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There is a growing backlash over do-it-yourself rape kits, products that makers say are meant to give victims a way to collect evidence if they are unwilling or unable to go to a hospital. But mounting legal threats may keep them off the market.

Founder Madison Campbell says she developed the MeToo Kit after she was sexually assaulted during her junior year of college. She, like many other survivors, says she was afraid to report the attack.

"I did not even feel like touching myself, let alone letting someone else touch me," said Campbell.

Campbell says she remained silent until the #MeToo movement gave her the strength to speak out. Now 23 years old, she developed a kit for survivors, with swabs and other simple tools to collect DNA.

Vulnerable Democrats continued to announce their support for impeachment proceedings Tuesday ahead of an important caucus meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and amid a scandal over whether or not President Donald Trump reportedly pressured a foreign nation to investigate one of his political foes.

News that Trump temporarily withheld hundreds of millions in aid from Ukraine before pushing them to investigate the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, the leading Democratic candidate for the 2020 presidential election, has spurred freshmen Democrats—many representing swing states—to vocally support pushing forward with an impeachment inquiry. Some of the more longtime pro-inquiry members believe this new support could be crucial in convincing Pelosi to officially back impeachment proceedings.

All 13 Texas Democrats serving in the U.S. House now favor opening impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump or are open to the idea.

One by one Tuesday, the last six Texas holdouts — including two in vulnerable seats and one who backtracked after getting pushback from a primary opponent — joined a national wave of Democrats who support impeachment if Congress was not given a report on a whistleblower's complaint about Trump's contact with Ukraine's president.

U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, called for immediate action hours before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House will launch an official impeachment inquiry.

Many Houstonians haven't received mail since Wednesday as a result of Tropical Imelda Storm's impact on several post offices east of Houston and near Beaumont.

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Officials with the U.S. Postal Service still won't tell KPRC 2 if the roof collapse at the nation's largest processing and distribution center in north Houston had anything to do with delays in deliveries.

All they could tell us Tuesday is that customers should start receiving more mail volume.

When asked when, they didn't answer our question.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Residents from Conroe to Galveston are complaining that they haven't gotten their mail since a postal facility roof collapsed during Tropical Storm Imelda.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Postal Service says just about all of their mail delivery has returned to normal.

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ended months of caution on impeachment Tuesday, launching a formal inquiry aimed at removing President Donald Trump over allegations he withheld aid from Ukraine to pressure that country to launch a corruption investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden.

"The president must be held accountable," she said in a six-minute speech, flanked by six American flags outside her office at the Capitol. "No one is above the law."

All 13 Texas Democrats in Congress also now support impeachment, or are at least open to it, after six holdouts in the delegation joined the chorus in the hours before her announcement — some more enthusiastic about the cause than others.

This past week, the House Financial Services Committee considered and passed a few bills that would, if passed by the House, result in changes to the securities laws. These include:

There are two political roadblocks that have powered the slowly building push to impeach President Trump among House Democrats. One is starkly political — the recognition that the Senate under Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) would never vote to remove Trump from office. The other is … also starkly political, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) declining to embrace an impeachment effort, certainly in part out of concern that it would cost her party its hard-won majority in her chamber.

At this point, Democrats seeking an impeachment process seem to be holding both leaders equally culpable for that process not moving forward.