the land of texas. belonged to the people who lived on the land of texas for ever and that's a treaty that is perpetual it doesn't go away. so what is the republic of texas now is the land of texas one of texas does not belong to the u.s. doesn't belong to the federal government it belongs to the people. who live here. and there is no federal land if they want land in texas they have to lease it from a spring there are military bases school. ok go not. fall off the hip all thing if. what the republic of texas is today in the early two thousand is. a number of people got together and said you know what the farm land is still ours and if there is a perpetual treaty that says we are a nation let's just be a nation and so they elected but with a vote from the people. a president vice president secretary of state or congress a supreme court justice and all of those are still occupied land to this day in fact that government needs every month. on the second saturday of the march and the people of texas you are

it is the land of texas one of texas does not belong to the u.s. doesn't belong to the federal government it belongs to the people. who live here. and there is no federal land if they want land in texas they have to lease it from a spring there are military bases school. ok go not. fall off the hip all think if. what the republic of texas is today in the early two thousand is. a number of people got together and said you know what the farmland is still ours and if there's a perpetual treaty that says we are a nation let's just be a nation as so they elected but with a vote from the people. a president vice president secretary of state a congress a supreme court justice and all of those are still occupied land to this day in fact that meets every month on the second saturday of the march and the people of texas who are interested come to those meetings that's what it is today the purpose the goal of the republic of texas and what we're doing is to restore and to preserve all the freedoms and all the rights that were won in eight hundred thirty six t

the land area and the people. of texas and there are several possibilities or probabilities that would bring out about one is . a complete economic collapse when the monetary system of the united states stops working and it's inevitable that it will and then you have anarchy then you have chaos then you have disorder. and the thing that's needed is to have a government in place that works on a volunteer basis instead of having to be paid huge salaries as the people in austin texas are busy on it. and that's why you see what they're saying in the first get all day here. the news articles are starting to reveal what we've known for a long time here and that is that there are more jobs in texas than just about any place else. and in fact governor perry has said texas is open for business which is another of saying we have jobs here and we do and the question is why does texas have plenty of jobs when there are whole states that. just can't create jobs and have so many people more people going on a planet than ever. and there

the land area and the people. of texas and there are several possibilities or probabilities that would bring out about one is. a complete economic collapse when the monetary system of the united states stops working and it's inevitable that it will and then you have anarchy then you have chaos then you have disorder. and the thing that's needed is to have a government in place that works on a volunteer basis instead of having to be paid huge salaries as the people in austin texas are busy on it. and that's why you see what they're saying in the first of all to hear. the news articles are starting to reveal what we've known for a long time here and that is that there are more jobs in texas than just about any place else. and in fact governor perry has said texas is open for business which is another of saying we have jobs here and we do and the question is why does texas have plenty of jobs when there are whole states that. just can't create jobs and have so many people more people going on unemployment than ever. and there

so what is the republic of texas now it is the land of texas one of texas doesn't belong to the us doesn't belong to the federal government the last of the people. who live here. and there is no federal land if they want land in texas they have to lease from us for their military bases. ok going out. off to him oh yeah. what the republic of texas is today in the early two thousand number of people got together and said you know what the land is still ours and if there's a perpetual treaty that's sellers we are a nation let's just be a nation that's all they elected. a president vice president secretary of state a congress supreme court justice and all of those are still occupied and mounted to this day the fact that every month from the second saturday of the march and the people of texas who are interested come to most needed that's what it is today the purpose the goal of the republic of today and what we're doing is to restore order and to preserve all the freedoms and all the sovereign rights that were won in eight hundred thirty six at the battle of santa sent over when that treaty wa

that the land of texas. belonged to the people who lived on the land of texas for ever and that's a treaty that is perpetual it doesn't go away. so what is the republic of texas. it is the land of texas one of texas does not belong to the u.s. doesn't belong to the federal government the last of the people. who live here. and there is no federal land if they want land in texas they have to lease from a spring there are military bases school. ok go ahead. fall off the hip all the fifth of what the republic of texas is today in the early two thousand was. a number of people got together and said you know what the farm land is still ours and if there's a perpetual treaty that says we are a nation let's just be a nation and so they elected but with a vote from the people. a president vice president secretary of state a congress a supreme court justice and all of those are still occupied lands to this day in fact that meets every month on the second saturday of the mosque and the people of texas who are interested

nothing of the land of texas . belonged to the people who lived on the wound of texas for ever and that's a treaty that is perpetual it doesn't go away. so what is the republic of texas now it is the land of texas one of texas does not belong to the us doesn't belong to the federal government and the last of the people. who live here. and there is no federal land if they want land and. texas they have to lease from a spring there are military bases school. ok go not. fall off to him all if. what the republic of texas is today in the early two thousand is. a number of people got together and said you know what the film land is still ours and if there's a perpetual treaty that says we are a nation let's just be a nation as so they elected but with a vote from the people. a president vice president secretary of state a congress a supreme court justice and all of those are still occupied to this day in fact that meets every month on the second set of the of the mosque and the people of texas who are interested come to t

as we know the father of texas who wanted more immigration from the united states into the mexin ory ofas and trying to encourage people to come. so he asked his cousin to come and look at texas and wanted her to see everything and go back and distribute on the east coast. she did. here is what she wrote. coming in 1931 her book came out 18303. it is not uncommon for ladies to mount there mustangs and hunt with their husbands to ride long distances on horseback, to attend a ball still dressed in the saddlebags. hardy vigorous constitutions a free spirit and spontaneous gayety continued a rich legacy to their children to it is hopeful sufficiently value the blessings not to squander away in there eager search of refinement of polite life. i just thought that was a fabulous thing that they had the gaiety way back then when there was nothing. i want to read an excerpt from my great great grandmothers letter. the daughter of the governor of tennessee and i found this was something that ran through a lot of the women that came to texas from genteel families, a lot of luxury, and well educa

that's the way things half in texas. when a tragedy like this happens in a small town, small towns respond as well as large ones and that's what's happened in this case. right now the triage unit has very few patients in it. the state trooper who gave the briefing a while ago said all of the injured have been evacuated from town. right now they're concentrated on searching the debris in the blast area looking for more victims or survivors. >> as you mentioned, we're hearing they're going door to door looking for folks who may need assistance. the state official compared the damage from this explosion to the damage in the oklahoma city bombing. now, you were some 60 miles away at this time that this happened and you say you actually felt it. what did you feel? >> i was in kauffman county covering the d.a. death there and the arrest of the justice of the peace and his wife in connection with that case, and i was inside a building about, oh, five minutes till 8:00 central time. and there was a rumble in the glass of the buil

the u.s. state of texas that's also left over one hundred injured. the blast that registered as a two point one magnitude seismic event in leveled many buildings the town of west with fires tearing through apartment complexes schools and houses rescue services fear the number of dead could climb as many people may be buried under the rubble. wherever you're watching from around the world this is our team you will start off with our breaking news this hour the deaths have been confirmed in an explosion that ripped through a fertilizer plant in the u.s. state of texas that's also left over one hundred people injured to buildings in a five block radius around the center of the blast have been reduced to rubble we can all talk live with our teaser on one girl interviews in taxes all for us right now romano you've just attended the press so with the town's mayor what new information do you have for us. that's right the mayor of west texas spoke to was just a few minutes ago and just to confirm some of the facts of the disaster that we've seen here at the f

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as we wait to hear about the full extent about the devastation of texas, the mayor of west, texas, is asking for your prayers. take a listen to the desperate dispatch calls moments after the blast. >> a bomb just went off inside here. it's pretty bad. we've got a lot of firemen down. >> fire fighters down. again, there has been an explosion. there are fire fighters down. >> the rest home has been seriously damaged. we have many people down. police please respond. >> giving you everybody i can. up deputies, you have bellmead fire. you have e.m.s. i'm sending everybody i got. >>brian: that was the story yesterday. right now we're finding out the ramifications of the chemical explosion, the fertilizer fire happened in west, texas where we know at least 170 people are hurt. sadly we think the casualty number will grow. looking back at this plant, something cropped up in its history that is noteworthy about a problem they had with an e.p.a. investigation. >>steve: back in 2006 west fertilizer company was fined 2300 bucks. what was the failure? they didn't have a risk-management plan on rec

the explosion at the texas fertilizer plant has highlighted show coming from the u.s. system of industrial risk a management cynism urgency planning document the fertilizer plant reported having over twenty four kilograms of a high dose ammonia in the hand and the report stated no and file explosive risks the worst possible scenario is invisible was a ten minute release of ammonia guest spot without any casualties but this blast sure causes a run to eighty kilometers away resulting in a rising number of injuries and deaths are g.'s gammage again she's calling the off to most of the disaster from washington d.c. than it is so why did the authorities calculate to the risk of correctly. well first of all we have to say we heard the local police say unless they prove it was an industrial accident like a chemical accident and they treat the area as a crime scene obviously there's going to be an investigation into what caused this massive explosion officials are very reluctant to expand on that at this point but we actually have information emerging about this plant this bir

murder of a texas district attorney, kim lee williams the wife of a former texas justice of thece has confessed that she and her husband were involved in the shooting death of koffman county assistant prosecutor and district attorney mark mcclellan and his wife. mrs. williams said her husband shot the two officials who prosecuted him for theft. >>> a suspect is under arrest today in mississippi accused of sending poison letters. federal agents arrested paul kevin curtis for allegedly sending letters contaminated with ricin to president obama and senator roger wick of mississippi. before the letters reached senate offices or white house they were found in mail facilities. >>> the investigation of the boston marathon bombings is focusing on the search for a suspect seen in a department store surveillance video. the man with the backpack was seen at the site of the explosions on monday which killed three people and injured 170. investigators say the suspect was seen dropping off a bag near the finish line but don't know yet his identity. >>> time now for a look ahead. president oba

the texas department of public safety is very much the point organization. ou know, texas is a big state with a lot of capability. so as of now, it appears that this state is largely handling this situation on their own. but i'm told that, by a fema official, that the federal authorities here do stand ready to help if needed. there are actually a couple of damage assessment teams on stand by and a federal urban search and rescue team that has been alerted but not deployed at this point. at this point, though, fema coordinating their efforts with state and local officials there in texas, either regional office in denton, texas. again, john, this very much a state operation in texas, appears to be handling this. >> the president headed to where we are in boston today, brianna? >> that's right. president obama heading to boston for this interfaith memorial service taking place at the cathedral of the holy cross. he will be going early this morning, really in not too long here in the next hour. and he will be speaking in the 11:00 hour. he will, according to whit

>>> the fire and the explosion at the texas fertilizer plant rocked the town of west, texas, last nightwn, much of it destroyed. the explosion blew out walls and windows in nearby buildings. the rumblings could be felt as far as 50 miles away. now officials are still telling us they believe between 5 and 15 people were killed. there's some firefighters who are still unaccounted for as we speak. more than 160 others were injured. search and rescue teams are still trying right now to find victims. and christine romans looks into how this happened. have there been past regulatory issues for this fertilizer company. >> reporter: before the explosion, this is what the plant looked like, it was a facility authorized to hold, we're told, up to 54,000 gallons of anhydrous ammonia, that's a farm fertilizer stored under high pressure, a gas stored under high pressure and is loaded on to trucks to be used to put into sprayers and sprayed on farm fields. now, it was cited, this plant, in 2006 for a lingering smell of ammonia. there was a complaint into state officials. we have this from texas envir

the report we got in responding to this challenge is as big as texas itself. the big thing we want to convey and that is that the state of texas and the entire community will provide whatever sources are needed to ensure that these challenges will be met. live in this community will be put back together. then the last thing i'll mention is an unfortunate follow on to incidents like this that arise. it seems sometimes when tragedies like this arise, they are followed by price gouging. the governor has declared this a disaster and so my office has declared a warning with regard to price gouging and we've activated the price gouging statute in texas. if anyone tries to profit eeer f this tragedy by hiking up prices for basic needs and necessities they will be facing the wrong end of a lawsuit from the texas attorney general. at this time i want to pass the microphone over to the texas department of public safety with the last comment that the texas department of public safety is going to provide a flyover here as soon as the press conference is over giving me the

is this -- you covered the texas legislature. you were down in west, texas. this the thing everyone is talking about, the hundreds of fertilizer facilities across the state are secured and properly protected? it should be a national issue not a texas one. it is not the biggest industry in the state. if it were it would probably be more aggressively regulated. we've seen texas do that on a lot of industries including oil. state agencies fall down on the job a bit and we'll have plenty to blame them for i'm sure in the weeks to come but also half a dozen federal agencies that had warning signs about this particular retail facility and didn't enforce the laws they already had. >> or allowed an emergency management plan with no sprinklers. there are a lot of details. when you start sifting through the trail it just does not look like it was a particularly tightly managed, regulated enterprise. >> certainly yeah. you kind of have to wonder how many others there are like this across the country. i think regulation tends to focus on really big targets. factories, re

hasn't the aryan brotherhood texas, you far are familiar with the prison gangs in texas. haven't they moved off of their original mission which is why the aryan circle broke off from them? >> yes, judge. the circle broke off bought of the ideologies. they wanted a separate -- they didn't like the way the aryan brotherhood of it texas was going and so when they broke off they wanted to keep the white supremacist ideology with them. they were more for that than the abt was. >> judge jeanine: and what you are seeing is them going off their original mission. scott, the national d.a. association, what do they plan to do going forward now? is there any movement afoot to either pass laws or get more funding for the prosecutors? >> well, right now the texas district and county attorneys association is on the ground and we are working through them. we will issue a press release on monday. we, too, are going to try and raise $100,000 nationwide. money seems to work. most of all, there is a spot light now on as you know, judge, what prosecutors deal with every day. so if you see your

texas. >> treating the wounded and >>> that breaking news is in texas in the city where a fertilizer plant exploded. >> hundreds of hurt taken to a football field turned into a triage center. >> several people have been killed in this massive blast and fire that raged for hours. >> this blast has rocked the sound of west, a community 80 miles south of dallas. john alston is monitoring the latest developments from the newsroom. >> the danger has not passed as fumes are lingering in the area and an emergency room doctor said earlier at least two emt firefighters had been killed. officials expect many more fatalities. are more than a hundred people have been hurt and taken to local hospitals. the flames were already raging and firefighters were pouring water on the fertilizer plants when disaster struck. the massive explosion could be felt more than 40 miles away. in the immediate area the results are devastating. the mayor of west texas believes 60 to 80 homes are leveled or seriously damaged. >> i can tell you i was there. i walked to the blast area and searched some houses earlier tonight

the. mayor of new. that's texas to us just to confirm some of the facts of the disaster that we've seen here sixty homes have been damaged in this explosion presumed those are the homes that are closest to the blast site we were in town just a few minutes earlier and saw that there were several other businesses which also sustained some damage to the windows which were blown out it is still a search and recovery situation we try to get as close to the fed as we could police putting a radius of about a mile around the site which is still considered to be dangerous for people to approach however about half of the town of twenty six hundred people have been evacuated so far but the mayor gave a dire assessment of the extent of the damage here today and even before that when he was trying to describe the scene of the explosion he described it as a as a nuclear blast we've seen other first responders call it you know compared to iraq and one witness who i spoke to earlier this evening said that when he showed up at the s

again, authorities are saying very little publicly about the case and the aryan brotherhood of texas did get some attention earlier in the week but, again, authorities so far have found no

the u.s. state of texas it's also left over one hundred injured. the blast that registered as a two point one magnitude seismic event leveled many buildings to the time of west with fires tearing through apartment complexes school and high rises this is the number of dead could climb as many people may be buried under rubble. i welcome you watching our deaths have been confirmed in an explosion ripped through a fertilizer plant in the u.s. state of texas that's left over one hundred people injured buildings in a five block radius around the center of the blast had been reduced to rubble. well we can talk more about this to our correspondent sean thomas he's in the studio now sean we have been hearing police initially were saying that there were sort of confirmed fatalities didn't give a number we now know that i think nine in the agency service workers six of those firemen have been killed in this this just really underlines the magnitude of the disaster that we're seeing at the moment and we expect the fatality. level to rise don't we over the comi

he's been on the ground in west, texas, throughout the morning.e to some witnesses. >> i was in the back of my truck. i had to duck as fast as i could. my nephew's with me. i had two friends. one of my friends got battered up pretty badly, but he's all right. >> reporter: have you ever experienced anything like that? >> no. it's probably the worst things i've ever seen in my life. >> reporter: how would you describe it to those not here? >> a giant explosion. >> reporter: how do you feel afterward? >> there's no feeling. it's shock. i mean it's a small town where everybody knows each other. nobody expected that. just shock. >> reporter: do you fear that you'll know some of the injured, some of the deceased unfortunately? >> hopefully i don't. i don't want to hear the names of my friends being called out or relatives. >> we were probably not more than 150 yards from the explosion. and as soon as it happened, i was the last one to take cover behind the truck we were in. i turned around to take a look at the explosion. the shock wave was just unbelie

the area. many of them to waco, texas. they also got a great deal of assistance in terms of emergency responders. and from as far away as dallas and ft. worth. they got so much assistance, that officials over the course of the evening, had to tell them to stop coming to stop sending assistance. we're hearing from some hospitals of the nature of the injuries we've seen in this. it ranges, everything from minor cuts and abrasions to burns. we're waiting to hear on the number of fatalities. we have david scott, who is live in west, texas, for more on the story. david, what can you tell us what's happening on the ground there? >> reporter: well, right now, the wait is for dawn in the next couple of hours. that will make the relief and recovery efforts a lot better. we're told that roughly 100 people are injured, more or less. most taken to the medical center in waco. they're not giving out fatality counts. rumors it's fairly high. they want to be sure of the numbers. and they have a lot of rubble yet to go through. >> david, as

half of the town of 2500 people in west texas have been evacuated. ther half may have to leave if winds shift overnight. firefighters cannot get to the actual blast zone at the fertilizer plant because of fears of another explosion. the i'm mown yum nitrate -- immonium nitrate is flammable. there are 700 first responders on the scene. a short time ago the mayor of that town, west texas, spoke to reporters. >> there is a lot of people that got hurt. there is a lot of people that i am sure are not going to be here tomorrow. we are going to search for everybody and make sure everybody is accounted for. that's the most important thing right now. >> as we said, at least two firefighters killed and more than a hundred injured. approximately 60 to 80 homes have been leveled. they have been leveled or seriously damaged. they are hoping to find victims and survivors. abc7 news. >> all right, john, thank you. >> now, nightline will update the explosion in a special report at 12:35. we will keep you updated. >>> and an update on the boston bombings. they have pi