Dave Hendricks

Reporter / Producer at KVEO-TV (@CBS4RGV) in the Rio Grande Valley.

[Sheriff Eddie Guerra @SheriffGuerra]

HAPPENING NOW: SB lane of US 281 6 miles North of Linn is closed due to a Tractor-trailer on fire. Tractor trailer was involved in human smuggling and was being pursued by law enforcement.

[Dave Hendricks @dmhj]

Caught with cocaine, man said he planned to visit ‘my friend, my hoes’ near Corpus Christi https://t.co/CTBhFuwsnT via @CBS4RGV

[Dave Hendricks @dmhj]

Roma ‘port runner’ sentenced to 10 months in prison https://t.co/LIpVJkoAHB via @CBS4RGV

[Dave Hendricks @dmhj]

"The investigation into Villarreal, 68, is connected to the smuggling of pirated fuel, a lucrative illegal trade known in Mexico as huachicol ..."

[Keegan Hamilton @keegan_hamilton]

“Alfonso Durazo, the governor of Sonora, and Américo Villarreal Anaya, the governor of Tamaulipas, have both been stripped of their U.S. visas amid criminal probes”

https://t.co/1ST9p7efMb vía @Stevelfisher @katelinthicum @latimes

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Dave Hendricks @dmhj]

Gulf Cartel gun smugglers plead guilty https://t.co/Hbw493fYGV via @CBS4RGV

[Dave Hendricks @dmhj]

Roma ‘port runner’ sentenced to 10 months in prison https://t.co/LIpVJkoAHB via @CBS4RGV

[Dave Hendricks @dmhj]

"The city of El Paso estimates Meta's data center will pay around $15 million a year in city property taxes alone ..."

https://t.co/ZNNcYbvBPs

[Dave Hendricks @dmhj]

“The states are able to pick up some of the slack, but this is not a sustainable situation. We need a Justice Department with high-quality legal talent that operates with integrity.”

https://t.co/zKUXy7QrVE via @NYTimes

[FOIA Nate📄 @FOIANate]

All you actually need to do is use your fingers to type: "Under the Freedom of Information Act I request..."

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

The law prohibiting any living person from appearing on US currency should be expanded to bar the federal government from naming anything after a living person.

[Dave Hendricks @dmhj]

@SirDave956 @cbs4rgv

[Dave Hendricks @dmhj]

Hidalgo businessman admits to filing fraudulent customs paperwork https://t.co/3vYlQ2LumN via @CBS4RGV

[Dave Hendricks @dmhj]

And here's the judgment of acquittal #rgv

[Dave Hendricks @dmhj]

Concerned about unsigned paperwork, jury finds man not guilty of illegally returning to the United States after deportation https://t.co/Q6RG3GiABS via @CBS4RGV

[Dave Hendricks @dmhj]

Fisherman who caught 7.7 pounds of cocaine pleads guilty https://t.co/9D1FFrmto2 via @CBS4RGV

[Dave Hendricks @dmhj]

"The average car on U.S. roads is now about 13 years old, a historic high, according to S&P Global."

https://t.co/ke51Cj4Wce

[Dave Hendricks @dmhj]

Concerned about unsigned paperwork, jury finds man not guilty of illegally returning to the United States after deportation https://t.co/Q6RG3GiABS via @CBS4RGV

[Dave Hendricks @dmhj]

"The race between Paxton and Cornyn is the most expensive Senate GOP primary on record with more than $128 million spent on advertising and reservations in the state, according to AdImpact."

https://t.co/uZ0iviVyC9

[Dave Hendricks @dmhj]

"The prosecutors also stacked the deck in their own favor by removing from the panel some grand jurors who had voted against them when considering an earlier version of the charges. Making matters even worse, they tried to hide these maneuvers by redacting the grand jury transcripts — that is, until Judge Perry ordered them to give her the full copies."

https://t.co/5NtpjCIIje via @NYTimes

[Dave Hendricks @dmhj]

The Mission City Council plans to repeal the city's Historical Preservation Commission Ordinance today.

Members of the City Council discussed the decision during executive session, which isn't open to the public, on May 12.

When the City Council returned to open session, it voted to abolish the Historical Preservation *Commission* and create a Historical Preservation *Committee* instead.

Mission placed the item on the consent agenda for today's meeting — so it may be approved without any discussion at all #rgv