[national anthem] ♪ >> hurricane harping on a tropical storm. destruction through texas. >> a test situation as they are getting just punished by remnants of harvey. >> police say there is in fact a second fatality from harvey. >> how dangerous it is. you cannot underscore the importance. people stay at home and allow us to do what we do best. >> an important time for the trump administration. a major natural disaster. >> preparation at the white house administration for hurricane. >> former sheriff arpaio is

pardoned for a criminal contempt conviction. >> of europe said about arpaio, the definition of select as our rage. this is why people don't trust the media so much. abby: 6:00 a.m. in the east in the east coast come of a.m. in texas. a flash flood emergency in america's fourth-largest city. tropical storm harvey looms over houston, texas this morning. pete: rescue crews rescuing dozens of people trapped by rising waters in their homes, cars, killing at least two people we know of so far in the situation on the ground getting worse. the experts say it would be catastrophic is exactly that this morning. the images that came in throughout the afternoon and folks trapped in their cars is where most of this devastation was happening in the two deaths i know of also related to being trapped in high water. >> we knew this was the case

yesterday. the storm is now lower to a tropical storm versus a hurricane. tonight there was a category four hurricane. the storm is far from over. think about the next few days committee amounts of rain dumped on houston. she's one of the places in texas. 30 people? >> you see a situation where a lot of the wind damage and a lot of the quote, unquote hurricane damage. the cheesy the flooding in houston texas and that is where we find chris jenkins life. good morning. reporter, good morning, guys. davis county flood control announces flood control is greatly exceeded the 500 year mark. it is indeed the catastrophic life-threatening flooding that they're worried about. look where we are. this is into downtown houston. taylor wrote in a 10 is not a river you are looking at. that is interstate 10 and that

is three or more feet of water that it is submerged under. the situation here this morning is deteriorating. we were en route, guys, to what was a reported over social media mother and child in a dire situation, possibly a loss of life that other tragic loss of life we learned about that occurred overnight. a woman who braved the water in her car, got trapped, got out and drowned. we talked about it yesterday. as we were trying to work her way into town, we could not get their obviously shut down. i cannot overstate the plea from the emergency services here for people not to get out in today's because emergency services are overwhelmed. we are hearing -- in fact, on twitter we were reading the harris county sheriff's twitter

tweeting help, help, help here this is a case for their pleading for for the sheriff to get there. a sheriff tweeting back from a sad situation. i cannot get them. we are hearing about the houston police department and vehicles being stranded in this as well and it is just beginning. we are only in today's two. we are hearing the airport also shut down, water flooding the runways. this situation right now has become the most dangerous since tropical storm allison. we talked about that in 2001. 23 death and taxes come in 10 billion by the end of it and this is just getting underway. clear creek has peaked 12 feet. that exceeds the benchmark for tropical storm allison. tropical storm harvey is now the benchmark for the worst destruction in terms of flooding

and is just getting started in the second day, guys. abby: chris griff jenkins, thank you so much. drink do we want to get over it -- we were talking about three to four inches of rainfall reported in one hours time in this area trying to deal with all of that rain water. where to go and how many days till many days till the storm lingered in the area. rick knows the answer to that. good morning. >> i don't know to be honest with you if i know the answer to that. but mostly one way or the other is harder to tell. the latest model indications we are looking at don't look favorable for the houston area, unfortunately for the additional rain and wind. turning to concern is almost exactly like what we see yesterday morning with the events coming in and bringing with it tornadoes. we have been seeing those for 20 hours, probably 36 hours now. we will see those in effect, one to the south of galveston.

take a look at this map here. shows you exactly how much rain we have received so far. tweeter indications in excess of 18 inches of rain with reports of 22 inches around the houston area and that is just in the first day. the son of the storm hasn't really moved much from yesterday. it kind of looks like the same thing except less moisture around the website. now the musher pulling up in the golf kind of false before making his way to the website. the south area towards corpus christi looking at more rain but not as much as we are towards the east. the line of storms, one being goes through. another lined up with training because you just give rain over the sunspot for possibly a few hours and in those few hours you can see now four to six inches of rain falling in that amount of time in a number of these lenses i'd go through houston. another way past the city headed towards the houston area.

a little bit of a reprieve. much more rain coming in. look at this hurricane model we've been looking at. center of the storm tomorrow evening is close where it came unsure. a lot of models now indicate that it spends a little bit of time over water again. once the center is over water, it evoking a lot worse trades and potentially strengthening to a tropical storm con i will say nothing past that at this time, but he strengthening stream and then moving up or directly towards the houston area with a lot more my shirt he can pull out from the center that. because of this i will tell you a couple things. yesterday in louisiana less of a concern. if this story was to the east, take a look at the houston area. some of these numbers coming in from additional rainfall talking about maybe over to feed additional rain. >> the idea could go back to the polls, strength in, turn into a

storm again. >> worst-case scenario. >> it would be the worst-case scenario for the folks across the houston area as well. trade three to feed every dumped on houston. this is not a city built to handle this amount of rain. abby: absolutely. talking about the way the soil handles rain. abby: the ground in houston doesn't absorb any water so it just sits there. >> it can handle one inch, not a foot. about one inch of rain. think about that in the massiveness they are getting hit right now. dream for the police chief warning as they work to rescue people from rapidly rising water. >> what we are facing a peer, folks. stay in your homes. do not come out during your own. >> also tweeting this advice. reports of people getting into

powdered escape flood of water. do not do so if he must have they asked on your roof. that is how we is how we've lost so many people in galveston. people were caught unaware, went to the top part of their roofing were trapped inside. >> horrific conditions. we prejudice all morning long yesterday. all throughout the day. texas governor greg abbott was named 50 counties under a disaster declaration judah harveys catastrophic flooding. abby: many people returning to neighborhoods that look like war zones like rob port, corpus christi perhaps had the hardest yesterday. rob schmidt has said that the past 24 or more hours covering this. >> we are here in corpus christi, guys. at least the downtown area did dodge a bit of the boat by being 25 miles from where the storm came in. we are right by downtown corpus and behind as you can see a

restaurant sits on the water come a restaurant called landry's and you can see over my shoulder the proof they came off year at this patio grill, which looks over the water. a really nice place insurer under different circumstances. corpus christi in general didn't suffer nearly the blow that sounds like rob port did, other places like that they really were decimated by this storm. we are heading back into rock poured it in our. we've got to wait until the sun comes up so it's safer to move into the area because there's so many obstacles to get through before you get into that town area of rock part which is a small town of 10,000 people. it was decimated its return to some video and show you the rockport look like as of yesterday. removed early yesterday morning when it is was completely empty and didn't appear emergency services had been in there yet. total distraction from the rose covered in water, trees, power

lines everywhere, houses decimated from the building was decimated. a serious storm coming a lot of a lot of damage. remove there an hour, but that direction and show you how they are doing in brockport where i believe one person has been confirmed dead in that small town. abby: thank you. keep us posted. this is when you wake up the next morning and is just devastating. i had viewers e-mailing saying they had to leave their homes in texas because they weren't sure what would happen. they are now going back to see how his life. you have no idea. it could be standing the way it was when he left the door could be completely decimated. >> no pictures to tell you about it. that is trying to get up there with the highly esteemed wind. this very much going on. the president keeping tabs on all of this from camp david in treating out about this, making sure he's staying in touch with the governor texas. here are some from the situation

room at camp david where you can see the president doing some work and staying in touch. abby: he is planning to visit the vet done so soon as next week when i get a better sense of things. >> dan bongino will be on to discuss from a technical perspective how that works. when the president goes to any location from the secret service gets in their weeks before it completely get the ready. can't do that in an area hit by hurricane. dan bongino will offer some secret service on that coming up. abby: the president under fire on the left for abandoning -- pardoning rather sheriff arpaio. we will talk about that. clayton: how was the president handling his first natural disaster test? general jack keane is on deck when we come back next.

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abby: a fox news alert. a flash flood emergency in america's fourth largest city is tropical storm harvey hovers over houston this morning. rescue crews working all through the night and we just learned thousands of people out of those rising waters. draper president trump monitoring the devastation yesterday at camp david to discuss the response to the storm later in the day. he treated wonderful coordination between federal, state and local governments in the great state of texas. teamwork, recce fetter rainfall. >> how is the president handling his first natural disaster? for sturgeon are checking, former vice chief of staff of the u.s. army and military analyst. good to have you with us. >> good to be here, abby. abby: unfortunately, under the circumstances and you know them

all to well under hurricane andrew, you know how portland is to get it right, whatever is being hit exactly what they need to respond great when you need to. how is the president done so far? >> typically these hurricanes, sometimes we think will have a weeks notice. in the case of andrew, katrina and this one harvey, it wasn't all that much notice because the storms had changed so dramatically for something that wasn't threatening do something overwhelmingly threatening almost within a day or two. the response here has been excellent. the president is doing what he should be doing. government agencies support state and local governments and is doing that and is very much involved in that process. they know this is top priority from the commander-in-chief, that he's personally engaged in that. from everything i've seen so far, he's got a top-quality people involved with the process that hadn't had all that much

exposure due to other issues the president has been dealing with, particularly the security advisor by soon. the press release he gave was a tour de force and what needed to be done. >> with that said, what needs to be done in the coming days. the next 24, 48, 72 hours once we get sort of a better sense of the true damage there in texas? >> all of these storms have interesting unique here are the stakes. andrew is a category five, plus 64, the shock of the eye of the storm itself at the end were deployed thousands of troops to deal with the recovery and katrina, the overwhelming number of the 1800 deaths we had was after the storm hit and it became an absolute human catastrophe trying to get people trapped in their homes and suffered heat exhaustion. here we have a similar

situation. the brunt of the storm because people listen to state and local leaders along the coastline. i suspect a lot of them evacuated so we haven't had those from the shock of the storm itself. the flash flooding is certainly going to be an issue and it's different because you are safer in their homes anywhere in the street in the people have to adjust to that. local leaders are allover this. you listen to the leaders that the leaders whether its mayor, police chief county executive, attorney general, they know exactly what is going on and they got their arms around the city since trying to protect them from themselves. abby: is heartbreaking. you see these images on the screen. some of them from interstate 10, now looking like a complete river. people waking up, going back to their homes and not looking at all the way it did when i left it. last to be changed forever because of the storm. how important is it for the president to get on the ground.

he will likely get there and the victims as early as next week. how important is that? >> i think it is very important. he's the leader of the nation, takes place in this country to be sure in terms of this leadership. but i think it's pretty sensitive to that. everything i've seen. you don't want to begin a mariners major,, major recovery operations going on in the have to stop what they are doing, police and others and focus on securing the president of the united states. that would be disruptive. he is very close to the local leaders. they will tell him the best time to come comment his guys like issa mismatch. >> general keane committing general keane commit thank you for your insight on this. have a good day. after another advisor access the white house, democrats celebrating and this morning left putting pressure on a new age. that is coming out. abby: to meet up in arms after the president pardoned sheriff arpaio.

how did they react to past presidents who did the same thing. we've got a history lesson for you up next. these days families want to be connected 24/7.

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multiple carnival cruise ships are staying at ports in mexico in new orleans until conditions improve at ports in texas. clayton: president trump issued his first pardon to sheriff arpaio. the news sparked outrage on all sides. >> the president decided to use the cover of friday evening as well as a hurricane to pardon his racist friends. >> itself latinos that donald trump doesn't have her back her what you think or feel. >> there's a larger larger game here he's playing. he wants to send a signal to the targets of the more investigation than if you hold tight and don't grow on me, i will pardon you. >> residential pardons aren't unprecedented at this point in the his presidency. why the outcry here? the author "game of thrones" jo greig joins us now with this reaction. first term, first few months, is this unprecedented? >> now, it's not unprecedented.

clayton, good to see you. barack obama had 1972 pardons and commutations of sentencing. bill clinton pardoned his own brother on charges. he pardon tony rabin, hillary hillary rodham clinton's brother who got $4000 for getting a pardon for his friend. he pardon the assailant who left it police men all across america and let the fbi headquarters in manhattan. he pardon marc rich was on the fbi's top 10 most wanted list after his wife gave $1.4 million to the clinton various entities in the details of that for the first time, all of the details and jim of thorns. we knew about the 400,000 she gave the presidential library. so it is outrageous. the difference between the parties, all of the presidential pardons were for people who broke the law. donald trump give a pardon to a

man who enforce the law. >> according to the speaker of the house, paul ryan believes he broke the law. the speaker does not agree with the decision. they have a special responsibility to respect the rights of everyone in the united states. we should not allow anyone to believe responsibilities diminished by this pardon. he was violated and broke the law, demanding to stop racial profiling of latinos and patrols going on and he didn't stop them. what message does this send to the latino community that the president does have their back or does. >> i believe personally they are not mutually exclusive. you can love people and you could want the law. my wife is french. my kids married a filipino. another would marry someone from mexico. i have a daughter engaged to a man from honduras, the other one from the bolivia. i attend african young people in my home last summer helping them get their visas and education

and had more african young people in my home this summer, helping them. you can love people can say the refugees in 1979, was a founding member of mercy corps, which has given $2 billion of food and medicine around the world. president reagan has lauded the work i've done for refugees. what i like about arpaio as he stood up for the vet is a crime, many of whom were also in the grand two needed protection, enforcing the law and loving people are not mutually exclusive. >> john mccain also came out condemning this. whether mature, will release a statement. other democrats have come out on this. about the future tape. phoenix mayor greg stanton. pardoning arpaio is a slap in the face to the people of maricopa county, especially latino communities in the civic demise as he systematically and illegally violated their civil rights. harsh words.

>> yeah, this is politics. i am hearing them on tv saying the justice department should review -- carefully review these cases as that they carefully reviewed bill clinton's brother on charges. the president -- i will stack up those hundreds and thousands of pardons and i've interviewed gerald ford about his pardon of richard nixon and george w. bush. we talked about the iran-contra caspar weinberger. i stack goes up against the pardon of arpaio anytime. >> incurious from an historical day. this came on a friday night when it barely 90 houston. when you have these other pardons, bill clinton's brother, pardoning of richard nixon, did they occur in similar circumstances, these different news nights? where did these all historically? >> very often it the case because pardons can be controversial. gerald ford couldn't hide the

pardon of richard nixon anymore than donald trump could hide the pardoning of arpaio. it may have been donald trump was wanting to soften the blow to people who might have misinterpreted his pardoning of our pio, but are you really going to send joe, 85 years old, who went after the drug cartels in mexico, are you really going to put him in prison at 85 after 50 years of law enforcement with the dea been reelected to sheriff in maricopa county? i don't think so. that was the right decision. >> will talk to them this morning. doug, great having you on the show. on her show live this morning eastern time. thank you, appreciate it. have a good morning. fox news alert back to the situation. flash flood emergency underway right now. a thousand people rest it overnight. we are live on the ground with an update on that next.

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pete: we're back with the fox news live. desperate work in houston unfolding more than 1000 people so far have been rescued. >> the deadly water so high, officers forced to sit on their cars. you see that right there. another video in our newsroom, look at this.

you can barely see the top of the submerged vehicle. at least two people dead and 50 counties are declared a disaster. clayton: out to kris jenkins is in the heart of it all with the updates. using a car right now, one of the various things authorities want to be very cautious about doing. has that look on the road race? reporter: you know, clayton, these roads are treacherous and a message from the officials or stay put. don't get on these roads because he simply cannot go anywhere. we are on highway 288. i can shut down. we showed you that shot. we are trying to get to the southeastern part of houston, which is absolutely being besieged by flooding. hundreds of rescue is going on. sheriff gonzalez tweening just minutes ago, seeing many rescues for those pasadena bowl freeway. difficult to get to everyone right away. hang tight.

there is a sense of desperation this morning. as you see we have trouble navigating. we tried to get off into the residential areas to avoid the highway closures. he pointed out yesterday the low-lying underpasses is what shut things down and we nearly got this vehicle stuck at least three times. the water coming out over are running boards and we are in a full-time large suv. right now we are just going by our gps entity showing, tried to bring that up, it shows red everywhere. we are cutting out now. if you show us, it looks like another road closure. we were talking to some of the officers stopped on the road like this. one telling me we are really not going to be able to go anywhere. we find ourselves in the same situation residents are finding themselves trying to get off.

having to get off on this exit. we are reading the same tear on the freeway close, but high water on lane's close. the city is becoming paralyzed in a flash flood warning, my phone just blew up moments ago before we got on the air command telling us this is going to last at least until 5:00 p.m. with forecasters saying we are in for several days of this. this highway 288 looks literally like a river down here as we continue to work our way to the southeastern part of houston. for any of our viewers in the southeastern art of houston, you simply have to stay inside and our emergency services we are listening to on twitter and talking to the police we just talked to are saying they're guys that were overwhelmed. they are absolutely trying to respond to everyone and they simply can't do it. we are not sure where we are now

other than just navigating ourselves to the southeastern part, guys. >> it's amazing. i've seen a lot of lights on that, too. what about self communication? are people able to get contact with emergency services? reporter: that is a great question. so far, the communication has been good in listening really to just a radio -- and radio guys around the clock. the sheer power outages have not been severe, but will that change as this continues? one would think we probably will. you can see we are just taking water and as he water and missy hit the thing you see the water popping out around us come you just don't know because it's dark out here. the chance we get stuck in three feet of water is how it happened very, very quickly out here. to answer your question, the power seems to be in

communication so far has been strong. certainly, that situation will only become worse if that changes because as we've shown you now, this morning social media, twitter seems to be the lifeline that so many people are reaching out. i can tell you how many messages have been sent to the sheriff who was overwhelmed with twitter. getting into a situation now. let's make sure we don't get stuck. abby: but dummies -- hey, great. reporter: hold on one second. let me open our door to show our viewers. abby: i was going to ask you how deep is that water? >> this water right here, just going to show the situation we are in right here. i am literally swimming right here in what this is. it is probably a few inches from

our vehicle. i'll tell you what, we are going to back out of the situation right now before vehicle becomes stranded. this is what is happening to emergency vehicles as well as the city. these are rescue vehicles designed specifically for this purpose. we are hearing about them getting stuck all over the southeastern part, pasadena and the gold freeway area of houston. this is becoming a bad situation. trade for please stay safe. we will have your shot as he gave right over until 5:00 p.m. this afternoon and even longer. >> well, yeah, much longer. he's just saying they put a flood emergency in until 5:00 p.m. griff needs to just stop whatever they are doing and get to higher ground. you don't need to go to the southeast part of texas to get to where it's going to be worse. it is coming to you.

get to a safe spot. you will have plenty to cover. that is also the message coming from anybody in the houston emergency management. the only reason to get in the car's secure fleeing a life-threatening situation. stay where you are and think about putting yourself in harm's way. other people they can't get to a 92. dire situation. or the high water rescue trucks from santana toenail on the raid to houston to assist and earnings to be from a lot of the other cities back towards austin getting some flooding, but now but we see in houston. a lot of other small towns in bad situations as well. houston is of course the largest city we have in the country. a lot of people in path to this. i will tell you a couple things. a lot by randy khan. most of the rain they see as to the eastern side is where the center of the storm once. if you look at the radar picture, things are getting really ominous looking over the

next few hours for houston. all of this red indicates much heavier rainfall. one batch just to the east of houston, one of the central part of houston may be west of downtown. another line of this to the southwest is all going to continue across this area. no big changes to what we are talking about. the only thing model wife would look at, called the spaghetti models, most of them now dragging towards the south in houston over the next number of days they be the center of the storm going over that. the point is the potential is there for this to be much worse. he got to stop what you're doing. plenty to show us. abby: unbelievable. thank you so much. in the report says president trump is ready to take the next step in his illegal immigration crackdown. by the dreamers could now be in deputy. >> drugs like these using to survey the damage from harvey.

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>> welcome back. 45 minutes after the hour. hundreds of counter protesters facing off against police despite a previously planned rally by the right wing already been canceled there. chant back to court patriot prayer for us to call off the rally over fears of violence have white nationalist or showing up. one person arrested outside the park. more protests in berkeley are expected today. democrats claiming victory by calling two former and one current white house aide white nationalist. democratic congressional campaign committee posting this picture is steeped in income as

sebastian gorka and steve miller seemed to white nationalist down, one to go. we can do this, end quote. they've long been labeled racist by many mainstream media and left jobs in the white house in recent days. >> clayton, thank you. during the decision to the controversial upon that area daca program which protects illegals brought here as children. content activism that numbers u.s.a., krishan linsky and also a democratic strategist and fox news contributor richard fowler. i'll begin with you. of course you are not a fan about the president is about to do. why? >> no, not a fan. 70% of americans aren't a fan. the dreamers, let me be very clear. dreamers, individuals who came to this country before the age of two or three and are now 15 or 16 before they applied for the program came into the country through no fault around, but our schools, plan our kids soccer teams, and basketball

teams and they want a chance to achieve the american dream. these are folks who just crossed the border yesterday or the day before that. they speak english and shouldn't be allowed to be here. the fact trump is making a decision to deport these individuals and make them vulnerable is not only problematic, but downright un-american. that is the moral behind it. but politics is even worse. what a president should do in their first term is expand their base. here's the voter i do have. let me make the voter base bigger. doing everything in its power to make his voter base bigger which is counterintuitive. >> would make that chris in here. specifically through the prism of jobs for americans in at eight and a 29-year-old range. these explain yourself i'm not. >> right, while when this program was announced back in 2012, the employment situation

was much worse than it is today, but still pretty bad for american workers between those ages of 18 to 29. american workers between those ages but have only a high school degree, unemployment rates that are sometimes roughly double the national average right now. daca doesn't protect the so-called dreamers from deportation, but also gives them authorization to work in the united states if they can compete with 18 to 29-year-olds who are struggling still in today's job market to compete for jobs. >> richard, the president said jobs are going to americans. that is in essence is number one platform when you filter through the other stuff. how do you respond to that? >> that argument is laughable at best. the idea that the daca students while they want to do is cheat the american dream and go to school or taking away american jobs. that is the most ludicrous

argument i've heard. there's no base to it. it is baseless. giving one example of an american student applied for a job that the job was taken by a daca student. just one i ask you. >> i've got to give chris the last word anyway. i'll let you take it will wrap this up. >> is not so much that they are taking jobs come and they are with american workers for the jobs. >> sewer chinese citizens competing for jobs. sort indians who are competing for jobs in factories abroad, indonesians, so give me one example of a daca student who has taken a job away from an american student. >> chris, quickly. >> again, bottom line is you can work here. the president doesn't have the authority. >> you don't have one. >> thank you very much.

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clayton: look at these amazing images out of houston, coming for the traffic cameras right now. you see cars stuck on the road risk of attracting high waters and that leads to people on the rooftops of cars and needing to be rescued. helicopters having difficulty getting up because of the high winds. abby: images this morning that police officers on the roof of their car. it looks like a river, but these are interstate highways right there in houston in the rain is not supposed to stop anytime

soon all the way until 5:00 p.m. tonight, maybe longer. now to a fox news alert. experts say that a flashlight emergency at tropical storm harvey hovers over houston this morning and this drone video shows just some of the devastation from texas we have been showing you. transferring next guest has drones could be used in place of helicopters to fly in. faa certified remote pilot can make to see this morning. welcome to the show. >> good morning, thank you. clayton: assert their member the images of katrina. people trying to get rescue vehicles. drone technology has come along way since hurricane katrina. how can drugs be used to help individuals right now? >> we are in an interesting time. the technology as we know it in the system is in its infancy, but it's an interesting time because technology has democratized itself in god and into the hands of so many

people. the drugs can be deployed quicker in a traditional aircraft. it's important to point out right now but may not be the case. if you have a drone anyone have a look around, don't right now. let the first responders with the manned aircraft in the drugs can operate in the daycare space. as we move forward, you could have a situation where the rain lets up in the way and let up, but the clouds are still too low for the helicopter to operate. in that case you could deploy a drone to a site to inspect damage, look for survivors, that kind of thing. abby: have experienced this firsthand volunteering with hurricanes. anything else you want to share with us? >> not too much experience with the hurricane response to it. that's coming up for me. mostly i've been working on react as things like poster of inspections and things like

that. going forward, and hoping -- abby: sorry we have to cut you off. thank you for being with us. we will be right back.

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>> i think the response here has been excellent. the local leaders are all over this. they've got their arms around their citizens. abby: want to get right to a fox news alert pretty desperate search and rescue unfolded in houston, texas as we speak. catastrophic flash flood unleashed overnight. more than 1000 people rescued. >> is flooding unfolding could be one of the worst the u.s. has ever seen. right now, 50 counties are declared a disaster. >> air traffic at a standstill. the airport in houston shut down what are supposed to be runways into rivers. griff jenkins was out driving around and this can stop turned around and hopefully talk to some super dry land. can you hear us this morning?

>> hey, i am back with you, clayton. we are driving on the southwest for you now after consulting after talking with rick and the seriousness of the deteriorating situation. the freeways are certainly safer, but as we saw with a 10 prone to flooding, the real danger if you make it to a freeway, it's when you have to get off of the exit that she could into their definite flood of situations. as part of houston because of the neon lights, i'm not sure if you can tell right now is pretty notable because of its pretty lights and as you can see now, some cars in front of us with their house are done. actually, a very large towing truck, a duel if you've ever been around the farm and even that is having trouble getting through. talking with him under the last under passage in real sense of

motorists who find themselves out here talking with each other like what do you know any information because the game right now is to not get stuck because you don't want to be here for potentially days. as we had this way, what we are trying to do is get to the non-flooded areas to get to where we believe will be the highest part of freeways in houston. you can see on the other side of the highway, people already turning back. we don't know why they are doing now. we are now driving the wrong direction on the highway. that is a very dangerous situation because there is no indication. in fact, looking now at cars driving at each other in the same direction on that side of the road. this has become a very dangerous situation over there because that car coming did not know these cars have turned around to

move. perhaps these cars are also seeking high ground. we are headed pretty much towards the downtown area, the galleria area, the sort of western part of hughes and. i don't even know what to keep saying about this rain. it just is relentless. the underpass as we go where we can sort of gather some shelter and repositioning. you see just a gallon dumping from the streets and neighborhood in the commercial areas around here like that. but you know, we do fortunately still see power. the lights on, that is a good sign. the roads in houston and we pointed this out, it just can't be overstated. the slow lane parts are the areas of houston that make it

one of the most flood prone in the nation surrounded by 2500 miles of bayous. and so, pretty much a situation where we are navigating now no longer on gps, on google maps, but just what we see is what appears to be the safest path to position ourselves so we can keep bringing you the story without ourselves getting trapped. all right, guys. >> officials there have been telling people not to get in your car in the sunni to evacuate. if we can show the traffic cam we've been watching this morning just to give you a better sense of how high some of these waters are in parts of houston, texas. training for all of the city they had these on the west loop in other areas are these cars are stuck right there with lifetime, people trapped.

these are getting up on top of the roof. abby: that is a traffic light in the middle of that image. that is how high the water is. it looks like a foot away from the top of the traffic light. rick, can you see the image we are looking at? this is just how high these waters already are and how much more we have still to go. >> a long ways to go. tropical storm allison in 2001 was their biggest flood of her, about thousand cars were flooded. 70,000 cars stranded, water came up all around it. houston is about 80 feet elevation, 80 feet above sea level. follow the path of least resistance with gravity towards the ocean and to what to go into the golf. the water doesn't go anywhere very quickly and that is why the flooding is with us because they can't get anywhere because everything around it is flooded. this is 48 hours of the storm.

the gulf of mexico is one of the warmest bodies of water anywhere in the earth, which is why we get hurricanes here and it's a constant moisture source. an area of low pressure wants to be filled in with ayer and that circulate counterclockwise and continues to pull the moisture off of the gold. take a look at this batch of moisture. this is cloud cover, the darker tops, the stronger the storms. take a look at this. so much moisture is still going to continue to be pulled up here because the storm continues to not move them out will be the case for the next 24 to 48 hours before it maybe makes a move towards the houston area, which again is bad news. tornado concerns, no warnings going on right now. if you see yellow here, that is very heavy rain. the red is really, really heavy rain falling. one line of storms cutting right through the heart of houston

right now. if you follow the line of storms, it cuts right back down here pass to bay city, but all of the musher pulled up from the golf writer for the area. everything you see, the water not going down. it's going to be going up because it is everywhere and you have a lot more rain coming in from this exact spot. i don't have any good news for the houston area. it may be some good news starting to see some rescue vehicles coming in from other cities that will help a little bit. but if you are trapped, you need to get to the highest spot that you can and hope somebody can get to you because this is not going to get any better at all throughout the day today or tomorrow either. >> program other perspective, no good news. at least the power in some areas. self-service and rescue crews in most areas. thanks, rick. we'll be back shortly. >> the conditions not isolated.

governor greg abbott with 50 counties under a disaster declaration is absolutely catastrophic flooding. >> when the people returning to neighborhoods that look like war zones. rockport, corpus christi the hardest hit. rob schmidt now in corpus christi, texas at the latest in that area. good morning. >> good morning, guys. we are in a marina off downtown corpus christi which is the biggest city in the area where the hurricane came ashore, about 25 miles tonight use. it came very close but just the buffer of 25 miles to give a lot of protection. behind me there is some damage to be seen. this is landry's patio grill on the water near downtown with an unwanted convertible top by the storm. the roof land right here on the driveway in front of landry. you can see there was some damage. we did find a building that had decided the wall ripped off and we watched yesterday morning at

the roof is undulating and i thought it was going to go. it never did. we had a big fire on padre island might have been sparked by a downed power line that did a number on the house and burned cars in the driveway. today what we are planning to do after i get done talking is heading to where it came ashore, that is all coastal, about 25 miles north of here where it slammed ashore. that is where some of the most devastating impacts of the wind in the full brunt of the beginning of the storm when it first came ashore will be. you can see the first video from porting some areas up there just how devastating it was. a category four hurricane with sustained winds of 130 or 135 miles per hour and what that can do with a nonstop wind with gusts up to 150 miles an hour, the damage is simply incredible. people missing and rockport and at least one confirmed death.

somebody in the home we believed was a fire there. we'll try and get back into the area. it is tricky to get there. we will try and get back in today and show you some pictures later on in the show. guys, will send about you. >> be safe as well. we wish you the best. >> 24 hours ago yesterday brought this on his way to get a sense of what's going on. he had to turn back around with no power in the area. >> and no cell service either. were you see out the rain gives us an idea how fierce those wins were yesterday when you have cell towers that consist of 160 miles an hour and the cell towers went down in iraq were paired in houston they are working fine. they are after the power is on. >> look at that. how many homes are built now on stilts because they've experienced flooding before. luckily they are built that tall. you can imagine they would all be underwater right now.

>> stilts are one thing to keep you away from the storm surge. the wind ripping roofs right off of the businesses. >> that is the story we are watching all day. books like a river. the car on the interstate highway in houston. police officers on top of their car, trying to get anywhere they can to stay dry, stay safe. we'll keep an eye on not all morning long. >> in a national, natural disaster, the president has to keep tabs on the storm and its aftermath, doing that from camp david, discussing plans to visit but it is in the area later on this week. looking at photos now from inside the situation room and the president at camp david. earlier in the show we brought in general jack keane and he was explaining his thoughts on the job the president is doing in response from the administration. take a listen. >> i think the response here has been excellent. the president is doing what he should be doing.

he drives government agencies that support state and local governments and he's doing that. he's very much involved in the process, therefore they know this is top priority from the commander-in-chief and he's personally engaged in. everything i've seen so far, he's got some top-quality people involved in this process. >> it does seem that far the response has been extremely solid from state, local and federal. we are very early on to the situation, especially the flooding in houston. train for much more on that page to former sheriff joe or privacy joe or pio received the first-ever pardon for a conviction that he called the witchhunt. >> a man who's dealt with national disasters, mike huckabee disasters, mike huckabee in what we see in houston. he will join us next. don't want to miss his perspective on this. what was the worst thing you saw?

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>> i can tell you we are experiencing life-threatening catastrophic flooding in the nation's fourth-largest city. that is how our sheriff and police chief are categorizing it today. take a look behind me and you can see we've got high water here, cars that have stalled out. about one dozen high water rescues in the city of houston overnight. where we are, about two feet of rain has fallen. we see rainfall totals would typically get an entire year in houston with batman in just one night. already two deaths confirmed and sadly we expect a number to rise. not only dealing with the threat of flooding, also described a wrong way driver's get people traveling on freeways get to a spot flooded and they have to turn around. this is a snapchat of what you see all across the city. the city of houston is prone to flooding. we are known as the bayou city. rivers, streams and creeks. the previous floods we've had

pale in comparison to what we are seeing now today. reports on social media, people posting addresses, where they are located in asking for someone to rescue people and their kind in which we know it's not wise to do unless you have an accurate tool to get you out of the attic like we saw in hurricane katrina so the police chief is advising people at it is best to not go in your attic. it's almost better to get on much higher grounder get on your roof. so many high water rescues and even though many of our firsters owners do have votes in the water to rescue people, we just don't have enough for this type of flooding. it truly is historic flooding in the city of houston. >> sally, from a rescue effort respect is, imagine some votes, how are they even getting out to houses? what sort of vehicles are being used to carry people away?

reporter: yeah, we do have some high water vehicles, large military vehicles being used. we have an evacuation of a couple of apartment complexes and 200 residents starting to be threatened by the flood there. bass is moving to get folks out quickly. images of people having to travel through waist deepwater just to get to a vehicle to get them into a safer, higher ground. >> unbelievable. we'll check back with you in a little bit. thanks for the update. abby: coming up, sheriff joe or pio just to see president trump's first-ever pardon for a conviction he called the witchhunt. he will join us live coming out. you don't want to miss that. ♪

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>> welcome mat for some breaking news out of houston. flash flooding occurring, but beyond that come in houston emergency management has just sent out this message 10 minutes ago local time in houston. they are warning people water is now starting to approach the second floor of homes in what they tell folks to do is do not go into your attic. do not go into your attic. if water rises, get on the roof. houston emergency management has requested, get onto the roof of your house if water starts to come out to the second-order property. get on the phone, call 9-1-1. stay on the phone until you get someone on the phone. just terrific. abby: let's bring in former governor, fox news contributor mike huckabee. good to have you on.

unfortunately, under the circumstances this is a catastrophic event. who knows when this rain will let a. >> up almost apocalyptic accuracy of a densely populated area in houston. millions of people, unprecedented flood waters and the sad news is despite the crisis emergency we are going to now, floods posed an enormous problem for months to come. homes that are uninhabitable, mold issues come into these issues commend this is one of those long term. this isn't over when the floodwaters recede. what we are looking at is truly apocalyptic. >> for the next 24 hours, a much tinier timeframe. what is the response from federal, state and local over the course of the next 24 hours delighted that tweet where they tell people to get on top of their roofs? >> that shows you how desperately dire the situation is. when you tell people to get on the roof in the midst turned to

me basically say this is desperate. beat in your attic is no longer safe because you have no place to go. you are exposed on the roof but it also means rescue workers can see you and get to you. what we see is a very solid cordoning anaphora between the federal, state and local authorities and that is very important at a time like this. you can't have agencies battling each other. this is a team and they are proving to be a team. on the fellow assets stood up in advance of the storm. the president declared a disaster in advance so they could have assets ready to go, already staged. the governor of texas did the same thing. what you've seen is a good preparation for this. no matter what you prepare for, what they experience now is something that there is no textbook for. there is no playbook to follow. they will have to just be creative and react in real-time and that's exactly what they are

doing. all indications at every level from a local, state and federal they do everything humanly possible and not to see many opportunities to pour resources into place. >> governor, let's talk about food and water. you have general ulysses s. grant, one of the reasons he was so successful as he was able to keep all the food and water along for the troops. the president's branded himself as generals right now and those are very vital to any troop movement in getting people safe in making sure they will actually survive with the infrastructure, getting tracks in the area to bring food. as the governor, you go through this. you've got to worry about fresh water and food to people. >> it is very critical in the military is the most experienced getting supplies and particularly the basic essentials. food, water, basic support,

having even toilets. i know it sends bass, but that's what you've got to have. he's got not only extraordinary people in the white house company also has great emergency management people he surrounded himself with great tom osterman, brock long at fema. he clearly has empowered federal agencies to respond to the people he is placed in charge. general kelly, another a+ type person. you've got to remember in texas you have a strong national guard. they are absolutely activated throughout this area to be of assistance. they are trained for this, ready to do it. there's three organizations that often are real heroes to this. salvation army, red cross and the baptist men's group, all of whom those are the three organizations that time and again i've seen go into areas and provide essential food, blankets, cots, the bare minimum

things people need in a recovery stage. >> so well put. so important for all these people and organizations work together. great picture is on days like these. good to have you on. >> thanks, governor. red cross.gov. we had that on yesterday. flooding in west virginia, and they're handing out food because those are the resources most needed right now. >> great point. >> sheriff joe or pio just received president trump's first-ever pardon for a conviction he calls a witchhunt. he will join us live up next. plus a terrifying moment during the storm. the life he pats out as furby rages around him. >> many people wondered if he were still alive. the storm chaser didn't make it out okay. he will join us live next.

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>> 33 minutes after the hour. take a look at that shot. flooding in houston, texas. unbelievable right now. griff jenkins right now has the latest from where he is right there. last time we checked in with you comment the situation is not getting better. what is that like right now?

>> it is getting much worse. we stopped under an underpass seeking shelter to be honest with you. here we are up five feet on the middle of the highway where the highway meet 610 on the west side of houston in flooding is occurring here. cars trying to get through as you see them passing now they are going slow. beyond them, the police a little further up the highway of, trying to what looks like, you can confirm, but looks like from the operations reasoning, maybe start closing that section of this highway in this cartoon in making it through safely, moving slow, try not to flood out. here's the situation and this is the severity of the situation. when you become stuck, no one you should assume will come for you because emergency services are overwhelmed. it's become such a dangerous situation as this car is moving too fast.

that is a bad situation because if you go too fast, floods your engine. an 18-wheeler moments ago moving through here. they encountered a car going the wrong direction, now going through it looks like possibly stopping and shutting this section off as cars try -- try and move through here. just listening to the officials. one of the things they want to point out in this situation is the turnaround dog drowned is now not the same advice that was yesterday because this situation is not necessarily any better behind you. the situation in houston, if you are in houston is literally everywhere around you. everywhere is flooding. we see cars trying to come through and it looks like officers turning around, assuming they will shut this down. as we have sought shelter on

higher ground on the highways on the interstate, literally or nearly every offering we've gotten has flooded. we are in a situation where the fourth-largest city in the country would people that chose to get out did not heed the officials advised could be stranded for days on off ramps or other areas and at worst, stuck in their cars fighting for their lives. they are warned of a life-threatening catastrophic situation and it has arrived. it is playing out right in front of our eyes. >> what we're latching right here is the cars that are trying to pass by many of them have been completely stalled. have you talked to anyone in their cars to get a sense of where they are going and why they are out on the road. >> we have. that is a great question. we've talked to several people

in here comes an 18-wheeler. i want you to watch this for a moment. these guys clearly a lot more difficult for them to get around. going through. we've talked to a lot of people. law-enforcement or emergency services trained to come on to the job, two of which asked us, is the flooding behind you, flooding here, what is the best direction? if you look this way, i believe this car we have hazards on. it looks like getting in a tense situation. i will play now, we have been as conservative as safe as we could, but we have had a couple of close situations where we tried to move from one location to a higher ground and air engine begins to make funny noises and go. once you are stuck, you're not going anywhere. again, i can't overstress that there may be no one coming for you.

>> a lot of people think major metropolitan areas is the safest in the country actually end up -- the infrastructure is difficult because we saw super storms and the within a matter of days food was gone. the infrastructure to get large trucks and services into those areas to bring fresh fruit, fresh water was incredibly difficult to do that. more of the rural areas being able to get access to food and water, people are stuck in houston for a long time. i don't know how they start to get this stuff. >> it's a very bad situation. i spent two days in katrina on an overpass ramp on our fox team which ultimately ended up having an encampment. we had to drive hours, five or six hours for batteries and food. the situation right now, should people be stuck here for days from a logistical standpoint of getting bare necessities is not going to be good if history is

any guide of what we've seen in cme and katrina. abby: that's where you often see the loss of lives days after this hurricane fair. because health conditions that need to get to food, need to get to hospitals and they just can't get there because they are stuck in their homes, stuck in their cars. as he said, emergency crews to get out there to help people is a step for them to get anywhere. >> these 18 wheelers -- do you get a sense that his food or supplies? >> well, i am not exactly sure what he has got their as he's moving through all look at the vehicle. by this. the outcome is moving through. if you look at a strap, literally in a few minutes we have been talking, this is getting far deeper. we are not necessarily at a low-lying point. i will show u.s. these trucks go

by and you follow them, you see a line of cars or at least one car trying to come through here and that is the dangerous situation to keep seeing play out, where you have traffic going in the same direction in a flooding situation. >> are they leaving? >> they've still got their hazards on. >> we don't know. if you are where we are going, this is heading west out of houston. that is heading east into houston. but because of the large area that this storm is hitting, i don't necessarily know that one direction is any better than the other. it is not like you can pinpoint where the problem is to get away from the because it's all around and it's coming very fast. my prediction is this section right here that we see people come through in the next several

minutes, certainly several hours will be flooding out. >> at the rate and shut down? if you needed to go out and get water somewhere, does everything pretty much shut down where you are? >> it is pretty much down although we feed some convenience stores, some gas stations have been upgraded. i don't think this can remain the case for very long. it is early in day two. people have to put into context here we are on the front end of the situation deteriorating. >> try to get to higher ground. trade 11. rick, what you're seeing at 7:41 in europe push mark >> for one come of this map will show you things on it. look at the radar kind of behind year. although moisture from the south, that houston they are, do you go one way or the other way?

the problematic one is look how far around this area we have incredibly heavy rain falling. because of that, you have to drive 100 miles in one direction or another ticket out of there. 100 miles per the roads are flooded. it isn't an option of driving unless it is last resort, which are not going to get very far. one thing to know, this is still the track from hurricane harvey, still a tropical storm. winds and 45 miles per hour. notice officially oppose it to the south over the next day and up towards the north right through the houston area. that will keep the moisture here and that is why we still expect to see some heavy rainfall in very large rainfall totals. yesterday talking about 50-inch rainfall totals down a little bit closer towards the storm on windfall. we will see those totals at some point, but is likely to be further up towards the east towards the houston area and not

obviously would go very poorly for them. also further towards the east louisiana. here's a future radar. look at the red they are going to tonight. very heavy rainfall throughout the day. tomorrow we still have it going on. that doesn't really ended. they be malice out a little bit on tuesday evening and that is still a bit? a long ways. >> thanks, rick. updates on austin and san antonio when we get a chance to check in. >> a treat from emergency management to tell people to get as high as they can come and get on top of their roof. you're sitting on your roof or how many hours. >> we'll talk to those individuals soon. continuing coverage of tropical storm harvey this hour. aving ine if you get punished for using it?

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abby: back with a fox news alert. catastrophic flooding across parts of texas, mainly in houston where i'm griff jenkins has been all morning long. >> as we go, the live shots here important to talk about in the lower right-hand side is the airport that is of course shut down. the other regional airports are the low band. that airport is shut down. grace was sliding down some drivers coming along the roadway there. did we just lose him? abby: is a pricey side as much service as these had. as clayton was same time you've been copied. the conditions are terrible, wondering where they go in. >> you know, abby, we just saw a family trying to get out of here. going down and talking to some of these motorists and find out the answer for you. we are going to walk up to and

hoped we don't present in trying also also not to be stuck. estimating the dynamics as we walk down. since we've been talking this morning and the last 20 minutes, 12 inches of water has taken on to go around this. look on the other side beyond the retaining walls coming you see what looks now to be an absolute wake. this is the situation here that i'm not going to bring my camera man on because it is too dangerous. i'm not going to be able to get. as you can see here. >> you are doing a balancing act. rick is talking about earlier it's not just the water. it is what is happening to the roads underneath that could be buckling in singles and things people can't see as they drive through this. they have the perception the road is right there, but when the soil can't hold the water in the collapses and road spell: people died. reporter: well, that is exactly right. i don't have any cars, so i'm

just going to show you quickly and stand over here. this retaining wall back there, the water on the other side, there is so much weight and pressure on the retaining wall over there with the water much higher. i'm just going to show you how much deeper it is on this side. just to give you an idea, you can see now clearly in a much deeper situation on the other side at least six to eight inches higher. and so, the weight is a jersey wall. how many have you seen collapsed and that's exactly what rick is talking about. not being able to hold out hearing as this situation continues to soar to flood from every direction. the other side over there shows the cars coming out. much worse over there.

>> here comes another car trying to make its way down there. i can't believe the family was loaded into a station wagon tried to drive through this. >> you could be there is nowhere else to go. you see how high the water is. people trying to get out of there aren't such a dire situation that obviously they have to put themselves and flee as hard as the situation might be. >> yeah you know, i want to point in the not very quickly. one thing i have not seen as any sort of repositioning of national guard resources of any kind here. perhaps that is something we are going to begin to see this morning because we will have a situation that may require that level of response. abby: please stay safe out there. coming up, energy secretary rick perry was also governor of the state of texas with hurricane ike. he will join us with the

government response to harvey. train to another live report on the ground in texas all morning long. we will bring you live coverage from the state of texas. hurricane harvey if it becomes a tropical storm coming up. these days families want to be connected 24/7.

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griff jenkins reporting live all morning long. as you saw, a road closed mind and would really neighborhoods on both sides. so while at the water in the roadway is also in the grass. some of the homes are elevated as they do write here because they are along the coast. it is up on stilts. some of them are not. there is no doubt damage that is being done to homes, but we have not seen such a high number of folks stranded because it seems like really at ghost town in them. in addition to this rain that has fallen at three to five inches an hour here in galveston county, at times according to the national weather service, there have also been numerous tornadoes that touched down in and around the

area, also over in the suburbs of houston. look at the amateur video of cypress, texas, a suburb of houston. a big tornado touching down there yesterday. homes, business damaged. fortunately, no serious injuries to report. we have confirmed tornado touchdowns in richmond, missouri city. between friday and saturday alone, 67 tornado warnings were issued. that means funnel cloud spotted her radar indicated tornadoes. a lot of different threads. the rain, flooding, tornadoes. a lot of reasons to be concerned out here when conditions go downhill, guys. >> casey stegall in galveston. we continue to track the catastrophic flooding as energy secretary rick. corey lewandowski join us live next hour. our storm coverage continues

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>> continue our coverage of harvey. the situation right now in texas is getting dire. especially in the city of houston, and that is where we find gripf jenkins live for us as thed flooding in that area intensifies. clayton: we were looking at these different roadways as people are continuing to drive which emergency crews are telling them not to. griff saw a family in a station wagon attempting to flee. i don't know if you can hear us, we want you to take it over. what are you seeing right there? abby: that looks like a car -- >> reporter: absolutely -- clayton: go ahead, griff. >> reporter: sorry, sorry, i don't want to interrupt, but

we're still on that same highway, but we've gotten to a much higher ground. we're overlook an offramp. look at this, this is southwest freeway and rice avenue. look at the car, absolutely underwater. there is just blocks as far as the eye can see of just a river that is what is now south rice street. i'll trach you -- i'll take you, you can see down a little farther there is where the situation we got out of. the water coming all the way up to almost into our truck. that situation there in the next 30 minutes is going to be a catastrophic flood situation. it already pretty much is, guys. beyond this and, dave, i apologize to put you right in the light, but we have some emergency personnel over here doing something, we don't know. and then if you come with me, it's a little dark because it's still early yet, but a tow

situation. here's the problem, that guy is towing that truck that was stranded on the back of there, and then he's going to go down the exact same highway that we just showed you people getting stuck, and he may get stuck there. so the options for the motorists out here is very, very limited. wish i could tell you how deep that is, but it is clearly several feet, not several inches. we have gotten -- it's overwhelming to go on social media, on twitter and see the people that are stranded saying i'm stuck, i'm on my roof at this point, my fetes with stranded -- my pets are stranded, please, can anyone come? as the sun, or the light comes up i think we're going to be able to see the level of damage and flooding that's going to start going into homes. and this water here, certainly, not going to recede anytime soon.

yesterday that situation where we had the flooding, later in the day as we got that break in the rain, it receded and was much more passable. however, we're now under a need watch through thursday according to the national weather service. thursday. and it is sunday morning. and we are sustaining this. guys? abby: unbelievable. really, really such a tough situation, and it is not letting up anytime soon. please, stay safe out there. clayton: and we, you know want to bring this up again because this was released by the emergency management in houston about an hour ago. we're going to bring in the houston police chief now live on the phone to get your take on this. this is amazing, sir. where the emergency management officials have requested that people escaping flood waters as a last resort, do not stay in your attic. if the highest floor of your home becomes dangerous, as we now know second floors are flooding, get on the roof is

what emergency officials are asking people to do, call 911 for help and stay on the phone until this is getting answered. sir, this sounds dire. how are you guys holding up, and what are you doing at this hour? >> well, it is. our city's underwater right now. our bayous are overflowing, our roadways are flooded, our neighborhoods are flooding, and we've got officers and firefighters throughout the city. but, obviously, when you have a 500-year, 1000-year flood that is unprecedented for our city, it's going to take us time to get to folks. we need folks to realize if they're not in a life or death situation, they need to stay off 911, stay off the roadways, and that's what we're hoping is that people will help us out by not calling if they absolutely need us. clayton: stay out of the attics. abby: you have reports of a lot of people getting into the attic to escape the flood water, but

you said don't do that unless you have an a axe. what is your best advice to people? >> they need to try to get out and work their way to the roof, because the problem is if you can't break that roof, we know that in katrina we lost some of our fellow americans that, sadly, drowned. some people are deathly afraid of women. they can't swim, they're so afraid of it, they panic and get in the attic. unless you can break out, you need to work your way outside of the house and work your way to the roof. >> chief, can you give us a general sense as to how many calls emergency responders are getting at this point in time? >> well, our 911 system's been overwhelmed, and you have to realize it's not just the city of houston, it's harris county, it's adjoining cities. this is a very, very, very widespread flooding event that doesn't just, that's not just spread out across this part of the state. but, obviously, if you look throughout our state, there's other places that are

experiencing flood waters. and the sad truth we have to the face as a community is those flood waters, a lot of them will end up coming from other parts of the state trying to work its way to the gulf. so we haven't seen the worst of it yet, and i think it's going to be a challenging few days. hopefully, we'll get through it. clayton: are you getting reports of roadways perhaps buckling, roads closed signs we're showing our viewers, are you hearing that right now? >> no, i'm not aware of any reports of any buckling of the roadways or any failure of my of the structures. again, it's extremely widespread, and we're just doing our very best. abby: and this may be the most catastrophic flooding houston has seen in at least the five decades. give us a sense of houston, why is it so hard to deal with flooding? we had reporters saying even an inch of rain in the houston lawyer can be really challenging for them to deal with.

>> the location of the city, the fact that we get runoff from other places that comes here. and in the last 5-10 years where there's been so much growth, you know, there's a lot more concrete in our city. and the sad truth is there's over a million people who weren't here for our last hurricane, so they don't realize how quickly we flood. and so we have a lot of people stranded across the region in their cars, and we've had at least one a fatality. it's confirmed, and maybe a second from people -- abby: were people given enough warning, you think? it's always hard to predict exactly where they're going to hit the hardest and what the aftermath is going to look like. were the residents in houston, do you feel they were prepared enough for what they're experiencing today? >> if you take a look at the nature of this storm, the magnitude of the storm and the fact that even all the weather experts or the meteorologists, i mean, if you saw some of the modeling, it was all over the place. nobody i knew exactly what was

going to happen. this is within one of the most unique storms, i think, in the time that i've been in law enforcement for over 31 years. i've never seen a natural disaster like this, and i'm a person that's been in california for 22 years. and this is unprecedented. clayton: national guard, our own griff jenkins didn't see the national guard being mobilized in any areas yet. of course, he's in one section of the city, so we don't know. what about that? has that been called in? talk about your relationship right now at the state level. >> well, we have a great relationship, and we have a great state that's got a lot of assets. but again, think about what's happened in the last two days. this storm has gone through the gulf coast here in the state of texas, it's moved its way north, it's back, and the problem is it just lingers. it doesn't want to move quickly, and it won't move out of our area for days. and so we do have a task force coming in. we're hoping for a break in the weather so we can get our

aircraft, the police department's aircraft, the sheriff department's aircraft and the coast guard to start conducting rescues and do an assessment. but we do have more high water vehicles moving towards here from san antonio from the task force, and i'm sure in the upcoming hours and days you going to see a lot more help to help us manage weather. >> chief, along those lines specifically with regard to your department, can you describe the number of resources, manpower that you have of out there currently dealing with the catastrophic situation? >> well, we didn't expect this -- we expected flooding, but we didn't expect it til sunday or monday. but despite that, we went on what we call tactical alert where every sworn member has been working a minimal 12 on, 12 off. we wanted to get our rhythm going and make sure we had our supplies going and everything else. it's all hands on deck, we're a department of about 5100 sworn, and it's going to remain this

way until we get through this. abby: the big challenge at this point is getting people food and water. if they are stuck on their rooftops, stranded in their cars, people with health conditions that need to get the a hospital. what can you tell us about what the rescuers are doing to give people, if they can, what they need just in terms of food and water and assistance? >> yeah. i mean, once -- what we need to do is try to evacuate people that are in dire straits. now, we need people that are just seeing a little bit of water, a foot of water, two feet of water not to panic inside their homes, you know? do not call 911 unless it's an absolute life or death situation because the 911 system in the region -- and, remember, this is a region now -- in a city of 2.2 million people in a region of 6.5 million people if not more, we have to make sure we exercise some diligence in terms of not calling 911 unless it's an absolute life or death situation.

that's what we need from the public, not to panic, be patient and we'll get to them. clayton: chief, when you prepare for the absolute worse situation that you can imagine, is this the worst case scenario? >> you know what? i've been through the los angeles riots, i've been through floods, fires, you name it, i've never seen in 31-plus years of policing this widespread flooding, and it's -- i think when it's done, because it's going to be a three to four day event, or four to five day event, this might end up being an historical flood for this city, state and nation. abby: wow. unbelievable, the police chief from houston. we wish you all the luck in the days ahead. >> thanks, guys. abby: thank you so much. >> throw some prayers our way. abby: rick, you heard it right there from the police chief, in his 31 years of covering disasters in that area, he has never, ever seen anything like this. >> reporter: and that's from about 20 inches of rain that has fallen in houston since the rain started yesterday. this gives you an idea, it's not

just the neighborhoods in houston, some of floods have been kind of one neighborhood or one side of town. this is not the case. this is how much rain has fallen already. remember, we were saying we might see some spots, models were outputting 50-inch rainfall totals. we don't know exactly where that kind of thing would fall. looks like it's happening a little farther east than we'd initially anticipated which is toward the houston area, and and already we've got spots that have seen over 18 inches, houston has had over 20 inches of rain, and there's a lot of rain to be had still yet. there's an incredible amount of moisture as cross the gulf that will continue to be pulled up in here. this is an odd looking graphic, but it's kind of from where the center of the storm was. the general guidance from, that's kind of being agreed upon from a lot of the models is a little bit of a south and northerly turn. so this puts a lot of the moisture back toward the houston area, unfortunately. probably, guys, another 20-30

inches to go in the houston area of rain over about a three-day period. already seeing that kind of flooding now, think about what is to come. abby: heartbreaking. rick, thank you so much. we'll get back to you soon. clayton: all right. president trump and his administration monitoring harvey's devastation and planning their response. how are they doing so far? chris wallace is here with that angle next. abby: plus, energy secretary rick perry was on the call with the president as they track harvey's path. the secretary, who was also governor of that state, is joining us live ahead. you don't want to miss that. ♪ ♪ copd makes it hard to breathe. so to breathe better, i go with anoro. ♪go your own way copd tries to say, "go this way." i say, "i'll go my own way" with anoro. ♪go your own way once-daily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators,

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abby: back with a fox news alert this morning, new reports claiming the president will be visiting

texas hurricane victims. that report in thehill.com from an unnamed g work p congressman. >> the president tweeting just moments ago, great coordination between enemies, continuing rains and flash floods are being dealt with. thousands rescued. clayton: here to react is fox news sunday anchor chris wallace. it's always hard to look at these news events as you hear the dire messages coming out from emergency services in houston. this is going to be a catastrophic, maybe one of the worst events in american history. how are they dealing with this at the federal level? what are you hearing from the trump administration? >> well, first of all, some of the laws changed after katrina. that was a big wake-up call to everyone, and one of the things that they learned was that fema hadn't prepositioned a lot of equipment and personnel, trailers, things like that on the ground before, and then, of course, once you had the devastation, it was hard to get it there. so they had prepositioned a lot

of people, a lot of equipment in texas near to the scene. obviously, not in the scene because it would have gotten damaged before. and clearly also, a wake-up call from katrina, president trump and his team realizes that an administration is judged and judged very harshly by how well it does in protecting our fellow americans. and you can tell that this president and the team that he's got around him have taken this very seriously. the president was at camp dade this weekend -- camp david this weekend but conducted a video conference call with his entire cabinet and the vice president who were in the situation room in the white house. as you say, he's just been tweeting. so they understand, first of all, just as their responsibility to take care of their fellow americans, but also in a political sense that the competence of an administration is judged by how they handle this kind of a situation just like it's judged by a mayor by how well they clean up the streets after a huge snowstorm.

abby: absolutely. we'll never forget hurricane katrina and just the impact that can have on a political career. i mean, these are really important times and, most importantly, the safety of the people affected. and now, no doubt, as you mentioned at camp david they're trying to figure out the best time to get on the ground in texas. to be there as president, to show the citizens you are there helping them, but you've got to get that timing right. >> yeah. and here's part of the point. when the president travels, there are a lot of things that are involved in terms of security, in terms of resources. you want to be there at a key time, you don't want to be there too early where it interferes with the first responders. and as someone pointed out, look, the whole world's attention is on that part of texas right now because of the hurricane, but after the rains subside and after they begin the cleanup, that may be a much more important time in terms of presidential attention to the focus america and to focus the

world and to get folks to dig into their pockets and contribute money to groups like the red cross for disaster relief and also to help all those folks who are going to go back to their communities and see they have absolutely nothing there. clayton: chris, we -- not to interrupt you, this is our first live pictures this morning of people being stranded and trying the get to higher ground. as you can see on our screen, this is the first time we've seen this. just horrific as they're trying to make their way down what was once a street now, a river. we heard -- and i don't know, chris, you were preparing for our show, we just had the police chief of houston -- look at this. >> guys tethering himself right there. clayton: trying to get across this waterway here. art acevedo was on our show a short time ago and said this is the worst he's ever seen it. 31 years, he's never seen anything like this, chris. >> yeah. look, houston particularly has -- because they've got all these rivers and creeks going through the center of the city,

has a tendency to get flooded by a storm. but folks are saying they've never seen anything like that and, boy, this is dramatic. you talk about americans helping other americans in a situation like that, i mean, they just basically saved that man's life. >> a human chain right there. abby: what's so hard about too, chris, you have your show coming up and the governor of texas, greg abbott on, what's so difficult in these situations for the local officials, the mayors, the governors, is you want to get out there to help your citizens, but this situation is so dire, so dangerous, the rain is apparently not going to stop for maybe a few days now. it's hard to get to where you want to be. give us a sense of what the local officials, including the governor of texas there, would be doing trying to monitor the situation and help. >> well, you're exactly right, abby. you've got to do a balancing act. on the one hand, there are people in need. you've got to be sure because some people did not evacuate, there were voluntary evacuations in a number of those communities, and people are

stuck in very dire situations. on the one hand, you want to help them, on the other hand, you don't want to endanger other people. it's one of the questions i have for the governor at the top of the hour. we'll be talking to governor abbott. you know, at point, the casualties -- while bad, seem remarkably small for this kind of event, two dead. about 14 injured. but you have got to know particularly in places like rockport, and we're going to have a report live from rockport at the top of the hour on "fox news sunday," that they haven't been able to get into a lot of those neighborhoods. and when they do, tragically, you know the casual count is going to rise. >> chris, obviously, a big show coming up and the focus clearly will be on the horrific situation there in texas. chris wallace -- abby: we'll be watching. >> thank you, guys. >> we're going to go f go live back to griff jenkins. we've seen his pictures all morning long. horrific flooding. we're going to listen in now, i believe he has a motorist to

speak to. >> reporter: that's right. we're here on overpass, the same place we've been sort of stuck because of the high ground, and we're talking to another motorist. what's your name? >> malcolm antoine. >> reporter: malcolm, where are you going and what's happening out heresome. >> i'm trying to get to augusta and san felipe. and there's just no way, no way to get there because every route i've taken there's water and more water. >> reporter: and as we sit on this overpass, have you tried to go down this way to get off on any of these exits? >> i've try four times to exit 59 in chimney rock, and it didn't work. i've also all the way down to first connolly, 59 and first connolly. there's water all the way down there. there's water on 59 and murphy

road. >> reporter: malcolm, where are you trying to go? are you trying to get home? >> i'm trying to get to home. i'm trying to get to augusta and san felipe. >> reporter: do you have family theresome. >> no, i'm single. i'm a single man. >> reporter: have you talked with any of your neighbors? do you know if your home is damaged? >> no, i haven't talked with any of my neighbors. >> reporter: the situation that's deteriorating here, the question is what will folks out here do. what's your plan? >> my plan is just to ride it out til the water goes down. i'm going to keep trying every hour or so going down, check, check and seethere's any water down the feeder road. if there's water down the feeder road, i'm backing back up to higher ground. >> reporter: and you are aware they're saying now we could have rains into wednesday, a flash flood warning now until

thursday. >> i'm prepared to fight it out. i'm not going to let my car get flooded. >> reporter: yeah. abby, our host back in new york, had a -- abby, what's your question? abby: i wonder if he feels like he got enough notice to get out of there in time. does he feel like he was given enough warning to be able to get home safely? >> reporter: malcolm, abby asked do you feel like you were given enough notice, enough warning to prepare for this situation you find yourself in? >> yes, i am. yes, i was with. yes. i knew about this since thursday. >> reporter: all right. >> i just went to work. >> reporter: well, thank you. that's the situation playing out here on this overpass as malcolm and i and some of these other motorists trying to figure out what's the next move. malcolm here, possibly stuck here for days. guys? clayton: we want to take a look at the right side of your screen, these coming in from our

fox affiliate, fox 26. cars underwater, motorists trapped. and we also want to bring in former texas governor rick perry at this hour to talk about this devastation. governor, mr. secretary, tell us what, what is happening right now inside this administration, and being a texan, this has just got to hit hard. >> well, the president's on top of this, obviously. you saw from yesterday his video conferencing, we've got another one today at 11:00. fema's working we've got some really great people, brock long over at fema, he's a former state emergency management guy. governor ab without's doing a -- abbott's doing a fabulous job. we understand our role here and that the states are the lead agency, obviously, the governor's office, the lead agency. his emergency management. we learned a lot over the last decade about how to deal with these big storms. i think that's part of the reflection with the being able

to move people out of harm's way. prepositioning, as chris wallace talked about earlier, we learned something new every event whether it was ike, whether it was rita, whether it was dolly, whether it was gustav, hurricanes that have come in and affected the state. so the administration is being very, very focused on, making sure that the states, the local folks have everything aha they possibly need to be supplied. >> secretary, you obviously know the city of houston very well. you were governor of texas for so many years. we're seeing the footage right now of just horrific flooding. but from an infrastructure perspective, can you explain what is in store for the city of houston over the course of the next 3-4 daysesome. >> yeah. unfortunately, the low-lying city of houston is going to be affected and be affected for a long time. and i think that's one of the cautionary notes here, is that

anyone trying to say here's how long this recovery's going to last, they're just throwing jell-o at the wall. i mean, we don't know. but we need to be prepared for a really long recovery. i think it's important the federal government knows this. we're going to be ready to assist. i'm going to be back on the phone with the electrical set, the coordinating council and that group of people who are going to be ready to move utility folks in to get the power back up, it's just going to take a long time to recover. but our prayers are with these folks. the faith-based community is going to be very actively involved with giving shelter. but a long process, and i think this is one that we need to really hammer home is that this is going to be maybe a different storm and a different recovery process than we've ever seen. abby: i mean, governor, this is your home, right? this has got to hit so close to home for you.

this is where your family is, you were the governor for a number of years. we had on the police chief just a few moments ago, saying in his 31 years of covering disasters, he's never sign anything quite like this. we had governor huckabee on earlier, he called it apocalyptic. what is going through your mind as you are watching the same images we are? we don't know when this is going to let up, who knows how many people are without food, without water, not sure of when this will end. what is going through your mind as someone who loves the state of texas who has served the state for such a long period of time? >> well, abby, lots of friends and even family in the houston area and across that part of texas. anita and i live between houston and austin. there's no electricity at our home now but the good news is we don't have the flooding they've got this houston. with that said, we have seen this before, not at this level. allison was in, i think, 2001 while i was the lieutenant governor, and it was massive flooding over in the houston

area. these are resilient people. but with that said, they're going to need a lot of help. my -- i've got some friends in the country western world that's already called and said we want to come do a concert when this is over with to help pay for the cost. i mean, there's going to be a lot of expenses out there, a lot of things that people don't have covered with insurance. catastrophic is probably a word that's not overly used here with this event. and it's one that i hope americans know that their citizens, their brothers and sisters are suffering right now. the government both at the state, federal and the local level is going to do everything we can. we've got really capable people who are sitting in those spots from the governor to the emergency management to the mayor of houston, an old legislative friend of mine. they're doing a great job and will continue to. clayton: we didn't even get to ask you a question about your

current job which is energy. unfortunately, we're up against a hard break, and we're seeing dramatic images we've got to get back to. governor, we know you've got a busy next few days, we appreciate you stopping in for just a few moments. >> you're welcome. clayton: these images that we're just seeing, our news crew's panned off there for a moment, our fox 26 affiliate in houston where we're seeing some dramatic pictures, it looked like a woman attempting to be rescued was trying to flag down some passing motorists as some of those trucks were going along there. let's -- you know, we're going to come back. we're going to take a quick break. we're going to be right back and show you more from hurricane harvey, tropical storm harvey now in louisen, and we'll check -- now in houston, and we'll check back in there when we come back. ♪ ♪ ♪

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from afar, it is just heartbreaking. we don't know when the rain is going to let up, just what we're dealing with from houston, this is the worst that maybe the city has ever seen. >> it's, you know, it's 5.2 million people who are affected. we've got water still rising, we've got the rain still flowing. the number one thing is taking care of people's safety, and what the most important thing that people can do is listen to their local, state and federal law enforcement officers who are providing them shelter where they can be and making sure that if they see people who are in trouble, they can pick up the phone and call on those true emergencies. we've seen that 911 has been overwhelmed with calls. so really, as you have the opportunity to see those people who are really desperately in need, please do so and make sure that the local, state and federal authorities can help in any way they can. there's been a good coordination so far. i heard the lieutenant governor of texas on last night talking about the preparedness they had, but nothing, nothing can prepare somebody for what we're seeing

in texas right now. clayton: yeah. you're going to see another 20 inches of rain possibly. this is what 20 inches has currently done, imagine another 20 inches on top of this, corey. some of these images as we are showing you people being rescued, carted away. the problem for a lot of officials are people who aren't listening in heeding these warnings, stay off the roadways. we've seen people being trapped, we saw a family fleeing in station wagons, but they're scared. and this is incredibly difficult for both the state and local officials. >> well, they are but, look, you have to think about safety first. it's the most important thing. you have to get to a place where safety is being provided. you have to make sure that your family is protected. don't worry about your valuables and all of those things that have been left behind. you have to take care of your family first, and you have to listen to the local officials who are telling you where the safe places are to travel and safe places to go are. don't be a hero. you have to make sure you're

taking care of your family. don't try and drive in places you shouldn't be. you heard an earlier person talking about they tried five or six different paths to cross, and every one is flooded right now. there is just too much chaos. so right now the local law enforcement, local emergency responders know what is best for people. please do your part and listen to them. clayton: the national guard side of this, corey, when do they step in? >> well, i think as the rain continue cans and you're going to see -- continues and you're going to see individuals who are going to try and go back to homes. you know, the national guard is going to be brought in to probably help bring some law and order back to this as the rain subsides in two or three or four days right now. right now the number one issue is the safety of individuals. if you have to activate the national guard to go in and rescue people because of the resources they have, anything that the local communities and local law enforcement, emergency responders say is needed, i know the government at the state level, at the federal level is able to provide any resources necessary. abby: well, the president has been tweeting out about this for days now.

he's in camp david this weekend, we have photos with him in the situation room around a number of his advisers, obviously, wanting to do what they can to help the people in texas. now reports that he may visit houston or the texas area within the next week. that's coming from congressman blaketarian hold from texas. what do you think? is he going to get there in the next week? >> i would recommend the president goes and sees the damage firsthand. i mean, this is something that we have not seen in potentially our lifetime. this is of the equivalent of a hurricane katrina. and i think it would be important for the president to go down there, assess the damage. i think what you'll need to see and i think congressman king from new york talked about this is an emergency spending bill of some nature going through congress to provide relief to those people in texas. so the president needs to go down there, witness this firsthand, understand the complete devastation that's taken place and work with congress immediately to provide economic relief to the people in texas. clayton: i'm sorry, i was going to ask you, you mentioned

katrina, this is katrina at point. this is one of the worst natural disasters this country's ever faced. this has the power to, perhaps, reshape a presidency in some way, could alter the course of a presidency. this could be a major, you know, 40-$50 billion destruction of one of america's biggest cities. just at a meta-level, that's got to hit this president hard. >> well, it has to. and, you know, look, it's not just the complete devastation, which we've seen, but it's the rebuilding effort. it's going to take a long time. you know, many people never moved back to louisiana after katrina. we saw the devastation in sandy, it took a long time to rebuild that community. houston has not just all those people living there, the 5.2 million people right now that are under a flood warning, but all of that economic vibrance which is so critical to the economy, have to get it back up online because people have to get back to work. so i think an emergency spending bill through congress to make sure we have all the resources necessary to rebuild those

communities as quickly as possible is something the president would want to support, and i think it'd be important for him to get to houston season and to texas to see this firsthand. >> corey, thank you very much. and the sad irony, both of you mentioning katrina. semi of the individuals who were stranded in hurricane katrina and rita as you mentioned yesterday now living in houston season and now facing this. corey lewandowski, thank you so much for your perspective this morning. all right, at 8:41 here in the east, we're going to georgia back to fox 26th -- go back to fox 26's live coverage. >> and they're going to try to respond to these other emergencies. you do have a group home next door to you, though, with some disabled people that you're worried about. >> yes, ma'am. we stopped there and saw their blinds open, and the girl was sitting on i guess what was a table. we asked her, hey, are y'all okay, do you have drinking water. she said, no. we took them two gallons and said she has three disabled people and she needed help.

we're not only coming out here for ourselves, but we're also trying to get her some to help. >> well, we certainly hope that the water does not rise any more out here. we are getting a break in the rain which is certainly good news, but we have seen that change really quickly, and it turns very heavy. you guys be safe out here, okay? thank you so much. i'm going to continue to walk a little bit over here to show you more of what's going on. we have a gas station here, this valero corner store that's turned into a parking lot. people have pulled off the freeway, and when they realize they can't go further, they have taken refuge here, and a lot of folks are asleep in their car because they have been up all night long trying to make it hope. now, if there is any -- somewhat sort of good news this, i can tell you that the freeways for the most part are passable. the exits are not. so once you are on the freeway, you're stuck. and so that's why we've seen a lot of people on the freeways actually having to pull over and just spend the night there

because there's no way for them to go any further because the exits are blocked off. now, there are certain portions of the freeways that are underwater. as i get up here, you can see, oh, this is how we're able to broadcast live is we hopped the curb here, our news vehicle is up here. todd, i'm going to walk back here and talk to these folks in this pickup truck who have been here all night long. trying to get home. clayton: fox 26 coverage. we were stepping in for a moment to listen to their coverage. thanks to them for what they're doing, getting us some of these images. we're going to talk a quick break here in new york, and we will be right back with continuing coverage. ♪ ♪

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let's go right now to grif jenkins, he has been there life for us -- live there for us all morning long. what is the latest? >> reporter: movement is literally paralyzed. we're trying to work our way back towards the hotel. let me first just show you this exit down here, chimney rock -- which is pretty much now chimney river -- is absolutely blocked. we're going into several feet. we can't make that. that's exactly what the motorist we spoke to earlier was saying, he was trying to get home. and look over here on just the other side of the highway of the southwest freeway, several feet in that pickup truck. that is a ram 1500 truck. that's not a small car right there, guys, and it is absolutely underwater. so if you're out, if you didn't heed the advice of the emergency officials saying don't go out, you're stuck out here. and i'm not sure what we're going to do to get back there, we're just going to stay on high ground.

now, it's lightened up a little bit. we did see a little bit of a recession of water yesterday, but the problem is the forecasters are saying that the bands are going to be coming a lot more furious today, at least for the next 24 hours, as we've taken on upwards of 24, i'm sure the number is much higher just in the last couple of hours. we're also, you know, we get our news, obviously, from that social media which continues to hold, but we're also listening to the radio. fox news cannot confirm this, but there are some reports that the death toll could be rising, a tragic but possible reality, guys. abby: catastrophic. grif, we'll be back with you shortly. thank you so much. we are following some other headlines this morning, want to bring you those starting with a massive ten-day march from charlottesville the washington, d.c. to demand that president trump leave office. well, this comes after one person was killed in violent clashes in charlottesville, virginia. despite president trump condemning that violence

multiple times, many on the left are still not satisfied. also hundreds of thousands of people flood the heart of barcelona, condemning violence after deadly terrorist attacks. marchers shouting i'm not afraid in their language. take a listen. abby: police saying 500,000 people walked behind emergency workers on saturday sending an image of unity. isis claimed the vehicle attacks in barcelona and in the coastal town of cambrils. also this this morning, at least 30 illegal immigrants busted entering the united states through a tunnel under the border. police finding the tunnel exit in san diego complete with a ladder. authorities are working with mexico to close off that entrance across the border. and i'm sure you watched this, millions of people watching this fight last night. the super-fight between floyd

mayweather who defeated conor mcgregor on his feet in the tenth round. >> floyd mayweather has mcgregor on the ropes, literally and fig rah tyly! -- figuratively! how is he still standing? >> that's it. abby: mayweather defeating mcgregor with a technical knockout. the undo effeted mayweather breaking a record and cruising to a career 50 straight wins. he says this was the last fight, quote, for sure because he came out of retirement -- >> just like last time. clayton: he does a lot of talking. abby: and a lot of fighting. clayton: president trump and his administration closely monitoring harvey's devastation. our next guest spoke to the vice president and exclusively confirm president trump will be visiting the area this week, this week. texas congressman blake fairch hold will join us live next. ♪

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abby: we are back with a fox news ale. president trump and his administration closely monitoring harvey's devastationing and planning their response. >> our next guest spoke to the vice president and, collusively confirm president trump will be visiting that area week. clayton: gop texas congressman blake farenthold joins us no on the phone. -- now on the phone. we mow it is certainly a busy morning for you. can you tell me, what have you been hearing from this administration, what have you been hearing from the president and the vice president as they try to pick up the pieces right mow? >> well -- right now? >> vice president pence promised a whole of government response and they were going to work hard to get us everything we needed

down here. and with all the rain and all the wind, there's been a lot of infrastructure damage, there are a lot of people whose lives have seriously been uprooted. clayton: when you talk about the infrastructure damage, can you be more specific? we were asking the chief of police in houston about that, i asked him about roadways buckling, we're looking at live pictures right now in houston with some rescue efforts, putting boats in the water to try to rescue people. talk about the infrastructure specifically. what are we talking about? the electrical grid? >> yeah, the -- i drove to rockport, and you've got electric poles for miles on end that are either down or bent at a 45-degree angle. there's still power lines down on the road, i'm still without electricity along with about half the people in my zip code, 9,000 people. and that's in corpus christi where it's already started to clear up. abby: and corpus christi was originally where the eye of the storm was supposed to hit. as you said, it moved a little

further to rockport. you're there in corpus christi, what has it been like for the past 24 hours as you're waking up this morning and the sun's coming out? >> it's actually a beautiful, breezy morning in corpus christi right now. i just drove down to my happy spot to do this interview which is overlooking the corpus christi bay, and there's dramatic clouds with the sun poking through. but the breeze is the problem. if you get winds over 30 miles an hour, the bucket trucks are not out repairing the electrical grid. and i can tell you it was not a pleasant night in my house with no electricity. clayton: yeah, with the heat as well. obviously, we see this in florida. hurricanes crisscrossing the state and people without power for weeks and weeks just sweltering inside there. well, congressman -- yeah, what are the things that you need right now in your area? actually, we're up against a hard break, congressman. we've got to run, and we've got to check back here. we're going to let you get back

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hurricane harvey now a tropical storm carves a path of destruction through texas. >> a tough situation in houston as they are getting just punished by remnants of harvey. >> it is indeed the catastrophic life-threatening flooding that they've worried about. >> allow us to do what we do best. >> president trump pardoned controversial former sheriff joe arpaio for a criminal contempt conviction. >> if you are upset about joe arpaio, then that is the definition of selective outrage. and that's why people don't trust the media so much. >> important time for the trump administration, its first test of how it handles a major

natural disaster. >> the preparation that this white house and administration have made are all about the people in the path of hurricane harvey. >> i think the response here has been excellent. the president is doing what he should be doing. >> if you are just waking up, you are watching fox & friends and this could be one of the worst natural disasters to ever strike the united states, tropical storm harvey downgraded down to a tropical storm, massive flooding, over 20 inches hitting the houston area. we have been looking at different forecasting models, perhaps another 20 inches of rain yet to come in that area? look at this, with just 20 inches currently, imagine what it is going to look like with that additional rain. >> this has been a fox news alert all morning long, possibly for the next few days as flood emergency in houston as harvey stalls above american's fourth largest city where thousands of people as you can see in videos

we have been getting this morning, trapped in their homes, trapped in their cars, thousands of rescues have already taken place. >> these images have been frightening, also heart breaking. and when we first saw individuals, as you look live right here, when we see the individuals, that's what really brings this back. you realize the human cost. before it was just a lot of water and a lot of cars and not underestimating the severity of it in that situation, but when you see individuals struggling in water up to their waist, up to their necks in some instances, you realize what a human catastrophe we have on our hands right now. >> i want to read what the emergency services sent out about hour and a half ago. this is dire. to think -- imagine this in your own town if your emergency services sends out a message like this, which asks you now that water is coming up to the second floor of your home, don't go into the attic. instead go on the roof. by going into the attic, you better make sure you have an ax because we saw what happened in

galveston 100 some years ago where a number of deaths because of people going up into their attic they were unsuspecting, went up stairs and drowned in their own homes at the uppermost levels. >> once they get to that attic or to the roof of their house, what knows how long they will be stuck up there. we are talking about people who need food, assistance, they need water, some of them needing to get to a hospital at this moment. just as tough for the emergency crews to get to these people to help save them. you are looking at live photos of these rescues taking place. as we were mentioned, clayton, a dire situation. what makes it worse is the rain isn't letting up. we don't know when this will stop. that's where griff jenkins has been all morning long for us on the ground there in houston. you have seen a lot this morning, griff, what is the latest where snur -- where you are? >> i have seen a terrible situation even get worse. we wanted to give you some high ground view. this is that exit to chimney rock that we couldn't make. nothing is passing that. that would literally take a boat.

as you can see, a little higher part here, now walk with me a little bit and i'm going to show you what the streets look like. while i point out a couple of different things, we need to keep remembering the advice of the officials. number one, more than 50% of flood-related deaths are vehicle born. so stay out of your car. if you didn't get bread, you didn't get milk, at this point, you are probably not going to get it because nothing is open. as you mentioned in the open, the officials saying this is a catastrophic flood event. if you are just waking up, this is a catastrophic flood event, and it is going to worsen. if you are in this area. come with me, as i just give you a full view of the length and breadth of the flooding in just this situation. now, this car is demonstrating for us exactly what quite honestly you should not do, unless that is a police official, and i can't quite tell, because the emergency folks are out here as well, it

may be, but traveling through this, it's impossible to know how deep any section of this long 6, 7, 8 block better part of a mile long stretch to see how he's getting deeper now? he's getting very deep. that is the sort of situation where people get stuck. it only takes a few inches for people to get stuck, and once you are into several feet, it becomes that life-threatening situation. he made it through. and we're fortunate, and he has an suv, but as we have been pointed out several times, where is he going? this individual came we saw about 15 minutes ago back to the gas station, the gas station appears to be open. the lights are on. there's an attendant standing in the doorway. we will show you that in a second. we're just tracking this suv to figure out if he's going to make it where he's going. so it's impossible to state the difficulty of movement here, and as i was listening earlier with

pre-positioned resources, that chris wallace was telling you guys about, being a difference of katrina, and i was in katrina, and i was stranded there. we have seen some greater coordination without a doubt of the law enforcement and police along the freeways as we travel, but even the best planning can't account for the rapid fast flood event that's happening and the difficulty as we saw from tweets from the sheriff's -- harris sheriff ed gonzales when he was writing back to people in distress, hang tight, we are trying to get to you. even the best preparation sometimes can't overcome the severity of the rapid deteriorating situation, and this is a situation that is a flash flood emergency. it was a flash flood warning yesterday. it is now a flash flood emergency, and it is not defined to any corner of houston, but

literally every corner of houston at this moment. guys? >> all right, griff jenkins live for us in houston at an overpass to give us some sense of how this is unfolding. >> you see how close that water is to the top of that traffic stop just to give you a sense of how high it's got nn the past couple -- gotten in the past couple of hours. >> a tweet from the president, just moments ago, he writes i will be going to texas as soon as that trip can be made without causing disruption. the focus must be life and safety. obviously the situation there, specifically in houston, but throughout much of that area there in texas is dire right now. if it's not the floods, it is the wind damage that we saw, and there is a human catastrophe going on right now, the president will visit when he won't cause a disruption. >> let's take a look at some of the images we are just now getting into our newsroom this morning as the sun is now up about an hour, we're able to see, look at this, storm drains are not able to capacity the

water of that's going through there. infrastructure crumbling as we talked to a congressman earlier saying telephone poles down as well. homes on fire as you are now seeing. a lot of these coming in over social media, one of the only pieces of infrastructure, twitter and otherwise that's been up and running fine, where people are actually able to send out images and messages to local authorities saying hey, i'm here. here's my address. here's my phone number. please come and help me because i can't get on 911 because the phones are so overwhelmed. >> this is live video right here. live rescues we are watching at this hour on the ground in houston. the water all the way up to their waist. you see the cars almost all of them are completely covered with rain, with water. they are trying to get -- i don't know where they go because as we have heard from griff jenkins and other reporters on the ground there, i mean there's really not a lot of places you can go to find safer ground. so i mean, the whole area is just flooded with water. >> this reporter here, this was from our affiliate there in houston, and a short time ago,

she was able to walk across from that gas station, no longer. i mean this was just a few minutes ago. she was able to walk across that road, down off of the -- on to the shoulder and off of the curb. she's starting to find the curb right there which she was able to get earlier. she can't do that any longer. >> all morning long we have been saying we don't know what's in that water. the road could be gone. there could be debris. we want to bring in harris county judge and emergency management director ed emmett to talk a little bit more about that. reading the notes you gave here. it is a warning that needs to be heeded by everybody in that area. you don't know what the infrastructure situation is right now because the water could have compromised what is underneath. it is a scary situation. elaborate on that. >> well, good morning. it's not that the infrastructure has crumbled, it's simply the fact that, you know, sewer covers could be off, debris could be under the water. you don't know how deep it is.

people are always safer staying in their home, and of course we're having multiple types of events down here. corpus christi, that area got hit by a hurricane. we're having a significant rain event, which is even different. there have been some comparisons to katrina. totally different situation. we have homes that are flooded in low-lying areas and a block away they are fine. so our first responders have spent all morning going out and as the president said this is about life and safety, that's our focus right now. >> let's dive into some of the details here, yesterday. we talked to the sheriff -- i'm sorry, the chief of police a short time ago, and he was saying, you know, we have to wait till some of the storm stops here so we can get a break in the weather to get this emergency task force in, whether they landed at the local airports or not. what can you tell me about that plan? it seems like we are kind of waiting for the break in the weather. >> that's a standard plan that here the state of texas and the local officials work very

closely together. we have asked that locally we have a full-time office of emergency management, harris county has more people in 26 states, so this is not the first rain event we've dealt with. the problem is always until the rain actually comes, you don't know which area of the county you are going to be dealing with. so the area specifically on the southeast yesterday afternoon was fine and by 2:00 or 3:00 this morning, it was under water. so getting the assets to the right part of the county is always the dilemma. >> if people are needing help right at this moment, where should they go? what should they do? >> if their life is in danger, then they need to dial 911. and we -- when i say we, the county, the city, constable, sheriff, everybody we will come get them. it might take a little while. if your life is not in danger, but you need to go somewhere else, then dial 211 or 311. those are the two help numbers

that are not life threatening emergencies. >> all right. harris county judge ed emmett. we really appreciate your time this morning. >> thank you. >> we really hope all the best. >> some of these communities, you know, this is an area -- just to put this in perspective, area being held up as one of the biggest economic expansions area of the united states. so many people moving to this area. just being devastated. lots of new construction. lots of new businesses having moved to the houston area. estimates at this -- well, early this morning about 40 billion dollars in damage, and it looks like those are just early estimates because now with 20 inches of rain and 20 more to come, it could double. >> what's interesting to note, a lot of that new construction that you mentioned was a result of this past year's super bowl -- actually this year's super bowl. any time a city gets a super bowl, a lot of money goes into that city. a lot of new buildings are constructed. i was just there in march of this year, and the city -- at

least in that downtown area is really really new. a lot of new construction. a lot of new roads, and it is going to be a shame to see once this is all done what has happened to all of that. >> i mean, this has become such a hub as we have been talking about, for oil, for chemical companies. when you think about just the economic situation we're dealing with, and the plants that have been shut down, that flooding is going on in houston. this is life footage we're -- this is live footage we're showing of rockport that is where the eye of the storm was overnight. this is the footage we have over the past few hours we are showing you now. we have rob schmitt who has been on the ground. it gives you a sense of the damage as the sun comes up this morning as they are waking up and giving you a better sense of just how hard that town was hit. rockport, texas was in the eye of the storm. we will be right back with more on storm harvey, right after this. nt to me than my vacation. so when i need to book a hotel, i want someone who makes it easy. booking.com gets it. and with their price match, i know i'm getting the best price every time.

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texas. and this is a fox news alert. you are looking at pictures right now of the flood emergency in houston. just a horrific situation all morning long. we also are following the situation in rockport. that is where we find rob schmidt who has been there for a while now, probably the last 24, 48 hours. what are you seeing where you are? >> yeah, guys, you see the situation in houston. the water is tremendous. that's a much more dangerous situation. this is going to be a picture of the other side of the storm, which was the wind, an insane amount of wind that came ashore with this hurricane when it did come ashore as a category 4 hurricane. that is a very very severe storm. this is a situation all over the place. we're right between rockport, kind of near -- getting into that area. this is right where the eye came through. you can see just a disaster made of this home. they had a trailer here on the side. it's ripped apart. trees everywhere. you have standing water over here. kids toys sitting in what now is a pond in the front yard.

i mean you see these kinds of pictures every time we have a hurricane, but when you take this and you multiply it by thousands and thousands and you think about how many people's homes have been destroyed, it's a jarring image. and aerial pictures would be something to see as well. we're working on that as well. you look at the house here. there was a little family dog i assume kind of roaming around the house. there's nobody here right now. everybody packed up and went. what we can assume is an outdoor dog kind of roaming the grounds here. across the street, i don't know if we can pick it up, slide this way a little bit spencer, there's a donkey walking around. we saw a cow walk by, chickens and roosters. everything is a mess. all the animals got out from ten closures and cages. we went down this street, kind of the town area, you know, we saw, you know, completely ripped apart gas stations, wal-mart had some damage. i mean, just damage everywhere is the story from this area where the winds were up at 130 miles-an-hour. back to you.

>> heart breaking. >> thanks rob. >> we want to get out to fox 26 who is live in dickinson texas near houston. what does the area look like there in dickinson. good morning to you. >> good morning, it is completely under water here i'm told from people that live in this area for 30 years, they have not seen it flood like this, the last time we heard it flooding like this was 1979. you can see people with jet-skis. we have also seen airboats and canoes. farther down that stretch right there, a street, it's completely flooded, there are multiple vehicles in there. we saw one person rescued from the hood. we also saw a man holding on to one of the poles out here. we are positioned on the interstate overpass. so that is why we are high enough. we are safe at this point. we are surrounded by other drivers who were out here and they ended up having to stop because the rest of this interstate is flooded out as well. but while we were up here on the overpass, we heard somebody

screaming for help, holding on to one of those poles. it was really chilling hearing him screaming. we weren't sure just how much longer he could hold on, and then some of the guys up here really quickly going to share, angel, one of the people ended up being kind of the guardian angel from this guy, saving the guy from the pole. why did you get into the water to save him? >> i heard him screaming. he was crying. my wife was begging me to help me. i know if i was there, i would want somebody to ask me. my instincts. >> would you do it again? >> if i had to, yes. >> that's the story here. everybody hanging out here at this overpass because there's nowhere else for anybody else to go. that's kind of the story throughout our viewing area. >> heart breaking stuff in dickinson texas near houston. thank you very much. president trump tweeting moments ago they h will visit texas -- that he will visit texas as soon as he go. what goes into planning a trip like that? a former secret service agent

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dan bongino president trump tweeting moments ago he will visit texas as soon as he can. we want to bring in dan to talk about what it is like to plan a trip like this, a former secret service agent. dan, you have a situation really there's little stability on the ground there throughout this much area of texas, when you are trying to plan to bring the president there, what goes through that process? >> yeah, the secret service, we used to call these storm stops. i will just say in advance of this that it is widely understood amongst the three big entities that do these trips, the military, the white house staff and the secret service, widely understood that the focus

is always to be the suffering of the people on the ground, how to fix it, the safety of the people on the ground, and potentially still saving lives. the secret service and their need for resources, which can be pretty extensive on these trips, is always very delicate with that, and if those resources have to be dedicated to saving lives or maintaining some local stability or preventing looting, the secret service will typically be absolutely clear with the locals that you allocate those resources there. we will figure it out another way. you have to be extremely creative as an agent to figure out how to get these storm stops done because nothing's normal. even eating and drinking are hard to do. >> it's a delicate balance too. it's also got to be interesting too, the whole secret service staff getting food and clean water and then you are standing next to folks who don't have food, don't have clean water, that's got to be very difficult. >> it is extremely difficult because again the focus always

has to be that the real suffering there is the people on the ground. it's not the advance team or the white house staff that's going to be in and out and gets to fly home to nice warm beds. believe me, the agents on these trips absolutely understand that, but think about it, even little things on a secret service advance trip that you never have to think of, like electrical power, i mean these are things we have metal-detectors, they are powered by electric. we can use batteries and we will. but these are the kind of things that on storm stop trips -- top trips, you have to be creative on how to do that kind of stuff. one thing that makes it a little easier logistically is -- we used to say if the jackal doesn't know we're coming we have a benefit there, like an off the record movement, usually if you leave where you are going to go to the last minute, you kind of do things without the big footprint you travel with

because no one else knew we were going there either. >> this is live footage we're getting in right now in dickinson, texas, about 50 miles from houston texas as we can see a rope is being let down. i assume it is out there looking to rescue people. dan, you are a former n.y.p.d. officer, i mean the biggest challenge in a situation like this, it is not safe for anyone, not even these rescue crews that are trying to get out there in these waters. people are stranded in their cars to rescue them, people sitting on their rooftops. we don't know when the rain will let up. it is so difficult for people on the ground to try and help people to get people where they need to be and get people the resources they need. >> you have a resource constraint problem here, depending on how many people stayed behind and are trapped. you are simply outnumbered by the general population. if you have say 2 or 3,000 people with serious credible calls for help, which seem obviously from the tragedy of this situation, they all are going to be credible, you just don't have the resources.

and here's another thing here, obviously you are limited on the ground. most of the passageways are flooded. so you can't send vehicle support anything ground based in. air assets are limited. there's only so many helicopters, so many people to man them, so yeah you have potentially an epic human tragedy here developing and it is really sad to watch. i can see it on the screen in front of me. >> don bongino thanks for giving your perspective, fascinating to hear how that advance team would have to deal with. thank you very much. we want to go back to some of the pictures we are looking at in dickinson, texas, about 50 miles away from houston, but it doesn't really matter because they have experienced a boat load of flooding there in dickinson. you can see the rain dripping off the light post there. this helicopter dropping a rope down, perhaps some sort of rescue there with people who are trapped. if they were panning down to the roadways earlier with our local affiliate, that's what the roadways look like on the right side of your screen. that's how high it is.

up to in other areas as high as traffic lights with about a foot left before it would hit the traffic light. imagine that. trying to get between houston in this area, incredibly difficult. all the roadways leading in and out of houston, route 45, going in from dickinson or 288 all basically shut down, all impassable. so people trapped waiting at these gas stations because they can't get home. they have nowhere to go. >> to mention also the airport is completely shut down. i would imagine their international airport very few flights are coming in and out. let's take a listen to what's going on in this moment. >> at what point did you realize we are not going to be able to wait this out? we're going to need help? >> like 45 minutes the water was just gushing in. >> is this everything you own right now? >> for right now, that's it. >> you just grabbed what you could. >> yeah. >> did you call 911 for help?

did you know boats were coming? >> we knew boats were coming but my brother is hpd and he helped. he called for them. >> he was able to help get them here quickly to you. >> how many people back there are in the same situation? >> our whole block. >> your whole block is in that situation. >> yes. >> this is everything. >> bags and all you have in your hand? >> that's it. >> oh my gosh, how old is this little one? >> he's 8 months. he's doing okay through this whole thing. >> you have one more child with you >> yeah, where did he go? >> he went over there. he seems to be in good spirits. >> i'm just glad we're okay. >> what do you think of the effort by first responders? >> this was the scene just a short time ago where we were seeing boats being brought in on trailers right on the highway to rescue these individuals. and this is the result of some of those rescues right now. 8 month old baby. >> little baby. >> just heart breaking, just puts it in perspective. as she was saying you leave your home and you take everything that you think you need with you.

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place. >> you are looking live right now at pictures there in houston, just a horrific human tale going on right now in the great city of houston. coast guard out in full force trying to save as many people as stranded in their cars, homes, even on their roofs as that water just continues to rise there. >> look at these individuals that are waving to try to get the attention of these responders on those boats to try to come and get them out of there. the national weather service says this already has horrific flooding is only going to get worse, possibly historic. griff jenkins has been in houston as he's watched the sun come up and see all of this devastation. griff, what can you tell us at this hour? what are you seeing that's different from two hours ago? >> well, what we have seen different from two hours ago is that people now are starting -- we have gotten off on off ramp and people are walking along as you showed in the other images, but the situation here as you look on the roads is it is very

difficult but isn't as tragic, people are walking down the street. we talked to a gentleman, his english wasn't so good so he didn't want to go on camera, but he conveyed to us he lives about a mile from here. he left his home, lives by himself, he's an older hispanic gentleman, he pointed to his chest, that's how high the water was where he was residing. he had a bag of his supplies, i suppose what he could grab out of his place and said he's trying to go down to the highway where his sister can get -- to get out of here. so you know, we see cars, vans, going but as we watched this next little black suv, it is going to go into this deep stuff, so it's people trying to make the best of a bad situation getting worse. >> griff jenkins live for us in houston. we want to get over to rick because we heard from the chief of police about an hour and a half ago, rick, who said this in

31 years of his coverage of not only the l.a. riots and others, that this is the worst thing he has ever seen in 31 years as a police chief, 20 inches of rain is when he said that. how much worse could it be for him? >> that's a great point, probably not even halfway there in the amount of rain they are going to get when he's already saying that. anywhere you see this maroon color, that's flash flooding that's going on right now. you don't normally see such a widespread area of it, but unfortunately, it includes houston. so houston and everything around it, rainfall totals so far from the storm we've got some areas that are well over 2 feet of rain. in fact houston officially over 2 feet of rain yesterday. so we have a lot more rain ahead. some big concerns for us right now, first of all, as long as the center of the storm is here, that's really what's driving it. but it is going to continue to pull all of this moisture because of that counterclockwise rotation of a storm. our concern is what happens to the storm, and the models that we look at, a number of them

now, pulling it back over the water, if it gets over the water, the center of the storm likely still very intact, that center of low pressure gets over water, it gets stronger again. so one of our models is bringing to it a very strong tropical storm toward hurricane again, i'm not saying that's going to happen, but i'm also not saying it can't happen once it gets back over water. and then all of the models kind of eventually pull it towards the north. i think we're feeling a little more confident in that. remember when we started the storm, we were saying 50 inch rainfall totals, not necessarily believing it, i think that's going to verify, where that happens is probably a little bit further east than we initially thought and that means in the houston area. the model we are looking at now, putting up close to 30 inches of additional rain in houston in addition to what's happened. talking about already flooding they have never seen and get that much more rain coming in. you get the idea. we have a long ways to go, guys. probably thursday before this is out of here.

and that's the entire story really. it is a long duration event. you see what it looks like now. it is going to get much worse. >> there's another side of the story too, which is the economic impact. we want to bring in maria bartiromo host of sunday morning futures who has a busy morning ahead of her as well. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> the fourth largest city, metropolitan, lots of economic growth over the past few years, texas being the sort of beacon of hope for this country, where we were seeing a lot of businesses moving to that area, and then this happens, what kind of a broad impact will this half across the united states? >> i think you just said it. texas is one of the largest states in the country. economic impact in texas, the fourth largest city in the country, houston is going to have a broader impact for the economy. texas was just getting back to really the traction of economic growth. remember last year in 2016, oil prices plummeted and the unemployment rate skyrocketed in texas. they were just getting back on track in terms of growth again and this really sets texas back.

there is the economic and individual toll, 200,000 homes in the path of harvey obviously that's going to mean insurance and property damage. right now we're talking about up to 2 billion dollars in insurance claims so far. >> wow. >> we know there's a lot more rain coming -- >> how much did you say? >> 2 billion dollars so far in insurance claims that we know of. that's out this morning. there's the oil impact. this is home to the oil facilities we need so much in the country. the corpus port there is the leading port in terms of oil and gas in the country. so that is obviously we're seeing a lot of shutdowns there. >> we talk about the chemical plants because a lot of them are based right -- at least near houston with the flooding going on. they did the right thing to shut these big plants down before this hurricane hit. what impact, though, does that have globally? >> they did the right thing, but, you know, you don't know what's going to leak into the water. you don't know what that means

in terms of regular business. shut down means shut down, business stops. in terms of oil and gas, the impact on all of us, you will probably see oil prices move up. you are already seeing that. gasoline prices some indications are that gas prices will be up between 5 and 15 cents a gallon in the texas area, but broadly we could see an impact on that as well. this is going into labor day. people will be paying for more this. >> impact on the markets. there will be winners and losers of all situations. winners in this situation could be your home retail -- home depot, lowe's places like that. >> for sure. >> who do you have coming up? >> we will have the lieutenant governor dan patrick coming on top of the show. we want to get the impact from him in terms of perspective. what does a disaster in texas mean for the broader economy? what is he looking at in terms of damages and costs? we will talk with the chirm

chairman -- chairman of the homeland security, he's coming up as well, michael mccall. hopefully we will have a minute or two after going through what he sees this is his district texas after what he sees as far as the impact we will ask him what he's expecting when congress coming back to work about tax reform. >> maria will be coming up in about 17 minutes, sunday morning futures. great to see you >> thank you. the reverend franklin graham is offering more than just prayers in response to this horrific storm. we will talk about how you can help to help make everyone's lives better here.

9:46 is the time. #:46 in texas -- 8:46 in texas. a fox news alert. you are looking at pictures from the state of texas that we have been getting in all morning long, showing what this storm has done from flooding to the helicopters making rescues.

it's been a dire situation in the state of texas so far this morning. >> thousands of rescues are taking place as we speak in houston, texas where the flooding is at its worse. we have been told that as rick said this could go on all the way until later on this week, into thursday. so we have talked to a lot of officials today, saying look, if you are an emergency situation, know that things will take longer. it will take longer for us to get to where you are. it is difficult everywhere. you have to be on a boat or be in a chopper to help rescue people who are stranded. >> this could be the worst natural disaster -- worst event in our nation's history. we are only halfway through this at this point. we want to bring in reverend franklin graham. you know, people want to help this morning. how can they do that? where can people send money? where can people reach out and offer at least something to shoulder the burden of this? >> well, first of all, i would recommend that we pray.

these people need our prayers. they are going through not just a storm, but it's a storm of life that has destroyed their homes and businesses, and it's going to take weeks and months and possibly years for them to recover, if at all. and so i recommend prayer. samaritan's purse, we already have our response teams in texas. they left north carolina last week. and we'll be going in when the floodwaters recede and we can get to people's homes. we're not first responders, but what we do is we help people retarp their roofs, cut the trees off their houses, mud out their homes, help them take their wet furniture outside and take the wet carpet out of the house and help them to begin to get their house back to where they can get it rebuilt. and we have -- we've worked in texas many times. we were there last year in

houston, helping after the floods last year. we have a lot of partners down there. we have already called. when we knew the storm was coming, and we've already got church partners that we will be working with, but the people right now, they just need our prayers. you see these rescues taking place. this is life and death for many people. we just need to pray for them. >> this is going to be a very long road ahead. on fox news sunday with chris wallace a few moments ago the governor of texas there, greg abbott, he said the damage will be in the billions when all of this is said and done. i mean, it's just horrific when you look at these live scenes we're watching right now of people being rescued but then thinking about the long-term impact, reverend, of what the state particularly in houston, what they are going to be dealing with. talk to us about the importance of the local communities, how they step up in these times and they really give a helping hand. >> well, the local communities do step up, but you have to remember, the entire local community in many of these areas is under water so it's affected

everybody. what we need are volunteers over the course of the next -- not just few weeks, but this will go into -- you know, past christmas, into the next year. we need an army of volunteers. last year samaritan's purse had 14,000 who helped us in disasters like this. it is not just us. it is the red cross, southern baptist, so many organizations. we need an army of volunteers. i would like if you are watching and you would like to be the hands and feet of jesus christ in the next few months, next few weeks to come to texas to help people put their lives back together, to go to our website, it's samaritan's purse.org. >> where can they go on-line? we will put that on our website as well, reverend. such an important point. great to have you on this morning. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. coming up here on the show, a lost dog jumps into the storm chaser's car in the middle of the hurricane. coming up the lengths he went to track down the owner of this

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we are back with some amazing stories. a dog lost during hurricane harvey jumps into the car of a storm chaser. watch this. >> hey guys i'm on my way back to austin from victoria, texas, and i've picked up a little passenger here. i need help trying to find his owner. so if you can share, tweet, whatever you got to do to help. >> that storm chaser posting that video on twitter. within just a couple of hours, get this, he received over 5,000 retweets, helping the dog named cash reunite with his owners. >> joining us now is that storm chaser, aaron. nice to see you this morning. what happened? you had the window opened. the dog just jumped in?

>> like i mentioned in the video you just watched i was in victoria texas weathering the hurricane. i was running low on gas. i tried to find a way out of town. as i was rolling up to gas station, the dog started following me. once i stopped to get gas, he jumped right into the vehicle. >> his name is cash. have you been in contact with the owner? >> yes, so actually -- within minutes, within an hour, i found his owner. i wasn't sure if it was the owner, but i got like multiple people telling me it was the owner. and sure enough, it was the owner, and i took him back last night. >> i would take him too. he's so cute. >> do you know what happened? did they get misplaced in each other? was the dog left behind because of the situation? >> well, so they were -- the city i found them, they were in the evacuation zone, but it wasn't necessarily going to be bad weather, so they had -- the owner said that he was actually was on call for work and had

left, and the dog had jumped out of his kennel because it had gotten scared. >> we see a lot of these dogs being tied up to trees where families have just fled and left and left the dogs tied up to the trees which is just heart breaking. so have you reunited? have you already given the dog back to the owner? >> yep, drove back from austin last night and met up with the owner at the same gas station i found him at and we got together and handed him the dog. the dog was trying to jump out the window back to the owner when he walked up. >> an amazing story to end our coverage this morning. aaron, thank you very much for joining us. great good samaritan there. >> glad he's safe. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> we appreciate it. we will have more fox & friends in just a moment. the fi. dude. they're just jealous. kellogg's raisin bran crunch with crunchy clusters and the taste of apples and strawberries. i got one! guess we're having cereal for dinner. kellogg's raisin bran crunch apple strawberry. it's a highly contagious disease that can be really serious...

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of people being rescued on the ground there in houston texas. not a lot of ground, all covered in water. >> maria bartiromo picks up our coverage starts right now. >> good sunday morning everybody. thanks for joining us. the worst may be yet to come from tropical storm harvey. the white house facing backlash this morning over the pardon of sheriff joe arpaio. and the war of words between senator jeff flake and president trump is heating up. good morning. i'm maria bartiromo. thanks for being with me. this is sunday morning futures. houston under water. tropical storm harvey slamming the fourth biggest city in the country. the deadly storm dumping nearly 2 feet of rain already with more on the way. more than a thousand people have been rescued from historic flooding. but many more are still stranded as we speak. the very latest on rescue operations this mornin