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 folks

in houston, texas, but i have to tell you, the outpouring of support from the houstonians and other people in texas has been amazing to watch. i love we rely so much on government to come in and you're finding out here, government can do a whole lot, it's the people who are bringing their boats and saving people. >> sandra: you just heard the mayor of houston wrapping up a news conference by saying i want to say a very big thank you to all of the first responders, the place and fire department. >> kevin: the first responders are playing a role, but the citizens are really the ones who are coming to the aid of the people. >> sandra: let's get right to it as we wait for air force one to touch down in texas, we begin with a dire situation in the greater houston area. homes of nearly 6 million people, the swamps with nearly e that amount before weeks end. the rainfall now at 49.3 inches, now surpassing a continental record and it could get even worse from here.

a pair of reservoirs protecting downtown houston spilling over for the first time in its history, unleashing more floodwaters and washing away thousands of homes. residents are urged to get out. shepard smith continues our coverage in the noon hour from a fox news deck. >> breaking right now, as you mention, the all-time record for rain and a tropical system in texas has just been broken. 49.2 inches in southeast housto houston. mary's creek at winding road, for those who know the area, southeast houston and the tolls around the area are astounding. first, there is a very serious situation happening and resort area county. i want to show you where this is. this is the area. kind of hard to see, but all of this area is zaria county

specifically, it's in this area right here, we've been watching it throughout the day and this levee breach has caused an warmest problem. here's the area of levee right here off of west 26th. let me check this, all 35. this is all developing news now. this area right here is where it has happened. southwest of galveston all along -- the levy is at columbia lakes, all residents under a mandatory evacuation right now, flash flood warning through 5:45 this afternoon. here's a tweet from the locals, the tweet is now up that they sent from the county. the levy of columbia lakes has breached, get out now. they're telling everyone that it happened very quickly, they believe the entire area is going to flood expeditiously. it's turned into a disaster of epic proportions.

the states for largest cities or men paralyzed. emergency crews say they've been overwhelmed by thousands of rescue calls. the coast guard reports it's rescued more than 3,000 people by boat and error. local officials have rescued more than 8,000 and that's not to mention, this armada of neighbors helping neighbors and the cajun navy who has helped out so much. they are taking more 1,000 calls per hour in houston. here's a look at those rainfall totals recorded by the national weather service. south houston as of midnight, 4. houston hobby, that's the second airport in houston. 33.88 inches at houston hobby. if of the major airports, houston hobby and houston bush intercontinental are close until further notice.

baytown is a small town outside of houston that's expected to have 10 feet of water downtown by the end of the day. they have 37 inches of rain. houston hobby and bush intercontinental, they have 28 inches. astounding. there was or vars are overflowing. they're very concerned about downtown. officials say the amount of water entering is greater than the amount being released and that can cause more homes and streets to flood. i want to take you over to the big wall back over here and show you what's happening now with the storm. the thing is, it's moved a little bit to the east. yesterday we were on this wall and i was telling you, the storm is going to come back over the water and it would be able to get more fuel. it's like gas for the car, when it goes back over the water, that's what happened. it's now turning over. the expectation now is the storm

is going to come back ashore, right along the louisiana and texas border and had to the north. there are real concerns in lake charles, louisiana, they're getting a lot of rain, over louisiana, a lot of rain. certainly into south mississippi, all the weapon to arkansas. first, western houston is an area that's supposed to dry out a little bit this afternoon. griff jenkins is in western houston near the addicks reservoir which has been overflowing. what you seeing there? >> we see that rescue boats and volunteers are turning out here. early this morning, the reservoirs began to flow, never happened in history. this is a problem that really did not need. just about 15 minutes ago, the

flood control tweeting out that it's nearly a half a foot over that level. the water i'm standing income at one a broke that news about 5:00 a.m. this morning, has risen by my estimations 3-4 inches. we've seen buses being exported out, we've seen one couple coming out here early and woke up and realized what was going on and they had bags of clothing and belongings and they got out because the situation here has gotten bad and it's going to get worse. it's not a levy break that you are mentioning, it's just going to trickle. the problem is, because yesterday, as we showed you, they were trying to control the water flow out of here, they now have an uncontrolled spill over the top. they don't know where it's going to go. it's going to continue for days, if not perhaps even weeks. >> thanks very much, appreciate it. there is a lie rescue underway

right now. pictures coming into us from kr iv. let's listen in. >> pd helping as well. how was the boat ride question requisite scary in your house? >> not really, it was wet. >> this is terrible, it's horrible. >> where do you live? >> i'm in the riverstone area. >> was their water in the house? >> in the garage. >> i'll let you get to safety there. i'll let you get out of the way. again, we have game wardens out

here, we have some civilian set of come out to help, brought their personal vehicles, their personal boats out here. everybody pitching end, that's what his stony ends do. take a look at this. that is a neighborhood with several feet of water in it and water rising, unfortunately. we see this seemed to me times in the houston area. here we go, another rescue coming this way. jenna meant on a jet ski, a rescuer on a jet ski pulling a john boat full of family members. a lot of people, we're seeing smiles and just happy about being out of this water, as you can imagine. i can't even imagine what it's like for these folks to go through this, but thanks to the work, again, texas parts and wildlife, the game warden, and civilians who are all pitching in. these folks are being rescued, they're coming to safety, they're coming to dry land. you do turn a couple of the folks talk about, they got a little but of water, but they knew it was coming and they wanted to get out and they had

the chance to get out my things to these folks. not the same story for a lot of the homes you can see in the shot because you can tell that the water is considerably higher there. if you take a look at any of the fence and, you see how high it is on this side and he can see the windows from the other side, so that would give you an idea, that's halfway up on the first floor. that's a lot of water. we're waiting for another rescue to come to shore here. i'm going to move back and then these guys time on dry land because we are standing in some really mushy stuff here. we'll keep an eye on it at riverstone and southwest houston. it will keep you updated, keep it tuned. where your gulf coast weather authority houston. >> thanks to fox 26 and the rest of our affiliated stations there where they're helping cover this. we just got an alert in from the writers new agency. total u.s. oil refining capacity has just shut due to harvey,

exceeds 3 million barrels a day. that means a 16% of the united states oil refining capacity has been cut off following the shut off in beaumont, texas. the storm has been moving to the east. beaumont is east of houston. beaumont is one of the areas that's been having a lot of trouble today and sandra smith, as you know, the oil refining capacity goes down, most often, the price of oil goes up and usually gases followed by it. there's a trickle down on all of this and we are experiencing it. >> sandra: huge economic impact that could last for days. thank you very much, shepard smith. we're watching houston's largest shelter, it's a way overcapacity. at last check this morning, they took in more than 9,000 evacuees. that's thousands more than the shelter was originally set up for. they are no longer taking on busloads of evacuees. caroline shively is their life

for us right now. caroline? >> it is almost double what we were told yesterday. they have run out of cots, they have semi trucks full of cots stage outside the city, they can't get here because the water is simply too high. take a look inside. that is the rim that used to be the lunch room and the rec room in the place he went to get donations. today, it's been turned into more of a bedroom. no cops in that room, their lang out cardboard, the wrapping up in blankets. we saw whole families just cuddled up together. that was the only place they could get some sleep. the mayor has officially put an a request to fema saying we need houses more cots, we need more food and we need by tomorrow. take a look out here. the donations are indeed pouring in. we got close, take a look at this amazing pile. this is what local his stony ends are bring to the table. we have kids clothes and diapers and everything you might need.

people are coming end, they have nothing to their name, maybe a backpack with a couple of things, maybe a cell phone, but this is what we are seeing, the generosity is pouring out of the city and coming down here to the convention center. pets are allowed in here. we talked to many people today who said they would not have left their homes that they weren't allowed to bring their dog, their bird. an amazing story here at the convention center. >> sandra: thank you. at the convention center, meanwhile, that live shot you're seeing on the right-hand degree screen, that is kingwood. as you just heard that press conference, just before the top of the hour, you heard the mayor and achieve a police talking about kingwood, saying this is a focal point for water rescue right now. you are watching one of those water rescues happening right now on a fan boat as you see all of these people coming together to save these people in this community, kingwood, texas peered the live water rescue happening right now and again, this is a focal point as you

just heard from authorities where they are committing to these water rescues of large magnitudes. >> harris: this is a change and i was talking with my father a little earlier because we do have relatives in this area. kevin, i know you do too. these are neighborhoods that haven't flooded until overnight because of the reservoir and because of a rain so these people seem to have their things and plastic bags and have had a little bit more time. that's going to be critical as they are running out of space to put people in higher ground when the convention center. what that means is you're going to have to take more resources with you because it's more difficult to get things. if you have items gathered and your home, that's why these pictures will be a little bit different because people have had a little bit more stuff.

it's a hardship. i was reading this morning that ben carson, he's going to be of the president today, that particular agency of government is going to be so critical because they'll have to house some people north of a year. it could be 1-2 years that they'll be in some sort of public housing. they'll move them from the shelters and then they'll move into public housing. >> sandra: as they watch this rescued by boat happening right now, some other details that we just heard at that press conference happening at the pentagon with a national guard major general james witham. over 3,500 people have been rescued by boat, over 300 helicopter rescues, roughly 300 pets also rescued and texas for harvey. abby, you've been covering this all weekend. on believable to see this life before our eyes. >> abby: it's really heartbreaking. this all broke friday night into saturday morning and at that point, the hurricane had been

downgraded to a 1, but we were sitting there realizing that the reality is the aftermath of the storm and what happens from there and the flooding, houston is not prepared for this. now we see the rain has now hit that 50-inch mark which they were very concerned about. the parts of houston that you're talking about, not everyone had that ability to take that time to grab their belongings. >> harris: early evacuees didn't, they were mandatory and they had to get out. lower income areas had to wait for buses and other public transportation before the boats when and before he got that high to try and get out. the mandatory evacuation was difficult. >> kevin: it always is, but houston is in a flood zone. at that sea level. of course, the city, no offense to the mayor, but it's not laid out for rain. >> sandra: as you see the water rescues happening in

texas, we see air force one in a blue sky coming down. we've been waiting for president trump's arrival in texas as this historic flooding has been worsening. sarah huckabee sanders did a brief meeting with reporters aboard air force one just a short time ago. she confirmed that secretary tom price is on board along with elaine duke, ben carson is on board air force one as well as linda mcmahon. she also said the president will be joined by senator ted cruz and john cornyn for most of the day and corpus christi to oxon texas and reiterated he will return to an unspecified location and texas on saturday. the purpose of the trip, she said, for the president, to lay the foundation of what we unknown will be a long recovery effort. that's a big part of what today will be all about. trish, air force one landing in texas just moments away. >> trish: it's good to go for

him to be rare right now. it's critical that he show his support for the state, for the victims there. don't forget and katrina, all the criticism that president bush suffered because he was late to take action and he was late to be there with resources and i can remember, i spent a lot of time there covering the aftermath of katrina and there were trailers lined up for miles and they couldn't get the trailers because fema was so disorganized to the people who just really needed them. this is a real test for him to show the country how he's organized and how he can make sure that the resources get those that need them. it's going to be a very difficult process, but this is his background, he is a builder. they're going to need so much help. this before the coordination that you have of local officials and the president of the united states and ben carson,

not just to coordinate -- >> harris: he's got to oversee some of the funding allocations in terms of giving help. because so much of what we will see will be the structures to house people. we didn't go back and do a lot of the reporting after katrina when those people were still post a shelter living in government housing. that's a difficult spot to be i in. >> kevin: i still believe, we're talking about checklists 101, with the the president is going to do is within the fema guidelines and congratulations to him for doing all the pomp and circumstance. and making sure that every feels comfortable, but let's face it, that jet landing isn't going to take anybody out of the misery they're suffering right now. there are people leaving behind memorabilia and things that they're never going to get back. their lives are complete he ripped apart and it's the people on the ground that are bringing these people in. >> sandra: it's interesting to watch private business and their

contribution, bass pro shop just at donating a bunch of boats to the rescue efforts there. it's also been interesting to see them stepping in as well. air force one has touched down in corpus christi, texas. we know this about the president's schedule. although they said the schedule will be fluid throughout the day, the white house, the white house will be touching down and corpus christi, meeting with governors abbott and his wife, he will also be meeting shortly after landing with fema administrator brock long and he'll be receiving a briefing from local authorities, police, fire chief, the mayor of course. the schedule is fluid. >> harris: i went to lean and on what kevin was talking about. the president can't be everywhere, but he can trigger, just like you see in church communities that love. he can trigger from the heart and that can reverberate like ripples on a lake. you've got all these people

coming from other areas, they need to be organized now. that's a helping hand that abby was talking about. i think the president can generate that. >> sandra: governor abbott is up early making her march onto reporters. >> he heard about the needs down here. >> i've talked to him about those needs personally. i was here yesterday and after my meeting with local officials, i had a telephone conference with the president and let him know specifically what the challenges were by the local businesses here that they need to address -- after listening to the needs for power down here, i made a phone call and we got 1,000 more people involved in getting power going. >> what do you want to tell everybody watching who has relatives in houston right now? i know it's one of the most devastating floods of all time,

and american history, what you want to tell them right now? >> everyone in the state of texas is focused first on saving every life. in typical texas fashion, we will rebuild and make it better. >> what about a package plan, is that in the works? >> the president and his team have been talking to us about providing tremendous aid. it will be one thing we will talk in more detail about today. it will be something with the president is able to provide from his resources, but also, part will be an appropriation from the nine states congress. >> what else can fema dune do? >> they have a lot of tools available. let me go. we want him to see and understand the enormous

challenges that texas has faced and the needs for the eight he is providing. he's a champion of texas and a chappie and of helping us rebuild and i think will hear that commitment here thank you, i gotta go. >> sandra: the governor is obviously breaking away as the president has just landed at air force one. the president made it very clear as he was speaking earlier, the president wants to be very cautious about making sure that any activity, including with him and his wife being on the ground today, doesn't disrupt the recovery efforts that are still ongoing. >> harris: with the president is doing is consistent with what he's been doing and those saturday and sunday early morning hours that we were reporting and that was to get a jump on this very early on. he had a request for declaration of disaster very early on. he said put it in front of me, give me what i need to make this happen. he signed it very early on. i want to make one point that trish made and that is the idea

that this president is a ceo, this president is acco, he's a businessman. sba administrator linda mcmahon is here, you talk about those small businesses being part of the solution. it gives him an opportunity to stand out with all his representatives, but linda mcmahon in particular can talk to those small businesses and see what they need. remember, people are not just going to be missing their homes and their income, most people don't have $500 in their pocket when they're walking around, they can get to atms, there's no electricity for them. most are underwater at this point. cutting those checks to the government is one point, but getting people working again as soon as possible once the water starts to recede. >> trish: a lot have to start over. most americans don't have this money saved, they aren't prepared for this. i know we were all in sandy and

we experienced the brunt of that. abby, you said you had to move, i had to move my family, we were downtown, i've got three little kids and to this day, i kid you not, they see rain coming in, they see a storm, they get worried and they ask what's going to happen and i thing about those poor children right now in texas that have had to be evacuated and thank god there safe, but this is a true medic event. extra medic for their parents, it's hugely dramatic for them. most importantly, there safe. but now, their families will have to rebuild and its way to take a lot. economically for a family, this is a very hard thing for them to do. >> kevin: at the macro level, you look at the state of texas and the impact of houston, the largest city has a med economy. we already talked on the impact it will have on oil and gas, but houston's economy moves on more than just oil and gas. forget about what the breakout would be, it's probably in the

top 50 gdp of countries. >> harris: i want to draw our attention to air force one because we are waiting for the president and the first lady and their contingents were traveling with them. you mention the secretaries who are on board with him to get off of air force one. >> abby: as you were saying, getting the timing right of when you get to a disaster zone for the president is important. you don't want to be a distraction, but at the same time, you want to get there when people are suffering and you think of all the hats he wears president and the most important job you have is to protect the people that you serve. being a businessman will be helpful, but being there right now and emotionally putting your arms around the state of texas saying we are here for you. >> sandra: he won't be making any formal statements when he gets off of the plane. peter doocy is standing by their as we wait for the president to step off of air force one.

peter, he won't be making a formal cement, however, he left the door open to make possible remarks when he gets off the plane. speak out right, and we are not sure whether or not he would want to begin his trip with remarks look the ones he made yesterday where he promised that federal money would be coming here fast, or if you would want to wait until after he gets a firsthand look at the devastation in the corpus christi area that came this weekend with 130-mile-an-hour winds. the reason he's visiting this part of texas is because he can see the damage inflicted by harvey over the weekend by the high winds. without interrupting the ongoing rescue efforts and the recovery at first about three hours away, 200 miles from here in houston, we think that may be where he is heading when he comes back on saturday, but right now, you can

see they do have the entire motorcade positioned to get him off, so it doesn't look like we'll hear from when he steps off air force one. just on the other side is texas governor greg abbott who said president trump gets an a+ for coining the federal efforts so far here with regard to harvey, a storm that still is not done with texas. again, this visit comes in the middle of the storm. governor abbott is pleased so far with the federal help that he's been getting, but again, the headlines coming from about 200 miles from here and the bulletins are all still very alarming. there is a very rough road ahead for the people in houston. abbott and trump will be working together a lot in the coming days and weeks and years, really to make sure they can rebuild. on the plane, we did just get word from some reporters who are

writing along with the president on air force one that the press secretary sarah sanders came back to say that the whole point of today's visit is to lay a foundation for what they know is going to be a really long recovery effort. >> harris: peter, it's harris and i'm looking now and overshot that we can see from back in new york and one thing that's getting me, corpus christi is fortunate in the fact that while they were in the initial hit of hurricane harvey as he came ashore, they were on the northwestern side of the storm, so they took in less rain, so they were able to land here and now we see the president of the united states. he's getting off of air force one, he is joined to the first lady, melania, waving to the crowd there. we were just discussing the fact that the president might make a few comments so we likely the microphones up. this particular present presidt

dissents the stairs. >> he's being followed right now by some members of his administration. we can see the small business administrator linda mcmahon and ben carson. we understand each of these cabinet members at the president is bringing down our bringing a key member of their staff and the idea is that this is not just a photo op, this is not just a chance for the president to come and show that he's paying attention. >> harris: peter, let's listen and see if there's any wild audio here. sometimes there might be. all right, we thought we like the megaphone come up and peter, you are saying about each person bringing along a staff member. speak out right, just so they can make sure that the money, the enormous federal recovery effort that's going to be spent

over the next couple years that it's going to the right places. that is something that's going to recover before many departments. of course, the authorization of the president. he's here with numbers of his cabinet. >> sandra: we're going to keep listening in case we can pick up audio of the president, but i want to go back to some and we just heard. prior to the president landing here, this will be a long-term effort, sing another 20000-30,000 troops could be called up. at this moment, 30 national guard helicopters are flying in texas, 24 more have been requested. ed could go to 100 in support of this release.

the military efforts are ramping up and right now, the department of defense say they answered texas with every single request that has been made. >> harris: let's focus on what's happening at the center of the screen. kevin, i'm going to lean on you a little bit because for you, this is home. this is not a president who showed up at a to work. >> kevin: will this affect trump's vote in the city of texas? i don't think there's anything on his mind about this. i really believe he's genuinely there to take care of the citizens of texas. i find it comforting, knowing he's here and hillary's not. it would be a complete dog and pony show.

>> harris: he saluting military personnel who have been on the inside, if you will hear as many military members have been called up, not just national guard members, but others who have come in. >> sandra: there is governor abbott there. >> harris: governor greg abbott and they're getting into the official presidential vehicle to be taken in to an area where senators cruise and corn and already been surveying. he will now join the president and corpus christi. you want to talk about being a distraction, that's what that would be, so he's going to stay away. an undisclosed location, but a plan to visit already for this weekend back potentially as early as saturday. it says so much about a commitment, but it speaks to the severity of the situation, i was meant to mention there's a black hawk helicopter that was being used to make rescues.

you see a salute like that and for me as a former military brat, i know the gravity is all hands on deck, everybody. >> abby: i was talking to my brothers who were both in the navy who may have to go help there. this is when all hands on deck, as you said. the storms on even over yet. they're expecting to get rain another part of houston and texas this week on the president is there on the ground. this is not a role he has played before because you look at -- most of our presidents, all of them have come from local politics and some way. they experience a disaster on their home turf. you can imagine, just how he's feeling this motion moment. there are people whose lives are

on the line, wanting to survive, is not about politics. all of that you be removed at this moment, it's about being there now and showing you are there for everyone on ground. >> kevin: urgently, it's not being removed. i'm glad the other politicians have been through this, but i really think that america is ready for a businessman. and katrina, it was so wasted that came out of that situation and that's why a lot of those people who were displaced remain displaced because a lot of money went on a rathole. >> sandra: this is a traffic camera shot that we are getting right now in houston of submerged cars. >> harris: there are people on top of them, i'm awaiting to be rescued. >> sandra: we don't know if that's being rescued, or getting out of their car. these are life pictures coming in. >> harris: it boggles your mind. what is he standing on? >> trish: is not clear what he's standing on.

it appears to be the trunk area, but i don't know. hopefully someone gets to him soon. you think about all these people there. this is a good portion of the population and as we were talking earlier about the katrina anniversary. >> abby: there were people who left katrina to go to houston, many never left houston. you thing about what they are now dealing with. >> sandra: we should remind everybody that we learned of the top of the hour as a shepard smith came in and brought that breaking news to us, that rainfall levels topped 49.2 inches in the houston area, a record. >> harris: remember when we were on the air last week and it might have been janice dean and she dropped those numbers on us. 50 inches of rain, all my goodness. sandra, we're there. >> sandra: we're there and it's not over. that storm is not moving. >> harris: when you talk about

the 9,000 plus evacuees in a facility that was designed for for 5,000, that's the dome and katrina. i know they're doing their best, but that is beyond capacity. i can't imagine what it's like. yesterday we know they were trying to locate other rival sized locations to put people. kevin, what else would rival the size of conditions? >> kevin: i can't pick of any place would go in houston. being from texas, i had an office there for years, have been stuck many times and torrential rain storms and i was describing it, the last time i flew in to go to a sugar ray leonard event, i got flooded and had to stay over at the airport and even at that one day in desperation, i can get to my tv, my food, my family, et cetera it was amazing. unit taste of it. i've been stuck in other floods in texas as well. i can't think of any place in houston that would take several

thousand. >> abby: now they're just taking walk-ins because you get 70 people in there. what's so hardworking about that, these convention centers, the only place people can go to get food and water. >> sandra: went to bring in janice dean, speaking of which. janice dean, as we bring you in, that level could to be breached, 49.2 inches has fallen. >> 49.32 at mary's creek and that surpasses, ed is now the wettest texas tropical system of all time. if we get past a 53, that will surpass 1950s hurricane out in hawaii and i think you're going to do it. i've seen unofficial totals of over 52 inches of rain. historic rainfall, devastating, catastrophic, you name it. i have to say, the national

weather service has been spot on with these rainfall totals. we were talking about this wednesday of last week that this could be a potentially catastrophic event with over 4 feet of rainfall and i know a lot of people were like, no, that can happen. that's not going to happen and the worst scenario, unfortunately is unfolding and these are the pictures we're seeing. katrina made landfall i believe on this day 12 years ago and we covered that. i covered that storm and i feel the same feeling in the pet of my stomach. a sense of doom, that these pictures are just the beginning of rescue and recovery. there are no words right now. >> sandra: we are looking at these life pictures, so my people are writing and watching

that traffic shot on left side of your screen where cars up submerged and someone is clearly on top of it as only people are writing and that that's a bed of a pickup truck. >> harris: that is what i thought it was. it gives you an idea of how deep the water is. it really speaks to the issue of how difficult it is to get these people out of the situation. he's camped out, he's waiting for help. he's in wait mode. janice, i want to ask about something we were talking about on the air last week and ed was unfathomable to me at the time, but you said we will reach a point where the earth can't accept any more water. >> i think that's what's happening now. houston is in a predicament because there are articles that have been written about the city of houston and how it is the perfect place for a perfect storm. you've got clay instead of

porous ground that will take the rainfall. the rain already runs off, then you've got urban development. >> sandra: i'm jumping in because we've been watching this camera shot, a traffic camera shot. there is a current rescue, a water rescue happening right now. we were just remind by the fire chief and mayor, there were 3,500 rescues, look at this. and then playable boat is pulling wife in the pickup truck. when we saw that man, we saw an umbrella and he's being carried off. >> harris: i want you to notice because if the roll back, it was subtle, but i know you're sitting because of the tv, you see that water is rising, right? he didn't have a lot of time and he'd been there for a minute. i wondered what he was perched

on. we're watching it now. >> trish: wears the storm going from here? we hear reports that this is not the end of it. it may circle back around and they're going to get even more rain. what are you hearing? >> we are on the tail end of the houston story, never getting rainfall reports heavy rain in louisiana towards new orleans, but i also want to make mention that what we're seeing right now, you might not get rescued if you go out and your vehicle and floodwaters. there is not the manpower. this was a success story. >> harris: the back of the water is underwater now. >> they come with the expression turn around, don't drown. we always stress it. these landfilling systems, water takes more lives than anything else. more than the wins, more than tornadoes, it is their fresh water flooding, the storm surge and this has been setting up for

days now. as a meteorologist, of course we had the hurricane, but it was up to us to say wait, after the hurricane makes landfall, the biggest story will be the epic, catastrophic flooding. that's what we face as meteorologists. don't turn off your tv set once the store makes landfall because we'll be dealing with this for a week and we were predicting dyer rainfall totals and unfortunately, i wish i got this forecast wrong. >> harris: not to turn this into an episode of "national geographic," but there are a lot of things in those waters and one reason they do want people going out in their cars is because some of those things are moving around and as you can see, the perch that he had is now underwater. he didn't have a lot of time and janice, i know we have talked about this. it's southern texas, there are a lot of things you see, fire ants, there are things people

are dealing with if you can stay and be rescued and side of a dwelling come out much better than to go out and a car and we are seeing it play out as to wh why. >> there are no words. seeing these people. to the rescue crews that are basically abandoning their own families to go out there. these firemen and these rescue crews in some cases have left their homes that are flooded to go rescue people, risking their own lives to save others. i lived in houston for a number of years and texans, they have big old hearts and they'll do what they can. this is a story that's going to be one of the biggest catastrophes in our history. i know sending our prayers doesn't help as much as may be rescuing a person, but at this point in time, it's all we can do. >> harris: send both. >> sandra: as of now,

49.32 inches of rain, the president has landed in air force one. the president and melania trump, d boarded the plane, they are on their way for a briefing with local authorities on the situation currently happening down there. the president was very careful to say he does not want to get in the way of any recovery efforts happening there. abby, you heard from the mayor at the top of the hour telling houstonians staff the street. that is still the primary message as these rescue efforts are underway. >> abby: where watching this live in the moment of that rescue. i thing of the top of this hour, the truck will be completely underwater. here is made a point that the water is not a safe place to be because you don't know what's crawling around in those waters. alligators, you name it. the president is now in corpus christi where she remember saturday morning, that is where the heart of the storm hit. they may not be experiencing the flooding that houston is, but they're going back to their homes and their belongings. when he gets there on the ground and he sees for himself, it will

be a very long time. >> harris: that's a great point. i talked of that the executive director of port authority because that is who is on mass response of the oil refineries. those ships, those cruise lines that were looking for their places him a the port authorities along the coast were dealing with that puzzle. this director told me, sean strawbridge, we had our own damage. they have a lot of damage, they were on the northwest side of the storm and didn't get the rain ban, but they're already an cleanup mode. they're already leaving their families to go into all those things. the president is able to land there -- the truck is almost underwater, look at that. >> kevin: i want to make one quick point. don't go on the street, where you going to go? your home is probably flooded. >> harris: get stuck.

>> kevin: hopefully people just reach the point of desperation and say we have no part joe where to go. people know the skill of landing, they know there's no runoff. >> harris: they never seen this. >> kevin: let me tell you, as i said, it doesn't take a lot of rain in houston, texas, to floo flood. >> abby: janice, you are saying as well. it's hard to predict exactly where a hurricane will fall. they thought corpus christi would be the i have that storm, and moved a little bit from there, but that's why i think residents, it's hard to know or have a good sense a few days before it's coming of where it's going to land. >> harris: when did they know? we were on the air saturday night when they had the first death in houston, a woman caught in a car, the mayor came on and it was staccato after that and it got worse. when did they know? >> this was a storm that came

off the coast of africa, so it was eight classic storm, but the models had it moving over the yucatan, which it did. i'm sorry ladies, they just switched me over. >> kevin: i would like to say one thing. i think it's more of a sense of the desperation of people that are saying, maybe they got their careers back and they're saying, we can't leave. we talked about $500 being the difference between paying bills and not paying bills for some of these folks who are now displaced. i can only imagine, the beginning of that forecast and making that debate with your family, do we stay or do we go? >> trish: shame on him, it might be okay. the one thing i would point out is you're not looking at a death

toll as we saw in katrina. all the people that stated that should have left that wound up losing their lives. thus far, we're not looking at anything catastrophic which i think is very good. it shows that even though some are stranded, for the most part, we are seeing people that have been rescued. we are seeing people that was not as bad as what we saw in katrina. >> kevin: new orleans was unable and they were lying on their levee system and pumps that didn't work. houston has a same problem. they were relying on a drainage system that doesn't exist. when you say i hurricane is barreling towards you, it's a go or no-go decision. i think many people decided, the same thing happened with katrina, we'll bear it out. >> harris: i think janice dean

is back with us. it is like that. he warned everybody, but when it comes to your house and it's not raining in every thing looks like it's going to be okay, even when the officials are showing people to leave, it's hard. they never had that reservoir overflow, they didn't think they needed to tell 5 million people to get out of the way. >> just know this. when we tracked these storms, we usually have 5-7 days to repair. we did for katrina. we knew it was going to be a hurricane and we know is going to make landfall around mississippi and louisiana. with this storm, it fell apart, then when in to the they have ten pg and exploded. it was originally supposed going to mexico and it was wednesday last week when we were like, okay, this is going to make a right-hand turn and it's going up towards the coast of texas. we didn't know it was going to be a cat four. the intensity is hard to

forecast, but we knew his bed made epic rainfall maker. that's when we asserted to alert people. then we started to get on tv and radio answer to warn people, it's a hurricane, it's making landfall, but don't turn off your sets. the big story is the epic flooding afterwards. the challenge we have is we didn't have enough time, i fear, to warn people and i know there's the discussion about the mayor and whether he did the right thing. there wasn't enough time to evacuate. we would have had thousands of cars on the roadway trying to evacuate and we need about rita in 2005, they had people die in their cars. that would have been an epic disaster, so i'm in the corner of the mayor right now. they could not have evacuated 7 million people. >> sandra: he said it would have been catastrophic and i still stand by and defend that decision.

>> abby: rockport texas was any i eye of the storm. you look at the distraction of these homes and people that did evacuate because this is the part of texas they were warned and many did flee. they have to go back to this in the coming days and see what's left of their homes and their belongings. it's so hard to see this. >> sandra: we are seeing it on tv and the first lady and the president are on the ground and will see this firsthand. >> harris: is us live? >> sandra: it's amazing when you get on the ground and actually see the destruction during things like this. this is obviously unprecedented. this is life. >> it's safe for you. >> we are doing what we can. >> i think there's enough of yo you. good luck, we are about to see you saved this guy.

i hope. thanks, guys. thanks for all you do, obviousl obviously. these guys are not firefighters or police officers. they were probably out doing something else and other people told them that this guy needed help. there's like ten of them. >> they've been repairing a lot of lines and how many centerpoint customers did we have? >> sandra: as you heard the reporter talking to that group of people, they are off to go rescue some folks. >> kevin: to your earlier point, these are civilians that have apparently commandeered this piece of equipment to help this guy. >> sandra: i wanted to alert to everyone that we could be seeing the president shortly, knowing he's on the ground they are he's getting briefed by local officials, he's with the mayor and the governor. obviously, the president is going to see this firsthand in some areas.

>> harris: we mentioned the schedule may change, but if it's sticking right now, he's made with the governor, the governor's wife, based on what you had said and that we weren't giving a timetable for how long that would happen, but i would imagine, given the scene where seeing, the president is probably near a television somewhere and the world is talking what the pictures that we're looking at. we had a previous picture, i don't often go to that previous live picture, but they were plucking people off of rooftops again. trish, you're closest to the monitor. we had another picture, another live piece of video, this will be a little harder to see, kind of shaky, but they can hone in, we'll see a big rescue because that is a lot of guys on the back of that vehicle. >> trish: as kevin said, it's wonderful to see citizens out there going door to door and doing whatever they can. this can unity is really point together. we've been through so much lately on the political front. this is a testament to who we are as americans red bottom

line, left, right, it doesn't matter. you care about your neighbor and you care about helping others and that's what we're seeing on full display. in terms of what texas going to need, first of all, we hope everything up and is safe and that we don't see a high death toll as a result. and save as and get every buddy right now, that's critical. >> harris: oh my lord, look how deep that is. there going out there and one thing we had been reporting, and instructions for people to get help. they know the areas that need to get to rain now, even if they can't see the top of the structures because people have climbed onto whatever they can, but you see these guys. this is the area we were showing on fox news, i believe where the chase bank is. this is a middletown area. >> kevin: you can't see it.

>> harris: we could see more of it a couple hours ago. >> kevin: i got caught in a flood in san antonio going to my grandmother's birthday and i'm looking at these vehicles and i'm thinking, the level of desperation we had that would have been a ten minute trip that turned into two hours and how we meandered through that city and we could have easily been one of those cars standing on top and waiting for rescue because we were so desperate. >> harris: what can you see? >> abby: >> trish: it looks lik- >> harris: there someone swimming in the water. >> trish: there's nowhere else to go, but to swim. the waters are so high. >> kevin: you want to swim in the water. >> harris: to the writ of your screen, we don't control these live cameras obviously. traffic cameras usually looked down, we are looking even now.

>> sandra: this is an abc affiliate out of houston. somebody is manning the camera right now. >> harris: i'm glad they're able to save a life. to the right is still the truck, the vehicle that had all of those rescuers on it and you could see something. >> trish: there were moving towards something. hopefully they completed the rescue operation or they're on their way. there they are right now. we heard from a local reporter that they were about to conduct a rescue operation and that's the team of civilians that commandeered that vehicle and are trying to do what they can. >> abby: this is about so much more than politics. this is the very best of our country. you can hear the rescuers and their voices, they were so excited to get out there.

>> kevin: it would agreed feeling that person has to have to see those guys. >> sandra: the affiliate, the abc affiliate whose shot we have right now, i went to their twitter page and their reporting this is a man clinging to a sign against a current of waist deep water on beaumont highway, that's the only information they provided, but that came one minute ago. you have to remember you heard a woman speaking to those men going, that could be the same person holding a camera right now that was firing off those questions. >> harris: that's an excellent point because there are people who have been on the perimeter of this watching, so that truck will eventually come down -- we want to remind everybody that

as they continue to do those controlled releases on the reservoirs, that's the one they're keying in on now. the neighborhood surrounding that, they never intended you have to evacuate those people. they were not flooded until they started to release the water, that has created a humanitarian crisis that didn't exist before. now it exists. you've got shoulders filling up, the convention center filling up and rescues like this playing out. somewhat in areas that never had to. >> trish: now you have someone on the ground in texas before the storm is even over. >> sandra: as you said, we are reminded with janice dean, we had time to 49.2 inches of rain on the top of the hour. janice dean just reporting about 49.3 inches of water on the way to 50 inches. kevin jackson, think you for joining us. what an hour, will have

continuing coverage on fox news channel. keep it here. >> leland: of fox news alert, harvey is now expected to make landfall a second time, this time in louisiana. our two of "happening now," nice to be with you. >> molly: president trump arriving in texas a short time ago to receive briefings on what is proving to be a historic storm. the national weather service says harvey has broken a texas state record, dumping more than 49 inches of rain on's parts of southeast houston. harvey is now blamed for at least 14 deaths, possibly 15 as local media reports a police officer has drowned in his patrol car. officials say it's far too early to know the exact death toll, they have to wait until the floodwaters finally received. >> leland: the president and re