texas. this is a railroad map in effect from an organization called texas colony association. but, again, it was a new attempt to colonize the vast lands of texas. in an attempt to address many of the issues that should have been corrected by reconstruction and this is the constitution that was written in 1875, signed in 1876 and interestingly texas still operates under this constitution today even though it has had hundreds of amendments to make changes to it we can flip to the signature page of the document which contains all of the original signatures from 1876. as you can imagine these are many of the most prominent men of their day. while this document addressed some issues of inequality of course these problems did not go away with equality,

i said, okay if i go to texas a&m for the visit will you leave me alone? he said, yes. i went up for a tour, watch a football game, and i fell in love with the place, fell in love with what we call the other education, the opportunity to get involved, and, you know there's something special there at texas a&m, and i decided to run for student body president because i was involved on campus, and, you know, i thought there was problems, and my mom said you're the problem or the solution. i decided to run. my buddies who i needed to help me, they said yes and we won. >> how did that experience train you for running for congress? >> it's a big school. at the time, it was 45000 students, and when you -- that's undergrad. add graduate and you know, the number of professors and administrators, you know you're talking 80000 people. you know, it taught me to stick to your principles and a handful of committed individuals can change the world. that's all that ever have, and so it's -- it was a good test run. i never would have thought i was going to run for congress after that. bu

i got a scholarship to go. i went to texas because i had a counselor at my high school, big aggie, who kept badgering me to go for a visit. i had some friends who lived there. i said if i go for a visit, will you leave me alone? he said yes. so i went to watch a football game. and i fell in love with the opportunities to get involved. there is something special at texas. i'm excited to run for president because i had been in bold on campus -- involved on campus. so i decided to run. my buddies decided to help me. host: how did the experience train you for running for congress? rep. hurd: at the time, it was 45,000 student. that is undergraduate. when you add graduates and professors and administrators you're talking 80,000 people. it taught me how to work with diverse people, ideologically. it taught me the importance of sticking to your principles. and committed individuals can change the world. and so it was a good test run. i never would have thought i would run for congress after that. but it showed how to get a message ou

something i also learned at texas a&m. it was refined further in the cia in something i always use now and come in handy. >> host: if a future president says we want you will hurd, to be cia director, is that a job you would undertake and how would you approach the position? >> guest: you know, that is a good question. it would be an honor to serve, right? it really would be. and, how i would approach the position is, you know, go back to the basics. you know the cia are the collectors of last resort. if you can't get a piece of information, you call in the cia to do that. you have to have very clear goals and perspective. number of threats rin creasing we need more intelligence. problems with syria and iraq, we don't have enough on the ground human intelligence. part of that is we don't have enough people in the region right? so that is something where. my good friends ambassador ryan crocker, i think is one of the best things the foreign service has ever produced. he is at texas a&m running bush school. he says sometimes

i said, okay if i go to texas a&m for the visit will you leave me alone? he said, yes. i went up for a tour, watch a football game, and i fell in love with the place, fell in love with what we call the other education, the opportunity to get involved, and, you know there's something special there at texas a&m, and i decided to run for student body president because i was involved on campus, and, you know, i thought there was problems, and my mom said you're the problem or the solution. i decided to run. my buddies who i needed to help me, they said yes and we won. >> how did that experience train you for running for congress? >> it's a big school. at the time, it was 45000 students, and when you -- that's undergrad. add graduate and you know, the number of professors and administrators, you know you're talking 80000 people. you know, it taught me to stick to your principles and a handful of committed individuals can change the world. that's all that ever have, and so it's -- it was a good test run. i never would have thought i was going to run for congress after that. bu

and texas has been kind of at the center point of a lot of this issue. they're economic environmental, political, texas is in the mix. >> when we think of texas we think big oil, not earthquakes like we're thinking of california. but they're experiencing seismic activity. >> so we got to see how one small town in texas is dealing with this big national issue. let's check it out. >> we were sitting in the living room one night watching tv and there was a tremendous explosion, it sounded like, and then the whole house shook. >> and the next day there was another one and then just kept coming. and that's whenever we realized we definitely have a problem. we should not be having earthquakes in texas. country. this is reno, texas. population 3200 and just 13 square miles long. if anyplace is small town america, reno is. residents know each other and they know something's changed in their town. >> see it's right here. look, actually let's kind of creep in here. right there see how my foot keeps -- >> yes. >> barbara brown is a community activist and a long time

so there was a natural entity to bring in goods and people into galveston that could go into texas and the middle part of the united states. so it was the industry, the availability of the port, the easy access from the gulf of mexico it created a entire community that followed for 100 years. as the 19th century maritime world changed the shapes became larger and their cargo became much larger is what blame particularly important for galveston is that it was bringing in the cotton from the central part of the state and the other states around us and shipping it out of here. as shipping became so important, they needed to get bigger vessels in here and they needed to get them closer into the harbor in order to load them up with that cargo of cotton. so by the late 19th century cotton was the largest and most common thing shipped out of the port of galveston and it created the wealth for the city and state of texas for a long time oil was a 20th century activity and industry and it's closely tied to texas today all over galveston is more closely tied to what occurred off schorr and those

united states is a country and texas would come in as a state as we know. those folks down the hall in the senate, takes 2/3. 2/3 of the state would not have approved texas. how did texas become part of the union? they changed it. it takes the majority of the vote. majority of the vote passed. texas became into the when a louisiana changed changed his vote and texas came in. the republic of texas was no more and became a state in the union in 1846, 185, december of 185. when it came into the union. texas was allowed to same the height at the united states flag. texas was allowed to allowed to divide into five states. we aren't going to do that. so we aren't going to divide the five states. we have the right to decide and decide into five states. going back into texas what happened to this land? texas had this debt. and to pay off its debt sold this land to the federal government and wiped the slate clean and texas looks like what we know it looks like. and went to the union. i mentioned and talked about the san jacinto bay not so much because it's really san

i am up in a little town near wichita falls in north texas. i am up there and doing a story about these great baseball gloves. the factory burned down and the town was struggling. i was sitting at a bar with some old guy and he was telling me about this battle that took place. i had no idea what he was talking about. what he was talking about was the end of the spanish power in the new world. it was the battle in a 7058 where the comanches rode the spanish back. i'm talking about the end of the spanish world. in the new world. it was the stories and things like that. here i am, traveling around the state. one of the reasons of course is for the immediacy of the frontier, the last of the indians surrendered in 1875 and after that, there was a good deal of jostling on and off the reservation. things are happening validity 20th-century. -- well into the 20th century. the frontier was the immediate thing. the tribe that was featured in most of the stories there were a lot of wichita in a bunch of other tribes. the crowd you always -- tried to alway

so i and up in austin, texas as executive editor of a magazine called "texas monthly." now i know what to do and if there in texas the comanche nonsense started. when i told my journalist friends a few years ago i was writing the history of the comanches i mainly got a lot like stairs. you can see the wheels turning in their tiny trauma news driven -- tiny, news driven brains to figure out the angle. is there an indian nation health care. no, no, no just a dusty history something that happened 300 years ago and say that is great. [laughter] s.c. gwynne:we cannot wait to read it. meaning good luck jack. i frankly do not care. i wanted to do well and we should all do things that we want to do. the fact is a lot of us write books but very few are interested in jumping back into history partly because, not to run them down but they have the attention span of an act. gosh ok matt. -- over and that =-- of a gnat. partly because the obvious lack of qualification. having a thesis ridden in in 1871 it is at the library although what i hear you can check your thesis out in the pr

i got a scholarship to go. i went to texas because i had a counselor at my high school, big aggie, he kept badgering me to go for a visit. i had some friends that lived there. i said if i go for a visit, will you leave me alone? he said yes. so i went to watch a football game and fell in love with the opportunities to get involved. there is something special at texas a&m. i was excited to run for president because i had been in -- involved on campus. so i decided to run. my buddies decided to help me. mr. scully: how did that experience train you for running for congress? representative hurd: at the time, it was 45,000 students. that is undergraduate. when you add graduates and professors and administrators, you're talking 80,000 people. it taught me how to work with a diverse group of people ideologically. it taught me the importance of sticking to your principles and committed individuals can change the world. and so it was a good test run. i never would have thought i would run for congress after that. but it showed we know

i wasn't going to go to texas a&m. i have flight as a backup. i was a computer science major and i wanted to go to stanford. i got accepted to stanford. i even got a pretty significant scholarship to go. i went to texas a&m because i had a counselor at high school a big aggie, and he can't drink me to go out for -- kept badgering me to go out for a student visit. i said if i go, what you leave me alone? he said yes. i went for a tour and a football game, and fell in love with the place. the opportunity to get involved. there is something special there at texas a&m. i decided to run for his due by the president because i had been involved on campus and thought that there was some problems that needed to be fixed. my mother said that if i'm part of the problem, i need to be part of the solution. somebodies decided to help me. we decided to do it. host: how did that train you for running for congress? rep. gallego: it is a big school. 45,000 students. when you add graduates and the number of professors, administrators, you are talking 70 5000, 80,0

a group of mourners involved in a texas funeral procession jumped out of formation to tackle a man who attacked an elderly woman at a bus stop and stole her purse. eight men jumped out of their vehicles to chase down the attacker and hold him until police arrived. the procession stopped so the men could resume their place once the suspect was arrested. he is charged with aggravated robbery. >>> chester the pittbull was living in animal shelters for five years. he is pleading for a home. they say it came if very quickly. they are the door family who took him in. the league uses facebook to showcase all animals up for adoption. >> chester looks happy. >> a lot of sports to talk about. >> we have colin in for larry. >> masters. it is just going to get better as the weekend goes and we will see a run away. how jordan spieth extended his lead. >>> two rounds of the masters and jordan spieth is treating augusta national as point guards with disdain. he is finding his form in round two and putting into the fringe on round seven. this is serious course knowledge. tiger makes the cut and he is

in fact, our work at texas a&m indicates one u.s. job is created for every $76,000 in u.s. rts to cuba and we think that makes it worthwhile for to us stay engaged on this important issue. just a little bit about background. our exports averaged about 300 million annually since 2002, but they have fluctuated widely from about 140 million in 2002 up to 709 million in 2008 and that uncertainty has been a problem for our businesses. the product mix has also changed. during the first decade of our export experiences with cuba we export ad wide variety of products. along with processed foods. so, a fairly broad array of products up until 2012 when things began to deteriorate. the more recent export categories over the last couple of years have been concentrated in three areas, and that is frozen leg quarters, soy complex and corn. in fact last year those three accounted for 96% of our exports. and in my mind that's precariously risky. we just don't have the diversity of our marketing base to with stand the kind of declines we've seen over the last few years. there's a number of t

in fact, our work at texas a&m indicates that one u.s. job is created for about every $76,000 in u.s. exports to cuba and we think that makes it worthwhile to us to stay engaged on this important issue. just a little bit about background. our exports have averaged about $300 million annually since 2002, but there fluctuated wildly from about $140 million in 2002 to 700 and and 9 million and 2008. that uncertainty has been a problem for businesses. during the first decade of our expert -- export experiences with cuba, we exported a wide variety of products such as corn, sardines, animal feed cotton, along with processed foods such as port, day products,'s -- snack foods, bottled water, and grapes in pairs and treated telephone poles. a fairly broad array of products that until 2012 when things began to deteriorate. the more recent export categories of the last couple of years have really been concentrated in three areas and that is frozen like quarters, soy complex, and corn. in fact, last year, those three accounted for 96% of our exports.

up next a visit to austin, texas where we tour lbj library and texas capital. first a look at the fly girls of world war ii and inspirational stories of women air force service pilots who answered the call of duty in world war ii. >>> so the texas museum is texas's official state history museum. we opened in 2001 and we are charged with telling the story of texas. we have three floors of exhibition space where we feature around 500 original artifacts that tell the story of texas. we also have temporary exhibitions including fly girls which is what we are standing in right now and two theaters which show films regularly. ♪ >>> this is texas. over headquarters lies a strange little [ inaudible ] and out of the buses stepping girls who have given a new angle to an air force story, they are wasps. >> the fly girls exhibition is very special to us. it's an exhibition that we opened on veterans day. and to tell the story of these world war ii female pilots and share that with the public was we thought an important texas story but also an important story that connects

a group of mourners involved in a texas funeral procession jumped out of formation to tackle a man who attacked an elderly woman at a bus stop and stole her purse. eight men jumped out of their vehicles to chase down the attacker and hold him until police arrived. the procession stopped so the men could resume their place once the suspect was arrested. he is charged with aggravated robbery. >>> chester the pittbull was living in animal shelters for five years. he is pleading for a home. they say it came if very quickly. they are the door family who took him in. the league uses facebook to showcase all animals up for adoption. >> chester looks happy. >> a lot of sports to talk about. >> we have colin in for larry. >> masters. it is just going to get better as the weekend goes and we will see a run away. how jordan spieth extended his fele announcer: get three years interest-free financing on brand name mattress sets. plus, get free delivery, and sleep train's 100-day low price guarantee. sleep train's interest free for 3 event is on now! ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >>> two

i was running the bulldozer out in shamrock, texas. a snowball hit me in the rear. it was just snowing out there all the time. i was working 12 hours a day, seven days a week. my wife said -- i can work as fast as anybody, and she said why don't you go to school and do something with the g.i. bill? i agreed to, and i said i think we ought to. and we went to austin. i was prelaw. i said i wasn't interested in prelaw. i don't want to be a pre-lawyer, i want to be a lawyer. they worked with me and showed where i have five hours of physics at tcu. i'm not sure what that was. celestial navigation. they gave me that. i got about 30 hours from the university of georgia for the time i was there. a lot of times, i would go to school at night on my own because i knew is going to have a hard time getting to go to college. my mother planned for me to help my brother get to school -- my older brother -- and for him to help me get through school and then both of us to help my sister. i helped him through north texas. were came on, we both went to the service. we helped send my sis

texas, mr. castro, and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. castro: thank you mr. speaker, for yielding me this time. first i'd like to thank my colleague and fellow texan, chairman mccaul, and ranking member bennie thompson, of the house homeland security committee for bringing up my amendment for consideration to h.r. 1731. this amendment supports small businesses across the nation at no cost to taxpayers. my amendment would make self-assessment tools available to small and medium sized businesses so that they could determine their level of cybersecurity readiness. the oftentimes medium-sized and small businesses don't have the framework or capability in place to protect against cybersecurity threats. in 2014, for example, 31% of all cyberattacks were directed not at large businesses but at businesses with less than 250 employees. this is a 4% increase from 2013. as the chairman knows, texas is home to many small companies in so many critical industries. biomed and pharmaceuticals, energy man

rawson received his phd, masters, and bachelors all from texas a&m. he was a captain in the u.s.rmy reserve. we thank you for your service, sir. i believe you are joined by your wife, is that correct? dr. rawson: no sir. senator roberts: my gracuious. you have your testimony. dr. rawson: it is my pleasure to be here today, i want to thank you for inviting me to testify on the challenges and opportunities associated with trade with cuba. i have been studying the cuba market for about 15 years i have been there a number of times. we continue to monitor what happens in cuba and exporters, in fact our work at texas a&m indicates that one u.s. job is created for every $76,000 in u.s. exports to cuba. we think that makes it worthwhile for us to engage in this issue. a little bit about background, our exports have averaged $300 million annually, since 2002 but fluctuated widely from a one and 40. -- $140 million in 2002 up to $709 million in 2008. that has been a problem for our businesses. over the last decade of our experiences with cuba, we exported a wide variety of products such as

rawson received his phd masters, and bachelors all from texas a&m. he was a captain in the u.s. army reserve. we thank you for your service, sir. i believe you are joined by your wife, is that correct? dr. rawson: no sir. senator roberts: migy gracuious. dr. rawson: it is my pleasure to be here today, i want to thank you for inviting me to testify on the challenges and opportunities associated with trade cuba. i have been studying the cuba market for about 15 years i have been there a number of times. we continue to monitor what happens in cuba and exporters in fact our work at texas a&m indicates that one u.s. job is created for every $76,000 in u.s. exports to cuba. we think that makes it worthwhile for us to engage in this issue. a little bit about background, our exports have averaged $300 million annually, since 2002, but fluctuated widely from a hundred $40 million in 2002 up to $709 million in 2008. that has been a problem for our businesses. over the last decade of our experiences with cuba, we exported a wide variety of products such as corn, sardines, animal feed, cott

figure out if anybody has been injured an update is coming up in a few moments. >>> developing overnight an area northeast of dallas, texas is under a tornado watch right now after a night of severe weather that involved with several tornados. this is new video into "action news" from storm chasers the national weather service confirmed several twisters touched down. baseball size hail fell year stephenville. the tornado watch for wood county texas is up until 10:00 a.m. >>> authorities say a local mother went a a bit too far when it came to punishing her children locking them a in a basement for hours. katherine scott is live outside special victims unit with more on the story. >> reporter: that's right, police say it was meant as a punishment that the mother locked four children in the basement for more than 12 hours with no food and no access to a bathroom. she was taken to the special victims unit for questioning. her kids showed no visible signs of injuries, they were taken to saint christopher's hospital for valuation. you can see the detectives as at the kensington home located on the 1900 block of east atlantic st

a group of mourners involved in a texas funeral procession jumped out of formation to tackle a man who elderly woman at a bus stop and stole her purse. eight men jumped out of their vehicles to chase down the attacker and hold him until police arrived. the procession stopped so the men could resume their place once the suspect was arrested. he is charged with aggravated robbery. >>> chester the pittbull was living in animal shelters for five years. he is pleading for a home. they say it came if very quickly. they are the door family who took him in. the league uses facebook to showcase all animals up for adoption. >> chester looks happy. >> a lot of sports to talk about. >> we have colin in for larry. >> masters. it is just going to get better as the weekend goes and we will see a run away. how jordan spieth extended his you wish your dog could fight off fleas and ticks. but since he can't... you rely on frontline plus. because frontline plus unleashes a deadly killing force to kill fleas and ticks, plus flea eggs and larvae, preventing a new infestation. its protection lasts a full 30

texas. she experience certainly her own brand of what it was like to run as a woman in the state of texas. her daughter, cecile richards, who is the head of planned parenthood is very much a role model of mine, and she started an entity in texas, the texas freedom association, the texas freedom network which stands for civil rights and freedom of expression, and that legacy continues after she left, so she certainly made her mark on the world, and it certainly shows that she is unstoppable in the face of criticism -- unflappable in the face of criticism and unflappable in all of the undoing of the fine work that that organization is doing, and she is a role model of how we conduct ourselves as women in the state, especially when there is a little but of a back slide from time to time. host: we can see who can embody strength and thick skin, and you wrote in your book about how far you have come in this regard and really not letting the turkeys get you down. [laughter] so your personal story makes the case for public policy that supports women, how do we get men to be the allies in the fight

discover brookside crunchy clusters. >>> in texas, a crane collapsed at the dallas museum of art. barely missed a piece of an outdoor artwork. surveillance video shows the crane falling on to the building earlier this month, sending workers running as the crane tipped over. there were no injuries. >>> in a recent study finds new treatment for epilepsy is showing great promise. it uses a marijuana extract. dr. jon lapook reports. >> you're going to school. >> reporter: from age 1, hank kovac suffered from severe epilepsy that could not be controlled with medicine. his mother megan said in one day he could have 25 seizures. >> i thought he was playing in the other room. he was not playing in the other room, he was convulsing turning blue and that's when i thought i lost him. >> reporter: last summer she eagerly enrolled her son in a small trial to see if medical marijuana could help. twice a day hank receives a marijuana liquid extract. meaghan said the change has been dramatic. >> we instantly saw results. he was smiling again. we noticed a decrease in seizures. he was able to trans

estados, belmart, new york, en las Últimas horas la probabilidad de mÁs tormentas y tornados desde texas al pronÓstico emitido por la universidad de colorado, huracanes para toda la zona atlÁntica, una temporada por de bajo del promedio, es una buena noticia, tormentas, estamos hablando de ciclones, intensos, y solamente el pronÓstico, y no significa que no tengamos uno aquÍ en philadelphia o en un sector de la costa te los estados unidos, regresamos con 41 la mÍnima, probabilidad elevada de lluvia, y este es el pronÓstico para maÑana 74 nublado, en unos sectores podrÍa ser mÁs que chubascos, mÁxima maÑana 72 en philadelphia, noten el ascenso de las temperaturas, es el pronÓstico y luego nuevamente excelente el fin de semana con temperaturas frescas en la tarde y frÍas al amanecer ♪♪ y ahora adriana nos presenta un resumen de toda la acciÓn deportiva. >> ¿no? no ha llegado adriana, bueno, vamos a entretenimiento, lo que sucede con la quinta temporada de game of thrones, las voces de sus protagonistas, veamos pararse sin miedo, uno de dragones mÁs temidos que va a tomar el liderazgo. (en in

fue interrogada sobre un reciente incidente. >>> a una representante de la empresa huber le tocÓ responder una serie de preguntas de la legislatura de texasado de violar a una pasajera. trabajÓ para huber sin someter informaciÓn a la ciudad de houston para escrutinio. >>> espero que como compaÑÍa investiguen incidentes como ese. al no estas satisfecho con la respuesta de la empresa el polÍtico se reprochÓ si se habÍa enterado por las noticias. >>> este congresista apoya la propuesta de ley que xi ray una licencia comercial para los choferes de huber. >>> si quiere manejar en todo el estado de texas quien los ocupa, van a saber su situaciÓn. >>> los requisitos para ser conductor de la empresa documentos de los Últimos 7 aÑos. historial de cortes historial delictivo multi estatal. historial de chofer verificaciÓn de seguro social y prueba de no ser agresor sexual. lo bueno de uber que puede pedir el servicio del telÉfono celular. y dar un nÚmero tarjeta de crÉdito. no los taxis amarillos no reciben licencia. legisladores del estado no quieren que vuelva a ocurrir y debaten regulaciones estatales para uber y servicio similares. cabe destacar

lupines so beguiling you just have to take a picture. >> yeah! >> reporter: in texasnets is a rite of spring. little shilo and her mom are no exceptions. >> she saw the blue bonnets and the first thing she said is oh my gosh. and she started running through them and roll them. >> they have this magical charisma people love. >> reporter: andrea is director of horticulture at the ladybird johnson wild flower center in austin. lady bird, she says, was a woman ahead of her time who knew if people began to care about the flowers, they'd begin to care about the planet. >> she was very sensitive to the importance that nature plays and wanted to share that with people. and the joy of the wildflowers and the joy of nature. >> reporter: so lured by the lupines they come. a picture a must. but there's indian paint brush too, and so much more if you stop to look. >> it's magical, you know? just one little minute of spring. >> reporter: though texas is still in a drought, winter rains have brought a bumper crop of wildflowers this year. our gratitude to lady bird, who used to say

master's bachelor's from texas a & m. was an officer in the united states army, was a captain in the u.s. army reserve. thank you for your service. you're joined by your wife helen, is that correct? >> she is not here. >> we obviously will not have her stand. let me get right to some questions real quick. my gracious. oh, yes, you have your testimony. pardon me. >> thank you. good afternoon mr. chairman, ranking member stabenow, esteem esteemed members of the committee. my pleasure to be here. thank you for inviting me to testify on the challenges and opportunities associated of trade with cuba. i have been studying the cuban market for about 15 years been there a number of times. we continue to monitor what happens in cuba and how that i am pacts u.s. agricultural exporters. our work at texas a&m indicates that one u.s. job is created for every $76,000 in u.s. we think that makes it worthwhile for us to continue to stay engaged on this important issue. just a little bit about background. our exports has averaged about $30

gerri: and we move on now to a story that might make you smile. one texasor found a new way to show his displeasure at student classroom behavior. irvine he was teaching a strategic management class. he says was misbehaving. (?) he flunked them. all of them. professor horowitz joins us with his story. you must tell us what these students were doing that made you flunk them. how were they misbehaving? >> well, it wasn't all a matter of misbehavior. i mean, at the root of the problem was the fact that the students were not really prepared to take what is the cumulative class in the program. which is the strategic management class where they're supposed to integrate all the information that they've learned in their past administration classes. they were a large majority of the class could not even perform simple analyses of how many apples to sell out of a cart to break even. gerri: isn't that the job of those students to learn that? i mean, it's a business class after all. >> they should have learned it -- they should have learned that far before even getting

to be a civilian. >> reporter: in 2013 kyle and his close friend chad littlefield were murdered on a texas gun range by eddie ray routh, a struggling vet they were trying to help. >> we the jury find the defendant, eddie ray routh, guilty. >> reporter: it was the "american sniper" trial. >> that was so, so wrong. i don't know how every branch of the media portrayed it. >> reporter: i said the words. i bought into it. it was the "american sniper" trial. >> we resent that because it was just then about the loss of chris. the loss of chris was no more of a tragedy than loss of chad littlefield. >> reporter: on the heels of the film's success and the trial, a texas congressman introduced a bill to posthumously honor kyle the medal of honor. >> if you knew chris, you would know he would never ever want that. he never saw himself as a hero. >> reporter: the kyles honor their son through a foundation that supports veterans causes. they are moved by the tributes of strangers for their son and are happy to have the trial behind them. >> we never had any peace to try to grieve, i guess, ourselves. b

irwin horowitz is a professor at texas a & m galveston. l to his strategic psychiatric management class telling the students everyone would get a f. he called the class disgraceful and cites examples of cheating and inappropriate conduct. students say they were shocked and called the move ridiculous. the university says while it respects horowitz it will not allow him to fail the whole class. we'll be back i used to be able to have students come in and we do a social studies project and it was connected to language arts and it was connected to math. we educated in such an interdisciplinary way that educated the whole child. the testing shouldn't be in the driver's seat. i should be in the driver's seat. i should be directing my students in a way that's helping them make connections not just for an assessment but for life. >> new video of an unusual sight in tulsa oklahoma. a man walking in the buff disrupting traffic and banging on cars. someone cell phone camera caught james jackson walking confidently down the highway confronting cars sho

a long shot. last year the texas board of paroles denied a request. the fact is this state executes more than any other state or country. an official admission of a mistake being made, that would be disastrous of the state's reliance on the death penalty. it is very unlikely that any other judge would independently take on this case again. john. >> heidi zhou-castro, thank you. >>> one of the longest serving death row inmates walked out of prison today. he was convicted of murdering fast food workers based on only evidence of bullets found at the scene. those bullets set him free. anyone convicted of this incident will have to answer to god. >>> sarah brady has died, widow of james brady shot and paralyzed in the 1980 assassination attempt on ronald reagan's life. the bradies spent the last of their life to strengthen the nation's gun control laws. they were the guiding force between passage of the 1982 brady handgun protection act. sarah brady died of pneumonia she was 73 years old. >>> explosion killed 29 people at the upper big branch mine in west

. >>> it was a similar situation if texas. e storms brought more than a dozen tornadoes and miles of damage. entire roads were wiped weigh in the heavy rain and winds. roofs were ripped off farms and entire plots of land were destroyed. so far there are no reports of any serious injuries. >> ♪♪ >> (bell). >> there we go to business now, the avengers united on wall street today to open the trading day in new york. you see robert downey jr. jeremy renner among others ringing the opening bell after the movie made more than $200 million in international theaters over the weekend. the avengers age of ultron hit theaters in the u.s. this week and i had a chance to sit down with the entire cast in hollywood. you can see my interviews beginning wednesday right here on "action news" and to the closing numbers today a down day across-the-board on wall street. the dow losing 42 points, the nasdaq dropping 31 points and the s & p 500 also losing eight points on the day. >>> chipotle is the first major restaurant chain to say its food is gm

discover brookside crunchy clusters. >>> in texas, a crane collapsed at the dallas museum of art. barely missed a piece of outdoor art. surveillance video shows the crane falling on to the building earlier this month, sending workers running as the crane tipped over. there were no injuries. >>> lauren hill the college basketball player who died from a brain tumor was remembered at a memorial service in cincinnati. hill died friday after battling cancer for a year. the vigil was held in the same arena where she scored her only points for the mt. st. joseph basketball team five months ago. one of hill's teammates recalled her courage and praised her for the inspiration. >>> a recent study finds new treatment for epilepsy is showing great promise. it uses a marijuana extract. dr. jon lapook reports. >> you're going to school. >> reporter: from age 1, hank kovac suffered from severe epilepsy that could not be controlled with medicine. his mother megan says in one day he could have 25 seizures. >> i thought he was playing in the other room. he was not playing in the other room, he was c

with stronger, clean sea-bond. >>> in lubbock, texas, a scary landing for a pilot thursday.ported a problem. the landing gear would not come down. he came in for a very slow speed for a belly landing and jumping out of the plane as soon as it stopped moving and the fire rescue truck arrived. he said he considers himself a lucky man. >>> in california one child is dead and another fighting for his life after being pulled out of a submerged car. a car went off a pier landing upside down in 30 feet of water. a man and woman inside escaped. fire and rescue divers brought two boys to the surface. one was brought dead to the hospital. police are investigating. >>> a wisconsin man is charged after trying to travel to an islamic state. john haften was charged with attempting to provide materiel support and resources to a foreign nation. he's been ordered held without bail. if convicted haften faces up to 15 years in prison. >>> a chilling 911 call from actress sandra bullock was played in court in los angeles. a man is accused of stalking bulloch. he allegedly broke into the home of

we have video of a truck slamming into a business in texas. look at that killing a woman and injuring several others. security cameras captured the impact earlier in ft. worth, texas. a 19-year-old driver was behind the wheel and lost control going 100 miles per hour. he also is on drugs and now facing manslaughter charges. >>> and from tennessee, look at this dramatic dash cam video showing a police officer distributely crashing his vehicle to stop a wrong-way driver. that driver was headed south in the northbound lane on an interstate. the officer and the wrong way driver are here to look at it again with minor injuries. the highway patrol is still deciding whether to file charges. >>> new information on the federal investigation into the veterans affairs officer in philadelphia. they are concerned about delays in the investigation into the alleged mismanagement of disability claims. they are worrying the upcoming government report will not focus on who is to blame. the philly v.a. office is accused of making old claims look new to reduce the

and she made reference to a businesswoman in texas a ceo who has suggested herself that hormones can n in the corporate bedrooms. and carly fiorina made reference to that. watch in. >> i was asked this morning on fox news whether a woman's hormones prevented her from serving in the oval office. not that we have seen examples of a man's judgment being clouded by hormones, including in the oval office. >> a not too subtle reference to bill clinton's scandals in the white house with monica lewinsky back in the '90s. something everybody talks about in both parties. it is sometimes referenced to in the name of jeb bush, one of the republican front runner os guessing that his dynastic polls could be a drag. and we also heard from rand paul. only three republicans have already gotten into the race. paul, cruz and rubio. and in paul's case he has a difference in foreign policy in particular. he's been accused of being isolationist. he talked about that today and fired back at republicans. watch. >> the other republicans will criticize the president and hillary clinton for their foreign policy

on the heals of the film's success and trial, a texas congressman introduced a bill to posthumousl honorkyle. >> he never saw himself as a hero. >> reporter: the kyles honor their son through a foundation that supports veterans causes. they are moved by the tributes of strangers for their son and happy to have the trial behind them. >> we never had any peace to try to grieve, i guess, ourselves. but once they came back with that guilty verdict, it was like okay that chapter is closed. and there was a sense of relief. >> in february the man who killed kyle and chad littlefield was sentenced to life in prison without parole. >>> still ahead for us here tonight, the loss of a legendary figure on television. >>> also tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings. the threat across a huge part of the country again. al roker will join us in a moment. >>> and later, saying good-bye to the '60s. we're onset among the last cameras there with the cast and ♪ is it the insightful strategies and analytical capabilities that make edward jones one of the biggest financial services firms in the country? or i

the close call happening during a crawfish vestfestival in texas. s traumatic for the alligator, too. >> man oh, man. >> tastes like chicken. >> you know what? i have had gator before and it does taste like chicken. really rubbery chicken. >> i haven't seen a gator, and i live with crocodiles and you never know. >> i still don't know the difference. >>> meanwhile, ltset's take a look at some video that was shot by the fraternity order of police down in miami. you notice that woman there in the front war. she is the assistant chief of police in miami. she did not put her hand over her heart during the pledge of allegiance. the fraternity order of police guy is furious. he says she did not show respect. he wants her off the force. >> she was the first african-american first female elected to be chief there. this is causing a stir as to why she wouldn't. it comes down to the pledge of allegiance and what is required by the department and federal law. >> if you're in the military you hold a salute. if you're a civilian or law enforcement, you put your ha

at that time, the highest paid football coach was a guy named jacky cheryl at texas a&m at $249,000 a year. and people were asounded by that. now you have coaches making 5 million, 6 million, 7 a year. so the money has exploded but so has the expenses. at that time 25 years ago very few schools made any money out of their college sports programs. it's the same situation today. schools are very adept at paying athletic departments paying themselves, their salaries so outstrip any other part of the university, that it's kind of ridicules. it ridiculous, it is ridiculous from an academic point of view. >> the highest paid employee in the state is either the basketball coach the football coach or the athletic director. is it too bad to real this reel this in, this is it the big money world is where we live and where we're going to live for foreseeable future? >> by the way, it's also the minor leagues, half of all major league baseball players born in the united states played some form of college ball. a huge percentage of national hockey league players and of course the olympic team play

reach the most remote devastated area. >> cell phone captures tornados form lg -- forming over texas. >> aton mother is under arrest after police find four children trapped in a basement for hours. >> good morning everyone, karen is off, we have matt pellman and david murphy. >> reporter: good morning, everybody, we are off to a partly cloudy start the farther south you go, the more sunshine you'll have early on. temperatures in the 40s, 48 in philadelphia. 46 in allentown. 43 degrees in wilmington. as you survey these numbers not a lot of wind out there but obviously enough for a jacket. cool enough for that. catching the bus between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. we'll

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we've got to create a third party-- la raza unida party in texas. nd you're sitting here as a kid saying, "oh, mom, this is so boring." and then you end up essentially becoming part of a major political party-- the democratic party. people look at you. you know it's been said, we might as well just put out there. they're saying, "look, julian castro could end up as the first latino in the white house." so put those things together. you know, your mom's doing radical stuff-- you know, third party politics-- and you're like, right in with the big democratic party with... they have high hopes for you. >> well, i think it's a measure of how far the country has come in those 30 to 40 years, and she was active in the late 1960s and early 1970s. and when you look at... look back at that experience, it's not surprising that there would have been a third party, because neither party truly was serving, i think, the interests of hispanics at that time in the united states. you had a drop-out rate of 70% or something like that. just astronomical. and the institu