says the texas ranger rudy jaramillo fed the former monk information which he didn't have himself. jaramillo says that never happened and that the d.a.'s claim is a great insult to his integrity. what's more, the d.a.'s concern about tacheny seems to ignore this man. >> back in 2002, i was a detective with the san antonio police homicide unit, and i was assigned to the cold case unit, and i had received a phone call. >> george saidler is deputy chief of criminal investigations for the bear county, texas, sheriff's office. in april 2002, months before lieutenant jaramillo ever heard of dale tacheny, the former monk called detective saidler. tacheny gave him details about how father feit admitted murdering a 25-year-old woman. >> i remember mr. tacheny telling me that the girl had been placed in a bathroom, wrapped in what i call a saran wrap or cellophane, that she was naked from the waist up, that he had fondled her breasts. >> tacheny gave detective saidler numerous details about the murder that had never been made public and even put them in writing. >> i was convinced that mr. t

. >> eva rowe's parents were among the 15 who died that day in texas city. it was the worst workplace accident in this country in 16 years. >> these things do not have to happen. they are preventable. they're predictable, and people do not have to die because they're earning a living. >> welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm leslie stahl. oil is the engine that drives our economy. and as oil becomes scarcer, the push to discover and develop new sources becomes increasingly dangerous. this edition examines two recent disasters in the oil industry with a great deal in common: the deepwater horizon rig in the gulf of mexico and the refinery at texas city, which suffered explosions five years apart. they were both operated by bp. and in both cases, 60 minutes looked at whether bp's cost saving measures may have had deadly consequences. first we'll look at the biggest off shore oil spill in history, the blowout of the deepwater horizon drilling rig in 2010. critical revelations in the disaster have come from one of the last crewmen to escape the rig, mike williams, w

and graduated the university of texas and law school at a time when law firms simply didn't hire the women graduates. as larry temple puts it back then it wasn't just a glass ceiling. there was a glass door. so she became a television reporter before going into politics and after being elected twice to the house of representatives, she was elected state treasurer in 1990 and three years later elective as the first woman to represent texas in the senate. she was elected by the chairman of the republican conference which means she is the only woman among the the top five leaders of the senate republicans. senator hutchinson leadership especially was notable in the relation to foreign affairs she serves as the share of the military construction subcommittee and subcommittee of the senate appropriations subcommittee and is the ranking republican of commerce subcommittee on aviation and is the chair of the transportation merchant marine subcommittee that enables her to set policies regarding the courts and security and we know how really important that is

world. >> jason carlbaum who runs the texas team store at the stadium isn't surprised by texas football's number 1 revenue ranking. here on game days. >> it is a madhouse in here. it's tons of people, nobody stop. >> you can go to germany and throw out the hook 'em sign and somebody will know what it is. >> that passion for texas football has led to staggering financial results even as the program tries to regain footing on the field mark schneider, al jazeera, austin. >> longhorns facing number 10 ranked organizeon in the alamo bowl. florida state at auburn for the national championship game. >> we thank you for watching al jazeera america. i am del walters. "listening post" is up next. for updates go to aljazeera.com where the news continues 24 hours a day, seven days a week. >> ♪ ♪ >> hello i'm richard gizbert. you're watching a special edition of the listening post. this week we're going to do something different than our usual year ender. we asked our producers to submit their favorite stories, our user generating content makes its way into the papers and on to te

. >>> the texas teenager that drove drunk and killed four and is getting no jail time. they used the word affluenza. we'll hear from another teen ieg ager that survived the crash but his life changed forever and we'll look if the affluenza defense makes any sense. is that a medical term? right now i'll tell you it's not. >>> revelations about the interpreter that caused outrage in the deaf community essentially signing gibberish, aports of an alleged criminal past he has when we continued. . i heard about progressive's "name your price" tool? i guess you can tell them how much you want to pay and it gives you a range of options to choose from. huh? i'm looking at it right now. oh, yeah? yeah. what's the... guest room situation? the "name your price" tool, making the world a little more progressive. so i got the windows nokia tablet. it's, well, impressive. it's got the brightest hd screen, super-fast 4g lte, so my son can play games and movies almost anywhere, and it's got office for school stuff. but the best part? i got the lumia 928 for my daughter for free, with the

, and the university of texas long horns are the college football team of the state. current students miss the glory days when the long horns won the title. from a popularity standpoint texas is on top. >> you go into walmart and texas, where that is supposed to be like texas tech and there's still long horn merchandise. >> according to forbes the texas long horns brought in there 189 million, $82 million was profit, from ticket sales, royalty and donors. >> everything is big in texas, there's a lot of wealthy individuals and alumni. >> the two men credited with making texas football what it is today is the retired director, who held the position for 32 years, and outgoing coach matt brown. their expertise generated massive amounts of money. texas is a huge brand known around the world. >> jason, who runs the texas team store at the stadium is not surprised by the texas football number one revenue ranking. and on game days? >> it's a mad house. it's tonnes of people, nonstop. >> you can go to jeremy and through a hook and side and someone will know what it is. >> that

navigators are doing and try to get the people of texas insured. >> joining me now a multimedia reporter who's covering this story. you were at the hearings last night and man, does it sound like a strange, strange scene. paint the picture for us. >> well, it lasted about 2 1/2 hours and it was on the stage there at the performance hall in richardson, in the dallas area, you had the fife republican lawmakers, one democrat from the texas delegation and it was mainly focused on the navigators, but there was an opportunity in the opening remarks from each of the congressmen on both sides of the aisle to posture a little bit as far as the republicans outlining other aspects of the law that they don't like, and the sole democrat taking the opportunity to call out governor perry if you will and say if we need to be talking about a more pressing problem and that is expanding medicare and medicaid, rather, as you just alluded to. >> who's going to a field congressional hearing on the evil obama care navigator? it seems like a slightly strange thin

the tragedy unfolded on june 15th on a road near fort worth, texas. driving with a blood alcohol content three times the legal limit when his car careened out of control and cut four lives short in an instant. like that of 24-year-old brianna mitchell. her only crime that night, the fact that her car had broken down. brian jennings, a father of three, stopped to help her. and so did two other good samaritans. holly boyles and her daughter u shelby. all four were killed instantly leaving families shattered. >> we had over 180 years of life taken. future life. not 180 years lived, but 180 years of future life taken. and two of those were my wife and daughter. >> there's also anguish from the family of sergio molina. he was a rising soccer star, but his life was changed that night too. >> sir, how many people are injured, do you know? >> one, two, three, multiple. >> multiple? >> i don't even know how many. >> ma'am, i'm telling you it's dark. there's four or five kids laying in ditches. >> sergio was thrown from ethan couch's suv. these days he can't tal

who had done most to beautify the highways of texas. i'm always interested in which first ladies continue their projects afterwards and which ones forget that they ever did that. >> here are some of the key accomplishments and challenges. the establishment of medicare and medicaid, the signing of the civil rights act which had been kennedy administration legislation, the warren commission -- the war and commission report -- the warren commission report with the findings on the kennedy assassination, the establishment of the outer space treaty which people say today still is the framework for how the international immunity trees outerspace. and of course vietnam war. >> and the voting rights administration of 1965 which is one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation which made it possible for people to get the vote and to get themselves in a better situation. the civil rights bill started under president kennedy but i don't think there is any way on earth that kennedy could've gotten that bill through congress. i think

is the highest in the nation. and texas is doing everything it can to try to keep it that way. they could have cut the number of people who are uninsured by half just by agreeing to expand their public insurance program, texas said no to that as soon as they had a chance to say no this past summer. and texas went so far as to pass this 64-page long set of regulations that's designed to make it almost a criminal act, almost legally impossible to help someone sign up for private health insurance in texas. in texas, health care navigators will be banned by law from explaining to people the differences between types of health insurance plans that are being offered. they will be barred by texas law from recommending that they do sign up for health insurance. texas is doing everything it can to keep texans from having health insurance, by any means necessary. and darrell issa loves the texas strategy and to celebrate it, he brought his traveling anti-obama care road show to texas last night, specifically to go after the health ca

or completely ruined so how does the set up this play you say that lee harvey oswald was not in the texas book depository why when i think i was in the bill that he was no he's in the building but i think he's on the second floor i am not alleging that johnson in any way does this alone i think that he works on johnson was in those sets of a car right which is it's interesting because before the first bullet is shut johnson hits the. beck we have photographic evidence that shows that dot johnson is on the floor of his car huddled around a walkie talkie before the first shot is fired then his secret service agent later lies to the warren commission tells the warren commission to push johnson the floor after he heard the first shot after johnson's death that agent recants and said well i said that because johnson told me too but lee harvey oswald told the police officer who arrested him in the movie theater and because i interviewed the officer i am not a patsy right patsy is not saying i didn't do it well saying i'm going to said what is pat's but he also says i didn't shoot anybody they r

in my opinion. >> reporter: captain stacy holland and his team from the texas department of public safetyre trying to stop drug smugglers from crossing from mexico into the u.s. >> right there, right there. one guy's gotten out. >> reporter: they are also trying to stop the violence of a full-scale drug war from spilling north. >> are there parts of this border that you would be basically lawless or run by the cartels? >> absolutely. >> reporter: smack in the middle of this 21st century version of the wild west, two young americans, david hartley and tiffany young, just teenagers when they fell in love. >> we started dating in '98. the summer of '98, and dated for quite a while before we got engaged in 2001 and married in 2002. >> what took so long? >> we were 18. >> reporter: they wound up here, in the mexican border town of reynosa, jut south of mcallen. he was a district manager for an oil company. >> it was a blessing to us and our marriage. yeah. we were -- that's where we truly grew as a couple and had adventures. >> reporter: when the hartley's first arrive here this peaceful town

simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. >>> ethan couch, the texas teenager killed and paralyzed another will spent the next year in a rehab facility instead of the prison bill. his dad is paying the bill that may hundred half a million dollars. he's expected to get treatment in california. they called it the most beautiful treatment facility in the industry. it's clearly a top of the line facility. treatments, there is equine e assisted therapy, yoga, meditation, cooking skills, chef. to a lot of people may not sound like punishment. the co-founder of the academy joins us now with the host of dr. drew on call, dr. drew pinsky. first of all, your facility nobody is in any way saying anything other than nice things about the facility. it looks top of the line like an amazing place. ethan couch was diagnosed with so-called affluenza by his psychologist. have you ever heard of that term? do you buy that diagnosis? >> actually, anderson, i don't buy that diagnosis. i don't believe in the term affluenza. what i would like to do is take a step back, and that's a very, ver

you had the republican lawmakers, one democrat from the texas delegation, and it was mainly focused on the navigators, but there was an opportunity in the opening remarks to posture and a little bit as far as the republicans outlining other aspects of a law that they don't like. the democrat taking the opportunity to call out governor perry, if you will come and say that we need to be talking about a more pressing problem, extending medicaid, as you alluded to. >> who is going to a field congressional hearing on the evil obama -- it seems like a slightly strange thing for a citizen to do on a monday night. who was in the crowd? >> it was in the afternoon, so maybe it was even sparser because people were working, but mostly the people in the audience or of an older age. you did have the texas organizing product, grass roots activism organization that helps low-income texans. they were outside the hearing before it got started, calling it a dog and pony show. it was pretty sparsely populated there in the audience, but a very engaged audience. applauses on both sides of the aisle when you

in my opinion. >> reporter: captain stacy holland and his team from the texas department of public safety are trying to stop drug smugglers from crossing from mexico into the u.s. >> right there, right there. one guy's gotten out. >> reporter: they are also trying to stop the violence of a full-scale drug war from spilling north. >> are there parts of this border that you would be basically lawless or run by the cartels? >> absolutely. >> reporter: smack in the middle of this 21st century version of the wild west, two young americans, david hartley and tiffany young, just teenagers when they fell in love. >> we started dating in '98. the summer of '98, and dated for quite a while before we got engaged in 2001 and married in 2002. >> what took so long? >> we were 18. >> reporter: they wound up here, in the mexican border town of reynosa, jut south of mcallen. he was a district manager for an oil company. >> it was a blessing to us and our marriage. yeah. we were -- that's where we truly grew as a couple and had adventures. >> reporter: when the hartley's first arrive here this peaceful tow

for the cia he has long connections to the mob and he's the water boy for texas oil johnson sits on the committee that forms the cia johnson talks the black box budgets into his aerospace budgets to senate majority leader so he has funded the cia he is very close to the intelligence community likewise johnson's taking fifty five thousand dollars a month bribe from carlos marcello to protect his texas gambling interests illegal gambling things he says the cia to do as i think he has a relationship with all these other entities have their own motive the cia's upset about the bay of pigs they're upset about the cuban missile crisis they're upset about kennedy's back channel outreach to cuba the mob is upset because they've been double crossed they get a million dollars you are right it is slowing investigated to find out all the people on top of this the years of searching looking. told me nothing of this of a comes out what has come out there's at least three other works that i have built on there are a lot of researchers who have gone before me and said well it was the cia it was the mob

the poor. what's just about that? joining me now is texascade bernstein and faith jenkins a former prosecutor. thank you both for coming on the show. >> thank you. >> thanks, reverend al. >> cade, let me start with you. doesn't this case highlight the inequalities we see every day in our criminal justice system? >> it does, reverend. it's -- this ruling by this judge is absolutely outrageous. it's really struck a cord across the country, in fact. and those of us whether you're involved in criminal defense work or civil rights work who try to make sure that everybody has a fair access to the courts and that the law and justice is provided to them as well as other people, this ruling in allowing this junk science of affluenza to even be uttered in a courtroom, i think it's a step back for those of us who seek social justice. >> now, i like the term junk science that he referred to with affluenza. you know, the psychiatrist who testified that ethan couch had affluenza lists consulting services for criminal attorneys first under his areas of exp

the pledge of allegiance will be offered by the gentleman from texas, mr. poe. mr. poe: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: the claire will entertain requests -- the chair will entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentlelady from north carolina seek recognition? ms. foxx: i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady from north carolina is recognized for one minute. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. discussions about health care often turn into discussions about jobs and the economy. the two are undeniably linked. obamacare, its unfunded mandates, broken policy incentives and tax penalty structure is exacerbating the crisis of unemployment in this country. my constituent, sandy from winston-salem, knows this firsthand. she contacted me to share how obamacare is impacting adjunct profes

that bullet then passes through him and it does strike the governor of texas. it isn't pristine or magical. its damaged and flattened by the impact mostly striking but not a lot of bone. at that point he says they are going to kill us all. a photograph is taken from the front of his car at that moment and it shows jackie lifting her hand and all the secret service agents right behind him the fall turned around and they are looking up at the book. >> one of them was assigned to protect the first lady and there was another that was specifically designed. he jumps off the board and sprint's towards the limousine. >> and in the same car david powers turned to each other and one says i think the boss has just been shot. a lot of the journalists in the course of that is rifle fire. somebody shooting. another said i think they just hit him. so he is the only one running towards the car and all small is zeroing in. they wasted about five seconds -- >> he had only gotten there. >> of maldon is zeroing in and clinton is running to get to the cart before another shot can b

. >> i'm saying this judge previously recently sentenced a 14-year-old who did not have money to the texas juvenile justice system for killing one person for ten years. so you're telling me that there -- >> i trust that judge, and i don't know what the conditions were, anderson. >> uh-huh. >> so you don't believe there is separate -- this is a prime example there is a separate system of justice if you have money? >> i don't agree with you on that, of course. i do believe that just like you and i talked yesterday, if you have a lot of money, you get people with more skills. you get a better singer. we have you tonight. i'm sure that, you know, you make more than the local guy here. that's just the way the world works, and there is some good things about that, some not so good things. >> you talked about affluenza as being kind of like a virus of wealth, something that this kid is a victim of, this his parents, you know, never gave him consequences to his actions. by giving it this term, affluenza, by kind of implying there is kind of a medical or psychological reasoning behind his actions,

once a sleepy intersection off the highway with a population of 92, baan hart texas is teaming with trucks and people all to service the oil fields. >> at last count 300 trucks, most 18 wheelers run through baan hart every hour. >> take them around. show them the progress. >> beverley and husband alan settled here 35 years ago. >> everything that you see my husband built - well, i'll show you what used to be our well. >> we haven't been in here lately. tube. back? >> i don't think it will ever come back. >> after her own well went dry beverley borrowed $1500, bought a town water meter and paid to be hooked up to the baan heart town well. >> the month i had that paid up i got up and turned the water on. and that's when i went, "oh, my god, the town is out of water." >> the town well had run dry. for three days last june residents had to truck in water for drinking and basic needs. >> our friends on the ranch out here, their wells are gone. our friends out here on the ranch, their wells are gone. >> in texas groundwater is governed by the roughly capture - if you own the land, you own everyt

steve is a curator at the went with collections heads texas state university and the author of several other books including texas literary outlaws. bill is a clinical professor of journalism at the university of texas of boston. he has written biographies including one of george w. bush and one of molly ivins. so i just wanted to start, i have read a couple of your recent interviews last week, bill and when you were on npr you describe how in the early 60's dallas had become one of the most singular cities on the planet earth. i was just wondering if you could start i explaining what you meant by that? >> sure. i think in the annals of american history and i'm a little biased to speak in such broad terms as we wrote a book about dallas called dallas 1963 but in the years prior to the assassination president kennedy, it seemed like there was no other place like that city certainly in america. but we had were a handful of people, people who lived above the cloud over a very popular people who work in forming the confederacy really have anti-kennedy ferber that had pushed the thinking th

. >> now to college football where the university of texas. matt brown coaching two games. >> replacing brown is well beyond the field. >> texas long horn football is a cash cow. according to texas, they lead out of all teems, the only team to bring in more than $100 million a year. that happened with the past two. all with a team that has not played. 30 wins, losses. according to patrick, it's a research firm in st. lieu ace. even though there has been a lull here the last few years, there's a situation that built the brand and you had a state of texas, it's so rich and saturated, people are crazy about the sport, in the state of texas, and university of texas long horns fell. current ut students missed the glory days when the long horns won the title. from a popularity standpoint texas is on top. >> you go into a walmart, loving texas. all that, and there's still longhorn merchandise. >> they brought in 109 million, of which 82 million was profit. most come from ticket sales. royalty and donors. there's a situation where everything is bigger

those on a professor of journalism at the university of texas at austin. i've read a couple recent interviews. when you are in and pr can you describe in the early 60s dallas could become the most singular city on planet earth. i was wondering if you could start by explaining what he meant by that. >> sure. i think i'm a little biased to speak in such broad terms as he wrote a book about dallas called a substitute. in the years prior to the assassination, it seemed like there is no other place like that cd, certainly in america. but we had better wear a handful of people who lived above the cloud and who are forming a confederacy really is anti-kennedy fervor. another french. they are tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people who leave their loved president kennedy or the minimum respected his office. our book is really about a handful of people who have access to the microphone in the sense, metaphorically speaking. they hijacked the microphone and created a toxic environment unlike anything else we know about in american history. >> when i

the republican party in texas leans more and more to the right. at some point, trend lines will cross. i do not know if that will happen next year. i certainly hope it does. >> looking nationally, do you expect texas to -- not know at 2016 will be there yet. , no question it will be a battleground state. >> you talked about congressional gridlock. some of that -- if some of that gridlock could be believed, what legislation would you like to see come out of washington that would benefit houston before the 2014 election? >> i might have to hunt on that one. -- punt on that one. the most important thing washington to do is engage in comprehensive reform. i do not think it will happen. the fourth largest city in the united states. we are an amazingly diverse, international city. when i was elected mayor, we made worldwide media coverage because demeter coverage fell into two categories -- there was houston? how did this happen in houston? the reason it happened in houston is that houston is not the city that most people think it is. houstonians is fore

the gentlelady from texas is recognized. ms. jackson lee: what is the remaining time? the chair: the gentlelady from texas has 2 1/2 minutes remaining. ms. jackson lee: the gentleman from virginia. the chair: 3- 3/4. ms. jackson lee: i recognize mr. conyers for one minute. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. conyers: i thank the gentlelady from texas for her amendment, it is an important one because it limits the use of customer stay provisions to smaller businesses. and this is very, very important. this amendment would improve the customer stay provision by limiting the use of the provision to smaller businesses, those most likely who did not know that they were infringing when they brought and used a modern scanner to -- or fax machine and are most likely local mom and pop shops. so in preventing larger billses -- businesses from use the customer stay provision to avoid litigation, this amendment will also help protect the ability of individual inventors and entrepreneurs to enforce their patent rights.

the country. and it will be wet on interstate 10 in texas. most other places. >> and if you're flying, airport delays are possible in minneapolis, chicago and detroit. >>> a change in plans for the passengers and crew of that cruise ship stuck in the antarctic ice. the rescue boats can't reach them. so, they will be airlifted off the stuck ship by helicopter. >> but even that is on hold right now, waiting for a break in the weather. abc's gio benitez has more. >> reporter: eyes in the sky over that trapped ship in the antarctic. 74 passengers now told they may have to abandon ship by air. >> the chinese have just launched a helicopter to check out the water sky and see how far the sea ice edge really is. >> reporter: this is the australian ice breaker trying to tear through miles of thick ice. just listen. with just ten miles to go, the rescuers were forced to turn back. >> it's minus 1 and blowing snow. we're standing on the leeward side of the boat. >> reporter: punishing weather and heavy ice, putting the mission on hold. but it may be too

okay, we've taken the radar back into the texas panhandle. see the snow now just south of denver snowing now just north of albuquerque and this is going to plummet southeastward into the texas panhandle and oklahoma and even northwest arkansas. there are winter storm watches and warnings that far south for tomorrow. 54 right now in bethesda. 55 in arlington. 54 in reston. seems pretty nice. 51 out toward white oak but 54234 college park and -- 54 in college park and 56 in waldorf. what awaits us? this is the arctic air that she just mentioned. this is pretty serious stuff. it's 0 right now in great falls and 8 in denver. denver was 65 on monday. we'll kind of zoom in here and this is going to sink to the south into the southern plains states and even into northwestern arkansas and eventually kind of ooze across the mountains saturday night and then by sunday morning we're going to add some precipitation to that for you snow lovers this is not a snow event. this is more a freezing rain and ice event on sunday and it looks like it will be here b

forecasters say the storm is expected to spread as far south as texas by the weekend and then turn east. nbc meteorologist bill karins will have our full forecast in a few minutes. >>> in the meantime, though, $18 billion in the red. the city of detroit gets the go ahead to file for bankruptcy. and the implications of this largest public bankruptcy in u.s. history are far and wide. in his ruling tuesday, federal judge steven rhodes said, quote, this once city cannot pay its debts. it is insolvent." it is not just detroit. chicago's credit rating is downgraded for a $19 billion pension short fall. and it's a problem for other states as well. health care obligations. at 45% illinois is the worst in the nation. analysts say cash-strapped cities and states gave pension benefits instead of pay raises. >> money that you have to pay later seems a lot cheaper than money you have to pay today. >>> president obama is getting back on the offensive, telling americans healthcare.gov is working better than ever. the president saying the website is vastly improved and that obama care is here to stay.

. >> the state of texas versus andrea yates, next. >> are you having a disturbance? are you ill or what? >> yes, i'm ill. >> you need an ambulance? >> no. i need a police officer. >> the woman on the phone is andrea yates. she is living the american dream. a house in the suburbs. an rv in the backyard. >> what's the problem? >> um. i just need them to come. >> they all seemed so happy. five healthy children. a loving mother. and a successful dad who worked for nasa. >> is your husband there? >> no. >> what's the problem? >> i need them to come. >> it's a tuesday morning, just after 9:00. yates has just fed the kids. then, she draws the bath. >> what's the problem? >> um. >> is someone burglarizing your house? i mean what is it? >> the dispatcher assigned me that particular call for service being that it was in my zone of responsibility. another unit, david napp, he checked by with me, which is common practice, you know? day shift. slow. guys killing time, helping each other out. >> eight minutes after dialing 911, andrea yates calls her husband rusty yates and tells h

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the other source is close to mccallen, texas. it is a huge border. >> and hard to monitor. >> hard to monitor. you have remains found all the time. >> thanks very much for being here. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> recently, america tonight's rob reynolds traveled to the mexico-texas border to hear about the members surviving the crossing. some of the images may be disturbing. >> a corner of the cemetery in texas is set aside for the lost and left behind. these are the graves of unknown migrants from mexico and trail america who died lonely deaths in the thick mesquite and bad lands of south texas. >> it's horrible. it's just a senseless death. i don't really understand it. >> vinnie martinez is chief deputy sheriff. last year, he recorded over 100 dead migrants. this number the years are on trend to exceed that. >> we're already at 92% increase from 2012. we had 129 in 2012. we see the influence, the volume high on pedestrians, walkers that come in through the brush a town 70 miles from the mexican border with a check point just s

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the texas sun melted the chocolate, but there's plenty of frosting to go around.k at this giant gingerbread panel. volunteers were baking these in their homes. 1800 pounds of butter went into this house. 7200 eggs total. 7200 pounds of flour, and about 3,000 pounds of brown sugar. we want to take you inside. follow me up this we. you can see that the icing is already starting to kind of drip a little bit here, and you have the lollipops and whatnot on the windows, and all of the bees are feasting on the sugar. before we take you in, the time lapse video. it's incredible. they started working on this at the very beginning of november. it took weeks and weeks and weeks for all of the volunteers -- wore talking roofers, electricians, chefs, everyone to put this thing up. it's about 3,000 square feet total. it took a month to complete, and then it's been open to the public. thousands and thousands of people from all over the country have come through to see the house, maybe a take a little nibble, see santa ride the train. the project is the brainchild of the a&m trad

like the eagle ford shale, permian basin. texasestate's on fire and it's a great place to start a new business. very business friendly. no wonder that tcbi has rallied 23% in the past few years. a commercial bank operating in austin, dallas, ft. worth, houston, san antonio, which also does personal banking for wealthy professionals and entrepreneurs and they have a lending business as well. and that's where tcbi lends money to other banks so they can in turn originate mortgages. when the company reported back in october, tcbi missed estimates by three cents off a 77 cent basis. but the underlying metrics were so strong, people saw through that. growing 10% year-over-year. total deposits up 33%, pretty staggering, stock jumped 12.4% the next day. bank's on fire. let's check in with george jones. he's the ceo of texas capital bank shares, learn more about where his company's headed. mr. jones, welcome to "mad money." how are you, sir? great to see you, sir. have a seat. how do you grow organically that kind of deposit base. is that j

from the bitter cold of fair banks, alaska, to the sweltering heat of corpus christie, texas, and back up to rome, new york, where drones will be tested. the goal is to have commercial drones sharing the skies by the end of 2014 in what's projected to become an industry worth billions of dollars. right now, any civilian free of training is allowed to fly drones as long as it's below 400 feet and away from populated areas. >>> new this morning, french doctors say formula one racing champion michael schumacher is showing small signs of improvement. doctors say he underwent a second operation and a brain scan done after the operation revealed his condition had improved. the 44-year-old racing great was placed in a medically induced coma to relieve pressure on his brain, which suffered bruising and bleeding when he fell and struck a rock while skiing. >>> huge fireball shot into the sky high above north dakota monday after a train flew off the tracks. it was early afternoon when a train carry can go crude oil collided with another train that had gone off the tracks, causing several explosi

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