galveston officials say it will be years before galveston is back where it was but they hope overall,t will come back stronger than it was before. >> everybody wants to stay. that's their home. they lot of it so they continue to rebuild. we wish them the best of luck and, of course, safety safety. >> absolutely. i'm sure they're all holding their breath a little bit with anna and bill out there. we'll see what happens in the coming days. >> thank you, jackie, make sure you send us your ireports. ireport.com will get it on air. of course, we want you to be safe. >>> beyond the talking points, what's really in the health care proposals, we get to the bottom of it with two congressman live. >>> also, 40 years after woodstock, we're still tripping, man. we compare our progressive direct rates, apples to apples, against other top companies, to help you get the best price. how do you do that? with a touch of this button. can i try that? [ chuckles ] wow! good luck getting your remote back. it's all right -- i love this channel. shopping less and saving more. now, that's progressive. call or

where galveston county and galveston island have that opportunity to get ahead of the traffic stream. then you do not want to evacuate certain areas of harris county which are more than 50 miles from the ocean and which are not going to be subjected to devastating high winds or flooding of the kind that would put life in jeopardy. >> mrs. chapman-henderson, do you want to add to that? >> yes. and i'm only familiar with the building code mitigation aspects so i could hardly endorse those aspects. and our partnership wiis probab evenly divided on other insurance issues. with respect to evacuation, it seems the way we would like to look at it is in an ideal sense. differentiating between those that reside in a flood zone or not is step one. we always urge citizens and throughout i think that is union formed that if you live in a flood zone you have to leave because there are too many variables in life safety being a challenge there. beyond that, the homeowner or the business owner or anyone who is seeking to take shelter from a storm that is coming, they have knowledge of what their hous

last september, the storm dealt a punishing blow to galveston, which was home to the area's third level one draw ma center. life flight, memorial herman's air ambulance service, now flies to and from galveston a few times a day. >> people that normally would be surviving because of the, the transport time, definitely, i think there's a significant loss of life. >> reporter: it's another reason this trauma center is so busy. remarkably, memorial herman is the only trauma center in houston with a helipad. from as far as 150 miles away, the choppers all land merhere, hours a day. with so many patients here in need, why aren't more trauma centers opening? you might have guessed by now, it's money. draw ma centers are usually the least profitable part of a hospital, even though they may be the most valuable. consider those two young boys ejected from the car. both are home now. ryan owens, abc news, houston. >> some good news there. >>> and when we come back, a much lighter story. the tiniest tennis player, who could some day be a giant. you've wanted to quit smoking so many times, but those

i grew up in galveston county.o i lived through carless and camille and had never seen anything like that in my life so that is what you're talking about. people can to visualize they are going to come back and see sticks in the ground and not a broken air conditioner, not a broken sank, nothing. it was unbelievable. is that what you mean when you are saying people are not prepared for what is going to happen in their immediate neighborhood? >> they just have a general concept this is going to be a bad invent but cannot personalize it and see it in terms of their own geography where they live and i think that we have now and certainly will have better in the future means of doing the modeling that predicts that impact and the means of delivering that information more effectively. we probably need to study how people respond to different kinds of information that is given to them. i don't think that there is enough research to show how people can conceptualize their personal risk in this kind of event. it's probably

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let's say a hurricane is headed toward galveston. 18 of texas's refineries are near the coast, representing from a storm is likely to send oil and gas prices soars. if the hurricanes moves inland, significant rains could drown out the late season of corn and soy bean, sending their prices skyrocketing. if the price is east of louisiana, it could dramatically affect sugar and cotton, two commodities severely challenged. before you tune out al, remember every inch of rain has the potential to make you some fast money. so weatherman joe, how do we play the rest of the season? >> everyone thinks oil, but that's not the play. you have to go with the refiners that benefits from the price spike as well as being able to continue you have to their production rolling, so sun knocko, away from the gulf, they benefit. this was no a quick, quick trade. here's katrina, 8/26, here's holly corp. this keeps going through the remainder. why? because the fundamentals, physical supply gets so disrupted, this is your trade, and buy a refiner away from the gulf. >> we've been flirting with that $3 level in natur

six miles away in the interior of the city of galveston you have a number of social factors.you have elderly in neighborhoods who are living in older housing stock. you have single-parent low-income wage earners who may not be able to leave the island because of their job requirements. you have people that are, again, they have a medical special need. you have a number of factors that are social factors. and you need to be able to overlay the impact from the physical impact that particular geography with the distribution of these populations within the community that have special risks. we need to be able to evaluate and come pile that as a distribution -- compile that because where the two overlap, social and physical risk, that is the threat geography. that is where we need to do search and clear operations before impact and where you want to be able to get in at the very earliest moment where you can safely re-enter the region with the first responders to check those neighborhoods to see that those people are safe. >> that is all i have right now, mr. chairman. >> mr. nutt

i flew over the area on the other side of galveston where -- over the peninsula.there many times. and i was flying over it and i was thinking gosh this must be a new construction area because there's nothing here. >> that material was ten miles away. >> and that's why all you saw were sticks in the grass. there were no turned over refrigerators, there was no debee, there was nothing. no, i'm not heart of oliver peninsula where all the houses are. and yet there was no debris. that's what people aren't prepared for. i grew up in galveston county. i lived through carla, and i'd never seen anything like it. that's what you are talking about. people can't visualize, they are going to come back and see nothing. it was unbelievable. so that what you mean when you're saying people aren't prepared for what is going to happen, and their immediate neighborhoods? >> they have the general concept, but they cannot personalize it and see it in terms of their own geography where they live. and i think that we have now and we certainly will have better in the future a means of doi

a waterspout and tornadoes touching down in galveston, texas.y that it began as a waterspout but turned into a tornado when it hit the island. a couple of snapshots after the water stopped falling. patti ann: disturbing new details in the 18-year long ordeal of kidnapping victim jaycee lee dugard. police looking into whether her own doctor, the father of her two kids, is also a serial killer. we will speak to mark furman to get his take on the investigation. bill: parents may not be too happy from cdc officials on handling swine flu outbreaks. ñÑ bonus on every single purchase. what you do with it is up to you. what will you get back with your cash back? now more than ever, it pays to discover. what i need to control my diabetes, to stay healthy - and get on with my life. it comes from liberty medical. and now, it's not only where i get my diabetes testing supplies - but it's where i get my prescription drugs as well. see if you're on medicare, the cost of your diabetes testing supplies as well as your prescription drugs may be covered. liberty

tom shires, the chief of surgery, was actually in galveston. basically, they paged the whole resuscitation team. we hope to very much it was a false alarm

galveston in towards houston. here's the way it looks. the air temperature today, 98 to 99.e humidity is up there, too. with that heat index, it will feel like 105 to 110. a beautiful shot of the city. if you want to do anything outside, get over with right now because things will start to heat up. here's the way it looks up toward the north. one thunderstorm line right ahead of another squall. you can see the one that we're zooming in towards central kansas, one severe thunderstorm warning just for hutchinson moving over toward the east. a lot of light anything out of this, a lot of heavy rain first part of the morning. that will fizzle out later today and more will develop towards your north. around nebraska, south dakota right over the line, picking smup rain showers right here. impulses basically off and on all day. you can see all the clouds in place, a lot of humidity out here, too. shower, thunderstorms, some of those could turn severe especially later this afternoon. turns come back with rain for the rockies. more on that in just a little bit. >>> breaking news right

he was actually in galveston giving a paper, but obviously the people in emergency room aren't going to know that. but basically, they paged the whole resuscitation team. and we hoped it wasn't a -- we hoped very much it wasn't -- it was a false alarm. >> right. >> we also were -- there's always a risk that it's not a false alarm. it seemed like two or three minutes after we got the message that the door to the emergency room came open and a patient was rolled in. and that was governor connally, as a matter of fact. and the reason that governor connally was brought in first i believe was because he was sitting in the jump seat. >> they had to remove him before -- >> right. they had to get the governor out of the way and brought him in first. we looked at governor connally and he had a -- a large wound in the front of his chest. and he was actually unconscious from the abnormal breathing that results from that large wound. we knew he was hurt badly. we figured we could treat him if that was all that was wrong and we knew it wasn't the president. it didn't occur to either delaney or i

host: galveston, texas. the independent line.r: my question is -- why this city's do not resist more when the federal mandates come down and the unfunded. i will hang up. guest: that is a great question. we do resist, but as you can imagine, if a federal mandate comes down that is unfunded or a state mandate, it is difficult for cities to resist. i can tell you that youngstown and time has challenged the state of ohio on certain issues where we believe our sovereignty as a city or independents or home rule authority is being challenged. but there is always a leverage of the federal or state funding that the federal or state government has. we just don't lie down quietly. if we believe something is unfair we will look -- work with the state delegation in congress. you can imagine their often heated pitched battles when it comes to unfunded mandate -- mandates that are pushed down to cities that collectively have fewer resources. host: >> -- next call on the republican line, leavenworth, kansas. caller: i, and then a question for t

that's going on in parts o the e country, we are looking at excessive heat warnings stretching from galvestonp to houston on into tulsa, oklahoma. heat warnings in yuma and phoenix where it f like it's about 115 degrees. dar temperatures to y, today, sizzling103las vegas, 10 gas, rest of thco e f oy,coe uny,trtritbitl lte temperate. temperatures in the 60s and 70s up around the great lakes and on into new england. 70s and 60s along the pacific northwesrthw;;;;; >>> sun's up and a partly cloudy sky. the fifth day of august, good morning. live picture now from our city camera showing the view over the potomac river, now 75 in washington, near 70 in montgomery, fairfax and prince george's county. warmer south and east, more humid, too. not as humid farther to the west and north where it's in the upper 60s. should reach the mid to upper 80s and a likely afternoon and evening shower. might have a and that's your latest weather. ann? >> all right, al, thank you. >>> and now to a stunning development involving the driver who caused a deadly wrong-way crash in new york. "today" nationa