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headquarters." arthel: and i'm arthel neville. more than 2,000 desperate calls for help with reports of people trapped on their roofs and atics. the national weather service saying the total rainfall from harvey could reach 50" in places, making it the highest ever recorded in the statement here is texas governor greg abbott. >> we want to emphasize the importance when there is heavy rainfall, when there is flooding, the importance of staying off the road. if you drive into water, you're taking your life into your own hands. arthel: let's go to caroline shively live in houston. exactly where are you, caroline? reporter: we're in 610 north, arthel. if you know this area. this is the i-10 split. right behind me, water deeper there. i know they are begging folks to stay off the roads. that's not the case here. you see regular folks, we've talked to wreckers loading up

cars, helping them drive across the little piece they can't get through for 50 bucks, that's way below the city rate. doing that so people can get home. we saw the sweetest sight i have seen since we arrived. more than two dozen national guard trucks came barreling through. we saw humvees, fuel trucks, the high water trucks, they are headed to downtown to rescue the folks, people who cannot get out of their houses, not just the officials or national guard helping out. people have been in their boats, been in their cars, trying to rescue people they know plus strangers off of roofs. here's one man we've been talking to, one of the heroes. we've been out here today, what you have been doing? driving around doing what? >> trying to help people stuck in water, everything like that, get out of the house, put them in the water, all those kind of things. reporter: and you loaded them up and driven them to where? >> getting my family members

and take them home, everybody else take them to high ground. reporter: what's the worst you've seen? >> the water up to here. that's the highest i've been. reporter: right up to here, how on earth did you get through? >> i really don't know. it was luck. reporter: you were up until 5:00 a.m. with the rescues. what's next? >> i went asleep at 5:00 and kept on going in the morning. that's what i've been doing. reporter: what happens tonight? >> hopefully dies down, right now i'm going to go home and get rest buzz i've been up all bay. reporter: what's the plan for this? can you get across it? >> i'll cross it good, it's not that high. reporter: good luck, get the family members. we're seeing the officials do everything we can, calls like that, get your boats, get your trucks, if you can pluck your neighbor off the roof. if you have a vehicle that can cross high water, do it, houston definitely needs you

tonight. arthel? arthel: caroline shively, thank you very much, at the i-10/610 split, thank you very much. eric: that is inspiring seeing residents help each other in houston. also in the city of corpus christi, texas. that city took a big hit from hurricane harvey. made landfall outside of the town of rockport on the gulf coast. survivors are calling what happened as harvey slammed ashored. >> the wind was probably, i don't know, 100+, maybe 130, 140. there was a couple of times when it was probably going faster than that. >> i'm melancholy. i can't believe this is happening, and i have no apartment. my apartment was decimated. eric: that just seemingly a typical story, so heart breaking. steve harrigan is in corpus christi. you can see the devastation behind him. hi, steve. reporter: it is, eric, it's a sad scene when you drive by

house after house or row after row of mobile homes toppled over and crushed. when you see the material inside the homes, the children's toys, the furniture, the clothing, mixed with tree branches and mud. it's really hard to process and all along the coast between here and corpus christi to rockport. that 35-mile stretch got hit hard. around rockport the hardest with the category 4 hitting 10:00 local with winds up to 130 miles per hour. that category 4 hurricane does structural damage to buildings and all around rockport can you see the structural damage. roofs gone, second stories gone, entire buildings gone, and that mood of melancholy, the sadness, on the one hand you are grateful you survived, but to look at the utter loss and devastation, not only your own but everyone's around you put you in a daze there, and the people that are beginning to come back are dazed by the level of destruction there.

eric: and we're dazed. you look at the efforts there, and you see one of the rescuers kicking down the door trying to find if people are alive and still in the home. the rescue efforts are continuing, and then get to the rebuilding efforts. reporter: right now it still is a search and rescue. so much unknown. casualty figures are extremely low. there is no self service and it's tough there. you see people without guidance from above taking it upon themselves, three firefighters with axes knock down doors. is anyone alive in here? we saw a husband and wife, all they had was a flashlight, going, looking, trying to help do, what they could. when circumstances are so extreme. the help is on the way, we saw military vehicles and conviews there, but until they got there, it was really people volunteering trying to help in any way they could. back to you. >> that is an inspiring example what they're going through and, of course, others have said remember the red cross and

trying to help with this and deal with the devastation. steve harrigan who is live tonight in corpus christi. thank you, steve. arthel? arthel: waist-high water devastating southeast texas prompting water rescues as people are stuck in cars and homes, and the worst may be yet to come as tropical storm harvey is on track to possibly bring in the most rain texas has ever seen. meteorologist adam klotz live in the fox extreme weather center. why is the storm lingering in the area? adam: it's doing so because there is nowhere to go. a big high pressure to the north of where the center is spinning, it's been bumping into it, and now has to settle back towards the gulf of mexico. we have new steering information, in the latest track is showing this is going to settle down towards the coast. currently 25 miles southwest of or northwest of victoria, there in texas.

drifting back down to the coast. and that's going to take you into monday or tuesday. now the storm may be picking up more moisture. it's close to the gulf. picking up more moisture before it turns and heads back up towards the houston area on wednesday and thursday, we're going to continue to drop more rain, continuing to follow it. finally allowed to track farther to the north with the latest modeling. that leaves it right in the same area where we can continue to see more rain falling and beginning to pile up. currently, that motion is slow moving at 2 miles an hour, it's going to begin to move more so on monday into tuesday, and as long as it doesn't move quickly, we're going to see the numbers pile up. currently from houston and a large area there, we're looking at consistently, here's our legend, numbers getting up to 20", 25" in some cases. you get digged down a little deeper and see in the metro area around it anyways, especially there on the eastern side of the city, we are getting up to the 20+ to 25" of

rain. and i think with that route i showed you, we could be talking about heavier rain, bigger totals on the way as we're going to keep getting slammed by the moisture lifting off the gulf of mexico and running into the east texas coast. here's our future radar, we see even though there might be periods where you get a break stretching all the way from rockport back into portions of louisiana, we're talking about rounds and rounds of these big thunderstorm and at times absolute downpours where you can get as much as 4, 5, 6" of rain an hour if you get the bands during this time frame. into tuesday and wednesday and really hovers there moving up the coast slowly. how much more rain could we see? we've seen about 20 to 25" and models are indicating in houston and farther off towards the east, could be running similar numbers. take you in tighter here so you

can see better 25, up to 30" of rain, this could stretch over to the louisiana border. so this is becoming a problem for everyone. but as you asked, the steering why can't it move anywhere? couple of high pressure systems, it is trapped it. can't go up to the north, can't fall too far off towards the east so has no choice but to run up the gulf coast there. arthel: well, it's the forecast, and unfortunately the folks in texas have to continue to bear the brunt of the rain and ride it out. good luck to everyone in texas for sure. adam klotz, thank you very much. eric: and meanwhile, the president is set to witness harvey's destruction and devastation firsthand. he's going to travel to texas tuesday. the president praised the rescue efforts by the first responders. garrett tenney is live at the white house where the president returned from the meetings on harvey at camp david. garrett, what do we know what is planned for the president's trip?

reporter: the president has been pushing to visit texas since late last week, only a matter of when the trip would take place, any time the president travels, it is an enormous undertaking, you can take up a lost resources and has the potential to make things that much more difficult for local leaders and agencies that are already overwhelmed. yesterday, former fema director michael brown said the timing of these kinds of trips is a challenge for every administration. >> so it's that balancing act because the president travels with the huge bubble, and that bubble shuts down everything, it shuts down airspace, shuts down travel, et cetera. reporter: and this afternoon, white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said those reasons are why they are coordinating logistics with state and local officials to work out the details, adding we continue to keep all of those affected in our thoughts and prayers. eric? eric: fema has about 5,000 workers the ground. more assets are going in. what have they told what you is

planned for the federal government and the days ahead, garrett? reporter: fema has deployed 1200 fema employs there for harvey. some of those there are to help with the search-and-rescue efforts. the bulk of those there are there for the recovery efforts. fema has half million meals and water along with 20,000 tarps and 60 generators. the problem is with the nonstop rain and massive flooding, most of that supplies can't get to the places that need it most, for a lot of areas, we are several days away from the actual recovery process of this storm getting under way, eric? eric: there is a challenge ahead, sundown less than two hours from now. garrett, thank you so much. arthel: one of the largest oil refineries shutting down because of hurricane harvey. details how that could affect what you pay at the gas pump? more of the administration's response to the first major natural disaster to hit the u.s. since

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. arthel: president trump giving high praise to all the agencies working on the disaster relief in texas. they performed thousands of water rescues already and there will be many, many more to

come. the president planning to go to texas on tuesday to survey the damage as federal officials say the cleanup will go on for at least weeks. >> what we're here involved in is a marathon, i think there's two messages for me today. the first is we're focused on life safety operations and the second is we're not going it lose our focus as the next days and weeks unfold and people continue to need assistance. arthel: here to talk with me is betsy woodruff, political reporter for the daily beast. betsy, governor abbott giving the administration an a+, that grade given across the board? >> speaking broadly, seems the president hasn't gotten too much pointed criticism for his response to this hurricane, even though obviously his critiusually quite enthusiastic to dig into him when they get the chance. we're seeing former dhs

officials express concern him visiting texas on tuesday could be too soon. remember, there are complicated issues and protocols when it comes to a president visiting anywhere within the united states, and there are some concerns that if he goes texas depending where he goes, how close he wants to get to the action, that could be an extra strain on first responders. that said, all available evidence indicates the white house and governor abbott has very clear and open lines of communication so, it's likely that the texas governor has any concerns about president coming, he'll be able to explain that and they'll be able to find a way to hopefully do this in a way that doesn't make things harder for the folks responding on the ground. arthel: right and, of course, president trump is the first to the use twitter to communicate with the country about the natural disaster, and again, she planning to visit there tuesday in texas. and the president has said all along, he doesn't want to be a disruption. he wants to go when it's okay. they're making sure to

coordinate with the local and state officials there. and to your point earlier, this is always a tough call. if a president goes in too soon and disrupts the operation, he gets criticized. if he takes too long, he comes across as not caring. do you think, if, in fact, the president and his administration can work out the details with governor abbott as well as the local officials to say yes, tuesday would be a good time to come, mr. president, do you think those will be the consoling images that the nation needs right now is. >> it's possible, i'm watching the footage reporters have had over the course of the afternoon. it's heart breaking and astonishing to see so many people truly hurting and suffering and facing fear and extraordinary uncertainty. so having a president step in with a unifying message and having the president encourage folks to support disaster relief organizations, to support the red cross and other

ngo's in helping people get on safety and start to recover, that can be really key. you know past presidents get criticism from seeming too detached from natural disasteres. it can be a balancing act. on the one hand you don't want to be president obama during one of the final natural disasters when he went on vacation when people are suffering or obviously president bush in katrina. on the other hand, of course, and i'm confident the white house is sensitive to this, the president doesn't want to make shings more complicated for first respondering by showing up prematurely. this is not a politics crisis, not about capitol hill, not about the beltway. this is about people on the gulf coast who are hurting and frightened and potentially find hope in seeing that the nation's chief executive is concerned about them and sharing their fears and struggles. arthel: absolutely, and betsy, we're looking at live pictures out of houston as the rescue

efforts continue there. it's going to be continuing throughout the night and days to can. 19 counties included in the federal disaster declaration for the coastal counties. governor abbott anticipating more counties would be added and you mentioned this is not about politics and about the people, and people coming together to help one another, but, of course, you know betsy, once the water dries and the people are back in their homes and wherever they're going to be for safety for the next weeks and months to come, there will be the political pundits who start to look at what happened. they're going to look at when the president pardoned sheriff arpaio, the night the storm hit. they're going to be looking at all of that. maybe, just maybe, the way the president handles disaster now in the weeks to come, it may be the turning point that turned the tide for him in where he would gain more support for more people in this country.

>> that is certainly possible, and the weeks and months to come are the most important part of. this right now the president's leadership role is symbolic, in the weeks and months it come though, he'll be making concrete decisions how to allocate federal resources to help the gulf coast recover to try to help people heal and rebuild and figure out how to restart their lives, and that actually does involve complicated policy questions, where there will be political concerns. one issue for president trump is going to be how involved does he want washington does, he want the federal government to be, in what's likely to be a long, arduous, complicated and very expensive recovery process for the gulf coast. so for him, the real major test is in the coming weeks and months. that said, the fact he has general kelly at his side as chief of staff is important here. general kelly previously ran the department of homeland security which includes running fema. the agency responsible for

helping people survive disasters and helping them rebuild in the wake of those disasters. trump is fond of telling people he's not a politician, that he doesn't have government experience, so it's really important he surrounded himself with folks who do have experience dealing with the huge federal bureaucracy. dealing with these agencies, dealing with getting resources from point a to point b, and that's why a number of folks are cheered that general kelly is chief of staff for this crisis. arthel: we leave it there. betsy woodruff, thank you so much. >> sure thing. eric: arthel, the impact of harvey is also hitting the nation's refinery capacity. the "wall street journal" tonight reporting exxon shut down the nation's second largest refinery complex amid the devastating floods of harvey. the bay town refinery is suspending operations we're told as a safety precaution for the employees and the surrounding community. the complex happens to pump out half a million barrels of fuel a day along with petrochemical

products. bay town's closure along the gulf coast is now raising concerns about possible fuel shortages in the coming weeks. experts say that could cause a spike at the pump with gas prices, but we'll keep you posted on that. arthel: the air is thick with intrigue after president trump issues a pardon of former sheriff joe arpaio. could the president be sending a message to special counsel robert mueller in his russia investigation? our legal panel on that next. plus, americans not standing as they watch this disaster unfold in houston. up next, how people across the country are pitching into help those who really, really need it.

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and homes where rising floodwaters have stranded many around houston. with the people who are being rescued tonight and he has more from the maryland neighborhood of houston. reporter: more than 3,000 national guards showing up on the scene here in houston. more than 56,000 calls to the 911 services here between 10:00 p.m. saturday night and 1:00 p.m. today on sunday. now, we are late in the afternoon, and you just see hundreds of rescues taking place. the houston search-and-rescue teams volunteers, bringing their own boats, bringing them scores and scores and scores of home in this southwest neighborhood of mireland where people are trying to get out before yet another day of historic rain in desperate conditions. the authorities still pleading with him, do not call 911 unless you have a

life-threatening situation. you see this gentleman who's being rescued. i just can't tres enough that the situation here requires cooperation with officials, no matter why we got here or how we got here, this is one of if not the most historic and worst flood disasters to hit houston and now we see the goodwill of volunteers and the hard work and dedication and sacrifice of the houston law enforcement trying to do everything they can to save the day. back to you, eric. eric: griff, thanks, with the inspiring look at the best of the law enforcement officials and volunteers helping each other. arthel: yeah, the worst of times are bringing out the best in many americans from coast-to-coast. government agencies and private companies are pitching in to help the people of texas caught in the path of harvey. will carr is live in los angeles with this part of the story. hi, will. reporter: hey, there arthel.

support is pouring in all across the country. eight states providing critical resources and that number continuing to go up throughout the weekend. in california, we've seen private companies send supplies along with the los angeles fire department which just sent upwards of 80 men and women, a mix of rescue and hazmat specialists doctor and dog handlers and three semis filled with 100,000 pounds of equipment. >> breaching, braking, lifting equipment that can go from a small structure that's collapsed all the way up to a large concrete structure. reporter: that will be fout use immediately as we just learned, dallas is planning to set up a mega shelter to house at least 5,000 evacuees. more than 1800 people in red cross shelters in texas and louisiana last night, you can expect the number to spike tonight with all the rescuing that we've seen throughout

course of the day as volunteers continue to race to the scene from nearby states. >> i'm going to be doing anything from delivering supplies to shelters, delivering cleanup, bleach, to people that have wells, mops, buckets, could be feeding 400 people a day. reporter: and they need help. many of the reputable organizations including the red cross and the salvation army have information on social media pages how they can donate. we're not close to the recovery part of this disaster. the head of fema anticipates female be in texas for years once the rain stops falling. eric? eric: will, thank you so much. speculation swirling around washington after president trump issued that controversial pardon for former maricopa sheriff joe arpaio, friday night. it is related to the federal conviction for criminal contempt in defying a federal judge's ruling profiling latinos and the sheriff

immigration sweeps. while i talks, these are live pictures in houston. caroline shively is going along with rescue humvee vehicles, we've been seeing the wonderful rescues throughout the whole afternoon. volunteers and first responders going to the neighborhoods that have been del ujd by waters from harvey, as you can see, they'll be heading into the local neighborhood as soon as we get further along there. we'll show you that. today some analysts are wondering if the pardon of sheriff joe is a sign for special counsel robert mueller and his investigation on whether the trump campaign colluded with russia. could the president down the line pardon anyone who could be indicted? our legal panel is here. david bruno, robert schlatt, former defense attorneys and prosecutors. is it a precursor? >> if anyone in the russia investigation gets indicted,

charges or whatever? >> has to be a federal prosecution for the pardon to take place, and obviously there is backlash that sheriff joe was very staunch supporter of president trump's campaigned with him, et cetera, and think about it, he pardoned him before he was sentenced. his sentencing isn't scheduled until october and only convicted of a misdemeanor, he wasn't convicted of a felony. is he willing to do it before someone is sentenced on such a lower level charge? i have no doubt there will be discussions of potential pardons down the road. eric: can the president pardon someone before they're indicted? >> yes, as long as the crime has been committed. they can be pardoned. but there doesn't have to be formal charges yet, the crime has to be committed, not for future conduct. eric: david, you think we'll see more? >> yeah, i do. there has been a lot of criticism about this decision lately. and the fact is it's his absolute power to pardon under the clemency laws under the constitution, and to be

critical of this, you need to look back at president's prior decisions. president obama pardoned more people than any other president in history. almost 2,000. eric: some of this has been controversial. chelsea manning. >> sure. eric: some consider a traitor. bill clinton, mark rich, denise rich gave thousands to the democratic effort and the clinton administration said there is no connection to that. not only, that the faln, a terrorist issue. >> yeah, susan macdougal is the most questionable in my mind. eric: let's stick with this president now, and let me read to you two prominent democrats, adam schiff, the chief investigator in the house says this, arpaio action was appalling and political and sends witnesses to keep quiet and stay loyal and get pardoned, but another prominent democrat senator richard blumenthal of connecticut has opposite view. he says any witness counting on

russia investigation pardon should think again. trump's loyalty is limited. witnesses can be compelled to testify in the pardons apply only to federal crimes. what if there's a state investigation? >> on that point, there can be state investigation even if there's a pardon. that means that the fifth amendment right to remain silent still exists. someone pardoned federally could go into a grand jury and say i'm invoking my right to remain silent because of potential grand jury charges. eric: because of a grand jury, you mean? >> correct, correct. you could be prosecuted in other jurisdiction, state, federal or other state, you could still say that you have constitutional rights to remain silent. eric: a federal pardon could help you in the state court? >> sure. either way, if you are pardoned in the federal court and have you criminal exposure, you should be invoking fifth amendment right, irrespective of federal pardon. eric: you have the situation that he asked jeff sessions,

the attorney general in the spring, maybe trying to drop the case against sheriff joe? >> if you read the federal code, it's a five-year normal wait to petition the federal government to seek a pardon. this was done before he was sentenced. eric: but the president has the power. >> he has the absolute power. the optics of it and the timing are so very strange. he had an appeal based upon the trial that was done because it was done via bench trial but pending to take the hire court. he hasn't been sentenced yet. he had so much more time to let this play out. eric: for anybody in the mueller investigation? not close to being indicted if there is any at all, this is a message? >> i think this is a message, but again, let it play itself out. nothing has come down with regards to the investigation, let thereby a decision made. and as you pointed out, absolute right that can be done in any given time. eric: david, downing it will happen? >> i agree.

right now this is a conspiracy theory and differing opinions. until someone is charged, that's when we should talk about the pardon with respect to russia. eric: he has the power to do that, and he, the president of the united states certainly does. thank you very much. arthel: much more ahead on tropical storm harvey's devastation. texas governor greg abbott joins us to talk about how the storm is affecting people in his state? edible arrangements for summer. order in store or online. iugh... nothing fits.. you're just bloated from gas. i can see it and i know you feel it. take gas-x®, the #1 gas relief brand. it relieves pressure and bloating fast! so you can wear whatever you want. pcountries thatk mewe traveled,t

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ . eric: it turns out social media is taking an important role in the rescue efforts from tropical storm harvey. from residents who are using it to alert authorities that i need to be rescued to others who are merely sharing experiences, and in doing so, providing us with memorable images of what people are going through right now. bryan llenas has been following the role of social media from here in our newsroom. reporter: hi, eric, we continue

to comb through social media to bring you a personal perspective how people in the houston area are dealing with catastrophic flooding. one photo from dickinson texas, 30 miles southeast of houston is break a lot of hearts nationwide right now. this is inside the la vida bella nursing home. shows 15 elderly residents sitting at waist and shoulder-deep water inside the assisted living facility. the photo was texed this morning 8:00 a.m. local time by the owner of the nursing home to her daughter who lives all the way in tampa, florida. she implored her daughter to get help because the water was riegz. you can see in the photo were also pets inside, that's a cat floating on perhaps a bed of some sort. trudy's cell phone died so her daughter kimberly and husband tim tweeted this photo and called emergency services. the photo went viral, some thought it was fake from

perhaps hurricane katrina, they sent in the national guard which rescued 15 residents. i spoke to kimberly who said the nursing home was told not evacuate before the storm. >> we immediately called back and were having trouble getting in touch with anybody for rescue, we decided to tweet it because we thought at least then we could get someone's attention. it's frightening, imagine your mom a few states away with all of the residents and the poor residents, it's so heart breaking to see them. my mom can take care of herself, but the residents can not. reporter: this video tweeted by carlos gomez shows a small boat picking up people from a highway ramp and bringing them to safety. they are asking residents with flat bottom boats for rescue. people continue to posto facebook, instagram and twitter showing the scope of the flooding from their perspective, highways and

vehicles submerged with more rain on the way. local authorities are urging people not to use social media accounts if they're asking for rescue requests. they don't want to you go on the houston police department facebook page and otherwise if it is truly life threatening. call 911 if it is, or if you need rescue, call 311. eric: two very good points, social media providing a very important and vital role as we saw in the assisted living center. arthel: recovery efforts in texas expected to take years. governor greg abbott coming up next to tell us more. [radio alarm] ♪ julie is living with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of her body. she's also taking prescription

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. arthel: nearly a quarter of the population of texas living in areas covered by a federal disaster declaration from tropical storm harvey. rescue teams working around the clock to save people trapped in the floodwaters. a fema administrator talking about the rescue efforts. >> right now, we are deep into the life safety mission of helping people be rescued through swift-water rescues, search and rescue, and it's my job to coordinate. that so specifically, what i mean is that under the national response framework, we mission assign the coast guard, the

d.o.d. assets in support of state and local efforts, you're seeing that right now. arthel: joining me now texas governor greg abbott. thank you for being with me. >> thank you. arthel: absolutely, sir, listen, the flooding continues, more rain on the way, governor, you got your hands full. what's your priority that the hour? >> protecting life. we had to do all we can to protect life as you have seen the rain poured out in houston, texas and the entire region, not just houston, the counties around houston also. our top priority is to protect life. we have deployed about 3,000 national guard and about 1700 dps officers to make sure that we're doing all we can to save lives. we have about 20 helicopters in the air doing air rescues, we have boats in the water. we're trying to work with local authorities not just in houston but across the entire state to protect texans. arthel: you are doing a fine

job from what we're seeing here, governor, and on "fox news sunday" with chris wallace, you gave fema, the president and his administration a+, give us an idea of behind the scenes coordination of state and local authority asks can you tell us what you coordinated with the federal government? >> coordination started with fema in anticipation of the hurricane coming ashore. we have been in daily contact with them. i personally visited with the president and cabinet members multiple times and after visiting with chris wallace this morning, i visited with the fema administrator again as we continue to both prepare for and deal with these challenges, not just now but as he made clear to me, he understands this is going to be a long time process cleaning up from this disaster. so the good news is texas and fema and the federal government are working hand in hand as we help the local government's response to the local

challenges. arthel: governor, while you and i are speaking, showing live pictures in houston at the brown convention center, this is video coming into the newsroom. we're showing the people sheltering for who knows how many days to come, and you laid out a comprehensive plan, governor, before, during and after harvey. insurance claims will be a priority. fema will play a major role as you know. is there any way you can work with fema to make sure that the process runs smoothly for those folks, some of them at the convention center right now and others around texas who are affected? and how do you know if you qualify? >> sure, part of the good news about the fact that the president made the disaster declaration is it triggered the involvement of fema. our work with fema is already under way. and fema will engage with the

local and county governments also dealing with this, but as the administrator made clear to me earlier today, they are engaged and will stay fully engaged to make sure that all of these challenges from those people that you see at the george r. brown center are addressed. arthel: absolutely, one of the executive actions you have taken is waived the occupancy sales tax, what are the next steps, governor, that you are planning along those lines? >> after we get through with the saving lives and the rescue process, it will be the rebuilding process, and, in fact, we've already begun that where the hurricane initially hit, in the corpus christi area, we've had the texas department of transportation working with the local community to begin clearing out roads and begin the rebuilding process, and so this is a step-by-step process that's going to take a while to rebuild from such a massive

storm. arthel: and governor, you well know, have you 7,000 dams in texas, two in houston considered extremely high risk. what's the strategy as it pertains to the dams sir? >> i'm very concerned about those dams. there as well as in other parts of the state of texas, i get a daily briefing on the status of them. the daily briefing today is that they are still just fine but it's something that we monitor on a daily and multiple times a day basis. arthel: governor greg abbott, i think you're doing a fantastic job, keep up the good work, sir. thank you on behalf of the folk in houston and all of us watching, our hearts go out to all of you in texas. governor greg abbott, thank you, sir? >> thank you. eric: amid the devastation of tropical storm harvey, there's a heart-warming story, but a dog that found his way back to his owner after the storm split them apart.

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chaser and he helped him home again. >> i'm on my way from austin to victoria and i picked up a passenger. i need help trying to find his owner. if you could share, tweak, whatever to help. >> storm chaser aaron jj posted that video. within a few hours more than 5000 people retreated. this morning he explained what happened next. >> within an hour, i found his owner. i had multiple people telling me it was the owner. sure enough it was and i took him back last night. >> i love that. cash has been you reunited. his owners said he got scared and jumped out of his kennel. they are grateful he is safe. >> a good ending in that story. we hope a lot of people have good ending spread the nation's with texas tonight and all the folks trying to deal with the harvey storm.

>> our coverage continues with the fox report. thanks for joining us on fox news channel. we know you have a choice and we appreciate your time with us. >> the largest city underwater, tropical storm harvey and catastrophic floodwaters. this is a record-breaking 50 inches of rain when it's all over. you are watching the fox report. >> the national weather service calling the storm unprecedented after making landfall as a category four hurricane. tropical storm harvey is bearing down on houston, overwhelming rescuers and causing thousands of family to climb on the rooftop. the national guard is sending in 3000 troops. texas governor is telling