the major devastation ground zero, hurricane harvey, keep it here to fox news channel throughout the day for updates. >> abby: we'll see you right back here tomorrow morning. >> clayton: cost of freedom is live right now. the pause that is not necessarily refreshing welcome everybody i'm neil cavuto, fox under texas under siege as hurricane harvey un^ leashes all sorts of hell. here is what we know right now. harvey is a category 1 storm and it is still packing a lot of winds and heavy rains, several areas are under tornado and flood warnings better than a dozen texas counties in fact, dramatic pictures are showing buildings on fire, houses on fires, others that are collapsing so authorities are warning the worst may yet be to come with potentially devastating floods which tends to be a rule of thumb with hurricanes of this magnitude. so i'm asking to say that the damage early on they're pegging

at about $40 billion which would put in the top five of hurricane s in american history. m this is a major energy center by the way for the entire country. a quarter of our energy production comes from this neck of the woods. for the next two hours we've got you covered with the likes of texas governor greg abbott on the race to respond no matter the danger we've got texas land commissioner george p. bourbon the need for coastal barrier no matter the cost, former fema director michael brown urging president trump to be on this no matter what he has urged do not, mr. president, let this be your katrina and then general russel remember him during katrina he was banging heads to get everyone on the same page and quit the political arguments, he's here on this over some people heeding warnings tot evacuate and some who never did and never have and now they could be stuck and may be for weeks some say even months to come. first what's happening now on the ground in texas we start

with rick whose been covering this on where this massive storm goes right now. what are you seeing here, rick? >> it doesn't move very far which is the big problem with ut and that's why we think it's such a costly storm. in fact if we hit 40 billion it would be the third costly its hurricane behind katrina and superstorm sandy to give you an idea. i will tell you the national hurricane center nailed this for the forecast, both in the track this was what the track was as of thursday morning, made landfall around five to 10 miles from where we thought it would go across. that is impressive. also as far as the strength goes this year also we have new satellite imagery from a new satellite that launched that was the image right before landfall of the center of it and we also can get an idea of how the storm formed so quickly went from just a tropical depression about three days ago to a cat 4 storm and if you look at this it's getting going but having we had in its strengthening increasing its strength storm right there as it made landfall we haven't seen anything like this anywhere in the u.s. in a

very long time probably since hurricane hugo, haven't seen a category 4 storm in texas since 1961 and now that the storm is inland there's high pressure off towards the west of it that is going to get it stuck right here over the next number of days in fact maybe about the next six days or so. our tropical models we look at you get the idea they loop around all in the same spot that means the same spot seeing rain over and over and over again with this for the next number of days . that's kind of the center of it that is going to hang around maybe from victoria pop back a little bit towards the west maybe come back down towards port levaka, but the outer feeder bands these out bands will continue to be pulling up maybe around the galveston area occasionally through houston and some of these storms are going to have incredibly strong tropical downpours because of that we expect to see our rainfall totals get very extreme. want to point out one thing has gone a little bit farther towards the west which had been an option. that would have brought a lot more rain to parts of louisiana, maybe far western louisiana

still getting very heavy rain but not as bad around new orleans which is good news especially with the flooding they had a few weeks ago but take a look at these numbersft we've been seeing consistently these modelings putting outnumbers for four days of when we first started seeing numbersr none of us believed we would se something like that but when you have numbers coming four days in consistently, we start to believe them a lot more so take a look at this port levaka 58 inches of rain to commas a forecast. i'm not saying it will be 58 inches but we have model outputs showing that much moisture. some spots wherever the bandswe line up we will be seeing spots in the upper 40s and maybe 50s by the time we're done with this >> and that could be days right? >> probably wednesday or thursday of next week. so do you think if we by the way see the storm move in and right back across the same spot rockport kind of the biggest town about town of about 10,000 people that saw the eye go right over it and saw a lot of damage now will continue to have the rain there.

you can't get into fix power to repair roads or anything like that when you have these kinds of rainfall totals falling on top of you so if you are without power and you stay that's going to go on for a very very long time.er we're starting to get some of the first images out of there and it looks like there was a lot of damage across there. indeed, rick thank you very much my friend. to galveston texas, no stranger to hurricanes. some of the most wicked in this country's history in that neck of the woods which is exactly where we will find casey stegall casey? >> reporter: yeah, neil, rick was just talking about the power outages and the flood concerns. i can tell you right now as of this hour, 51,000 people in this area alone are in the dark. that is according to sensor point energy, the energy provider here, boy is it really coming down and in fact we've been having some communication difficulties because electricity and water don't go very well together and gadgets and we've got a lot of gear to bring you

these live pictures from the middle of a hurricane zone, but the rain is coming in sideways and it is difficult to see at times. in addition to the flooding concern, neil, there is also a concern about tornadoes. we have been under numerous tornado watches and warnings here in galveston alone but we want to show you some pictures now that are coming into us from an apparent twister touchdown in the houston area. the national weather service confirmed a tornado touching down in an area known as sienna plantation and about 50 homes we understand have been damaged and new video is coming in of that, first respond res are reporting a few minor injuries right now, nothing major nothing life threatening, again 50 homes are still damaged and if we can show you additional video this is just north of us in bolivar peninsula. where we are on galveston it's a

tiny slip of land out in the gulf of mexico so just north of us is bolivar peninsula. it's just a tiny little slip and apparently some houses have caught fire there. we suspect from lightning that has not come from first responders or emergency management officials but that is common because we have seen a whole lot of lightning also with these tropical bands as they move in, so that is a problem just north of us, so really, right now, all eyes are on the rain up in this area and certainly over in houston metro. you're talking about one of the largest cities in the country and millions and millions of people potentially impacted in addition to the millions that have already been impacted with the storm actually making landfall so a lot of stuff going on, neil. a lot of different threats that people here are facing. >> my friend casey stegall in

galveston texas. >> not all residents to casey's point are evacuating right? maybe at this point it's too little too late and telling me that puts more lives in danger. >> i was thinking of the ones who don't listen and in every storm you have that right? including like those surfing or near the water or taking selfies near the water. what do you say to those folks? >> well, i think it's important that everyone act responsible and it's important to evacuate the area not only for their safety but concerned about thein people that will respond after a devastating storm to assist them >> all right i always wonder when i see this phenomenon where people refuse to leave or they make those who are trying toor help them endanger their lives what russel would say you remember the retired general the raging cajun after katrina who was in charge of the relief efforts after early bochings on both sides the general joins us

now, sir very good to have you. >> good morning, neil. >> what do you make of those who decide to stick around, say and refuse to be fair what we're sort of voluntary requests to leave and of course at this point, it might be too late for some of them to leave but what do you make of that, what would you do? >> well first of all, god bless texas after katrina and the people of texas they took most of our evacuees of out katrina and new orleans and they did a marvelous job and my heart goes out to them this morning. i think the people who make spectacles of themselves are the exceptions. the ones i'm most concerned about are the elderly, the disabled, the poor and vulnerable population, neil, that on the 26th of the month didn't have money to put gas in their car to leave and those are the ones that were in particularly rural areas and small towns along the coast. this is a big area. texas is big and when something

like this hit it, it's going to have a potential challenge as we looked at day one, if we call this day one, harvey day one, the worst case scenario was the, landfall and now, it's category 1 but d2 harvey going to be worse today, neil, because you'll have more flooding and the art of the command andte leadership at the state level will be to go to those vulnerable areas that have not flooded yet but will be flooded tomorrow in southern houston in those low lying areas where you have vulnerable communities like nursing homes and hospitals that the models will show will be flooded tomorrow. it's how do they mobilize enough national guards and get troops in there to get those people moved. we've got what we've got to date we know more today than we did yesterday, but it's going to be how we go after those vulnerable populations that if we don't

move them today they're going to be under water tomorrow and not just surrounded by water, so our first responders the teamwork seems to be working smooth between the state and federal government are now the big challenges the weather and the flooding that is going to happen based on the prediction and the winds, neil, will prevent the helicopters from going up. we're going to lose one of our most vulnerable assets which is to do helicopter search and rescue and that may be going on until day three, neil. >> one of the things i've learned general maybe from our last conversation is many of the deaths tragically occur well after days after the hurricane itself flooding and that sort of thing. to that end, i mean you had to address the rivalries and bickerings between parties and jurisdiction issues and who hade control, mayor, governor, administration officials. we've learned a lot from the katrina experience so a lot of that you address but the president for example, is tweet

ing from camp david where he's closely monitoring all of this general saying that we are looking at a thorough federal response and leaving nothing to chance quoting the president and that city, state and federal governors are working great together, so everyone seems to be for the time being on the same page. w how do you police that about making sure they're in charge? >> well the problem is, neil, if they don't know it they don't know it this time because the power outages for 300,000 people and the isolated people that are surrounded by water now along >> a the gulf coast and then don't have the assessments, i think for the first 24 hours people will be okay even if they're standing in water. but by tomorrow, that situation is going to get a lot worse and we're going to have more people without electricity in southern houston and that is going toer make these problems more which i think then the federal government will be behind the

texas national guard to see what they need in terms of response capacity and i think the texas governor is going to have to mobilize more national guard.ey >> more than the 700 he already activated? >> oh, absolutely. he's got a division one of the best national guard divisions we've got. i see at least a need for 10 to 15,000 national guard to go in there and go into these isolated communities. >> general i go back to the fact that you've mentioned the energy and how important it is at the outset of your remarks and particularly off the texas coast the gulf coast there and i'm reminded you said a few weeks ago i hope i'm quoting you correctly where you said our democracy has been hijacked of referring to these interests that they ride and they go to the petroleum club and they strut with their suv's and they act like they are saving the world but they are doing is saving their family trust fund. are you saying that there's a disproportion at amount of interest on the economic side and not on the folks who really need the help?

>> i think at this point in time , neil, that argument is based on not the necessary energy they provide for us plus they have heat and to have power in the day-to-day operations in the communities is where their influence, right now they are building a lot of infrastructure in known flood zones.'d we will see what happens after this storm where the industry can reassess itself in building inside of wetlands and building inside a flood zones and the impact it has because we have to have that energy. c there's no doubt about it. but they have overinfluenced and local governments and then decisions that are made in terms of control of what's happening in those local governments. >> okay, general. that was the remarks thank you, sir. we have breaking news and heart breaks they call them. more from this neck of the woody

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security advisor sebastian gorka last week in his campaign-style rally in phoenix president trump hinted at plans to pardon share of arpaio. >> president trump: by the way i'm curious, do the people in this room like sheriff joe? th >> [applause] >> president trump: so was sheriff joe convicted for doing his job?d that >> yes. [applause] >> president trump: he should have had a jury but do you know what? i'll make a prediction. i think he's going to be just fine okay? >> reporter: arpaio was convicted of criminal contempt and facing jail time because he defied a judge's order from 2011 and that order told his officers they could not detain people suspected of being in the country illegally without evidence they violated a state law. the administration did not announce a pardon until yesterday evening.

president trump tweeted "i've just granted a full pardon to 85 year old american patriot sheriff joe arpaio. he kept arizona safe" around the same time reports started to surface saying sebastian gorka was out at the white house, initial reports said gorka resigned in part because he did not aprove of the president's plans in afghanistan but white house officials told fox news gorka did not actually resign; however they did confirm that the national security advisor no longer works at the white house. all of this as weather officials watched hurricane harvey escalate to a category 4 hurricane. in a series of tweets democratic senator chuck schumer accused the president of using the hurricane as a cover to pardon arpaio, implement the transgender ban and avoid scrutiny. neil?or >> neil: do we know in the case of gorka leaving, ellison that there are mixed reports as to whether chief of staff john kelly would let him talk to the president and tell him that and

apparently refused? >> reporter: right we've heard reports of that here but what gorka has said in that statement that initially came out, he says he resigned we've heard from sources at the white house that he did not resign he was asked. >> neil: thank you ellison very very much.it more on the storm right after this. true, but the list of owners does include a german art dealer, hans wendland, who did business with the nazis. >> the degas was taken from my grandfather's storage unit in paris and smuggled to switzerland because the strange thing was, the nazis didn't like impressionist paintings, so what they would do is they'd send those to switzerland, and they'd either get old masters in return or actually hard currency. >> in 1998, facing a costly legal battle, the brothers settle out of court for about $250,000. as part of the deal, daniel searle donates the degas to the art institute of chicago.

>> the art institute of chicago today lists it clearly as "donated by daniel searle," but from the collection of fritz and louise gutmann. my grandfather didn't just die for nothing. he didn't just disappear. >> it's a landmark case, the first dispute over nazi-looted art settled in the us. >> the case renewed hope to families who might not have recovered property after world war ii, that indeed they could recover property. >> and as you're about to see, the goodman brothers' first victory makes them all the more eager to complete their father's quest. >> we went, "oh, my god! there's, like, at least two dozen paintings, some serious pieces of art." i thought, "this belongs to us. we'll find it." >> what's your "strange inheritance" story? we'd love to tell it. send me an e-mail or go to our website, strangeinheritance.com. today, we're out here

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right now, mayor? >> well, we've got assessment teams going out now. we didn't, we weren't able to get them out before daylight because half the city is without power and we just didn't want to run the risk of somebody finding a downed power line and getting electricuted and if you run into what you think is a pothole and it's smooth on the top but you run into find out that the street is washed out, so we just wouldn't allow them to get out on streets until daylight. we've got a tremendous amount of damage personal property wise from what i've been told so far and they're going out to confirm that and we have a briefing at 10 our time here. the surrounding communities took a lot bigger hit than we did. rockport, some of those from reports i've been getting again the no confirmation but from people texting and tweeting and facebooking, they've sustained o

substantial damage. the good news at least at this point for me and our responsibility in terms of protecting life, i have not heard any reports either in any media reports or on facebook or text of any loss of life and no major injuries as a result of the hurricane to somebody, so if that report holds true, which i'm praying it does, then we [inaudible] >> neil: we might have lost him. can you still hear me? all right, we lost the mayor and i apologize for that but ofa this has been sort of a systemic problem, as you might imagine the mayor of course was saying this for asking for earlier this week a voluntary leave that residents or volunteer, it was

not an order but it was a strong suggestion. we had indications that about half the city population did in fact leave. you might recall this caused a bit of a dustup, not what he was doing but the difference that governor abbott for example, of texas that urged those in the state to leave these areas. it wasn't a direct order but it was a strong suggestion to get out of danger's way. you might recall that the democratic mayor of houston did not heed that saying that it was not necessary. the democratic mayor saying please think twice before leaving houston in mass. now his point was that they could only add to the confusion than and danger itself so it caused a bit of issues back and forth but no one is making big political hay out of this just a difference in opinion what'sed safe for people. when we come back we'll talk to texas land commissioner george p eabush, he's the son of former florida governor jeb bush. famous for dealing with these storms and now the sun is dealing with the same thing, he's next. i led her to this old

chaise longue. she said, "oh, look! i remember this!" and i said, "well, it's ours again." >> oh! >> "sit. relax for a minute." i helped her sit in her mother's chaise longue. >> we picked things out that we wanted, so simon has things in his house. i have things in my house, and lily and her family have stuff in italy. >> in 2003, the more than 160 remaining items from the collection go up for sale at christie's in london and amsterdam. this flemish tapestry hammers in at $85,000. a silver gilt double cup goes for 600,000, and this 17th-century silver gilt pitcher -- just over a million. the total, more than $4 million. is there more, simon? >> there's probably at least 12 important paintings

and about 300 or more antiques. >> and, clearly, you won't quit. >> no, i'm very grateful that i'm able to uncover my real roots. through this art, i get to know what my family was like, and i can touch something they touched. >> and remember this 16th-century table clock looted by the nazis from the gutmann estate in holland? after simon tracked it down to a german museum, the museum agreed to pay his family about a million dollars for it, and simon got something else that you can't put a price tag on -- an apology. "we regret what happened to your family," the museum director told simon. "we are grateful, however, for the opportunity to set at least this matter straight." i'm jamie colby. thanks so much for watching

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[ bird caws ] >> neil: all right half past the hour want to give you a little bit of an update on harvey and what the fall out is a category 1 storm remember it first hit the state late last night as a category 4 with winds in excess of 130 miles an hour it quickly slowed down but it is still dumping a lot of rain and is expected to be in the neighborhood for days dumping depending on the report up to 5t period. more than 211,000 are without power right now. that is just along the texas gulf coast those numbers might have increased. we're also learning that cruise lines that typically operate in the area or go to galveston, carnival directed those cruise ships away from galveston. royal caribbean as well. that effects better than 20,000 cruise travelers in and out of this normally friendly neck of the woods, not so today. to rockport, texas where we're getting indications of 10 injured, you might recall that

the acting mayor of rockport hat been telling those who refused to evacuate, do me a favor and write your social security number and name on your arm in case we collect your bodies, that was not well received but the message was what are you thinking? also, fema has indicated right now that this is looking like a very extensive storm, some are putting estimates of at least $40 billion on it.w meanwhile president trump is att camp david this weekend is being regularly briefed on all of this , from his acting in command-svi tweeted out a number of developments on this that we are leaving nothing to chance coming from the president, also saying that city, state and federal governors are working great together and so far, that seems to be quite clear that everyone seems to be on the same page and some of the political back and forth and whose in charge the kind of stuff that russel had raised with me earlier in this broadcast do not appear to be evidencing themselves yet. of course there's more problemsi to come with the flooding after

the storm and that's something that could be a big issue in houston, texas and that's where you'll find griff jenkins. what's going on there? >> reporter: [laughter] neilet you're just seeing first of what is expected to be days of harvey really hitting houston hard. the national hurricane center reinforced in their last update that houston is facing a major catastrophic flooding eventor because of the rains just because she was downgraded or he was downgraded harvey to category 1 doesn't mean it's any less rain over the course of the next several days. where i'm standing is in southwest houston, in a major affair sitting in the middle of west belford road and we're just off the southwest freeway. you can see there in the car behind me came running down this road, to charge these waters and got stuck, just about 20 minutes ago the driver of that vehicle was having an assistance, not

necessarily a rescue, neil but assistance from several police officers who had to sort of talk him out and he got really rattled and spoke briefly with the gentleman he worked overnight and said he thought he could make it, he needs to go this way. clearly he can't and that is the danger. you've heard that you don't want to get stuck in these floodwaters. the phrase turn around don't drowned. well if you look back to 2001 ae tropical storm allison that hit houston so hard, upwards of $10 billion of damage, 23 deaths in texas because of that, over half of them were because of flooding and they were mostly automobile-related. people got stuck in these floodwaters. there are more than a dozen high water areas playing all across houston right now in the southwest because the heaviest parts of the band of harvey were hitting the southwest dubbing upwards of four to five inches

several hours ago and we've been sort of going through theri various areas.s. this is certainly the worstbr we've seen but officers telling us there's other ones and certainly emergency crews, neil all over the city waiting to shut roads down. clearly, this road is shutdown. you see over here just one hpd officer but there was an entire crew there and they alsoc have a high water rescue vehicle ready because just about oh, say 200-yards behind my cameraman is keegans bayou and it it has crested several hours ago and that's where this water is coming from and it's not showing any signs of getting less as we expect a lot more rain over the next couple days neil. >> neil: griff be safe my friend thank you very very much. way before harvey was forming texas land commissioner george bush was calling for funding for a barrier system to at least mitigate the damage the texas land commissioner joins me george p. bush.

commissioner very good to have you. >> how is it going neil? >> neil: very well how is it going there for you? >> we're thankfully in higher ground in the capitol city but a lot of work is ahead as griff had mentioned we'll probably see about four more days of precipitation in an area that will affect 12 million of our 26 million that reside in the state of texas. 300,000 people are without power and right now, we're in the process of assessing last night 's damage, as you've seen with some of these images on the coast in rockport, even corpus christi, we've got a lot of work ahead of us and so we're on stand by to be of assistance. m >> neil: those without power has gone up substantially from the earlier numbers we had commissioner so 300,000 at this point. you know, your father comes to mind in how well he handled so many hurricanes in florida. i can remember them quite vivdly but it was always a matter of communication and i remember with governor jeb bush as i'm

sure with you now as texas commissioner, the idea is to keep reminding people that safety comes first, possessions after that but many stick behind as you know, commissioner and its caused a bit of a difference not a nasty one between texas governor abbott and the mayors of some cities the democratic mayor of houston comes to mind between urging an evacuation and the mayor saying that it could cause more problems than its worth. where do you stand on this whole thing? >> well, i think if my dad were here, he would say that after helping florida recover after eight storms in eight years and four storms in one hurricane season it's all about inter governmental relationships, partnerships with non-profits and the private sector, and i'm confident that we will come together as texans. the federal government has stepped forward with preposition ing assets in segine, texas to provide basic terms that just hopped off a state operations center call where

commodity trailers are loaded uu and ready to go. as i mentioned first responders now are assessing damage in dealing with the priority right now and that's rescuing folks that have their lives threatened and on the coast and thenred by they're thereafter as you mentioned with upwards of 30 inches in some areas, griff was just southwest of houston in fort bend county cities like rosenberg could see historic flooding, so we've got a long way to go but it's the final tail will be told that texans will come together at all levels of government representation to take care of our people. >> neil: commissioner i remember from your dad and others in dealing with such things that the real problems, the real danger comes after the immediate hurricane making landfall and i was startled to hear two out of three deaths are attributed to days after with follow-up

flooding, this will have a lot of follow-up flooding maybe biblical flooding in excess of 50 inches depending on who you talk to. how do you deal with that and do you advise residents in those areas if they haven't left too late? >> well, you hit on the head over 90% of fatalities that occur after a hurricane are actually water-related not wind- related so we are going to see historic, we're already see ing some cars being flooded and swept off of streets, griff had mentioned for automobile drivers throughout the state to turn around don't drowned. that's a saying that we have in texas. we actually had three floods in the last two years our agency is still managing grants to help communities recover from that and now we'll be assisting in connection with this event but people need to heed these warnings and take them very seriously. there's professionals committed throughout the state to make sure that we have appropriate advisories that are out there, so folks need to pay attention to national weather service,

tune into weather channel, your channel, and keep abreast of this historic flooding that's about to take place. >> neil: commissioner you've got a crazy and busy schedule we appreciate you taking the time sir, thank you. >> thank you, neil. >> neil: commissioner george p. bush. he was just saying he announced better than 300,000 without power and a lot of you looking at this would say this is very unfortunate for texas but how does it concern me? what if i told you that whether you're near this region or not the fact of the matter is you're going to be paying for it and soon. i'm going to explain after this.

(group conversation) ♪wooooo oo waa ahhh ♪it's a beautiful mornin' thank you ♪ahhh, ah ahhh ♪each bird >> so, which "star wars" character did jim henson help create? it's "b," yoda, who debuted in the 1980 film "the empire strikes back." [ operatic singing ] >> former movie set designer bill fosser is spending his retirement just as he wants -- staging scenes from classic

operas with 16-inch puppets for captivated audiences in the chicago suburbs. >> boy, he knew opera backwards and forwards. he knew when the tenor was going to take a breath... when the soprano would hit her high c's. you were just swept away. >> but bill's in his 70s -- the old ticker's not what it used to be, and he has no family to take over his labor of love. so, in the summer of 2000, he advertises for an apprentice. >> i was a senior in high school, and i was looking for a job that i wouldn't hate. >> justin's brother, shayne, is intrigued, too. they both interview with fosser. >> when i told him that i wanted to be a puppeteer, he kind of chuckled and he said, "well, if you're gonna work here, you're gonna have to be an all-purpose evil henchman." >> oh, my.

>> so, right off the bat, it was like a crash-course. >> bill teaches them all he knows -- how to design and mold puppets out of polyester resin, how to operate the sound, special effects, and everything else it takes to run one of the most technically sophisticated puppet shows in the world. you think i could learn how to be a puppeteer? >> we'll have you manipulating the puppets like a pro. >> here under the stage, the chairs have been shaved down until the seats rest inches from the floor. all right, guys, what am i doing here? >> all right, so here's your shot at the big time. shayne's gonna demonstrate here on his puppet. so, basically your left hand is >> neil: you know every time understand this and say well yoa know it just doesn't affect me. we were watching this we feel for the people in texas andw. surrounding area but it's no big deal for us so why don't you move on?ll so we would move on without pointing this to you though that this is a big neck of the woods for energy.

it accounts for a quarter of our oil production, almost the same of our natural gas production, 45% of our overall petroleum producing capacity i could go on and say that when conoco phillip s and exxon-mobile and anadarko petroleum are evacuating facilities and maybe keeping them evacuated for upwards of a week, that's production. that's stuff that doesn't come out of there to get to you which could lift the price of i don't know gasoline and who knows that better than bill flynn an oil analyst fox business and fox news, bill spell it out for me because a lot of people who say okay, well how could that havef. such a dramatic impact. explain. >> reporter: what happens is weh because when you have a storm like that going through the heart of the refinery it's like the rest of the country catches from this is just beginning to be felt. neil i'm very concerned about this storm that we're going to

be paying a lot more at the pump because of where this storm hit. we hit three key refineries right in rockport, texas with a category formed storm and we have never hit it directly with that kind of force and those three refineries. those three refineries could be down for months and on top of that with those storms still continuing to generate along the gulf coast, it could impact operations across the way. refineries could be down, power outages 300,000 people without power trying to bring the power back on but it's not just gasoline. it's food. you know, three major ports are being shutdown. that means higher prices at the grocery store and it's going to take some time for us to recover from this so we're going to feel a big slap across the country. >> neil: you know a lot of people look at it though as sort of like pulling out a rubber band that there is that point a which you don't get any production but then things

snapback when everything is back online. i guess your point is and i didn't even think of the direct hit these refineries would take besides just being shuttered for a few days, some of them could be down for months, but that that will have an economic impact. >> it absolutely could and the0. other thing is the storm will not go away. there's going to be flooding and rains that could go on for weeks so we might not be able to get the workers back. a lot of their workers homes could be gone. this is going to have a psychological impact and a big impact on the economy. i think initially could hurt the gross domestic product of the country at least initially, actually slowdown growth. now we do get that back on the back end when we start to rebuild but the next couple of weeks are going to be really rough. >> neil: buddy thank you very very much. bill flynn spelling it all out want to remind you by the way to put this in some perspective on how wall street plays these games and i know it might seem heartless, but stocks in wal-mart, kroger, costco, albert s and safeway, those

issues are moving up on the idea they have their own self distribution centers and they can get aid to the people that need it that losers would target and amazon if you can believe it , the dollar stone and other chain drug stores that don't have that ability because they rely on outside suppliers. this is how wall street thinks in the middle of panic. little more after this. ♪

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>> so... >> neil: do you ever wonder how they came up with $40 billion in damages right off the baton this hurricane? still early by the way. well tracy has been crunching a lot of numbers, tracy? >> reporter: neil we're seeing images of damage from harvey already coming in but really far from knowing the full extent of how catastrophic it will be and

the estimated price tag is at least $40 billion in reconstruction costs with more than 200,000 homes at risk of storm surge damage in texas and the figure doesn't account for storm surges as far north as morgan city, louisiana and that's some 400 miles away from harvey's landfall, however according to fema hurricane katrina is still the most costly hurricane in u.s. history destroying some 300,000 homeshe and causing $108 billion in damage. now that's roughly four times the amount of damage caused by hurricane andrew in 1992 and coincidentally thursday marked the 25 year anniversary since andrew slammed into south florida. it was the last category 5 storm to hit the u.s. and its impact is still felt today by those who survived it and andrew caused nearly $25 billion in damagef destroying more than 25,000 homes and damaging 100,000 others, but texas also has its own history of deadly storms that caused billions of dollars in damage. harvey is the first significant hurricane to hit texas since ike

in september 2008. ike was one of the most destructive hurricanes to ever hit texas and one of the deadliest. it brought winds of 110 miles per hour to galveston and houston areas and caused $22 billion in damage and killed 84 people. harvey is also the first big storm along the middle texas coast since hurricane claudette in 2003 when it caused>> $180 million in damage and now harvey is hitting the same area as hurricane carla. in 1961, carla came ashore with wind gusts estimated at 175 miles per hour and causedul more than $300 million in damage so time will tell where harvey's impact will be remembered in history. but today people in texas are hoping it stays far from this list. neil? >> neil: tracy thank you very very much. now the president has already indicated as he said at the top of the hour he wants to visit texas next week. he's going to be a busy bee next week because he's also leading the effort to get tax cuts done next year so a lot riding on the president's busy schedule in the

president's busy schedule in the next few weeks. chuck roach is here rachel duffy , and rachel on the tax cut thing he's leading a charge saying a lot of republicans are dropping the ball. where is this going? >> reporter: well i think he's tweeting to set the stage that listen if this fails if you guys do what you did if you in congress do what you did with healthcare i'm not going to take the blame but make no mistake republicans understand that tax reform is a key item in growing this economy and growing jobs and it's the quickest way to shutdown the left wing critics of this administration and of the republican party, so i think they both want to get this and then there's a lot of pressure from democrats who are from conservative states and also from conservative districts to get on board with this. >> neil: those left wing critics no doubt include you, chuck right? >> reporter: absolutely. good texas left wing critic but i would be remiss if i didn't think about my family and friends in texas. i was just in rockport this weekend with my friends stan and

glenn and thinking about my captain and octavius sidekick. we're all small business owners and we used to talk about girls and football but we found ourselves talking about donald trump, talking about taxes and i think gary has taught me a lot about this issue which is individual businesses like minor tax at an individual rate, the problem is we're paying too much while a lot of people ain't paying enough and i think that's the key with this. if you really want to get something done there is common ground in the u.s. house between republicans and democrats who like to see relief for all americans. >> neil: but what we see this year, gary i've got mixed signals when mitch mcconnell says we'll get it done in congress he seems to be hinting not necessarily this year. what do you think? >> reporter: i don't think it's going to get done. i agree with everything that rachel and chuck said. there's common ground there. this should be a slam dunk for the republicans, but if you couldn't solve healthcare and now that looks dead, i don't see how you're going to solve a puzzle like tax reform.

maybe you could if donald trump was a different kind of politician with the emphasis on politician, but he doesn't seem to want to mend fences and realize that congress makes the laws. instead, it's all about ego. maybe on both sides and for that reason, and the puzzle part of text reform period even if it was my gosh, lbj or kennedy as president i don't see you're going to see it getting done. >> neil: well those guyser certainly have their own party members to get something done. this president is a little different publicly doing so but he's already, rachel gone after jeff flake, john mccain, mitchag mcconnell before, paul ryan on his disappointment on all of this stuff that hasn't gotten done, what happens then if they just breakout into an intraparty boot fight? >> reporter: well that would be really bad for the party and it would be really bad for the economy and the country. i'll say this on those senators are getting a lot of heat because of those tweets and that

may help but i'll tell you there's a wildcard in here and that is senator menendez's corruption trial. right now a judge says he cannot move the date of his trial. he's requested to do that. if he is convicted or if he doesn't show up to make these crucial votes, the senate-- >> neil: they have one more senator.vo >> reporter: and they could pass even healthcare based on this and the media is not covering menendez but it's a big deal. >> neil: what's for democrats if this doesn't come to pass do you think? >> reporter: i think you'll see a lot of this play out in 18 neil as you know people on both sides will use it as a way to motivate voters to the polls. there's things going on in the country that people don't know about that the administration is working with congress like trying to raise taxes on fishermen and people who use the everglades park and the budget is so depleted they're trying to raise money to go into the park for things i pay with for my tax dollars to raise the amount of money just to pay for our park services and things going on which is really crazy.

>> neil: well guys i want to thank you all very very much ano in the meantime we are hearing from texas governor greg abbott. fema director michael brown who has a warning for this president don't let this become your katrina. we'll explain after this. keep doing it. >> we welcome you, our guests of all ages, to this performance of william b. fosser's puppet production of "opera in focus." >> showtime! [ applause ] >> as the lights dim and their newest production, puccini's "turandot," begins, it strikes me that i'm not listening just to opera. it's the call of a siren that proved irresistible to our two young heirs, as it was to bill fosser before them. [ operatic singing ] let me ask you this, steve. do you think that bill left these fine, young men, who were as devoted to him as he was to

them, an inheritance that's a burden or a benefit? >> burdens yield benefits. >> puppeteer steve golden, you'll recall, was seduced by these same sirens. he believes, somewhere, bill fosser is shouting "encore!" >> i think bill would be as pleased as punch that this is happening. >> and no doubt grateful to the two young men he named as his heirs all those years ago. but i wonder about that request bill made, that they should destroy all these beautiful puppets if the opera ever closed. is that a request they could ever honor? the brothers vow, succeed or fail, it will never happen. >> i feel like it's a priceless art form. we could never actually destroy anything here. i think bill knew that these puppets to us, again, just like to him, they're like family. [ singing continues ]

[ applause ] >> bill fosser might not be with them, but justin and shayne want to make sure the art of puppet opera lives on. so, every year, in honor of the man they grew to love like a father, they perform bill's favorite aria, "cielo e mar," or, "sky and sea" from la gioconda. [ operatic singing ] the fact that bill's puppet opera is still up and running, more than 60 years after he started it, that would be music to his ears. i'm jamie colby. thanks so much for watching

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