march 5, 1836 in a little mission in southern texas, the alamo and a man by the name of curl -- colonel william travis. that his position was dire. there was going to a very little that they could do to win the day, if anything against the overwhelming forces that santa ana had brought against the force defending the alamo. against all odds, colonel volume travis assembled his small party and begin a speech to them, recounting the importance of what they were doing and with a flourish, he drew his sword and etched a line in the sand. my friend bill brown hinted to me this morning some of the soil from the spot where colonel travis etched that line in the sand. the shenandoah valley foundation drew a line in the sand. which are a line in the sand and said that we will not back away from this issue. it is too important to this future and would wager that line in the sand, we asked just like colonel travis did, we asked those around us our closest compatriots in this fight for preservation to step over the line with us and to stand with us shoulder and shoulder to say that preservation is

march 5, 1836, on a little mission in southern texas, the alamo. and a man by the name of colonel william travis. on that moment, colonel travis at that moment, colonel travis knew that his position was dire, that there was going to be very little that they were going to be able to do to win the day, if anything, against the overwhelming forces that santa ana had brought against that small force defending the alamo. and against certain death, against all odds, colonel william travis assembled his small party together. and when he did that, he began a speech to them recounting for them the importance of what they were doing and with a flourish he drew his sword and he etched a line in the sand. he etched a line in the sand. my friend bill brown handed to me this morning some of the soil from the spot where colonel travis etched that line in the sand. the shenandoah valley battlefield foundation drew a line in the sand. we drew a line in the sand and said that we are not going to back away from this issue. it's too important to our future. and when w

and lied around louisiana and southern texas. they became long horn cattle. we still have those and we raise that type of cattle here. they're real small. our livestock manager on the say that bote cattle could live in the park lot. so they can get by with almost anything. very little water, very harsh conditions. tough. really they're small, they have small cavs. their calves weigh about 20 pound when they're born. where a long horn calf might way 85 to 90 to 100 pound. smaller. smaller. they also brought sheep. and the sheep are the sheep that the navajo here in new mexico raise now. this section of our heritage gallery is called generations. what it does and what it did when tough. it was created, it the very first formal exhibit and told the story of agriculture post civil war was a big period of change for new mexico. we were bringing in setting up army forts here in the state l over the state but here in southern new mexico. so cattlemen were raising more english style or angelo -- i don't know what the word is exactly. uro

he came back to southern texas and realize he could no locker live there because of what he learned, and he and thousands of other southern black people from texas, louisiana, have moved to los angeles. and what we do is the follow him as a kind of an unofficial detective, but what he does is he reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles that hadn't been talked about. >> host: how did you get the name sunny was writing a story, a voice was speaking first person, and it was talking about this party he was living and trying to raise money no pay his rein and then talked about a woman he was in love with named etta may but she loved another guy named mouse, and then mouse comes in, and mouse looks at the person who is talking, who we haven't seen yet and says, easy, how you doing? and that was -- where he came from. >> what voice is he supposed to represent? >> guest: who? easy? ease it's being. what he represents is how the african-american voice is one of the voices and the choir of america. >> host: did you set out to use him as a vehicle for social commentary? >> guest: well,

he came back to southern texas and cannot live there because what he has learned. he and thousands of other southern black people have moved to los angeles. what we do is follow him as an under unofficial detective. he reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles. >> how did you come up with the name? >> guest: i was writing a story. a voice was speaking and it was talking about this party and how he is trying to raise money to pay rent. he talked to or about a woman he was in love with but then there's another guy named mouse and mouse comes in and he says how are you doing. and that's where he came from. >> host: what voices he supposed to represent, easy rawlins? >> guest: it's interesting. what he represents us how the african-american voice is one of the voices in the -- of america. >> did you set out to use him as a vehicle for social commentary? >> any good novel it doesn't have to be a great novel, but any good novel that talks about any character has to talk about how the characters anchored in society and the culture and politics. if you don't do tha

in mid-june, a young woman and her son from el salvador took a raft across the rio grande into southern texashat one looks pretty ung... >> yeah, but they've been trying all day to... >> smith: after several hours of wandering in the hot sun looking for help, ey found some border patrol agents and asked for asylum. after 24 hours in a hoing cell, they were released. (people talking in background) i met them at this shelter in mcallen, texas, maritza amaya and her nine-month-old son wilfredo. de donde viene? >> de el salvador. >> smith: de el salvador. they crossed the border at a time when many families were being separated. so tell us youstory about why you came at this time? (speaking spanish): smith: were you aware of the risks of being separated from your child when you came? >> no. s smith: the day i met maritza happened to be te day president trump issued his executive order halting mores. separati families would be allowed to remain together whiltheir asylum claims were considered. and so what is this?bl is it uncomfe? >> smith: in the meantime, maritza wears an ankle bracelet that all

ofa state immediately south the rio grande valley in southern texas, the murder rate has more than doubled in the last 18 months alone. for political office in mexico were murdered at the federal, state and local level in the last election cycle. several hundred had to quit or dropped out due to threats. that is a result of our legal framework. we have got to be cognizant of what her system is doing both in andral america and mexico how we should partner with them to create economic opportunity at home and in central america, to attack the tco's that are attacking people on the route here, and then we can work on the border issues and internal side of the immigration enforcement issue. mrs. brown: you are saying the solution is not going to happen at the border, yet that is where all the attention has been an most of the policy changes happening at the border with some administration officials. you said all these terrible things are happening to people on this journey. what must cost summoned to be willing to take all of those risks given where they were to try to make that journey? if the

people that i represented that are having difficulty getting a passport because they were born in southern texasat has a passport revoked when they were coming back or through a letter in the mail, no, i have never had it. >> so it does feel as if it is hispanic surnames that get targeted here. julia, walk me through the due process in this. what are the court procedures here? you're accused of this, trying to fight back. where does it go in the system? >> it's really hard to fight back, chuck. you would have to get a lawyer. i know a lot of people who stay outside of places where immigrants are trying to appeal and they know they will eventually come across the street and find lawyers because it's nearly impossible to navigate this system on your own. they're asking for these documents a lot of people don't have. as an american citizen, yes, you have the right to have citizenship, but that passport, the documents that you have to have a passport, it's not a right to have a passport if you don't have the documents to back it up. and when they're raising this bar, they're actually very few routes

and migratedm here to southern texas and lived around louisiana and texas and eventually they became what we call today longhorn cattle. we still have them and we raised that cattle here at the southern ranch museum. manager says that those cattle could live in the parking lot. their little water, very harsh conditions. they are really tough, they are small, the cavs will weigh about 20 pounds when they are born where a longhorn calf might way 80 52 hundred pounds. sheep,so brought these they're the ones the navajo raise now. this section of our heritage gallery is called generations. when it was created it was the very first formal exhibit here. 1860 tothe story of 1930. bringing in army forts in the state and in southern new mexico. moreemen were raising english style or -- anglo. european types of cattle. the first major breed were the herford cattle. the brown cattle with white faces. we have those on the south 20. would butcher them to feed living on americans reservations and the soldiers living in several different military forts. they were moving these cattle back-and-forth fr

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after highs, hundreds in the southwest through southern texas.t at 17. a 90% chance of formation in the next five days. still a long way off, but we're going to keep an eye on it. and you can see we're coming up to the peak of the hurricane season which happens just after september 1st. so we're going to be watching that's what's going on around the country. that sounds good. here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. >> this is what it looks like right now in woodside. we've got decent cloud cover. we're going to see mostly cloudy. especially if you're hanging out along the coast. but our temperatures, well, they're going to warm up into the upper 70s and some 80s on the map for today. coup contin cupertino, 70 degrees. if you're heading out to the trivalley or east bay, expect temperatures to climb into the 80s. this is just going to set us up for a warmer weekend ahead. san mateo, 72. >>> and that's your latest weather. >>> all right. al, thanks. as we we've talking about craig is sporting the awesome four-eyes look this morning. but i

most of the battles between texas and mexico were in southern toxic -- texas. >> once again, gaines became the subject of jackson's i -- eye. the secretary said gaines, why are you sending troops into texas? >> he replied, i thought you wanted me to make an impression. >> that's not the impression we wanted you to make, we don't want it in the newspapers! and gains -- gaines was an impetuous guy so there was definitely fault on his side. >> and all of these cases show jackson put generals and difficult situations, denying them troops, the authority, or autonomy. first saying, here is the mission and then trying to micromanage their performance. >> than he would condemn them for not being aggressive like clinch and scott, or being too aggressive like wool and gaines. jackson and his henchmen were criticizing wool for everything and anything. >> although wool repeatedly sought the assignment, jackson tapped him on through 1836. and the secretary of war, as well as politicians in georgia, blamed chairman -- wool for the cherokee is refusing to move west. these have consequences for civil mili

it is near the southern tip of texas. the daughter was flown to a shelter in arizona.t was in phoenix. there and the mother was kept in texas. they had their first phone call 10 days after they were separated. the little girl, because she had memorized the phone number, was able to be in touch with her on. -- on to. --aunt. lostevented her from being in the system. when they separate the kids from the parents, there are no records kept of which children belong to which adults. their cases, their asylum cases were separated. records that link them. because she remembered the phone number, she could tell authorities to she belonged to. that made all the difference. brian lamb: what was the law that they had to obey in our country? ginger thompson: the administration, in an attempt to deter people like jimema's mother from coming, again to enforce operation zero-tolerance . nobody comes to the u.s.. zero tolerance. was call foric everyone who cross the border without documents to be criminally prosecuted for the crime of illegal entry. we had not done that before. typical

this is a shooting range in the southern united states. here in texas shooting is a popular and competitive sport ok you're reading it's my first time shooting a gun magazine goes in it sure shoulder correctly. it's an assault rifle designed for wolf. they're sure to shot night at five o'clock so it would have taken this person out you know she would be dead. today an estimated two hundred seventy million guns are privately owned in the united states shooting ranges and gun shops everywhere and the arms industry is a multi-billion dollar business but only a few miles south across the border in mexico u.s. sourced firearms are having a deadly effect. we have come to investigate how mexican drug cartels exploit weak u.s. gun laws to arm themselves with american weapons. our journey begins in a hotel in the northern mexican state of tamaulipas where. we have a range to meet a group of people whose family members have gone missing it's not known whether they're living or dead the presence of drug cartels on the streets makes it too dangerous to meet them in

this is a shooting range in the southern united states. here in texas shooting is a popular and competitive sport ok you're ready it's my first time shooting a gun magazine goes in a church shoulder correctly. it's an assault rifle designed for wolf in. their churches shot night at five o'clock so it would have taken this person out you know she would be dead. today an estimated two hundred seventy million guns are privately owned in the united states shooting ranges and gun shops everywhere and the arms industry is a multi-billion dollar business but only a few miles south across the border in mexico u.s. sourced firearms are having a deadly effect. we have come to investigate how mexican drug cartels exploit weak u.s. gun laws to arm themselves with american weapons. our journey begins in a hotel in the northern mexican state of tamaulipas. we have a range to meet a group of people whose family members have gone missing it's not known whether they're living or dead the presence of drug cartels on the streets makes it too dangerous to meet them in an o

you don't ask people that question especially conservative area like tyler texas and a member of the southern baptist church. she was shocked. and she hesitated for quite some time before she eventually said, yes but that's just the way god made him and god loves him just the way he is. i had never heard that before that god loved gaze and especially that god loved gaze when they were not even pretending to be straight. her words that morning changed my life. it would take too long to explain all the emotions i experienced that afternoon but finally it was on this woman her words of acceptance were words that i have never heard before and it stirred that dead spot in my heart and after all my efforts to avoid this problem never to tell anybody i was gay or reading about the subject all of those efforts were for not to because that feeling of love for a woman came completely out of the blue and hit me hard i couldn't continue any longer. i had to get out of my marriage and five months later i asked my husband for divorce and told him i was very unhappy in the marriage and i moved out of our ho

well you don't ask people that question especially in a conservative area like our texas and a member of the southern baptist church. she was shocked. she hesitated for quite some time before she eventually said yes, but that's just the way god made him and god loves them just the way he is. well is my turn to be shocked. i had never heard that before that god loved and especially the god loves when they weren't even pretending to be straight. her words that morning changed my life. it would take too long to explain all the emotions i experienced that very afternoon. but mime emotions centered in on this woman. her words of acceptance, words i have never heard before stirred that dad spotted my heart and i fell in love with her. after all my efforts to avoid this very problem never telling anybody i was, never reading about the subject, never having a close friend, all of those efforts had been for not. that feeling of love for a woman came completely out of the blue and hit me hard. i'd couldn't pretend any longer. i had to get out of my marriage. about five months later i asked my husband for a div

attorney, new mexico and arizona, south texas and southern california, were immigration related., it was 12 out of 13000 cases dealt with entering u.s. illegally, harboring illegal immigrants, or visa trial. why so many? according to a syracuse university study, the administrations zero-tolerance policy. what does it mean? critics say this is a big deal because the president is so obsessed with immigration, they claim more serious crimes go unpunished. a former u.s. attorney for california says that is not true. just because you concentrate on one crime doesn't mean you ignore others. >> you could have a situation where one or two ago his assistant are handling 15-20 cases at a time, all of which plead guilty within a day or so. this in their way will inundate the u.s. attorneys offices and prevent them from doing other kinds of federal work. >> every president has priorities, but critics may ignore this, these numbers are "comparable" to president obama and are actually "down 1.4% from levels in 2013." >> if people assume that means it's consuming 94% of the resources of the off

southern new mexico, not a lot of horrible stuff. central texas getting some of the rain.r as the excessive heat goes, today will be one of the hottest days in boise history. all-time record high of 111. there's some indication it could get up there about 108 or so. from spokane to central portions of the rockies here, very hot, in montana too. here is how the forecast looks. there's 108 in boise. billings at 98. salt lake city at 100. the fire danger continues to be high throughout all of the west and the smoke is a huge issue for people trying to breathe with respiratory issues. in the east we're in the 80s and 90s from new england. 91 in d.c., and it is by far the best day you will get out of the next four or five. if you get lunch outdoors, i know it is hot, but try to enjoy it. into the weekend forecast, especially as we get intoed saturdintoed -- into saturday is when the rain will come up the eastern seaboa seaboard. i told them the graphic would work, but now it doesn't want. just the way it goes. there it goes. there's saturday. it shows the possibility of heavier

those were set for santa ana in southern california, dulles, virginia, and carrollton, texas.also taking a look at security. in a statement to the gaming website, polygon, they said, quote, we will be reviewing our policy plans and updating them accordingly. twitchcon is set to take place in october in san jose. and police have not yet given a motive, so we don't know exactly why david katz shot fellow gamers before killing himself. one witness said that katz lost a game the day before the shooting and refused to shake hands afterward with his competitor. a psychiatrist and founder of the center of internet technology and addiction says for gamers playing at a very high level, it's easy to get lost in cyberspace. >> we are terrible at predicting violence. but you can't really predict who's going to become violent or not, even if they have a mental health issue. the truth is lots of people have mental health issues and they never commit violence. >> and we have much more information on our website, abc7news.com with links to resources about technology addiction and a video addi

texas. again, if you think about the timing in the 19th century that makes sense. most of them came from southern families who had made their way west in the antebellum period, particularly in the 1850's, some had made their way very early in the 1830s, part of the texas revolution but the vast majority of them were not born in texas. they were not native born but they very much identified as texans and they had fun kind of warking the image. he was raised in the city but everybody thought they should do it and so they did it and the -- raised in the city and everybody let out war cries. everybody thought they should do it and so they did it and the ladies seemed to like it. 2/3 of the men came from what we would consider middle class families. they tended to be fairly well-educated. most of them came from rural areas not surprising for the , 19th century but you'll also see blacksmiths, teachers, a host of lawyers were in the texas brigade. most of them came from rural areas. again, not too surprising for the 19th century but a lot of them came from houston, galveston, the dallas area. when it c

way out of the way still want to chase storms just around the southern plains easing over towards colorado routes of the old parts of texas but brought to skies along the eastern seaboard and that will continue to be the case as we go on through the next day out to some pleasant warmth that twenty six celsius from new york to d.c. and north of the border also into also still a few showers in place as we go on through thursday as you can say for all those central pasta for the west is still warm and dry little colder there for sampling remember getting up to around thirty degrees couple of days back around nineteen or twenty by friday the showers will continue across central parts twenty therefore chicago as well further south we're fine and dry as is the case across eastern parts of north america come down into the cabin lots of tropical sunshine was a chance of wanted to shout was a cool as much as your share of the greats around tennis possibly to into the last around today's before many more sunshine and then showers we've got a scattering of showers making their way towards the western side of the caribbean nicaragua

making their way out of the way still want to storm say just around the southern plains he's in over towards colorado outs of parts of texas but brought to skies along the eastern seaboard that will continue to be the case as we go on through the next day to some pleasant warmth that twenty six celsius from new york to d.c. and north of the border also into office we're still a few showers in place as we go on through thursday as you can see for those central pasta for the west is still warm and dry little colder there for seattle remember getting up to around thirty degrees couple days back where around nineteen or twenty by friday the showers will continue across central parts nineteen or twenty there for chicago as well further south we're fine and dry as is the case across eastern parts of north america come down into the cap and lots of tropical sunshine with a chance of wanted to shout was of course might catch your chair on the grates around tennis possibly to into the last around today's before many more sunshine and then showers we've got a scattering of showers making their way towards the western side of the car

stretching all the way like i said from texas across the arid southwestern desert to mexico and arizona into naval bases shipbuilding aviation construction in southern california. all of them jobs that require college education especially s.t.e.m. oriented education sex -- science technology engineering and math. this is a transforming the landscape of what the south and the southwest exist to provide the american people but it's also radically transforming the need for colleges and universities and research universities and relocating people from other parts of the country into the american sunbelt. you see this in the american south, florida and georgia north carolina and all the way through texas mexico arizona california nevada. you are going to see a lot of weapons testing in the nevada desert and a lot of development cold war and post-world war ii related. as they are growing economically they are growing demographically. the population is growing and you need housing construction and highway construction most of which is federally funded. billions and billions of dollars of federal resources are being poured and to the south and southwest to

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texas firefighters will get crews on the front line a break. >>> in southern california, a cruise battling the holly fire are battling hot temperatures, wind. this video shows aa en incredible fire nado spinning into the air. today will be a spare the air day because of the mix of fog and wildfire smoke. sky drone 5 got a view of the hazy skies in pleasanton today. this will be the fifth spare the air day of the year: so the air is not doing too well. >> yeah. >> i noticed all the haze as i came in from town. the sun was hazy, orange. >> it was a creepy glow. we'll see that again. yesterday, we didn't have a spare the air alert day. what we had was good to moderate air quality. today, the smoke will settle a little lower for ground level. it looked hazy but it was about 4000 feet up in the atmosphere. today will get a little closer to us. here is current air quality. you can see the sliver of green. this is where we are protected by an onshore flow. these are the areas where we are doing fine. you can see where the moderate air quality is already. by lake county, clear lake, lake forest un

texas san antonio professor greg michelle, about the fbi's covert surveillance program. the targeted student organizations during the civil rights movement. if the offer had struggled for a brother saw, the saturn -- southern student organizing committee 1964-1969. this is just over 15 minutes. >>> greg michelle is the associate professor of the department of history at the university of texas in san antonio. >>: tell pro stands for counterintelligence program. it was the name of fbi programming designed to conduct primarily covert operations against organizations and individuals that the fbi deemed a threat to domestic or national security. >> why is this important? >> for several reasons, this was a artifact in the cold war era when communists, or suspected communists of the united states came under suspicion. it evolved and expanded to include a range of other individuals the fbi deemed to be potential subversive. that included most notably martin luther king and the black civil rights movement. it included white socialists, and included puerto rican nationals, and it included the group's i worked with, which is light student activists in the 1960s. >> who was behind it? >> within the fbi, and had appro

, you will. >> shepard: five southern states, this new road, five southern states could be connected by a new highway, running from texasugusta, georgia. and i don't know where we get money for the highways. but i'm glad, it would be a very interesting place, there's i-10 down there, but aside from that there's not a lot. all the way across. >> all the way, yeah. part of the idea is to help with the traffic congestion. you get with i-10 around new orleans, or i-20 around atlanta, so it would start over in western texas, go through texas, louisiana, mississippi, alabama, georgia. it would connect some of the already existing infrastructure, like interstate 10 over here, would connect. then start being built around the college station area. now, texas, louisiana, mississippi have signed off on this. they are okay with it, construction starting. but alabama and georgia are still waiting for their legislators to kind of get with the program on this. >> shepard: if you have nach', brook haven, laurel, does the interstate go through those towns? >> yes. a lot of them are farming, agricultural centers. having the interstate th

texas mexico border in 2014. to say the border is lawless is a lie. deploy national guard personnel to the southern border is not new. but the circumstances for this deployment are unusual. facts and context matter despite the demonstrations repeated attempts to frame them in a way that justifies the misguided and inhumane policies. as you can see in this graph, -- no graph? there we go. there were 70 percent fewer apprehensions in march 2018, one month before the president's order than the month before president bush 2006 mobilization. in 2006, u.s. customs and border protection had 50 percent fewer border patrol agents on board that we have today. the average agent apprehended approximately 97 people per year. for context, 2017, the average border patrol agent apprehended less than 20 people per year. across all northern and southern border sectors. to say immigrants are overrunning our border is a lie. the purpose is for the prior two deployments are also different than the one launched earlier this year. during operation jumpstart, the bush of menstruation was in the midst of hiring and trainin

southern newland. you have soggy weekend coming your way. now a closer look at your day ahead. texas infor a rain event. if you do get a dry get outside while you can. h'll be back w the rest of the weekend forecast. >>> after 133 days baseball finally has its first cycle of the year and the honor goes to this guyhere, mookie bets. a and he only needed a home run to make it happen and he waited r the ninth inning for his big moment. blasting one into the bullpen and not only wast his tpeursz cycle of the season, the first of his career as well and enough -- it was not enough. they won 8-5. >>> the science of dating -- i'm jimmy dean and uh, i wish i could tell ya how i feel about a mornin' like this. and that includes a good hearty breakfast. you need somethin' to kinda warm the whole body up and gets it going. it's a great way to kick off your day. let's see. if these packs have the same number of bladder leak pads, i bet you think bigger is better. actually, it's bulkier. always discreet doesn't need all that bulk to protect. because it's made differently. the super absorbent core

attorney for new mexico and arizona for south texas and southern california were immigration related. the u.s. illegally, harboring illegal immigrants or visa fraud. why so many? according to a study the administration's zero tolerance policy. what does it mean? critics say this is a big deal because the president is so obsessed with immigration that they claim more serious crimes go unpunished. a former u.s. attorney says it is not true. just because you concentrate on one crime doesn't mean you ignore others. >> you could have a situation where one or two assistant u.s. attorneys are handling 10, 15, 20 cases at a time all of which plead guilty within a day or so. so this will in no way inundate the u.s. attorney's offices and prevent them from doing other kinds of federal work. >> so every president has priorities. but the study says -- critics may ignore this -- these numbers are comparable to president obama and are down 1.4% from levels in 2013. and yet, of course, sandra, these numbers look huge when you have 94% of cases going solely to immigration. >> sandra: thank you. >> bi

texas. now we're learning that a lemur was stolen from a zoo in southern california after someone cut holes in two fences. >> isaac was found miles away from the santa ana hotel in a hotel. >> he is an endangered species, which means his theft is a federal offense. do we think somebody wanted a pet lemur and when they got isaac they decided, forget it? >> or maybe isaac wanted some time in the presidential suite and said look, take me there and was relaxing for a little while and said you got to go back to the zoo. i don't want to pay for another day. >> isaac is a 32-year-old ringtail lemur. the second oldest in north america. >>> ahead the hollywood a-listers training for our job. >> and another sitcom may be coming back. yeah, that's right's right. skinny, next. hollywood a-listers training for our job. >> and another sit koom may be ight's right. skinny, next. ght's right. skinny, next. ht's right. skinny, next. t's right. skinny, next. 's right. skinny, next. s right. skinny, next. right. skinny, next. right. skinny, next. ♪ skinny ♪ skinny ♪ just give me "the skinny" >>> when did that

this is the 1st time texas has ever sent crews out of state to specifically deal file that wildfires. >>> challenges in southern california. crews battling the holy fire dealing with hot temperatures and windy conditions. new video shows a fire tornado spinning. the fire has coursed 3300 acres and at least one cabin has been destroyed. smoke ascending plumes of ash onto the nearby city of corona. tomorrow will be a spare the air day because of a mix of fog and wildfire smoke. this will be the 5th spare the air day of the year. >>> california is pushing back into the present plan to relax obama era goals on vehicle emissions. the state air resources board drafted a proposal that would force automakers to adhere to california stricter standards. regardless of what the white house does. that move could eventually split the u.s. auto market in half. forcing companies to manufacture different cars for different states. they are hoping to reach some sort of compromise with california to keep that from happening. >>> meanwhile investors could be scrambling to get their hands on any tesla stock they can find tomorrow w

texas would go back in order to make sure the primary was a whites only club and every other southern state did this. democratic primaries were white only, republicans thought this was an electoral option and the goal was to put up a barrier of the black voter participation. those have been doing that ever since and 75. ever since the end of the reconstruction. and there were a whole bunch of tools we had available that were used to complete this franchise of black voters. a white primary was one example. the democratic primary is closed to anybody who isn't white because it is a whites only club, private association. you can vote in the general election but it won't matter because the only one nominated was the one in the primary. he had literacy tests, literacy and understanding tests implemented by local voting registrars who were white who wanted to keep blacks from voting ivotingvoting if they has discretion how they implemented the tests. and it gives the ability to look at somebody and say you did well enough or know you didn't. where no you didn't. and one consequence of this

texas. they say the shooting appears to be targeted. >>> a fire in southern california now among nearly 20 burningstate. the map on your screen are big ones. it shows it is the largest fire in state history destroying 283,000 acres. in the newest fire that one is >>> the carr fire is nearly 50% contained. no new reports of homes destroyed. you can see from the 360 view there is already so much destruction anyway. almost 1,000 homes are already destroyed. >>> this morning twitter is the only major platform that has not banned conspiracy theorists. yesterday jones was kicked off nearly every other internet platform. he says it is part of a chinese plot against him. his recent calls for violence got him kicked off of you tube and facebook and apple and spotify removed him from theirs. >>> rachael ray has a class action lawsuit. they say her dog food uses a chemical found in weed killer. ray's company says it plans to fight the lawsuit. you can hear from a sleet expert in just a few minutes during the today show. >>> if you like going out to eat i hope you didn't make reservations. catamount is closed

the lakes and down towards oklahoma and texas and then the southwest monsoon brings the potential of lovely but sharp showers into arizona new mexico maybe southern california that still the case the next day or so unfortunately the head of the rain that was over the great lakes is going east was again about as intel and showers in new york and certainly that reputation change it looks so those showers be prompted once again and big ones maybe in oklahoma south of this i haven't seen much in the way of rain reporting cuba or haiti or to make it to be honest there's a massive cloud here developing in venezuela and that's actually caught in the flow so the next day or so i think that will drift across the open waters of the coast in honduras or a bit to the sas keep going beyond that up towards the yucatan the day following south of all this throughout the constants of south america should be largely dry this time of the year that is the case thirty's potentially wet around saar powder . in an exclusive series of documentaries i was born into a very ordinary japanese family. shows five different stories i am just too excited to focus on anything el

the lakes and down towards oklahoma and texas and then the southwest monsoon brings the potential of lovely but sharp showers into arizona new mexico maybe southern california that still the case in the next day or so unfortunately the head of the rain that was over the great lakes is going east was again about as intel and showers in new york and certainly that reputation change it looks as though those showers be prompted once again and big ones maybe in oklahoma south of this i haven't seen much in the way of rain reported in cuba or haiti or to make it to be honest there's a massive cloud here developing in venezuela and that's actually caught in the flow so the next day or so i think that will drift across the open waters of the coast in honduras or a bit to the sas keep going beyond that up towards the yucatan the day following south of all this throughout the constants of south america should be largely dry this time of the year that is the case thirty's potentially wet around saar powder . in an exclusive series of documentaries i was born into a very ordinary japanese family. shows five different stories i am just too excited to focus on

has been stricken down in texas over 20 or period and every time the federal courts strike it down they make sure the democratic party primary was -- and every other southern state did this. democratic primary path were white clouds in the goal is to put up a barrier to black voter participation. those barriers have been going on ever since 1877. there are a whole bunch of tools we have available that were used to complete this type black voters been a white primary as an example. democratic party primary is close to anybody who wasn't white because it's a whites only club in a private association predicted vote for the general election but it won't matter because the only candidate on the ballot was that on the white primary. we have literacy tests implemented by local voting registrars who were white who wanted to keep blacks from voting and they have tremendous discretion and have implemented those voting tactics. the gives the legislature the right to look a somebody and say you did well enough for no you didn't. one consequence of this is if you live someplace like dallas county alabama selma, if you want to sell me discovered the town was 63% black a