Watching the Memorial Park illegal immigrant support rally on KHOU’s webcast. About the only english I can hear spoken is the camera crew. Hmmmm. and they suddenly cut the audio feed. More American flags than Mexican in the shots I’ve seen, so I suppose the message got out. Now they’ve cut the video.

In the one wide-angle shot I saw, it looked like 3-500 people, but this was only a portion of the crowd.

Now they’re showing a prepared clip about the boycott. OMG this is freaking hilarious! “This is to show the impact that not only Hispanics, but all illegal immigrants have on the economy.” I thought all supporters were supposed to call them “undocumented.” I guess she didn’t get the memo. Edit: the clip seemed to say that all the people staying home from work would have been serving all the other people staying home too. That’s even funnier.

“Si se puede” or “Si se pudo.” (Edit: “We can do it” or “we’ve done it.” ) Back to the crowd. Reporter commenting on the crowd. More technical stuff being said. Updates on the fly….

Update: they panned just a bit. Crowd may not be as big as I thought? hard to tell. “It’s funny that there’s this empty spot here. Is that good or bad?”

Reporter states several thousand people are there but traffic is light and businesses are closed so a lot more people must be staying home in support. “This woman’s shirt says, ‘Today we march, tomorrow we vote.'”

Update 2: “Hi, we’re from ACORN, and I never voted before, I’ve lived here 35 years and I just registered to vote in this election because of this issue.” The woman kept yelling something about the military, couldn’t catch it.

Update 3: Woman flying upside down American flag, when she’s not dragging it on the ground. New intro from reporter, “That 500 number has been exceeded, at least quadrupled, there are several thousand here now.”

Update 4: Hymie, from update 2, he was in the Air Force previously. They are registering people to vote at this rally. They’re chit-chatting over the question of how many of these new registrants will actually vote.

Update 5: what they’re doing is “local bits” for various affiliates. The cameras stay rolling and then the reporter (who is this guy, I don’t know the face) will say a couple of lines, and then it goes back to whatever studio.

Update 6: KTRK uses a wider shot and says “hundreds” are in attendence.

Update 7: “A walk and talk for 30 seconds for Belo.” It’s Reggie Aquila. A group near him decided to start chanting just as he went live. Doing it over without the wide shot. Really stressing “several thousand” present and all the extra people “sitting at home doing nothing for ‘a day without immigrants.'” KPRC also states hundreds, not thousands.

Update 8: Until you get to the article, then it says thousands.

Update 9: lost the video feed @ 12:30 while checking other sites. Looks like it was shut down from the field.