. >> he is john mccracken, a native who moved to houston eight years ago. he noticed people threatened by rising flood waters and swept into action. >> the current was tough to fight. we had people that refused to leave and get saved. i said what did you do? he said i didn't have time to debate it. there were so many people to rescue, he had to move on and get the other people. the former army veteran who did two tours in iraq rescued 49 people, 11 dogs and two cats. after getting his own family out of the way, he went back and rescued four more people. >> i get goose bumps thinking about it. very proud of him. not only did he serve his country, he's doing his civil duty too. >> mccracken refused to be interviewed saying he wasn't looking for publicity. >> i said you wanted to talk to him. he said no. i said why, you are a hero? he said i'm not a hero. i'm an american. >> he found a dog in the flood waters and couldn't leave it. >> he named it harvey and now it's part of the family. >> mccracken rose above personal tragedy to do heroic work and it's humblin

mccracken has called houston home for the past six years.didn't want to be interviewed but his aunt and uncle spoke to "action news". >> you see lots of sick people and those who couldn't walk, it was hard to get them on and off the boat. the current was tough to fight. >> i got goose bumps just thinking about it. it's very, very, very -- very proud of him, very proud of him. not only did he serve his country, now he's doing his civil duty, too. >> we are also learning more about the victims. 11 deaths have been attributed to the storm including veteran houston police officer steve perez here. he drowned while driving to work. and this storm is officially historic. more than 51-inches of rain have fallen and they are expected to get more rain there. however, it will be lighter. >>> and thousands of people have been displaced from the record rainfall. houston's mayor opened up a second major shelter, the nrg center which welcomed tens of thousands of people overnight. you can see those people walking in now. another 10,000 people are at houst

congress can't pass a law, kenneth mccracken, mccracken, if you own a dapple horse, no dapple horses may be taken into kansas. now, you'd look at that and say, are you people in congress nuts? this is perfectly artificial distinction. this horse is my property, i want to take it with my other property, my pigs, my cats, my dogs, my goats, i want to take them with me to kansas. now congress might pass a statute, but that's going to go into the courts because you're going to sue in federal court and you're going to say, i want due process of law. and courts that respect your right as a citizen will say, you know, congress must have been sniffing something when it passed that statute preventing dapple horses from being taken into kansas. that's crazy. throw that out. due process of law. everybody gets the same process of law applied to them. now transfer that to slave property, to chattel property. if you, ian james, own a slave, and you want to go into the kansas territory, it is an act of arbitrary tyranny for congress to say to you, you can take your cat, you can take your pig, you c

paul mccracken of lynnwood was 52 when he was fired. ocean city toughened retirements to force older life guards to retire. >> the first drug to treat als in 20 years is available. the fda fast tracked its approval after it showed slowing physical decline amongst lou gehrig patients by a third. >>> it was a bittersweet ending tonight in the search for the owner of a long lost high school ring. harry discovered the ring with a metal detector on the playground of an elementary school. the ring from 1990 was i inscrid with the initials ai. t. the owner had died but he presented it to her son. >> i don't have much from my mom's passing, so to have something like this to remember her by is a great honor. i thank the family for finding it. >> this is just one of several items he's returned to their rightful owner. bittersweet. >> unsettled for the weekend. did you see the sun set? >> i did. >> if you missed it, we captured it, sky 6 time lapse 8:05. days are getting shorter, but gorgeous orange and yellow, fair weather clouds out there. beaut

who used his boat to rescue and save nearly 100 people. >>> mccracken has called houston home for thet six years. he didn't want to be interviewed but his aunt and uncle spoke to "action news". >> he has seen lots of sick people and those that couldn't walk. it was hard to get them on and off the boat. the current was tough to fight. >> i got goosebumps just thinking about it. it's very, very -- i'm very proud of him, very proud of him. not only did he serve his country now he's doing his civil duty, too. >> we are also learning more about the victims. 11 deaths have been attributed to the storm including veteran houston police officer steve perez who drowned while driving to work. and this storm is officially historic. more than 51-inches of rain has fallen and they are expecting to get more rain there. however, it will be lighter. >>> and thousands have been displaced from the record rainfall there. houston's mayor opened up a second major shelter. this one here, it's the nrg center which welcomed 10,000 people overnight. and another 10,000 people are at houston's convention center.

first in the ring was peter browne who has been tipped for good things by performance director peter mccrackenifinals. but it was not to be for ben botica who faced a real challenge against the european champion. for siobhan clarke this was his opening bout of the world championships and they do not come much tougher than fighting a cuban great. and he was stopped in the third round. so mixed results for the british teams, one final boxer up the british teams, one final boxer up later today, at mccormick, he faces a tough matchup against one of the tournament favourites. a year on from being a part of team gb‘s bronze medal winning the a by a00 metre relay team, anyika 0nuora has told the bbc how she'd overcome life—threatening malaria before the rio 0lympics. the liverpool athlete has admitted the situation was far worse than she realised at the time. i remember them telling me if i'd left it a day or two days it could have been fatal. i always look back and think gosh, if i wasjust a random person of regular person i would have just taken random person of regular person i would havejust take

paul mccracken sued the town for age discrimination after he lost his job in 2011. he was 52., a cape may county jury sided with him and he got nearly $130,000 in that suit. ocean city spokesperson says the city believes mc crack cep's claim is frivolous clearly the jury did not agreement it's now looking into legal options. >>> we've all seen them by the roadside here in philadelphia. panhandlers looking for some change. a dollar or two to get by. it's a much less common sight in the suburbs but the reality times are tough everywhere. today hank was in south jersey with a couple of guys who say look, have i no other choice here. ♪ >> reporter: how has it been? >> hard. hard. police keep bothering us. >> reporter: it's hank i'm out here on cross keys road in camden and gloucester counties with some of the guys doing panhandling. my take is no one does this for the fun of it. >> ronnie shows me two tickets he got less than an hour apart for panhandling. >> 9/19. tennessee. it just says crossing roadway. >> panhandling is illegal where they are on the border of monroe township.