All evacuees from North Texas come here first. We're letting them have a bathroom break, running them through metal detectors and going through belongings. |
Deputies were unable to get everyone off the bus. We believe it's going to be closer to 20 fatalities. |
He could hear people calling for help, but he couldn't even see them. |
He wasn't lost in the system. We knew he was here ... we hold them until the judge says to hold him no longer. |
It depends on where the investigation takes us. |
It was a combination of information garnered from the criminal investigation from day one and information that they were able to pull from the civil transcripts. |
It's still a wide-open investigation. |
Lots of liquor. Mostly beer and wine. |
Some of them suffered from smoke inhalation, but they were concerned for their fellow bus passengers. |
There was heavy smoke and a lot of confusion and very elderly persons laying on the roadway -- eighties, mid-eighties, nineties. |
They're very concerned that the freeway is backed up from Harris County [Houston] to Dallas County. There are literally thousands of people who are trying to escape what could be hurricane-force winds. |
This is certainly as grim as it gets. What makes this unusual is that we're in the middle of this devastating hurricane. So, one of our big concerns is trying to remove the bus to get the freeway clear and get traffic flowing. |
We don't want them to feel like it's a jail. |
You have thousands of people who are in their vehicles trying to escape. |