This is Antonio Basco.
His wife of 22 years, Margie, was murdered in El Paso.
Mr. Basco says he has no other family so he’s inviting anyone, who wants to come, to attend his wife’s services in El Paso:
Friday, August 16th
Perches Funeral Home Northeast 4946 Hondo Pass
5-9pm
BREAKING: George Floyd died due to asphyxia from neck & back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain, according to an independent autopsy done by 2 pathologists' who ruled manner of death: homicide.
Minneapolis officials have said Floyd didn't die from asphyxia.
Ralph Yarl, age 16, knocked on the wrong door in Missouri and was shot.
He went to the door at the wrong home to pick up his younger twin brother and that’s when he was shot, according to police.
CBS affiliate KCTV reports: “The correct address Yarl was attempting to go to
BREAKING: "This is a historical day for Chile," says the govt official who tweeted this video. Nearly 1 million protesters are in the streets of Santagio, Chile, now. Internet service is slowing down, as people use social media to make sure the world knows.
This made my morning.
This is Jude. He’s 3.
His dad, Mike, a friend of mine, is always posting the most adorable family videos.
This one made my heart smile. Enjoy.
BREAKING: The CEO of
@Hertz
wrote a letter to Puerto Rico‘s representative in Congress stating that Hertz has rewritten its policy to make it abundantly clear that Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory - not a foreign country - & because of that Puerto Rico driver’s licenses are not
A devastatingly effective, fair and fact based interview by an Irish journalist with Russian’s ambassador to Ireland. “Why should our government entertain your presence here when you’re acting as an apologist for slaughter.”
BREAKING: What may be millions of water bottles. meant for victims of Hurricane Maria, have been sitting on a runway in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, since last year, according to
@FEMA
, which confirmed the news to me, late tonight, after pictures, posted today on social media, went viral.
Fired. Michael Henkel, 61, of Philadelphia, who was a family court supervisor, was fired after this video surfaced showing him ripping black lives matter signs off public fencing. Someone said: “Black lives matter". He responded, “Not to me, they don't"
Puerto Rico remains in bankruptcy
Bodies are backlogged at the morgue
911 calls take 1 to 3 minutes to be answered
There’s water rationing due to a drought
Healthcare is dilapidated; equipment is old
&
@potus
wants to divert unspent disaster money from PR for the wall
Remember what President Trump told Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes.
She asked him why he continues to attack the press.
His answer:
'You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so that when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you.'"
BREAKING: A Louisiana judge just ruled Vincent Simmons did not get a fair trial when he was convicted of attempted aggravated rape in 1977. Judge ordered new trial. District Attorney just said he will NOT retry Simmons. Vincent Simmons is a free man after serving 44yrs at Angola.
I joined Costco today to buy one item. Just. One. Item.
I didn’t even make it past the first display on the other side of the welcome door. Toothpaste. The kind I like. $25 for five packs.
I left with $500 worth of items.
They sell gas. The line was so long it looked like what
After hearing the White House say critical supplies are going to commercial distributors who are then selling them to the states which are begging for help, I called
@ltgrusselhonore
who commanded federal troops after Hurricane Katrina to get his reaction. Watch this:
“I would like a pardon from the President of the United States.”
Dallas area realtor Jenna Ryan is the 2nd D.C. riot participant to ask for one. She flew on a private jet to D.C. to “stop the steal.” FBI arrested her today. She says: I feel persecuted.
Good News: 17 month old Anderson Davis is now at home. She’s the baby who was shot in the Odessa mass shooting, hit with shrapnel & left with a hole in her lip & tongue. She underwent surgery before going home. Her mother shared these pictures with CBS News.
BREAKING: Mayor of St. Paul Minnesota says he was wrong this morning when he said “Every single person” arrested last night in St. Paul was from out of town. He blames inaccurate information given to him during a police briefing.
This is so important for everyone to understand. This explains why Governors say: I'm not getting the supplies I need - yet
@POTUS
says we are sending tons of supplies: It's going from the federal govt to commercial distributors who then deliver to the highest bidder: states!
I can’t forget this picture.
David met Heather swing dancing.
The day she he told him she had cancer, he proposed.
They married in the Hosptial.
She died 18 hours later.
“Heather longed to live to see her wedding day”
This is Joe Garcia. Today, journalists recorded him placing flowers at a cross that had his wife’s name on it. His wife, Irma, was a teacher who was killed in the Uvalde, Texas massacre. Not long after placing flowers, Joe died of a heart attack.
Living with Tourette Syndrome has been humiliating. But that was as a child. As an adult it rarely happens.
Today it did. On a flight.
The woman seated beside me was having a conniption fit as my nose tic (short exhales out of my nostrils) happened. She didn’t realize her
BREAKING NOW: I just confirmed, the 2 officers seen shoving the elderly man in this video have been suspended IMMEDIATELY, according to the Buffalo police commissioner.
BREAKING: “I thought I was following my president. I thought I was following what we were called to do. He asked us to fly there. So I was doing was he asked us to do.”
That’s TX realtor Jenna Ryan who was arrested today by FBI after being at the D.C. riot
Wow. Bad Bunny (
@sanbenito
) wore a skirt on the
@FallonTonight
with a sweater that read "they killed Alexa, not a man with a skirt"
Alexa was transgender woman in Puerto Rico ridiculed & killed, on her birthday, by murderers who videotaped the crime & posted it on social media.
Barbara Bush
June 1, 1990
Wellesley College Commencement
“At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend, or a parent.”
Arkansas cop seen kneeing, face punching then grabbing hair of person & smashing person’s head into cement
From
@MitchellMcCoy
: Arkansas State Police launch investigation into this incident, captured on camera, outside a convenience store in Crawford Co.
The Louisiana legislatures anti LGBTQ legislation is driving a highly specialized pediatric doctor, in New Orleans, to leave the state with his family.
A 20-year-old & a 12-year-old went to a Sonic in Texas.
The 20 year-old started urinating in the parking lot.
A sonic employee (man pictured below) confronted the urinating young man.
The 12 year old got out a car with an assault rifle and shot dead the sonic employee.
ARRESTED: Christine Priola, a school therapist who stormed the Capitol & got to
@VP
’s chair. She quit her job the day after the riot saying: I will be switching paths to expose the global evil of human trafficking & pedophilia, including in our govt & children’s services agencies
Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican.
Born there. Raised there. Etc.
The exploitation notion deals with outsiders moving to P.R. to take advantage of tax perks, not Puerto Ricans who are from there. Am I wrong?
BREAKING: the man who verbally & physically attacked 3 young adults who were putting up Black Lives Matter signs on the Capital Creacent trail in near Washington D.C has been arrested. He’s Anthony Brennan III, 60, of Kensington, MD. He’s charged w/ 3 counts of 2nd degree assault
Puerto Rico has had the following earthquakes within the last 2 hours:
6.0
5.6
5.0
4.2
4.5
4.3
All of these quakes were centered off of the southern coast of PR.
The crowd seems to be growing in front of the Puerto Rico Governors mansions. Every day. Every night. This has been going on for nearly 2 weeks. 99% of it has been peaceful.
Just Released: mugshots of 2 Buffalo, NY cop who shoved a 75yo man to the ground at a protest this week.
They’re charged with 2nd degree assault, with a felony because of the mans age.
The man is in critical condition.
The cops are: Aaron Torglaski, 39, & Robert McCabe, 32.
I know there's a lot going on in the world but what's going on in Puerto Rico, with the earthquakes, is very important, and deserve everyone's attention.
“No comment” is all that was said by the attorney representing the City of Wetumpka, Alabama after the city quietly told a judge they didn’t want to further pursue charges against two women who were feeding cats, but only after the city arrested charged prosecuted & punished
He was a nurse in NYC.
A son.
brother.
dancer.
partner.
& severe asthmatic as a child.
#covid19
left him on a ventilator.
Kious Kelly died at 48 years old.
His last words to his sister: "can't talk because I choke & can't breathe. I love you. Going back to sleep."
Unbelievable. The President of the United States quips back at a nurse from New Orleans who said PPE has been sporadic. She didn’t say it in a negative tone. She didn’t direct it at the president or the govt. She told her truth & he had to snap back.
Because the chief says the deceased didn’t mention “terrorism”, & was a “very challenged young man” doesn’t mean he’s not a terrorist. He terrorized an American city for weeks. That’s not opinion. It’s fact. Let’s identify him as what he is: a terrorist, by all know facts, so far
Breaking: Austin police chief says having listened to the serial bomber's recording, he doesn't mention terrorism or hate, "but instead, it is the outcry of a very challenged young man talking about challenges in his personal life that led him to this point."
#khou11
Dr. Phil says we don't shut down the country for automobile deaths or or cigarette deaths or swimming pool deaths so why do it for coronavirus he asks.
1 of the above is contagious.
The 3 others are not.
Our Maria.
She beat cancer many times...was devoutly Catholic, courageous, loyal & a CBS News journalist for 30+ yrs.
Recently she underwent surgery to again remove cancer & survived.
She died after
#COVID19
infected her.
She adored her family.
Loved her job.
We adored her.
Alabama’s Republican Governor
@kayiveyforgov
has had enough with unvaccinated people in her state:
“It’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. It’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down.”
BREAKING: Chicago man caught harassing woman because she was wearing a shirt with the Puerto Rico flag on it has been charged with two counts of felony hate crime.
Story coming.
When a 90 year old worker, pushing carts at
@WinnDixie
supermarket in Metairie, Louisiana, was stopped by shopper
@karenswensen
, who asked why he was working on a sweltering hot day, he said: “to eat.” Within 24 hours, Karen raised 224,000 + on
@gofundme
for the 90 year old
NEWS: Federal authorities have charged 2 police officers from the Rocky Mount Virginia Police Department, according to the dept, which says the officers have been charged with misdemeanors stemming from their presence at the Capitol attack. The officers are on leave from the dept
I've been saying: Puerto Rico isn't getting enough top story coverage in the news - regarding what's happening on the island with 3.4 million U.S. citizens - but wearing the flag during the Super Bowl half time show is definitely 1 way to get people talking
Now, follow the issues
Louisiana has a population of roughly 4.6 million people
2,970,167 are registered to vote
Unofficial returns indicated statewide turnout of registered voters in the Governor’s race, last night, was 35.8%
Republican Jeff Landry won the Governor’s race with 547,828 votes
If
Chilling:
@DCPoliceDept
officer Michael Fanone said on CNN that rioters went for his gun, saying “Kill him with his own gun”.
He told CNN, “It was all about self preservation...I “appealed to their humanity...I just remember yelling out I have kids”
“Thank you to my parents I’m a badass with a diploma” is what Jennifer Rocha wrote on her graduation cap. The
@ucsandiego
student took her graduation pics in a farm field to honor her parents. Since high school she worked alongside them planting strawberries.
📷:Branden Rodriguez
Firework in Puerto Rico tonight as people in Santurce celebrated New Year's Eve.
People decided to cancel January after a month of anxiety due to earthquakes that have been felt almost daily, & continue.
People want to start over.
So, HNY!
#2020TAKE2
📷: Eloy Perez
Here’s our profile on Judge
@Frankcaprio_
. I’ve never gotten more requests from viewers for a story on anyone, than I have for one on Judge Caprio. Today, he’s in south Florida to see doctors who are treating him for pancreatic cancer. Please join me in wishing/praying/hoping
Puerto Ricans looking out for each other: Alongside the road in Guanica we found local chefs who set up a food kitchen of sorts in corner field & used vegetables from nearby gardens in the earthquake affected zone to make a giant plate of fried rice. People are flocking there.
Jim
@Acosta
on CNN just said, "Earlier today the President underwent a physical exam...but Across Washington and much of the world...there is less concern about an update on the President's health, and more about the condition of his soul, tonight"
Now it appears
@RitchieTorres
, 32, a gay Afro Latino (1/2 Puerto Rican) Democrat will represent the Bronx in Congress, beating front runner Ruben Diaz Sr., 77, an anti gay, pro Trump Democrat who’s Puerto Rican.
Torres succeeds Puerto Rican
@RepJoseSerrano
BREAKING: The FBI has arrested Jenny Cudd, reports
@CBS7News
. She recorded a video inside the Capitol saying they didn’t vandalize anything, then said they did break down
@SpeakerPelosi
’s door & steal her gavel. Cudd’s a fmr. Midland, TX. mayoral candidate
Y’all did not tell me Bad Bunny (
@sanbenito
) was going to be on top of an 18 wheeler, ducking traffic lights and tree limbs, as his concert caravan is escorted through New York City (the Bronx) while he performs live. I am here for this. All of it!
BREAKING: The FEMA official in Puerto Rico, in charge of power restoration after Hurricane Maria, has been arrested by the FBI, as has the fmr. CEO of Cobra Energy (which got $1.8B in contracts) & a 2nd FEMA official...all accused of enriching themselves & defrauding the fed govt
An
@ArlingtonPD
officer in Texas tells a Puerto Rican man his Puerto Rican license isn’t valid in Texas and writes him a ticket for having no valid drivers license
I called the police department and they acknowledged the officer was wrong and they dropped the ticket.
Luis
Gayle King stood up from her chair on LIVE TV this morning to give this man, the focus of our story, an ovation.
He deserved every bit her applause.
Robert Carter is a phenomenal, self-made man with a hell of a human story.
This day was dominated by Samaritans who gathered supplies, left their homes and headed into the earthquake affected zones to hand out what they could. We saw them everywhere along the southwestern coast.
It’s true: thousands of water bottles sitting in an empty field in Dorado, Puerto Rico.
After I posted about it earlier today someone drove out there & took this video.
Location: road 693, toward the beach after you pass Krispy Kreme
FEMA is getting back to me with details
Meet 'Paddington Boricua', the newest member of our family.
He's an Austrailian labradoodle. We brought him home today, & already adore him.
Potty training may get the best of us, but here we go! 💙💙💙
I think about all the Puerto Ricans who drove from the north, east, & west down to the south & sat in bumper to bumper traffic to deliver aid to earthquake evacuees, & now we hear there was a warehouse of supplies in Ponce.
This is why people don't trust govt. This. Is. Why.