >> you let me deal with that. i will tell you how. >> okay, tell me. >> i will chart charging for their product coming into this country. mexico is living off the united states. >> you try to strangle them economically -- >> they will pay for the help. and mexico will start behaving. >> or you will break them economically. >> i will do something, they will not be thrilled. >> all right. chinese hacked into the federal government system. what do you do to them for that? >> you have to do something for china economically also. the power we have, we have rebuild china. they have taken our jobs, they have taken our manufacturing. they have taken everything from us -- >> why give it back. >> we owe china $1.3 trillion. what you do, if you don't behave, we have to start taxing your goods coming in the country. >> a tariff. >> they charge us. and the largest bank in the world is rig

and here some f these factors are that 85% of the homes in brownsville are conditioned and only 29% across the border. there are bigger lots in texas, so, you know, that you're not as crowded together. >> part of a wide effort to include global wide security across the world because of the connection that we have with the rest of the world that we're all connected by the air we breathe, by the environments that we live in and by our human connections through all of the travel and trade that goes on across the world. so the effort that sort of under lies these out breaks that we see is to bring other countries capacity to detact respond and prevent diseases around the world, to strengthen that globally. and that will help us, that would help, ebola was a really stunning example of how an out break in one part of the world can effect the global health and global economy, so this has been a major effort and is part of the on going public health capacity building that we're doing following on the ebola out break. >>> so, just to show you some maps of spread. this is spread by the same mosquito

released but my next guest met him the day he was born and joins me live on the telephone from brownsvillehank you so much for being with me. i was curious to ask you the manner in which harambe dragged the little boy, is that something that's standard? is it normal for gorillas to drag their young that way? did you feel that that boy was in imminent danger of death or terrible injury? >> ma'am, i told everybody right up front. i'm not going to comment on anything that happened at that point because until the investigations are done by the aza, the usba, the police department, the zoo, until that is all done, and we know what their position is, i am not going to become involved in it. >> but what about the behavior of gorillas in general? do they typically drag young like that? >> well, one of the older females we have here sometimes would be going along and the baby would be handled by the han and stumbled along. but they're not exactly always as sweet and delicate with their babies as we are. but then, you're looking at this thing totally from a point of view that's, i honestly can't und

. >> i actually laughed when you said you are going to build this giant wall from san diego to brownsville mexicans are going to pay for it the mexicans are not going to pay for the wall. >> the mexicans are new china. >> they're not going to pay for the wall. >> let me handle that. >> tell me how. >> i will tell you how. >> tell me. >> i will start charging for their product coming into this country. mexico is living off the united states. >> you would try to strangle them economically unless they pay for the wall. >> they will pay for the wall. the wall will go up. and mexico will start behaving. >> or you will break them economically? >> i will do something that they will not be thrilled. >> all right. chinese hacked into our federal government system. what do you do to them for that? >> you have to do something with china economically, also. china, the power we have is that we have rebuilt china. they have taken our jobs. they have taken our manufacturing. they have taken everything from us. they have taken money. do you know that right now we owe china $1.3 trillion. we're paying them

i'm from brooklyn, born and raised in brownsville and one of the places that has the most crime in the city, and we have more gangs, basically shelters, jails, and projects, and most of the prisons are for kids, and a lot of our kids are walking around with this mentality. if i have a gun i'm straight, and then i realize how they're being used. so when they dish would think when they read your words, it would make them a little more knowledgeable about what is going on in the world, so can you just tell me how -- what kind of response you have gotten some. >> my biggest honor is that we raised money from our private donors foundations and different places and donate over 1500 copies of my book to the baltimore city area. [applause] >> baltimore city public schools making it required reading for tenth graders next year. [applause] >> thank you. i'm in schools between baltimore and d.c. and virginia two or three times a week. so one thing that i'm extremely proud of is that young people -- young black students who, again, they don't identify as traditional rathers, are getting the b side

mentioned, gladys, the famous now 3 or 4-year-old gorilla in our exhibit also came from the zoo in brownsvilletexas and she's his half sister. >> you praised the way the response was handled but the boy was in there for 10 minutes. could they have reacted quicker? >> i think we reacted remarkably quickly. we were remarkably fortunate that the boy wasn't hurt. >> how tall this is barrier and how many feet of bushes were there before the drop off? >> the barrier is a little over 3 feet high and the distance between the barrier and the -- if you will dwrerks -- will, the drop zone there, about 4 feet drop. >> a 15 foot drop and you're in the water. >> correct. >> did you try to balance the safety of the patrons versus their ability to access and see the animals, is there a take away, a bless sage for parents and people who take kids to the zoo moving forward? >> sure. very fortunately, this zoo is a long standing beloved institution in cincinnati. so i think people recognize we care about our animals. i spent the last couple of days at the zoo walking on the grounds and strangers come up and say,

risk of strong storms today down to brownsville. 41 million people at risk for the storms.outhern plains really under the gun. we have this meandering cold front. isolated storms, damaging wind, hail. can't rule out a tornado. tomorrow, it continues across texas. look what's going to be hitting houston. then look at this, thursday through saturday, this slow-moving front continues to push up all the gulf moisture. heavy rain over really saturated soil. the rainfall amounts, we are talking through saturday, seven to eight inches of rain. parts of central texas. guys, i really don't think it's out of the question that we could see up to ten inches of rain in parts of central and southern texas through the weekend. >> they've had some year down there. >> a year ago this time, we were talking about drought for them. >> not anymore. al, thank you. >>> we're learning more about the alleged gunman in a brazen shooting in houston. natalie just joined us with more on that. >> good morning. according to reports, the main suspect who was killed by police was an army veteran. his famil

this judge, a single sitting federal trial judge in brownsville, texas, enjoined the president of thed states. that was upheld by the fifth circuit court of appeals. the supreme court will rule on this any day. gregg: i mean, why wouldn't holed them in contempt? that is what judges do all the time, for misconduct by lawyers. >> i don't know. and i don't want to be critical of him. he has been very core ridge just. gregg: that's what you would have done? >> i would have -- gregg: criminal contempt. >> civil contempt. gregg: in other words a fine. >> a fine but would have prevented them from staying on the case. fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. i will not give you opportunity to fool me a second time. it was more than once. gregg: four times,. >> correct. gregg: four times they lied to the judge, at least he believes they did. now the department of justice says quote, we strongly disagree with the order. so are they going to comply or contest the order? >> gregg, i think they have to contest the order because their careers will be permanently damaged if they accep

. >> reporter: on saturday morning, the bus left brownsville, texas, for a casino about 340 miles away in eagle pass destination. investigators say no other vehicles were involved. >> it's unfortunate. when something hits home like this, it hurts. it makes you think about how precious life is. >> reporter: oga charters hasn't responded to our request for a comment. the ntsb plans to file a preliminary report on the crash in about two weeks, but the final report could take a year or longer. gayle? >> thank you. >>> private celebration honored prince for his religious faith. hundreds of people yesterday packed into a jehovah's witness kingdom hall near minneapolis. the latest tribute comes amid uncertainty about the icon's estate nearly a month after his death. jamie yuccas shows how little is known about prince's own wishes. >> reporter: good morning. prince's sister, tyka nelson, used facebook to say she would not be attending sunday avenues service. there's been family-sanctioned funeral. many see his lack of a will as leading confusion about how to carry out his wishes. ♪ >> reporter

an accident in bucks county, langhorne brownsville road and hawthorne, someone is trapped in one of thers coming here and causing restrictions. two accidents on the northeast extension southbound near lansdale. one involving an overturned pick up truck and another involving a box truck. it's a mess, 7 miles per hour near landsdale. >>> taking live look at center city philadelphia. it's a nice and bright mud morning, let's go to david murphy for the forecast. >> reporter: a continuation of the mother's day, matt. take a look, the numbers are climbing up to 70 degrees in philadelphia. after being in the low 50s. the trade off, clouds will increase during the day. tomorrow, cloudy and cooler, 63 is the high, look for a spotty shower here and there. mild on wednesday, 73. 74 nice on thursday, thursday night into friday, periods of rain possible. >>> police in new jersey released new surveillance photos confirm ago prison inmate was spotted at the forked river rest stop on the garden state parkway. officers have fanned around the stop in lacy township trying to capture arthur buckle who esca

. >> reporter: on saturday morning the bus left brownsville, texas, for a casino in eagle pass. it crashed some 80 miles from its destination. investigators say no other vehicles were involved. >> it's very unfortunate but when something happens, it hurts. it makes you think about how precious life is. >> reporter: oga charters hasn't responded to our request for a comment. the ntsb plans to release a preliminary report on the crash in about two weeks, but a final report could take a year or longer. >> all right, thank you, omar. >>> private celebration honored prince for his religious faith. hundreds of people packed into a jehovah witness kingdom hall near minneapolis. the latest tribute comes among uncertainty nearly a month after his death. how little is actually known about prince's own wishes. jamie yuccas, good morning. >> reporter: his sister tyka nelson did it not attend the family service. many in the music industry see his sudden death and lack of a will as leading to confusion about how to carry out prince's wishes. ♪ purple rain >> reporter: prince was a practicing

we saw that with dengue in brownsville, texas. it's been ten years since we've seen an issue.e'll see some cases, scattered cases in the southern united states, but i would predict in another year or two it is going to die down. but it will take at least that long to get a vaccine in the meantime. >> thank you for stopping by. >>> still to come in the "newsroom," it's a rematch. what the golden state warriors had to do to make it back to the finals. they'll face off against lebron and the cleveland cavaliers. >>> checking some top stories for you at 56 minutes past. new calls to extradite film director roman polanski to the ♪ . poland says it will appeal a judge's decision not to extradite him stemming from a 1977 child sexual abuse case. he pled guilty to having sex with a minor four decades ago but he fled the united states before he could be sentenced. the polish-born polanski lives in france but sometimes visited poland. >>> we now know that kidnapp ep mexican soccer car polito is free. during his escape, the 25-year-old scuffled with one of his captors and injured his han

gladys that's in our exhibit also came from the zoo in brownsville, texas.aised the way the response was handled but the boy was in there for ten minutes. could they have reacted quicker? >> i think we reacted remarkably quickly. and we were remarkably fortunate that the boy wasn't hurt. >> how tall is the barrier and how many feet of bushes before the dropoff? >> the barrier is a little over three feet high and the distance between the barrier and the -- if you will the drop zone is about four feet deep. >> and then 15-foot drop to the water? >> correct. >> trying to balance the safety of the patrons versus their ability to access and see the animals, is there a takeaway? is there a message of parents and people taking kids to the zoo moving forward? >> sure. very fortunately, this zoo is a longstanding beloved institution in cincinnati and i think people recognize we care about our mans. i'm walking on the grounds in the last days and many, many people talk about this is hard and sorry about harambe and care about him. in terms of a message that, yeah, eve

so you see a 4% infection rate in brownsville, texas, and a 32% infection rate just across the border in mexico. some of the factors are that 85% of the homes in brownsville are air conditioned and only 29% across the border. there are bigger lots in texas. so you're not as crowded together. that's part of what we're seeing in puerto rico, we're seeing infection rates that are close to what you would expect in that kind of an environment. so this is a map of air travel. this is where i've come back to our global health security agenda. the cdc is part of a government wide effort to improve global health security across the world, because of the connection that we have with the rest of the world that we're all connected by the air we breathe, by the environments we live in and by our human connections through all of the travel and trade that goes on across the world. the effort that underlies these outbreaks we see is to bring other countries's capacity to attack, respond and prevent diseases around the world, to strengthen that globally. that will help us. ebola was a really stunning

. >> that's right, and a lot of it, which is what they do not want strong storms today to brownsville, to presidio. 41 million people at risk for these storms. the southern plains under the gun. we've got this meandering cold front, damaging winds, hail, can't rule out a tornado. look at what's going to be hitting houston. thursday through saturday, this slow moving front continues to push up the gulf moisture, heavy rain over really saturated soil. the rainfall amounts right now, we are talking through saturday, 7 to 8 inches of rain, parts of central texas. guys, i really don't think it's out of the question that we could see up to 10 inches of rain in parts of central and southern texas through the weekend. a year ago this time we were talking about drought for them. >> not anymore. >>> we're learning more about a natalie joins us with that. >> good morning, guys. the main suspect killed by police was an army veteran. his family claims he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. >> reporter: a gunman unleashed a hail of bullets on an unsuspecting community. when a s.w.a.t. tea

-mexico border, cities like san diego, nogales, arizona, el paso, texas, brownsville, whether they want u.a.v.'s, unmanned aerial vehicles, also which could be mq-9 reapers, flying over their homes, their schools, their neighborhoods, prying into their backyards, each and every day. this at a time when we're already spending $18 billion a year to secure our border with mexico. where we're seeing less than zero migration from mexico itself, where in the year 2000 we had 1.6 million apprehensions, this last year we didn't even reach 400,000 apprehensions. and a border where we are told by the director of the national counterterrorism center, the director of the f.b.i., the secretary of the homeland security, that there has never been, nor is there now a terrorist, a terrorist organization or a terrorist plot that is seeking to exploit the border with mexico. what this does is it further takes our eye off the ball, where we have known risks and known threats to this country, and to the homeland. it stokes fear and anxiety and in some cases hatred towards our neighbor to the south, towards

. >> an actual hug could be a cold day in brownsville, texas, before they hug. >> before they hug?much the next to the last guy standing and last night he made it very clear. he left everything out on the field. he put it all out there. you know, he came up with that alliance with john kasich. that didn't work. then he brought out carly fiorina, said, okay she's going to be my going to be my vice president if i get it. that didn't work. here he is suspending his operation last night in indiana. >> from the beginning, i have said that i would continue on as long as there was a viable path to victory. tonight, i'm sorry to say -- >> no! >> -- it appears that path has been foreclosed. and so with a heavy heart, but with boundless optimism for the long term future of our nation we are suspending our campaign. but hear me now. i am not suspending our fight for liberty. >> there you go. and one of the thing he does do in stepping out right now is he does preserve his status as a top tier candidate for 2020. >> well, maybe so. >> he's still a senator. >> right. carly fiorina she can say s

we're talking about four to five more inches of rain locally from brownsville all the way to new orleans >> oh, i'm sorry. looking at wet weather for the preakness as well. it is going to be a mess through saturday from the gulf coast all the way into the midatlantic states. that's what's going on around the country. test. >>> the skies are clearing all across the bay area. here's a look at mt. hamilton. we're starting to get breaks in the clouds now. a mix of sun and clouds with a lot of sunshine for many spots and warming up into the low 6 ohs for palo alto and 60s elsewhere. much more comfortable than the weather we've had the last couple of days. upper 60s to low 70s. 65 in san francisco. 75 in santa rosa and 76 today in concord. >> that is your latest weather. >> you know who is a big fan of the chicken parm? >> well, i have a sense. >> one of our favorites around here. >> he's eating ice cream. >> what are you eating, ice cream? that's not the breakfast of champion. >> dessert first. >> give me a second. i'll work my way up to that. i go backwards. >> our pal, josh. >> give me some

we're talking about four to five more inches of rain locally from brownsville all the way to new orleansn. >> oh, i'm sorry. wet weather for the preakness as well. it is going to be a mess through saturday from the gulf coast all the way into the matlantic id >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist bill henley. a nice day ahead. more and more sunshine. look at the temperatures in the 70s this afternoon for ph philadelphia. the suburbs will see 71 today. the lehigh valley 73 with a bright sunny sky. there's a chance of an isolated this afternoon for new jersey and even at the shore. a little cooler at the shore 69 degrees for atlantic city. into the 70s for delaware and wilmington and dover lots of sunshine. have a great someday! -- day! >> that is your latest weather. >> you know who is a big fan of the chi the chicken parm? one of our favorites around here. >> eating ice cream. >> what are you eating, ice cream? that's not the breakfast of champion. >> dessert first. >> give me a second. i'll work my way up to that. i go backwards. >> our pal, josh gad. oh, my gosh. >> oh! >> it was up unti