i grew up in the trailer park i grew up in a little small town called pear land texas near galveston i remember sitting on a callous and watching. the first gulf war. two hours ago allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq in kuwait and watching it on the television seeing how quick that win and the hoopla afterward and from the liberated be too. awful great to be an american i had felt the we had lost the ghosts of vietnam. i remember sitting there on the cal said night and thinking most of you know you want to go into you know to go into the military. we got married on the thirtieth of december of ninety six the fire. show and i left on january third of nineteen six to six go on a vietnam so i got spent more on a moment in vietnam all. we wanted from bonked out to bin was where i dare for what they call red tape. you know to get used to the climate and to actually get used to the sounds of war. the first couple of weeks i was terrified every not. and after my first briefing i went back to my bed and i just couldn't sleep i. think i was going to be going to. the

from trailer park i grew up in a little small town called pear land texas near galveston i remember sitting on the calcium and watching. the first gulf war. two hours ago allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq in kuwait and watching it on the television and seeing how quick that it went and the hoopla afterwards from liberated to be true to who we are so great to be an american i had felt the we had lost the ghosts of vietnam. i remember sitting there on the couch said knight and thinking to myself you know you want to go into you know you go into the military. and we got married on the thirtieth of december of ninety six if i. so and i laugh on january third of one thousand six to six going to vietnam so it was why a guy spent mana moment in vietnam of all. we want to try. to been walk where they are for what they call or in taishan period you know to get used to the climate and to actually get used to the sounds of war. the first couple of weeks i was terrified ever not. and after my first break and i want back to my bed not i just couldn't sleep. all i could think

he was able to reach myself in california and our aunt in dallas,texas on a land line. how many know their relatives phone numbers. i'm not meaning picking up your cell phone and clicking, mom. the red cross has a wallet card there is your emergency contact plan where you write down a land line number. we're discovering that text mess anning and e mails work. having the information in your son's back pack or your purse or the car in multiple places so you community with your out of state contact and through that you coordinate your reunionification. >> you have to speak into the microphone. >> it says all the communications will probably be down. >> on your pile of rubble that's your house there is no reason why you can't put a note saying this is where the family is. when you listen to the radios and the radios tell you where the shelters the first thing we set up is communications. you can go there and get communications out. you are right it will be chaotic in the beginning. you have to keep trying. by having everyone's e mail and phone number and the out of state co

our folks are in touch with the texas general land office and we have been in touch with governor perry's office and we are moving forward. right now, there is no presence of oil on the surface over there that would require skimming capability right now. the tar balls are sometimes suspended and come ashore but we are putting skimmers where we need them. we'll keep ordering them. i would rather be pushing supply . >> if the pressure is low at the top of the well, does that indicate that oil is flowing out through some other point of the well and if so, what are the theories of where it's escaping? that is what we are going to determine from the pressure. one could make the case that there is some structural integrity issues with the casing and well bore itself and we won't know until we take the pressure readings and see where the information takes us. it is unknown what happened to that well b omp re at the time of the explosion and the events that followed. and that is the biggest unknown trying to do anything with the well, the top kill or ultimately the bottom kill moving forward. and

nonsenseically, for natural gas, oil, coal leases on public land, we end up forcing capital and developers to move to other states, like in texashere they don't have that red tape with private land. so it's a unique challenge to utah. it makes it more difficult for us than other states. and in our case, as i mentioned earlier, we have a growing population, which we have to in fact education and we have a challenge economically to generate revenue. we get in fact payments in lieu of taxes for public lands. but it's like getting 10 cents on the dollar compared to a patriot tax you would normally have in a state. that being said we have a great state with vistas and venues, national parks, it's a great place to come and visit. our tourism is up. that certainly helps to offset in some ways the lack of development capability. but it's a real challenge in utah because of the large amount of public land that we have uniquely ours in utah compared to other states in the union. host: next call from feans, phoenix, arizona. caller: thank you very much. i haven't heard a lot about how do we after securing the border and employer sanctions

nonsenseically, for natural gas, oil, coal leases on public land, we end up forcing capital and developers to move to other states, like in texas where they don't have that red tape with private land. so it's a unique challenge to utah. it makes it more difficult for us than other states. and in our case, as i mentioned earlier, we have a growing population, which we have to in fact education and we have a challenge economically to generate revenue. we get in fact payments in lieu of taxes for public lands. but it's like getting 10 cents on the dollar compared to a patriot tax you would normally have in a state. that being said we have a great state with vistas and venues, national parks, it's a great place to come and visit. our tourism is up. that certainly helps to offset in some ways the lack of development capability. but it's a real challenge in utah because of the large amount of public land that we have uniquely ours in utah compared to other states in the union. host: next call from feans, phoenix, arizona. caller: thank you very much. i haven't heard a lot about how do we after securing the border and employer sanctio

texas. and vladimir guerrero can still hit. there is a's claw back into the 6th and landid murphy, high, deep, aloha. and a's now off to chicago. football now, raiders open training camp in napa today hoping for addition by substrax z also, some addition bay decision with at rifleal of jason campbell. campbell is dedicated and studus. in other words antirussell. and feels comfortable. >> this is raider nation here, we can win this year. and to do something to help turn it around. >> there is pac-10 gathered today to meet the press. there is cal 7th. oregon faces win the conference title. >> this will be our goal to really get into that training camp. and build a relents physical hustling football team. that we possibly can for opener on september 4th. >> bank of the west classic tonight taking on anna evannovich. crushing the forhand. there is bartolli too strong in this match. there is a 6-3, 6-4, she advances. troy aikman ready to follow in the stoot footh steps of emmitt smith saying he'll be in the new cast of "dancing with the stars" here on abc. tmz caught him on ta

land. the first is to promote projects texas thir expense but second it is unveiling the latest rationalizationhe federal government appetite for land holdings and the fashionable branding of economic planning green jobs. and of course expect any meaningful installation of the economic wind and solar projects or transmission and more of a campaign by allied groups i think bill will know in more detail using the plan water and the endangered species act to block solar rays and transmission out of concern for disturbing the california mojave's will desert tortoise and so on. the green jobs are essentially census jobs exist only as long as the government program underwriting of the jobs does. part of the transfusion they then disappear of the government level this is largely make work but when the private sector engages in it, the research from president obama cited eight times as his model spain shows 90% of the jobs were temporary, that is to say most the installation jobs. but they were created however temporarily at the subsidy cost hundreds of thousands of dollars each similar to the cousin d

texas. it is greatly affecting us. i want to know where all of us can go. >> man, you are exactly in no- man's land. i want you to understand the dilemma here. if your business has been adversely impacted by the moratorium, not the oil spill, the moratorium i think it fair to say that you are not eligible for any of the $100 million moratorium. you are not eligible under the program i am administering. you are not right now, you are only -- your only hope is a lawsuit. i am not advising that because i'm not sure you can win. all i can say to you -- of all the questions i have heard here today, the one that is the most distressing to me is yours because i can only do what i can do. i can help fishermen and shrimpers and oyster harvesters and boats and people who are impacted by the oil spill. that i can help. and i can direct oil rig workers who are harmed by the moratorium to go to the $100 million fund. businesses impacted by the moratorium, i don't have a satisfactory answer to you, at least not now, i don't, i'm sorry. thank you. >> my husband is a charter captain but he is an inland a charter ca

texas. hello. >> caller: yeah, hi, larry. sure going to miss you. and mr. pickens, i've got my 84th car. i've got an oil lease i've signed for my land here.dering, where can i get my car converted to natural gas so i can run my car on natural gas? thank you so much, and good luck on your project. i am really way -- so powerful behind you. >> larry: thank you. when can a car go on natural gas? >> you can get cars now if he lived in paris, france, he could go shopping tonight for a passenger car and look at 40 to 45 cars that are on natural gas. bmws, mercedes, gm, ford. all of them are made there. gm makes 18 and makes none in the united states. >> larry: why? >> because they haven't had a market for it. if there had been a market, gm would have made them. >> larry: he couldn't convert his car to it? >> i don't advise that. but if -- what i am after are the big users of diesel. and those are the 18-wheelers. there are 8 million of them. if i could get those 8 million on natural gas, i could cut opec in half. so that's what i am after. what i want the president to do, two things. one, i want him to tell us that he remembers very well what h

and the guy only did, he was out on his land and he told these people, you're not supposed to be here, and they killed the guy. and in texas, which, we have a river between us, they have a barbed wire fence between them and mexico, and we've got a river twean us, and i have friends -- he talked to a good friend of mine, a former committee commissioner in my blingt, -- county, my home county, who told me that his place down close to the border, that he leaves food and water out for people because he doesn't want them to tear the mace up. he leaves the place unlocked because there used to be mostly economic people looking for jobs coming through there and all they wanted was something to eat and drink but now these thugs are coming across the border, stealing everything that's not nailed down and tearing the place to shreds. these lawless people that come across our border. now, maybe that's why the state of arizona has said, you know what? you fice in the federal government are not doing your -- you guys in the federal government are not doing your job and we're going to help. and, you know, i haven't heard anybody say that

the texas border from laredo to brownsville is home for over two million people. the internationabridges in this region carry thbulk of u.s. land trade between the united states and mexico. the border region is primarily protected by a feral levy -- levee operated by the international boundary and water commission, better known as ipwc. although it's responsible for over 500 miles of levees just on the u.s. side and seven dams, for decades it received approximately $5 million a year for maintenance of those levees. as a result, the corps of engineers' assessment in 2005 showed that hundreds of miles of the levee system were inadequate, too low or too weak to be certified. several of the dams were also of great concern. when theeport was published by border colleagues and i, and i knew we had to work hard and fast to protect the millions of people we represent, we fwan working with the ibwc, the corps of engineers and local officials to get the information we needed to make our case to congress. we thought outside the box. hidalgo county with 750,000 people, one of t fastest growing counties in the nation, worked with ibwc and t

texas. caller: the credit union that i have done business with for over 40 years, i had 4 acres of land unencumbered, no mean or anything. i wanted to purchase a manufacturer of home to put on the land. none of the banks would lend on manufacture bombs. -- manufactured homes. i finally got the loan after looking through several different states with a 7.75% interest rate. my creditéh4( rating is 8.56. i paid all my bills all of my life. i could not get a loan at the normal rock -- the normal market rates. host: was the reason that they denied the loan? caller: they said that they did not make loans on manufactured homes. guest: manufactured clohome leng is a little bit different risk than regular homes. frankly, it is a little like car loans. you buy the unit and you set it up and it is very hard to foreclose on it. it is unfortunate, particularly in the area that she is living in, that community banks have not jump into that business. but i am going to go back to the office and talked to our new mortgage president and see if we can help in that area. it is a good option in those areas. host: of go

texas. all his fellow soldiers gave some, but jesse gave all in his defense for freedom. our brave troopers go to war defending freedom and liberty in faraway lands. in the dark, cold desert night and the parched insufferable desert heat, these brave warriors pay with their blood and sacrifice for freedom and liberty and for america. they sanctify the -- with their blood lands they have never seen and they fight for people they do not know. madam speaker, i have a recent photograph of jesse. here he is in afghanistan. with an afghan farmer. you see, that's what our american troops are doing. they are the greatest ambassadors for freedom and liberty and the american way in the world. here they are, here jesse is, with a person in afghanistan, a nation that jesse and his fellow troopers are liberating. patrick henry once said, the battle, sir is not to the strong, it's to the vigilant, to the active, to the brave. those words still ring true today and our american soldiers carry those values into battle because they are army strong. jesse was such a soldier and family man. he was that hero who has given his life to something bigger than himself. so

texas, two divisions there. it has greatly affected us and i want to know where we can go. >> man, you are exactly in no man's land. let me tell you, i want you to know. i want you to understand the dilemma here. if you are -- if your business has been adversely impacted by the moratorium, not the spill, the moratorium, i think it fair to say you are not eligible for any of the $100 million moratorium. you are not eligible under the program i am administering. you are not. right now, your only hope is a lawsuit. and i've not advising that, because i'm not sure you can win it. all i can say to you is, of all the questions i have heard here today, the one that is the most distressing is yours because i can only do what i can do. i can help fishermen and trappers and the oyster harvesters, and boats -- fishermen and shrimpers and oyster harvesters and boats. those people i can help. i can direct workers who are harmed by the moratorium to go to the $100 million fund. business is impacted by the moratorium, i do not have -- business is impacted by the moratorium, i do not have a satisfactory answer right now. i'm sorr