offered by miss jackson lee of texas. -- ms. jackson lee of texas. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 212, the gentlelady from texas, ms. jackson lee, and a member opposed, will each control five minutes. the chair recognizings the gentlelady from tfpblgts ms. jackson lee: this is a comprehensive approach, mr. chairman to the issue of cybersecurity and national cybersecurity protection. the amendment that i'm offering now states that the secretary of homeland security may consult with sector specific agencies, businesses, and stakeholders to produce and submit to the committee on homeland security of the house of representatives and the committee on homeland security and government affairs of the senate a report on how best to align federally funded cybersecurity research and development activities with private sector efforts to protect privacy and civil liberties while assuring security and resilience of the nation's critical infrastructure. again i can recount the incidences that have brought this issue to the attention of the american people.

she grew up in texas and she is 19. in 1940 i would venture to say every single schoolchild in the state of texas new the story of symbian parker, the whole thing the kidnapping. her son was the last of the greatest chiefs talk to a texan above a certain age they could tell you those things. this is a good story if you have read my book one of my great discoveries was a guy named jack hayes. the original and greatest ranger. he was the man. one of the -- the greatest indian fighter of the planes and one of the greatest commanders america ever produced. he developed in the comanche war techniques that were for that had never existed before later use with brutal effectiveness with the war in mexico. he adapted a failed invention by sam colt. it was said before jack came into the american west everybody came on foot lugging the rifle but after him, they came on horseback carrying six guns. i am leading up to something because i am trying to describe the process of remembering and forgetting. jack hayes seem to be completel

"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

of texas going back to the republic of texas days and earlier than that. what you are going to see today is a collection of some of the most iconic and important documents from our collection that document texas freedom and the struggle of various groups in texas for freedom equality and civil rights. today we are in the state archives and library building in austin, texas. this is an original portrait of steven austin who is considered father of anglo colonization in texas. we believe this portrait was painted from life before his death in 1836. this is a very important map that was researched and compiled by austin. if he and his father knew that if texas was to be successful that they would have to have a good map of the area. and so he worked with the tanner publishing company in philadelphia to create this map. the earliest one was in 1830. they issued several editions the last one being in 1836. this is an original imprint of that 1836 map. you will notice that it still has the mexican eagle down here because at this time even though it is dated 1836

joseph's church which is the first german catholic church in texas. you can see where they worshipped and actually were educated is and how they spent their lives. the height was the late 19th century and early 20th century up to 1954 when it was no longer a point of entry for immigrants but back and forth between the state of texas, managing immigration and the federal government doing immigration but it became a place where they wanted to push immigrants away from new york and the congestion that was going on in the northeast and bring them into the central part of the country. the early 20th century there was something called the galveston movement which was a formal program to bring jewish immigrants into this part of the state and part of the country. and that continued for a while and was very successful and brought a lot of development to communities in texas but all the way up into kansas we see those immigrants who came through the port of galveston. the interesting thing about immigration is that it wasn't they pulled up a boat and it was a

willingham's case may have been a mistake, that calls on the texas's texas's reliance on the death penalty. >> we're about to take odeep system. >> here in dallas there is a special board for minority boys who find themselves in the jurchl justice system. according to the juvenile justice fund, one in six black boys and one in ten latino boys end up in the system. this program in dallas actually intervenes after the child's first mistake. a second chance to wipe clean their record and to work towards becoming more responsible people. they do this by making them see a judge every week, by seeing social workers, a parole officer and making a 7:00 p.m. curfew. this case is so far working. a fatherly judge who talks to kids at their level and doesn't take no for an answer. >> unless something happens which is doubtful with you because you've done so well, you probably don't need to see me but maybe one more time before official graduation, as long as everything is going okay, you got your world, with your friends telling youal this stuff, da da da da da. then you got your world. >> now these a

. >>> 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 texas with the nation. when world war ii broke out in 1938 in 1939 one of the woman's pilots of america, a business owner and entrepreneur and fearless pilot. she approached president franklin roosevelt with the idea

and i learned about texas, san jacinto bay and texas history. kids have to take texas history twice fourth grade and seff vent zpwrade. our history is different than the 13th colony history. it was from a mexican dictator and we appreciate those folks sam houston davey crockett, jim bowii those men and women who sacrificed their well-being so we could be an independent nation. that tyrants will not rule. they will not be successful and they will be geeted and we should admire people. we do in the house of representatives. we have had people like that in all of our history. that makes us a unique nation. we could go back to the american independence and trace it back and the united states was at war and in fighting for our liberty. and we thank those people. we are still involved in war throughout the world today people fighting for america. we are grateful for them and we are grateful for those folks, sam houston and all of those boys of summer boys of spring that fought at the battle of san jacinto. we have seen the washington monument. come to

ghmbings texas. they are telling us emissions for methane have dropped in texas since 2001. >> can we conclude from that that as the technology has improved, the methane capture has improved along with it? ms. craddick: yes, sir. >> one last thing. it was mentioned that states ought to be able to regulate -- well, actually it was justice brandeis that referred to the state as a laboratory of democracy. i agree with that statement and i think that the states have -- particularly since they have more knowledge of their geological issues than the federal government does in many respects these things should be dealt with at the state level. mr. chairman, thank you. i yield the balance of my time. chairman smith: thank you, mr. palmer. the gentleman from new york is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chair. it is very odd to have a hearing in which we seem to be belittling local communities for the decision making about their own quality of life. i think that kind of freedom is the essence of our democracy. to

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 resident of reno, texas. >> yeah, this is definitely a concern. >> and reno is not alone. colorado, arkansas, oklahoma ohio and the rest of earn eastern texas, not known for seismic activity are sunlt on surnld on suddenly on the earthquake map. magnitude 3.0 and larger compared to 20 quakes from 1970 to 2000. data that is beginning to show stories like barbara's are all too real. >> the earthquake came and went through the center of the house. everything shook. i went out my front yard and said, where did my yard go? >> she believes this is the cause of the quakes, hydraulic fracturing more commonly known as fracking, a process where water mixed with san

texas state senator wendy davis spoke for more than 10 hours in 2013, opposing a texas law on abortion clinics. she was the texas democratic nominee for governor. she last -- lost to greg cap it. she discussed the difficulties faced by her and other women running for political office. this is one hour. [applause] fmr. sen. davis: thank you. thank you all. thank you to ethan and camille for putting this together today and all of the work particularly that camille undertook to make sure that we were able to do this and thank you for being here and giving me the opportunity to speak with you. i was delighted to land in sunny california after being in a really cold winter in texas. i am here today to address gender, specifically why gender equality is losing ground, and how we can work to reverse that. i am going to ask you to challenge conventional thinking and how we define and talk about gender inequality, and i will hopefully help you understand the lens through which i view gender. more and more, i am coming to understand and appreciate how each of our individual filters formed throug

texas. he remembered as a kid growing up the celebration of juneteenth so he introduced a law that -- making that a paid holiday. there were only eight african-american legislators, black legislators in the legislature and this bill passed. and it was signed into law. and it went into effect june 13 1979. it was mainly here in the south where the celebration was -- you had major celebrations. today you have big celebrations in milwaukee. you have los angeles

and later galveston, texas. that's all ahead here on c-span 3. >>> here are featured programs >>> on c-span 2's book tv, saturday at 10:00 p.m. eastern, president of americans for tax reform grover norquist says that americans are tired of the irs and our tax system and sunday night at 8:00, susan butler on president franklin roosevelt and josef stalin allies during world war ii and their unexpected partnership beyond the war. and saturday night at 8:00 eastern on american history tv on c-span 3, on lectures in history, university of virginia's college of wise professor jennifer murray on how civil war veterans reunions have changed from the reconstruction era to present. and sunday afternoon at 1:00 american history tv is live from appomattox courthouse national historical park commemorating the 150th anniversary of the confederate surrender and the end of the civil war. -- historical park. >>> the the c-span city's turn takes c-span 3's american history tv on the road. up next, a visit to austin, texas, where

the cradele of texas liberty. and a-- the cradle of texas liberty. and assembled at the alamo in bexar, san antonio if you will, same place, for 187 texas volunteers. most of them were not from texas. the only natives there were the tejanos. 11 tejanos fought in the texas revolution at the alamo. but they were from all the states, 13 foreign countries and all races. volunteers, led by my favorite person william barrett travis a lawyer, came to texas and defended at the alamo. santa ana's army, stories disagree how many thousands there were. but after 13 days, we all know the rest of the story, after 13 days of holding the mexican army at bay santa ana was able to breach the walls and kill all the defenders, all the volunteers at the alamo. after that occurred, people who lived in texas started moving from that direction of central texas toward the east. toward louisiana. it's called the runaway scrape. why were they running? because the mexican armies had invaded texas and are coming after the settlers in that portion of the state, or that portion of

hall: she went back to texas. she stayed with me on the west coast until we shipped out. >> how long were you gone at one time? rep. hall: a matter of months. for 72 weeks, we trained. from the time we had been struck to an airplane and go back on board a carrier, the navy did a good job of training us. i never thought about the danger. all i thought about was what a powerful airplane i had that i was strapped to and what it cost and how careful i had to be with it and the devastation that it could do. we were all disappointed that we were not in the mainline, but as i look back on it now, i have great admiration for the guys that really far the battles and had the dogfights and got shot down. i doubt that i ever killed anybody, and that's a good feeling. >> at the time you were there, there was nothing there. rep. hall: i looked for the japanese. i could have shot their rear end off if i could have found them. i did not see any. they just were not there. >> they were headed toward okinawa. that's what happened. r

into the texas economy $15.7 billion into the texas economy. that's both property tax, all kinds of taxes, and also payments to the royalty and mineral interest owners. the industry created direct and indirect 2.2 million jobs in the state of texas. if we decide to ban fracking and/or limit what we're going to do, you'll see the jobs go away and not come back. >> thank you for that response. you mentioned the two studies, 2011 and 2012, that were cited to justify their banning of fracking. your own study refuted their findings. you mentioned several times the bias involved in those studies and in the coverage of those studies. what accounts for the bias? what drives bias? what's the motive and what can be done about that? >> that's an excellent question mr. chairman. i can't read into the minds of the researchers at duke of why they designed the study the way they did. as i said in my testimony, it struck me when i first saw my paper that the sampling appeared to be done in a way to highlight places where a gas well problem. some have occurred.

circumstances pushed houston to texas. he became involved in the efforts here to gain independence and the push for annexation and joining the united states. that issue had gone back and forth between prior presidents of texas and u.s. presidents, both sides at one point or another refusing. there were issues going on you know annexing a state that accepted slavery was an issue, great britain getting involved was kind of spurring the united states to annex the state of texas. finally in 1844 during the election it became a major issue and it gets revisited again and so andrew jackson writes to his old friend sam houston basically saying that it would really benefit the future prosperity of texas and the united states for this to happen. and he ends the letter saying "god bless you and yours and grant you prosperity in this life and the life to come is the prayer of your friend andrew jackson." the next item we're going to look at is a recent acquisition and it relates to the 1900 storm. the 1900 storm for galveston is a ma

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the gentleman from texas. mr. brady: i'm proud to yield two minutes to a distinguished member of the house who's been fighting for state and local sales tax deduction and as a new mom understands just how expensive it is to raise families these days the gentlelady from washington mrs. mer rare a butler. ms. herrera butler: i thank the gentleman for his leadership on this issue. that's so important to the residents in my state, the people i serve. i encourage folks to support permanently extending the state and local sales tax deduction. this bill -- i was listening to the previous speaker and i don't think he was really focused on this bill. this bill is about ensuring rest didn't of washington and seven other states that they have -- they are treated equally, that their income taxes are treated equally by the federal tax code. it's a fairness issue. . residents from 40 other states get to deduct state income tax but residents of washington state don't have that option. we pay one of the highest sales taxes in the

next republican will hurd of texas. he is the first african-american republican to represent texas since reconstruction and served abroad for a number of years in the cia. he talks about his family background education and his views on national security. this is almost half an hour. >> host: congressman will hurd from the 23rd congressional district of texas. a district that includes, what, approximately 5000 square miles 800 miles of border along texas and mexico. how do you manage that? >> guest: i put a lot of miles on the car. it is a big district, 29 county, two time zones. as you said, 800 miles of the border. it is gigantic. but that is one of the reasons why i love this district. we have some beautiful parts of the state. this is why, you know, pretty much a no-name new fresh face was able to win this district was because the amount of time we spent crisscrossing it. not afraid to burn up miles on my car and shoe leather. that is what makes this exciting. >> host: give us a sense of the demographics of the distr

the gentleman from texas. mr. neugebauer: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. capuano: i would like to add my voice to support this bill. it's a commonsense bill and i'm proud to support it. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. neugebauer: i want to echo the remarks that have been made. this is a commonsense bill and helps main steet and helps consumers. there is a glitch where these privately-insured credit unions weren't not able to access, but this bill passed out of our committee 56-1. and i urge my colleagues to pass this bill and i yield become. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill, h.r. 299. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and without objection, the motion to re

. >> she lives in reno, texas. from november 2013 to january january 2014 reno and it's neighbor azel were hit with 27 earthquakes. researchers studied the activity and conclude oil and gas fracking most likely is to blame. >> i told so you. >> for reno marilyn da stokes the new report is vindication. >> they said forever that we didn't know what we were talking about. >> the report comes the same day that the state of oklahoma said it had accepted scientific evidence that fracking had caused hundreds of earthquakes there. that state was shook by 600 quakes last year. more than any other state in the country. officials launched a website detailing the evidence, plotting earthquakes along side fracking disposal wells. aside from the fuel, waste water is injected back in the wells. in a statement more study was needed. there may an link between earthquakes and disposal wells but we still don't know about how much waste water injection impacts oklahoma's underground faults. back in texas lawmakers are considering a bi

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 out. host: how do you approach the job of being a member of congress? what is your routine in congress and at your district? rep. hurd: iran -- i ran to be a leader on national security. the district is huge. 50% of the vote comes from san antonio. some of the other counties because they are so far away they do not get represented.

you had success in texas. you had personal disasters in texas. you ended up having to leave that program, although it still exist. you are still pretty young. what happened? catherine: along the lines, i was building this up, i got married at the age of 22. i was married until i was 31. six years ago, i was divorced. that came unexpectedly to me at the time, although looking back in hindsight, i saw how many opportunities i missed in being a white. i had tunnel vision, building up my organization. being a divorced woman is something i never imagined for myself. in the wake of my divorce, i made bad decisions which i regret to this day. i ended up having relationships with people who had been released from the texas program. my own graduates. i knew that, i knew better. one thing i did well in my crisis when asked about this, i was honest about my shortcomings and mistakes. i was devastated when the news showed great interest in my mistakes. i used to speak about my work and say, what would it be like if you are known for the worst thing you ever

what a pleasure to be at bookpeople bookstore in austin, texas. the greatest bookstore in the country. i am the editor of texas monthly magazine and pleased to be here. the one secret i learned when you like and admire the author you are introducing you keep it nice and short and get her up here. i would say it is special to be here at bookpeople bookstore and a pleasure with jan to celebrate her book: "the train to crystal city." she is born in beaumont and raised in the woods and got the bug for reading because there were also books around. and she took part-time job in at the cleveland advocate and from then she never stopped writing. she went to the university of texas and became a journalist covering politics first in san antonio and then off to bigger lands and became a nieman fellow at harvard and a writer at texas monthly magazine where she has been a terrific friend and colleague. we were very lucky in a rekept issue to take an expert of her book that was great to be able to work with her again. since i am new to the job i look forward to

. >>> in december of 1969, diane maxwell pulled into the company parking lot in houston, texas. it was sunday, and downtown was virtually empty. diane worked for the southwestern bell company, and her shift started at 1:00 p.m. but she never made it inside the building. a half hour later, a homeless man saw someone walking away from an old shack next to the parking lot. >> he walked back to the shack and walked very close to him and got a good look at him and went on to the shack, and he found this young girl lying on her back with her hands tied behind her back, and he asked her if she had been assaulted. shed a said yes. >> she asked him to untie her, and he said no. but he agreed he would go call the police. >> tragically, by the time police arrived, 25-year-old diane maxwell was dead. >> she was lying on her back, bra pushed up, a small wound just above her navel, probably an inch in width. >> diane was just 25 years old, a single mother of a 4-year-old son. >> well, i will tell you that it was the most devastating thing i had ever experienced. my first reaction was denial,

you had success in texas. you had personal disasters in texas. you ended up having to leave that program, although it still exist. you are still pretty young. what happened? catherine: along the lines i was building this up, i got married at the age of 22. i was married until i was 31. six years ago, i was divorced. that came unexpectedly to me at the time, although looking back in hindsight i saw how many opportunities i missed in being a white. i had tunnel vision, building up my organization. being a divorced woman is something i never imagined for myself. in the wake of my divorce, i made bad decisions which i regret to the state. -- to this day. i ended up having relationships with people who had been released from the texas program. my own graduates. i knew that, i knew better. one thing i did well in my crisis when asked about this, i was honest about my shortcomings and mistakes. i was devastated when the news showed great interest in my mistakes. i used to speak about my work and say, what would it be like if you are known for the worst

beginning in 1982, texas was the first to use lethal injection. since that time it leads the nation with more than 500 inmates put to death and this brings us to cameron todd willingham. 20 years ago the father of three girls was accused of killing them after they died in a house fire but he was executed, and now texas may have executed an innocent man. heidi zhou-castro has our story. >> reporter: it was a morning just before christmas 1991. cameron scott willingham. and his children which are napping, while their mother was out. willingham escaped his three children died. >> it is hard to imagine a greater tragedy. >> but willingham known as a troublemaker and accused of beating his wife, was accused of their death. unconcerned about his daughters inside, the trial was swift. >> the prosecutor said, at his trial, that there were two pillars of evidence in the case. one was the testimony of the arson investigators who testified that this was an intentionally set fire. >> reporter: the corsicana fire department said they found accelerant leading f

denton texas also prohibited fracking. opponents are furious. >> what the state is telling us is that we don't have a right to say we don't want earthquakes. you know that the industry can come in and do whatever we want to us. and that really bothers me. >> governor greg abbott is expected to sign the bill if it reaches his desk. as we talk about the battle over fracking it is important to know the facts and figures and the importance it has to the country. take a look. >> conventional drilling, they would have a vertical hole. and it would use maybe 100,000 gallons. in fracking they are drilling down putting in a horizontal well and they inject a lot of water to hydraulically frack the rock. you are talking about hundreds of thousands of gallons of water that's fracked. >> john vidale is a seismologist from the university of washington, he's in seattle tonight. john welcome. does fracking directly cause earthquakes in your opinion? >> yes it's clear fracking causes earthquakes. and more than the fracking, the process of

it comes from deep in texas. manuel bojorquez with a wine boom. >>> it's time to show you some of the morning headlines. the army will soon loosen its policy on tattoos, paving the way for some men and women to enlist who previously couldn't. there will no longer be a size or number permitted on a soldiers' arms or legs. >> britain's telegraph says michael bloomberg is an official knight of the british empire. he accepted the award yesterday. bloomberg laughed of rumors he was running for mayor of london. >> president obama paid tribute to bob marley during his visit to jamaica. he stopped at the marley museum. his hit "one love" played on the building sound system. >>> the 79th masters is under way this morning in augusta georgia. many of golf's greatest names have earned the famous green jacket. ten years ago tomorrow tiger woods won his fourth masters with help from an incredible chip shot. this newly released video shows that famous birdie on 16 from an angle we have never seen. this year's tournament began w

towards its ohio illinois, and back down to texas. this is what we're looking at right now. you can see the tornado watch has been issued for many states here as well as up here towards the southeastern part of michigan that includes detroit right now. this is what we're looking at, cold front moving through. you can see the line of thunderstorms developing. that is the cold front everything ahead of it is very unstable. so we have seen a lot of activity here. also down here towards just a st. louis in missouri, and another tornado warning has been issued just down towards the eastern part of texas. we're going to be seeing a very active evening. now over here towards the east a little bit they have dropped tornado warnings towards west virginia. but we're still very active across that region, and as i said towards the southeastern part of michigan we're going to be watching that very carefully. those thunderstorms could be moving into parts of ontario later on this evening. tomorrow we're now looking at the tornado threat, but we're looking at heavy rain across the region.

one part of them was to its strong smell of ohio and texas. on the other face the reality that their lives had been saved by german soldiers fired on american pilots. sumi then ingrid and many other of the children from crystal city survived their journeys to war devastated japan and germany and return to the united states. to me they are heroes of world war ii. this is and see when she was grown up area to ingrid and lotar came back first on a liberty ship to the united states after the war was over and this is mathias and joanna, enzi and their youngest son guenther. and you saw the ones of sumi coming back i just want to show you sumi's dutiful family. the sumi merida man that was in the famed 442nd unit that saved italy but he had, they didn't call it ptsd but he had ptsd at the time and he died very early of a heart attack. his sumi was left with all these beautiful children which erased. each one has a college degree and they are doing fantastic. that is sumi and she said just tell them i am one tough cookie. [laughter] does guenther and

ghmbings texas. they are telling us emissions for methane have dropped in texas since 2001. >> can we conclude from that that as the technology has improved, the methane capture has improved along with it? ms. craddick: yes, sir. >> one last thing. it was mentioned that states ought to be able to regulate -- well, actually it was justice brandeis that referred to the state as a laboratory of democracy. i agree with that statement and i think that the states have -- particularly since they have more knowledge of their geological issues than the federal government does in many respects these things should be dealt with at the state level. mr. chairman, thank you. i yield the balance of my time. chairman smith: thank you, mr. palmer. the gentleman from new york is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chair. it is very odd to have a hearing in which we seem to be belittling local communities for the decision making about their own quality of life. i think that kind of freedom is the essence of our democracy. to

>> i was not going to go to texas a&m. texas a&m was actually -- i applied as a backup. i was a computer science major. i wanted to go to stanford. i was accepted to stanford, my agent got a significant scholarship to go and i went to texas a&m because i had a counselor at my high school, a big aggie and he kept badgering me to go up for a campus tour a visit. i had friends that lived there. 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,

a red pickup truck with texas plates in the parking lot of a seedy motel. a man matching huffman's description was registered in the hotel under a different name. >> he gave the name of robert holcombe. initially they detained him for providing a false name. >> huffman denied any involvement and claimed he hit a deer. when police looked at his vehicle they noticed the passenger side headlight was intact. >> after all of this time that passed the trip to tennessee yielded no evidence. but seven trips of red paint from the crime scene. it was possible they were from huffman's truck. each one was approximately a half inch in length. martinez and his colleagues noticed something. places on the front bumper that the paint was missing and martinez started the painstaking process of trying to match the paint chips to the truck scratches. >> i wasn't sure where it would match up specifically. trying to put it back to match that area that it came from on the vehicle. unbelievable martinez discovered the paint chips did come from huffman's truck. they fit perfectly.

enrique: fue ejecutado en texas el tiro por eso el sexto ejecutado a muerte en texas. la corte suprema se negÓ a evaluar su cargo. ilia: para algunos una odisea, para el cartero fue una manera mÁs adecuada, aterrizÓ con un helicÓptero en el capitolio en washington. antonio: unos instantes alrededor del capitolio suficientes para disparar las alertas. el hombre llegÓ en su pequeÑo helicÓptero monoplaza a una de las zonas mÁs seguros del mundo sin levantar sospechas, sobre la zona de exclusiÓn aÉrea y el capitolio. fueron cientos los testigos de este episodio que puso en entredicho la seguridad del corazÓn de washington. >> la verdad que nos sorprendiÓ muchÍsimo, somos turistas y es sÚper extraÑo que suceda esto acÁ. >> con sorpresa. antonio: el piloto, un cartero de 61 aÑos, querÍa entregar unas cartas que escribiÓ a los congresistas para que reforme la ley. dinero registra la forma en el que se preparÓ este arriesgado aviador. >> un terrorista no anuncia su plan de vuelo, la zona fue acordonada y la aeronave examinada con un robot antiexplosivos. >>

at least, that was the theory until a scientist in texas found a way to test cremated remains. and in so doing, made forensic history. san angelo, texas, known for its oil, cotton fields, and extremely hot weather. >> it's great country. there's a lot of rural area to it. of course, the biggest problem they have out there is you don't get a whole lot of rain. >> olgie and leita nobles ran the town's air conditioning business, and they had no shortage of customers. perhaps it was the strain of both living and working together, but the two didn't always see eye to eye. >> it was that kind of different relationship where there was love involved but you don't tell -- you couldn't tell it from the outside. >> mr. nobles had a real drinking problem, and they argued like cats and dogs. >> at the age of 70, olgie died after a lengthy illness. >> shortly after the funeral, his wife before leita checked herself into a hospital. she hadn't been feeling well for weeks. >> i was just sick. just vomiting all the time. just death little sick at my stomach and i just get weaker and weaker. >>

texas texas has executed an innocent man. i don't know how much more he would have wanted. >> six years after the execution, an exoneration letter. this court l holds the state of texas wrongfully executed willingham. but the order never took effect. its author forced to stand by as the order faded to irrelevance. >> on the scale of things you're sorry about or sad about this is number 1. >> charlie baird a former texas judge. challenged the state's forensics, exoneration hearing included the testimony of this man among the nation's top fire investigators. >> we concluded that there was no credible evidence that the willingham fire was an arson fire. >> baird's court also considered the recantation of johnny webb, the jailhouse informant who told al jazeera in an exclusive interview that his stories about willingham's confessham's confession was a lie. >> did you talk to willingham before? >> no. >> did you know who willingham was? >> he said a prosecutor offered him a secret deal, sovereigning his own sentence in exchange fo

>> 821 texas street. >> we were on west texas and we noticed it changed. >> and now are you at 821 texas. >> so there is not an 821 west texas? >> no. >> the address on the trufoto website doesn't even exist which brings us back to the falcons and their frustration. >> what do you want? >> i want him to be stopped. he is still doing this to people. >> it is not right that somebody promotes a business and doesn't deliver a product. that's the bottom line. >> i will keep working on it. if clyde took your photo and you didn't get the pictures or if you know where i can find clyde contact me at abc7news.com. >> thank you michael. >>> unveiling the secret world behind the world's most barbaric terror group. this film maker went to the front lines and risked his life to show the threat of isis. see why women fighting against isis have the upper hand. we take you inside isis tomorrow at 11:00 on abc7 news. that is a powerful report. >> tune in for that. now let's turn to the weather. >>> we will see big increases in our temperatures. right now i want to show uh time lapse. sun down at 7:58 toni

ivÁn. >>> marÍa celeste, precisamente por eso en la legislatura de la capital de texas. existe una propuesta de ley. la 2440 para real lar a choferes de empresas como huber. la compaÑÍa huber apoya la medida y por eso una portavoz de la firma compareciÓ en una audiencia, donde tambiÉn fue interrogada sobre un reciente incidente. >>> a una representante de la empresa huber le tocÓ responder una serie de preguntas de la legislatura de texas. >>> en esta protegido cuando se trata de ser pasajero preguntÓ hoy el congresista alan fletcher. las indagaciones sobre lalgs contrataciones de la empresa de taxis se han recrudecidos a raÍz de este sujeto... acusado 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 m

for 10 miles to the texas -- 410 miles to the texas line. into the great hobby of california up through barstow san bernardino, and then into the foothills all the way to pasadena down through hollywood. america's main street was born. i think the best way to look at route 66 is to look at our time period. the road -- the layers of the road. it was a road that was born, if you well, when the nation was between wars and on the wagon the roaring 1920's. flagpole sitting, marathon dancing, the charleston, blue leg booze. -- bootleg booze. between the one-two punch of the great depression and the dustbowl west of us, that is when the road began paying its dues. that is when it learned the moniker that john steinbeck gave it in his immortal novel "the grapes of wrath" in 1939. "the mother road." a nurturing road. a ribbon of highway that took in these dustbowl migrants from western oklahoma, the texas panhandle, the southern plains, and in this part of the country took in tenant farmers, unemployed, and they got on the road and they headed west f

nbc's harry smith takes us to the heart of texas. >> reporter: blue bonnets are the texas state flower, and every spring they cast a spell. lupines so beguiling you just have to take a picture. >> yeah! >> reporter: in texas posing with the blue bonnets 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: