so my friends, i'm from corpus christi texas. fabulous. it's very great to find someone in the audience from corpus christi texas but you understand what i will say when i say all my life i wanted to get out of corpus christi texas. so i embarked on this journey about 15 years long. i lived in moscow, beijing, mexico, i traveled all around, wrote books about those journeys and happened to return home in 2007. no longer viewing my hometown with my childhood lens or my teenage lens that this is a boring place where nothing happened. when i arrived i was shocked to discover that south texas had become a major news story and i began to realize we were surrounded by 15 miles of petrochemical industries poisoning people in close proximity. i began to realize that corpus christi had been named the fattest city in america with this profound obesity epidemic and began to realize that a border wall was about to split as much of this land into and i began to think about what it meant. so we are the citizens who do not cross the border, the border cros

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so my friends, i'm from corpus christi texas. fabulous. it's very great to find someone in the audience from corpus christi texas but you understand what i will say when i say all my life i wanted to get out of corpus christi texas. so i embarked on this journey about 15 years long. i lived in moscow, beijing, mexico, i traveled all around, wrote books about those journeys and happened to return home in 2007. no longer viewing my hometown with my childhood lens or my teenage lens that this is a boring place where nothing happened. when i arrived i was shocked to discover that south texas had become a major news story and i began to realize we were surrounded by 15 miles of petrochemical industries poisoning people in close proximity. i began to realize that corpus christi had been named the fattest city in america with this profound obesity epidemic and began to realize that a border wall was about to split as much of this land into and i began to think about what it meant. so we are the citizens who do not cross the border, the border cros

caller: john calling from corpus christi, texas. do you think this is a good idea?r: yes, i do. it is more likely european model. young people aren't saddled with a huge amount of debt. for millions of college graduates -- i graduated in 1995. i've never made more than $25,000 a single year in my life. i come from a good family. is not what you know, it's who you know. us system got so many of suckered into these in student loans knowing we will never be able to pay them off while shipping millions of american jobs overseas and bringing foreign workers in to lower the wages of americans who still have jobs and replacing millions more through technology. yet, they want to hold our fee to the fire to pay back the feetnt loans -- hold our to the fire to pay back the student loans? loans't discharge the through bankruptcy. they literally follow us to the day we die. it's a choice between eating and keeping a roof over our heads or paying back student loans. we are going to eat and keep a roof over our head. they need to cancel the student loan debt. wall street got bail

texas twist." >> named for the body of christ, corpus christi sits on the texas gulf coast and just east of the bay is a park known for bird watching, and that's what chris seymour was doing there when he came across something very unnatural. >> to me, it just looked like a pile of debris, to be honest. and then he looked, and he said, oh, my god, it's two bodies. >> a crime so shocking that years later they're still talking about it. >> i can't even imagine what was in that person's mind that evoked his violence, his rage. >> two young women. who wanted them dead? and why? >> it was a true whodunit-type murder. >> and along with who and why was the question of why here? >> this was definitely something that we weren't used to or accustomed to in our town. >> this part of texas isn't exactly ground zero for murder. it's known more for roping, riding, and friday night lights. here life is pretty simple, as are the values its people hold dear, like friendship, family, community. this is where 19-year-old mollie olgin grew up. >> tell me a little bit about what she was like. >> she was really funn

host: let's go to corpus christi, texas. daniel is watching there. caller: thank you.alk to you,to general. talking at the cost of recovery and vulnerable people, we experienced a high cost of replacing our composition shingle roof. roof tovery heavy replace prettied up price gouged really badly. it was $1800 to put on $1500 worth of shingles. i know the army has got to have on tensef intelligence and roof materials to get rid of this composition game because it is terrible how much additional cost and time that adds to recovery. thank you. i couldn't agree with you more. i don't know if the army or when a 2 -- everybody wants less it sounds like something that needs some regulation to it. or county level, unfortunately the federal government basically will respond if you put in for a claim against her house and you , as they might say, you can get some assistance. he's empathize with what saying with things like the roof the costs can be exorbitant when you're trying to get back in your home. host: charlotte, north carolina. angela impacted by the hurricane. what is l

corpus christie was -- bore the brunt of it. again, there could have been more resources committed earlier. and also part of the problem is what happens as the emergency is going on. certainly the response in texasnd places like florida was much better than it was in puerto rico. but the slowness of the federal government, of fema, and other departments in getting resources to people after the hurricane has happened and the devastation is done, that leaves a lot to be desired. >> is congress providing oversight now, the administration's response to this incoming storm? because by all accounts, florence looks to be an exceptional storm. a devastating event, as the hurricane center is calling it. what is congress doing to hold the administration to account? >> congress certainly has. although i think congress could have done a better job over the last year. the other thing is, you have two layers of bureaucracy, basically. the federal government that sends a lot of money to state governments and then the money often is supposed to go from there. the texas state government has also not done the best job of making sure the resources get to the folks that have been affected. and unfortunately, too of