we want to expand to corpus christi and continue to do the same thing. there is an enormous need for the gas on a global basis and we have just too much of it. in corpus christi just 75 miles from us, last year there were 650 applications for flaring permits. in other words, we've got so much gas we're just burning it. >> incredible. bg group, gas and natural, coal gas, india, korea, you've got spanish, you've got the british. do you have even more customers than you've announced since the last time you were here? i mean guys that could sign up? >> we have been forced not to sell to people starting in puerto rico, dominican republic, chile, singapore, japan, people that are friends of the united states that would benefit tremendously from this, and at the same time we continue the job creation that this phenomenon has started to a few years ago in the united states. it's a win-win situation. it's good for us. it's good for them, and it helps us help ourselves and helps our friends around the world. >> one last question, how many thousands of people will

drenching rain in dallas, houston, and corpus christi. as well as shreveport. about 20 degrees cooler than yesterday in the northeast, with light morning rain from d.c. to boston. >> just shy of 40 in detroit. 50s from omaha to dallas. 52 in new york. 62 in atlanta. 83 in miami. phoenix, 76, sacramento, 68, and seattle, 55. >>> coming up next after the break, some of you may have noticed at the drugstore. why many people are finding empty shelves where tylenol used to be. >>> and the changes coming to coke and pepsi. will you be able to detect a difference? >>> and it's the video being debated around the world right now. viewed million >>> welcome back on this friday morning. bank of america is going a step further than other big lenders involved in the huge government mortgage settlement. it's giving 200,000 home owners in trouble a chance to sharply reduce their mortgages to the home's current market value. >>> before this morning's february employment report, we hern that fierce about wall street jobs may have been unfounded. in fact, companies there added a

>>> a regular night on the job turned scary for a texas cab driver this is from corpus christi, texas. the cab driver andre was called to pick up the couple at the cadillac bar. they get into the cab, according to andre -- >> they were drunk. i let my guard down a little bit because we were joking and laughing. >> but this quickly turned bad. pay attention to the woman on the right. that woman is 55-year-old erma salazar galvan. >> what is she doing? >> she pulls a knife on andre. >> did she pull that out of her chesticles. >> i believe you are right. that's where she had that knife hidden. >> my natural instinct was to grab the lady' wrist. she was only small. like 4'7" she said she was. >> she surrenders the knife. >> she willingly gave me the knife. and then you see a smile on her face. she tells andre, the cabbie, i'm just joking. >> that's a really bad joke. >> as he is fighting this lady off, he's still managing to drive. like a bad ass. fight this lady off who has a knife. >> erma salazar galvan was arrested for this. she had an outstanding warrant. >> no explanation? just, hey

be built somewhere on the gulf coast between lafayette, louisiana, going all the way south to corpus christi. now, maybe not all ten or twelve of those are going to get built, but many will be. they are going to be drawing that natural gas. >> reporter: within the next month, this will be an assembly line where 50 workers will be putting together l.e.d. lights. neutex lighting is just one company capitalizing on houston's booming economy and cheap natural gas. john higgins president and c.e.o. of neutex advanced energy group says moving production of the lights from china to texas was a no brainer. >> our powder-coating machines use the natural gas. because of the cheap pricing, it allowed us to offer this to our clients at a much cheaper price than we could have ever done at any of our locations, in helsinki or finland or macedonia, or even china. the natural gas that we get here, and the volume that we get here, allows us to basically offer that product almost for free. >> reporter: last year, houston added 75,000 jobs. the greater houston partnership thinks the it will add another 84,000

then corpus christi to brownsville, texas. overpopulated by 43,000. if you add up the overpopulation of these existing latino majority districts, you get three quarters of a district. this is a challenge of the districters who did not want to increase the number of latino opportunity districts. so here is the seventh district and the one we proposed which runs from san antonio to east austin. this was the idea that the leadership thought was a good idea. they incorporated a versus of it in the congressional map that the state passed. this was opposed vigorously by the democratic leadership. it goes in and gets latinos out of the district of a current angelo congressional incumbent. alex, where did you go? what is his name? lloyd doggett. lloyd was not included in this district, but was planning to move in and run and did not want to run in a latino majority district and face a latino majority. let's talk about dallas/ft. worth. where the angelo population of dallas county dropped over 200,000 in the decade. here you have a lot of latino population tha

in corpus christi to houston, shreveport, the storms head your way through the morning. just look at yesterday. we were 79 in minneapolis for a high, chicago once again around 78, 79 in hartford. so this heat has been widespread all across pretty much the eastern half of the country. even this north, we're starting at 68 in chicago, it's 63 in d.c. when you walk outside on the first day of spring. and look at today, just incredible warmth once again. even buffalo in the upper 70s, some areas have a chance at 80 today. and look at chicago, willie geist. today we're predicting a high of 85. >> 85 degrees as they go to vote in the state of illinois. >> yeah. the warmest temperature they've ever had any march ever in their history is 88. they have an outside shot of that. >> unbelievable. keep the good weather coming. >>> we'll turn to sports now. tebow mania is about to be replaced by manning mania in denver. the peyton manning sweepstakes are settled with the 36-year-old former colts quarterback choosing the denver broncos as his new team. manning's agent still working out

we have bill from corpus christi, texas. >> caller: good morning. i don't know where to start with this gentleman. he is a capitalist. >> you got me there. >> caller: you talk about america's goals, but let's face it. free trade that you pushed for is exactly what gave away 44,000 factories and the jobs. that is exactly happened to us. >> bill, let's get a response. >> if we had done that, we need to change to go there. the premise of the question is a little bit flawed. some of the things that i'm advocating, i think, would have lessened the job loss. i think also what bill has to keep in mind he is down in texas. texas as a state has done well in competition with other states. there are certain jobs in this country regardless. now there is a big debate and the competition within america is where the jobs will be and texas has been competitive vis-a-vis, with california. we don't have enough jobs in the country and we are not competing enough for the global economy. we are supporting the president's goal of doubling the exports. there are things to

just one lone little strong storm between laredo and corpus christi. as far as what we're going to deal with today. once again, the middle of the country, a new storm system will be forming and heading toward kansas city late this afternoon. a chance of some severe weather with that. also showers around boston and san antonio. southeast, you look dry. mid-atlantic, big cities. no problems from d.c. to new york. a windy day for new england through the mid-atlantic. the wind out of the north pretty strong. temperatures will be pretty mild for this time of year. the areas of concern, who needs to pay attention to possible tornadoes later today? mostly the greater kansas city area off to omaha. it's not going to be a widespread tornado outbreak but we could see a few tornadoes. of course, it only takes one or two to take a life. then back towards northern oklahoma, it looks like mostly the chance of large hail. and that looks to be just north of oklahoma city. so lynn, we're getting towards the peak months of tornado season. ever since we had those horribl

it happened in corpus christi, texas. you can see the man jump out of the way as the suv comes barreling at him. no word yet on why the teen lost control. police say he will not face charges. >>> listen to this a government budget contest to find a green but affordable it actually costs 50 bucks. that's about double what the bulbs already cost. phillips came up with a bulb netting a $10 million prize. the contest rules say the price should start at about $22 but energy department officials are defending the choice saying the cost will drop over time. that is your 5 at 5. >> now to the other top story. president obama won't return the million dollar donation from bill maher, despite mk aher's long history of sexual comments. >> it is not directly to the president or campaign. a lot of people are outraged. on tuesday president obama he didn't know what was in rush limbaugh's heart that made him say what he said. but yesterday his spokesman says the white house will not pressure the super pact that supports the president to

we have stronger storms moving through parts of texas in towards corpus christi.e central u.s. the central plains i am also concerned with this area because you can see not only large hail damaging winds but isolated tornado threat. it is a wide swath from the texas and oklahoma panhandles all of the way up towards iowa and nebraska. so we will keep you posted on all of the watchings and warnings. very warm across the central u.s. that is one of the main ingredients we need for severe weather. we will keep you up to date. ainsley and heather back to you. >> we will check in with them later this morning. will ferrell, or ron vergadi making a big announcement on conan last night. take a look here. >> as of 0900 mountain time paramount pictures and myself ronald joseph aaron burgundy have come to terms with a sequel on anchor man. >> that is right after 7 long years a follow up to anchor man is now in the works. no word if the rest of the original kags will be back or not. people in our business love that movie. >> unique new york. unique new york. sorry. rejected by

she came forward to say it was her 16-year-old who slid out of control in corpus christi.ed into the side of the house. then he kept on going. his insurance will have to pay for all the damage. >> and the lawn, too. >> a husband and wife from rhode island says their family was kicked off a passenger plane because their 2-year-old daughter was not behaving. they were preparing to fly back to boston after vacationing in the caribbean last month but couldn't get the crying toddler buckled in so the family of four was asked to get off the plane. >> we weren't yell or swearing. my child wasn't running up and down the aisles. we were trying. >> the family says it cost them $2,000 to rebook and get a hotel room for an extra night. jetblue said the passengers did not comply with the crewmembers' instructions for a prolong time period. translation, sorry, get off. kid won't shut up. >> parents like oh. >> can you imagine 10, 15 years later when they are sitting at the dinner table, remember when? >> it's a big deal to move this rock. >> a 340-ton boulder is being removed from river

he has a degree from cambridge the additional corpus christi, i think. he was a natural science major but i am not sure exactly, civics i guess but that is what he does now. his mother jane hawking claims his interest in that was when he was just a kid and they had a sabbatical at caltech and he met another boy who was really into that. and have experienced it myself. when you go on sabbatical in a watershed for the whole family. i started writing about science on sabbatical. that too is a watershed. his daughter has written a couple children's books with steven. george's key to the universe, they are wonderful but to have those in the library -- do you have them? they are wonderful. they are fiction. he meets a scientist who lives next door to him who is so clearly stephen hawking as he would be without his disability. so clearly the same person. anyway they have these adventures and it is sort of science fiction but there are huge sections of the book that are in a different colored print and those are the sections that are the real science. there's a

the neighbors captured the wild ride in corpus christi, texas.peeding suv took the corner too fast, jumped the curb, narrowly missed the man. police aren't filing charges against the 16-year-old driver, but the mother reportedly went to that home and apologized. >>> investigators in texas tonight are looking into a stunning case of child neglect. two children ages 11 and 15 were found living on their own in an abandoned school bus. it's unclear how long the children were living here. both of their parents were in federal prison. the kids have an aunt who checks on them regularly. >> the aunt says she does provide meals for them during the day. looking around the house we didn't see a lot of food readily available. one of the neighbors had told us earlier that from time to time she would bring food over for the children. >> thank goodness for the neighbors. they alerted police. child protective services is now caring for them. >>> tonight at 11:00 a news edge exclusive a mother angry with a d.c. school claiming a teacher taped her son to a chair a

he has a degree from, which college, in cambridge corpus christi i think.t, he was a natural science major but i'm not sure exact way, he is physics i guess but that is what he does now. and his mother, jane hawking, that was something that he was interested in and was really brought to a head when he was just a kid. they had a sabbatical at caltech and he met another oiler who was really into that and that was what got him interested. i have experienced this myself, when you go on sabbatical it becomes a watershed for the whole family, in the case of my husband. when i started writing about science was when he went on sabbatical and we look at that too is a watershed. his daughter, his daughter has written a couple of children's books with stephen. they are called george's cosmic adventure, george is key to the universe. they're wonderful books. i wonder if we have those in the library. do we have them? i will have to tell her i recommend them. they are wonderful. they are fiction. what is interesting is he meets a scientist who lives next door to him who

drenching rain in dallas, houston, and corpus christi. scattered showers along the gulf coast.. 50s from dallas to omaha. 35 in chicago. phoenix at 76. sacramento 68. seattle double 5s. >>> okay. visualize a scene from a lovely vacation spot that some tourists will likely never forget. dozens of dolphins could not fight a strong ocean current and wound up beached in brazil. >> that's when onlookers went to work and did the most humane thing. they dragged the animals back into deeper water so they could simply swim away. >> they say it's rare for such a thing to happen, and teams of biologists are looking into it. they'll have to do a little bit of research in brazil. >> that's good they dragged the little critters back out there and let them swim away. that's good. had a little "free willie" moment. >> let's go do some research down in brazil. >> there's a lot of research i would love to do in brazil. whoo. >> okay, rob. >> send me during carnaval, some research. we'll be back with more "world news now" right after this. ♪ [ male announcer ] we got a real mom and the family car

caller: i'm from corpus christi. and there has been a lot of hulla ballew since perri came back as governor. but my main thing is with mr. nelson schwartz, i think that we need to get to the basis -- basic of your ethics on investment banks. host: and so do you have a question for our guest, ma'am? caller: yes, sir, i do. how much go ahead. caller: bank of america. yes, sir. host: go ahead, mr. nelson schwartz. guest: i'm not sure i follow the question on bank of america? host: caller has left. can i ask another question in relation to that? guest: sure. 40eu7 when it comes to practices, does goldman sachs have a policy for a whistleblower, so if he had concerns, mr. smith, could he go to someone and make his case out retribution? guest: well, i'm sure goldman has internal policies for making such a complaint and another suggested he would have raised them in alternativelyly. but keep in mind, he specifically said there was nothing illegal going on. i think wheafs concerned about was whether the firm was kind of push

the suv careening through corpus christi barely missing a man work on his house.oman has come forward and said her 16-year-old son was behind the wheel and apologizings for his driving. serious questions about the limits of diplomacy as the united nations hints about the potential coverup of nuclear testing in iran. new satellite images show trucks and earth moving vehicles at this site indicating crews are possibly cleaning radioactive traces before nuclear inspectors get in there. ambassador bolton, thanks so as much for being here. if the iaea's investigators are right and there is some sort of cleanup underway before the inspectors can go in, what are we supposed to do about that? >> this is something iran has done repeatedly in the past. they lied to the iaea, they concealed data, they withheld data, they tried to destroy buildings and excavate thousands of cubic yards of dirt to prevent the iaea find out prior nuclear activity. but they can pick up even small amounts of radiation and the forensics working tell what the actual nuclear activity was. i think th

we had a severe thunderstorm watch, still due west the houston through portions of the corpus christi area and that likely will be expired very shortly as most of the storms are already out of the watch area. just to show you where that tornado warning is, right in the houston metro area moving towards the northeast. seek shelter. there could currently be a tornado on the ground. as the storms continue to head eastward throughout the day we'll look at that severe weather threat across parts of central arkansas and little rock and western portions of louisiana. large hail, damaging wind gusts and isolated tornados will be possible. the other issue is flash flooding. once the storms move through your area it is still raining. look at dallas area video. you can see flooded roadways. it is very important that you do not drive through flooded roadways. these pictures for dallas are going to be the story along many areas through eastern texas through portions of arkansas. martha, look at our model prindout. over six inches of rain is forecast for little rock. that will be a big problem. mar

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we have severe thunderstorm watches from corpus christi up into houston. heavy rain falling. these are rainfall amounts we're expecting over the next 24 hours from houston just to the west of new orleans, and to the east of fort smith. we're talking about anywhere from 4 to 7 inches of rain. some areas locally could pick up 8 inches of rain in the next 48 hours. flooding is going to be a major problem. >> good morning. it will be a warm day today. some fog to start. maybe some hit and miss rain showers. >> and that's your latest weather. ann? >> al, thank you. the victim of a dangerous prank at a shopping mall here in new york city is speaking out for the first time. she was nearly killed last year when two teenagers tossed a shopping cart off a parking garage. the incident was captured on surveillance video. we should warn you these images are graphic. nbc's jeff rossen is in harlem with the story. hey, jeff, good morning. >> hey, ann, good morning to you. by all accounts, this woman shouldn't have survived this attack. i mean, you know, it's amazing she's alive, let alone w

joey, independent, corpus christi. you with us? caller: yes. i don't understand. john mccain made a good point saying we stand for liberty, justice and proceed to m. so why don't we do what we did in libya? we helped them before they invaded, you know? host: joey, thank you for calling in this morning. want to show you a couple of the papers from around the country and their headlines this morning. here's the "pittsburgh post gazette." voter i.d. passes pennsylvania senate, and the republicans expect the house to approve and the same story of the. i.d. law will shave voter rolls. records show millions may be rejected at polls if state measure on fraud is ok'd. and a couple papers now dealing with the republicans. "richard times dispatch." signing the ultrasound bill. and a side story is numbers unkind to gingrich and santorum. that's the front page of "the richard times-dispatch. ." dayton, ohio, what's your thought on military intervention in syria? caller: i would like to go back to an article you raid earlier. about the attorney gentle's statement on killing am

but this isn't havana, it's corpus christi, texas., they ask what your company does, and i said, we export some beans to cuba. they say, you can't do that, can you? >> he not only can, he has for nine years, filling sbin container ships with bags of north dakota beans. >> the last shipment we did was about $3.2 million. >> texas a&m has done a study two years ago, saying if the embargo were to go away, exports would double. please tune in tonight, cuba, forbidden fortune on cnbc. we've put together a terrific program that looks at the issue from an economic angle, rather than from the strictly political angle which has been full of strident discourse over the last 50 years. >>> update on the pope's schedule, he arrives in santiago today, he visits the most important cuban shrine tomorrow and meets with raoul castro and is here in havana on wednesday in the plaza of the revolution. melissa, back to you. >>> michelle, thank you very much for the very important story. meantime, we've got to go back to gas prices. the national average pri

>> this brand new video coming in from corpus christi, texas. see the man working in his front yard. oh, my gosh! that s.u.v. comes barrelling towards him. fortunately, he was able to jump out of the way. the driver did end up hitting his house and parked car along the way. we're told that driver was a 16-year-old boy. not clear why he lost control but police say he will not face charges. it's only funny because nobody got hurt. >> thank goodness. it was a close call. something you're going to be talking about today. last week, rush limbaugh was taking a shot from a woman who testified on capitol hill regarding birth control. her name is sandra fluke. the president of the united states got involved in that. and then people -- and rush has since apologized for his language, use of words. people started to say wait a minute, white house and mr. president. what about bill maher? there's sandra fluke right there. bill maher who donated a million dollars to your super pac made some atrocious comments about women. maybe you should give back the millio

we have severe thunderstorm watches from corpus christi up into houston, heavy rain falling. these are the rainfall amounts we're expecting over the next 24 hours. from houston, just to the west of new orleans, and to the east of fort smith, we're talking about anywhere from four to seven inches of rain. some areas locally could pick up eight inches of rain in the next 48 hours. flooding is going to be a major problem. that's what's going on around the country, here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. >>> meanwhile, the one thunderstorm that we were watching around here, i'm happy to say has been weakening as it's made its way through d.c. popping out on the east side, alexandria, melwood seeing some moderate rain, but the lightning, much less than earlier. getting ready to cross over i-85 here, the cell around oxon hill. you've got heavier rain. clinton and around woody yard and off to the east, around 382, west of >> and that's your latest weather. ann? >> al, thank you. the victim of a dangerous prank at a shopping mall here in new york city is speaking out for t

host: corpus christi, texas. caller: i had a couple of quick comments. a lot of companies require alcohol included in the drug- testing. alcohol is legal. at the same time, i have known people who drink up their checks. how is that when to be resolved saying that alcohol is legal? my second question i have been done and ask somebody this, we have been going on and on about what a horrible drug problem this country has been planning all the violence south of the border on america pause for his appetite for drugs. in the last 20 years, i have yet to hear anybody say, why is there such a drug problem in the u.s.? i would really appreciate it if you could possibly try to shed some light on that. because nobody says -- people proffer of solution's right and left, but nobody ever tries to get to the root of the problem socially or culturally. those are my comments. host: thank you. guest: i do not really have an answer to the question about why drug use is so prevalent. statistics say it is about equally prevalent and all parts of society. from welfare recipie

we have severe thunderstorm watches from corpus christi up into houston. heavy rain falling. these are rainfall amounts we're expecting over the next 24 hours from houston just to the west of new orleans, and to the east of fort smith. we're talking about anywhere from 4 to 7 inches of rain. some areas locally could pick up 8 inches of rain in the next 48 hours. flooding is going to be a major problem. >>> well, we're not expecting those type of rain totals around the bay area, but eventually around the north bay, we'll see light rain dropping down the coast with areas of drizzle along the peninsula and the shoreline today. temperatures will range from the low to mid-60s across the south bay. tomorrow, trending a little bit warmer, 60s maybe close to 70 for wednesday, then a few showers again for the north bay thursday then everybody looks at some rain and wind and much cooler weather for the weekend. >> and that's your latest weather. ann? >> al, thank you. the victim of a dangerous prank at a shopping mall here in new york city is speaking out for the first time. she was ne

. >> host: bill is a democrat in corpus christi, texas. good morning, bill. >> caller: good morning. i don't want even know where to start with this gentleman. he's a capitalist -- >> guest: you've got me there. >> caller: you're a capitalist and a free trader. you talk about america's goals, but let's face it: free trade that you push for is exactly what gave away 44,000 factories and the jobs. that's exactly what happened to us. >> host: okay, bill, let's get a response. why is he wrong? >> guest: we would need to change to go there, so the premise of the question is a little bit flawed. some of the changes i'm advocating, i think, would have lessened the job loss. i think, also, what bill has to keep in mind, he's down in texas. texas as a state has done very well in competition with other states. i mean, there are certain jobs that are going to be in this country regardless. now, there's a big debate and a competition within america as where those jobs will be. in america texas has been very competitive vis-a-vis california. a lot of c