houston is... tell the people houston's ranking in america. >> we're the fourth-largest any the. >> stephen: new york, los angeles, chicago, houston. it's a huge city. >> it is. >> stephen: in your first term-- this is your second term right now, houston added over 125,000 private sector jobs, balanced two city budgets, didn't raise taxes or cut police and firefighters. what is it that houston's got going on that the rest of the country doesn't? because i don't know if you watch the news but it's like we're reenacting gotham city in the rest of america. (laughter) are you the batman? >> absolutely. i invite everybody to come to houston and check it out for themselves. we're a very livable city. >> stephen: really? livable. my understanding is that you combine the heat of texas and the humidity of new orleans. (laughter) >> we have jobs. >> oh, you have jobs. jobs and air conditioning. >> we're very... we're a foody town, we're an arts town, we're a sports town, a theater town, anything you want in

in houston. >> authorities say it's easy to mistake victims like maria for a voluntary prostitute because if the girls don't put on a good face and charm clients, there is hell to pay. >> translator: around 9:00 or 10:00 at night so i could start working, i'd have to drink five or six beers so that i wouldn't feel what i was living. so that i could escape. >> houston is a hub. >> go in that room right there. >> you're under arrest for prostitution. do you understand what i'm saying? >> 500, 600, 700, 800. >>> it's 11:30 p.m. while most of houston sleeps, our team gets ready for an investigation into the underbelly of sex trafficking in houston. jose agrees to give us a driving tour so we can see firsthand how these illegal cantinas operate. >> this is the poor neighborhood. always in poor neighborhoods. >> when night falls and workers end their shifts, the main boulevard of houston's north side comes alive. men seeking relief after a hard day in the field or factories find solace in dimly lit can

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what a joy to be here in houston at houston's first baptist and i want to thank this church and the pastor for hosting us and making this possible. i want to thank all the churches that are participating all over the country. we have churches and small group

, tenemos la historia. >>> corra, escóndase, pelee, así es el video de la ciudad de houston con fondos del departamento de seguridad nnacional,para preparar a la gente en caso de un tiroteo. >>> puede parecer un día cualquiera en la oficina, pero a veces la vida parece más una película de acción que la realidad. >>> el video recrea un día de trabajo en la oficina y advierte que siempre está la posibilidad de enfrentar actos violento. >>> los empleados continúan con su rutina de trabajo, le hombre saca un arma de pronto (gritos) >>> si se encuentra en medio de un tiroteo, su supervivencia dependerá si tiene un plan, asegura el video de entrenamiento. >>> hay 3 cosas que usted puede hacer que marcan la diferencia, corra, escóndase, pelee. >>> hay que tratar de escapar del lugar como pueda, después llamar al 911 en caso de no encontrar una salida, tiene que buscar un lugar donde@ esconderse, como último recurso, si su vida está en peligro, tiene que actuar, e improvisar armas con lo que tenga a mano. >>> hay que tener un plan de escape. >>> sepa que en una situación como esta

united on the road in houston against the dynamo. great name gets behind the defense and bill hamid takes hilts down and hamid is given a red card. d.c. down man for the rest of the game. 73 minutes ouch joe willis and uh-oh bill davis scores and 1-0 houston. it would get worse. 37th minute, on the cross it's will bruin going to get the tenth goal of the year. united blanked by houston and forget about this one boys 34- 0. >>> this week because i am a golf geek i'll be getting up very early to watch the british open or the open as they say over there. this year over there it's in england and yes tiger and phil will be there. but not u.s. open champ webb simpson. he's opting out to be at home here in the states probably with his wife but who knows? final round today of the john deere classic and steve stricker and fans hoping he'll earn a fourth. just three strokes back on 14 and trying to reach the green in one. you pick up the tee like ke that he's not happy about it. way left and leads to the bogey on the back. he was done. troy ma

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when the republican candidate addressed the naacp convention in houston. pushing his platform of job creation and the repeal of the president's health care law. speaking to an audience that has historically backed democrats, romney claimed he could do more for the african-america

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if you have traveling to houston, an issue there. ground stop until 6:15 local time because of thunderstorms popping up and fire ago long and south of this front today, that's where the juice is and with where the thunderstorms will be heavy at times and could see rainfall rates of 2 plus inches an hour and we're seeing that in houston proper, flash flood warning just north of town and a line of thunderstorms beginning to explode and move very slowly to the south and east. this will be with us for several hours and it will cause some flooding not only on streets but small streams as well. traffic on the roadways won't be a picnic. there is the flash flood watch extended to southwest louisiana. heat out west not nearly as bad but still toasty. 90 in chicago, 88 new york city, warmer than yesterday, and also cooler than last week. ali. >> thank you so much. >> it is going up to 90 in winnipeg tomorrow. i am headed there tomorrow. >> there you go. >> fyi. soledad o'brien joining us with a look at what's ahead on sta "starting point." >>

they are meeting in houston this week. gallup poll shows 87% support president obama. >>> american airlines turned terrifying. it hit unexpected and severe turbulence. five ended up in the hospital. >> i never felt something like that in the past. basically with the noise and the bumps -- >> i thought we were going to die. it was scary. >> in all, 12 people were hurt. most had bumps and bruises. >>> chevrolet is offering a refund within 60 days. gm is trying to make chevy stand out from the pack. >>> the heatwave continues across the southwestern united states. las vegas set a new record yesterday, 115 degrees. no relief in sight today. 125 in death valley, 109 expected in phoenix. in the northwest, temperatures are up to 15 degrees higher than normal. >>> the deaths of more than 60 children from a mysterious illness in cambodia. now we're the first to report what doctors believe is to be the cause of those deaths. our dr. sanjay gupta has been covering the story from cambodia. sanjay, what is causing this? >> reporter: we

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. ♪ >>> marlen esparza trains in a gym that stretches along a lonel houston i-10 in houston. >> she was in alternative school and not doing well at all and behavior wise. >> reporter: she brought her brothers to box, but they hated it. marlen begged rudy to train her. >> he laughed at me. >> the first thing i told her, was, well, i don't train female fighters. she walked away. >> reporter: she kept coming back so he tested her against the boys. >> i actually tried for about two weeks to break her, to try to make her quit. i was pushing her so hard. left hand up. left hand up. >> i kind of in my head was thinking like, ha, ha, he thinks that i can't do it and i so can. >> in a few weeks, instead of trying to make her quit, i was making some of the guys quit! >> reporter: at first, boxing was more challenging than she let on. >> i remember getting beat up like every day for like the first three years i was boxing and i was like, what is going on? i'm trying really, really hard here. i'm doing everything i'm supposed to do. >> reporter: but eventually she started winning. did you know then

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whitney houston's mother in a touching tribute overnight. ♪ like a bridge over troubled waters ♪ >>> good monday morning, i'm sunny hosten in for paula faris. >> good morning, everybody. i'm rob nelson. we begin with the destructive summer storms. hurricane-force winds with no warning. >> during the month of june, more than 3,000 record highs. all those yellow dots were shattered or tied. >> more will be broken today. as the death toll from the weekend storms climbs to 17. a new round of severe storms hammered a dozen states in the last 24 hours. this on the edge of a brutal heat wave with advisories and warnings posted in at least 16 sates today. >> it's like an oven. just brutal. >> reporter: in north carolina, three people were killed. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: sunday's storms a little more than a day after fierce winds tangled power lines. thousands of customers without seven states have no pow person they're suffering without air conditioning. >> for a few days, it's okay. though obviously, with the triple-digit temperatures it's very uncomfortable. >> we've been running a gen

. >> there are more indications that jeremy lin may be heading to houston. and police have released jason kidd's mug shot from his arrest for drunk driving. >> on "cbs this morning." >> if i just signed with the knicks, i'd probably start drinking, too. captioning funded by cbs >>> welcome to "cbs this morning." it's been a long, dry summer for much of the u.s. and things aren't getting much better. a new report says the massive drought gripping the u.s. is the largest since 1956. more than half the nation experienced moderate to extreme drought last month. >> and with no relief in sight, the dangerously dry conditions may soon start having a noticeable impact on the price of everything from food to gasoline, and anna werner is in jonestown, texas. good morning, anna. >> reporter: good morning, nora and charlie. we're at the edge of lake travis, which is a popular recreation spot for many texans, but the problem is not going to be just how much it costs them to drive here or to eat out here, but what they're going to see when they get here. parts of a lake a

and her father. >> out of the red corner, marlen esparza, houston, texas. out of the blue corner, christina cruz, new york, new york. >> marlen comes out swinging. then lets christina run. >> come on, christina! >> yes! >> there you go! [ buzzer ] >> yes! yes, marlen! >> your winner, out of the red corner, marlen esparza, houston, texas. >> you beat her easy. easy. easy. >> because i was like, man, i was like, if i lose to the same person in a row, when i've never lost to anybody twice in my life. >> my timing was a bit off. towards the later rounds i was getting tired. she put more pressure on me. this time she waited a little, which i didn't expect. >> how did it feel? >> it felt really good. i think after she beat me, a lot of people were thinking maybe i'm not the one that's going to win anymore. and i think after that one, it was kind of like, it was just an accident. it was just a mistake. >> anybody checking in to vip? >> welcome to the 2011 usa boxing national championships. >> after i beat christina, i was done. i was like, i won. i kept having to

on his way after a rapid rise to fame jeremy lin leads the new york knicks and signed for a houston rockets in a deal worth twenty five million dollars. and on top of the world england and south africa begin their three match test series in the world's number one ranking is at stake. but first the football where russian club. by their first ever match in the europa league later on thursday they take on hungary inside one vet in the second qualifying round and he had been banned from hosting european matches in dagestan after you wait for the the region to dangerous so the first leg of the time is being held in an unused arena in the moscow region the big spending club are appealing to europe's governing body in the hope they'll overturn that decision a giant screen is being wrecked at angie's home ground in moscow our supporters can watch the game having believes the visitors will come into the tie better prepared with two competitive matches under their belts already this season elsewhere sweden zlatan abraham of it chad signed a three year deal with big spending power sanjay man reports c

the houston rockets are offering him a three-year $25 million contract. the knicks are not expected to count theory offer. i don't want to lose lynn stanity. i hope they do. >>> high lites from sunday baseball. from espn. >> good morning. i'm hakeem dermish from espn. yankees going against the angels. angels leading 1-0. albert pujols facing ivan nova. pujols takes it deep. 15th of the season. angels take a 2-0 lead. bottom of one. alex rodriguez, takes jared weaver out and gone. two-run shot. his 14th of the season. bottom nine, two outs. bateses loaded. rodriguez, 23 career grand slams, tied for most of the history. still tied for most of history. popped up. weaver picked up the 11th win. marlins, nationals in miami. marlins down 2-0. two on, two up for ramirez. strasburg, six innings. bottom nine, two outs. bases loaded. omar infante. popped one up. a collision and harper holds on to make the catch. the marlins, 1 for 13 with runners in scoring position. strasburg earns his best victory. "monday night baseball." angels/tiger, 7:00 eastern on espn, espn

you don't have to be phil houston. he is sitting there going are these really the questions you are doing? do you have any idea how you sound to anybody with a little bit of financial knowledge? just guessing that. >> when he's pausing, there's an inner sig going, again? >> reporter: you know what phil houston says -- >> no, i'm kidding. >> reporter: those pauses when you see somebody really delay in the first couple of seconds after a question, that is an indicator of deceptive behavior and they look for these clusters so they look for verbal and nonverbal indicators all coming at once and within five seblgds there's something here. if you have one, maybe you throw it out but if you see a bunch of them at the same time, this's the deceptive cluster and where they drill down and got to ask questions of whatever it is he was focusing at this time of the deceptive cluster happened. >> absolutely fascinating. i'm sure you can do with the color of tie, as well. thank you very much. thank you, eamon javers. let's get to cou

>> from houston came last time we were here. >> mr. shell ton you are filibustering now. >> sure, go ahead, please. >> bill: bill thank you. >> no, please, your turn. >> bill: mitt romney gave the same speech he gives everywhere, repealing obama care, getting costs under control. he is the guy that turned the economy around. are you going to sit there and tell me that he should have pandered to your audience and not given -- >> -- pandering is not the word. you speak to the audience that's in front of you. >> bill: he spoke to them the way he speaks to everybody else. >> in order to teach somebody he has got to reach them. hes not interested in reaching our audience. >> bill: he was telling them what he will do. >> but he did not say what he he would replace it with. he didn't recognize. >> bill: what about the education situation? >> black americans have no healthcare insurance. he did not talk about he what is going to do to talk about public education. >> bill: yes he did, he absolutely did, mr. shelton. he absolutely talked about w

you know, a tragic story about this lightning strike in around the houston area. i want to show you real quick. this is a big story with the lightning we have been seeing. that is moving out of houston. you can see the six-hour timeline showing the storms on the way out. this is a big story and the fact a lot of people get killed by lightning each year, the bigger story i think coming up this week will be the heat. i want to show you the dew point, the measure of moisture at the surface. notice 60s and 70s. it's very high, tropical atmosphere. you add that to temperatures up near 100 degrees coming this up week. this is a different scenario we had the last heat wave we had. we had temperatures 90s in this area. factor in the dew points, the tropical dew points, we're talking heat indices of 105 plus. that's where the danger is going to be this week coming up. this will also move east by the way, into the northeast. if you live here, excessive heat warnings up for this area. humidity levels will be up and dangerous. back to you, lester. >> kim cunningham at weather

on his way to a rapid rise to fame jeremy lin leaves the new york knicks and signed the houston rockets and a deal worth twenty five million dollars. in time russia looks to continue its dominance in synchronized swimming with the london olympics now just over a week away. but first in cricket the top two test teams in the world begin their three match series later on thursday england home south africa at the oval now and defeat would see the tourists leapfrog them into the number one spot in the world rankings a draw however would be good enough to keep andrew strauss his man at top of the pile and he'll be hoping his bowling attack can help inflict south africa's first series defeat on foreign soil in six years the contest pits arguably the world's two best bowling line ups against one another the tourists are spearheaded by the world's top run ball in dale steyn while england can call upon the formidable jimmy anderson and south africa's captain graeme smith believes these are the best attacks in international cricket. i think it's a fair system and the records of what the the to bal

we're looking at houston, texas. last year michelle obama spoke to the group and president obama when he was running for office was there in 2008 during the campaign. we may dip into that when joe biden comes on. until that happens, to the city of scranton, which has been hit especially hard. uni union workers plan to ask a judge to hold the mayor in contempt of court after he cut the pay of nearly 400 municipal workers to the state's minimum wage. that's $7.25 an hour. let's bring in the mayor of scranton, christopher dougherty. tough times in scranton. you have had to make tough decisions. but the city's union is saying they are caught in a political battle between you and the city council over how to cover that $16.8 million gap in the city's 2012 budget. the question to you, why did you decide to slash the pay for these 400 municipal employees? >> good morning, richard. these are very difficult decisions we e had to make. our employees do a great job and we're very thankful for them. but our council passed a budg

started jeremy lin is expected to be unveiled as the houston rockets player later on thursday that's after the new york knicks feel to much a three year. five million dollar offer for the point guard lynn passing in medically houston ahead of completing the switch the twenty three year old shot to fame last season despite making only twenty five starts for the next after making his debut in december when some of the swept across the america his native taiwan the new york franchise working to keep hold of their star man but ultimately fail to match the rockets offered this foreman figures were beginning to drop before his season was prematurely ended by an operation on his knee but do next fans believe he'll be better off without the sensation i can't make that call because. he came out of nowhere is somebody coming out of the ivy league didn't get the kind of attention or was he always being evaluated based on his ballplayer i don't really know and so the question is was he going to come back in the injury and do the same things again it makes no sense he started to. get over he got

when the republican candidate addressed the naacp convention in houston. pushing his platform of job creation and the repeal of the president's health care law. speaking to an audience that has historically backed democrats, romney claimed he could do more for the african-american community than the president has. >> you have to make your case to every single voter. we don't count anybody out and we sure don't make a habit of presuming anyone's support. support is asked for, and earned and that's why i'm here today. if you understood who i truly am in my heart, and if it were possible to fully communicate what i believe is in the real enduring best interest of african-american families, you would vote for me for president. >> if i'm president, job one for me will be creating jobs. let me say that again. my agenda is not to put in place a series of policies that get me a lot of attention and applause. my policy will be number one, create jobs for the american people. i do not have a hidden agenda. and i submit to you this -- if you want a president who will

the wettest weather definitely outside of houston. where we got drenched yesterday. thunderstorms to the north and west of town. rain through alexandria, much of central louisiana is wet. as far as the rainfall, an inch or two from nashville to shreveport. lighter amounts in charlotte and jackson. the rain is not heading to the areas that need it quite yet, but chicago to new york, it looks warm and summer-like and beautiful weather continues. >>> no goose from the fed, groupon continues its nose-dive and health experts come up with a wedding survival guide. your first look at the morning's business headlines is straight ahead. >>> steve nash and ray allen show off their new digs and the nets make a deal that could end dwight howard's chances of playing in brooklyn. [ female announcer ] the power of green coffee extract is now in our new starbucks refreshers™ -- a breakthrough in natural energy. made with real fruit, starbucks refreshers™ are delicious low calorie drinks you can feel good about. ♪ rethink how you re-energize. ♪ get a boost of natural energy w

vice president joe biden will appear at the naacp conference in houston. mitt romney did that yesterday. and you probably weren't completely shocked that romney was booed at the naacp. >> i'm going to eliminate every nonessential expensive program i can find. that includes obama care. and i'm going work to reform and save -- [ crowd booing ] >> well, it turns out romney wasn't so surprised he was booed either. listen to what he told republican friendly fox news afterwards. >> i expected that, of course. but, you know, i'm going to give the same message to the naacp that i give across the country, which is that obama care is killing jobs. >> as the day went on, his remarks became more aggressive. at a fundraiser in montana, he told supporters, quote, i want people to know what i stand for and if i don't stand for what they want, go vote for someone else. he continued, if they want more stuff from government, tell them to vote for the other guy, more free stuff. but don't forget nothing is really free. if his goal was to build bridges, he blew them up by the

started germy lin is expected to be unveiled as the houston rockets player a little later on thursday for the new york knicks feel too much a three year twenty five million dollar offer for the point guard lynn passing a medical in houston ahead of completing the switch the twenty three year old shot to fame last season despite making only twenty five starts for the next after making his debut in december lin some of the swept across america of his native taiwan the new york franchise were keen to keep hold of their star mum but ultimately feel too much the rockets offer. to boxing where former w.b. like to welterweight champion amir khan says he's confident he can rediscover his best form after suffering his second straight defeat at the weekend the twenty five rule losing a unification world title fight to danny garcia but as a quick return to the ring possibly as early as december but the future could be without his renowned trainer freddie roach but only i mean at the moment at the moment i'm trying. to lock it down my team and we know exactly what's going up and . like that thing

on his way through a rapid rise to fame germy linley's the new york knicks and signed for a houston in dealing with twenty five million dollars. medal hopes we continue our buildup to that cost approaching olympic games by taking a look team rushes up live exports. but we begin with golf where the third oldest major of the season the british open has wrapped up its opening day and lancashire and it's on the street leading the way currently scotties never won a major them on the counter after carving a six sixty four hold on his heels lower zach johnson and scott paul are either purchased a shot behind on five under par while bubba watson this season's masters champion stormed up the leaderboard lead on to take a share of fourth spot some two shots. to football where russia's sport minister doesn't seem to be to move the moon concerning the country's first choice candidate for national team manager but telling would go saying juice in the arena rather than front runner fabio capello would have been the ideal appointment telling the country see it hold up the portuguese is the best manag

that's because jeremy lin is headed to houston. as expected, the new york knicks said they will not match his deal with the houston rockets. we'll see if the 23-year-old point guard can turn texas into the lin star state. that was a good one, bruce. nice job. to baseball now. philadelphia at los angeles. bottom of the second. the dodgers luis cruz hit an rbi to left. giving l.a. a 2-1 lead. that's where it stayed until the 8th. the phillys hunter pence smacked a single to center driving in two. the phils won it 3-2. >>> in denver, andrew mccutchen hit a long solo home run. it gave pittsburgh the lead with an rbi single to the right. the pirates clinched their 50th win of the year, 6-2. >>> when we come back, another look at this morning's top stories and the man who wrote his own obituary and confesses to a crime. wait until you hear what else he confesses to. and his wife swears it is all true. confesses to. and his wife swears it is all true. are a sizzling deal, starting at 6 bucks. try our new lunch-size chicken fajitas, sautee

the country, and with the naacp attorney robert havingor the group as havinis its annual meeting in houston. a >> there should be no sympathy for goldman sachs. we should be doing everything to try to bring this matter forward. >> what is the matter? oakland city council votes to end its contract with goldman sachs that locked into a financial deal that cost the city millions. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a record-setting heat wave in the eastern u.s. is starting to ease after two weeks of scorching temperatures. the heat wave has been blamed for causing at least 74 deaths from the midwest to the east coast, including 18 people around chicago and 13 people in maryland. all-time highs hit major cities including philadelphia, washington, said louis, indianapolis, and louisville, with more than 4500 heat records broken overall. dry conditions and a lack of rain are also devastating corn crops across the plains, which faces its worst drought in 25 years. although eastern states will see a respite, western