john corrigan is in the sam houston line. there is not as much written about him but as the riches of sam houston but he was a wonderful writer. when he reported on the revolution here is what he wrote. this was 1836 right after the battle, the man of texas deserves much credit the more so the women facing a foe but the women with there little children aound them without means of defense or power to resist faced the danger and death with unflinching courage. and i think that acknowledgement of the role of women back in the 1830's was so appropriate. i wanted to make sure that the role of women in texas just like america was part of our history. i do talk about the revolution and the women who were there and the love of sam houston but she loved the secretary of state so there is a part about her and pretty soon aer s rejected him houston went to alabama and they had almost instant love the one that lasted for i have two chapters because they wrote so many letters she did not accompany him very much and also very cultured and

sam houston's trying to find an army and design an army. meanwhile, santa ana is feeling undefeatable. so he approaches the area of what is now called the plains. that is outside of houston, on the eastern side of houston, where the buffalo river meets harrisburg. and on a peninsula there, in a march, sam houston had decided he was going to fight. yet to have fought a battle, the mexican army yet to be defeated, general sam, as we call him, had an army of about 900 that he assembled. once again volunteers, once again from people all over the united states, and once again texanos, texans of spanish dissent, had assembled together to do battle -- on april 22. however, sam houston assembled a war council, his commanders said, we're not waiting until tomorrow. battles usually take place in the morning, when the sun comes up. but on an afternoon in the heat of the day, sam houston decided he was going to attack the mexican forces. of santa ana. history says -- tradition primarily says that sam houston was busy and occupied by the yellow rosef tex

defend themselves against santa ana as armies that lasted for about a year but finally general sam houston leading these volunteers defeated santa ana at a place called saniel sento and in defeating the president general of mexico they were able to force him to sign a treaty. the treaty formed a new nation so that he would never again come across the rio grande river to bother of the people in texas any more treaty also said. the land of texas. belonged to the people who lived on the land of texas for ever and that's a treaty that is perpetual it doesn't go away. so what is the republic of texas now it is the land of texas one of texas does not belong to the us doesn't belong to the federal government it launched of the people. who live here. and there is no federal land if they want land in texas they have to lease it from a spring there are military bases school. ok go not. fall off the hip. if. what the republic of texas is today in the early to thousands. the number of people got together and said you know what the farmland is still ours and if there's a perpetual treaty that says we a

. >> what sam houston johnson? >> sam houston johnson was a reprobate. he was lyndon's quite younger brother. the girls incidentally never had any problems with it. they were always supportive, there was not any sibling rivalry there, interesting. but he was such a roust about, round about, that they kept him in the white house for most of lyndon johnson's term on the third floor as a guest, and i said it's kind of like house arrest, because there they could keep an eye on him and kind of know what he was up to. and he knew that. he would go through the gates of the white house joking with the guards, holding his hands up as though they were in handcuffs. >> what about billy carter and jimmy? >> billy carter, again, much younger. he actually did business with libya, the outlaw nation of libya. >> you said $275,000. >> yes, quite a lot of money. and the idea that with his brother in the white house, that he would have anything to do with a nation that was an outlaw in every sense, with terrorists, with all of the things that were anti-american, that he wo

never heard sam houston around. seeing they whipped three straight. how about jeb lawry.had four rbis as a matter of fact. he's happy with his start and the team's. but he knows you can't make too much of games at the start of the season. >> you have to continue the same mind set and know that over the course of the season you're going to be where you want to be. >> it does feel good. you always want to come out of the gates hot and win some baseball games early. the adage is you can't win the division in april but you can lose it. so obviously you want to come out and win some baseball games and really it's, the team we have. we show up to play and we're ready to go from day one. >> a's will play houston again. >>> meantime one of the great voices in all of sports broadcasting history. pat sum era ll has passed away. just hearing his voice was magic for all football fans over the years and he broadcast 16 super bowls just to mention one of his great accomplishments. he's passed away at the age of 82. no details were given. he teamed of course with the great john madden f

defend themselves against south and as armies that lasted for about a year but finally general sam houston leading these volunteers defeated santa ana at a place called sandhya sento and in defeating the president general of mexico they were able to force him to sign a treaty. the treaty formed a new nation so that he would never again come across the rio grande river to bother of the people in texas any more tree also said. that the land of texas. belonged to the people who lived on the land of texas for ever and that's a treaty that is perpetual it doesn't go away. so what is the republic of texas now.

defend themselves against south and i was armies that lasted for about a year but finally general sam houston leading these volunteers defeated santa ana a place called sanyo sento and in defeating the president general of mexico.

defend themselves against south and i was armies that lasted for about a year but finally general sam houstonleading these volunteers defeated santa ana at a place called sandhya sento and in defeating the president and general of mexico they were able to force him to sign a treaty. the treaty formed a new nation so that he would never again come across the rio grande river to bother the people in texas any more tree also said. that the land of texas. belonged to the people who lived on the wound of texas for ever and that's a treaty that is perpetual it doesn't go away. so what is the republic of texas. is the land of texas one of texas does not belong to the u.s. doesn't belong to the federal government it launches of the people. who live here. and there is no federal land if they want land in texas they have to lease it from a spring there are military bases school. ok going to.

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defend themselves against santa ana i was armies that lasted for about a year but finally general sam houston leading these volunteers defeated santa ana at a place called saniel sento and in defeating the president general of mexico they were able to force him to sign a treaty. the treaty formed a new nation so that he would never again come across the rio grande river to bother of the people in texas any more tree also said. nothing of the land of texas . belonged to the people who lived on the wound of texas for ever and that's a treaty that is perpetual it doesn't go away. so what is the republic of texas now it is the land of texas one of texas does not belong to the us doesn't belong to the federal government and the last of the people. who live here. and there is no federal land if they want land and. texas they have to lease from a spring there are military bases school. ok go not. fall off to him all if. what the republic of texas is today in the early two thousand is. a number of people got together and said you know what the film land is still ours and if there's a perpetual treaty

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sam, you have been tracking those for us. >> soaking rain. you know it's a tough rainstorm when your car is floating down the street. people saw that in houstonver the weekend. eight inches of rain. look at that. enough water, knee-high in streets, eight inches in some homes. so, this is a lot of water. 150 water rescues in just a few hours. and then, as that began to move east over the weekend, that continued to dump rain and storms. pictures of funnel clouds in leah, georgia. some places just south of atlanta got three inches of rain. that's about 75% of the normal april rainfall coming in one storm system. today, from florida to new york city. the heaviest rain, areas shaded in red, two to three inches. and then some records. palm springs, 98, phoenix, 103. that's an awful lot of heat. >> with 72 in bismarck, coming up in the next half hour, we'll talk about the snow melt. what happened with the snow pack up there. >> thank you. >>> a story about a young man who suffers from tourette's syndrome, forbidden by jet blue from flying with them because he couldn't stop saying the word bomb. he warned the airline beforehand but he was still groun