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 retire coast guard commander

walk us through the rescues we have seen. >> good afternoon on fox television stations across the nation and fox news channel on satellite and cable around the world, i'm shepard smith in new york, fox news continuing coverage on the hurricane that has struck and the aftermath on southeast texas, across louisiana and to the north and east. breaking now, an all-time record for tropical storm system in texas has been broken, 49.2 inches in southeast houston. 49.2 inches of rain since that storm began hitting on thursday night. the totals around the area are astounding. we will get to those shortly. first i want to take you to the big board over here and give you an idea of what has been happening with the storm. in a moment we will hear from

the president of the united states who is at a gas station in corpus christi. the storm is right now offshore, a tropical storm spinning counterclockwise as all low-pressure centers do. the worst of the rain to the north and east of the center of circulation. on the west side of houston over toward the new orleans area in lake charles in the middle getting a lot of rain, you can see the last bit of this loop right there, that's current. right there. east of houston getting the worst of this. corpus christi down the coast a little bit, that's where the president is and all this moisture is still coming into this area. 15-20 more inches expected in some areas, will top 50 inches of rain in some spots and do so significantly throughout the day. two areas of major concern right now, one levy has broken, almost due south of houston in a small community where hundreds of homes have been ordered to immediately evacuate.

southwest of galveston, right along the coach coast and inla. although residents there under a mandatory evacuation. flash flood warnings there at 5:45 at central daylight time this afternoon. in addition, two large water containment areas have been overtopped and our own griff jenkins is at one of them. a griff jenkins is live for us. griff jenkins, are you there? to you for your live report now. >> that's right. just behind me, the reservoir is spilling over, it's never happened before. what it means is that the water is overtaking the immediate

neighborhood some 3000-4,000 homes. we watched earlier a few rescue rescues, volunteers putting in votes. we saw a convoy of the miami-dade urban search and rescue guys came in. but it also means for downtown houston as they are now a target because these are all created to to flood water away from the city, away from downtown down to the southwest part of the houston ship channel. you have a dire situation of the immediate subdivision surrounding these reservoirs and dams as well as a new threat that has already besieged downtown houston. >> shepard: thanks very much, we will come back to you. we are waiting for the president now, governor abbott of texas has just walked into the room, as are a number of local officials. there is the president of the united states, president trump. at a firehouse of

corpus christi, he didn't want to go to the center of the evacuation zones where the water rescues are taking place. he wanted to be in a place where he can assess the damage, talk to the locals, senators are there. local representatives, let's hear from the president as he addresses the folks at the fire station. >> i want to welcome the president of the united states. i want to express my gratitude for our fellow texans, especially the people giving the president such a warm welcome on his right over here, during she gratitude we all have. i want to express my deep gratitude for the president and his entire cabinet and staff are what they've done over the last couple of weeks. a lot of people see what happens in front of the cameras. i want to reveal in just one minute what's been going on behind the scenes, behind the camera for the past two weeks.

it's about ten days in advance of the hurricane, even coming in to the corpus christi area, members of the president's cabinet and the president himself were in contact with me and my office, prepreparing for this catastrophe that was coming our way. every step of the way as the hurricane came across the shore, as the flooding began in houston, texas, the president and his cabinet remained in constant contact with me and my staff and they all had one thing to say. texas, what do you need? how can we help? you can count on us. what i have learned is we can count on the president of the united states and his staff for helping texas. texas has been tested but our response to this challenge has been made much more effective because of the very effective way the president and his staff have helped texas respond to this challenge. mr. president, thank you.

>> president trump: that's the sona governor and it's really my honor, a special place and a special state, thank you very much. we appreciate it. i know it was hard to get here for both of you, you are trapped in various locations. we appreciate you both being here. i want to thank my staff, my cabinet. it ben carson obviously, tom price and linda mcmahon, when you add them all up you will be helping a lot of the people in texas. fantastic job, thank you very much. we have had a tremendous group of folks, our acting director, thank you very much for the job you have done. a man who will surely become very famous on television and a

couple of days, we appreciate it very much. i can tell you, my folks telling me how great your representatives have been in working together, it's a real team. we want to do it better than ever before, we want to be looked at in five years, ten years from now as this is the way to do it. this is of epic proportion, nobody's ever seen anything like this and i just want to say, working with the governor and his entire team has been an honor for us. governor, again, thank you very much. we won't say congratulations, we don't want to do that. we will congratulate each other when it's all finished. you have been terrific. and you've been my friend, too. with that -- >> the whole community is coming together, right here at the brunt of the category 4 hurricane wind.

we are already starting recovery, recovery is a slow process but we are rest assured that we are doing everything we can to unify our efforts. yesterday i put eyes on the ground down in rockport, we already have people working with the governor's national guard. the national guard is helping to run the distribution points, that's how the system works. all eyes are on houston, we've got a long way to go, we are going to have to continue our unified effort down to help the state of texas ultimately recover. it very quickly, the objectives stay the same. we are still in a life-saving, life-sustaining mission. we are very aware of the issues at the convention center but let me be clear, this is not the superdome. the convention center, we are

sustaining food, they have food, there is security, i have an incident management team inside the city of houston as we speak and more and more people are being moved to shelters to stabilize the situation. the next thing is, we are pushing commodities, once water goes down we will push commodities but help get people registered in the system to receive assistance. assistance doesn't just come from phoenix, , fema, it comes from many organizations. we are looking at power restoration, maintain security, mobilize the homeland security search capacity, when that comes along, make sure we are anticipating any security needs that we have. also, with secretary price over here, we are working with not only the governor's disaster

medical team but also sending federal disaster medical teams not only to the convention center today but multiple areas, not only for crisis counseling to make sure we are meeting functional needs. the access is challenge to getting all the supplies in. once the roadway systems come out, for example, the governor pulled 12,000 national guard troops in. where pulling units out of fort hood and the federal forces are coming in as well. we fold several hundred staff right here in the state of texa texas. this recovery is going to beat frustrating, we will be here with you to help you through it. it's going to be tough to navigate as the programs become available but we are here to help. with that i would like to pass it along to our friends at the coast guard.

>> this is where your coast guard serves at its best. we are here to save texas, a federal emergency management agency. they are on deck to serve texas. as you look at the landfall here, phase one, we will speak more about that. the weather for the next couple of days, you will probably see average rainfall, the coast guard and homeland security team, dod forces, national guard spent sunday and monday in different locations. we are getting better every day. this is a problem of

catastrophic proportions. i can tell you i am very encouraged about how this is going to move forward. i'd like to give the captain a couple moments here. >> good morning, mr. president. our unified command comprised of over 150 federal, state, and local agencies. i want to walk through the timeline over the course of hurricane harvey just to let you know where we are at. on tuesday the storm became a hurricane, that's when we started. we started making preparations, lockdown facilities, thursday we

took our forces out of harm's way. we came back and after the storm. on friday we moved our boats and aircraft away from the storm. now harvey was upgraded to a category 4 hurricane. when harvey made landfall, several ships and mariners in distress called for help. at that point we had to wait until the parameters changed but we sent our helicopters. later on saturday morning we began our assessment.

we continued to respond to search and rescue calls on saturday. sunday, the storm is shifted. up to houston. all our search and rescues went up to houston. we are helping everybody we can without effort. additionally, we brought our boats up so we can start our operational activities here. monday, we started our water operations. with a huge emphasis on all the activity moving forward. our navigation started their evaluation. just to make sure we have no

problems, those are major concerns. last night the tide came up, the winds came. additionally, we are working with -- about one-third with the army, the ship will be in good condition to open the port. >> president trump: i want to tell you, i can speak to the governor because we spoke about it. we are very proud of you all, thank you very much.

>> a couple thousand rescues a day. we are in with the protection agency, the facilities owners. conditions right now are not amenable, but we recognize that as a national priority. >> mr. president, there's information i would like to share in regards to how citizens can get involved, neighbor helping neighbor is going to be needed in helping texas overcome. very quickly, if you would like to register for assistance underneath the governors declared county, there are 18 declared counties for individual assistance underneath the president's disaster declaratio declaration. disasterassistance.gov, that is

the fema individual assistance center. if you are looking to volunteer, nboad.org, in the state of texas, onestarfoundation.org. >> president trump: thank you very much, thank you. >> shepard: the president at a firehouse in corpus christi, texas, hearing from local officials, state officials and others on the progress of event events. they talked about where the storm isn't where it is headed, the majority of the rain going this afternoon is expected to be from east houston into a southwest louisiana. the storm is over the gulf of mexico right now, expected to eventually hit a low pressure spot and move towards the north

on the texas-louisiana border and head north before moving to the north and east over the state of mississippi and up into tennessee. they are expecting up to ten more inches of rain along the coast. we could reach 53, 54 inches of rain at some point in east houston before this storm finally leaves the area sometime late tomorrow. our coverage continues now for our viewers watching on fox news channel. for those of you watching a local fox stations across the nation, we will return to your regular program and invite you to join us on fox news if you so desire. for more on where the storm is on where it's headed, i want to get to janice dean. >> do you want to talk about rainfall total? i know they are exceptional. mary's creek, we got that

advisory a couple of hours ago and that put us at the number one wettest tropical system of all time. we surpass 53 inches, that will be in the all of the united states. back in 1950 we had a tropical system in hawaii that brought over 52 inches, i think we are going to surpass this. when you have rainfall rates of 3-6, i even saw a 6-8 inches an hour, it is not going to be out of the question to see incredible historic, catastrophic rainfall totals. taking you in right now, we have had tornado warnings, 60 reports of tornadoes in and around the harris county region over the last 48-72 hours. still seeing some rain but the worst of it is moving in towards extreme southeast texas, into louisiana. we seen reports of flooding around the new orleans region.

we are still talking about a tropical storm. with the winds of 45 miles an hour, still in the gulf of mexico. eventually getting caught up in a cold front, something we've been waiting for four days but were not going to get there until thursday and you can see the movement starting towards louisiana and in towards the ohio-tennessee river valley. we have dozens of river gauges, they will remain at major flood stage well past labor day weekend. this is going to be an ongoing situation we are going to follow four weeks and months to come. >> shepard: when you think there is another storm off the coast of north carolina which will affect labor day four people up and down the east coast, but eventually the record-breaking heat wave out on the west coast. we are watching all of this and our whether coverage continues

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>> molly: president trump in corpus christi, texas, for a briefing there on tropical storm harvey, he is also expected to visit the capital city of austin in just a couple of hours to tour the states emergency operation center. the president said he might also make a second trip to texas but so far he is steering clear of the devastation itself. so to not interfere with the rescue efforts which are ongoing right now. let's bring in a man who has been on the side of president george w. bush. former white house press secretary and fox news contributor, thank you for being here. you've been on the road, you've

seen some similar disasters firsthand from wildfires to tornado damage. what was your advice be to president trump as he sets foot there in texas today? >> i was with president bush when he went to see the devastation caused by fires in missouri and arizona and tornadoes in missouri. there was something missing from what president trump said, that's the empathy for the people who suffer. with my opinion, that should've been the first thing he said, that his heart goes out to those people in houston who are going through this and that the government is here to help them recover from this. secondly the job of the president is to thank those who are the first responders doing all the rescuing. that is a huge morale boost to those working so far away from their families, their homes are often flooded but they are sacrificing themselves to stay others in the president needs to thank them. that's what a presidential visit can accomplish, i hope you will return to that in some other public setting later today.

>> molly: it is a tremendous response that's underway right now. there are people putting their lives at risk and all these neighborhood folks coming out and helping one another as well. when you look back on what you've seen in a prior administration, are there takeaways that president trump can use as he continues to respond to this natural disasters? >> the number of first responders, volunteers, people sacrificing themselves and their families to vote and rescue strangers, learn one of the vignettes, talk about somebody by name who did something, talk about the officer who died drowning. these are the individual human stories that stir us and make us connected as americans, that when calamity hits we help one another. that's what a president should talk about and he should talk about it by name of those who do it and to say thank you and to send that message to houston, we are here to help you and we are going to get you through this.

>> molly: he is slated to continue on with his travels to the capital, to view the operation center, staying away from the actual area of the disaster but he has made at least preliminary plans to return to the state later on, perhaps once those waters received, is that a good move? >> the more times he can return the more helpful it is. i remember how exhausted some of those firefighters were in arizona. they are working as long as their bodies can hold up. when the president comes in and says thank you, you are saving lives. it gives him a bigger boost to continue to do it. that's what houston needs, there's a big role for the president here. maybe he was there for that first session just to listen to the people he's been giving directions to and to listen to what they say is going on on the ground, he needs another moment to talk to people of houston in the first responders of houston

and to say thank you. >> molly: we may see that moment you have to come, the visit not yet over. on the screen right now we are seeing these ongoing rescues, the fema administrator saying they are still in life-saving mode down there. the waters are still very deep, the waters are still rising, there is still a lot of unpredictability here. the possibility that there will be a greater loss of life when this is all over. can the president say or do anything in that regard when people are so concerned about their family members that they can't reach because their family members no longer have power to their cell phones, that sort of thing, some sort of comfort? >> one of the things i have seen presidents do is go through and describe what the government is doing and those steps are often very practical. the fema people advise, hang a sheet out your window if you need to be rescued, a series of actions fema has taken that can be conveyed to people that the

president is the biggest passenger of. the president is not the rescuer in chief but he is the communicator in chief. that is the role he has to play in a natural disaster like this. >> molly: your insight is so valuable, thank you for coming on and joining us today. >> leland: we just heard the president get a briefing from first responders, among them the coast guard, calling them out specifically for their work, the coast guard's motto, always ready. the brave members of the coast guard have been saving lives. the men flying these choppers, what's going through their mind as they head into this unprecedented a storm? we will talk to a former search and rescue commander about the unique challenges for those flying over houston right now. >> the coast guard has responded to more than 3,000 cases. we currently have 20 coast guard helicopters with over 200 aircrews and support crews and

21 vessels with over 250 crew capable of responding to flooded urban areas, conducting certain rescues.

>> leland: a fox news alert as the coast guard is sending more helicopters to plug people from the rooftops in what has become a race against the rising waters in houston and beyond.

the coast guard has used 20 helicopters to respond to more than 3,000 calls. the u.s. navy also sending in its helicopter rescue team. good to see you sir, thank you. >> good afternoon. >> leland: take us through how this works minute by minute. are there teams literally flying around, circling, waiting to see somebody waving a towel on the roof? >> it all depends on the situation, the weather with harvey is uniquely different than katrina. and katrina the following day we had a clear skies. we were able to patrol the neighborhood and the areas and it was very much a visual. in this particular case they have low ceilings and rain showers. though do various different things, a lot of it will be dependent on the weather until

that clears. >> leland: put us in perspective, how difficult and dangerous is it, obviously coast guard and helicopters had into the worst of the worst to rescue people at sea but you are in a congested urban environmen environment, electrical poles, cell phone towers, this has got to be at the very edge. >> it is in a lot of ways. fortunately the coast guard crews are trained to such a standard of perfection, everything is so standardized, although crews come together around the country that come from the same manual. they have the same checklist and follow the same procedure. they come together with the same basic rule book and they take it and adapt that rulebook to mitigate the risks at hand. in this particular case, yes, the power lines are probably some of the biggest obstacles.

additionally, the crews don't typically have to worry about debris. it's like a hurricane force wind below it. when they pull into a hover to affect the rescue, they have to be very concerned with the debris and how it's going to be thrown around. there is quite a few more risks to mitigate and the weather here is not helping anyone. >> leland: we've heard at times the helicopters have been grounded in the storms as they continue to pound down on houston. it struck me watching in some cases these helicopters didn't even land, they just picked people up in their baskets and drop them off on highways and gone back to search for more people. these crews have got to be tired, you are at the very edge of how much time you can spend. what is the balance for you guys during katrina? you knew there were more people to spend any new people needed

to sleep before they started making mistakes. >> the coast guard, the model ml holds true in an incredible way. the night the hurricane was coming through the gulf, we moved quickly and rotated in shifts. they have a very rigid fatigue manual that they follow so they don't over extend beyond those limits. they rotate the crews through. even now as we did then you have crews from alaska and massachusetts and hawaii and puerto rico all coming together to one central operating base and rotate through. >> leland: we heard the president command of the for their work, as you said, always ready. there are so many people watching this wondering if you are the one who pulled them from a rooftop during katrina.

their thanks and i'm sure are to you as are the thanks of many in houston to the pilots today. thank you, sir. >> molly: the downpours from harvey described as unprecedented, shattering the u.s. record for total rainfall from a tropical system. joining us now by phone is the chief forecast operations at the national weather service's storm prediction center, thanks for being here. you have been very busy in these recent days and there's far more to come. >> we've been watching in disbelief the last couple of days as the rainfall totals are close to 50 inches. it does appear as if there is beginning to be some hope in the site for of houston in terms of study rainfall diminishing. the trend is for the rainfall to

begin to lighten up and perhaps move out of the area as early as this evening, by tomorrow we should be rain free. >> molly: even as the water stops coming from the sky it will take it a while receipt. this is an area with lots of streams and values and various systems in place to control that water, what can we expect in the coming days? >> the focus is going to shift a little bit across parts of the port arthur area where it is raining very heavily and harvey circulation center will come on shore tomorrow morning on the gulf coast up there and the heavy rain will continue in those areas, parts of southwest louisiana also under the gun. eventually this entire system will move north and east affecting parts of arkansas by the end of the week but probably nothing like we've seen over the last three or four days in the houston area. >> molly: how long will it take this water to get out of there and head for the gulf and

what should louisiana expect as it heads that way? >> right now louisiana is receiving a bit of a break. there is some concern around new orleans, it's going to take days for this water to receipt in parts of houston as you know, the terrain is not great they are, it's basically flat. luckily the gulf of mexico is relatively close by and it will eventually drainage of the golf and they should begin to see some improvement in a week, week and a half. it's going to be quite some tim time. >> molly: it's not over. we appreciate it. >> leland: down in texas it is not over and they have called up every member of the texas national guard to help but still the lone star state needs more. we heard the president talk about that. coming up, a colonel in the texas national guard with what they have, what they need and how they are trying to save lives as you can see with the waters rising.

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>> molly: a fox news alert, water rescues are underway as the record rainfall amounts in houston. some 3500 people have been saved from the floodwaters so far, many of them packed into the houston convention center. caroline, just a few moments ago the fema administrator talked about how this convention center is not the superdome, hearkening back to what happened during katrina. people were so challenged and had such difficulty getting supplies that there are actually supplies there, if you could bring us up-to-date on what's happening on the ground. >> there are definitely supplies, they are getting food from local vendors, people who don't have to travel in, wholesale vendors. the numbers keep on coming, they thought they would max out at 5,000, 9,000 this morning. no longer accepting buses but

folks are still coming. it definitely has changed since yesterday, we have some video inside the shelter, what it looks like now. the room that was the lunch room, rec room has now turned into a dormitory and there are no cots. of the trucks from the restaurants with the cots can't get into town, there is too much high water. people have made makeshift beds of cardboard and wrapping up blankets, we've seen a whole families huddling together on those blankets. you have seen behind me there is a missing person sign, if you can't find your loved ones, where would you go? i want to show you over here, volunteers are also pouring in. piles of clothes, piles of shoe shoes, people are coming in, they are dropping off. they have diapers and clothes, some of these folks we have talked to, their houses were underwater but they were able to get here and they are bringing with the people need. another bright spot, the mayor just announced one way cabinet

vouchers locally here. if you can get from here, from someplace that is safe and dry it you will be getting here in the mayor will be footing the bill. >> molly: it is incredible to see the amount of movement and activity going on behind you, you can see how hard people are working. >> leland: as we head back to texas, they promised a texas-sized response to a texas sized storm. the national guard has been called up there, all of them have been called up but still they need more help. it is pouring in from around the country, we will tell you about the soldiers, sailors, and airmen converging on texas to save their fellow americans when we come back.

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>> molly: just getting a little video right now that we have of the president's motorcade as it made its travels this morning from air force one, moving there to corpus christi. he will be heading to austin to get further information, further briefing. also we are getting some more information about a potential breach of a levy in texas, that is something we've been following. this is about an hour south of houston. our correspondent matt finn is on the ground with further details on that situation. >> hi, molly. a short while ago the missouri county facebook page center of post saying there is a levy breach and they are urging people to get out now. we drove down here from houston, we are standing on a portion of that levy and from our eye it appears that everything is okay. we spoke to county officials

that say there is a breach somewhere on the columbia lakes levy and they are expecting it to fail. there is no huge water rush, from some accounts from our eye that is not happening but county officials say that could happen any moment and they are urging people to get out right now. >> the concern is always a flash flood type of situation that could occur. >> rescue operations continue in texas right now. i'm sure you haven't slept in a few days so i appreciate you joining us. every member of the texas national guard has been called up and there is evidently more guardsmen on the way. specifically, what help do you

guys need down there? >> right now we are needing more of the same of what we are already doing. we have 3,000 guardsmen mobiliz mobilize, more coming in the coming days going up to approximately 12,000. we are doing boat rescues, evacuating people out, high-profile vehicle water rescues as well as operations. other national guards and the federal partners we have in the active military will bring more of the same capability to help us out. >> leland: where you are prepared coming into this, was the national guard ready? or did the guard need to be called up earlier? >> the national guard and specifically the texas national guard, we are always ready, we have folks deployed, we had a folks preposition,

standing by ready to go. it's important to remember that this situation is still a very dire one. there is rain still being poured in, i got off the phone with the commander saying that one minute, roads will be passable and an hour or two later they are not passable. situation still dire on the ground as we work through that to rescue and take care of our fellow texans here. >> leland: we have some more video of the president's motorcade, he was in corpus christi making his way to austin where he will meet with the governor and his operations teams to get a briefing there, one of those briefings will be about the national guard's work. what does it do for morale at the president and commander in chief shows up, it's got to be a great feeling for some other retired soldiers there for the president to come. >> having the commander in chie chief, whether that of the

governor or the president, having our civilian leaders are showing their support, having the community support is a tremendous morale booster to the great work of our soldiers and airmen are doing around the clock right now. >> leland: this may be somewhat of an ignorant question on my part, do you train for these kind of high water rescues or are these soldiers going into this role is essentially with the best they can just by virtue of the fact that you will have the equipment to do it? especially the high water rescues, using your boats? >> we are constantly doing exercises, both on the federal side to deploy into combat zone and handled these domestic operations. every year texas we have drills to make sure we are ready for unprecedented event such as this and this is of course a big one.

>> leland: can you drill for an unprecedented event or do you have to at some point hope all the training works and go by the seat of your pants? >> certainly there is some seat-of-the-pants that has to be done. we prepare as best we can and as we get into the situation adapted so we can stabilize and take care of our fellow texans. >> leland: we know you have it saved immense number of lives, governor abbott was saying he didn't want to question how many rescues were going on because he thought it would take people away from the time they had to rescue people if they had to report that. godspeed to you and your men, our thoughts and prayers and our things are with you. >> thank you so much, heading back to work. >> leland: a lot of work to be done. >> molly: president trump is heading to austin a little later this afternoon where he is expected to tour the states emergency operation center. he will sit down with state officials there, harvey is due

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>> "america's news hq" starts now. >> president trump in texas. two reservoirs overflowing and a critical levy breaching. floodwaters oval on the state. hello everyone, i am sandra smith. a growing humanitarian effort unfolding as hurriance harvey set a rainfall record in the west may not be over. president trump inspecting the damage with the emergency operation with governor abbott. >> this is of epic proportions. no one has ever seen anything like that. i just want to say, working with the governor and his entire staff has been an honor. governor, again, thank you very much. i will not say congratulations. i don't want to say