the way. "america's news headquarters" starts now. >> harris: houston under water. the nation's fourth largest city in trouble. the rain keeps falling. i'm harris faulkner. severe flooding from houston to corpus christi. the governor is about to talk to his people and the world. he will be joined by texas senator john cornyn. we'll take you there as it happens. we're rescues in the thousands. bringing thousands of people to safety. tens of thousands of people making their way to shelters. by the time the worst is over, days from now, nearly 500,000 people are expected to need assistance. president trump is keeping tabs on developments, planning to visit the region tomorrow. we have fox team coverage. let's go first to adam klotz who is with me a few feet away in the studio.

adam? >> we're looking at rain stretching from houston, farther to the south and the west. now lingering all the way across the gulf coast. you're looking at rain and now tornado-warned storms rolling on the coast, all along i-10 there. that is getting close to new orleans if you're getting on the far right side of your screen. this will continue. a lot of moisture on the coast. that isn't going anywhere the next couple days. where is the storm itself going? our circulation is back towards port lavaka. we have the energy on the right-hand side of this. typically you get the worst weather on the right-hand side. here's the future motion. monday to tuesday morning. continuing to drift back out over the gulf of mexico. that allows it to get more moisture, which means more rain on the way. we continue to play this out. wednesday, we see more of a shift to the north, running over houston to thursday. i'm looking at this running up through shreveport. it's bringing the moisture with

it dropping rain. as it moves to the right-hand side, that's where we'll see the worst weather. houston, you're in the path but on the better side of the storm. more rain is on the way. so what does that mean? here's the time stamp. here's the spinning motion. most of the heavy rain towards new orleans, lake charles. houston seeing some shower activity along the texas-louisiana border. what could the rainfall totals be? we'll look at the numbers. it's on the houston border. maybe another 10 inches in houston. additional ten inches. 30 and in some cases up to 40 inches. as you drift to the north and to the east, look at this. some spots may be getting up to another 25 inches. this is additional. there's already a lot of folks under water. we could be doubling the

rainfall totals in some spots. >> you and i are going back and forth this hour. i want to check in on the dam situation. they're releasing some of the pressure in houston. we'll talk about that coming up. adam, thanks very much. let's go to griff jenkins live at the attics reservoir. is it raining again, griff? >> it's absolutely driving rain right now. we stand here at the reservoir. of course, the historic epic amount of rainfall at levels that was measured in 500 years. now we're understanding reaching an 800-year level. you're looking at the bubbling water. 10,000 cubic feet of water per second flowing out of the reservoir. that's the attics red investor.

just a few moments ago, the geological survey folks were taking a measurement of how much water is released. because it needs to be correct. if they release too little, the water and these conditions continues to rise. if it crests for the first time in history, one of these reservoirs or that levee breaks, downtown houston is gone. it's going to be even more catastrophic as a dire situation as we've seen. if they release too much, as the water moves out, it will add entirely unnecessary water to existing flooding situations. we saw thousands of rescues today. we've had thousands more trying to take place now. in these conditions, the volunteers can't take john boats out. the houston rescue guys, the coast guard can operate, but it's going to impede those efforts. this is the story. that reservoir. this is a bad situation to have

to target new areas that may be in the flow. this water, by the way, will flow southwest around downtown houston into the buffalo bayou and other tributary systems to get to the ship channel to get it away from the city. it's being besieged by the flood waters. we're told possible as much as 15 inches or more in this latest storm. the conditions are such, harris, after this live shot, we have to get out of here lest we get in stuck in front of a levee that could break. >> harris: i understand what you're saying. i don't want to go on too long. i didn't realize you were already getting driving rain. makes sense that they would want to release the pressure on this. as you talk about the water moving away from where you are, i remember from well into the wee hours of the morning, the mayor, sylvester turner saying

turn around, don't drown. are we seeing people in their cars in that community? >> let me say first and foremost, the army corps of engineer guys know what they're doing. they're trying to get it just right. the decision that this has put folks in new neighborhoods that may take on additional flooding not just from mother nature but from the reservoirs. can't turn around and not drive. movement is paralyzed in this city. i-10, i-45. all of the routes are flooded at any given moment. it's a very tough situation to put everybody in today. >> harris: i appreciate you addressing the new areas that could see water. it's unavoidable. they have to release the pressure. but people are wondering is it going to flood here. griff, get to safety. you mentioned that you may be

imperilled as they're releasing the water pressure. president trump expected to arrive tomorrow in corpus christi, texas where an initial cleanup operations is underway. sean strawbridge is the deputy executive director and chief operating officer for the port of corpus christi. he joins me now. sean, thanks for being with us. >> thank you for having me, harris. >> i want to talk about the facts so people understand, your city was hit hard as hurricane harvey came off -- on to shore through the gulf. so you have several areas, including your city that were hit hard. now because of where the storm is, you're not getting as much rain which gives you an opportunity to do cleanup. so i want to start there before we talk about oil. >> absolutely. we're in most harvey recovery mode. we're fortunate that we didn't have a direct hit. had harvey hit 20 miles more to

the south, we would be having a much different situation down here. it's our current responsibility and priority to get the refineries back up and operational and get the first responders the fuel they need. that will require an opening of the corpus christi ship channel, which is the life blood in operations in this part. >> harris: has anybody gone down to survey the channel? i would imagine that would have to be done by air. >> we've done an initial aerial reconnaissance, the coast guard has done that. but the responsibility for the underwater surveying is the united states army corps of engineers. those resources are typically stationed in the galveston district. unfortunately galveston, as you know, experiencing a tremendous amount of flooding in their own challenges. so getting resources and crews that would normally be available to us down here has proven to be a bit of a challenge for us.

we're in constant contact with the army as well as the coast guard. i understand that's they're flying in resources from as far away as mobile, alabama to help us get back up and operational. >> i want to talk more about the oil refineries. i'm going to ask my team when they put up video. it's confusing to have that. we have a ton of pictures. i want to fold them in to your conversation. we don't want to blow this over lightly. you were hit by a hurricane. you were on the better side of the storm, if you will, and blessed. but you still had quite a bit of damage. what is happening with the oil refineries? that is a huge part of the energy that the rest of the country uses as well. what is the situation? >> well, the corpus christi refining center has the capacity to refine nearly a million barrels a day. we are the largest provider of transportation fuels in the region as well as aviation fuels

for the dallas fort worth airport. these are very important refineries, strategic for the nation. the challenge that we have right now is while they are ready to get back operational, some of the suppliers still don't have power to get the feed stocks that they need to get back up and operational. so right now our big challenge is getting power back to the suppliers and also getting the corpus christi ship channel open to get the refiners back open and get commerce moving and get people back to work. >> harris: you hear people pontificating about whether oil prices will go up because of this. are we in a zone that you can say that or have we passed it? is there a tipping point? >> well, i can't speculate on oil. clearly we're seeing gasoline prices spike. that could be the case with aviation fuels as well. the pipelines from the eagleford formations, which are the

largest production fields for our region are stopped. they're not moving any product because the product can't be refined. there's a whole series of events that has to happen to get the wheels of the refining industry back in motion again. it's not something that happens overnight. once we get power back and the ship channel open, we'll slowly start to see the wheels moving forward. it may be that corpus christi is going to be the largest refining center open given what is happening in houston. so we have to get us back up and operational quickly. >> sean, you have a big job, getting the refiners back online and supplying around the country. we appreciate your effort and time today. thank you. >> thank you, harris. >> harris: president trump will travel to texas tomorrow to see devastation for himself. how effective has his administration's response been

so far? we'll talk about that. what is normally one of the nation's largest convention centers is operating as a massive emergency shelter taking in thousands of evacuees. we're live with more on the help they're getting and what they need. stay close. >> we don't have any electricity. there's no water. so basically we just -- we're still breathing. but it's humbled us. really did. if nobody is humbled by this, something is wrong. but i also know that we're gonna have usaa insurance for both my boys. it's something that they're not even gonna have to think of. it's just gonna be in the family. we're the tenneys and we're usaa members for life.

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>> harris: we're literally watching this unfold like it's in slow motion. thousands of people rescued from their homes and being taken to houston's convention center. and as more evacuations and

rescues keep coming, fema is estimating 30,000 people or more will need energy shelters. caroline shively is live at the george r. brown convention center in the middle of houston. caroline, i understand they're doing everything they can to get there. >> absolutely right, harris. we have watched dump trucks, buses, police vans, people on foot, anyway you can get here. you can see the police cars are dropping folks off early. we have a high water vehicle out there. ambulances parked out here. they're taking folks away, many elderly. they're doing what they can with a few doctors and nurses inside. some folks have had to go to the hospitals. your guest before me mentioned they're in post-harvey recovery mode. that is something the city of houston dreams about. we're still in the thick of it. the rain bands coming down, the sideways rain. it's hard to stand. imagine if you're hanging on your roof waiting for shelter. that's what 5,000 people will be finding here in the next few

days. they're about half capacity. we can walk you in. this is what they're finding here when they walk through the doors of the convention center. they get a towel, a smile, a hand on the shoulder. all of this helps. they get some phones to call relatives to find out where they are. we'll walk you in the doors here. if you can see, this is what we have. thousands of folks being rescued. there's tables of clothing, diapers, donations, medicine. everything you might happen to need is here. these people are coming. no shoes on their feet. sometimes they have a laundry basket with their ownings in it. sometimes they have nothing. i've been amazed to see volunteers coming in with truckloads of diapers and clothes and shoes. saying how can i help? line me up. the folks are some of the volunteers there. the shelter itself is a little farther down. they're getting a hot meal, a cot to sleep on. many people are glad they can

bring their pets. a separate room to have your dog with you. it's a dark day for houston. you can see sheila jackson lee. she said there's a moat around her house. she can't get there. she's one of thousands stranded, harris. but they're getting help here at the convention center. capacity, 5,000 folks. we're not there yet. they're hoping they don't have to open another shelter. they'll be meeting about that. >> harris: what could rival the g.r.b. convention center as a second location if they get above the 5,000 mark. we'll have to wait to see. i would have to imagine several locations. you mentioned something so key we haven't talked about. people's domestic animals and pets and how they can bring them to the convention center with them and there's a special area. that is huge for people that some of them may not choose to leave their homes under any conditions unless they can bring them with them. >> that's exactly why they do

it. it was a deal breaker for my folks. i'm not going to leave my dog to drown in my attic. i'll stay with them. but no, bring it on. you don't have to have papers or anything. if you want the puppy, bring them on. we'll take them. they did a smart thing. they segregated it for folks with allergies or other pets. they have one room for folks, another for people and their pets. they want the pets safe as well. they're begging them not to leave them at home. i remember in katrina, so many dogs and cats and animals, people just ran. they had to leave them. there was nothing that they could do. not the case so far here in houston. >> you mentioned one lawmaker, ted cruz was on when you were on "outnumbered." this is a situation where all hands on deck where you need the elected leaders to get the wheels moving and to help out and in a high profile way to attract more help. it's so needed. caroline shively, thanks very much. we appreciate it. president trump was tweeting away on harvey. that's not the only subject he's

been tweeting about. what else is he hitting on social media? we'll talk about that next and so much more. hey you've gotta see this. c'mon.

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there's been other topics. and i want to get your thought on that. the president can tweet about whatever he wants. he draws great attention to the storm. he's going to texas tomorrow. what is the problem with tweeting about other stuff? >> the thing is, you don't want to seem callous. you don't want to seem like you don't care. he's doing all the things and -- interesting way, harris, he really became a much more conventional politician or is becoming a more conventional politician. the staged photo, the hat on. making the calls. these are the things that presidents do. a lot of it probably had something to do with john kelly being in charge of the white house now and they're following more disciplined things. he's doing that stuff as the joke goes. the end is near. looks busy. >> harris: here's one of the tweets. it's also going to be a wonderful state, missouri, that i won by a lot in 16. democrat is opposed to big tax

cuts. republicans will win! so he's talking about his visit to missouri later this week. he's going to toggle back into infrastructure and some other topics, i would imagine going to missouri having lived there that's one to hit. it's not okay to forecast that out? he's telling people what he's doing. >> harris: i do like his weird abbreviations. sometimes they're hard to figure out. >> you need the trump decoder ring. if the rally in missouri is like what he had in arizona last week, it will be ungood if the relief effort is underway. if that's the tone and the attitude. you need a few days to give it the week. people are dying. people are in peril. the country is paying very close attention to this. you just want to be tonally lined up with where your people are. >> harris: are you sure he's not? he got 57,000 likes for what we captured.

>> all of the likes. a country of 325 million people. getting 5,000 people to like a tweet ain't that much. >> harris: wow. okay. i get your point. anything out of bounds that you're seeing? like no way, don't tweet about that. >> the arpaio stuff will linger, this is a lingering thing -- >> harris: sheriff arpaio whom he pardoned from arizona. >> he upset people from the left and right. he's an unpopular figure. given his history on civil rights, given stuff like that, this will be out there for a while. what do you do if you're the president? do you go to the space, run into the space and leave it alone? conventional wisdom says leave it alone. >> harris: sheriff park has a new book out. he tweeted his support of the new book. any thoughts? same stuff? >> same stuff. >> harris: let's move on. the secretary state rex tillerson was asked about how he -- how he would label what the president has said about

race and other things recently. here it is. >> i don't believe anyone doubts the american people's values or the commitment of the american government or the government's agencies to advancing those values and defending those values. >> and the president's values? >> the president speaks for himself, chris. >> are you separating yourself from that, sir? >> i've spoken -- i've made my own comments as to our values in a speech i gave to the state department this past week. >> harris: what is he talking about? >> he's talking about that's him, not me. the fall-out from charlottesville and especially i guess iterations one and three of the president's remarks on it -- >> harris: saturday and sunday? >> the saturday and monday and the rally. basically you have two balls -- i want -- we'll say clacks inside the white house, inside this administration. we've seen a lot of personnel moves. sebastian gorka out, steve

bannon out. these -- the nationalists side, these guys seem to be waning. but there's not true satisfaction on the traditional side, the traditional conservative republican side. so the unrest is still there. kelly has a huge job. his job is how do you take -- rex tillerson was the ceo of the largest corporation. that's like being the president of a mid size country in this world. you have big egos, you have the president with the biggest ego of them all. how do you keep de-conflicting the issues? it's tough. >> harris: when you hear rex tillerson say something like that. it looks like they're not on the same place. does he take a risk? the president requires that you at least be on his side, which every president requires that, by the way. >> every president requires that. public displays of disloyalty have always been punished. what is difference about this white house -- >> harris: isn't that how it should be? it gets the american people

going one way or the other. >> this administration is different. they do it with more flamboyance or perhaps less delicacy and execution. normally what happens is, several months later, the personal just leaves to spend more time with their family. they just ease out. trump likes the beast. he's like taylor swift and katy perry. he likes the beast. he leaks people to know when he's mad at them. so he likes -- >> harris: did you just use a katy perry and taylor swift -- >> that's legit. >> harris: the stire is on fire. thank you. >> you bet. >> harris: in the wake of his controversial pardon, joe arpaio is leaving the door open for a run of office. what does he have his eye on? rescue efforts underway. harvey unleashing devastation still on texas. the latest developments on this storm. stay with us. >> going to be far greater than

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>> rescue is underway. epic flooding in houston. people can be heard screaming for help from inside their homes. a steady procession of rescue boats heading into flooded

neighborhoods now. shepard smith is keeping tabs on all of it. shep? >> the fourth largest city still largely paralyzed and not a lot of relief in sight. not any time soon. since making landfall friday as a category four, harvey has remained just on shore and now moving offshore as a tropical storm causing historic flooding. we have images to show you. take a look at the aerial shots of houston. in some places, the water is up to the roof line of homes. these are fly-overs off of youtube. drone video here. according to the national weather service, some parts of the city and the suburbs could see 50 inches of rain before it's all done. that would be the highest amount of rain ever recorded in texas. here you can see a helicopter rescuing someone from the floods. rescuers say they've had a tough time keeping up with the calls for help. 2,000 people were rescued, but

so many rescued by other homeowners and good samaritans with boats. the national weather service reporting at least five people have died. we're also getting inconfirm -- unconfirmed reports that a family drowned. and some bad weather coming in to louisiana as it has been through much of the day. images of the flooding in our slide show. you can see volunteers on boats across the houston region. these are the attics exit at south 45, north of houston. they're headed to rescue stranded people, i'm told. this next one is from spring, texas. joe garcia here carrying his dog from his flooded home. a difficult day for them. here they are at a fire department rescue boat trying to get out of the neighborhood. sometimes the trucks won't make

it through the water. here's guys pushing a stalled pickup through a street here. look at the water liner to the top of the lower floor windows. the first floor under water. here's a submerged car in downtown houston. no escaping it. we just got this in. the last hour. i want to show you what the this will be. all time houston. these are texas time, central time. this is about 7:00 p.m. on thursday. this will take us through the radar loop. now getting into early morning hours of friday. this is friday at noon. you can see the circulation here. and then the storm coming ashore. you'll see it come up here. i touched on the spot there. there we go. this is just about 8:00 p.m. on friday. and on shore comes the storm.

there's a high pressure center here and over here. the storm mostly on land now. this is early yesterday morning. about midnight now texas time. you can see it's largely over land. watch it move back towards the gulf of mexico. you can see the center of circulation. here we are coming up on noon, the next image will be noon central time today. there it is. largely the circulation has made its way offshore. the thinking is this storm will make its way back out to sea and then come back ashore tomorrow, into tomorrow night. no stronger. still 40 miles an hour winds. certainly with more water that got over the gulf of mexico. then began to head north northeast. there's different tracking models on this. some of them have it going around here. some of them closer to the mississippi-louisiana line. at any rate, most of the bad weather will remain to the east and slightly to the north of the center of circulation. so for southwest louisiana into

new orleans, southwest mississippi, up into arkansas, a lot of rain is coming. it's far from over. as many as 15 to 20 more inches expected in some areas. this is the updated map of where the worst of the flooding is. we've gotten tweets and et cetera from many of you in san antonio that says there's no flooding there. it largely missed. this is the official from the national weather service. if there's a mistake, it's theirs. flooding in austin. lots of flooding in an around houston. all of the major freeways were flooded at one point or another. not in every position along the freeway but areas where you can't travel down the freeway. the center loop, the 610, the outer loop and the rest of the freeways as well. coming up at the top of the hour, we'll go to our correspondents live throughout the flood zone and have continuing coverage in this hour as well. easy way is to help thousands of victims. redcross.org. a new tropical system making

moves in the atlantic. the carolinas with its eye on it. we'll have the latest track on it. that's at the top of the hour with "shepard smith reporting." >> harris: thanks, shep. you heard him talking about the rescues. meet my next guest who is pulling off some of rescues. texan austin seth traveled from an hour helping to save dozens of people trapped by flood waters during multiple search and rescue mission. austin, you're joining us by phone. >> yes, ma'am. >> harris: tell me, you're in your boat. you make the decision to go out. what do you see? >> it's unreal. you're seeing the footage in the neighborhoods and water higher than any when would have ever expected. most of the people i spoke with or hauled out, they said they went to bed thinking they were high and dry and knee high water the next morning when they got out of bed. >> i remember the mayor of your

city to set an alarm and go out and see if the water was coming. when you see someone, how do you make the decision, okay, i'm going to help that person. are they already in the water? >> okay. facebook is a wonderful thing, at least it was yesterday. got the news out to hundreds of volunteers. by the time i showed up, which was sometime that morning yesterday, there were already boats lined up. after i made my first trip and in pull my first people out, there was a line of boats down 45 waiting to launch and go in. so luckily there was enough people there that we got i think most of everyone out in a timely fashion. so there wasn't a whole lot of panic or chaos going on. the volunteers have done a great job yesterday. >> harris: and they still need you today. >> believe me, i'm in lake jackson, texas, southeast of

houston, southwest of yesterday. we are getting prepped up for the flooding that we're expecting to happen here in the next couple days. i haven't made it back up to houston to help out. >> harris: how many people fit in your boat at a time? >> until it sinks. we kept loading them. we put i think -- the most i had in it yesterday was eight or nine people. it's just a little 16-foot aluminum boat. we didn't want to leave anybody behind. >> harris: austin, we're hearing that people are screaming for help from inside their houses. i would imagine as you pull away each time, it's hard. if it starts raining, you may not be immediately able to go back. >> really -- people were pretty smart. they would get on their roofs and wave you down. they're pretty safe for the most part. they stayed high, high enough

where if i couldn't get them on my way out, i would tell the next volunteer going in that there's somebody here. they would go pick them up. they were easy to spot. the last trip -- >> harris: go ahead. >> i was going to say, the last trip we made through the neighborhood, you know, i had been through the back neighborhood, that specific neighborhood four times and been down the street i was on at least twice. just so happened around the corner again and there was -- i heard someone calling from her doorway. you know, i looked over. they were struggling to get outside. >> harris: as we look at the video, you're like even with the street sipes. you go down streets, you have to look down to see where you're going. >> yeah, you can read the street signs if you look under water to find them. >> harris: shepard smith reported a few minutes ago, a family of six perished. it's hard, but great to know that people like you are out

there using what you have to rescue people. austin seth down now south of houston continuing the job. thanks very much. we appreciate it. >> thank you. glad i could help. >> harris: i bet they are, too. we'll move on. president trump's pardon of former sheriff joe arpaio is causing some political division among republicans. now it could spawn a new challenge for a republican senator. we'll talk about it. our coverage of the disaster in houston along with some heros like we just talked about with austin seth. we'll look at the federal response so far and how the president is handling his first natural disaster since taking office. stay with us.

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>> harris: sticking on harvey for a second. president trump is due to travel to texas tomorrow. he will go to corpus christi and he's expected to stay away from the houston area where there's rescue operations still ongoing and where the rain is still

coming down. outside of that news, there's something else that has developed for him politically and has to do with the aftermath of pardoning sheriff joe arpaio of arizona. that happened friday night. now there's word that arpaio may run for office. adrian elrod is the former director of strategic communications for hillary clinton. vince culinaze is for the daily caller and host of mornings on the mall of wal radio. good to see you. >> great to be here. >> harris: here's what he says. pop it up. former sheriff arpaio says i could run for mayor, could run for legislator, i could run for senate. pretty much i'm sure a lot of people around the state asking me. all i'm saying is the door is open and we'll see what happens. vince, your thoughts? >> i think you'll see a lot of outside money against that effort. you're arpaio is one of the more polarizing figures in the country. democrats will see to it he doesn't have any political

future whatsoever because they think that this pardon got him off scot-free and he deserves to be punished and not a part of public life at all. a lot of push back if he decides to throw his hat in the ring in any elected official capacity. >> harris: do you think that is intraparty? republicans and democrats or just democrats? >> i think in terms of funding, democrats will push that. republicans will be vocal though because you already saw some vocal opposition from republicans to just the pardon. for that reason, they'll be opposed to arpaio as a candidate. >> harris: adrian, how would you categorize or describe the democratic response to the president's pardoning of arpaio so far? >> wow. look. this -- president trump tries to paint him as a law and order president and he pardoned a guy who defied a court order because of racial profiling. donald trump pardoned a guy and

gave him a new lease on political life. he did in part to fire up his base that will fire up the democratic base. again, joe arpaio has a history of doing horrible things to divide communities, divide latino families. absolutely this will generate a lot of funding for himself on the democratic site. democrats will do everything they can to ensure that joe arpaio never holds political office again. >> i would say the reaction to this, the idea that democrats are upset that a law and ordered president would choose to use the pardon power. the pardon forgives the consequences entirely of the justice system. no matter who you are. there's a lot more intense cases than joe arpaio's pardon for a misdemeanor criminal contempt of court. you have president obama, president clinton having commuted sentences of puerto rican terrorists responsible for 120 bombings.

much more intense and realistic examples of things that deserve more scrutiny about that joe arpaio being pardoned. >> harris: adrian, it's interesting you hear him saying fire up the democratic base. it's not something that republicans had to worry about too much in november. >> no. >> harris: didn't seem like you're party was getting behind hillary clinton with a lot of fever. did i miss it? >> the democratic party was behind hillary clinton. let's remind our viewers here that she received nearly three middle more votes than donald trump. we're moving forward as a party. the resistance is united like it never has been before. a lot of that has to do with donald trump's divisive policies that he's try to enact as president. again, his first pardon as president of the united states was against a sheriff who defied court orders, defied the rule of law and tried to divide communities. again, this is something that is only going to add more fuel to the fire with the democratic base. we do not stand ford the policies that joe arpaio

believes in. >> they're not unified or policy. that's for sure. >> harris: we shall see what happens. vince and adrian, thanks very much. more on the aftermath of hurricane harvey, the damage in texas staggering. stay with us. you don't let anything lkeep you sidelined. come on!

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>> harris: the pictures of people in texas tear at our heart strings. when it comes to whether it could be any of us, nature can sometimes be the enemy. texas governor greg abbott is set to speak. we told you that atop the hour. as soon as he steps up, you can watch that live on fox news channel. the numbers of this tell us a story, too. jonathan hunt is working to make sense of it all live from los angeles. jonathan? >> hey, harris. the pictures we're seeing are obviously staggering. the raw figures of harvey are mind-blowing. let's start with the rainfall.

all of these figures are changing by the hour. so far there's been about 25 inches of rain in houston over the past three days. 16 inches of that fell on sunday. that's a one-day record. listen to this. in total, harvey has dumped some nine trillion gallons of rain. hard to get your head around that. if you take a shower, you use around 2 1/2 gallons of water per minute. if you ran your shower for an entire day, you would use 3,600 gallons. an entire year, 1,314,000 gallons to hit trillion gallons of water, you would have to run your shower for 6 million years. let's take a look at rescues. 2,000 people have been saved by the houston fire department. they tell us they have what they call 185 critical rescues

they're aiming to carry out by day's end. now, houston's brand convention center is the biggest shelter. it's housing 2,600. a little over half of the 5,000 capacity. the entire texas national guard of 12,000 has been activated to help in the rescue and recovery effort. hurricane katrina remains the costliest storm ever in the u.s. as a total of $160 billion. we could get to $100 billion with harvey, harris. >> harris: jonathan hunt, thanks very much. we're going to pull away from anything that we're doing here in the studio and go straight to texas where texas governor greg abbott has more. let's watch together. >> i just love the pause. feeling oh, lord, why is this happening. but a great exchange. learning about what they need

and about what both the texas and the federal government can do to address their needs. but also focusing on their response. and i got to tell you, the way that the leaders of the coast of the great state of texas responded to this horrific hurricane is immeasurable, courageous and heroic. i'm proud of the way they responded. i'm grateful about the way that they were able to evacuate so many people and minimize the loss of life. the most important thing we have are our lives. to be able to get through the storm the way we did and save so many lives is nothing short than remarkable. at the end of our meeting, was actually called away by a call

from the president of the united states. he asked me to pass on to these local leaders his gratitude and how impressed he was with the way they responded to the hurricane. so thank you all very much for your unparalleled leadership. a big round of applause for these leaders. [applause] there's a reality that we have to come to grips with. and that is we are just beginning the process of responding to this storm. we are still involved in the search and rescue process. our number 1 goal from corpus christi all the way to east of houston is still protecting and preserving life and rescuing every person that we can find. our second goal is to ensure that our fellow texans have

access to necessities. food, water, supplies and power. during our meeting, we were able to get confirmation that power is in the process of being restored in areas that desperately need it. these are the early stages that still may be a day or two, but the point is that there are responses that are taking place very swiftly. we understand that one of the biggest needs is taking care of those power outages. without the power, you'll have a hard time functioning. so we are pressing forward constantly to make sure that the power is restored. we want to also ensure the basics of food and water will be provided to everyone who needs it. we have points of distribution that are set up in every county and the county judge and leaders

in that county will be in charge of all of the points of distribution for that county. we want to ensure the water and food we're providing will reach every >> we also know, about the growing needs for porta-potty's. they will be arriving tomorrow. we are so proud that the water supply for corpus christi is either back up and running or shortly will be. i know that tcu worked with corpus christi as well as other wire providers to make sure that can happen as quickly as possible. we are still involved in a search and rescue missions in ramses and rockport county. as well as elsewhere