the houston chronicle reports a grand jury refused to issue indictments in the death of sandra bland. the sheriff says she hanged herself inside a texas jail. planned's family disputes that. cruiser dash cam shows the july traffic stop that led to bland's arrest. the grand jury will decide in january if that trooper should face charges. usa today reports bill cosby is suing another one of the women the comedian filed a suit against model beverly johnson, citing emotional distress. last week he sued several other women t. women are suing him for defamation, claiming his lawyers branded them liars. nearly 50 women claim cosby drugged or sexually assaulted them. the orlando sentinel reports guests at seaworld, orlando, are safe after getting stuck on a ride two hours. sky tower broke down coming to a stop about a quarter of the way up the 400 foot pole. 50 guests and two employees were on board. crews eventually managed to lower it to the ground. in the "new york times" report, martin sclelhkreli is out of a job. he was fired by pharmaceuticals following his arrest on securities fraud. h

. >>> "the houston chronicle" reports on the election of the city's next mayor. long time democratic lawmaker sylvester turner narrowly bill king in a runof eleltion. his priorities are keeping the roads safe and keeping the finances in order. the 61-year-old mayor-elect was nothing but smiles after two earlier mayoral bids that fajled. >> hey, man, i feel excited. i mean, it feels good. i'm not going to lie to you. >> houston hasn't elected a republican mayor in more than three decades. ;>> "wall street journal" reports women in saudi arabia voted and ran fofooffice for the first time. saudi has elected at least a dozen female candidates to municipal councils following saturday's national elections. municipal councils are the only p elected offices in the ultra conservative monarchch >>> "usa today" reports a fire killed nearly two dozen patients in a russian psychiatric hospital. the fire broke out ithe one-story brick building late saturday. 350 miles south of moscow. 23 patients died and another 23 were injured. the cause is under >>> the bbc reports that jul

according to the houston chronicle, the driver bought this 2006 for a million dollars. and then drove it into a lagoon about a month later. the car was insured, for more than 2 million dollars. a stranger who just happened to be admiring the car, shot this video, when the car went off the road. >>> actor james com well is among half a dozen people plant. he -- power plant. he blocked the entrance. protesters say toxins from the plant will cause health problemss in that area. he of course is known for his work in the movie babe, american horror story and the green mile. his wife met with survivors and family members of those killed in san bernardino, california. hours before the first family arrived in hawaii for their two-week christmas vacation. his weekly radio address, he took a page from david letterman and read the first top ten reasons he is optimistic for 2016. >> the number one reason, it's you. the american people. all of this progress is because of you. because of workers rolling up their sleeves and it ging the job done -- getting the job done, because of tea

according to the houston chronicle the driver got a 2006 bugatti and drove it into a lagoon. one month later it was insured for $2 million. a stranger shot the video when the car went off the road. second, a lamborghini. >> have heard of that but while. bested. what are the chances of that? >> whenever i am out in public, anywhere, someone so many me. all day long. somebody is not nice to me in the store. i say hi. thank you very much. because somebody's filming me. >> you don't want to end up on youtube. >> you never know. we are chilly out there this morning. not horrible. >> it's a nice night, a nice morning and temperatures are not going to be that bad. it's seasonable. less land than yesterday. so if you thought that was wendy when chills are down in the 20s. temperatures in the lower 30s and as you head to tomorrow is mild air comes in. it will bring in some clouds so anytime you get a transition of air mass you end up with clouds. temperatures in the 50s. that be showers around. take a look at the forecast. today upper 30s and we're in the 50s. record high temperatures

the rarity of grand jury's not indicting noting the recent houston chronicle investigation found that police have been nearly immune from criminal charges in shootings in recent years. research by a criminologist found that officers are rarely charged in on-duty killings. what would be best to show is the frequency of indictments at the grand jury level. it allows police officers to shoot to kill as long as they believe their life is in imminent danger which wilson has said he believed was the case. invent eaton, we are getting your thoughts. glenn tell us the story. i would likething to say is that you ought to get glenn beck on there because he foretold this five years ago with his chalkboards and everything. on the grand jury, when i was on a grand jury, i was there for a week. it started out with a video. , thelaw and order prosecutor explained what they are doing in the local prosecutor mostly for drug charges. probably about 20 cases in of the 20 we elected not to indict one guy out of 20. but what i learned is the police have what they call no knock warrants. they don't have to

just recently the houston chronicle reported next year that the houston area patients won't have access to any plans on the obamacare exchange that cover costs at m.d. anderson, the premier cancer treating facility in america. if you can't buy insurance to cover catastrophic events like cancer at the hospital of your choice, what good is it? as a matter of fact, i remember our former colleague, senator tom coburn from oklahoma, who sort of, he's used up most of his nine lives but he's experienced cancer at least three times to my recollection and he actually was seeking treatment at m.d. anderson and he said as a result of obamacare he no longer could get coverage from the insurance policy that he had because m.d. anderson wasn't an acceptable provider under the obamacare policy. today i want to provide a very quick snapshot of the thousands of letters that i received, and i'm sure they're typical of the letters that we have all received about -- from our constituents about the problems they've encountered with obamacare. one of my constituents recently wrote me to tell me her story, an

in 2008, "the houston chronicle" declared -- quote -- "we are approaching peak oil sooner than many people would have thought." end quote. two years later, "the new york times" reported on a group of environmentalists who -- quote -- argue that oil supplies peaked as early as 2008 and would decline rapidly, taking the economy with it. yet here we are. nobody envisioned the kind of energy revolution that we're seeing in the united states, in north dakota, in texas, in other oil and gas-producing states. with new and creative technologies, it produced more energy with better environmental stewardship. back in 2011, i asked then-interior secretary salazar to have the u.s. geological survey to do a new study to update the estimates of recoverable reserves in the williston basin. in april of 2013, the results came in and they were profound. the usgs found that there are approximately 7.4 billion barrels of technical ly recoverable barrels of oil in williston basin which is nearly twice the previous estimate. the upper end of that estimate is 11.4 billion barrels of recoverable oil. it's about t

. >> the houston chronicle reports a hoverboard that forced police to evacuate a houston area shopping mall. witnesses say the board was still in its box, but it caught on fire inside a kiosk at the mall filling the immediate area with smoke t. fire was extinguished. the mall quickly reopened. google is tracking more privacy experts. they are tracking children's data in self targeted ads. more than half laptops or schools for dradz k through 12 were chrome books. they run on google software. google says it is committed to keeping students information private and secure. a southern california gas company says it has pinpointed the location of a noxious gas leak in los angeles. the fumes captured by an infrared camera forced thousands of people from their homes in the neighborhood. the company says it couldld be months before the leak is plugged. we see the toll on families. >> reporter: an underground well in the hills of porter ranch is leaking. this infrared camera shows methane gas billowing into the air. it was shot by the environmental defence fund. a law firm representing several

host: our guest house written for the houston chronicle. graduate of george washington university and is a congressional reporter for politico. john, florida, republican line, good morning. good morning, joan. i meant to joan. that is fine. that is the masculine of joan. i would like to make a comment as far as the republicans, democrats, an independent. and donald trump us his popularity with people in the united states. take exception, lauren, to your saying he is tapping into the year. it is reality. it is a reality. this is the only how we live in the united states since 9/11, ask anyone in the northeast. i have a niece that works on wall street in manhattan and is rate every time she has get on the bus and take very her that she will get trapped on the bus i a terrorist attack. donald trump is actually telling the american people what the democrats and with the ts have not said to the gentleman from tennessee is correct, nothing has been done. it has been in fighting like a bunch of little kids in the sandbox, throwing sand in each oth