gets any better. >> eric: it is. the officials and the county just south of houston urging residents they say to get out now because the levy of columbia lake's they say has been breached. sadly, this is continuing. >> shannon: "happening now" starts right now. >> this is a fox news alert. air force one right now carrying president trump to corpus christi, texas, where he will begin to survey the devastation from tropical storm harvey. hello everybody, i'm holly line. >> looks like there's more devastation to be had. i'm leland vittert and for jon scott. the president is said to land in just over an hour as forecasters predict harvey will dump another foot of rain on southeastern texas and southwestern louisian louisiana. 14 people have been confirmed dead. that death toll is excited to rise in the floodwaters finally receded and the search can begin. that is not excited to happen anytime soon in houston where

the addicks reservoir is reportedly now overflowing for the first time in history, that comes despite a controlled release of water yesterday aimed to prevent an overflow. president trump commending the work of crews and volunteers who have rescued thousands of peopl people. >> things are being handled really well. their spirit is incredible. the coordination of the different services, as you know, has been going very well. rate respect for the governor, he's done a respectable job. >> molly: we are also getting word of a levee breach in missouri county. peter doocy waiting for the president's arrival in corpus christi and matt finn is in houston. first we go to meteorologist janice dean. she's in the fox extreme weather center and she's got what's the latest.

>> we are dealing with record-breaking floods. unfortunately, the national weather service had to add a new color to the map to display over 30 inches of rainfall and we just surpassed that, over 40 inches of rain, south houston with 43, but fred wood has had rainfall total of 40 inches. that would put it at the top of the list as far as. we will add harvey to the list unofficially and once we get that number, the national weather service has told us kobo go , we will put that up there. the watches and warnings, we have the potential for tornado watches and warnings today that extend toward southeastern texas through louisiana. we are getting flooding in new orleans right now from the

system, still a tropical storm 45 miles per hour of sustained winds. it still writing in the houston area and we have on and off rain in the forecast for the next 12-18 hours for houston. i know this is a houston story, but we've seen epic rainfalls north, east, west, and south of houston. baytown, quebec numbers there. we think and of everyone and now louisiana as the storm continues to move. future radar doesn't move much, doesn't budge for the next 18, 24 hours. still bringing the potential for showers and thunderstorms in louisiana. new orleans, we've had a couple of tornado storms. there is wednesday and as we get into thursday, friday, finally will start to see this thing move, but the damage is done, catastrophic. it is a still life learning, obviously. we have flash flood warnings in effect. major flooding on all of the

river gauges. storm totals they have never, ever seen before. it's going moment by moment. any inch of rain is not welcome in this region. tropical storm harvey, still a tropical storm, expecting it to be so over the next 6-12 hours. eventually thursday, it is going to start to move. it will get picked up in a cold front, something we hoped for over the last will of days and finally we will see that on thursday, friday, saturday across the ohio river valley. the problem is we are still dealing with inches of rain in the forecast over the next several days. houston area, close to 8 inches on top of the 40 inches out they have seen, galveston 12-16 inches and we could see an excess over a foot of rainfall and parts of eastern texas in towards weasley anna. this is a tragic situation, unfortunately that's unfolding. they will be assessing damage for months, if not years and finally, and the forecast,

thursday, friday, saturday, better news. but may be too. unfortunately. it still seems so far away. >> shannon: your reports are so important right now because they reiterate this is still an ongoing situation. janice dean, thank you. >> leland: it's getting worse spirit as we just mentioned, there are reports that for the first time ever houston's addicks reservoir has overflowed, that's just west of the city. there was a treat a couple of minutes ago from the county just south of houston by about 50 miles that their levy has been breached and on this tweet, a notice to "get out now." authorities say that if the addicks reservoir is breached as well, it will dramatically affect the nearby neighborhoods, but they were unclear as to how it will impact the city as a whole. the dam spillway has not been activated in 70 years. matt finn in houston on the

southwestern side of the city near the addicks reservoir. it's been bad, if these two reservoirs are breached, how much worse does it get? >> leland, we were just at the reservoir and it's a horrifying picture. that body of water there looks like a great lake. we are at what's considered ground zero. fema's headquarters on the southwest side. as you can see, they have all types of trucks here. they have boats, rafts, these trucks are what is being referred to as people movers because these are going to go into the neighborhoods hardest hit and pick up people. read over here to my left, the u.s. coast guard and appear, we have a gentleman from the houston fire department whose name is john, he's become the commander here. john, most important today is a saving lives. talk to us about how you're going to do that. >> what we have right now is the rescue boat and our focus is saving lives. we have two task force assets right now.

we have rigs from ohio. we have our local resources here ready to go and we are funneling 911 calls. >> what happens is you get a call from someone needing immediate assistance and he rushed out to do it using any one of these vehicles around us. >> that's correct. >> we wish you well, think you for your time. leland, we're on the southwestern side of the city which is considered one of the hardest hit to begin with in general and not to think that another wall of catastrophic water could be flowing this way because of the levy overflowing is just unimaginable for most of people here, so we are teaming up with fema today and we hope to bring you some of the stories and some of the recovery efforts, hopefully none that involve anyone being hurt, but we will be with these guys throw the day and will bringing ghost stories. leland, back to you. >> leland: if that wall of water does come down, they'll have a lot more people to rescue pure matt finn, stay safe and great work over the last couple

of days. >> molly: new word on the link between the russian government and the trump team during the 2016 presidential election with one name reportedly boasting our boy can become president and we can engineer it. how the white house is responding. plus, it's the storm that never stops, harvey unleashing relentless rains on texas, how much will the state get before it is all over? we have the staggering numbers next. >> this is a landmark event, we have not seen an event like this, you cannot draw this forecast up. ing clients...♪ ♪...from far away. but they only see his wrinkles.♪ ♪he's gotta play it cool to seal the deal.♪ ♪better find a way to smooth things over.♪ ♪if only harry used some... ♪...bounce, to dry. ♪yeah! ♪he would be a less wrinkly, and winning at life.♪

>> leland: harvey is on track to be one of the worst flooding disasters in u.s. history as it pounced texas with rain again for the fourth straight day. it has already dropped 15 trillion gallons of rain with 5.6 more gallons excited tomorrow. that is enough water to fill all

of the nfl and division i college football stadiums in the country, more than 100 times over. sometime today or early tomorrow, parts of the houston area will break a nearly 40-year-old record for its heaviest rainfall from a tropical storm, 48 inches. that was said by tropical storm amelia back in 1978. >> leland: president trump and the first lady now on the way to texas. they landed in about an hour or so and corpus christi airport to get a firsthand look at the damage and recovery efforts. ken paxton, the texas attorney general told america's newsroom a short time ago that the disaster now unfolding in the state and referred this word before, is "unprecedented." >> we've never seen anything like this, but despite that, it's been amazing to me the cooperation between our state government with governor abbott, the trump administration and local officials. i think they've done an

outstanding job, given the stress on the system and the fact that the storm never stops. >> leland: joining is now, daniel hopper. good to see you as always. if we think about the short time of president trump's presidency, of all the things he's faced, this is the most directly in his wheelhouse of a crisis. >> he's a commercial builder, he's been building his whole life. it's time for him to reset his presidency and i don't mean he should be overtly political, but because of the human tragedy here, he should basically move down to houston, i think, try to redevelop and regrow and rebuild houston. it's going to be a multiyear project and i think president trump is uniquely qualified to do something along those lines, to really help out the people there. could this storm get worse in the next few days, and once the

water recedes, then the cleanup and the actual damage will be a lot worse than any of the pictures now suggest. >> leland: specifically from an emergency standpoint, he can be an executive, this is an executive branch role, congress doesn't have a whole lot to do with it when he tells fema to do something, they do something. when he tells the u.s. military to go down there, they do something. is this a chance for him to reset the narrative, not only going forward, but going back? >> definitely. it's a way for him to show that he cares about humans and americans whose lives are at risk and whose lives will be lost in this storm. i think it's an opportunity for him to do some really good here. whether he takes it or not, we don't know. today's trip is important to show he's interested, but of course, it's only the beginning. there are parts that he can't even get to today given the catastrophe down there, but i think he will have to come back again and again and again and

really take things under control. as you say, this is where an executive like president trump could shine and i think it would really unite the country behind him. >> leland: we know the president has a strip trip to springfield, missouri. i was talking with a radio talk show host earlier from st. louis, he said the last thing in the world you want is a split screen of the president talking about tax cuts and rescues going on in houston. to that end, does this put on hold everything in washington from tax reform to health care reform, all of a sudden he can't on hold the tax ceiling. >> absolutely. i think it reawakened to politicians around the country because we are here to serve people and we need to help people out. these petty little fights that we've had, we can't do that over

funding for houston, we can't have these esoteric debates that have nothing to do with people who are literally drowning or in fear for their lives. it should really reset people in their conscience and say how can we help and try to move forward that way? it should be a unifying moment. >> leland: we've certainly seen so many americans answer the call to their own peril oftentimes to go in and make those rescues. onto this and this story would be a lead story on any other news day, reports show links between the russian government and that trump team in the lead up and during the tony 16 presidential campaign. i know you've been working on this story as well. michael cohen emailed russian president vladimir putin's personal spokesman during the

campaign last year to ask for help advancing the stalled trump tower in moscow. also "the new york times" publishing a series of emails between a longtime trump associate, felix seiter where he wrote "our boy can become president of the usa and we can engineer it. i will get all of prudent steam to buy in on this. i will manage this process." cohen telling fox news, i ultimately determined it was not feasible and never agreed to make a trip to russia. he also said at the time his language could be colorful, which one could certainly agree with that part. is this more smoke or how we got to the fire? >> i'm not sure it's fire, but this is certainly a lot of smoke. this is damaging. the charges are that he was quitting with the russians, this suggests that there is reason for the trump guys to collude. that's exactly what the charge was and i think it's very

damaging and it also opens up this whole new front. we've had reports about mr. mueller looking into the finances. this gives a broad leeway to allow him to look into the trump organization and those people associated with it, including president trump, into their finances. it opens up a whole another front on which really, this investigation can really take off and i think become much more complicated and include a lot more people. >> leland: i know you hate to make everything political and you hate to make it about the hurricane, but they are inextricably linked to right now. does the hurricane put all of this on pause? >> i don't think so. mueller is in washington, he continues as he's going, but i think were president trump, it showed. there's nothing he can do about

this investigation, it's going on, it's going to happen. it will proceed at pace, but he, as a political leader should refocus, not on this, and focus on rebuilding houston. he should move down to houston and try to rebuild the city. >> leland: let make it to this quickly. this flies in the face of that then candidate trump telling every one i have no links to russia, i don't do business with russia and at the same time, clearly his associates are trying to get a deal done in russia. is that enough or is there something else and if so, what is this something else that mueller has to get to? >> it doesn't appear there's any crime. wheelers looking for a crime, i don't -- i'm not a lawyer, but i don't see with the crime is. he's a private businessman at the time, he is allowed to talk about potential businesses, so what exactly is the crime? i think mueller is looking for some sort of crime and as far as

we know, we don't know it's happening behind closed doors. as far as we know, he hasn't gotten there. >> leland: that's all he can look for essentially, that's his job. we appreciate your insights on both of these things, thank you. >> molly: still to come on speech one, former white house advisor karl rove joins us on how president trump should handle the first major natural disaster since he took office, plus tensions reignite over north korea as a rogue regime launches a missile over our ally, japan. how should the u.s. respond? and the governor of illinois making his estate a century state for immigrants. how that could play out on the president's tough stance on immigration. >> he angered the conservatives over the senate bill sanctuary state senate bill. who does he have left? is he a democrat or republican?

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heading into disaster areas to help. one of them explaining how to try and get a handle on a catastrophe that is so overwhelming. >> our task force prioritized people who need the most help, they couldn't get out on their own, their wheelchair-bound. >> molly: joining me now, jody gatti. she is a vice president of the u.s. disaster relief for operations. things were being here into chalice us and talk about what is a growing disaster, this is so far from over. >> absolutely, thank for having me. >> molly: when you look out across the damage and these neighborhoods that are underwater, first responders still bringing in people, still being rescued, how big is this problem? what will the biggest challenges be? >> this is an unprecedented disaster. it is comparable, if not bigger

than katrina. there is a long road of recovery. we need thousands of volunteers to come down here and help us and help the people of texas recover. right now, it's logistics just getting a semitruck's into houston to put food and water and basic hygiene on the ground so people can get the basic necessities of life, so there's a lot of logistical challenges and there's two different disasters, you have the situation going down the coast that is normal category three, four damage then you have the ongoing flooding in houston, so it's almost like harvey is two different disasters. >> molly: it's incredible to hear you talk about how this could possibly be worse than katrina. we see so many storms, including katrina, so when you look at what's ongoing now, these first responders were just trying to get in and reach people, how does your organization handle that logistically? physically getting there and getting set up? >> absolutely.

>> molly: unfortunately, i think releasing jodi right now, i'm going to go ahead, we'll try to get her back on the line because what she's doing is so important, organizing these thousands of volunteers who have that tremendous amount of heart and want to serve the people down there. jody's organization is a big part of that, so i hope to bring her back when we can. >> leland: so important the work they're doing there. first responders are really tied up. president trump is also thinking so money people who have come to help. he's on his way to texas right now, he'll think the first responders there and get a first look at the devastation of the first major natural disaster of his presidency, he is also talked a lot about the response to it. we'll take a look at the politics of the catastrophe and what we've learned from katrina. we'll talk to karl rove when we come back.

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what's incredible is the rain is still coming down. there are a number of dams and levees being damaged. one levy may have been breached, there are other homes that remain in danger and still could flood yet. >> leland: we said before, we'll sit again. this is going to get much worse before gets better. president trump is adding to texas right now to get a firsthand look at the damage from tropical storm harvey. the president's visit to corpus christi comes after he promises swift action. you can see him leaving the white house earlier. peter doocy 11 corpus christi where he's scheduled to touch down in a few minutes. high hi peter. >> the white house says they know this is going to be a very long recovery effort. that's what the press secretary

just said on air force one. we got word ahead of them landing. we expect this scheduled to be fluid because the white house said they want to be very careful that the president and all of the security and all of the resources that are required when he goes anywhere, they do not want to interrupt any ongoing rescue or recovery efforts. what we know about the visit, he's going to land here in corpus christi within the next hour of soul. he is then going to go to town to see the impact of 130 mall per hour winds on the buildings and infrastructure, then he's going to meet up with first responders before heading to the capital, austin to see the operation center where officials are cooperating and correlating the ongoing recovery efforts and to make sure the trunk cabinet knows how to best apply federal money in the months and years ahead, the president's bring several members of the cabinet along with him today. since this is a public health emergency, hhs secretary tom

price will be here. the acting dhs secretary elaine dukes will be here, since there are so many people displaced, the housing and urban development secretary ben carson will be here and since commerce is so disrupted already, the small business of administration or linda mcmahon will be here as well. in houston, the rain still has not stopped, but so far, greg abbott says the federal response to harvey has been an a+ and texas is going to get two presidential visits this week paired the one that's set to start a few minutes from right now and another on saturday to a different part of this state. president trump says he expects to have a request on his dice dk from governor abbott and the next few days and he says of federal money will come back after he gets that request. we expect governor abbott to greet president trump here and corpus christi international airport because we just saw him

in the terminal. we also saw the fema administrator brock long. >> leland: we also know the president certain navy teams to help him, peter doocy in the ground, back to you as air force one pulls up, think you. the president promised yesterday, it's all hands on deck. >> we will get through this, we will come out stronger and believe me, we will be bigger, better, stronger than ever before. the rebuilding will begin and in the end, it will be something very special. >> leland: however, the national weather service has called this an unprecedented weather event in the near times reporting local, state, and federal officials can see the skill of the crisis was so bad that they were nowhere near gang able to measure it, much less

fully address it. joining us now, karl rove, former senior advisor, deputy chief of staff, george the goo. is this rhyming with hurricane katrina? we have no way of comprehending how big it is? >> that's one similarity. katrina hit four states and in three of those states, mississippi was governor haley barbour, alabama was governor bob riley and florida was governor jeb bush. we had governors in charge of disaster emergency services who knew they were doing. under the federal law, the president is in charge of responding and organizing the relief and response to a natural disaster like this -- as the governor. when the governors didn't have their act together, mainly louisiana and the city of new orleans, things in a go so well.

president trump is doing an exemplary job of making sure that federal agencies are responding rapidly to the requests being made to them by the governor of the seed of texas and he and other local officials, particularly the county executive, the county judge and the mayor of houston have done a tremendous job of preparing and then executing the response to this disaster. that's helped immeasurably. if the federal government is sitting there saying what is that you need question argue wants but he was going to say, here's what we need and here's when we need it we've got the structure in place to accept those resources and make use of them and that's exactly what governor greg abbott has done. >> leland: there was a lot of discussion in the white house about whether the president should go down there this early. the presidential visit and the entourage takes an enormous amount of resources. what's the balance between -- other than this, the photo op, what comes from a presidential visit that you couldn't

otherwise get on the phone? >> first of all, it helps to focus national at tension on it. the federal government is being supportive anything this is a good move on his part. he's going to corpus christi which had high winds, 130 male in our wins, and 5 inches of rain. most of the city has power back. i've got friends who stayed with us earlier this week or back at their place in corpus christi, so he's going to a place where his presence is not going to divert a lot of resources. they're coming to austin which is where the headquarters of this is an estate command center just north of downtown on the nf the capital. he's not going to houston until lisa saturday and i thing that's very smart. they're still plucking people off of roofs, they're worried

about any people out of their homes, there are lots of immediate things at hand that this would disrupt and i think that white house hit the perfect tone, go to corpus, go to austin and come back later when the rescue efforts in houston are further along. >> leland: he supposed to go back there later this week, perhaps on saturday. admits told us, the president has to do with the entire world, including north korea. you have this missile launch, this was different because the missile flew directly over japan this morning, this missile could carry a nuclear payload. president trump saying "all options are on the table." he's used those words before and that's not dissimilar to the link which we've heard from your old boss, george w. bush during his time and still, all option b on the table doesn't seem to deter the north koreans. is this a time to use some of those options? >> it might be. this was a great mist alkylation on the part of the north korean regime. by sending a missile to japan,

japan needs a stronger defense. japan has constitutionally had what's a self-defense force. not an army that's capable of projecting force, but merely defending the homeland. in moments like this, the japanese talk about building a strong military that will allow them to respond to incidents like this. why is that important? because a strong militarily strong japan scares the heck out of china and china is key to the revolutionists. they've been concerned about a strong japan and vice versa and of china says you aren't making it more likely that japan is going to arm itself and potentially become a nuclear power and we don't want that, and might encourage the chinese to do more to reign in north korea. i don't think it's necessarily the end-all be-all, but this is an important opportunity and i hope the state department and the corrupt administration are

taking advantage. if you want japan to be a strong military power, let north korea keep doing this stuff and violation of what you told them and the international committee has told them. >> leland: moore sanchez on the table against chinese businesses and banks may not hurt their ability to do things. >> absolutely. it we've sanctioned chinese countries from doing business with north korea for decades. now they need to sanction countries who do business with north korea and that's way to hurt the chinese economy a lot and act like this give us greater strength to impose these kind of sanctions. >> will see if that gets their attention. we appreciate your insights, think you. >> thank you, leland, i appreciate it. >> molly: thousands of people has been rescued around texas. first responders and emergency crews still working around the clock. volunteers from other states also pitching into health those first responders bring people to safety including some nursing

home residents. ahead, the woman who turned to social media to get us really needed help for those senior citizens. we will talk to her next.

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>> leland: >> molly: you checkeh your mother, all is good, the power was on. when he went back on sunday to check in, you received this photo, what did you think when he saw that image? >> it was very distressing, to see the image and know that they were in danger. >> molly: then you try to reach back out to her, to get some more information, what happened? speak out when i tried to text her back, she didn't reply, so i was very frightened at that point. i thought something had happened to them, so my first reaction was feeling helpless and wanting to get them help as soon as possible. >> molly: absolutely and you turn to social media. i'm going to ask you to stand by a moment, it looks like were getting some movement in houston, looking for some more information about the storm. >> leland: the houston mayor now coming to update on the rescue and the city as the potential levees are breaking. the houston mayor now.

>> we have expanded our capacity. initially, we had captain at 5,000, we now have gone beyond 9,000. we are looking for shelter locations, we have identified a couple of other mega shelter locations. i'm not going to announce it at this time, but that announcement will be forthcoming, i want them to get set up first and then i'll be meeting with the county judge sometime around 12:30 and will make a joint announcement. there are additional shelters that will be set up. the reality is that not only are we providing shelter for houstonians, but we are also providing shelter for people coming outside the city of houston who have been directly impacted by the storm. we're not turning anyone away, but it does mean that we need to

expand our capabilities and our capacity. and that regard, we certainly made the official request to fema. we need additional assistance and so we've asked them to provide supplies and cots, food for an additional 10,000 individuals. hopefully, those supplies will get here as soon as possible. at the latest, no later than sometime tomorrow. before then, it's needed even before then, but we have asked them for an additional 10,000. quite wrinkly, in many ways, the city of houston has served as a regional hub. we are getting people from houston and also people coming in from other areas. additional announcements on the

shelter will be forthcoming, probably the next few hours, we just need them to set up. yesterday, the focus was on rescue. today it will continue to be on rescue. that's critical and that's important. let me first: chief officer baylor and give you an update and other related manners as it relates to law enforcement. >> think you, mayor. good morning. overnight, the houston department continued to operate throughout the city, conducting search and rescue. our rescues have relatively been 500 folks who have been rescued. it's important for you to know that we are not just in search and rescue mode, we are still law enforcement and public safety mode. last night, we actually had some arrests made of a crew who was robbing numbers of our communit community. officers who heard about it,

they deployed and found them. they went in pursuit and those suspects were taken into custody. here's what i can say to people who were taken advantage, this is texas and we are a welcoming city, but we are not going to tolerate people victimizing, especially armed robberies and are committed to. we're going to catch them and i promise you this, we will push hard. i've talked to the district attorney, to -- the fullest prosecution possible for any crime is committed and secondly, we are going to urge juries and judges to give you the toughest sentence that you could possibly get. word to the wise, don't come to houston because you're going to be caught and i guarantee you, when you take advantage, including our own criminal element, when you take it vantage of people and pray on the main these circumstances, that's despicable behavior and

we're going to push hard to make sure you don't see the sunlight anytime soon. we've got armed robbers last night in the middle of the night and we've also got more looters. we got looters at a game stop last night. it's all hands on deck. we are fully operational, we have the resources coming out of texas from other major cities. we're beginning to task them, we are beginning to give them specific missions, they will be doing two things. first, they will be conducting security at some of our locations where we have evacuees and secondly, they will be relieving some of our officers in the near future. we will not be reducing our posture. officers continue to sleep in the stations, they will be continuing to sleep in these stations throughout the response

phase. we are still in response phase and we will probably not be moving towards recovery for a matter of a couple more days. our officers will not be going home. we have families that we know have been impacted and i can't speak enough -- not just the police officers and firefighters, but all city employees that this mayor leads. no one has left their post, they are doing their job. we are fully functional, we're still trying to get to folks and like we said yesterday, don't give up on us. seek the higher ground, we will get to you. we have access that every hour, more boats are getting to the water, more rescuers are coming. please know, one of the delays have been, this is a catastrophic event that i don't think we've seen. when the weather channel starts greeting a new color for rainfall, they've never used that color before. there's a reason they used it.

for everyone out there, you can't talk about hindsight because there is no hindsight in terms of an event that's never occurred. with that, just know these relief convoys have been stuck because of the an excess of all roads, resorting to get them all in. >> i certainly want to think the cities mayor price from fort worth for example. of course, dallas, they have set up to house up to about 8,000 who are coming from the surrounding areas. galveston and others, i want to thank them. mayor allen in austin is receiving people from the region. i want to acknowledge him and the mayor of san antonio who has also extended his hand. i want to thank all of our

partners. mayor is another cities from the area and from the country for their support. also, i want to call on the fire chief for a status report. >> good morning, everybody. as of midnight tonight, the houston fire department have responded to over 1,000 calls for service. over 400 of those have been water rescues or water related incidents. we've augmented our deployment teams, our boat teams with members from a texas task force one as well as the fema teams. as resources arrive on scene, we deploy them to 1 of 8 area commands. firefighters as well as police officers have been working tirelessly since this event began three days ago. we have some crews that are going on their third day in a row.

we've implement in certain things to ensure that our firefighters are receiving the appropriate rest and nourishment and what i've directed staff to do is go ahead and establish operation periods, so there will be periods where we have less firefighters in the game, so to speak because they are placed out of service to rest for a few hours and then they are brought back in and we are rotating crews that way. it's difficult for us to bring in 800 individuals to replace the people who were on duty because in a lot of areas, we can't get in and out of the fire stations. we can't deploy them to where we need them for their equipment. logistically, that's an issue we are having to deal with. based on the recommendation, we've decided to manage the resources we haven't seen and as were able to bring in fresh crews from off-duty, we're doing

so. our operational profile remains the same. we are in a rescue phase at this point. it will continue to do so until we ensure that we've serviced every call for rescue that's coming to the 911 center. thank you. >> a note on rescues and that i is, we will continue to work on all of the areas, but kingwood will be a focal point. there is more water that's coming into the area, so in terms of water rescues, and the kingwood area, we are focusing on the area called the enclave which is an area that's primarily one story houses in that area, so rescues are taking place at the enclave, parroting and kingwood, real shores and

kingwood which is closest to lake houston as well as far as gardens. water rescues are out there. i know the fire department and the police department are sending additional assets and that area to the people in kingwood and they have been taken to crete and would middle school which is a red cross site to get them out of that area for now. over the next 24 hours for the kingwood areas, it's going to be very important to see how the water continues to flow, but we are watching that area very carefully and i'm working very closely with council member dave martin and the kingwood area. again, water rescues are taking place in kingwood at the enclave, barrington, water shores, and forest gardens and they've been taken to crete and would middle school as a holding place for right now. all of the areas within the city of houston we're focusing on on, whether it's this area, whether

it's in the inner city itself, down in clear lake on the south side mount all the areas, a lot of our resources are all over the city, so we certainly want to think again, the first responders, police, and fire, for being out there 24/7. not just during the daytime, but most of them are in the hazardous conditions which happen to be at night and we are counting on houstonians to stab the streets. i'm continuing to ask everyone to staff the streets. i want to underscore this. i'm asking all houstonians to stay off street, but our first responders are on the streets and they are on the street at night in varied treacherous situations. cannot say enough for them that are working around the clock. i want to give you an update on the north east plant which is important to the city and areas

and communities that are supplied clean water by that plant. jeff, do you want to comment and give us an update? >> leland: the houston mayor they are giving an update as the rain continues to come down and houston. rescues continue in houston. molly, it doesn't seem as though they have begun to get at least a handle on the resources they need for rescues. a saying there are boat crews that have come in from all across the country, more and more boats in the water by the hour and those might become necessary as they are saying that there are reports of at least two levees in the houston area that may have been breached at the major reservoirs which could cause much more widespread flooding and anything we've seen. >> molly: the mayor also talk about another mega shelter or two opening up. it will have more information on that coming up as a day goes forward. will let people know where they can seek safety because the initial center reach capacity

and it's time for "outnumbered." "outnumbered" starts right now. >> sandra: fox news alert. straight to the disaster zone. at present from side to arrive in corpus christie texas -- >> sandra: fox news alert. straight to the disaster zone. president trump set to arrive in corpus christi, texas, where he will survey first-hand the deadly path of distraction left by hurricane harvey. this is officials say that key reservoirs have flooded houston now spilling over. this is "outnumbered," here today, harris faulkner, anchor of the intelligence report, trish regan, coast of fox and friends weekend, abby huntsman and today's #oneluckyguy, fox news contributor and nationally set a kid ready a talk show host kevin jackson is here on a very important day and you are outnumbered sir, lack going on. >> kevin: totally. we definitely feel for the