Houston Mayor John Whitmire referred to former mayor Sylvester Turner as the "best he had to follow" as he welcomed those outside of City Hall Tuesday morning to pay their respects to the late congressman.

At Sylvester Turner’s final Houston City Council meeting as mayor, he took time to talk about his legacy. No other mayor had dealt with what he faced, from the vast number of federally declared national disasters to rising pension costs to social unrest,