| Conservative Texans Love To Fight The Feds Until They Need Them Posted: 31 Aug 2017 09:39 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― For Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), suing the federal government is a point of pride.
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| Armed suspects rob pub full of police officers attending party Posted: 31 Aug 2017 08:23 AM PDT  Police arrested two men quicker than ever on Tuesday evening after they attempted to rob a bar at gunpoint, where a group of off-duty cops were also having a retirement party.
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| Fire At Texas Chemical Factory Burns Out, But Others May Follow Posted: 30 Aug 2017 02:38 PM PDT  Chemical reactions at a flooded Texas factory resulted in flames and black smoke Thursday morning, sending 15 deputies to the hospital for smoke inhalation.
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| Adoption through foster care on the rise: 'Every child deserves a childhood' Posted: 01 Sep 2017 05:41 AM PDT  A new national survey is offering hope for American kids waiting to be adopted: More people than ever are becoming parents in nonbiological ways, according to a new report.
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| Before and after photos: Harvey's devastating floods are clearly visible from space Posted: 31 Aug 2017 01:57 PM PDT  Even from space, the flooding disaster caused by Hurricane Harvey is clear as day. New images taken by DigitalGlobe's WorldView-2 satellite show the catastrophic flooding in Texas left in the wake of Harvey this week. The new photos are particularly striking when compared with earlier images taken from orbit that show green fields instead of brown, flooded land. SEE ALSO: Tropical Storm Harvey's mind-blowing stats "Since Aug. 19, DigitalGlobe's constellation of five high-resolution imaging satellites has taken 77 images of the Texas coastline, totaling more than 180,000 square kilometers from Corpus Christi to Port Arthur," DigitalGlobe said in a statement. "Now that the clouds have parted, the imagery is starting to reveal the vast impact of the flooding across the region." Angleton, TX on April 6, 2017Image: satellite image ©2017 DigitalGlobe Angleton, TX on August 30, 2017Image: satellite image ©2017 DigitalGlobe Brookshire, TX on November 20, 2016Image: satellite image ©2017 DigitalGlobe Brookshire, TX on August 2016Image: satellite image ©2017 DigitalGlobe Harvey is a record-setting beast of a storm. The storm, which initially hit land as a Category 4 hurricane but then transitioned into a tenacious tropical storm, is now considered the most extreme rainstorm in recorded U.S. history. Harvey dumped more than 19 trillion gallons of water on Texas in less than a week. The storm produced 51.88 inches of rain at Cedar Bayou, Texas, beating the all-time state and continental U.S. rainfall records for the heaviest rainfall ever seen in a tropical storm or hurricane. In addition, Harvey brought 30-inches or more of rain to such a large area that it qualifies as an unprecedented rainfall event since record-keeping began in the U.S. 1895. A staggering 23 locations in Texas saw 40 inches or more of rain. To put this into perspective, some areas saw a year's worth of rain in just 4 days or less. Holiday Lakes, TX on April 3, 2017Image: satellite image ©2017 DigitalGlobe Holiday Lakes, TX on August 30, 2017Image: satellite image ©2017 DigitalGlobe Rosenberg, TX on April 3, 2017Image: satellite image ©2017 DigitalGlobe Rosenberg, TX on August 30, 2017Image: satellite image ©2017 DigitalGlobe In Beaumont, Texas on Aug. 29, 26.03 inches of rain fell in 24 hours. That obliterated the previous record for the wettest day and even beat that city's all-time monthly rainfall record by nearly 4 inches. DigitalGlobe is planning to provide their images for recovery efforts. The full impact of the devastation caused by Harvey is only just starting to become clear as the storm moves away from Texas. Wharton, TX on October 9, 2016Image: satellite image ©2017 DigitalGlobe Wharton, TX on August 30, 2017Image: satellite image ©2017 DigitalGlobe Wharton, TX on October 9, 2016Image: satellite image ©2017 DigitalGlobe Wharton, TX on August 30, 2017Image: satellite image ©2017 DigitalGlobe Andrew Freedman contributed reporting to this story. WATCH: Catastrophic floods turn Texas highway into a large body of water with intense waves
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| Trevor Noah: 'Buddy' Email On Russia Deal Could Hit Trump In The 'Trunk' Posted: 30 Aug 2017 11:52 AM PDT  Reports that a Donald Trump associate tried to forge a real estate deal in Russia that he said would help Trump become president got Trevor Noah buzzing Tuesday on "The Daily Show."
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| How to Distinguish Between Antifa, White Supremacists, and Black Lives Matter Posted: 31 Aug 2017 04:00 AM PDT ![How to Distinguish Between Antifa, White Supremacists, and Black Lives Matter]( "How to Distinguish Between Antifa, White Supremacists, and Black Lives Matter") As protesters clash in occasionally violent street confrontations that spread via online video, provoking emotional conversations that could touch almost anyone on Facebook or Twitter, millions of Americans feel pressure to pick a side, to support or denounce a faction, knowing that whatever they say about white supremacists, Antifa, or Black Lives Matter, they risk being criticized for failing to condemn violence on "their side," or for suggesting a false equivalence between groups.
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| Putin warns North Korea situation on verge of 'large-scale conflict' Posted: 01 Sep 2017 08:38 AM PDT  By Andrew Osborn and Dmitry Solovyov MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin warned on Friday that the standoff between North Korea and the United States was close to spilling into a large-scale conflict and said it was a mistake to try to pressure Pyongyang into halting its nuclear missile program. Putin, due to attend a summit of the BRICS nations in China next week, said the only way to de-escalate tensions was via talks, and Sergei Lavrov, his foreign minister, said Washington not Pyongyang should take the initiative on that. "It is essential to resolve the region's problems through direct dialogue involving all sides without advancing any preconditions (for such talks)," Putin, whose country shares a border with North Korea, wrote on the Kremlin's web site.
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| Harvey update: Islands of debris float through Beaumont, Texas Posted: 01 Sep 2017 09:03 AM PDT  ABC News' Matt Gutman reports from a closed-off bridge where floodwaters have carried couches, drums and more.
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| Mumbai building collapses after torrential rain Posted: 31 Aug 2017 09:53 AM PDT ![Mumbai building collapses after torrential rain]( "Mumbai building collapses after torrential rain") An 117-year-old condemned building collapsed in the Indian financial hub of Mumbai on Thursday after torrential rains this week, killing at least 22 people, with about 10 other people feared trapped, police and fire official said.
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| Nurse screams for help as she is arrested for saying she can't draw blood from unconscious patient Posted: 01 Sep 2017 02:34 AM PDT  A nurse was allegedly assaulted and illegally arrested when she told a detective she could not take a blood sample from an unconscious patient. Alex Wubbels told a police officer she could not take blood from the victim of a lorry crash because he could not consent, and the officer had produced no warrant. Footage taken by University Hospital, in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Detective Jeff Payne's body camera show he threatened Ms Wubbels with jail if she did not comply, despite her having checked the policy with her bosses, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
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| Kellyanne Conway Blasts Chris Cuomo For Harvey Climate Change Question Posted: 31 Aug 2017 03:30 AM PDT  Don't get Kellyanne Conway started on climate change.
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| Aerial Photos Show True Scale Of Flooding Catastrophe In Houston Posted: 30 Aug 2017 10:18 AM PDT  Plenty of images of heroic rescues and flooded homes have emerged over the past few days, but nothing shows the scale of the devastation caused by Tropical Storm Harvey than a picture from the air.
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| Federal Air Marshals Say TSA Separated Them From Families During Harvey Posted: 30 Aug 2017 03:33 PM PDT  With the hurricane closing in, agents asked to return to their families in Houston. They were refused.
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| Nearly 400 die as Myanmar army steps up crackdown on Rohingya militants Posted: 01 Sep 2017 07:41 AM PDT  COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Nearly 400 people have died in fighting that has rocked Myanmar's northwest for a week, new official data show, making it probably the deadliest bout of violence to engulf the country's Rohingya Muslim minority in decades. Around 38,000 Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar, United Nations sources said, a week after Rohingya insurgents attacked police posts and an army base in Rakhine state, prompting clashes and a military counteroffensive. "As of August 31, 38,000 people are estimated to have crossed the border into Bangladesh," the officials said on Friday, in their latest estimate.
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| Wells Fargo says 3.5 million accounts involved in scandal Posted: 31 Aug 2017 07:51 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The scope of Wells Fargo's fake accounts scandal grew significantly on Thursday, with the bank now saying that 3.5 million accounts were potentially opened without customers' permission between 2009 and 2016.
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| Shock as Kenya court cancels vote result, demands re-run Posted: 01 Sep 2017 08:32 AM PDT  Kenya's Supreme Court on Friday ordered a new presidential election within 60 days, in a shock ruling cancelling the results of last month's poll over widespread irregularities. Chief Justice David Maraga said a majority decision by the panel of six judges, with two dissenting, found that President Uhuru Kenyatta "was not validly elected", rendering the result "invalid, null and void". Supporters of veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga's wept and cheered, utterly stunned at what they saw as a historic ruling, after losses in successive polls they believe were rigged, from a judiciary long seen as compromised in favour of the ruling elite.
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| Volunteer Rescue Effort In Houston Turns Tragic As Men Are Electrocuted Posted: 31 Aug 2017 03:18 PM PDT  A selfless rescue effort by a group of men in Houston ― including three brothers ― turned tragic after their boat drifted into live power lines, killing two and sending five others vanishing downstream.
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| Stranded Houston Father Crashes Daughter's Grad School Class, Takes The Most Dad Selfie Posted: 31 Aug 2017 12:28 PM PDT  One Houston dad who was helping his daughter move to college is making the best out of not being able to return to Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
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| WATCH: Shark Trails Man After He Swims Out To Sea To Evade Police Posted: 31 Aug 2017 04:25 PM PDT  A man who was reportedly being pursued by police and swam out to sea to evade arrest found himself being stalked by a shark in the process.
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| WHOOPS! Tomi Lahren Accidentally Reveals The Truth About Fox News Posted: 31 Aug 2017 08:39 PM PDT  .@TomiLahren: "How about when the mainstream media stops covering Russia day in and day out, maybe we can drop the Hillary email scandal." pic.twitter.com/OwfYWfuhDD— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 31, 2017
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| U.S. fuel shortages from Harvey to hamper Labor Day travel Posted: 31 Aug 2017 05:00 PM PDT  By Devika Krishna Kumar and Jarrett Renshaw NEW YORK (Reuters) - Travelers and fuel suppliers across the United States braced for higher prices and shortages ahead of the Labor Day holiday weekend as the country's biggest fuel pipelines and refineries curb operations after Hurricane Harvey. Just six days after Harvey slammed into the heart of the U.S. energy industry in Texas, the effects are being felt not just in Houston, but also in Chicago and New York, and prices at the pump nationwide have hit a high for the year.
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| Historical estate goes on the market with castle ruins once the home of Richard III and Henry VIII Posted: 01 Sep 2017 07:52 AM PDT ![Historical estate goes on the market with castle ruins once the home of Richard III and Henry VIII]( "Historical estate goes on the market with castle ruins once the home of Richard III and Henry VIII") Originally built in 1382, the castle was a favorite residence and seat of regional government for some of the most charismatic figures in English history. It has been in disuse for three and a half centuries, and the stone was plundered to build neighboring homes. Now just four corners remain.
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| Georgia Police Officer Fired for Saying 'We Only Shoot Black People' Posted: 31 Aug 2017 07:10 PM PDT  A police officer in Georgia will be fired after he was recorded on video telling a woman during a traffic stop, "We only shoot black people."
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| Clinton Library shares archived image of Princess Diana meeting with Hillary Clinton Posted: 31 Aug 2017 09:04 AM PDT  The Clinton Library marked the 20th anniversary of Princess Diana's death on Thursday, sharing an archived image of the late Royal and former first lady Hillary Clinton.
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| North Korea Missile Launches Leave For A Short Reaction Window Posted: 30 Aug 2017 03:11 PM PDT  North Korea on Tuesday fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan, causing the Japanese government to order its citizens to take shelter.
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| A Look At Mecca, Islam's Holiest Site, At The Height Of The Hajj Pilgrimage Posted: 31 Aug 2017 01:44 PM PDT  The annual Hajj pilgrimage is one of the world's largest religious gatherings, as some 2 million people flock to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to participate in one of Islam's five pillars of faith.
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| ‘The Daily Show's' Roy Wood Jr. Shuts Down Debate Over Confederate Symbols Posted: 31 Aug 2017 12:01 AM PDT  "The Daily Show" correspondent Roy Wood Jr. has a brilliant solution for all the controversy surrounding the confederate statues: End racism.
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| Suspect in killing of California deputy has violent past Posted: 31 Aug 2017 06:27 PM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The suspect in a hotel shootout that killed a California sheriff's deputy and wounded two CHP officers was wanted by federal authorities and has a long and violent criminal history, according to court records.
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| Here's What Will Happen When Your House Floods Posted: 31 Aug 2017 06:47 AM PDT  Maybe you're sitting in your living room looking out your window when it starts.
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| China makes disrespect of national anthem a crime Posted: 01 Sep 2017 03:23 AM PDT  By Christian Shepherd and Venus Wu BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Anyone who mocks China's national anthem faces up to 15 days in police detention after parliament criminalized such acts in a new law on Friday that covers Hong Kong and Macau. Since taking over as president, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has ushered in new legislation aimed at securing the country from threats both within and outside its borders, besides presiding over a sweeping crackdown on dissent and free speech. Protecting "the dignity of the national anthem" will help "promote patriotism and nurture socialist core values", says the new law passed by the National People's Congress (NPC). The new law brings treatment of the anthem into line with desecration of China's national flag, or its emblem, which has been a criminal offense punishable by up to 15 days' detention since the 1990s.
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| Why Flooded-Out Cars Are Likely Total Losses Posted: 31 Aug 2017 02:52 PM PDT  Auto owners whose vehicles were swept up by Hurricane Harvey are facing two hard facts right now: Their car is almost certainly totaled, if it was swamped, and they'll get no money back if they d...
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| Antidepressants Found In Brains Of 10 Fish Species Posted: 31 Aug 2017 02:17 PM PDT  High concentrations of antidepressants were found in the brains of 10 fish species.
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| Donald Trump's lawyers 'lay out strategy to discredit James Comey and head off obstruction of justice probe' Posted: 31 Aug 2017 08:20 PM PDT  Lawyers for Donald Trump say he has the power to hire and fire as he sees fit, and have called into question the reliability of his former FBI director as they lay out their defence against allegations of obstructing justice, it was reported on Thursday. The Wall Street Journal reported the President's legal team submitted a memo to the special counsel leading the investigation saying he has authority under the constitution to dismiss the head of the FBI. It also said another memo suggested James Comey, fired by Mr Trump in May, was the source of leaks to the news media and would make an unsuitable witness. The details offer a glimpse into how Mr Trump's lawyers plan to head off the investigation by Robert Mueller, the special counsel, which becomes bigger and broader all the time. Robert Mueller has been assembling a powerful team of prosecutors and experts in white collar crime Credit: AP He was appointed by the Justice Department after Mr Comey was dismissed to look into not just Russian efforts to rig the election but into any other matters arising from the investigation. Mr Comey himself told Congress he believed he was removed in order to undermine the department's Russia investigation and, soon after, it was reported that the investigation had been expanded to cover potential obstruction of justice. The White House referred questions about its defence strategy to Ty Cobb, the president's special counsel. Mr Cobb told the Wall Street Journal: "We have great respect for the special counsel. Out of respect for his process we will not be discussing incremental responses." Former FBI director to probe Trump links with Russia 02:37 US intelligence agencies have confirmed that Moscow was behind attempts to hack American political party computers and to break into election systems in an effort to help Mr Trump defeat Hillary Clinton. Mr Trump and Russia have denied any collusion but the issue has overshadowed the new administration as federal and Congressional investigations expanded their remit. Other details emerged this week demonstrating how the probes had intensified. Mr Mueller has reportedly recruited the Internal Revenue Service and its criminal investigation department which targets tax evasion and money laundering. Paul Manafort left his role with the Trump campaign after three months Credit: AP And Mr Mueller's team is working with Eric Schneiderman, New York attorney general, on its investigation into Paul Manafort, who served as Mr Trump's campaign chairman last year and his financial transactions, according to Politico and several US news outlets. He was left his campaign position amid growing questions about his work for pro-Russia political groups in the Ukraine. FBI agents searched Mr Manafort's Virginia home in July, seizing documents and other material. He has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
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| Kamala Harris To Co-Sponsor Bernie Sanders' Single Payer Bill Posted: 31 Aug 2017 07:41 AM PDT  on Wednesday became the first senator to announce that she would co-sponsor legislation adopting a national, single-payer health insurance system that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) plans to introduce in the coming weeks.
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| Trapped Mexican bakers make pan dulce for hundreds of Harvey victims over two days Posted: 30 Aug 2017 01:40 PM PDT  Four bakers who became trapped in their bakery for two days in the wake of Hurricane Harvey made hundreds of loaves of bread to give to flood victims. The workers from the El Bolillo Bakery in Houston, Texas, used up nearly 2,000kg of flour to bake bread and pan dulce, Mexican sweet bread, throughout the night and day after they were left stranded by the floods over the weekend. The four bakers had been working on a late shift when they realised they could not leave the shop because of the level of water on the streets.
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| Colorado Construction Crew Finds 66-Million-Year-Old Triceratops Fossil Posted: 31 Aug 2017 11:22 AM PDT  A Colorado scientist says he's "over the moon" after a construction crew in the city of Thornton reportedly stumbled upon a triceratops fossil last week.
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| U.S. forces Russia to close three diplomatic offices ‘in the spirit of parity’ Posted: 31 Aug 2017 10:39 AM PDT  Last month, the United States was ordered to cut in half its diplomatic and technical staff in Russia. Now Russia is being asked to close its consulate in San Francisco and annex buildings in Washington, D.C., and New York City.
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| Twitter Burns Joe Walsh For Claiming Charlie Hebdo Never Attacks Muslims Posted: 31 Aug 2017 10:02 AM PDT  After the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo came out with an inflammatory cover suggesting the victims of the Houston floods were Nazi sympathizers, one right-wing talk show host came out guns-a-blazing.
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| New Jersey Senator Menendez fails to win breaks in corruption trial Posted: 01 Sep 2017 09:09 AM PDT  A federal judge has rejected Senator Robert Menendez's request to allow breaks in his corruption trial beginning next Wednesday so the New Jersey Democrat could travel to Washington to cast critical Senate votes. In a decision made public on Friday, U.S. District Judge William Walls in Newark, New Jersey, rejected Menendez's claim that he deserved special treatment because he had a "constitutional duty" to be in Washington for his constituents. Walls said he suspected the request was part of a strategy to "impress the jurors" with Menendez's importance, but that it was speculative to suggest the senator would miss key votes.
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| The World's Driest Desert Blooms With Hundreds Of Flowers After Rare Rain Posted: 31 Aug 2017 09:49 AM PDT  The Atacama desert in Chile, widely referred to as the world's driest desert, is currently experiencing a truly breathtaking phenomenon.
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| Energy Department Official Who Called Obama A 'Kenyan Creampuff' Resigns Posted: 01 Sep 2017 07:48 AM PDT  William C. Bradford, who tweeted racist and anti-Semitic comments before being appointed by President Donald Trump to lead the Department of Energy's Office of Indian Energy, resigned from his position on Thursday.
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| Shivering girl, 3, found clinging to drowned mother 'who saved her' in Texas floods Posted: 30 Aug 2017 06:15 PM PDT  A shivering three-year-old girl found clinging to the body of her drowned mother in a rain-swollen canal in Southeast Texas was likely saved by her mother's effort to carry her child to safety from Harvey's floods, police said on Wednesday. Beaumont police identified the mother as 41-year-old Colette Sulcer and said her daughter was being treated for hypothermia but doing well. When rescuers found the mother and daughter, the girl was on her mother's back, holding on, said Police Officer Haley Morrow. "I envision what I would do if that was me in that situation and that's what I would do: I would put my child on my back and try to swim to safety or whatever," Morrow said. Hurricane Harvey hits Texas, in pictures Sulcer's vehicle got stuck Tuesday afternoon in the flooded parking lot of an office park just off Interstate 10, said Capt. Brad Penisson of the fire-rescue department in Beaumont. Squalls from Harvey were pounding Beaumont with up to 2 inches (5 centimeters) of rain an hour with 38 mph (60 kph) gusts, according to the National Weather Service. A witness saw the woman take her daughter and try to walk to safety when the swift current of a flooded drainage canal next to the parking lot swept them both away, Penisson said. Morrow said the woman's actions probably saved her little girl's life. "When they found her she was still up out of the water," Morrow said. The US Coast Guard responds to search and rescue requests in response to Hurricane Harvey in the Beaumont, Texas Credit: EPA A police and fire-rescue team in a boat caught up to them a half-mile downstream from Sucler's vehicle, according to Penisson. Rescuers pulled them into the boat just before they would have gone under a railroad trestle where the water was so high that the boat could not have followed. First responders lifted the child from her mother's body and tried to revive the woman, but she never regained consciousness. A citizen allowed first responders to load the mother and daughter into his truck and he brought them to a waiting ambulance, Morrow said. The sacrificial love of a mother was demonstrated down in TX, RIP Colette Sulcer - You will not be forgotten #MothersLove#ForeverLove— Motivated Patriot (@aroesta) August 30, 2017 This woman is a true hero and her daughter will always know her mom saved her. #ColetteSulcer— Toby (@realBrowncoat) August 30, 2017 The child was taken to the Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont, and was expected to be released on Wednesday. Officer Carol Riley said the girl was doing "very well" and was chatty. "Everybody at the hospital and the officers just fell in love with her," Riley said. At least 25 people have been killed by Harvey since Friday, when it made landfall in Texas as a Category 4 hurricane. Harvey has since weakened to a tropical storm.
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| Elton John honors friend Princess Diana on the 20th anniversary of her death Posted: 31 Aug 2017 06:38 AM PDT  Today, Aug. 31, marks 20 years since we lost Princess Diana in a devastating car wreck in Paris, and one of her famous friends took to Instagram to honor her on the somber anniversary.
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