WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:270000 00:00:00.143 --> 00:00:04.047 Including the people seed it's 00:00:04.181 --> 00:00:04.648 killed law found in Houston. 00:00:04.781 --> 00:00:06.116 >> Hello. 00:00:06.683 --> 00:00:08.151 Constable need to come to the 00:00:08.585 --> 00:00:10.020 >> From one Houston deal home, 00:00:10.153 --> 00:00:12.022 to the next. 00:00:12.689 --> 00:00:14.725 >> Deputy Benny Gantz with the 00:00:15.025 --> 00:00:16.627 constables office executes 00:00:16.994 --> 00:00:17.995 judges orders to evict. 00:00:18.695 --> 00:00:20.097 >> Hello constable. 00:00:20.697 --> 00:00:22.866 >> Israel Rodriguez is 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:24.067 attendant at this apartment. 00:00:24.201 --> 00:00:24.968 But he is not alone. 00:00:25.669 --> 00:00:28.939 20-month-old Israel, his 00:00:29.072 --> 00:00:30.140 brother and 4-year-old Fabian 00:00:30.274 --> 00:00:31.708 as mother are some of the 00:00:31.942 --> 00:00:33.677 estimated 40 million Americans 00:00:34.011 --> 00:00:34.978 facing eviction in the downward 00:00:35.112 --> 00:00:37.080 spiral of the covid economy. 00:00:37.214 --> 00:00:38.982 >> Get everything you need. 00:00:39.116 --> 00:00:40.984 >> Rodriguez admits he has not 00:00:41.118 --> 00:00:42.653 been paying rent, behind 00:00:42.986 --> 00:00:43.353 thousands of dollars. 00:00:43.654 --> 00:00:46.256 >> It's my fault in the 00:00:46.623 --> 00:00:46.723 eviction -- 00:00:46.723 --> 00:00:48.692 with when the coronavirus hit I 00:00:48.992 --> 00:00:49.192 lost my job. 00:00:49.726 --> 00:00:50.994 It took me a month to get 00:00:51.128 --> 00:00:51.962 another job. 00:00:52.629 --> 00:00:54.998 I'm not making it with $300, my 00:00:55.132 --> 00:00:57.000 check is literally $300. 00:00:57.134 --> 00:00:59.002 >> There's stroller now carries 00:00:59.136 --> 00:01:00.070 their possessions. 00:01:00.203 --> 00:01:02.906 >> It's maybe the kid's clothes, 00:01:03.040 --> 00:01:04.174 mean here we wear the same 00:01:04.308 --> 00:01:05.042 clothes almost every day. 00:01:05.175 --> 00:01:06.143 Make sure we got toilet paper 00:01:06.276 --> 00:01:07.377 and snacks for the kids. 00:01:07.678 --> 00:01:09.046 >> We are gonna do with all 00:01:09.179 --> 00:01:09.379 your stuff? 00:01:09.513 --> 00:01:11.948 >> That's trash, they can throw 00:01:12.082 --> 00:01:12.649 in the trash because we're 00:01:12.649 --> 00:01:12.816 novel car. 00:01:12.949 --> 00:01:14.017 We don't have help, we don't 00:01:14.151 --> 00:01:15.986 have nobody that can come help 00:01:16.119 --> 00:01:17.020 us out right now nobody. 00:01:17.688 --> 00:01:19.222 We have ourselves, me and the 00:01:19.356 --> 00:01:21.024 kids in her. 00:01:21.158 --> 00:01:21.325 That's it. 00:01:21.458 --> 00:01:23.193 >> How does you and law 00:01:23.327 --> 00:01:25.062 enforcement feel as if -- 00:01:25.195 --> 00:01:26.930 >> It's a tough situation I got 00:01:27.064 --> 00:01:27.197 6 kids. 00:01:27.331 --> 00:01:28.098 I got 6 children. 00:01:34.905 --> 00:01:36.039 Momentous best desperate 00:01:36.173 --> 00:01:36.673 situations. 00:01:36.673 --> 00:01:38.008 The >> Deputy Gantz, an officer 00:01:38.141 --> 00:01:41.945 for 35 years is just starting 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:42.212 his day. 00:01:43.714 --> 00:01:44.681 8 evictions are on his list. 00:01:44.681 --> 00:01:48.118 >> Codefendant is here to him. 00:01:48.251 --> 00:01:50.987 >> At each stop, people behind 00:01:51.121 --> 00:01:51.621 on rent are ordered to leave. 00:01:52.689 --> 00:01:53.890 Possessions pulled out. 00:01:54.024 --> 00:01:56.259 >> Where you guys gonna go now? 00:01:56.693 --> 00:01:59.229 >> We're gonna go to a hotel. 00:01:59.363 --> 00:02:01.164 >> As deputy Gantz works there 00:02:01.298 --> 00:02:03.900 is list, we get word that 200 00:02:04.034 --> 00:02:05.635 eviction orders have come 00:02:05.969 --> 00:02:06.703 through the Harris county 00:02:06.937 --> 00:02:07.304 courts for this week. 00:02:07.738 --> 00:02:09.172 That's double what they 00:02:09.306 --> 00:02:10.707 normally saw for an entire 00:02:11.007 --> 00:02:11.942 month before covid. 00:02:12.075 --> 00:02:14.111 >> 200 on Monday. 00:02:14.244 --> 00:02:17.280 What what does that say to you? 00:02:17.414 --> 00:02:22.719 >> What that means is, the 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:24.221 ready to start have people 00:02:24.721 --> 00:02:24.888 removed from properties. 00:02:25.222 --> 00:02:26.723 >> It is a backlog. 00:02:26.723 --> 00:02:28.725 But it's also just one precinct 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:30.160 in one of America's hardest hit 00:02:30.727 --> 00:02:30.894 cities and evictions. 00:02:31.228 --> 00:02:32.729 The job takes its toll. 00:02:33.230 --> 00:02:35.632 >> I don't really want to put 00:02:35.766 --> 00:02:35.966 it out here. 00:02:37.200 --> 00:02:37.634 But I have to. 00:02:38.268 --> 00:02:39.503 Under this judges order. 00:02:39.636 --> 00:02:42.205 >> Under this apartment, that 00:02:42.739 --> 00:02:43.540 senate is an elderly woman who 00:02:43.673 --> 00:02:46.743 can no longer for the reds. 00:02:46.743 --> 00:02:49.212 >> The landlords movers 00:02:49.513 --> 00:02:52.249 Francisco mover, works even 00:02:52.749 --> 00:02:52.949 though he doesn't want to. 00:02:53.083 --> 00:02:55.685 >> It's not my mom. 00:02:56.186 --> 00:02:59.556 We never know, maybe today it's 00:02:59.689 --> 00:03:01.691 her tomorrow was me. 00:03:02.259 --> 00:03:04.761 >> Midway to the eviction, the 00:03:04.795 --> 00:03:05.729 Peter Gantz decides it's too 00:03:05.862 --> 00:03:07.197 dangerous to Victor in the 00:03:07.497 --> 00:03:07.697 summer heat. 00:03:08.231 --> 00:03:09.533 >> I'm not gonna put it out 00:03:09.666 --> 00:03:10.767 here in this heat. 00:03:11.234 --> 00:03:13.203 >> And will call social 00:03:13.537 --> 00:03:14.438 services instead. 00:03:14.771 --> 00:03:15.739 >> I leave you today, but 00:03:15.872 --> 00:03:16.773 tomorrow you're leaving. 00:03:16.873 --> 00:03:18.775 >> One day reprieve with an 00:03:18.909 --> 00:03:19.543 uncertain tomorrow. 00:03:20.210 --> 00:03:21.711 >> We have a situation where 00:03:21.845 --> 00:03:24.781 people are working. 00:03:24.781 --> 00:03:26.783 >> Kyung lah joins us now, 00:03:26.783 --> 00:03:27.651 that's heartbreaking. 00:03:27.784 --> 00:03:30.187 That's just heartbreaking to 00:03:30.787 --> 00:03:32.789 see what people are going 00:03:32.789 --> 00:03:32.823 through. 00:03:33.223 --> 00:03:35.192 I know there was a CDC 00:03:35.492 --> 00:03:35.826 announcement today. 00:03:35.959 --> 00:03:37.494 You have been reporting on it, 00:03:37.627 --> 00:03:42.399 is it clear how it might work? 00:03:42.799 --> 00:03:44.468 >> Absolutely not. 00:03:45.168 --> 00:03:46.803 Here is a view from Harris 00:03:46.803 --> 00:03:46.903 county. 00:03:47.204 --> 00:03:49.239 The counsel's office here has 00:03:49.573 --> 00:03:50.207 immediately put a hold on 00:03:50.807 --> 00:03:52.175 everything, as local 00:03:52.809 --> 00:03:53.510 municipalities try to figure 00:03:53.643 --> 00:03:56.413 out exactly what does this mean? 00:03:57.214 --> 00:03:58.815 Are there gonna be challenges 00:03:58.815 --> 00:03:58.915 in court? 00:03:59.249 --> 00:04:02.185 What does this mean if there is 00:04:02.819 --> 00:04:03.620 a state authority that steps 00:04:03.753 --> 00:04:04.821 and like an attorney general? 00:04:05.222 --> 00:04:06.823 They don't know at this point. 00:04:06.823 --> 00:04:09.226 What about the rights of 00:04:09.559 --> 00:04:09.726 landlords? 00:04:10.193 --> 00:04:11.561 That day that we follow the 00:04:11.695 --> 00:04:13.697 constables office, we spoke to 00:04:13.830 --> 00:04:16.299 a lot of landlords who said hey 00:04:16.833 --> 00:04:17.467 look, -- 00:04:17.601 --> 00:04:18.835 want their money what about us? 00:04:18.835 --> 00:04:20.837 We have tens of thousands that 00:04:20.837 --> 00:04:21.438 we have to pay up. 00:04:22.205 --> 00:04:23.673 And then it's a question of who 00:04:23.807 --> 00:04:24.841 do you evict? 00:04:24.841 --> 00:04:26.209 Some people won't be affixed 00:04:26.476 --> 00:04:27.611 double if they make a certain 00:04:27.744 --> 00:04:30.514 income, or if they have or have 00:04:30.847 --> 00:04:31.681 not build out the right 00:04:31.815 --> 00:04:31.982 paperwork. 00:04:32.349 --> 00:04:34.518 It's very confusing, then on 00:04:34.851 --> 00:04:35.585 the side of attendance. 00:04:35.719 --> 00:04:37.487 What tenants are saying, hey 00:04:37.621 --> 00:04:39.656 this is nice and all, but 00:04:39.789 --> 00:04:40.257 there's no rent forgiveness? 00:04:40.390 --> 00:04:41.658 This is simply kicking the can 00:04:41.791 --> 00:04:44.494 down the road -- 00:04:44.861 --> 00:04:46.863 if they haven't kept up there 00:04:46.863 --> 00:04:49.432 is going to be a tremendous -- 00:04:50.233 --> 00:04:50.867 for a lot of people. 00:04:51.234 --> 00:04:52.869 The very same people you've 00:04:52.869 --> 00:04:55.405 heard about. 00:04:55.539 --> 00:04:56.540 >> Cowan long, what an 00:04:56.873 --> 00:04:56.940 important story.