all in all it's a very easy, very quick drought tolerant crop for the rio grande valley. chad farms near lyford with his dad, uncle and cousin. they also grow grain sorghum and a little cotton. cotton tends to be expensive to grow which makes sesame appealing. and as dryland farmers, the drought tolerance of the crop doesn't hurt. everybody says that your planting process if your most important process. if you can get a good stand, which i would say this here is a fairly good stand, you're 90 percent of the way to growing a good crop. sesame grows to a tall, green plant with multiple stems. each stem produces several pods with hundreds of seeds. about 14 days before harvest, the crop is sprayed to dry out the plant. the pods hardened, allowing the combine to crack the pods releasing the tiny seeds. combining sesame is like combining water. it will come out of any crack of any combine. there are special procedures that we do with our combines in order to get them tightened up which includes a lot of silicone and a lot of gray tape. chad's sesame is grown through a contract

grande valley sector. dhs responded with a surge of resources and personnel beginning in mid-june 2014 and the number of illegal mooig grants crossing into texas dropped dramatically since then. so far this year we have not seen a return to the spike from last year or anything close to it in fiscal year 2014 through the month of june, apprehensions on our southern border were just over 381,000 and through the month of june, this fiscal year total apprehensions on our southwest border are at approximately 242,000 which is a 36% decrease, now, if this pace continues and we obviously don't know for sure if it will, if it continues through the last portion of this fiscal year, the total will be the lowest number of apprehensions since the 1970s. apprehensions of unaccompanied children across the southwest border are down significantly, as well. during the first nine months of fission calendar year 2015 apprehensions of unaccompanied children along the southwest border were 26,685 which is a 54% decrease compar

tiler in san antonio, houston, austin, el paso, sanlt, the rio grande valley, san antonio. as we take advantage of the talent, the size, adversity and strength, we will be unstoppable in a good way. >> rose: you're proof you can go home again, aren't you? >> i am at that. >> rose: thank you for joining us. >> thank you, charlie. i appreciate it. >> rose: thank you for joining us for the hour. see you next time. for more about this program and earlier etc episodes, visit us online at pbs.org and charlierose.com. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by: american express. >> rose: additional funding provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. >> announcer: this is "nightly business report," with tyler mathisen and sue herera. >>> blockbuster deal. two massive drug companies are work on what could be the biggest acquisition of the year. >>> anemic growth. what caused the economy toit the brakes and slow cons

tiler in san antonio, houston, austin, el paso, sanlt, the rio grande valley, san antonio. as we take advantage of the talent, the size, adversity and strength, we will be unstoppable in a good way. >> rose: you're proof you can go home again, aren't you? >> i am at that. >> rose: thank you for joining us. >> thank you, charlie. i appreciate it. >> rose: thank you for joining us for the hour. see you next time. for more about this program and earlier etc episodes, visit us online at pbs.org and charlierose.com. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by: american express. >> rose: additional funding provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. >>> every single bite needed to be -- >> twinkies in there. it's like a great big hug. >> about as spicy as i can handle. my parents put chili powder in my baby food. >> french fries all over the table. >> a lot of chewing.

or four facilities down in the rio grande valley, if i'm a mistaken. i also promised to ask you a couple of questions that some constituents and folks on social media asked me to ask. lauren wanted me to ask you what efforts and what steps does planned parenthood take to guarantee their providers follow state laws requiring reporting of child sex abuse? >> we have very rigorous standards that we apply. the health and wellbeing of our patients is our number one concern, and we certainly comply with all state and federal laws. if there is ever an issue, we take quick action. >> peg and alison expressed a concern about the same thing the chairman did about activities of the 501 501(c)(4) organization that planned parenthood has helped fund, you've helped manage, and funds have been transferred into for lobbying in almost exclusively democrat political campaigns. one of my concerns is, with your purported goal of making access to women's healthcare more available, isn't the money that you are diverting to lobbying effort in politics money that could better

or four facilities down in the rio grande valley, if i'm a mistaken. i also promised to ask you a couple of questions that constituents and focuses on social media asked me to ask. lauren wanted me to ask you what efforts and what steps does planned parenthood take to guarantee their providers follow state laws requiring reporting of child sex abuse? >> we have very rigorous standards that we apply. the health and wellbeing of our patients is our number one concern and we certainly comply with all state and federal laws. if there is ever an issue, we take quick action. >> peg expressed concern about the activities of the 501(c)(4) organization that planned parenthood has helped fund, you've helped manage, and funds have been transferred into for lobbying in almost exclusively democrat political campaigns. one of my concerns is, with your purported goal of making access to women's healthcare more available, isn't the money that you are diverting to lobbying effort in politics money that could better be spent actually delivering healthcare to women? >> w