as ryan owens now reports. >> their freedom to roam, their quiet strength.any ways, horses symbolize the american west. which perhaps explains why it's so heartbreaking to see cisco. >> yeah, hi, pretty boy. >> this horse is obviously very skinny. how bad off is this horse? >> he's bad off and we're worried about him making it. i have seen him come back from rse, but i have seen him better than this. i give him a 50/50 chance. >> unfortunately, jennifer williams knows the odds far too well. she ones the blue bonnet equine human society in texas and that's more than a full-time job. >> i couldn't afford the care for him. >> i understand. >> cisco's owner called her in desperation a few days ago. >> i can't bathe him. he's lost all this weight. in the last two months. >> lisa willis bought the horse a year ago from the owner who couldn't feed him. >> now i can't feed him. i've got to let him go. >> how does it make you feel? >> very sad. very sad. i wish it wld rain. >> but it hasn't rained here at least not enough to make a difference. so much of texas is in

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ryan owens takes "a closer look" tonight. >> we have a backseat passenger ejected. >> reporter: it's just before midnight saturday night. in the busiest trauma center in the united states, this is pr e primetime. patients are already stacked up in the hall. when two young boys are wheeled in. >> they were both ejected. >> reporter: they'd been thrown out of this car when it slammed into a tree. >> there are many days that if you aren't on a ventilator, you don't get to be in a room. everything else is managed in the hallway outside. >> reporter: houston has roughly 8 million people. here, it's not even close. much of that can be blamed on hurricane ike. last september, the storm dealt a punishing blow to galveston, which wahome to the area's third level one draw ma center. life flight, memorial herman's air ambulance service, now flies to and from galveston a few times a day. >> people that normally would be surviving because of the, the transport time, definitely, i think there's a significant loss of life. >> reporter: it's another reason this trauma center is so busy. remarkably,

ryan owens went to oakwood, texas. >> reporter: oakwood, texas has more cows than people.n street dried up a long time ago, except for that place on the corner. oakwood state bank will turn 100 next year. here's the lobby when woodrow wilson was president. here it is today. >> we claim to be an antique bank run by antiques. there's nobody here under 70. >> reporter: bank president r.r. wiley is 85 and still comes to work everyday writing checks on his typewriter. he has two employees, 76-year-old lela coates -- that's her opening the vault -- and on the adding machine is the 71-year-old neta eldridge. the trio runs america's smallest bank with machines so old they couldn't find anyone to fix them if they ever broke down. >> i ask for 90 cents and that's what i got. >> most of what we do is in our head. but because of the government, we have to keep a certain amount of paperwork. >> reporter: this place redefines bankers' hours. it's open five hours a day. closed at noon for an hour lunch. and if you don't get your money by three in the afternoon, you're out of luck. one mo

ryan owens reports from oakwood, texas. >> reporter: oakwood, texas has more cows than people.n street dried up a long time ago except ft te haplacon the corner. oakwood state bank will turn 100 nepl year. here's the lobby when woodrow wilson was president. here it is today. >> we claim to be an antique bank. we're run by antiques. there's nobody in here under 70. >> reporter: the bank president is 85. he still comes to work every day writing checks on his typewriter. he has two employees, 76-year-old lela coats, that's her opening the vault, and on the adding machine is 71-year-old nedda eldridge. the trio run america's smallest bank with machines so old they couldn't find anyone to fix them if they ever broke down. >> most of what we do is in our head. but for the government we have to keep a certain amount of paperwork. >> reporter: this place redefines banker's hours. it's open five hours a day, closed at noon for an hour lunch and if you don't get your money by 3 in the afternoon, you're out of luck. one more thing this bank doesn't have, an atm. if you want your money, yo

our ryan owens checked it out. >> how are you? >> reporter: dr.s at baylor medical center in dallas. >> my name is dr. woolley. i'm just listening to your lungs. >> reporter: she's also seeing patients at a much smaller hospital, 30 miles away. and she never left the building. >> i'm dr. woolley. i'm one of the critical care physicians at baylor medical center in dallas. >> reporter: how can she be two places at once? because of bessy. a 5'4" robot that weighs 220 pounds. dr. woolley controls bessy through the internet. >> how are you feeling? >> reporter: she can enter a patient's room, using a joy stick. she can check heartbeats. even examine x-rays. if she needs a closer look, she can zoom in on anything from a patient's face, to one of the monitors above the bed. >> physically seeing the patient actually is very valuable to me. i can gather a huge amount of information just by looking at the patient. i can't do that just speaking on the phone. >> reporter: baylor is 1 of more than 250 hospitals in the country using these types of robots. each

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ryan owens, abc news, bixby, oklahoma. >> you do not want to get caught in that guy's cross hairs. >>o what texas is about. we used to tell elementary school trips to the stock yard and these auctions. it really is something to see if you've never been to one. it really is exciting. >> just don't steal those cattle. they're expensive. i didn't realize that. more news comi >> flu fear. how school districts plan to keep classrooms from becoming a breeding ground for swine flu. >> then dead or alive. why the u.s. government is targeting drug cartels in afghanistan. >> and a soldier's generosity helps an organ transplant recipient live after the soldier dies. >> i know he's looking down with pride. i know he is. >> it's tuesday, august 11th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> it really is a remarkable story and regardless of what you think about being an organ donor, the story makes you rethink what you were thinking. i'm vinita nair. >> i'm jeremy hubbard. millions of kids heading back to the classrooms this month as administrators worry about a resurgence of the h

ryan owens, abc news, oakwood, texas. >> i love it. i love it. what a great story. financial guru dale horn is here. what do you think? >> i love it. it looked like she was having a little trouble getting the vault open. but i love stories like that. they didn't get into any of the financial mess, they kept things simple and it paid off. >> and no atm. i love that quote. if you need money after hours -- >> you're up to no good. >> ain't that the truth. thank you for coming in. you often take questions from viewers. one from molly. she said we're starting to save for the first time. we're not interested in investing. we just want to save. we want something that is risk-free and has the opportunity to grow. is there a better option than a traditional savings account from our bank? the interest rate is so low. >> the answer is yes. when you say save and she doesn't want to take risks it's easy to narrow it down to three categories. one is usually your savings account. the second would be cd's or certificates of deposit which you purchase through the bank. then the thir

ryan owens is on the ground and taking a look at how this happened and the cleanup going on. >> reportergood morning, diane and chris. this is an example of some of the damage. this is where you would return your cart in the shopping lot of the walmart. here in hurricane season. everyone in this part of the world, has their eyes on the atlantic ocean. the gulf of mexico. when suddenly, that twister stops by the mall. >> there it is. there's the tail right there. >> reporter: one resident caught the tornado on his cell phone camera, as it swept through town. >> it's starting to come down right there. see it? >> where. >> there it is. >> reporter: a crowded shopping center was quickly turned upside down. cars turned on top of each other. bricks stripped from exterior walls. a kohl's department store roof collapsed on frightened shoppers. >> about half the store's flooded right now. >> reporter: at least ten victims were treatedor minor cuts and scrapes. mostly from flying debris. >> we had a lot of potential for a lot of injuries. just lucky and fortunate. >> when you get daytime heating,