Waterspout comes ashore in Galveston

By Chris Paschenko & Rhiannon Meyers / The Daily News & Kevin Reece / 11 News
GALVESTON, Texas — The National Weather Service confirmed a waterspout came ashore in Galveston on Sunday damaging buildings, knocking out power and injuring at least three people.

It happened soon after a strong line of storms moved into the county, and the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning. A waterspout is a tornado that forms over water.

Dolphin World, a souvenir shop in the 2900 block of Seawall Boulevard, was damaged about 9:45 p.m. Debris covered the streets.

Ironically, Dolphin World survived Hurricane Ike with very little damage. But after this storm, things were different.

“It’s very, very bad. Very difficult. Basically everything inside is gone. Brings back memory of Ike,” Schlomo Hamo of Dolphin World said.

Witnesses told The Daily News that a piece of the roof from Dolphin World struck a man who was pushing his bicycle down the seawall. They said he was taken away by ambulance.

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CNN) -- Three boaters who were stranded at sea for more than a week were being reunited with their families Sunday.

Three missing boaters were returned safely to Port Aransas, Texas, after their rescue on Saturday.

A day after the U.S. Coast Guard said it was suspending its weeklong search for the boaters, the men were found alive Saturday night.

The crew of a Good Samaritan vessel found Curtis Hall, 28, James Phillips, 30, and Tressel Hawkins, 43, sitting on top of their capsized 23-foot fishing vessel about 180 miles from Port Aransas, Texas, the Coast Guard said in a news release.

The men had been missing at sea since they failed to return from a fishing trip on August 22.

The Coast Guard had called off their search Friday after it said it had looked over more than 86,000 square miles.

Hall went to a hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, but left after he waited too long in the emergency room, his mother told CNN. He returned to his home in Palacio, Texas, to rest and will see a doctor later on Sunday for what he thinks are second-degree burns on his legs from sun exposure, she said.

After the rescue, Phillips was on his way home to reunite with his family, his wife, Shane, told CNN. He did not seek medical attention, she said.

Hawkins suffered open sores on his legs after floating in the water for eight days, he told CNN from the emergency room of a Corpus Christi hospital. He plans to leave the hospital soon and head to Fort Worth, Texas, to reunite with his family, he said. E-mail to a friend | Mixx it | Share

Remembering Officer Hamilton

By Kevin Reece / 11 News
PASADENA, Texas—Friends, family and fellow law enforcement officers gathered Wednesday morning to say goodbye to a Pasadena police officer who was killed in the line of duty last week.

Officer Jesse Hamilton, 29, was shot in the head while responding to a disturbance call in a trailer park at Shaver and Queens on Friday.

Early Wednesday morning, a large crowd of officers gathered at the funeral home to escort Hamilton’s body to the service.

Patrol cars filled the funeral home parking lot and spilled into a long line on Spencer Highway.

Officer Hamilton's casket arrives at Grace Community Church.
Around 7:15 a.m., the officers, along with Hamilton’s family, started their procession to Grace Community church for the 10 a.m. service.

A hearse led the long line of officers in patrol cars, who drove with their lights flashing.

round 7:15 a.m., the officers, along with Hamilton’s family, started their procession to Grace Community church for the 10 a.m. service.

A hearse led the long line of officers in patrol cars, who drove with their lights flashing.

More than 100 color guard members from surrounding police departments took part in the ceremony.

The funeral was followed by a 21-gun salute and a flag presentation to Hamilton's widow.

Hamilton, a four-year veteran of the force who served as a dispatcher before becoming an officer, leaves behind a wife and two young children.

Hamilton was only the fourth Pasadena police officer to lose his life in the line of duty and the first to be killed in 16 years.

Friends and family said Hamilton was excited about the next phase in his law enforcement career – training to try out for the SWAT team.

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Houston hair glue bandit victim videos prankster with cell phone

HOUSTON -- Another woman has come forward saying she too, was a victim of the so-called hair glue bandit. The woman says it happened in a Marshalls in Southwest Houston. She was looking at cookbooks when she felt something in her hair.

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"There was this man standing about a foot and a half beside me. He said, ‘Excuse me,’ and I said, ‘It's ok.’ But then I felt something warm on the back of my head," said the hair glue bandit’s latest victim, who wishes to remain anonymous. "There was this white substance on my hand. It dried instantly."

The victim says she was able to pull out her cell phone and capture video of the man who poured the glue on her.

Plus, because she didn't want him to disappear into a busy parking lot, she followed him out and took down the license plate of the car he was in. She then passed the information over to the police.

Over the past few weeks, glue victims have been studying a surveillance video taken from another attack. The latest victim claims the same man poured the glue in her hair.

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