gabriel elizondo reports. >> crews are out in force as it's cleanup time in houston. this is why.record rainfall made housism passible. their cars were engulfed by floodwaters. >> i tried to open my door, and it wouldn't open. then i went for the window. they got me off the roof of my car. >> nearly every part of houston was swamped with water. then this disturbing scene a casket, with a woman's body inside unearthed by walters. it was discovered by aa man on his bike. >> this was crazy i was like, what the heck? >> this is a major underpass that was shut town because it was totally flooded. i want to give you a sense of how high the water levels went. they went all the way up to the top of this retaining wall. people say they have not seen flooding this bad for decades. because of flooding 46 counties have been put on state of emergency. in wimberly, there are still a group who are presumed dead. gabriel elizondo, al jazeera houston, texas. >> all of oklahoma has been put under a state of emergency. there are warnings of more thunderstorms in both states. the u.s. defense secreta

gabriel elizondo, al jazeera. >> the mine in caldas province is flooded.its miners are unregulated. one of the key strategies of the u.s. backed war on drugs may be on the way out the national drugs agency is said to ban a controversial herbicide used to ban coca fields. >> since the 1990s it's been spraying the coca fields. to curb the production of cocaine. but colombia seems ready for an about-face. >> translator: new studies show clearly there's a health risk dependence it so i'm asking for a ban against it. >> skin rashes and other diseases which the research confirms. >> translator: we have found that there are a huge connection between the use of these chemicals and skin diseases. >> translator: if coca is cut down and cut in three months it regrows. >> farmers have tried the alternative. as part of a government funded substitution program they switch to peppers and cocoa but it wasn't enough. carlos ortega is one of them. he says making the switch was difficult and expensive but it paid. until last october when his field was sprayed again. hundreds

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gabriel elizondo. new york. >> there is much more on our website, the address to click onto: aljazeera.com. >> new details in the shooting outside a controversial art exhibition in texas. investigation what led two people to open fire. cartoons of the prophet muhammed. the republican field keeps growing with two more candidates announcing their bid to become president in 2016. >>> and the need of aid why it's not getting to those most desperate in

gabriel elizondo has the story. >> underwater, that's how people felt after being dazed by a week of towns in central texas bore the brunt of the damage like in wimberly, when this man was able to survive but his wife and two kids are still missing. >> we have whole streets that have one or two houses left and the regulation are slabs. >> you can tell, it's going to be months to fix this stiff. >> in san marko texas residents have been warned to stay inside. >> there is infrastructure problems throughout the county, powers lines are down, bridges undermined, this is not the time to start moving. it is the largest flood in the history of this region. it is significant in its impact. different from any flood we have ever had. >> in claremont oklahoma, a firefighter was swept into a floosh andflood and drowned. wishful thinking, forecasters are expecting another storm to hit the area in coming days. gabriel elizondo, al jazeera new york. >> more than 20 years after four years of severe spending cuts and ostring of corruption scandals. tim friend reports. >> the spanish woke up to a new

well gabriel elizondo is live for us in wimberley, texas.coping knowing that there is more severe weather on the way? >> yes, there has been really bad weather here. we're in wimberley but we just moved and to the city of houston. they saw record flooding here overnight. we're underneath an underpass that is still completely shutdown as they're trying to continue clean up with heavy machinery. i'll pan out to my left shoulder and give a sense of how bad it was. the water levels came all the way up to the top of that wall just a few hours ago and overnight. it shows how bad it was here. fortunately, the water has now receded, and it's simply a clean up effort. 500 ward rescues. 2,500 abandoned vehicles, and 4,000 homes flooded, 46 counties here in the state of texas have been declared a disaster zone by the governor of the state or the state of emergency. this is all emblematic of what we saw in houston. it's emblematic of what we've seen in oklahoma. and in the town of wimberley where we were, there are still ten people who are missing. the

gabriel elizondo explains. >> reporter: steve meeks is a man in shock.wall of water came rushing towards his home he and his family ranas fasts as they could. >> we got out of there with nothing. i had a shirt and shorts and shoes on my wife had her shirt and shorts, grabbed my grandson, my son got out. no cloth no i go anything. >> reporter: along the banks of the blanco river this is all that is letter of the meeks' 14 cabins at the family's resort they have own today five generations the water crushed everything in the path toppling the cabins and everything inside. >> families were all here and we decided we better get out because we had never seen anything like this. >> reporter: trees were flattens and the water rose 44 feet or 13 meet nurse a matter of minutes. this is some of the stuff that's been pulled from the various cabins now, this is just a chair, we see a couch a bed a door even this destroyed baby bassinet. all of this stuff including these pots and pans and plates, all of it has been completely destroyed, and so they are just piling it

gabriel elizondo, al jazeera. >>> huge queues at the petrol pumps. new government due to be sworn in in nigeria in just a few days time. people this abuja say they have been faced with sleeping in a queue. >> i slept overnight. >> .i wish to feed my family well thrts no money. >> i have never noticed until i do since yesterday just i was in a queue. i even slept here and up until now i've never got to fill and i cannot say what is the reason. >> al jazeera's ahmed idris is in cano and the strike has taken its toll. >> this is one of the few stations selling the commodity in cano. no matter how long it takes they can still get a little bit of fuel. what is hached happening here as well as other petrol stations across the country is reflected in other areas of life in nigeria. he electricity which was down to 3,000 megawatts is down to 1500 megawatts for a huge population. all strike by oil workers union for current predicament. there are also outings outstanding issues. airlines banks hospitals and even telecommunications companies are considering shu

gabriel elsdz, al elizondo, al jazeera. >> still ahead fuel shortage in nigeria. plus an intimate theater experience we report on a very personal approach to the arts. arts. is there such a thing as a sure thing in business? some say buy gold. others say buy soybeans. i say, buy comcast business internet. unlike internet providers that slow down when traffic picks up, you get speed you can rely on. it's a safe bet. like a gold-plated soybean. reliably fast internet starts at $69.95 a month. comcast business. built for business. >> welcome back. a quick reminder of the top stories now often al jazeera. a tunisian soldier has shot dead seven his colleagues in the capital tunis before being killed himself. >>> migrant crisis, in malaysia, comments after 139 graves of what was believed to be migrant workers were discovered. >>> other news, chronic fuel shortages in nigeria have forced some businesses to trailer shut down. but the tries which have caused huge fuel queues at the petrol pump is over. al jazeera am ahmed idris is in cano. >> this is in the city of cano, t

gabriel elizondo has the details. >> underwater, that's the way the residents of oklahoma and texas felt after days of pounding rain. few people have died, thousands evacuated, hundreds left their homes in the wake of the storms and there are people missing. small towns in central texas bore the brunt of the naj like damage like in wimberly. >> we have a few houses left on their foundations and the rest are just slabs. >> it's going to take months to fix a lot of this stuff. >> rescue workers have implored people to stay indoors in the wake. >> there are power lines down debris in the roadways, bridges undermined. this is not the time to start moving. it is significant in its impact. it is different than any flood we've ever had. >> in clairemoore oklahoma they are dealing with flooding and grieving after a firefighter was swept away and drown. awash in water perhaps ironically it came from the region suffering from a serious drought, no more. they are hoping the rain will stop but it might be wishful thinking. forecasters are expecting another storm to hit the region in a couple of days

let's go to gabriel elizondo. what reaction if anyone to the letter to the u.n.? >> well, little context. this letter, as you mentioned just in the last hour or so, this letter is not necessarily sent out bubbly public, but it was sent from the yemeni ambassador sent to the lithuanian ambassador. so far there have been no reaction. they have been reached out to feverishly in the last four hours or so. i can tell you it has been taken very seriously at the u.n. because this is really only the second time we have a had a letter of this nature, of this caliber coming from the high level of the yemeni government since the airstrikes the key point this all comes about under two things happening right now that are very important. number one the u.n. has a special envoy to yemen. he's currently in paris and he's on his way to riyadh, saudi arabia. we have no reaction from him on this letter as well. when we get that we'll bring it to you when we can. the time something very interesting. it comes as increased calls of the humanitarian situation deteriorating in yemen. so

gabriel elizondo, al jazeera new york. >> many are still struggling to find regular jobs.t reports on how one jesuit priest is trying to change that. >> reporter: scott baker joined the u.s. military when he was 19 years ago old. the sergeant fought in iraq and afghanistan. when he came back to the united states he couldn't find job. >> when somebody thinks of a person in a regular suit and tie the that could bring something to the workforce. >> he was unable to find work in the corporate world. that's when scott found work at the dog tag bakery. replica tags now hang from the ceiling to honor those who served. father rick curry helped create the bakery after he realized that many wounded u.s. veterans needed help. >> i ran a small mail order bakery in maine and i saw how the disabled persons loved to see product at the end of their day and i thought that was it i would start a bakery. >> curry made it happen. he knows what it's like to overcome stigma having born with just one arm soldiers say father curry has been their inspiration. >> he is enlightening and insightful a

gabriel elizondo is in texas in the scene of a search operation when a local river sub submerged 10 metersd level. >> here at the blanco river, a wall of water ran down this river and crushed everything in its path. you can see these giant trees that have been here for decades completely washed away or pulled out from the ground. but over my right shoulder is where the rio bonito resort was at. all 14 of the cabins that were along the river completely gone. totally washed away. including all of their possessions and furniture that was inside. remarkably no one here was killed but down river rescue crews are still trying to search as many as 12 people that are still missing. over and over here in the town of wimberley we've been hearing hearing from people who say their livelihoods have been destroyed in this flood. a flood that has been the worst since 1926 in this part of the united states. the state of texas here being hit particularly hard. >> just across the border in mexico the number of people killed by a tornado that ripped through the city has raise on it 14. a baby's body was foun

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. >>> now gabriel elizondo takes a closer look at the case and what happens next. >> the verdict is death unanimous decision by the 12 jurors but no finality. there is a lengthy appeals process. >> we know that there are going to be appeals about whether the death qualified nature of this jury that is to say everybody who served had to be able to impose the death penalty but the majority of bostonians are against the death penalty. was this a trial by a jury not capable of reflecting the conference of the community? >> joy car tsarnaev is likely to be moved far away from the scene of his crimes, most likely the federal entrench years penitentiary. they would weigh mitigating factors such as the killing of children and the influence of tsarnaev's older brother tamerlan killed by police, and an tumultuous up bringing. the burden of proof is on the prosecution, mitigating arguments would also be considered but tsarnaev's lawyers admitted from the get-go that he did it. it was the only way they felt they could argue for a life sentence. but it was not meant to be. jurors sat through 27 days o

gabriel elizondo. new york. >> there is much more on our website, the address to click onto: aljazeera.com. >> new details in the shooting outside a controversial art exhibition in texas. investigation what led two people to open fire. cartoons of the prophet muhammed. the republican field keeps growing with two more candidates announcing their bid to become president in 2016. >>> and the need of aid why it's not getting to those most desperate in nepal. this is al jazeera america. live from new york city, i'm tony harris. we are learning more about a shooting outside a controversial art show in texas. one security guard was shot and the suspects were killed. the center was hosting an event featuring cartoons depicting the prophet muhammed. heidi zhou-castro is at the scene with more. >> we are learning more about how the shooting occurred. garland police say that just before 7:00 last night prior to this event wrapping up, two men drove to the parking lot of this event and they were armed with rifles.

well let's go straight to the united nations and speak with gabriel elizondo. what is the significance of this letter? >> well, this letter that we got our hands on has not been made public. however, we were able to get it from sources. it was sent from the yemeni ambassador to the u.n. to the lithuanian ambassador who is the head of the security council this month. it has called for ground troops to be sent into the country but also comes amid a time here that the united nations has a new envoy to yemen and he has been on its job for less than a week now. he's currently in paris where he was engaged in talks trying to kick start the political process again by all sides in yes memoryyemen. and he's expected to land in riyadh in the next several hours or so. taken together this is very significant. and the only other time that we've seen a letter from a yemeni official sent to the u.n. was on march 24th. that was the last time we had such a letter. that was from president hadi. in that letter of march, he was calling for intervention in his country to stop the h

gabriel elizondo al jazeera, mississippi. >> you can find much more on our website. www.aljazeera.com. >> the rwandan genocide began twenty years ago. in 100 days, almost one million people were killed. today, rwanda is thriving. as the president credited with stoping the slaughter and putting the country back together, paul kagame is also accused of brutally suppressing dissent. so is kagame a savior or a dictator? we sent journalist sorious samura to find out. >> for centuries the tribes of this country lived together without tribal atrocities, and

. >>> gabriel elizondo will take a closer look at the case and what happens next. >> the verdict is death unanimous decision by the 12 jurors but no finality. there is a lengthy appeals process. >> we know there are going to be appeals about whether the death qualified nature of this jury saying that they were for the death penalty when most bostonians say they're against the death penalty. was in a fair representtation of this community? this was the same jury that determined tsarnaev guilty in the first phase of the trial but the second phase was more complex. it involved weighing factors such as the killing of children, and show nothing remorse in the mitigating factors. the jurors will have been unanimous in fighting each of the aggravateing factors proven. the burp burden of proof is upon the prosecution. tsarnaev's lawyers don't deny that he did it. but three people died and 260 were injured in april 2013 bombings. jurors sat through 27 days of testimony in both phases of the trial and listened to more than 150 witnesses. after deliberating the 12 men and women of the jury weighed a

we go to gabriel elizondo who joins us live from houston. how are the cleanup efforts going gabe?> well, it's a slow process. but the good news the cleanup efforts are under kay. there are massive efforts taking place. let me show you the houston chronicle. the main headline says washed out. highway nightmare disaster. i'm underneath an underpass and above me is some of the big highways in houston. this was completely flooded with water a few hours ago. i'm going to go over to my left shoulder to give you a sense of it. it came so high that it reached the top of the retaining war that you're looking at right now. it gives you an idea of how high the water levels were here. seven people dead in the city of houston, but the good news is that they're cleaning up and expect to open up this highway in the next hour or so or sooner. this is all emblematic of houston, and emblem emblematic of wide-spread flooding in this region oklahoma and central texas. 19 people declared dead in the last couple of days from this flooding. we're just in an essential part of the state since yesterday. s

gabriel elizondo al jazeera, mississippi. >> now to sport. >> fifa president sepp blatter has been holdingis news conference and i has used it to say he's not concerned about the u.s. investigation in world football's governing body. the 79-year-old used the stage to question the timing of u.s. prosecutors who arrested seven top fifa officials two days before friday's election. they're accused of corruption and bribery after an fbi investigation. and blatter also hit out at europe's governing body uefa. >> i have said i forgive but i don't forget when it comes to persons and to facts. and i have said all through yesterday i have been elected by 133 national associations, i am the president of everybody. uefa is the biggest program, you have the best competition, you have the best players. but when it comes to clubs if you don't have the players from other continents then it will not be so rich and so good in football. but they have to be an example not only to say fifa they shall help and come in and take responsibility and responsibility you cannot take when you are elected you don't even