there has been a movement of flight hours and funding towards the south texas area. i don't necessarily for c arizona to drop any further than it is right now and i don't believe that this drop in any way shows a lack of interest from air and marine into that area. tucson as it is is the largest branch we have. i would probably say the agents are somewhere around 80 total. it has more air assets than anybody else and flies more than anybody else. it is still a center in the central united states. have blackhawks, citations for air interjections, and aes .-350's it is a hub for us in the southwest region. >> chief luck, do you have any comments on that? >> i would just add based on your opening statements that we are testing other things, other unmanned aerial systems to fill a gap and we are going to test some -- small uas in arizona here coming next month. so that is a gap filler for needed air requirements in southern arizona , and south texas and we're also vermont to seein the capability. so we have come quite a long ways with regard to suas and filling gaps in a

so this story is more from the heart of the book so i went to medical school in south texas in before started med school my island was hit by a hurricane. i ate devastated the town and in the aftermath the hospital which historically was a charity hospital there wasn't a doctor in texas could not get care they would send them to galveston and know that they would get care. with the hospital changed very abruptly police stopped doing any charity care and patience at galveston were sent four letters that said for example, due to a cost of hurricane ike dr. cameron will no longer be a doctor. that included patients who had cancer or chronic diseases, complicated diseases. and what happened after hurricane make -- ike that defined my experience as a medical student in the doctor was becoming so this story is about the doctor and she refused to abandon her patients so this is about her. >> what is a surgeon with our operating room? what does the good doctor do with that institution tells her to abandon her patients and they need her help? susan began to find her own answers her gaullists a

the south texas human rights center was founded in brooks county. initially, the effort was that people were being buried without dna not being taken and so we undertook that advocacy and changed that practice. 2016, there2004 and has been over 665 migrant deaths and bodies in skeletal remains that have been recovered only and brooks county. corridor of migraon from central america and from mexico. people are trying to circumvent that checkpoint -- it is about 15 miles. on thursday, we tried to mitigate prevent people from dying. we have water stations, over about 115 in brooks county and surrounding counties and kind of the beginning routes that people may take during the route and some of the ranches that people allow the humanitarian efforts. we wereecking water and at one of the stations. normally i telltale sign is buzzards and then i smelled the decay of the animal or body. i looked for a little bit and could not find anything. there is high-pressure there. i moved on to finish my route. back, we look again. sure enough, we found a body of an

if it was a guy from south texas, i might ask him to step outside and settle this aaron burr-style. >> reporter: when the white house passed the bill in may, the president had a rose garden party brimming with optimism. >> we're going to get this passed through senate, i feel so confident. >> reporter: but by late june, the president recognized senate republicans might have reached an impasse. >> if we don't get it done, it's just going to be something that we're not going to like, and that's okay. >> reporter: the white house has privately discussed retribution against any republicans who vote against proceeding to debate on repeal and replace legislation. now, senior advisers here know that senate passage of any healthcare bill is a long way off, but defeat on this elemental question would mark a new low in the president's fractious relationship with the republican-controlled congress. anthony? >> mason: major garrett at the white house. thanks, major. the president's son-in-law, a key campaign adviser and now a key white house adviser, answered questions today on russian meddling i

and that clearly stuck in his south texas craw. saying. >> it reminds me of when you and i first met in 1991 at the clarence thomas hearings. that whole jemder thing still -- >> it kind of keeps coming back. someday we will not be saying female senators. it will be a surprise or annoyance to people as it seem to be to the congressman. >> jeremy, here we've got sessions twisting in the wind, there's no other way -- michael short, the deputy press secretary, has resigned, so the cleaning-out, if you will, and i use that term, you know, with air quotes, of the sean spicer team, how reince priebus is hanging on since everybody else is being marched out the door. >> i know that we need a reince priebus/jeff sessions support group. >> or a sort of hour clock. >> that too. sand through the hourglass. >> right. and it may not be the only high-profile departure by the e end of the week the way things are going for jeff sessions. does fot look very good. >> will he have to quit, though? >> i don't see how. >> excuse me. i meant to say won't

i hope we can say it's a cow with fever tick or not in south texas. is that being done. >> as far as systems we have with integrated fixed towers in many so of the mobile surveillance capabilities that is being done. we have multiple layers. you have the radars. then you have the camera florida skew to the movement and an alarm that goes off in the control room that will is a say intsz of 100 camera that is an officers or agent has to look if there is analarm that says there is incursion and skews over and helps with that. that's the automation we're looking for we have bjork to do so it all talks together withalm the systems we have amongst the components but naesway what we're. >> do you have of an integratedpicture back at headquarters or does the joint task force west have an integrated picture down in san antonio on the southwestern border? >> they don't have an integrated picture they can cue to to look at the activity. >> gotcha. >> and see that. >> and does theindividual agent on the ground -- i was recently in delrio humping through some cane

during the 15-hour drive into south texas it got much hotter inside the truck, like an oven san antonioolice chief, william mcmahon is said an employee spotted the parked truck. >> he was approached by some one from the truck asking for water. he came back with the water. called the police. we arrived on the scene. and found eight people dead in the back of that trailer. >> reporter: in federal court this morning. federal agents said the driver, james bradley, told them he parked the truck and heard banging and shaking in the trailer. he opened the door and was run over by spanish people. 30 to 40 of them scattered. he then noticed bodies just lying on the floor like meat. but bradley himself never called 911. and admitted knowing the truck's refrigeration system did not work. police found 29 people alive, all of them, still hospitalized. one survivor said his group had help rafting across the rio grand from the zetas cartel one of mexico's most violent criminal gangs. immigration system needs to be fixed. >> an immigration lawyer here. >> we are going to continue to see what we saw wit

this is something that because of the highway systems and the road systems through this part of south texasgling and moving people in these types of containers and trucks, some something that investigators see quite often. >> so tragic, thank you very much. >> next, a presidential pardon is not on the table. why is the president floating the issue on twitter, we'll discuss next. choose laquinta. where you'll feel like the king of the road. check out our summer rates now at lq.com. fothere's a seriousy boomers virus out there that's been almost forgotten. it's hepatitis c. one in 30 boomers has hep c, yet most don't even know it. because it can hide in your body for years without symptoms, and it's not tested for in routine blood work. the cdc recommends all baby boomers get tested. if you have hep c, it can be cured. for us it's time to get tested. ask your healthcare provider for the simple blood test. it's the only way to know for sure. yeah, and i can watch thee bgame with directv now.? oh, sorry, most broadcast and sports channels aren't included. and you can only stream on two devices

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. >> the south texas heat is punishing this time of year. >> immigrations and custom enforcement withd security are involved in the investigation. kenneth molten, ston san antoni. >> big news for the senate committee investigating russian meddling in the u.s. elections. jared kushner is schedule today testify. he will testify behind closed doors. investigators are expected to focus on his contact with russians before and after the campaign. they are expected to ask about his failure to schoas those encounters on his security application. yesterday morning president trump said he has complete power to pardon relatives, aides and himself. >> we are talking about that. he brought that up. he said he doesn't have to be pardoned. nobody around him has to be pardoned. he was making a statement about the power of pardon. the president took to twitter again and went after members of his own party telling them if they won't repeal and replace obama care there will be repercussions. >> a college student in china has been released. university of montana student was arrested for stopping a taxi d

this movement is very common in the road systems here in south texas. >> ed, thank you so much. appreciate that from san antonio. with me now, san antonio fire chief charles hood on the phone with me. chief, you know, describe what was seen, best of your understanding when the doors of that tractor trailer were opened upon discovering there were people inside? >> this was absolutely a tragic situation. we had the fire units respond with san antonio pd for a welfare check at the walmart. units arrived found the tractor with folks in the back. very hot, being in an oven if you can imagine. the tractor trailer had no air conditioning. we quickly removed people. we ended up calling a mass casualty situation because we did have 38 victims. unfortunately eight of them had deceased. we weren't able to resuscitate them. but another 17 had life-threatening injuries. so we transported them along with another 13 with less severe injuries. but unfortunately with the 17 that were critically injured, a lot have suffered the symptoms of heat stroke. with heat stroke you sometimes have neurolog

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the south texas heat is punishing at this time of year. these people were helpless in the hands of their transporters. we're hearing from congressman joaquin castro who represents this area saying, "these deaths are tragic and avoidable a abla" going ton on to say the people responsible should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, meantime, police have taken into custody the driver of this tractor-trailer. it was a similar instance to human smuggling that we've seen here back in 2003 in victoria, texas. in that particular case 19 people died because they were trapped inside of a very hot tractor-trailer. thomas? >> nbc's maya rodriguez reporting from san antonio. >>> coming up for you, a better deal. that's been the subject of mocking in recent days. but it's part -- that video i think is incorrect. that's from the scene in san antonio. but we want to talk about the slogan that democrats have been prepping to roll out all in a way they hope is going to catch your attention and move their agenda forward. but they've been getting m

en el centro de detencion de berks: 51, karnes city: 449 y south texas: 633.es la asociacin estadounidense de abogados de inmigracin dice que estar vigilante de que ahora si el gobierno federal cumpla y termine con las condiciones inhumanas en que son recibidos los niÑos indocumentados a este pas. en los angeles, edgar munoz, noticias telemundo. top vo paola - el servicio de ciudadana e inmigracin de los estados unidos dio a conocer el nuevo formato del formulario para solicitar residencia permanente o "green card". - espere una lista de preguntas mas extensa y mas exactitud en los tipos de migrantes que pueden pedir ajuste de estatus migratorio. - la entidad explic que el propsito de los cambios es facilitar el trmite y reducir los errores en el proceso de adjudicacin. paola el presidente trump habla de "malas personas" cuando se refiere a inmigrantes que cometen crmenes en estados unidos, . y usualmente trae a colacin los miembros de la pandilla ms-13. segn el gobierno, muchos de esa pandilla han sido deportados, pero de acuerdo a la organizacin fact check-

if it was a guy from south texas i might ask him to step outside and settle this aaron burr style. >> reporter: and the absence of john mccain doesn't help the bill's prospects. as he recovers from the surgery that led to the recent diagnosis of brain cancer, he posted a picture of him hiking with a friend back home, his feet in the water. as gop leaders hope he gets his boots back on the ground here. >>> we're learning new details in the horrifying case of human trafficking in texas. charges were filed ge against the driver of a tractor-trailer that had dozens of undocumented immigrants inside. and authorities have revealed that a tenth victim has died. gabe gutierrez has the latest from san antonio. >> reporter: federal prosecutors say james bradley jr., the 60 year old trucker who drove undocumented immigrants to a stifling end. ten are dead after 39 were found trapped in this tractor-trailer. >> it's dangerous, you know, putting somebody's life at risk. these smugglers are callous. >> reporter: he was driving the truck from iowa to brownsville, texas but had stopped to get it wash

. >> the south texas heat is punishing this time of year. these people were helpless in the hands of their transporters. >> reporter: immigration and customs enforcement along with homeland security are now involved in the investigation. kenneth moten, abc news, san antonio. >> the president's new communication director talked about his new role this weekend. anthony scaramucci made his first appearance on the sunday morning talk shows today. his comments ranged from a lighthearted reference to his hair and makeup to more serious matters. when he was asked if the president will sign a bill intending to punish moscow for meddling in u.s. elections, scaramucci said his boss has not decided. >> when he makes that decision, i will 100% side with him because i'm his communications director and i'm his advocate on a show like this. >> the house will vote on the bill on tuesday. senate leaders haven't said when they will bring it to the floor. >>> the largest african-american trade show in the state happened today right here in the bay area. ♪ >> h

. >> the south texas heat is punishing this time of year. these people were helpless in the hands of their transporters. >> reporter: immigration and customs along with homeland security are involved in the investigation. >> and there are flash flood watches and warnings in effect for the mid-atlantic region overnight. you can see on the weather radar it is moving across pennsylvania. many roads south of philadelphia are closed from flooding, some drivers have even had to be rescued from their vehicles. about a fourth of flights into and out of mid-atlantic airports yesterday were delayed. >>> and the search resumes for an elderly man swept away in flab flooding. his home one of two that washed away by the swollen creek right where it flows into the ohio river. cars were also damaged and left in a creek. the mayor of maysville, kentucky, has never seen flooding like this before. >>> a group of hikers remain stuck in an arizona park overnight cut off by flash flooding. half the group rescued by helicopter. the water is too high and too fast t

during the 15-hour drive into south texas, it got much hotter inside the truck, like an oven on wheels san antonio police chief william mcmanus said a wal-mart employee spotted the parked truck. >> he was approached by someone from that truck, who was asking for water. he came back with water, called the police. we arrived on the scene, and we found eight people dead in the back of that trailer. >> reporter: in federal court this morning, federal agents said the driver, james bradley, told them he parked the truck and heard banging and shaking in the trailer. he opened the door and was run over by spanish people, 30 to 40 of them scattered. he then noticed bodies just lying on the floor like meat. but bradley himself never called 911, and he admitted knowing the truck's refrigeration system did not work. police found 29 people alive, all of them still hospitalized. one survivor said his group had help rafting across the rio grande from the zetas cartel, one of mexico's most violent criminal gangs. >> this tells us the immigration system needs to be fixed. >> reporter: gerardo menchaca

>> some of the people opposed to this, female senators from the northeast, if it was a guy from south texas, i might ask him to step outside and settle this aaron burr style. >> reporter: through it all the absence of senator john mccain doesn't help the bill's prospects as he recovers from that surgery that led to his recent diagnosis of brain cancer. he posted a picture of him hiking with fraend back home. his feet in the water. as gop leaders hope he gets his boots on the ground back here in washington in time for tomorrow's vote. something that for now looks unlikely. lester? >> hallie jackson, thank you. >>> tonight we're learning new details in that horrifying case of human trafficking in texas. today charges were filed against the driver of a tractor trailer that had dozens of undocumented immigrants trapped inside under sweltering conditions. and federal authorities reveal that a tenth victim has died. nbc's gabe gutierrez has the latest from san antonio. >> reporter: federal prosecutors say james bradley jr., a 60-year-old trucker who drove undocumented immigrants to a stifling end

we could go to south texas and have a discussion about what immigration reform should look like, but if you look at america, we are on the a 2.1 replacement of our native warm population from natural birth. we cannot grow the economy unless we take in more immigrants, so we have to be comfortable about it. aren't you glad that a cambodian mormon found their way to louisiana? [applause] former president bush: my only regret is that she did not find her way to texas. >> you look back at your presidency and you both served eight years. our country has had roughly 550 million people in the countries history. 45 of them elected president, but only 13 people have served to consecutive terms. you were two of the 13. what would you say in your eight years you were most proud of having done? former president clinton: i was most proud that when i left office we had the broadest period of shared prosperity in 50 years. the percentage increased more and nobody was mad at anybody. it was shared across regional lines. did i abolish inequality, no. at least we found a way to have more shared prospe

it is summer, it is south texas, and it was 101 degrees here yesterday. into the 90s well into the evening. there was an incredible scene when they arrived here, take a listen to what they found. >> the air-conditioning was not working. each one of them had heart rates over 130 beats per minute. they were very hot to the touch. they were in the trailer with no water. heat stroke, dehydration. >> we're also getting reaction from area leaders here. they were saiding they're all victims of ruthless human smugglers indifferent to the well-being of their fragile cargo. from the congressman saying these deaths are tragic and avoidable going on to say the smugglers responsible for the incident who showed no regard for the life of the people should be prosecuted to the full essex tent of the law. police have arrested the driver of this tractor trailer and charges are pending. >>> mya rodriguez, thank you for that we port. now to russia an and about face from the white house about sanctions. the white house today is supporting new sanctions against russia after co

if it was a guy from south texas, i might ask him to step outside and settle this aaron burr style. >of the three female senators he seemed to be implying. just one is from the northeast. today collins was overheard saying this. >> did you see the one who challenged me to a duel? >> i know. trust me. do you know why he challenged you to a duel? because you could beat the [ bleep ] out of him. >> he's huge. he is so -- i don't mean to be unkind but he's so unattractive it is unbelievable. >> this is the, by now, infamous photo that she is referencing taken in 2009. the individual in the duck pajamas, that's the congressman currently threatening a duel. this afternoon collins said she received an apology and she offered her own apology. but collins didn't only talk about him on that hot mike. she talked about the trump administration. that's thing two in 60 seconds. >>> susan collins was caught on a hot mike today talking to jack reid calling the proposal incredibly irresponsible. then they sealed to discuss president trump, at one point referencing the president's speech at the commiss

south texas and have a discussion about what immigration reform should look look att if you america, we are only having a 2.1 replacement of our nativeborn population from natural birth. we cannot continue to grow this economy unless we take in more immigrants, so we have to be comfortable about it. aren't you glad that a cambodian woman found her way to louisiana? [applause] pres. bush: she didn't find her way to texas. [laughter] eight years and as i tried to say earlier, countries roughly have 550 million people in our country's of our over the course history. 45 are elected president, but only 13 people have served two consecutive terms. you are two of the 13. what would you say you are the most proud of having done in your eight years? pres. clinton: i was most proud that when i left office, we had the broadest period of shared prosperity in 50 years. the bottom 20% income in percentage terms increased more than 20% and nobody was mad anybody else over it. it was shared across rachel and religious and regional lines. did i abolish inequality, no. and you can't in a market societ

they stepped up to test mosquitos in south texas. >>> half of the people with sleep apnea given a cpact use it. doctors at national jewish health in denver are change that by showing them video of their own struggle total breathe, taken in the hospital sleep lab. >> it it made me cry, watching it still seeing vivid in my mind what my body was going through at night. >> we create a critical sense of urgency in the patient to change the behavior. >> it didn't work as well because those people don't think their problem is that bad. the study of the video got people using their cpac and for longer periods. >>> more positive use about the mediterranean diet. they found it and another version of it the mind diet is best when protecting the brain from age related thinking problems, the mediterranean diet including fruits and vegetables, whole grains and nuts and fish and olive oil. what is limited with the diets are the not so healthy foods on the right side, red meat, butter and stick margarine and cheese and pastries and fried and fast foods, those are to be eaten in moderation. >> thanks a

in this part of south texas, this kind of human smuggling operation is very often times undocumented migrants are moved in truck loads like this. very dangerous situations like this have unfolded in the past. sadly, all too common in this part of the united states. ed lavendera, cnn, texas. >> thank you for the report there. for a long time, cnn has been leading the fight against human trafficki trafficking in places like texas and around the world. >>> coming up, three cambodian girls survived after being sold for sex by their own mothers. stay with us. hey you've gotta see this. c'mon. no. alright, see you down there. mmm, fine. okay, what do we got? okay, watch this. do the thing we talked about. what do we say? it's going to be great. watch. remember what we were just saying? go irish! see that? yes! i'm gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. >>> 8 kr:29 a.m. in london. 12:29 a.m. in seattle. >>> donald trump facing a decision on whether or not to support tougher sanctions on russia. but new communications director says t

in this history in a way so my research is done in the south in virginia, north carolina, south carolina, texas etc.. i want people should understand from the position of those that are enslaved. i think they focused on the perspectives of those that owned slaves and so we had a great revision that occurred in the 1970s which people ge began to focus on but what did the slaves themselves think and what kind of documents provide their perspective so that's what i try to do is to their voices into what i write a write >> is there an extensive archive? >> there were a lot of voices one of the things that happened in the great depression is the government paid for people to go out and capture u.s. history and one was the work project association which went into the south and they began to interview aging men and women who had been enslaved, this was past generations of people who'd been enslaved to find out what's where their memories and experiences so we have that archive but we also have others where people have written their stories as a kind of freedom we have some very early accounts that com

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this is in south texas at three rivers independent school district corporal punishment is legal in texas but you can opt out fur mom and dad. >> i find it crazy. you cannot even put sun screen on but you are not supposed to touch kid and other people can beat your children. it is illegal in, pennsylvania , and delaware, it was made illegal corporal punishment in schools in the early 2,000 but new jersey was ahead of the game. they banned it back in 18 something. >> yeah, 1800. >> only about 20 states that allow punishment in schools but we are not one of theme lived in fear every day of my catholic high school, all boys catholic school. jesuits ran the school. i still to this day don't know why father gleeson, hit me in the back of the head with a latin book. i was sitting in the front row >> i was doing nothing wrong. i hadn't done anything wrong. >> he would say, maybe in the this moment but in the future i know that guy will need this , someone. >> i didn't even know, he was behind me, came up, smacked me across the back of the head with the latin book i'm sure he remembers what he di

being moved is a quite common occurrence along the southern border, especially in this part of south texas you really see the highest number of illegal immigration numbers coming across the u.s. southern border. this kind of way of moving undocumented migrants is very common. obviously, this one taking a horrific turn. nine people dead, 30 others being treated in the hospital. nearly 20 of those in critical condition. the driver of the truck has been identified as 60-year-old james bradley of clearwater, florida. he is expected here in downtown san antonio, expected to face criminal federal charges at some point this morning. that continues. that investigation really centers around him, alisyn, as people here, investigators try to figure out exactly who he was working with and who else was involved in this human smuggling operation. >> absolutely. it will be fascinating to hear what he has to say in court today. >>> 17 hikers trapped in arizona now safe. take a look at the rescue effort. you can see one man there being air lifted to safety. the victims were trapped in this severe flash flo

that are opposed to this, there are some female senators from the northeast, if it was a guy from south texas, i might ask him to step outside and settle this. >> last week susan collins and lisa murkowski said they would oppose the plan to repeal obamacare without an immediate replacement. susan collins is the only one from the northeast. she released a statement in response to the congressman's remarks saying in 20 years in the senate, i have had a lot of people make suggestions about how to resolve legislative disputes, but until today, nobody suggested a dual. >>> jared kushner is before the house intel committee today. yesterday he was on the senate side and confronted critics after. kristen welker has more. >> reporter: usually under the radar, jared kushner now under a harsh spotlight. >> i have been fully transparent in providing all requested information. >> reporter: trying to put to rest any question about possible collusion with russian officials during the election. >> let me be very clear. i did not collude with russia. for do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so. i

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suffering from heat exhaustion and dehydration and 17 are being treated for life-threatening injures in south texas last night in the triple digits so you can may imagine inside that tractor-trailer it was extremely hot and we were told the refrigerator unit was not operating at the time. authorities saying that all signs seem to point to a human smuggling operation at this point. while this is tragic, this is, sadly, not new. we have seen these kinds of situations before, these kinds of smuggling attempts where human smugglers putting people back in trailer rigs has happened in the past. 2003, 19 illegal immigrants suffocated to death near victoria, texas. 2014, 40 people were rescued from inside a tractor-trailer rig and also, most recently, in july, about 12 people rescued from from one of those tractor-trailer rigs. this is something we have seen before. this is a known smuggling route, especially since that is the segment of interstate runs from the u.s./mexico border and would spread out through a network throughout the country. this is something that we have seen before. however, in this cas

. >> reporter: you can imagine just before sundown last night, temperatures in this part of south texasover 100 degrees. so you can imagine how horrifying and awful it must have been inside of that truck in the kind of conditions these folks were dealing with. two of the victims that are being treated are 15 years old. so this kind of running the range of just who was inside all of this. authorities working on identifying all of the people inside the truck as well as working in trying to identify the smuggling ring and how all of this operated. of course this kind of traffic, this kind of movement of undocumented migrants rather common in this part of texas. loredo, texas is just down interstate 85 where we presume the truck was making its way north. you go from here to the rio grande valley and brownsville, texas, this portion of the southwest border has historically made up some of the largest smuggling and illegal immigration routes into the country. this is an area that sees a great deal of this traffic and these kinds of issues for quite some time. >> all right. keep us posted from

that are opposed to this, they're some female senators from the northeast, if it was a guy from south texas might ask him to step outside and stelt this aaron burr style. >> what do you think of that, number one? and is this the female senatorer's fault? >> i'd be okay to step outside with him. if he wants to talk on my people in west virginia and throw them out in the cold, i'm glad shelly understands the constituent base the same as i do. it's not a perfect bill that we have. the affordable care act is not a perfect piece of legislation. it needs repair. we both agree to that. the we need to fix it. we need to try to get people healthier. need to get them more accountable. we need to prodetective and shore up the private market without collapsing. of the all can be done but we need to work together. that's -- type of rhetoric is so uncalled for in this body here. we want to fix and repair things. i'll work with republicans liberals conservatives, everybody. but the bottom line at the end of the day, that we have a healthier population, more cost-effective to have them in the fork force th

yesterday it was in triple digits in south texas. we understand that tractor-trailer did not have that refrigerator unit operating. >> polo, we will let you get back to trying to find out more. thank you for this. >>> new white house communications director says he is ready to deliver what he calls president trump's, quote, very compelling message to the american people. >> we will hear at least part of it later this morning when anthony scaramucci talks with our own jake tarp on "state of the union." he says push the president's decision through the toughest headlines. scaramucci starts on a critical week for the white house. senior adviser jared kushner is the first member to face questions in the russia investigation and set to speak behind doors with the senate intelligence committee tomorrow. >>> the house will vote this week on fresh sanction on russia for meddles. despite lobbying from the white house the bill would give congress new power to block any potential easing of sanctions. >> with me is tom and lynn. tom, first of al

some of the people opposed to this, female senators from the northeast, if it was a guy from south texasmight ask him to step outside and said stel this aaron burr-style. >> he's referring to senator of west virginia, susan collins of maine, and possibly lisa murkowski of alaska. what do you make of those comments? >> well, it's not something that i would say. they're slightly aggressive, of course. but that being said, there's no question that even when the democrats were trying to pass the aca a while ago, they got tremendous pressure a while ago just like we are. that's to be expected. this is not the time to be weak in the knees. it's time for clarity and chaos and i think they need to move forward with what they promised the american people. >> i want to ask you about the issue of russian meddling. president trump still expressed doubts and his communications director just told me this yesterday. >> somebody said to me yesterday, i won't tell you who, that if the russians actually hacked this situation and spilled out those e-mails, you would have never seen it. you would have never

captain banta has been an invaluable asset to the navy, south texas and the united states. i wish him and his wife, sarah, a corpus christi native, best of luck as he moves into civilian life and begins his -- new job. god bless and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas yields back. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until >> when the house comes back in session at noon, they'll begin work on two bills, one to increase interagency coordination among agencies vost in selecting locations for gas pipelines. and another designed to speed up the permitting process for cross border oil and gas pipeline, and also electric transmission lines. we'll have live coverage when the house gavels back in at noon here on c-span. right now we'll take you to the senate commerce committee holding a confirmation hearing for nominees to the federal communications commission. democratic nominee jessica rosenworcel, and republican nominee ajit pai, currently serving on the f.c.c. mr. pai is the current chairman and both have been nat

>> people come across the border in south texas every day. border patrol in laredo where these folks crossed reported in the last couple of months an uptick of people using tractor-trailers t get through the border patrol checkpoint and reach cities to the north. it's been a long time since we've had a fatal incident like this involving a tractor-trailer, but certainly a number of incidents reported by roared border patrol recently of dozens packed into trailers. >> yang: some survivors say they crossed the river on a raft and were taken farther north in the truck. how do they work in general? >> what they described is paying a smuggler in mexico to bring them across the border, most likely involved stash houses on the u.s. side, then when it was time to load the truck, it appeared people smuggled by different groups were brought to where this trailer was parked, loaded into the trailer and then driven to laredo and, in fact, each group was given a different color tape to determine who they should go with when they arrived in san antonio, and

and it is summer here in south texas. it was 101 degrees yesterday.t did not even below 90 until well after the sun had set. so you can only imagine how hot it was with no air conditioning whatsoever. take a listen to what san antonio's fire chief told us about the condition of the people inside. take a listen. >> the air conditioning was not worki working. paramedics found that each had a heart rate over about 130 beats per minute, which gone they were very h again they were hot to the touch. so they were in the trailer without any signs of water. so heat stroke, dehydration 37. >> reporter: police have arrested the driver. department of homeland security is now also involved. but as you can imagine, there are a lot of questions as to how it happened and few answers. >> and joaquin castro says these smugglers should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. thank you so much from san antonio. >>> back to politics now and the president's son-in-law is meeting with committees as part of investigations into russia meddling in the 2016 u.s. electio