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police in harris county texas pulled over a dummy and dummy's driver. this drive didn't have a second passenger that would let him in to the hov lane, he created one. a police officer wrote a ticket. >>> a 10 year old sends a thank you note talking about a mop can i and bacon tuxedo to a meteorologist. what happened when the two finally met. >>> peg sis is back. ready to party at the preakness infield. how he got fans ready for opening day. >>> a thank you note i could only treatment about getting sent from a student to a meteorologist and compliments he was as awesome as a monkey wearing a bacon tuxedo. the letter has gone viral since shared on a facebook page. now 10 year old and meteorologist have been reunited. it's beautiful. andrew has their story. >> reporter: it's been the thank you letter read around the world. powered by the mind of a 10 year old and meant for the meteorologist who visited his school. never before had albert ramone received anything like it. never before had anyone. even pictures were included. i shared it on mispersonal faceb
police in harris county texas pulled over a dummy and dummy's driver. this drive didn't have a second passenger that would let him in to the hov lane, he created one. a police officer wrote a ticket. >>> a 10 year old sends a thank you note talking about a mop can i and bacon tuxedo to a meteorologist. what happened when the two finally met. >>> peg sis is back. ready to party at the preakness infield. how he got fans ready for opening day. >>> a thank you note i...
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. >> bruce carr has a federally funded human trafficking task force for harris county, texas. >> we have a big problem in the houston area with a lot of spas popping up in the outlying areas of the county. >> we're going to work off of case number 547. >> the task forces mission, root out sex traffickers, hiding behind the city's many massage parlors and spas. >> our operation today, we're going to go into the vip spa. >> today's target, one of the 500 massage parlors or spas who use women who have been illegally trafficked from asia. >> this is the advertisements that they're advertising right here. they're talking about the age of the girls. then they're saying open seven days a week. and they have all these explicit pictures. >> the owners or operators of the spas do little to hide the fact that there's sex for sale. page through dozens of online sites and buyers can hand pick the girl they want down to her ethnicity and bra size. today's target is a place in the past where officers have rescued trafficked women, but after shutting it down, it's reopened under new ownership. this brin
. >> bruce carr has a federally funded human trafficking task force for harris county, texas. >> we have a big problem in the houston area with a lot of spas popping up in the outlying areas of the county. >> we're going to work off of case number 547. >> the task forces mission, root out sex traffickers, hiding behind the city's many massage parlors and spas. >> our operation today, we're going to go into the vip spa. >> today's target, one of the 500...
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and so what happened was counties all around the country like dallas county, like harris county in houston, texasey just didn't get these fees anymore. so, you know, multiply $100 million for that one county in texas by all the counties in america and you get a sense of the scale of the tax evasion that we're talking about. >> last quote from the article. where we stand now. you say "this, meaning today, is the cross roads where bank of america now lives. this confluence, trying to convince the government to allow it to remain in business stress testing while it avoids paying back billions of institutional customers it screwed, all the retiree that's got scalped by these people, still do. we saw the goldman sachs article today. really goes to a vacant culture. >> right. absolutely. look, this company is sort of a symbol of what's going on generally in wall street. they screwed all of these clients. >> it's a cultural failure. >> it's a cultural failure. they're not acting on the best interests of their clients. they're trying to get something from their clients. they're trying to scalp them for a
and so what happened was counties all around the country like dallas county, like harris county in houston, texasey just didn't get these fees anymore. so, you know, multiply $100 million for that one county in texas by all the counties in america and you get a sense of the scale of the tax evasion that we're talking about. >> last quote from the article. where we stand now. you say "this, meaning today, is the cross roads where bank of america now lives. this confluence, trying to...
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i want to take you to the tornado warning in effect for central harris county in southeast texas. that does include the highs ton metro area. guys, when a tornado warning for your county, that's it. you have to seek shelter right away. if you know anyone out there, head's up. this particular storm system is who having northeast at 30 miles an hour. it is indicated that this particular thunderstorm has strong rotation. there currently could be a tornado on the ground or very shortly. go to the basement or try to stay away from end with dose on the lowest level of your home. these storms will track eastward and produce very heavy rain. 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
i want to take you to the tornado warning in effect for central harris county in southeast texas. that does include the highs ton metro area. guys, when a tornado warning for your county, that's it. you have to seek shelter right away. if you know anyone out there, head's up. this particular storm system is who having northeast at 30 miles an hour. it is indicated that this particular thunderstorm has strong rotation. there currently could be a tornado on the ground or very shortly. go to the...
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in overcast houston, texas, and it seems like just another sleepy saturday morning at this airport hotel. but behind closed doors in room 106 investigators of harris county's human trafficking task force are laying a trap. >> what we're doing basically is just trying to hook up our camera equipment inside the room here and make sure we've got a clear shot. >> the camera is focused on this bed right here so this area, if you sit down, that's the best shot right there. >> undercover investigators set up their surveillance cameras and equipment. their target -- prostitutes, their pimps and the men who exploit them. >> we're looking at underage mainly. what i did is target the 18 to 20, 21-year-olds. >> investigators troll the online ads which read like a takeout menu for those with specific fetishes and fantasies. >> big, beautiful women, slutty, sexy and petite. want to have a freaky friday? pregnant females. that's a fetish for some guys. >> bruce carr runs a federally funded sex trafficking task force for harris county. he says it's an uphill battle where men exploit any young girl they can control. >> and it's very sad because those particular girls, a lo
in overcast houston, texas, and it seems like just another sleepy saturday morning at this airport hotel. but behind closed doors in room 106 investigators of harris county's human trafficking task force are laying a trap. >> what we're doing basically is just trying to hook up our camera equipment inside the room here and make sure we've got a clear shot. >> the camera is focused on this bed right here so this area, if you sit down, that's the best shot right there. >>...
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and the state of texas, we're spending huge amounts of money because we had six million people who were uninsured. $1.1 million in my county, harrisounty, uninsured. 20% of the state's children were uninsured. 2009, we needed the affordable care act. there is a reason why it's called the affordable care act. because upon passing it it's projected still that it will, and this is per c.b.o., that it will save $1 trillion-plus over a 20-year period. this bill, this legislation reduces the cost of care. and it was something that had to be done. but quaily as important as reducing the cost of -- but equally as important as reducing the cost of care, it spreppeds health care -- spreads health care. about 50 million people but who for this bill would not receive some health care. i do believe that it's important that we not have 45,000 people per year die because they don't have insurance. that's a lot of folks to lose their lives. we were losing about one person every 12 minutes, i believe. this is an important piece of legislation to save lives. it saves money. but equally as important as saving money, in my world, more important is th
and the state of texas, we're spending huge amounts of money because we had six million people who were uninsured. $1.1 million in my county, harrisounty, uninsured. 20% of the state's children were uninsured. 2009, we needed the affordable care act. there is a reason why it's called the affordable care act. because upon passing it it's projected still that it will, and this is per c.b.o., that it will save $1 trillion-plus over a 20-year period. this bill, this legislation reduces the cost of...