they called him padre bali and the island is named after him. what happened is he got a spanish land grant and he got padre island, he split it with his nephew. what they started doing over 200 years ago was cattle ranching. that's how it started out with his name. and it actually did very well for him and his nephew. once he passed away, the land that was his was split between his other relatives. so his nephew and other relatives would have most of the island to ranch on and eventually they would sell it bit by bit by bit. and over time, the island went through many, many hands. it stayed mostly a cattle ranch. here i am in a huge prairie. you wouldn't know it by looking at it, but over the dunes there is the gulf of mexico. we've got all these great grasslands here. eventually the land ended up mostly in the hands of a man named patrick dunn. this was in the 1870s. the story of patrick dunn is a pretty amazing one. he was born in corpus christi in 1858. in his teenage

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i make two visits per year, one from texas, padres island and one to yellowstone national park.ellowstone national park in the wintertime is completely overrun with snowmobiles. it has really gotten out of control. a lot of people are making a lot of profit. you go into the nearest town and it is just covered with snowmobiles to be rented. host: thanks for the call. cape lookout national seashore in north carolina is part of the national park service. this is what it looks like as we listen to barbara joining us from marlton, new jersey. good morning. caller: hello. host: go ahead, please. caller: when i was working, i'm retired now. when i was working, every day my friends and i would go right across the street from where we worked to independence hall. and we'd have lunch right on the grounds. and once in a while we'd go inside. it was very easy to do. that was when the liberty bell was very close by and since then has been relocated. but was wonderful working right across the street from the national monument, independence hall. host: we were there for the democratic national

the dolphin swimming off the coast of texas, south padre island was entangled in fishing gear. on monday rescue crews seaworld captured the dolphin and removed more than 3 pounds of fishing lines and hooks from its body and gave the mammal a physical and antibiotics before releasing it back into the ocean. >>> heart doctors across the country are using a new kind of stint to prop open blocked arteries. it dissolves over time in the body, so it leaves no trace of metal. nbc's erica edwards reports. >> reporter: traditional stints work well to open up work is done, they believe behind a parting gift, a tiny piece of metal. now new technology allows stints to completely dissolve inside the body leaving nothing but a clear artery in its place. >> this is really cool. >> reporter: dr. david rizig at shea medical center in scottsdale, zone, were among the first in the country to use the new stint called absorb. the stint resembles traditional metal stints and appear to be just as safe and effective. several years after the procedure. >> three to five years down the road you're going

i make two visits per year, one from texas, padres island and one to yellowstone national park. yellowstone national park in the wintertime is completely overrun with snowmobiles. it's really gotten out of control. a lot of people are making a lot of profit. you go into the nearest town and it is just discovered with snowmobiles to be rented. host: thanks for the call. cape lookout national seashore in north carolina is part of the national park service. this is what it looks like as we listen to barbara joining us from marlton, new jersey. caller: hello. host: go ahead, please. caller: when i was working, i'm retired now, when i was working, every day my friends and i would go right across the street from where we worked to independence hall. and we'd have lunch right on the grounds. and once in a while we'd go inside. it was very easy to do. that was when the liberty bell was very close by and since then has been reliked but was wonderful working right across the street from the national monument, independence hall. host: we were there for the democratic national convention. m

island. >> first, steve overmyer is here with a quick check on sports. >> tonight yankees stadium will be host to alex rodriguez's final game with the yankees and the mets are hosting the padres. yesterday the mets got swept by arizona while the yankees beat boston 4-2, and the jets won their preseason opener over is man: at that moment, it hit me -- this is why i joined the guard. i couldn't believe it. i just saved a life. somebody from my hometown. announcer: be there for your community, >>> let's get to traffic and weather on the 2's. john, what about today. >> we've got light rain through parts of passaic, down through morris and essex county and through the city as well. parts of staten island, brooklyn, you'll see few minutes. the keyword there is light. i want to point out you're weigh seeing nice skies into parts of the hudson valley. it's the heat and humidity later where we see the possibility of some pop-up storms. some of those could bring in localized flooding. heat and humidity stay up through sunday, scattered thunderstorms each day. sunday i think the busier of the two. getting a little busy at 8 minutes until 6. >> good morning everyone. as you make your way

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what they did is they came out to padre island. what made it ideal for cattle ranches, even if you didn't have the barbed wire, was that you didn't need a fence for most of it. you had water on most sides of the island. patrick dunn came out here, and he was so successful, he ended up owning most of the northern part of padre island. he would have his cattle out here. he would have cows or vaqueros as they're called in spanish. you think about how do you get those cattle to market. in the 1900s and into the teens and 20s, he would have these three stations, and they're called line camps. what they would do, certain times of year they would bring the cattle, starting in the south, bring them to those line camps and the cattle could be, if you went from sunup to sundown, you could get those cattle to go about 15 miles. so there are three line camps and they're all about 15 miles apart. how were these line camps built? if you look around me, you'll see there's no trees. there's almost no trees on this island. it's amazing. there's one