>> corpus christi. though, buccaneers -- go, buccaneers. supervisor kim: any other substantive questions for our -- [laughter] -- for our applicant today. thank you so much. very familiar with your work. thank you for the work you do as an applicant for our community. at this time, we will open up for public comment. please line up. two minutes please. >> madam chair, supervisors, good afternoon. i have attended more than my share of eastern neighborhood cac meetings. it is unfortunate that there is not a lot of passion on that cac for their neighborhood plans because the community really had nothing to do with writing those plans. they show no ownership, so they are basically obsessed with deciding how to spend money, and it is money that they do not have. i have gotten to know oscar very well through the trailing years of the eastern neighborhoods process where we desperately try to put people back into the planning process, and i would like to wholeheartedly support his nomination to the eastern neighborhood cac, so that he can bring som

we had tar balls coming up on the beaches of corpus christi, it was an annoyance, we took some wipes and wiped our feet off after you got off the beach so you didn't get it on your carpet or your car. but what we've done now as a result of the b.p. blowout is we've shut down the american oil and gas industry in the gulf of mexico while we've -- while the chinese, the brazilians, and the mexicans continue to drill in the gulf of mexico and there's not a thing in the world we can do to stop them or regulate how they do it. instead, we're penalizing our oil and gas companies in the united states. we're decreasing production that's available to fuel our cars to power our electrical generating plants and to key ate the hundreds of products that rely on oil and gas. our focus is wrong. we should be looking for ways to increase production and increase safety and increase our ability to respond in the event there is another accident. we need to be training the coast guard, we need to be training the industry personnel, we need to be developing the technology to contain it and protect our bea

he lives with them near corpus christi, texas, now he comforts his grieving parents. >> having eli here with us is >>> lave, this is kron 4 news at 11:00. >>> tonight a mother speaks out. >> my son is innocent. >> why the mother of the suspect says her son couldn't have been connected to the beating of the giants fan. >>> but first, searching for clues in the disappearance of a nursing student. how family and friends are trying to bring michelle le home. >>> kron 4's regia c has details in tonight's top story at 11:00. >> reporter: michelle le's family and friends passed out these flyers in the same neighborhood where her car was found. she was taking a nursing class and left during a break and hasn't been seen since. >> this is very unusual. she is very responsible. much more responsible than me. she always calls. always calls me to remind me it's my dad's birthday. she always calls me. i really don't have any information on anyone she is seeing. she had a roommate but i am not sure -- i don't think i am allowed to give that information out. she isn't a bad person. she didn't deserve t

as my new colleague from corpus christi has just said, what a great day for america, the day that wee able to see osama bin laden captured and killed, brought to justice. and i congratulate president obama and of course all those who were involved, i congratulate president bush who from september 11 forward was determined to bring osama bin laden to justice and i congratulate all of the men, women in uniform, including those who as of september 11, 2001, became part of the frontline, that being firefighters and law enforcement right here on our soil. because that was a day for the first time ever that we faced an attack on our soil. but this legislation, mr. speaker, is specifically designed to extend our appreciation and thanks based on an amendment that we've made in order from our colleague from staten island, mr. grimm, for the -- those in the intelligence community. who have done such a spectacular job in dealing with the challenge of capturing and bringing to justice osama bin laden. we are going to have in this bill a number of amendments made in order and i'm particularly pro

. >> host: last phone call from texas, corpus christi.ler: is there a difference in intelligence? if so how does that impact -- >> host: is there a genetic difference in intelligence? >> guest: i don't think so but i am not an expert on this issue. my general idea is most human beings who have an intact brain are within the same range of intelligence. however it is really up to the. it and free will in my book called initiative and i still defend freedom of the will for human beings. i think that in order to make sense of the enormous differences between human beings including qualitative differences, good ones and bad ones and mediocre ones, you have to accept that most people give direction to their intelligence. their intelligence is an

host: ronnie, an independent in corpus christi, texas.ler: i am a first-time caller, so forgive me for my nervousness. guest: do not worry about me. -- it. caller: the middle east since the pakistan, afghanistan -- the pakistanis have nuclear weapons. the india-pakistan relationship, the israel-pakistan relationship. host: senator? guest: that is another important point. greta and i have not talked about that yet, but pakistan has a large number of nuclear weapons. they have a nuclear arsenal that we are sometimes concerned about. i am not so sure that what we have going on in afghanistan necessarily makes it more secure. and there is a lot going on between the two countries. i think that many of those issues would be resolved and worked out if we did not have such a large footprint right now in afghanistan. host: newport beach, california, marilyn. you are on the air. caller: my name is mary-lynn. i probably talked too fast. good morning. i am a democrat, but i guess i am sort of conservative when it comes to foreign relations and our mi

there you go, corpus christi. a little cell there that was at one point severe. that's been allowed to expire. that thunderstorm watch stays in effect for the next few hours. here's the main system itself. centered over minneapolis. you can see it elongating. it's beginning to weaken somewhat, but the threat for severe weather will exist mostly to the east of louisville and up to charleston. along the appalachians. as it progresses eastward, it will get weaker still. nonetheless, 2:00, 3:00, the usual time period of the highlighted area in red, that's where we thing the severe weather will break out. possibility of tornadoes but the way the winds are set up today, not as good of a chance as we've seen the last two days. that's certainly hopeful. but a number of -- hundreds of severe weather reports yesterday with damage as well. but luckily as far as we can see right now, no significant injury or fatalities. we'll keep you updated on last night's situation and today throughout the morning. >> rob marciano in the extreme weather center. >>> confused, irrational an

carter, texas is the leader in wind farm, it's a beautiful sight as i drive down ocean drive in corpus christi looking across the bay at the windmills across over by portland, that's the future. but you can't put a windmill on a car. you've got to have oil and gas to run your cars. now we can get into a cushion about needing to be focusing on cars working on natural gas as a more cost effective way to do it, we've got a great abundance of natural gas but we have got to get rid of the moratorium, the de facto moratorium that is crippling the oil and gas industry in the gulf of mexico. it's running prices up, it's costing us jobs in texas, i want to talk just for a second, if you don't mind, judge carter, about the betrayal of the oil and gas industry being an evil -- the portrayal of the oil and gas industry being an evil industry. it's easy to talk about big corporations, big producers like exxon an b.p., i've got two things to say about that. first of all, i imagine if you've got a retirement fund or pension, you're an owner of one of these oil an gas companies. your pension plan, mutual fun,

host: ronnie, an independent in corpus christi, texas. caller: i am a first-time caller, so forgive me for nervousness. guest: do not worry about me. -- it. caller: the middle east since the pakistan, afghanistan -- the pakistanis have nuclear weapons. the india-pakistan relationship, the israel-pakistan relationship. host: senator? guest: that is another important point. greta and i have not talked about that yet, but pakistan has a large number of nuclear weapons. they have a nuclear arsenal that we are sometimes concerned about. i am not so sure that what we have going on in afghanistan necessarily makes it more secure. and there is a lot going on between the two countries. i tnk that many of those issues would be resolved and worked out if we did not have such a large footprint right now in afghanistan. host: newport beach, california, marilyn. you are on the air caller: my name is mary-lynn. i probably talked too fast. good morning. i am a democrat, but i guess i am sort of conservative when it comes to foreign relations and our mili

. >> host: our last phone call will come from texas, the town of corpus christi. caller, you're on. there a genetic difference and intelligence and how does that impact reasoning. >> host: is there a difference in genetic and intelligence? >> guest: you know, i don't think so -- and i'm not an expert on this issue. my general ideas that overall most human beings who have an intact brain are within the same range of intelligence. however, it is really up to them -- and, you know, i defended free will in my book called "initiative" and i still defend freedom of the will for human beings. i think that in order to make sense of the enormous differences between human beings including the qualitative differences, the good ones, the bad ones, the mediocre ones, you have you have to accept that most people give direction to their intelligence. their intelligence is an instrument and not an end in itself. >> host: well, as we close out here we've shown a lot of your books. and we talked about your difference methods of communication. but you're blogging regularly on the internet. >> guest: a